Alex K

One letter missing -- 'Dulwich OrigaSmi' -- this version should increase footfall. peckham_ryu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think I will call it 'Dulwich Origami' > > Great idea Bob, but some work needed on that name. > Here are some suggestions to get you started, with > some possible USP's for your business: > > - Origami hand-folded by Buddhist monks: > Paperchaste > > - Exotic sweets with origami wrappers: Nippon > Tuck > > - Japanese emporium in Peckham: SamuRye > > - or your original Lordship Lane origami shop > idea: Crease Dulwich > > Hope that's helpful x

Seems to be how it's developed. I'm glad that the EDF moderator gave it house room, his / her accommodating spirit let me say "Good-bye" to friends. Social media get re-purposed a lot, I suppose. For worse or for better.

Mine or LM's? If the question wasn't euphemistic, here's an answer regarding mine: Polished and bright. It's not tinned, and the other day I used it to cook down a peck and a half of plum tomatoes from the allotment. Probably the highest-copper batch of passata ever made. When I looked at what the acid in the tomatoes had done to the inside of the pan I for a moment considered tumping all that tomato work down the bog -- then decided: I'm sixty. I have to die of SOMETHING. And one serving of spag bol at a time, week by week, is probably not going to be that something. The sauce went into the freezer. Watch this space for updates, and be assured: If you come to dinner I'll give you something else.

Well, well! "Vaut le voyage"; watch ridership on the P13 soar come November...

-- you were good neighbours. Thanks for the pleasures of knowing you and of watching your children grow as we all got a bit older together. I wasn't around to say good-bye in person as you moved house yesterday, so I didn't have a chance to tell you this face-to-face, and I have to use the EDF: I like you and I'll miss you.

Right-hand turn from Denmark Hill into Coldharbour Lane? If the bus lane is retained at that point, THINK of the tailbacks...

Dear MadMum -- that photo of Mr Corcoran looks... archival. Against the chance of this happening again, might you stow away a few current snapshots? Glad he's back with you.

robbin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Weird - now even window cleaners (an occupation > that's been around since the Victorian age) are > thought by some to be a sign of gentrification! > > There's some odd views out there... To my way of thinking it's not how long the service has been on offer that makes its availability a sign of gentrification -- it's the current-account balances of those who avail themselves of it. If you can afford to use it you must not worry too often about where the money for next week is coming from, that is. But I'm an outlier. Forty years of making a sack lunch no matter how much was in my pay packet, looking in bemusement at the young folks nipping down to the corner nowadays for a sarnie / fizzy drink / bag of crisps, ?15 the week instead of parcelled-up leavings from the Sunday roast, when we could, ee bah gum, afford a roast, that is. I've asked them. They CBA to stand up out of bed the quarter-hour earlier needed to slice the bread and to smear the dripping onto it.

Spot on for ponderwoman -- some sort of Prunus -- and yes, if your neighbours are pruning, that will prompt the roots to throw up suckers. Mow, mow, and mow; in flowerbeds, just pull and snip.

We're in one of the little matchboxes, two-up-two-down, on the St Francis estate. No question that a loft conversion would increase habitability. But would it increase house value, as assessed by an estate agent? Zoopla and RightMove values, comparing converted-loft house with next-door-non-converted-loft house, don't show that the investment adds value. (Cf. 73 Abbotswood Road, not converted, with 71 AWR, converted... the former on Zoopla is actually a few hundred quid in the lead.) I know that those website estimates are crude -- that's why I'm turning to EDF readers for the real story. Your thoughts / experiences / opinions sought. Thanks.

Japanese knotweed still in the differential diagnosis here.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3114654/Breast-cancer-hit-former-NHS-chief-causes-outrage-moves-England-life-saving-drugs-denied-Welsh-patients.html Welcome to the neighbourhood.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Not only is the customer service usually excellent, they employ ex-convicts to help them get back into normal society, which adds a pleasant frisson while I wait. I must confess that I too enjoy eyeing up a bit of rough now and again.

oimissus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > GBK's been around longer than beardy hipsters, > though, hasn't it? I must say (though I haven't > been in a while) that I've never felt it's a smug, > sneering place, just somewhere to get a filling, > tasty burger and chips. I'm not averse to > MacDonald's but they are just so unfilling, 10 > minutes after you've finished you're hungry again, > which I find a whole lot more annoying than some > free nuts. Full agreement with everything except 'tasty'. What should be the core of GBK is instead... abomination. I do so miss Meatwagon...

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > grabot Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > A shame for James Barber. I wasn't a fan of > his > > early on. Seemed to be too much politicking > from > > him on the East Dulwich forum. But of late, to > > me, he has shown himself to be a man of genuine > > conviction and someone who has done a lot of > good > > in the local community. > > > Agree with this completely. Otta, Grabot -- yes indeed. James is a decent sort. I hope that he continues to contribute to making Southwark, and East Dulwich, better places.

As the Yanks say -- "The people you meet when you don't have your gun...".

maxxi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This image plays across the back of my brain every > time I see the thread title - was it subconscious > Tarot? > http://static.gigwise.com/gallery/1031302_frankieg > oes-relax.jpg Hott.

"Cheese on toast" -- yes. Also ruined fettucine Alfredo for me (bycatch / collateral damage); mac 'n' cheese forever after.

A moment to regret Louisa -- who although cranky, and contrary, and reliably (predictably) opinionated, also posted with wit. I never thought that she made the Forum's tone unfriendly. But then again, she never swivelled to bring me into the crosshairs of her gunsight. *** Those who exasperate most often bring most to the discussion. That's how I'll remember Louisa... and I hope that she will return.

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The same is true for cows. Cows that roam free and > eat grass a far healthier than cows that are corn > fed and kept in factories for mass burger > production. Mis-information above, I think. Grain is expensive. Mature cattle are grain-fed only immediately before slaughter, as I understand it, in order to force them to lay down new fat deposits, increasing the degree of marbling (fatty infiltration) of muscle tissue and increasing meat tenderness... self-basting, really. All beef thus is grass-fed, only some is feedlot-finished. Beef from older cattle, supposedly more flavourful (years and years of wear and tear, think how good some of us would taste after decades of hard living!), is enjoying a vogue at present. I wager that much of it, no matter how long it's dry-aged, is made edible only by fattening in the animals' last few weeks.

Does a dog or cat live with you? Its sheddings are a banquet for moth larvae. Hoover vigorously and often.

No improvement yet. Green light, bus lane; no bus anywhere around; and non-bus car-park all the way up Dog Kennel Hill.

Semi-ginger, bird's-nest beard? Bit different from the OP's description. But. One never knows. I've never harvested more than a "God bless you" from the ED station bloke after a "Sorry, no". TD Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There's a guy outside East Dulwich station > everyday at about 6pm. He sits outside the bike > lockers. He starts off with a polite request but > if you don't give anything he becomes abusive. Not > sure if it's the same guy

Shell, we've been here for fourteen years. We like it. Nothing like having Sainsbury's DKH Superstore as your corner shop. The houses indeed are small. So are the gardens. But perhaps for a woman in middle age -- you write that your mother might be interested in settling here -- less carpet to hoover, less lawn to trim. When we arrived, the owners around us were a mix of buy-to-let landlords, older downsizers, and young folks starting up their families. Some of the last have moved on to gain space, some have built out their lofts. A few of the downsizers have said, Time to sell up and head for a bungalow on the coast... the knees aren't what they used to be. Among the houses that are tenanted rather than owned, most are well-kept-up, to judge by exterior paint and trimness of plantings. More trig, certainly, than many a terraced street off Lordship Lane. The renters are family-starters or young professional couples scraping together a deposit for somewhere else. I truly like having the children about, scootering their way off to school and back. It's quiet here. The 8DJ postal code, backing onto the railway line and the patch of "amenity land", may hear the trains. We on the other side of Abbotswood, in 8DL, hardly notice them. Road traffic isn't a bother. Downside? Most houses have off-street parking, so finding a spot for your car is not an issue. Some weekends to negotiate the enfilade of visitors to the boot sale on the playing fields has been tedious. Now and again the football club makes a bit of a racket. Also: No telling what things will be like if the profiteers who have bought it succeed in knocking it down and packing more houses into the area. Have a look around. The houses are built to several different plans -- check Zoopla listings to acquaint yourself with the options. One of them surely will suit. Good luck!