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grabot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's become a little odd, this forum. A person > makes a comment about something happening in the > area, then a cohort of people who have left the > area, and now profess varying degrees of dislike > for East Dulwich, jump on the post and mock and > pillory the poster. The mockery comes across as a > little creepy, obsessive and stalker-ish. > > I will state that I am ambivalent about the > original post though... "A cohort of people who have left the area, and now profess varying degrees of dislike for East Dulwich" That is something that you've just made up. People are responding to the OP's post. If you think that's creepy and stalker-ish then an online forum really isn't for you.

Way to go BNG. I salute you. Please let's not turn the EDF into the Daily Mail.

I'll just check my diary...... oh, I'm free. Px

Here is a link to DEC, the Disasters Emergency Committee, which is an umbrella organisation for many UK charities which collects on behalf of all of them in times of crisis. It represents organisation such as The British Red Cross, Save the Children, Oxfam, to name but a few. http://www.dec.org.uk/ So many families are utterly devastated and it's hard to look at the pictures and the news reports and see so many displaced children. The human loss is great but the survivors need food and shelter and clean water so please give something. It's easy to give on the link above and you can gift-aid it so the charity gets the tax back.

I'm very sad it's been taken. I think the art ads a lot of character to the area and I'm sorry it has gone. Some very mean spirited comments on this thread.

For heaven's sake. So we need halfway houses, but not on our own doorstep, right?

I think anyone who fundraises by knocking on doors needs to expect to be asked questions about where the money is going to. I think the questions you're asking on here are ones you should have been asking at your door (or maybe you did).

Finished last night. I'm no 2367 in the 100 club. Some of the clues were quite brilliant but towards the end it was one big groan after another. After about 75 I only kept going out of pure bloody-mindedness. Some of the last few I was literally putting anything at all in to see what was accepted. There's no skill in that, it's just tenacity. The only one I needed help with was the goose - duh - wasn't even a station! This morning I completed last year's puzzle with my coffee. Only took me an hour and was much more accessible after doing this year's. I suppose because I had all the stations fresh in my mind it was easy to get through it quickly.

Yes the music is a let down. Could have done so much better.

I adore John Lewis. It's the first place I look for a lot of things for the house.

Sweet

Dear No-flies, If you find any properties like this in your catchment area I'd be grateful for a heads-up. Cheers. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10429749/Cannabis-farm-accidentally-photographed-in-Rightmove-estate-agent-advert.html

Don't Tell Me..... let me guess. No, go on, tell me.

Hmmm. A brand new poster. So, Like A Virgin, then?

Ooooooo. You little tease so you are.

Not when you've been woken by a loud banging and you think it's only 6.45 in the morning and you look like you haven't combed your hair since last week.

Done too. Good luck.

He came to me early evening. Unfortunately I'd fallen into a deep sleep after a long lunch at The Palmerston so I was confused and thought it was morning. I sent him on his way with "it's way too early to be knocking".

Hi Twoddle, I'm constantly amazed at the crap people put into their bodies so well done for striving for a healthy diet. When I was a kid in the 70s we ate all our fruit and veg seasonally. Then it became like you could have anything you wanted whenever you wanted it. We didn't notice it at first, but the quality of what we were eating was dropping fast as foods were being forced and then picked well before they were ripe so that they would ripen on the journey to the UK. For the most part I have returned to eating seasonally and buying home grown whenever possible. I say for the most part as there are exceptions - personally I can't live without avocados! Have you thought about substituting goji berries for blueberries to tide you over until when Blueberries are in season again. You can buy dried goji berries and put them into juice to make them soft. That's one option.

It would be hard for London to be taken seriously as an international city if we submit to this nanny law. It should be about personal responsibility.

Sadly, I'm old enough to remember when Virgin Records first opened for business (70s). That seemed like an outrageous name at the time but these days nobody bats an eyelid at an odd moniker (Orange, Apple, O2, Smeg, R Soles, Yahoo, Google, Flickr). Odd.

Terry Thomas and Vicky Pollard I think

Nick Cave AND Kylie. Great night. Not what I was expecting. Like watching a huge spider in a small space.

EoD you're a breath of fresh air.

You're a little ray of sunshine aren't you Poppet. Not saying that you're wrong, just saying that it's odd that the only thing that motivates you to post is to write something negative about an area you don't live in. Your glass is definitely half empty so maybe that has something to do with how you relate to others (eg. shop assistants).