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Thanks for that, ianr. I must have passed it, but not really noticed it. I also had no idea that Ruskin Park extended so far in that direction.

Didn't go there much in the bright yellow days! Maybe Play Your Cards Right was happening all over East Dulwich! Another pub changed out of all recognition! It became The Magnolia, then briefly (and oddly) The Patch, and now The Lordship seems very well established after a very rocky start with the food and service.

People are weird everywhere 🤣

I bloody hate "grab". It used to mean "snatch" (not in its ruder sense) as in snatch and grab, and now it's just used all the time instead of "get" or "collect". eg "I'll come and grab them later" or "can I grab a cup of tea?" Also "Up for grabs" GRRRR

Sorry to be so dim, but where is the Carnegie Library, and what is the Hub? Is this where the local history centre is on Walworth Road, where there was a fire, or is that something different? Is there a website?

Surely The Castle isn't about to go trendy? I sincerely hope not. The CPT was my local. I loved it. We started our Singarounds there, in that tiny space which used to be on the right. Then they outgrew it and we moved to the larger space on the left. That was in the days when the bar was in the middle of the pub. We went to the quizzes sometimes as well, but generally just went for a pint or two. There were always the same people in there, it was great. Adam the manager was a really nice guy, but left under sad circumstances (nothing to do with the pub). And I once admired one of the bar people's tee shirt (from Little Miss Sunshine) and he said he had worked on the movie 😮 And next time I went in, he gave it to me 😮 The Great Exhibition is OK, but it is nothing at all like the CPT was. Sorry, I burble on as long when I write as I do when I talk. I thought it was The Castle that had Play Your Cards Right, in Jenny's day? In fact someone told me recently they still did that, don't know if that's true

Does the curry club still exist? The photography group definitely still does. When you say you would like to set up a group, do you mean a specific interest group, or resurrect the forum drinks? Whatever, possibly a first step would be to start a new thread on here putting forward your idea, to see how many people would be interested? In 2008 my partner Nygel and I did that, to see if anybody would be interested in coming to a local folk club if we set one up. Luckily, some people were! And we met with them in a local pub to discuss ideas! Sixteen years, a very steep learning curve and several venues later, with many twists and turns along the way, a lot of hard work, and help from a lot of lovely people, we are still running it. And now there is another folk club (not ours) just up the road! So anyway, great oaks from little acorns (aka a post on here) grow! Or something. PS Hope your move went well and you are settling in!

Yes, today, it was still negative.

Well, I was interested. It's a thread about Franklins, FFS. Many people are probably not interested in many posts on the forum, but they don't feel the need to announce it to everybody, especially not so rudely.

Actually, The Castle has changed rather a lot! Have you been there lately? They no longer have the great juke box 😭 which is the only downside to the changes as far as I'm concerned. They have regular open mic sessions. The function room upstairs has been done up and is now really nice, with separate toilets up there as well. After the owners kicked lovely Jenny (the then manager) out, the pub became really unwelcoming for a while, unless you were a regular. A very regular regular. Happily that has all changed. It's still not gentrified, thank God, but the present management and staff are all really friendly, and it's a nice place to drink in. Still no food though. Sorry forgot to quote the post I was answering!

I have no idea. You would have to ask them!

Crikey. 1999? My memory really is crap! I thought Franklins had been on that corner for way longer than that!

Oh great. Now I appear to have practically lost my voice (some people may think this is a good thing). Can't be a different bug, as I haven't been out. Anyone else? What weird symptoms. I'm really fed up, yesterday I thought I was on the mend 😭

You got this. GRRRRR. Can't remember if I've posted that before, if so apologies.

I think the decline in lounge chats has happened since the new forum format. Stuff like "five letter word game thingy" (🙄) is almost always shown if you look to see what new posts are in the lounge, and whilst that's probably great fun if you are actually playing it, it doesn't really raise your hopes that there might be something of interest in the lounge. I think these things should be in some kind of separate section. I can see that might complicate things, but at least then people who weren't constantly playing the game might be able to see other threads more easily. Re angry people, it was ever thus. Some of the more unpleasant people of the past seem to have gone, from this forum at least. Some of them occasionally pop up elsewhere, unfortunately. As for social media in general, I find it very useful on the whole, to keep in touch with friends who live a long way away, and to find out about events etc I might otherwise not have known about. And just to keep abreast of what's going on in general. A lot easier than letters and the town crier and the grapevine. ETA: Just looked at the lounge threads and I think it's the starred threads which should be in a separate section, perhaps?

When was that? Don't remember that at all!

Thanks, it was Tart I had forgotten. I felt really sorry for them. I don't remember SE22 at all!

Emmaroyds 🤣🤣🤣 Her Instagram says she loves "soothing creams" 🤣 Sorry, I obviously have a childish sense of humour.

😥 Sorry, somehow my post above was duplicated instead of being merged with this one, and I can't delete all of the duplicated bits. Many moons ago, we used to have fairly regular "Forum Drinks", where forum members could meet up and get to know each other in real life. We met in a different local pub each time, and sometimes had sticky labels with our forum names on. A lot of those original people have moved away, but it has occasionally crossed my mind that it would be nice to start that up again and be able to put more faces to names (not that I ever remember either faces OR names) Or maybe it is still happening but I'm kept out of the loop 🤣 Many of those pubs we used to go to have now changed out of all recognition, of course. Also there seem to be more families with young children in the area, for whom evening drinks would be difficult. I don't have time to do it, but if anybody else was up for organising it I'd be happy to help. It mainly involves deciding on a date, I imagine trying to get a rough idea of how many people would be interested, and then booking a suitable sized space in a local pub and telling people about it on here I don't know how it was arranged before, but maybe some of the longer standing forum users may know. I just used to turn up!

2040? It's going to take 16 years???

It should have been Thistles, but it was actually Thistells or something, much to my irritation! When it was Le Chardon it was French food I think. If memory serves, the manager was French, and the food was good, but you sometimes had to wait a very long time for it. That must have been in the nineties? The thistle/chardon reference was because years and years ago it was a David Greigs, and their logo (probably not called a logo in those days) was a thistle. The room still had (can't remember if it still has, I've only been to Kartuli twice) the original old David Greig tiles on the wall, some with thistles on them. My memory is getting muddled. Before Kartuli, was it there where some poor people tried to open something and everything went wrong? I vaguely remember flooding, and/or a gas leak? And then Covid? Am I mixing it up with somewhere else along that stretch? I don't remember Franklins ever being SE22. When was that?

I did wonder if the original post was a joke, given the reference to discussing "interesting things" without giving any clue as to what his interests actually were .... Maybe he is just sitting back and quietly laughing at the responses 😥

Good luck. Did you go to the top at the council? Because often that will bring results that dealing with people lower down the chain doesn't.

I think this conversation is going round in circles. Let's see what we all feel when the changes are complete, eh?

The Ivy House comes out top in a Time Out list today!