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Brendan, you have no idea how much that article cheered me up :)) I have posted the link in the Dead Fox thread in the gossip section :))

There was an article in one of the Sunday colour supplements (Observer?) last week about a taxidermist/artist - maybe you could get in touch with her and she could use the foxes in one of her installations :) Would make a change from little feathery birds :) She sells stuffed quail chick heads on sticks for ?300 :)) Honestly ..... And here's another idea ...... Thanks to Brendan who posted the above link in the lounge ....

Yeh, maybe next time if I can identify where the noise is coming from I'll get the hose out and do a bit of late-night watering in that direction :)) Sometimes I think I'm becoming "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells" or Grumpy Old Woman :))

Elodie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > would love to see a music store on LL and also a > boots.... xxxxxxxx But if Boots opened, then not only would Lordship Lane start to resemble every other high street in the country (with Cafe Nero and White Stuff being the thin end of the wedge), but all the other pharmacists in ED would probably close. Personally I think that would detract from the individual feel of the area. And assuming you mean a shop selling vinyl, CDs etc rather than sheet music (there is already a music shop, on the way to the station), I can't imagine it would be able to make a profit when more and more people are buying their music via downloads. I know the Dream Machine was somewhat limited in its stock, but if more people had bought things from there then maybe we would still have a music shop in ED because it would have had money to buy a more extensive range of stuff.

Yes, Merrifields on the way to the station is an excellent cobbler. And the dry cleaners by the post office also mends shoes, albeit not so well as Merrifields. Merrifields also make bespoke shoes.

I like Dungeness, so that would suit me Steve :)) Apart of course from the nuclear power station at the end of the beach. But hey, of course London is more noisy than Dungeness - I'm talking about avoidable noise due to people apparently not realising, or not caring, that their neighbours might be trying to sleep or might like to be quiet in their own house after 11pm on a weeknight. This wasn't conversation at a normal level in the garden, or even slightly above normal, it was shouting and screaming. And I hope I'm not hypocritical - I have disturbed neighbours with late night noise, albeit from inside my house :-$ They let me know, and I apologised and am more careful now.

I'm all for people having fun in their garden. It was past eleven, not the weekend, and they were talking at the tops of their voices and screeching. I think that's anti-social. Maybe I'm just a kill-joy :-$ but I like to be able to sleep on a Summer night without having to close my windows because of avoidable noise.

Yeh it's coming up to the spider season isn't it. Go into the garden and get your hair full of spider web before you've even got there. Yuk.

OK I know some of them aren't serious, but if all the above suggestions came to pass, I think I'd move out :)) Lordship Lane would be like some kind of hideous shopping mall :-S

Well my watch is set by the speaking clock :))

They've stopped now. Thanks, screeching people. Seemed to go on forever. :-S:-$

It's ten past eleven, who are the bloody people screeching and screaming and talking at the tops of their voices in a garden in, apparently, Crystal Palace Road?

How do you know he's from round here?

Gardener's Delight are good croppers I think, and also because they're tiny I guess there's room for more on each plant! Delicious flavour :)

Oh well, maybe it's just me then. Well, me and my other half.

Agreed. How can "gardening" possibly include articial lawns? Ooops. Or artificial lawns, even.

This is brilliant :))

If only I lived nearer to the station, I would offer to plant up, water and maintain some real flowering baskets, but sadly I don't. I just can't bear plastic flowers, sorry, I think they look really cheap and tacky, however much they cost. I do appreciate the effort that's been made though :-$

Sorry if this has already been raised - I don't really want to trawl through 30 pages to find out! I haven't used the train for a long time, but went to London Bridge by train yesterday. I was sad to see hanging baskets at ED station filled with plastic flowers, especially at this time of year. I'm all for brightening stations up, and I realise there's a potential issue with watering and maintenance, but would it not be possible to have something real instead? Even just ivy, which probably wouldn't need as much watering as flowering plants? I do appreciate your coming onto this forum, and your obvious commitment to your job and your customers, so I hope the above doesn't come across as too churlish ......

Boho used to be a place with slot machines :)

Flying ants in ED noted in the lounge HERE!!

Is that men's clothes shop that used to be between the petrol station and the station (on the petrol station side of the road) not there any more? I never noticed it had gone :-$ Can't remember what it was called.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hallo my darlings. > xxxxxxx Bet you remember Mick and Montmerency (sp?) then PGC :))

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Any takers? xxxxxxx Nearly two years to respond, is that a record? :)

I have hated flying ants ever since I walked into a swarm of them coming home from school and got loads tangled up in my hair (td)