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The Wichita Lineman - Glenn Campbell Just don't ask :))

What are you on about, this is the East Dulwich Forum, we know not of this Norwood :) Or even less this Sydenham Wells :))

You wouldn't what? Buy or avoid? :))

Have you seen the old man In the closed-down market Kicking up the paper With his worn out shoes? In his eyes you see no pride Hand held loosely at his side Yesterday's paper telling yesterday's news Chorus: so how can you tell me you're lonely And say for you that the sun don't shine? Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of london I'll show you something to make you change your mind Have you seen the old girl Who walks the streets of london Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags? She's no time for talking She just keeps right on walking Carrying her home in two carrier bags Chorus In the all night cafe At a quarter past eleven Same old man is sitting there on his own Looking at the world Over the rim of his tea-cup Each tea lasts an hour Then he wanders home alone Chorus Have you seen the old man Outside the seaman's mission Memory fading with the medal ribbons that he wears In our winter city The rain cries a little pity For one more forgotten hero And a world that doesn't care Chorus

I need to know :) Are Midget Gems those round flat things made of white chocolate with hundreds and thousands stuck all over one side of them, or are they the tiny jelly like things of different colours which are a bit chewy and have different flavours? Thanks in anticipation of your reply, and I can't wait till H & G open their ice cream counter again and have those praline caramel ice cream things YAY I'm going all funny just thinking about it :)-D

I've never seen anyone famous in East Dulwich, but that's because I'm a sad f****r who never watches the telly except for Shameless, so unless Frank Gallagher or whoever the actor is who plays him suddenly appeared in Lordship Lane I wouldn't recognise any of the Famous People. Hic.

All my pets are dead :-$

Christ there's loads of them, where to start :-S OK one example, Rory McLeod, possibly MacLeod, f-ing brilliant, clearly someone is giving him credit as we can't afford him at The Goose Is Out! but who on this forum except for me has ever heard of him?? Used to be a busker and one-man-band :)-D

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Lucky you, I love wrens, had one in my garden a few years back but never heard it singing :)

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If you really want to hear birdsong, go to Sainsbury's car park around 2 or 3am, just stand and listen, absolutely amazing. Would never have believed I would hear anything like that in London. Edited to add: Shameless plug, we hear it after a Goose Is Out! gig at DHFC on a Friday night, coming home after we've taken down the fairy lights, blown out the tea lights and stacked up the chairs. But we always have to drag ourselves out of bed the next morning and get down to DHFC with a hangover to finish clearing up :))

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How do you know they were female?

The Minkey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mrs Blackbird has finally started collecting for a > nest - seems very late this year. xxxxxx I've got blackbirds been nesting in my garden for a couple of weeks now.

Gimme Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Depends where you live. If you live towards the > bottom end of LL or near Goose Green on the SE15 > side or between LL and Peckham Rye Park, you will > hear the planes big time! Particularly when > sitting in the garden. xxxxxxxx Yeh I live off North Cross Road, Goose Green end of LL, and I find the planes very irritating. I hear them start up in the morning if I haven't been sleeping too well, and that's the worst because once one has gone over I lie and wait for the first stirrings of the next one in the distance. I've been here twenty years and they've got a lot worse. It's been great without any lately. I do still miss Concorde though, I didn't mind the noise at all then because the plane going over every day was so beautiful to look at.

Miserable git, go and live somewhere else then :))

Birdsong is always louder in the Spring, personally I love it. If it was a blackbird it wouldn't drive you mad I'm sure, blackbirds have a beautiful song and tend not to repeat the same thing over and over. Stopped me in my tracks, literally, the first time I heard a blackbird singing. Could be a flock of sparrows? Starlings? If it sounds like a squeaky wheel which needs oiling, it's a Great Tit :)

Once I get my teeth into a cause I don't let go :)) ETA: I've also got a gripe because the last three times I've been in, I've been charged more on the till than the price on the shelf for items, twice for grapefruit and once for eggs (you can tell I'm on a diet :)) ). It's only a matter of a few pence each time, but the thing is, I've never been undercharged, and a few pence for each person buying these items adds up.

I haven't found the staff disinterested, but I do think the management is poor. And I'm not sure that's something you can train, because a lot of it is common sense, surely. If I don't get a proper response to my letter and if things don't improve I am going to copy the letter to Co-Op HQ because I think it's a real wasted opportunity. I would rather shop at the Co-op than Sainsbury's, but there's no point if I can't buy the stuff I need - I don't want to have to go to two supermarkets.

Squeezy or jar debate here: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=15672425113&topic=4284

There will be music on Goose Green on Sunday 9 May as part of the festival, and the absolutely excellent local artists Jen Doyle and Joe Fowler will be singing and playing at 3pm. If you haven't already seen them at a Goose gig (they first came down to the Mag to do a floorspot, then did a support act at DHFC and now we've booked them to headline at the Mag in the Autumn) you can read more about them at http://www.thegooseisout.com/events.html#jenjoe These two are going to be big and hey they live in ED! Joe's brother Luke will be playing bass on 9th. :)-D

Sadly, I've written to the manager, because .... Shelves of chicken pieces but no free-range pieces, and I won't buy chicken that isn't free-range. No organic fruit and veg any more, that I could see. Shelf after bare shelf - no stir-fry bags or salad (around 6pm on a Friday), hardly any alcohol in the chiller (ditto). Carton of cottage cheese on display past its sell-by date. Astronomical price rise in own brand tissues (which have now disappeared from the shelves altogether :-S ) I was really looking forward to the Co-op opening, and from the point of view of stuff that I buy, on the whole it's got worse. Not because it's a Co-op per se, but because of what appears to be poor management, poor stock control, insufficient shelf filling staff, and/or a lack of research on what local shoppers (ie me :)) ) might want to buy. I did however buy a load of what appeared to be perfectly good plums reduced to 25p a pack last week so swings and roundabouts I guess :))

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I'm sure most people who rent out their house don't deliberately rent it to people who blight the lives of those around them :))