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Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Blame me I ordered it to be done. Sorry. > > Louisa. xxxxxxx Why????

There used to be a mural on the side of the house opposite the side of the EDT, at Goose Green. I've only just noticed it's been painted over - anyone know why? I really liked it :'(

Harry Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Globe in Topsham is very good xxxxxx Not as good as the Bridge Inn, which used to be my local when I lived in Topsham :)-D Though the very eccentric landlord/lady are no longer there, I think :'(

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Great idea, would love to have such a folk night > so local. > Drag that I cannot be there on Sunday those as out > of town. > If you make any headway pls post here and let us > all know about it ! xxxxxxx We had a constructive and enthusiastic meeting, things are moving, watch this space :)-D

The Mind shop used to be quite unhelpful but I have found them very good of late and they have never refused to take anything. I know it's a way away, but Trinity Hospice on Clapham Common will always take stuff for their shops (in my experience), you can take it to the hospice itself and they store it in a room there, and have loads of storage space (though maybe better phone first) - they've never refused anything either. They also take foreign coins you don't want kicking around. St. Christophers - can't say - haven't used it much except for books, which seem to be a lot cheaper than the Mind shop (unless they've put their prices up, haven't been there lately). Anyone know why the Mind shop doesn't have children's clothes or toys ????

I got one of those cheapo wormeries from the council, they look nice because they are made of wood, and are quite compact. Problem is I produce far more veggie etc waste than I can use in the wormery. I now think I would have been better getting a (very) small compost bin, and saved all the hassle of the worms (eg wondering whether they are surviving the cold weather or have all snuffed it :)) )

As this original thread was lounged, some people may not see the new Folk Club thread in the "East Dulwich Issues and Gossip" section, so I am copying the first post below. Sorry for any confusion - seems stuff is just relegated to the lounge if "not enough interest" - even if people are still posting .... Hi all There seems to be a fair amount of interest in the possibility of an ED folk club (YAY!!) so a few of us are meeting up at The Plough at 3pm on Sunday afternoon (27 January) to kick some ideas around. If you'd like to come, or know of others who may be interested, please PM me (don't want to post my details on this thread at this point) - you DON'T have to be involved in organising any of it, we just want to get a feel for what is feasible and what people might like. All folkie tastes catered for from Copper Family to Seth Lakeman via Tunng (not that I'm suggesting any of them are likely to be coming to ED in the near future, lol. Though Tunng might ). Anyway, would be great if we could get something off the ground, even if very small scale at first. Sue

PeckhamRose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Would not M&S be a threat to the East Dulwich Deli > though? > And why think that a library would necessarily > increase pedestrian traffic? > > WOuld you / do you all use your local libraries? > I hardly ever do. I went to one a few weeks ago - > I think I mentioned it - and asked if they had a > Chekov play book and the Librarian told me that in > the whole of Southwark Libraries there is not one > Chekov book. > > Good computer system tho.... > > If people and the market economy needs more flats > then more flats it has to be. > Personally I think it should be a big post office > with forecourt parking, but - you know - it's not > about what we WANT. xxxxx You can order books and CDs etc from the library, even if they aren't in the library system at the moment. Admittedly this can take some time, but they just bought a book for me to borrow which I'd have had to pay twenty quid for. Sorry admin, I know this is off topic, won't do it again :)

Hi all There seems to be a fair amount of interest in the possibility of an ED folk club (YAY!!) so a few of us are meeting up at The Plough at 3pm on Sunday afternoon (27 January) to kick some ideas around. If you'd like to come, or know of others who may be interested, please PM me (don't want to post my details on this thread at this point) - you DON'T have to be involved in organising any of it, we just want to get a feel for what is feasible and what people might like. All folkie tastes catered for :)-D from Copper Family to Seth Lakeman via Tunng (not that I'm suggesting any of them are likely to be coming to ED in the near future, lol. Though Tunng might :)-D). Anyway, would be great if we could get something off the ground, even if very small scale at first. Sue

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Nero Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue, > While I like to see the good in everything, your > attitude is wrong. It's like saying 'Oh, I'm so > pleased the axe man only cut off my left arm and > not my right. Good for him!'. Don't accept second > best from a service we pay for! Nero xxxxxxx Oh, I don't. I once had a stand-up row in the sorting office and they threatened to stop delivering my post. But in that case I, and they, knew the facts of what I was irate about. In this case, I can't prove my letters have been held up in ED. The (ironic?) thing is, I was once a senior manager at Royal Mail HQ :))

Frisco Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "Life's too short" > > Which is why it's probably important to be able to > read and understand signs. >:D< xxxxxx And important to make the signs clear in the first place :)-D

Frisco Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "(and if this is because they can only trade six > hours on Sunday, why aren't they open till > midnight on Saturday??)" > > That's presumably a commercial decision by > Sainsburys, although all other supermarkets seems > to stick to that time too (possibly due to not > wishing to break ranks with other supermarkets > and/or estimated demand), so this important (??) > question might be best directed to Sainsburys. > While you at it, perhaps you could ask why they > don't open earlier than 8.30am on Mondays. xxxxxx Life's too short :))

Fuschia Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.communitiesthatcare.org.uk/Safer%20Lond > on%20Youth%20Survey.pdf > > According to section 13 fig 3, 7847/11458 or 68% > of respondents are included in that part of the > survey. > > I think maybe the Kings report should have said > 12% of white respondents said they had carried a > knife, 12% of black caribbean, 6% of black african > and 6% of asian. Which is a more even spread than > saying "12% of those who carried a knife were x" > (depending on the proprtion of x in the cohort) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx This is the second report I have seen recently which misreports or misinterprets statistics. Interestingly, in both cases the statistics were around ethnicity. I think it's very worrying that people who don't appear to be sufficiently numerate are writing reports of this type, since most people reading them will not notice that there is anything wrong. :(

Thanks :)

Shu.Kurimu.Sensei Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ooh, well bus is ok if you leave a bit early, but > getting a bus during rush hour from ED is a bit of > a nightmare really as the buses are well > overcrowded, most unpleasant - you really have to > rush for a seat. Its crazy how few buses are put > on the roads between 7-8am...But I agree, given > the options, going by bus is the nicest option for > public transport. Still can't go on one without > thinking it might get blown up by some dickhead > though as the threat of nutters willing to kill > for the glory of their stupid invisible friend > here is of course very real and hasn't gone away > at all. xxxxx And these "nutters" don't use trains at all, then??? And their "stupid invisible friend" is, er, who/what exactly??? Maybe you should say what you mean (6)

Should go by bus. Cheaper - and more likely to find a seat where you can sit and read in peace ;-)

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Fair play Sue, I had seen folk acts there before, > but you're right, it was also full of singer > songwriters. xxxxx Didn't mean to be provocative, sorry if that's how it came across :-$ Just, the acoustic club I used to go to (not in ED, other side of London), many weeks was very very very boring :)) Some of the singers did the same stuff week after week, and many were up their own (censored). And hey, I was far too polite to sit and read a book :)) Will definitely check out the Plough (must be the only pub in London whose phone number is impossible to find, apparently .....)

Fuschia Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >> > The Safer London Youth Survey 2004 found that the > rates for knife carrying in the capital > are significantly higher for white British and > black Caribbean young people than for black > African and South Asian young people. Of the > respondents who indicated they had carried > a knife in the past 12 months, 12 per cent were > white British, 12 per cent black Caribbean, 6 > per cent black African and 6 per cent South > Asian. > >. xxxxxxx Eh? Shome mishtake shurely?? Who were the other 64% then???? ?????????? :-S

Just wanted to say how touched I was by this thread.

I'm assuming you're all quite new to the area? There was a period some years back when the postal deliveries were REALLY bad, letters were literally thrown onto the doorstep by new posties running down the street .... Then there was the infamous postal strike when the whole delivery office was full of undelivered mail for weeks after the strike ended, and the manager would only speak to customers for a designated hour (I think) on Fridays ...... Really, things are so much better now :))Even if I find it a bit suspicious when I get no post for a few days and then a whole pile arrives at once, I just think about how much worse it used to be .... :))

Frisco Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "What I want to know is, why Sainsburys have a > sign outside saying they're open twenty four > hours, then underneath that it says the times > they're ACTUALLY open - erm, not twenty four > hours." > > They are open 24 hours from 8.30am on Mondays to > 10pm on Saturdays, when they close due to not > being able to trade on Sundays for longer than six > hours. > > I don't have a problem with the sign saying that > they're open 24 hours, but I do think that they > should have a clear and brightly lit sign on their > gates stating that they are closed. In my view, > this could prevent the incidents that happen at > their front door when people (the ones who can't > or don't understand the signs of the road) try to > get in after the shop has closed. xxxxx Ah. Clearly both my OH and I are extraordinarily thick then, as neither of us realised from the sign outside the 8.30 Mondays to 10pm Saturday thing (and if this is because they can only trade six hours on Sunday, why aren't they open till midnight on Saturday??)

What I want to know is, why Sainsburys have a sign outside saying they're open twenty four hours, then underneath that it says the times they're ACTUALLY open - erm, not twenty four hours. Well I guess they ARE open twenty four hours, just not twenty four consecutive hours, rofl :))

dessie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There's an acoustic open night at the Plough on > Friday evenings - someone was doing a very good > Bert Jansch impression/interpretation last week - > About ten years ago Bert, John Renbourn, Martin > Carthy and Davy Graham and even Vin Garbutt all > played upstairs at the EDT - some great nights - > don't know what happened to it Thanks, will check out Plough, but in my experience acoustic clubs are usually full of singer-songwriters who only go to do their own thing and then leave - very little folk - though Jansch stuff sounds good :) Davy Graham is totally out of it these days, worst gig I've ever been to a couple of years back, at the Spitz, seen him since at a festival and he wasn't much better, don't know how people are still paying him, sad as he used to be great. Yeh I was around when Martin Carthy played at the EDT, but hey, I was so blase, seen him so often, I didn't bother going, rofl :)) My OH says he was there (I didn't know him at the time though!!)

Keef,if you mean Andy, Hankdogs et al, they've moved venue, not at the Ivy House any more :) and to the best of my knowledge it was never a folk club as such??