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:))Well I once had a parcel delivered when I was out, and a notice put through my door "parcel in dustbin" And it was !!!! Luckily tbe dustbin people hadn't been ........ I also once had a parcel left on my wall which was nicked - it was a book from (sorry) Reader's Digest, and the title was something along the lines of "How to Get Things for Free" :))

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ah I remember the chicken shop, the chicken was > bloody awful, BUT they did great pizza for a > pound! (well as great as any pizza for a pound is > going to be). We were regular visitors when 3 of > us were sharing a flat on Barry Road and drinking > ourselves almost out of work! Happy Daze! :)-D @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ But there was another great pizza place up the road (Northcross Road) which they tried to put out of business, and succeeded, that was SO BAD :( The people in there were so sweet :) and it was great value pizza, and where are they now????

YES!!!!! We have Dave Swarbrick, folk legend extraordinaire, booked for our opening night - 28 March upstairs at the EDT !!!!!! ex Fairport Convention, but maybe best known for his amazing gigs/albums with Martin Carthy, possibly the only folk musician (or indeed anyone) to have had an obituary printed in the Daily Telegraph (sic) whilst, erm, not actually dead - duh. :)) If you were there or wish you had been there, this will be amazing - and floorspots and Folk2Future (Big Chill) deejaying too! And food! And a late bar till midnight with chilled music!! AAAARRRGGGHHH not sure I'm supposed to be doing this on this thread, but hey! It's exciting! Folkies and would-be-folkies, watch this space!!! Folk is coming back to East Dulwich !! :)-D From the hammered dulcimer to the laptop :)-D And we have so many people, from Martin Carthy via Alasdair Roberts and Jackie Oates to Tunng all keen to come to the EDT !!!! YAY !!!!!! :)-D Oh and PS, The Goose is Out - look out for the Goose !! (tu) Tickets will be available in advance, more info soon

Things are moving fast and furious, John Kirkpatrick and Tim van Eyken booked so far, Dave Swarbrick and Alasdair Roberts we will hear next week, watch this space !!!! Tell all your friends!!! First night will be 28 March and we need loads of punters to make sure the night is a success and we run and run :)-D

Well hopefully you folkies will also come to our new night :)-D Hankdogs no longer at the Ivy House, anyway ..... unless there's something I don't know .....

Aaaaarrrrrggggghhh what a week! The meeting on Sunday for interested people is back to 4PM AT THE PLOUGH, sorry for any confusion - please PM me if you'd like further details, otherwise just turn up and find us if you'd like to help out with the folk club or woud like to find out more :)

Rather hard with the photo virtually obscured !!! Says it has lovely views over a green - which one? And has a tandoori oven, so presumably is/was an Indian restaurant??

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The 176 service had got a hell of a lot better than it was before the Ken improvements (I once waited over two hours in the early evening for a bus back from Charing Cross Road to ED). But I agree it's got worse again recently, it's terminating early in both directions, and that stop to change drivers is particularly irritating in the morning when I'm trying to get to work. But on balance I'd still rather sit on a bus - even with a long journey time - than be crammed onto rush hour trains/tubes.... it's cheaper, too :) EDIT I once had an occasional job mystery travelling for London Buses, and it was very noticeable how much quicker my day finished when the post-Ken timetables came in - very definitely the buses were much more frequent than they had been before.

(6) :) Oops got smileys wrong way round first time :-$

chuff Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Last year when I moved I cleared out a lot of > stuff that didn't fit me anymore. Nearly all of it > was lovely stuff but knowing that I was never > going to fit in a size 8 again decided to part > with it all. There were approximately 20 bin bags > full, mainly women's work clothes from shops like > Karen Millen. xxxxxx Maybe next time you could advertise it on Freecycle?? I'm sure someone would be delighted to take it. > > All of the charity shops in the area (including > Peckham and Forest Hill) refused to take them > because they had too much stock. I ended up > stuffing it all in the clothes recycling bins at > sainsburys which made me a bit sad. > > chuff

Has anybody else noticed the guy behind the bar at the CPT has a wonderful tee-shirt with "Everybody pretend to be normal" on the back?? (from Little Miss Sunshine, but hey, appropriate to the thread - erm, maybe :)))

Blimey, I think one of those would look great in my living room :))

giggirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I must admit I've never been inside. In the days > before the smoking ban The Drum always looked > particularly smokey - that's very off-putting in a > small place. xxxxxx It was extremely smokey. It was vile. I once spent an unpleasant couple of hours there practically choking to death and never went back as a result. When the smoking ban came in, I had got into the habit of not going to the Drum..... I wonder how many other people were put off by the smoke .....

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ha Ha.. good spot, LTP. > Don't know about you, but I can't wait to get my > hands on the roll-up suede backgammon set and > textured leather frames. > > Does anyone have any cyanide? xxxxxx For you or for the owners ??? Or for the purchasers of these items ???? :))

Anyone know who runs the jazz club, also at the EDT? I want to check out some practical issues re the venue :) If noone knows I will ask via the EDT :)

Yeh I agree, it was a useful shop :(

Just found this whilst looking for something else on the net - is this true, or an urban myth??? "We have vivid green parakeets - escaped from a Tarzan film set at Elstree Studios in the 1950's and they have colonized the South of London" :)

I saw a water rat (?vole?) at the edge of the water in Peckham Rye Park a while back - the bit where you go over that little bridge. Also saw a newt in the water there once :) Often see the parakeets (?sp?) and have seen a load of them on someone's bird feeder near the path going up to the woods - blimey, getting like Oz round here :)) Why is it that I get zillions of sparrows and starlings in my garden, when they're the ones whose numbers are supposed to be dwindling, but hardly anything else (pair of blackbirds, resident robin, a wren once, the odd great and blue tit, one collared dove and that's about it) And they get through the most enormous amounts of bird food, they're eating me out of house and home, occasionally helped by a squirrel :) Would love to attract woodpeckers or long-tailed-tits (my fave birds) but so far zilch :'( maybe there aren't any ltts around ED, but I know there are woodpeckers!

snorky Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Er...you do realise where he buys his stock from > dont you ? > > I dont want to pay a premium to be sold onions by > a man in a stripey jumper. > > good for him though, hes making a living out of > it. xxxxxxx Where does he buy his stock from ??? And how do you know ??? :-S

ANYONE INTERESTED - we are having a further meeting of people who would like to help out at the Folk Club - this will be on Sunday 10 February (ie this coming Sunday) at 4pm. It will probably be at the EDT but if you think you might come, might be good to PM me first, though I will confirm the venue on this thread as well nearer the time :) EDIT - SORRY WE HAVE TO BRING TIME OF MEETING FORWARD DUE TO A CLASH OF COMMITTMENTS, WILL POST LATER THIS WEEK TO SAY WHEN EDIT AGAIN!! - As you were, we are back to 4pm at the Plough, see my later post

Google it :) Nu folk - one example, Joanna Newsom. Chance would be a fine thing to get her, mind you .... Folk electronica (sorry, spelling mistake, I went mediaeval or something above) - one example, Tunng. Who sadly are having a rest from gigs after extensive touring, but who I'm sure will be appearing in ED sometime after the summer. Erm, one of the Guardian's top albums of the year And quote from the Observer on their latest album: "If you only buy one folk album this year ... Tunng's Good Arrows (Full Time Hobby), which is where folk has turned up, wired and enchanting, now that we're in the future." Speaking of which, they are friends of Folk2Future and two of them deejay sometimes at the Big Chill Bar with F2F (soon to be resident deejays at the EDFC, huurah). Gypsy punk - Gogol Bordello. Oh, and if none of that appeals, we have booked John Kirkpatrick! :)-D

Sorry been very tied up, I will PM you but probably won't be today, I'm in Oxford and having trouble writing this on someone else's partly-functioning laptop :)) Martin Carthy is keen to play the EDT again (said he'd "love to") - working on a date (tu)

OK, it's all happening, priority now is to book artists, we are starting on this but if anyone has contacts that would be great :) Not sure yet what will happen over the Summer period, so for the moment are looking just up till mid-July. Opening night will be 28 March and we are investigating various possibilities for that. Other nights we need "booked" people are 25 April, 23 May, 20 June and 18 July. Then "Singers Nights" (anyone can come and do their own thing - within reason !!!! No biting heads off small animals !!!!) and will be on 11 April, 9 May, 6 June and 4 July. Some people may like to come along and sing/play with a view to a future booking :) We will need people to help with putting round leaflets etc and also to help out on the night. We've already had some offers, but if anyone else can do anything, however small, that would be great. Also - if anyone has sound engineering skills which are better than ours (not difficult) and can help us with that - and/or lighting - or give us some lessons, that would be brilliant :)-D