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I have obviously morphed into a complete wimp :))

I'll be sorry to see it go too, it was so much part of the ED scenery. Let's hope the guy is making a load of dosh from it. The wood man, not the developer :)

I was in Oxford recently on granny duties, and a group of shop assistants were having a fag outside their shop. They turned to go back inside, and one threw a lit cigarette end behind her without looking, and it very nearly hit my granddaughter (in her buggy, not yet one) in the face. All I can say is, none of them will ever do that again !!!!! And as my daughter said later, if I hadn't noticed it, it could have landed on the buggy or on her clothes and set her on fire. Doesn't bear thinking about really. I also once got a lit cigarette butt stuck between my toes when I was walking along wearing sandals. I'm all for fining people who drop litter. I did once pick up litter when I saw people drop it and say "excuse me I think you dropped this", but I wouldn't do it these days, so Rose you have my utmost admiration !!!!

I made the mistake of involving my insurance company when cracks started appearing. After a period of monitoring, they said it was subsidence due to problems with the drains, which supposedly they fixed. However the premiums were indeed hiked up massively, and I can do nothing about it because other insurance companies always ask about subsidence, and as soon as I say there's been a problem they won't go any further. In future I'd just sort it myself/with a builder unless it was really really bad. :( Hindsight is a wonderful thing .....

I've lived in ED for sixteen years on and off. Only incident I know of personally round here was in the mid-nineties when a pizza deliverer was mugged outside my house by two guys. What upset him most was that one of them pulled a medallion from his neck, which had sentimental value. We took him into our house, but the police took ages to come, by which time the muggers had long, long gone. I've had my purse stolen twice, and each time was due to my own stupidity in having it in an open bag. I now always keep it either in an internal zipped pocket or if the bag doesn't have one, I put it in a carrier bag inside the handbag so it isn't obviously a purse.

Maybe that was what bore away a horribly squealing starling from my garden the other week - it sat in the corner of the garden with its claws in it before flying off. Are they quite large with sort of speckly breasts? My bird book only shows the peregrine falcon from the back, so it could have been a sparrowhawk ....

I haven't been on this thread either much lately, but blimey, I'm open-mouthed to come across this c**p from Alicia. Scaremongering doesn't even start to describe it. It's great to see the vast majority of posters on the thread have common sense and a heart. Sooner she moves out of ED the better, it seems to me. Hope I never get to meet her in the meantime .....

Genuine apologies to the administrator - thanks for your patience, and this will be the last post in this thread :) It's just to let people who have been following the progress of the East Dulwich folk events in this section of the forum know that tickets for all the events, including our opening event with Dave Swarbrick, will be on sale TODAY - see my post in the "What's On" section of the forum for more details. All future posts relating to the folk events will be in "What's On", as our website has - finally - gone live and we are starting putting publicity around. My thanks to everyone who has supported this venture so far - if it hadn't been for your enthusiasm, this would never have been more than an idea which came to nothing. :)

I think it would be great to have lots more flowers around. There was a vote (last year?) for what should go on the roundabout, and I think the outcome was that it would be a tree, though I did point out that it would be preferable to have something which didn't restrict vision across the roads ..... And that public art is often crap (I didn't use that word, naturally). Hanging baskets in Lordship Lane would be great. But yes, they do take a lot of watering so I can understand why some shops might not want to be bothered. I have a feeling one year the hanging baskets in North Cross Road were stolen in the night - cut down. And the year before last my windowboxes were all stolen (just before Mother's Day. The police said the thieves had taken a van around the area). They're chained to the sill now. Er, different ones, obviously :)

Just to set matters straight, I was told at the time by the administrator that my previous thread had been lounged because it had been up for a long time (five days), that Folk was a minority interest, and that the forum had to cater for majority tastes. When it was lounged, it completely disappeared from its original thread with no indication that it had ever been there or that it had been lounged. People told me they could not find it, and nor could I (I rarely go into the lounge as it says it is for issues unconnected with East Dulwich, which are not what I come to this forum for). It was reinstated when I responded that I felt that the forum should be for everyone in East Dulwich not just the majority. I am very happy to abide by forum rules, if they are clear and consistently applied, but let's be accurate about what's happening here. The reason the folk events are not advertised in the Events section yet is because there have been problems with the website and until they are sorted I can't get the tickets on sale or the publicity out. I have spent a great deal of time and energy on getting this on the road after sufficient people expressed an interest at the start to make it clear it could be viable, and it is very disappointing to have people squash my efforts by wanting me to split matters relating to the Folk events in several different threads all over the forum where interested people may not see them. Edited to split up long paragraph

Thanks Keef, that's great, I've PMed you. Edited to remove comments relating to forum policy on second threads and lounging :)

If anybody could help out with putting round posters and/or flyers for the Goose at the weekend, that would be great, particularly if you live outside the immediate East Dulwich area (Peckham, Herne Hill, Tulse Hill, Camberwell, Dulwich Village etc etc) or could put up a poster in a college for example. PM me and I'll arrange to get hard copies to you (or I can email them as jpegs if you can print them out cheaply yourself - they're all black and white). But please only offer if you are sure you have the time and inclination - good intentions won't get our flyers round and we'd rather they were sitting at our place than yours. At least we'd know how many we had left :) We might even buy you a thank-you pint on the opening night :) :)-D

I am hoping that tickets for all the gigs will be available this weekend, just got to get the website live so all the publicity can kick off at the same time, you will be able to buy tickets in advance either online or at the edt, watch this space :)-D The Goose Is Nearly Out! :)-D ******* hell, I can't believe we've done all this in a month !!!!!

MelbourneGr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Too close to the EDE...is good enough reason for > this Forum. Eh? Don't understand - please explain :-$

I've always found Maceys (Macys?) on North Cross Road to be very good, and the pharmacist will tell you if the over-the-counter cost of the prescription is cheaper than the NHS cost, without asking (or maybe I just look very poor :)) )

:)):)):)) How much was the change ?? And did you get it ?? :))

Anyone know what's happened to the Saturday night disco at the Village Inn (ex Page 2 Bar) ?? We went down there once, had a good time, passed the place on Thursday night and there was still a poster outside saying "disco every Saturday" or words to that effect - so we went down there on Saturday and no sign of a disco .... just a virtually empty bar .... The barmaid just said there wasn't a disco (which was blindingly obvious) but the poster was still there .... Surely not EVERYBODY was watching the ******* rugby?? :))

Finalised the poster and flyers for the new folk night at the edt. Then got drunk :)-D:)-D:)-D

How do we know who is who ???? I'll be the one getting very pissed very quickly :)-D Respect to the emoticons Michael P :))

I think the Lost Property Office in Baker Street still deals with stuff lost on buses. You have to fill in a form saying where you lost the item. But I might be wrong, could be just the underground, you could try Googling it. Hope you find them.

Yep, two of my cousins lived on a council estate in Dulwich in the fifties, both got scholarships to Dulwich College, they both did very well and one went on to Cambridge.

Whenever I've called them they've nearly always taken hours to turn up, by which time the noise is over. But maybe they've improved. This was a year or so back when we had terrible trouble with a neighbour across the road who you could hear shouting and playing music even with all the doors and windows closed and our own music on !!! They also only ever seemed to send out a subsequent letter after the few times they arrived in reasonable time, which I assume was because someone uses these letters for monitoring their success rate, so they can say they arrive within x minutes 95% of the time, or whatever, and it looks really good in the annual reports. And when I actually had to hammer on this guy's door at 4 in the morning on Christmas Eve (and he couldn't hear me because he was making so much noise), the Southwark Noise people weren't on duty. Fair enough, I wouldn't want to work on Christmas Eve, but it was a bit ******* annoying as I could hear him even from a bedroom at the back (where I had been forced to retreat earlier in the year as he made so much noise it stopped me sleeping at the front). mikese22 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Ring up the Southwark Noise team. They are > quite > > effective. When I lived in Bermondsey I > reported > > the unaceptable noise during the night from the > > Hansard printing press and they took measures > to > > have them supress the noise. > > > The southwark noise team are brilliant! > > I complained about a car alarm that had been going > off for over 24 hours and they were on my doorstep > within 20 minutes - and they sorted the problem - > wish I'd called them sooner

Yeh, that must be it :))

Oh God, this has brought back terrible memories of when I saw this very thin cat every day in ED on my way to work, eventually I started asking around and someone in the road told me it had belonged to someone who had moved away and left the cat behind several months before. So - I took it home, bought it cat stuff etc - a few days later, notices appeared down the road that someone had lost a cat matching this cat's description. So - naturally, I immediately went to the address in question and said that I had the cat and of course would bring it back. But the owner spent about twenty minutes accusing me of being a cat thief, and I couldn't get across that if I actually had intended to steal her cat, I would hardly have come to tell her that I had it!! It was all quite disturbing ..... Apparently the story I had been told was true, but this woman had taken the cat in subsequently, and the reason it was so thin was because it was ill. She also accused me of feeding it normal cat food (which of course I had) which would make its illness worse :-$ I will never take in another apparently stray animal again - probably :)) What is about ED that attracts mad people? (I don't exclude myself, of course :)) )

I got that Banksy book a lot cheaper in Fop/Fopp (spelling?) near the Charing Cross Road a week or so back :) ed_pete Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh - I don't know. Think I've found a few items > that you and some of the other regulars might be > interested in... > > Snorky > > SeanM > > Admin > > Dulwich Mum > > Jah