Peckhamgatecrasher

Call that sledging, Brendan? You couldn't find a bob team on a lazy luge.

Oyster cards cannot be used on trains at present, only buses/dlr/trams & tubes.

Used to be a superb Italian: might have been Ebury St, might have been called Momo's ?!?

I do miss the champagne and oyster bar at Victoria. Anyone else remember it. Happy days.

Sod 'em. Just lay all your bling on the ground - recreate the Field of Gold - and dazzle 'em.

Since when did Thornton Heath become Souf London? That's well and truly the depths of Surrey. ...we'd sing and dance for ever and a day ...

My dear, you couldn't look dim after a frontal lobotomy. Just take care, there are some weirdos out there who want to be shot from cannons.

"Specialist Crime Directorate officers" - does this mean the Sweeney still ride the mean streets?

Cher boite de cheval Stick it to 'em.

David, that was gross. See me afterwards. It makes me feel proud that our affair was far more salubrious and the only casualty had the decency to absent himself.

Do a search - there's a thread (probably buried cos it's off-season) in the What's On section.

Cmacki, I truly do not understand your antipathy towards single-sex schools. I have a teenage daughter who goes to a single sex school. It's been well documented that girls thrive in such establishments which is one of the major reasons I chose it. What's so bad about them? Taper, the Peckham Academy was a crap school before Harris took over. I hugely admired the new headmaster (now gone) and did look at the school, but rightly or wrongly, was put off by the gobbets of spit all over the place, plus the above reasons.

Since the launch of that damn film, and associated advertising, I can't get "Mamma Mia" out of my head. I hate Abba.

Pls change the title thread Sean, sounds so like soliciting!

So resonant JJF!

I know from experience that there are several ARV (armed response vehicles) at Peckham Police Station. Not sure if every jam sandwich carries them.

As an old fart, I think it's rather sad that a fine building will be lost. Re the playing fields, St Olave's in the OKR bus their pupils to the Dulwich Park Rd grounds and seems to work from them. That at least is a better option than my daughter's school which doesn't set much store by sports and apart from hiring Battersea Park athletics track for their once-yearly shindig, do bugger all.

I'm with Alachlan on this. I've had some very dicey stuff - even allowing for 'organic' strange shapes and forms. Has been definitely past its sell by date. And at that price ...!

You're so right Keef, I loved that too. Beef or pork?

Blimey, I thought from the title you meant Spangles.

1. Tony.London dear, it took me over 8 months to work out that the " sign above where you type your entries allows you to put quotes in a box - in just two days you can seem like an oldie. Huge improvement with your spaces, but for old dears with wonky eyes like me, please try this option. 2. Just got back from Lidl opposite where the incident took place. Whatever the arguments above, it's bloody sad and pathetic to see another bunch of bouquets to mark a life wantonly taken.

Tentatively putting my confused head above the parapet here. About 15 years' ago I got into pretty hot water when I suggested to a mixed-race colleague that she was completely denying her white, middle-class heritage. She insisted that she was black and had even traced her father's ancestors to his Masai tribe, had changed her name to an African one, that I knew nothing and was racist. She was backed up by our all black colleagues and I felt pretty stupid in the face of such militant propaganda. Since then, I have assiduously called all mixed-race people black, taught my daughter that this is the correct term, etc, etc. So what's the correct form now in light of the above posts?

That's probably why I felt so smug Moos - got one over on those posh ED types!

I believe in Satire - does that count?

Picked up my bag this morning - thanks Monica and all. It irrationally made me feel so cheerful, I beamed at everyone; a woman behind the till at Somerfield said I'd been the first person to smile at her all morning. Let's be kind to our shop staff - I hate shopping, good staff makes it bearable. Share the love ... [changing my name to Pollyanna]