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Coin operated BBQs in Peckham Rye, Dulwich Park and Goose Green, like these Down Under: http://www.parc.co.nz/bbq.jpg or, better: http://www.rossmotel.com.au/images/large/caravan_BBQ.jpg And: A tramline from Goose Green to town; motorbikes allowed in bus lanes; Adventure Bar re-named; that block that used to be the Co-op until 1944 demolished and rebuilt as a modern, funky parade of shops and flats.

Anchor & Hope? Still is, partly. Better know as 'Best Gastropub in London' according to Time Out a couple of years ago. Great food, but first come-first served seating is a pain.

Hisar - best in ED. Stomach just rumbled thinking about it.

Anchor & Hope, The Cut, Waterloo. Lobster Pot, Kennington.

My bank thinks our cards were defrauded at an ATM, although there was an article on TV this morning about rogue checkout operators using stolen and doctored chip & pin handsets. So much for that breakthrough security measure.

Breakdance 2 - Electric Boogaloo.

That sprawling collection of nonsense called GV15 by ED railway station. Unimaginative and depressing. DKH is pretty good; the wood and dark grey look modern and well-coordinated. Ditto the block opposite - Mary Seacow Court or something - especially when the sun hits the bright brick-red staircase in the evening. NB: 3-bed flat in Overhill/Underhill block: ?390k.

Read the piece, but still don't really know what it is. Maybe that's their problem. As far as I'm concerned, I'm out (in Duncan Bannatyne voice).

Unless there's a sign allowing it, like the pavement parking on lower Melbourne Grove or Gallery (or is it College?) Road, Dulwich Village, you haven't got a chance unfortunately.

"She's a naughty girl with a bad habit, a bad habit for drugs..." Class.

Virgin have just called me and, as well as Mrs Kford's card cloned and used in the Philippines, I now have had my card copied and used in Senegal and Ghana. Without being prompted, they said it might be 'a local Texaco petrol station', which I used a few days ago. Other than that, my transactions have been in town or at places like Soup Dragon.

try some of these: http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/waterguns/13.jpg

Not short of a few (Mrs) bob, then?

They need something akin to the Nazis adding an extra cog to the Enigma machine - perhaps an on-screen password letter/number system - as in online banking - so the combination changes with every withdrawal.

Hmm. Mrs Kford's just had a call from our bank telling her that her Maestro card has just been used for a series of transactions in the Philipines. They cancelled it, and luckily it was on a couple of hundred quid. She's wracking her brain to rememeber where it was used, as she prefers the Barclay's ATM to the tampered-with HSBC. It would definitely be an ED cloning though, as she's only been local lately.

There's a great pic in a book in Dulwich library, taken just after, showing the crater and piles of rubble where the Co-op stood, with wrecked houses up Shawbury Road and EDers going about their business.

I lived in 'edgy' Camberwell for years and apart from: the three break-ins, one by the people we actually drinked with in the local pub; being asked to remain in my house with the curtains closed because a gunman was loose near the station arches; witnessing a man being beaten half to death in broad daylight by a gang armed with pickaxe handles; car vandalism and finding a man living in our shed, it was fine.

'Edgy' - isn't that estate agent-talk for 'dangerous at night'?

And apologies for telling you to 'shut up'. Perhaps we need a 'take it outside' button for such passionate battles, that allows the thread to continue without being lounged ;-)

He started it miss!

I hadn't finished.

Sure, and you can't drink outside pubs and you can't park with your car facing the traffic. Have you ever lived there? No? Well shut up then. My poll findings were possibly exaggerated, but hey, I haven't got the time to trawl the internet looking for the exact figures. You obviously have. My original point was just to show a little solidaity with the likes of Louisa, and others, who probably perceive that they're being persecuted for what, on the face of it, are trivial 'crimes'. That's all. I don't have a problem with life - how dare you - I do however have a probelm with people like you. who seem to want to start an argument at every opportunity. You don't work for NCP, APCOA or Southwark council do you?

Australia - cons: a bit far away; newspapers aren't as good as the UK. That's about it. France, Spain or even Germany. Cons: can't speak the language as well as I ought; would only get Channel 4 on satellite or PC. That's about it. The benefits over this expensive hateful little country, to anyone who's visited the above, are blindingly obvious. In a recent poll, people were asked to list what they would miss most about this country and they answered thus: 1. Nothing 2. Baked beans 3. The telly Says it all. Now try and think of something yourself. Hard, isn't it?

Common human decency goes out of the window when there's oodles of cash to be made with little recourse. Loz - I remember reading that (one of my comments has even been used), but thought it applied to CCTV convictions only. Reading again, you're right. Outrageous. What's stopping an attendant topping up his quota with a few passing numbers, as what happened to me once? How would you prove him wrong? Time to leave the country.

Carter39, you've been a victim of so-called 'ghost' tickets. Attendants will write up a ticket but not issue it to the car, to make up the numbers at the end of a slack shift (remember, these guys work piecework). Appeal and ask for photographic evidence, or the bailiffs will be round for you car or your telly. Lambeth tried it once in Brixton and I got off after appeal.