kford

Good on yer, SNUB for trying to brighten up our rainy week. You might not have got it quite right this year, but, hey, I bet the first Glastonbury was chaos too. To all the moaners, I suspect you'd rather they didn't have one next year, so you can have an empty, muddy and windswept Goose Green to yourselves again. And risk assessments, without sounding too Daily Mail, are the kind of safety-first tosh that's making us all a bunch of blame-everyone,-sue-everyone,-never-take-personal-responsibilty dullards. Phew.

Fair enough.

O'Neills? Are you sure, Keef?! It's the fakest of the fake.

I know Northcote is not the best example, but it does have the ubiquitous All Bar One, Nando's etc. Perhaps I should've said Reading. And I hope you're right re planning.

EDA is correct. Something to suit everyone.

Swap Chener Books for Waterstones. Change the Bishop to an O'Neill's, the EDT an All Bar One. Make the stationery shop a Rymans. Green & Blue can be an Oddbins. Hirst Bakers can be a Greggs. Change SMBS Foods into a Fresh & Wild. Franklins could be a Cafe Rouge, Mrs Robinson a Cargo. Swap all the cafes for Subways, Prets and McDonalds. And Foxtons to a... Foxtons. Be careful what you wish for. If you want to live in a clone street, move to Northcote Road!

In the inner city 'burbs of Melbourne, Australia, permits are given free to residents; shoppers and visitors have only an hour's grace and they have to pay-and-display. Revenue is earned from that. Can you imagine such a sensible system here?

Being the only accessible coffee shop on LL is not a reason to allow them to stay. It's only because of their might that they can afford to comply, i.e. completely rebuilding the entire shop front; smaller outfits struggle to meet the costs of following the law to the letter. If Southwark did come down on the other shops in LL, it'd be either a ghost town or a clone town.

It's all good. Mrs Kford reckons the fish 'n' separate chips is better than Sea Cow.

Thanks! (tu)

Wise words, Wino.

And don't be silly, frisco.

Around a station, near a school, I can just about see a justification as this involves daytime parking issues. But beware, fines make up a big proportion of a council's parking 'profit', so those guys buzzing around on scooters will be issuing PCNs for the slightest infringement. Although there would be no excuse for parking outside of our allocated zone without a permit, or on a yellow line at the wrong time, or thoughtlessly blocking a ramp or an access road, I guarantee even the most cautious driver will get tickets. From my time in a CPZ, my neigbours and I recieved PCNs for the following spurious reasons: In the five minutes we were inside scratching off the dates on the day pass (?15/book valid only for two years) to place on a relative's car For having one wheel over the white line at the end of the CPZ (even though the other wheel was in). Clamped and removed because the disc fell from the screen while we were away on hols in hot summer of 2003 (in the plastic holder provided by Lambeth) because the permit number (but not the date) was slightly obscured. ?280 to get the car back. On a buider's van in the time it took for him to carry his stuff to our door and before we could give him his vistor's pass None were successfully appealed. Be careful what you wish for.

No no no no no no no. Lived in one before which actually caused more grief after it was introduced. Just a cash-cow that won't stop LL parking problems, as most issues arise with evening diners and weekend and evening shoppers whose parking falls outside the patrolled hours. I already pay to have my car on the road through vehicle licence duty.

Bloody hell - ban the fish van on Saturday then. It's surely a hazard, especially with his noisy generator masking the sounds on oncoming traffic.

The Hamlet's ground is the unit base; it's just lighting trucks by Budgens. Still there this morning in the same location, which is rare for an ad, unless it's for Budgens, which is unlikely as it's not exactly a flagship store. Hmm...

What business-speak twaddle.

The only TV show he's involved in at the mo is this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132157/ But it's only in pre-production, so it must be an ad.

The Palmerston is his favourite restaurant. Fact.

Kennedys sounds like it could make a killing if it got its arse in gear. Sounds like they've just lost interest. What a pity. Re: bakeries: went to Hirsts once. As bad as Greggs. Bland, porn-white bread and very suspect 'cream'.

Frisco is right. And we absolutely do not need a Gregg's though. They're the Starbucks/Subway/MacDonalds of bakers. And if you knew what went into their two-for-a-pound sausage rolls... yuk.

Er, read my message again - I said 'not an expensive one, a quality one'. I too hate paying more than a quid for a loaf.

We need a quality baker badly. Not an expensive one, a quality one. The other baker in LL is OK, but just erring on the Greggs side in variety. And there's nothing snobby or poncy about wanting lovely fresh and interesting bread and cakes, by the way; that's a silly class-ridden attitude that belongs in another era.

Would it have once been a toll road, like the upper section of College Road? Might explain its unadopted state.

It's the demand from China that's pushed prices up, especially copper.