Crystal Tips

I was out tonight and Mrs Tips was telling me about a place in Japan where once a month they had Big Rubbish Day where people stuck big stuff outside their houses/flats (sofa's, beds, fridges etc) and it would be taken by others in the community. A friend of hers furnished a flat through it. Mrs Tips has recently contacted the council who said she had a 7 day wait for big rubbish collection from the council and frustrations about replies on email so we haven't been able to confirm when we can leave stuff out to get picked up. This was after difficulties contacting places that might be able to pick up the stuff to recycle who said we have to stay in all day to pick up - i.e. no street pick up. So anyway I was wandering whether it was a good idea to have a Big Rubbish Day. Cut all the council admin. If you stick stuff out the front of your gaff on say the first Monday of the month the council will pick it up by the end of the day. You could put some kind of council type sticker on it if you wanted to confirm this. This would make it open season for any other person or white man van to pick stuff up - and re-use recycle stuff - before the council got round. When I lived in Peckham I stuck stuff out the regularly got snaffled up including a 3 piece suite. My mate in San Francisco says that is what happens there - anything outside your property is fair game - a bit like stuff in a skip. Just a thought

all the pubs were rammed - I was in the Lord Palmerston- sorry Palmerston - the guy there said they normally do 15 covers on a Monday lunchtime - today they did 90 and stopped serving food - credit crunch in east dulwich??? perhaps it was people spending money from Icesave

thanks for this Wigster - really helpful response to all those cynics out there - you really showed it to us with your in depth knowledge on the subject - and you've gone to all the effort of joining the ED Forum to let us know this and it is your first post - well done - I for one will be reconsidering my approach to these misunderstood scamps

Happened to me almost exactly the same a few weeks ago - I posted it on here - the more people that know about this kind of b@llocks the better

What is this gastropub - non-gastropub pulava. DWH is obviously one. I am not sure where Sean and Jah are getting their definition but seems a bit too refined to me - below is Wikipedia's definition and it fits the bill A gastropub (or gastro pub) is a British term for a public house which specializes in high-quality food a step above the more basic "pub grub." The name is a combination of pub and gastronomy and was coined in 1991 when David Eyre and Mike Belben opened a pub called The Eagle in Clerkenwell, London.[1][2] Here's an exert on the same theme from the House of Commons - seriously http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmstand/b/st041214/am/41214s02.htm

I was there yesterday. The food was OK - Mrs Tips roast beef she said was great. I found the staff very friendly and they seemed to welcome children appreciating the need for my wee'un to run around the place. The kids menu however was a bit sophisticated for a 2 yr old. The space was nice - we ended up in a side dining room which was excellent - and we didn't book. I would say though it was textbook gastro and I think that is a real missed opportunity. What was wrong with making the place an excellent pub doing good food without the window dressing - no money in it maybe but it is a landmark pub, was great to meet Crystal Palace friends there after a walk through the woods from the Harvester. Oh well - hopefully among other things Barak Obama may be able to stem the gastroisation of our pubs and help us reclaim them for the masses - apart from that is the masses of people that obviously frequent these places

It has happened to me before when I lived in peckham about 4 years ago - that story was about a car being towed away and someone needing money for a taxi so I stood on the doorstep and asked for the reg number and phoned up the council and got through to the car pound and he just stood there and there was no record of his car - so I apologised and said I couldn't give him the tenner he wanted. I only posted it as an alert really, i have seen similar posts on here, bit of a gut feeling thing really - I don't like being scammed - I play music in my spare time and do a load of pro-bone work so to speak - but this just was odd - I won't even get onto the door to door cleaning products people last summer....

I don't begrudge it at all - just seemed so obvious to me - can't remember that happening in Keith's day - that probably does show my age now - and yes Policemen are looking younger - Dr Who looks younger as well - but Brucie just looks the same as ever

About 15 mins ago a young woman knocked on the door - "from No.16" - we are a long way up the street - she spoke to the missus and apologised for meeting the neighbours in such circumstances but said her electric had gone off and she needed ?6 to put on her key as she was freezing along with her 2 boys - I was then asked for said money and spoke to the woman and offered to check the house out first - she said don't bother and walked off. I then walked down there to see the lights blazing confirming my theory that it was some ridiculous scam and she never lived there at all. Anyone else get a knock from dubious neighbours tonight.

I was in the Palmerston tonight and I couldn't help noticing a lot of young people in there - very young baby faced kids many of whom can't be 18. They seemed to be enjoying a pint or two. I don't get in there much but it reminded me i had noticed it before, they sit outside earlier in the evening and drift in. Maybe all their IDs were checked, perhaps it was a back from Uni kind of thing but if it was then I really am getting older coz they really were young 'uns. Anyone else notice this or is my judgement a sign of my age?

you're right Kebab and Wine - always there when you are desperate - do they still charge a tenner to get in on a Friday or Saturday?

Why not try both......or maybe not.....you get nothing for a pair, not in this game

Do you think they will have a copy of Fly Fishing by JR Hartley?

i remember going there once in the mid 90s but it wasn't particularly memorable. i quite like walking past every now and then and saying i was in there when it used to be a pub, bit like i feel when i walk past the Palmerston

i've just had a look from here and someone has very uncreatively got one called - manutd - that's as exciting as it gets - until of course I change mine - need to work out how to change the name - someone else set it up

the plan is that Walworth, Peckham and Southwark Police Stations will be retained but Rotherhithe, Camberwell and East Dulwich have been identified for closure. These 3 stations will be replaced by a patrol base, a custody centre and eight safer neighbourhood bases (6 of which will have front counters). ...... so the borough commander Malcolm Tillyer was saying in Southwark Life. Think would be interesting if 3 of them were in Dulwich wards - didn't think most demand would be there

yeh I walked past with Mrs Tips yesterday and said much the same to her as the headline of this discussion - I couldn't believe it was being so prominently displayed with that ?4.50 sign sticking out of some big brown lump - like it was OK to charge that - glad I wasn't the only one thinking it was a bit bonkers

I have seen the promised land ............ and it is good....... really good.......I had the honour of trying their full english on their first morning and I reckon it outstrips anything for miles around - good luck to'em - and yeh - great views

wasn't Page 2 called the Edinburgh Caslte or something of the like - about 10 yrs ago when I indulged in a memorable Nunhead Pub crawl, large parts of which I can't remember, this was to be our first pub and it was closed - thus I never went in - sorry there - anyway McLarens does the best breakfast around here in my view - better than anything on LL - even the breakfast brunch at Franklins which aint 'alf bad - good luck Jason

yes that electricity box has been removed and Mrs Tips scouts it out every second day but still no sign of open shutters - come on bb - we are clearly under starters orders here but when are we off............

And in St Aidan's Rd too tonight about 7ish- the bloke who knocked here was insistent on giving me his pitch even though I said I wasn't interested. I had to point out as politely as possible, almost apologetically (but that wasn't what I was thinking) that there was nothing he could say that would make me buy from a door to door salesman. He tried again - I explained again ... he eventually left saying aggressivey how rude I was and hoping I wasn't so rude to my kids or something of the like - yes does leave one with an uneasy feeling........... come back Jehovah's Wittnesses all is forgiven ...... no well I don't really mean that

Mrs Tips said the same thing to me but I missed it - yeh and the french beat the all blacks later - what a day

I have eaten there about half a dozen times and had a take-away about the same number. I would give it a 90% hit rate of being excellent. If however you eat there, when you go to the loo don't be tempted to look into the kitchen through the window in the door - if you do you will be a little surprised that such great food could be produced in such a place. Oh yeh and they are friendly people too and it is often not too crowded like some LL establishemnts .....

Great news boosboss - look forward to the opening announcement - I hope its a great success - however could there be a comprehensive public consultation about the menu first, whose tastes will be catered for - the Latte-swillers of SE22 or the tea in a mug mob from SE15 - we need to get this right - we just don't want to upset any of the surrounding community where it is evident sensetivities are high

yeh yeh give the council a good kickin' again......yawn..... I am looking forward to it and await booboss' next post with interest