PeckhamRose

Edited out for reasons of stuff.

Whilst a bit harsh, I must also report that some families on our estate found little for the kids to do (face painting, what WOULD we do without it) and also it was expensive for some families on benefits. One of the face painters which was free finished early. It would be great to have more for kids to do which was free or at least subsidised/cheap. Not having kids I'd say this is one for the families. Could not groups of parents get together and organise something/s?

silverfox, for the love of the gods I don't believe in, give it a rest or start a separate thread! This is feedback on the Peckham Rye FETE.

Annie Nightingale. With Johnnie Walker when she's on holidays. No contest.

I delivered my carrot cake at about 2.30pm. I then queued up for a ?2 Pimms and then looked back at the cake area. My cake which I thought could be carved into 12 reasonable slices had been carved into about eighteen and nearly all gone. Wow! I don't have much time or facilities (or money, to be frank) to do more but I would like to. Maybe next year, eh. As for all this nonsense about boundaries and names, may I remind us all that we are LONDONERS. And this nonsense reminds me of everytime I get a form from Southwark or somewhere asking me for my colour background race creed, I reply by asking them in turn to remember the things that UNITE us, rather than banging on about what makes us different. Dear East Dulwichers, you were most welcome in our park/common large bit of grass on Saturday. ;) Now, as for something like a antique/classic motorcycle rally, I would not have the first idea how to organise it. It was just an idea. Good one, though! Another idea might be getting some professional improviser/actors and do a recreation of the time in 1804 the public fought and successfully won the right to keep Peckham Rye Park for the public use. Would be fun to involve the kids booing the aristocracy who wanted to keep it for themselves. Bit of 'istory and education all in one. And more cake.

I agree about the so called Hog Roast. it looked great but for ?4.50 what you got was mostly salad stuff and a few bits of the meat. Bit of a rip off I am afraid. The fire engine was a great attraction for the kids. There maybe needs to be more to attract other types of stalls. For example the Cheese Block would do well there if they had a stall. But maybe as well as dogs and kids and food and a few running things, there could be more for adults to do too. A sort of grown up sports day? Even get someone to organise a small area of the park for a motorcycle rally. Just have lots of variety of things. But really, it was fun and also nice to see neighbours and talk with them one doesn't often have the time to do!

Dishwashers apparently save energy: they only use the right amount of water and so if you fill up the dishwasher each time before use, even taking into account the energy used, you'll save something, money or energy, water definitely. However, no room in our flat for a dishwasher and we couldn't afford one anyway. Washing machines probably the same theory - better than washing each and every item separately. I remember reading that if you go in to a room which has say a strip light and turn it on each time you go in, during a day, you would save energy by keeping it on because the energy it uses being turned on each time is more than if you had left it on. But that may be bollo&s. Do Macs use energy more efficiently than PCs? Then the world should demand the desctruction of all PCs! I have a brick in the toilet cistern so it uses less water when flushing; can't afford a new modern cistern. Doing me best but sometimes I look out at the view of London and all the lights especially in the taller buildings, and think - I can't do this all alone, corporate social responsibility and all that. Piccadilly at night anyone? Pahhh

Well to say farewell to Summer we are going to Mount Ephraim Gardens Sunday 13th for Apple Sunday. All sounds lovely.

SlumDog East Dulwich

Bring back Jonathan Meades.

For the cycling on the pavement issue, come to the Police Ward Panel at harris Girls Academy Thurs evening 7pm. I'll start a thread in What On In East Dulwich. Only part of ED is covered by the area forum though.

Agree with man_or_mouse! Except in my case it's my motorcycle.

And what really pisses me off is when you fill out the forms when entering America, and they won't accept England Wales Scotland or Northern Island as the correct country you live in. They will ONLY accept UK which as mentioned above is really just a political word to describe the grouping of those individual countries. But it's WRONG you stupid thick ignorant American administrators, it's just plain WRONG. And if you DO write the country name, you're rejected and made to stand at the back of the queue to fill out the form again; I know, I've seen it done!

Don't worry, some Eastern European country will make them and fill the gap in the market, and we will be able to buy them from some of the shops in Rye Lane. And the Electricity Companies will devise a way if a way has not already been devised of working out which homes are using them. And this law loving government will be able to create yet another new law for us to break and criminalise us all with! Yayy!

Absolute Begonias. Lordship of the Flies. Remember about 10 years ago there was a TV drama series about a community based in Greenwich and the effect the loss of a kid has on them and it was all a bit trying to be Twin Peaks? Trafalgar Road I think it was called. Well the ED version is like that but about community response when shock horror another trinket shop opens.

Will this be the second marriage to be announced on this forum?!

Thanks cate and everyone - will try the last one soon.

Oh I saw a camera crew up Lordship Lane the other day. I heard something about a new drama being filmed based in East Dulwich.

I remember a few years ago the Eastern Europeans brought over for the job, were still picking ripe fruit in Lincolnshire in November because it was still so warm! It's normally this time of year I go on a road trip round England but I have had little work this year, so I can't afford to go. It's a fab time to go away, cheaper B&Bs and emptier roads and the tourist places are free of - tourists! But I still like this time of year, till about late October. What a beautiful day it is today!

I don't think the relevant person you're aiming your question at reads the forum. He's too busy running a pub in hard times to run a pub when something like 15 are closing per week. Anyway, go in there - ask for Laurence, and tell him. It's my local and they try and do a lot right, so let's balance it out, eh?

NO idea where I am supposed to put this thread. I telephone USA and NZ a lot (relatives) and have used a company called Swiftcall since it started in 1993. It's about to stop trading because of the competition but I have no idea which company to go with as such an easy to use replacement. With Swiftcall I had an account and could call from any landline to any landline anywhere in the world and from anywhere in the world to back home. I want to be able to do the same with the same ease of use and cheapness. Oh - please don't recommend BT's 'family and friends' system. I could indeed use that for one of my international numbers, and of course there's Skype which is fine for computers but I'm talking about travelling. Recommendations welcome, please and thanks very much!

I think he should be employed by the government to make sure no-one else does it. Clearly he is a clever so and so. But money will be wasted imprisoning him when he could do so much good in other ways. But that's me.

Just bought a MASSIVE bagfull of small unradiated tasty juicy tomatoes for one pahnd, a pahnd a pahnd, at - sorry but Lewisham Market!

And don't get me started on those dodgy people with hazel eyes.

"mainly middle to upper class" - ah that's why I've never heard of it on the SE15 side of the park! I would advertise in it if anyone above had said they read it regularly! I bet they're not cheap either.