PeckhamRose

Have you seen opera stars lately? No, didn't think so. They're mostly all gorgeous and slim.

Bloody 'ell Baz, calm down will you? When you're done with this, can you get cloned and sort out NHS and Taxation and Government waste and Southwark Council idiots? You are indeed a Good Egg. And I agree with PGC. Names. NOW.

Leaseholders Association of Southwark ("Las 2000") are an excellent group of volunteers who have been nothing short of very helpful and insightful into the dodgy and unprofessional workings (and costings) (and estimated costings) of the Council. I strongly suggest you become a member. ?6 a year or something equally daft. Write to them at Leaseholders Association of Southwark PO Box 23394 LONDON SE16 2WA

The notes minutes feedback are all supplied by the council officer whose name is above. Rather than having that information here too, why not email him and tell him you'd be interested. Then he can email you direct.

Just had an email to tell me there is going to be a Visual Audit (you meet, walk around the area and point out graffiti or broken pavements or tiles or issues that concern you) and to meet outside BURGER KING on Peckham High Street 9.50am for 10.00 start on 5th May. Email this [email protected] if you want to join the throng. Edited to say meet outside Burger King.

I was also invited to a focus group there about 2 years ago, and the manager then told me they had them every month or so, but quite frankly I felt that (a) if they NEED to be told at a focus group to clean their store and make the tills match up to what the shelves say, when there was a queue of people at Customer desk telling them these things, then they're not worth my time, and (b) my time is precious and they aren't paying me so I ain't telling them!

panda boy your attitude is great and I applaud it. Public highways are indeed public highways. I think only today I found another road which did not have road humps on it and they certainly don't help when traffic swerves to avoid the humps and gets a car or other road user instead, even a stationary one!

Avoiding air travel? Are you mad? No, you're right. I'm going for a very long motorcycle ride instead. That'll be better.

There was a discussion about the increasing number of large and commercial vehicles using Ryedale, at the last Police Ward Panel Meeting. Some suggested they obviously had to do with the water works at Colyton Road, but I also suggested that it is not always the drivers faults for using those roads, but their satnavs are telling them to! ("Nuffink's my fault, gov, just doin' what I am told so I don't have to think whilst on me mobile.")

daizie your post makes you out to be such a snob! But I absolutely know what you mean. Having worked in construction industry I all too well am aware they all bomb down in their souped up 4x4s of a Friday a'tanoon down to their caravans in Leysdown, Fannet*, and Hernia Bay, and it's all so awful. The richer ones are buying up bits of seaside real estate in Romania so at least they're out the country.... *Isle of Thanet don't you know.

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Over here on the SE15 side of the park, we have seen flocks of goldfinches in the trees behind our flats, and also heard but not seen the greater or lesser spotted woodpecker tho not caught him at the birdfeeder yet. The Peckham Rye Park kingfisher earned a thread all to himself last year on this site, but not had the honour of seeing him myself. Anyone going to the dawn chorus ID parade I think being organised by Peckham Society, on One Tree Hill? Details here.

Nah he's alright still, saw him yesterday. Waved.

God is watering the earth. Or, The pressure and temperature changes are resulting in clouds and the mist therein become proper water and gravity is pulling them down. We can all put away our monster watering cans!

Jersey / Guernsey. I believe you can get there from City Airport. Or Ramsgate's quite nice still.

Or how we can all come along and be part of one giant EDF focus group to tell your bosses how to make it work before we all go off to Tesco or Asda. And we want paying ?100 (going rate) for two hours and lots of nice things to eat and drink at this focus group, too!

No, never. Honest. Just the ignorant thick male members of the working classes. ???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ...and you've never heard similar from posh rugger > buggers for instance PR?

Yep - but only if you're female. Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Susan Boyle I'm afraid will not make it in the > long run. She has talent of course, but you need > the Duffy look to go with the voice. That's a fact > I'm afraid.

Broadstairs if you're feeling uppermarket than Margate.

Haahahahahahhahahahahhh BoosBoss! yeah me and the Glengall Road Horse. We understand one another. But Morag - there ARE loads of playwrights and TV writers and clever creative people with something to say - I am one of them and know loads of others. But the TV execs and the budgets and the advertising and the producers and the shareholders... they want what you see.

Haha!

So I walked into this pub the other day and began to remove my half faced helmet and I heard this bloke near me look at me and say to his mates, "For f**k sake keep the helmet on, she's gonna put me off my beer." Walked into another pub the other day and a guy said, "F**k me, if that's not a dyke, then this isn't my beer." And today, walked into a pub and someone said "That makes Susan Boyle look good." Least she can sing! The uneducated Sun reading working classes are the problem here. We can never grow and rise above this sort of looks culture when the working classes think it perfectly acceptable to say the sort of things they say, when someone like me who is not a young or attractive female thinks it perfectly acceptable to walk into a pub alone. The educated middle classes may think those same things but have somehow acquired the manners not to say it - at least not to say it within my earshot. So thanks for that! Off you go...

Margate.

If the earth has been in existance for say 24 hours, then man has walked the earth for the equivalent of the last minute. This being the case - and the fact that having worked at a funeral directors I regularly had to hold my breath when loved ones spent THOUSANDS on a coffin and a big expensive funeral when, if it were me, I'd want to have that money NOW - let's just live a little!

Because that requires people all agreeing to do something without argument, and involves publicity and planning and all sorts of stuff. Also requires involving slightly more people than even visit this forum, too. It'll never happen!