PeckhamRose

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!

Yeah, and it doesn't have to be bottled water either. But water that you've just washed your car with won't be too good for it either. This is interesting since I was thinkingthe palm (and joshua?) trees at Peckham High Street look decidedly unhealthy. The one at the Goose Green roundabout looks great though.

Congratulations! Now, excuse my ignorance, but when you say you shall strive to diversify - what do you mean? Diversify into what? You're a great pub! Just remain a great pub.

I am with Lizzie Django about overpricing when an offer appears on the shelf. And yes trollies, and could they clean the loos more regularly?

If they're as you describe they'll appreciate a not totally legal smoke I expect. Tea too, of course.

Fair points PGC. I have indeed been at the scene of two accidents (not of my own making) where something inside me just calmly took over and I took over the scene and organised people and just 'led' and did the stuff. Afterwards I was a bit shaky but also proud at what I had achieved. So I take the point.

PGC are you disagreeing that First Aid is a good thing to do? I trained as a FirstAider and also specialised in first aid for motorcyclists and am doing brushing up courses. You take on the responsibility you choose to. What are you disagreeing about? Or are you saying that one can not prepare for the aftershock and emotion of having to be in charge and should thus be prepared for what might happen? Or what.

I opened an account with the Co-op recently. Firstly they rejected me saying there was an issue on my credit rating which they did not bother looking into. I paid ?7 or something to Experien to find out why, and I successfully challenged it because the issue is I don't and won't have a credit card which obviously made me out to be a highly suspicious and unsafe individual. The Co-op then opened me an account. You can pay in cheques at any Post office. But to get back to the point of the thread - when you phone them (direct to my branch at Lewisham) you do speak to a human being and they are helpful. And it's the Co-op innit.

So wire up a webcam direct to this site so we can all hook in - the insomniacs amongst us - and check it out.