PeckhamRose

I may start a new thread about this, but basically the Southwark PCT (Primary Care Trust) are asking for feedback about their plans (already probably done and dusted) to install four PolyClinics (though they've given them a new name) in Southwark; one in Dulwich, one in Elephant, and I can't remember where the other two are. Rotherhithe and Borough maybe. Anyway, I argued against it because my GPs (Nunhead Surgery) are brilliant, run by caring humans who won't happily transfer to 084x phone numbers and who are independent. But you may have other opinions. I don't have time right now but I am sure if you go into the Southwark PCT website you can get a form sent to you to comment on. And maybe at the surgery itself you can ask for one.

His name is Richie.

Agreed. And don't allow women (or men) to change the nappies of their babies on the seats. And you are allowed to have dogs as long as they are not in the area where the food is being prepared. ;) Oh - and dispense with the candles for me, they make me cough lots.

I laughed, and at least with BBW you don't have to spend time clicking a link to see if he has an alter ego made up character and try and work out the behind the scenes irony and then it clicks in your brain and you think it is oh so clever and and and and you go back to the post and re read the post and - knowing the character now - laugh knowingly. BBW is what he says he is - and Alan Brady!

I screwed up with this post so I deleted it.

Oh heck! WHO was the man who handed in those miniatures?! That was a more interesting story - or would have been had we known what it was - than the story about the miniatures themselves! We had this sad image that this elderly gentleman handed them in and then walked swiftly out and died on the bus and no-one knew what he had just donated to the Gallery. (Oh - and I am reliably informed that a mistake was made in identifying one of the planes painted on the propellers; it was NOT a Sopwith.) So who was this elderly man!

Oh I had one a few weeks ago for 27p. The postage used was 2nd class (27p). I was SO tempted to let them take me to court.

This slipped under the radar but another forum I am in picked it up. You lot may have too, of course! Police Powers

fetish wear?

Wow! That's beautiful!

I have a beautiful tarantula on my right shoulder and next week am getting the "Happy Human" logo of the British Humanist Association tattoo'd on my left shoulder, with their permission (as it is copyright) as we have just photo'd the CEO of BHA getting hers and it looks fabulous. (Not the words, just the happy human image!)

What a peculiar question! Do you need somewhere also where you can change nappies in public? And did you mean discreet or discrete?

Anyone here work in Dalston? Anyone here want to? Anyone here looking forward to looking for work in Dalston when the train takes you there? Nahhh, me neither. I did not even know there was a "round-London" train line. Isn't that the Circle Line? So we have an overground Circle Line as well now? Is that it?

Bromley is in Kent. I never think of Bromley in London. Anyway, so I have to say - as someone whose work takes them all over London regularly, and mostly back streets not just main roads - I would have to say that South London has a lot more, and nicer, small areas. Difficult to explain this one, but here's a small example: I worked with someone last week who said he lived in Walthamstow Village. When I asked him for street names, I realised the area he was referring to. Village my arse. It's just a row of streets boundaried by main roads. Only estate agents called it Village. Nothing at all special about it. But there are many such small areas in north London which are equally not that special (and I mean outside of the obvious Hampstead Kilburn type sprawls). Yet when someone drives up Lordship Lane and sees the little independent shops, or drives into Nunhead and sees the Green and the little independent shops, or even around Lee, or even that small area (Bolingbroke?) south of Clapham, they just seem to look nicer and stand alone. Difficult to describe! I'll have another coffee and come back to this.

Thinking of starting a new thread. "Where are the best battered sausages in East Dulwich?"

I'm staying here.

I have lived in the same flat 25 years. It is on the SE15 side of Peckham Rye Park. When I was younger and naive and impressionable I used to tell people I lived near East Dulwich and that was even before East Dulwich was the East Dulwich it is now. Then I "came out" and said I live in Peckham Rye (adding the "Rye", as "Peckham Rye" forms the second line of my address after the number and block). I now find I live in Nunhead. When I lived in East Dulwich there was not much crime in this road. When I lived in Peckham Rye there was a murder nearby. Since I have lived in Nunhead there has not been much crime at all and the local Police Ward Panel often report this fact that this is one of the better wards (crime-wise) to live. (Though it may be up'd a bit if all of you lot who report crimes you know about on here, reported them to the police (and I do not know if you bother)).

Yes: 020 8721 2443 is for Peckham and Nunhead though Peckham Police station is 020 7378 1212 is for non emergency. Community Warden office who have a connection with the police is 020 7639 8175 and 8319

Lots of fun...

I'm a"head" of you.

Watch again on iPlayer if you missed it till 15th Feb 09

And - if the vibration is in the right part of the seat - female motorcyclists don't need to do it.

In most cases Woolworths was a 99p store! I would also like to address the "clientele" in Rye Lane that I think louisa has such an issue with. Working class largely African and Carribean. They (if you don't mind me using the word "they") tend to want to buy foods non african and carribean people might not want to buy. So they have turned Rye Lane into their own street much as the main street through Southall has for a long time been known as Little India. As long as the goods are legal (and as well as illegal foods, illegal skin whitening creams have been found to be sold in some of the chemists) I couldn't give a toss, and welcome the opportunity to learn about foods from different cultures. I love sweet potato and yam, though hate chillies and "jerk", but I am at least trying! Maybe this should be a new thread about what we think of Rye Lane.

There are a lot of (or appear to be a lot of ) shelters for homeless people, and homes for disabled people, in Nunhead. Whilst not all disabled people are likely to die earlier than able-bodied, I know some disabilities carry with them a lower life expectancy. So given the above, statistically maybe it is going to be the case. And I see more people smoking in Nunhead than in Lordship Lane!

Thought some of you may be interested in the official BHA response.