PeckhamRose

MadWorld74 Madworld74 Madworld74 STILL no more squirrels! Evidence of their attempts to lift slate chippings, but they are not strong enough and they are not clever enough to get together with their mates to lift them. My plants are thriving and having just celebrated my 25th annversary of living in my flat, I just wish I had come across the slate-chippings solution twenty four years ago! LOVE this site! On another point MrRose says when he was a kid his Dad bought him an airgun and they lived in the country and they were paid for the tails of squirrels they shot, by the pest control officer. How times have changed!

I am clearly missing out on so much stuff. No DUKES voucher, no Co-Op voucher, no SNUB bag.

. . . have a chocolate shop in Lordship Lane. And it would be like the one in the film Chocolat. And I'd look like her and the guys would look like Mr Depp and - sighhhhhhh

What's a new shopping experience? You go in and they tell you what you want? Or you go in and they pay you to take stuff? What's that about then? Shopping's shopping. When marketing types talk of shopping experience (like the over-used "solutions" word) I just wanna - indulge in retail therapy!

She's blonde? Really?

And she learned how to ride horses for Equus at Dulwich Riding School. Apparently.

No, take your time to return. After all, you had to wait for them! 3 ice creams and 4 teas for ?21 is taking the mickey. I would not have paid. Simple as that. Your choice. They charge it because they can.

"It's sheep we're up against." Lamb for dinner. Just one though. Do or does the Co-op sell lamb? Or lambs?

Blimey Liz, sorry you're having a bad day. Your "book" needs lightening up too, then. Will we be able to tell it's you on the telly today by your growl? But back to the Co-op. I like it and I don't care they don't speak good English. They're polite and they work hard and they always try to be helpful and are always friendly when I ask them where stuff might be. (That's plural stuff, too!) Which is more than you can say for Sainsbury's sometimes. I look forward to it's new gleamingness. This is a good thing and maybe they took notice of our previous posts. So stop whining, all of yous. (That's plural.)

Lighten up Lizzie. Sue's post was accompanied by a smiley and a "sorry could't resist". She was clearly being tongue in cheek and not being rude. Just because you're a BBC broadcast journalist AND you can write sentences trying to explain stuff, doesn't mean you're perfect. I am not aware of always hearing collective nouns regularly being used in the singular and I watch BBC News, me. It sounds ODD to say "the staff is...", simnple as that. I'll go further and say it sounds wrong. So I would also have written "the "staff don't speak good English" and I have a Masters Degree in English and everything! So nerr. Isn't it. And here's a few commas you missed out ,,,,,,,

. . . live there. No-one should be allowed to live in any other area other than that which they represent. Then I'd ban all the big stores and have local currency and bartering systems and local shops and still allow the busses to go through and build a big underground car park where the Dulwich garden Centre is now. And build a swimming pool there in its place. With men only days, women only days, child accompanied by adult only days and child free days, and everyone and their dog days.

In stocks, yet (and not necessarily stockings coz that would be a whole nother issue!).

WOuld there be a round table of councillor types to keep the Boss in check? Or would it be a benevolent dictatorship (except in some cases a malevolent dictatorship!)

. . . I would hang a big sign across the road from EDT to the other side so people entering Lordship Lane would see: "Welcome to East Dulwich. Be nice. Or F&*k off and detour left and go right up Peckham Rye then Barry Road to get to the other end." At the top end I'd say pretty much the same thing, 'cept the directions in reverse obviously. QUITE like banning traffic wardens idea, because that way people would have to monitor themselves. But am dead glad no-one has suggested pedestrianising the whole street yet. Elsewhere on BorisWatch Louisa said how the car-addicts would not want Parliament Square paved. Yet now she bans public transport here! I think she's being a bit pesky.

tee hee (to PGC!)

(Edited to add I look forward to reading everyone's thoughts on what you would do if you were boss!) . . . get rid of all traffic lights and put roundabouts in, with zebra crossings around the roads, and make everyone aware by mass regular publicity that you give way to traffic on your right only after you have made sure there is no-one crossing. After about two or three hundred deaths, I reckon it would work... This is East Dulwich first then the whole of Southwark. I drive around all of London alot and there are many many areas which only use roundabouts. Oh - and I'd allow all motorcycles to ride in Bus Lanes too.

I think any friendly drunken soul's entire foot would be in plaster for weeks if they tried to kick that palm tree down. In some areas of London like Edmonton there are arches across the roads either side welcoming people to the area. I am in two minds about this: I think it's nice the council is trying to be (on behalf of its residents) welcoming, but yet it is unnecessary as the area (and the people in other words) should speak for themselves and be friendly and welconing! Anyway, I love the palm trees in Peckham and East Dulwich, and Yukkas, and if I was boss I would turn the traffic lights junction of top of Barry Road / Lordship lane to a roundabout and put a palm tree on that, too. A new thread looms....

SEVEN DAYS LATER and I have an announcement to make. MadWorld74 you are (as they say in USA) a rawk starrrrr! After 20 years of this nonsense, SLATE CHIPPINGS is the answer. So far not one squirrel has managed to dig up the plants. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU (But watch this space, just in case they get their mates round and work collectively to lift them!)

Happens at the Mind shop too. Wait, happens in most charity shops I see! Not ED specific. Shows that people are people wherever they live!

Does it make you go all weird and psychadelic like Homer Simpson went? Was that the one he took in that episode?

Still, I love it here and I ain't moving! And I am on the (cough splutter) SE15 side of the park! 25 years this coming August Bank Holiday.

Isn't there a manual? As in RTFM? I've been thinking about switching to Mac for years but windows ... just ... Works!

Huhuenot of course that is a valid point and I take it. "I disagree with PR, I find that most wars are about resources, religion is often a vehicle and testosterone is the fuel. Resources are poorly distributed around the world, so until we can resolve critical needs independently then we'll have wars." It was not the reason at the beginning of wars I am sure, but now it is one of them.

All the time men spend playing golf and the land it takes up IS a crime. Pahhh!

Like every long term war or even short term ones, I read and read and try and understand and - whether it be the history of the middle east or Africa or Europe or wherever, and despite all the seeming differences in what started the war or whatever it was - two things always seem to come to the surface. Men start wars and it's often about or because of the MindVirus aka religion, or just the old "Get Orf Mah Landdd" reason. So basically, as long as there is testosterone and religion we're f***ed. After WW2 - even WW1 - all the politicians said it should never happen again. It always will. We're human. It's what we do. But that's just my thoughts.