PeckhamRose

I SPAT my dinner out laughing at this line. Then I read everything that led up to it. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh you're talking about a telly! HonaloochieB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Brendan, you should have an old Bush like me. I > can get loads of stuff on top of it.

Indeed Mr Carnell (irony of name noted in this thread) I have a small 125 and a larger tourer bike. From door to door on either bike takes about 25 mins to Oxford Circus. About an hour and a half on the 12 bus. Both bikes are clean and don't smell (specially now SonOf-MarmoraMan cleaned one for me). And once you get there, you've had a bike ride! Meanwhile, you can get 850cc scooters now, and I believe a 1100 model is being proposed.

It's just flour and water, right?

I was born hereand I passionately love London. I love the choices in London - including the CHOICE to do nothing when one is broke, but even a long walk can be fascinating and free. I am lucky, no mortgage and cheap transport (motorcycle) (Westminster Parking charges notwithstanding!) However, I am sad that my best friends are talking of "moving out" (GOD I love Billy Joel) because of the high cost of everything and their mortgage nightmares. And they're professionals in their 40s! (And what IS a key worker anyway! Certainly doesn't cover every important profession society needs to keep running.) I totally and wholeheartedly agree with those who say avoid the Home Counties and so on. If you're gonna get out, get way out. But we'll miss you. A friend of mine - indeed a guy I often work from home for - lives and works in a house in the High Pennines in Cumbria - nearest town is Alston. He has a generator for electricity and a satellite for his internet connection and telly. The house his closest neighbours live in can not be seen from his house. Now that is the only other option I would consider. Middle of London or Middle of Nowhere. No point anything in between! (Having said that, living there would still be a nightmare because to make that beautiful landscape you need lots and lots of rain!) Seems to me the very people who are thinking of leaving London and even those who are talking of leaving the country are the very ones we need to get it back on its tracks. (But the same is true of schools and hospitals where those excellent nurses and teachers who are leaving those professions because their managers and the state in general doesn't value them and keeps issuing targets.) London doesn't value its Londoners!

Freeview and TopUpTV: I would not recommend it. 1) Nothing wrong with my bank account but unlike everyother creditor I have a direct debit with, TopUpTV tells me there are problems accessing the money. 2) You can not say which programmes they record for you, they record a selection they think you'd like from the channels you choose. 3) When you choose to record a program yourself, when I look it has recorded something else entirely (even tho I pressed "record" over the written details of the program I wanted!). OK so this is TopUpTV which you can only get through Freeview. Freeview itself may be okay.

benjaminty I think this is a very interesting post and very well put too. (I felt the same way for a different reason when not many people came to see a play I put on.) Someone above wrote about "what's a tenner to anyone". When I am flush with tenners, they are indeed not much. But when life is sh!te and I can't even afford a fiver sometimes, my good friends know not to approach me and know me well enough that I will offer when I can. There are so many charities, so many causes these days, and so many people with big hearts doing great things: we are simply overwhelmed. However, SOME charities do themselves down, through various reasons. One I belong to in my opinion wastes huge amounts of money hassling people for extra money! And I remember on You and Yours years ago, a story about how some charities - upon hearing they were the beneficiary of money when someone had died - hassling the bereaved relatives for that money, too soon after the death. To answer your question I think it was a combination of (a) and © with - because of my reasons stated above, maybe a bit of (d).

When the congestion charge started I seem to remember being at a KenQuestionTime at Queen Elizabeth Hall and he said that TfL had given money to the councils to create extra motorcycle parking bays. Not all of them did that. I think this charge is appalling but ironically it is the same borough that has introduced bus lanes that we motorcyclists can ride into, which other boroughs except Richmond have not chosen to do. I am forwarding this post to Motorcycle Action Group and TheLondonBikers websites, and vice versa. Rhinestone Cowboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think the problem started with the congestion > charge.. made it free for bikes so everyone > started to scooter in. then they realised that > only a limited number of spaces so they change car > spaces to bikes and they lose out on a revenue > stream. I'm guessing but would not take long till > City of London takes this up and then all > boroughs.

Where's my flier?! Hmmpphhh Shall check it out soon!

Hi I believe it is a prelude to storms, too. (The ant thing, not the smell thing. Surely that deserves a quick anonymous phone call to Health and Safety if ever I heard one!) Went for a stroll across Peckham Rye park to the Clockhouse for relaxing half or three, and indeed those pesky ants got everywhere.

The Clockhouse? An Old man's pub? I have never seen it like that. Seems to be full of younger people of both genders when I go and that's regularly over many years. It's beautiful, overlooking the park, and Laurence the landlord is very friendly as are most of the staff and the music is diverse, I believe the word eclectic is appropriate. Unlike some pubs mentioned on here it is not full of kids and buggies. I don't work there honest! The Rye Hotel a nice stroll across the park is also worth checking out.

I'd have said the Co-op and post office up the road on Forest Hill Road at the end of Peckham Rye SE22. Beautiful area. Welcome! Local pub might be the Clockhouse?

Sarah and Hoppity. (Deep breath) Sarah Brown has a toy as naughty can be and it starts to sing when you wind up his key He'll sing and he'll dance all over the floor and when he stands still then you wind him some more This clip is ten mins long and I swear would horrify today's broadcasters, specially when Daddy tells her not to tell anyone he's there... gets creepy. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kR6FQG0H9-I

This is indeed an interesting thread and just as I like to get music recommendations from a music forum I subscribe to, I shall start reading books recommended by the good folks on here. I have a pile I need to get through including the 25th anniversary edition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, but currently on the go am reading a book of articles published by the British Humanist Association on the politics and philosophy of death, called Thinking About Death (which I do, a lot). I'm a happy person honest!

Did you find him? Is the Houdini proof enclosure preventing him getting back home, though?? Meanwhile, this sad story appeared today. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7517787.stm

I am sure loads of people have. But what are her interests? What are the financial needs and expectations? I recently had my hair done at Saks by a 35 year old student hairdresser, who said she had spent 14 years earning a load of money in the City being some HotShot PA to some HotShot moneymaker, and after 14 years she just couldn't hack the sexism and the testosterone flying around, and she's dumped it in, training to be a hairdresser. She knows it will be less money and she is moving house accordingly, but she knows already she is happier. I wish your wife the best of luck. Lots of thinking and researching to be done!

Indeed (and thanks for that!) The other issue is I am not applying for credit or a credit card, just to open a Co-op bank account! But back to topic. If your sister has been here 7 years she should indeed have a good credit history. The credit situation is so immoral. When my friend became unemployed she immediately got told her credit limit had gone up. I would make sure you stay good friends with your sister! I hope it works ot well for you.

Interesting topic. I have never had a credit card. I am not rich, I live cheaply and save hard for the things I need. And I am fortunate in that I don't have a mortgage. However, I recently decided to open a new bank account with the Co-op and closing my boo-his Abbey account. Co-op ran a check and have said there is an issue. Not in my opinion there is not. Experian told them there was an issue and Co-op have stopped the application there. How can there be an issue? I don't have a credit card and my debit card has never been mis-used and I have never had an overdraft and I have never borrowed. I guess the answer is: "Of COURSE there is a credit issue!" Why should I have to pay even a mere ?2.50 to find out what it is and put it right? I did email Experian but they basically said pay us ?2.50. Back to topic. GOOD LUCK! Everyone's out to get you. I am not paranoid; I KNOW they're out to get me!

Hope someone replies, or I'll have to rely on "journalists" from SouthLondonPress and be none the wiser!

As well as the ILovePeckham festival, this afternoon as we were walking home from it about 4pm we saw loads of police cars heading for Rye Lane and a police helicopter circling it. Anyone know what happened?

I believe they were designed to resemble a ship on the hill. In some views they do indeed look like some big steamer especially on a clear night. I am not on unprescribed drugs. We often go up there for a walk to see an alternative view from the one we have on the hill on the SE15 side of the Peckham Rye Park. We also go there for 5 November of course and sometimes New Year's. Often seen film crews up there too, shooting establishing shots of London. People bang on about the views from Primrose Hill, but the views from Dawson Heights are much much better of course! If you climb highter and look at the views from say Ringmore Rise, you can see Dawson Heights as part of the view itself!

To be frank, I can't tell what it is.

Oh is THAT why you're always in there!

I have just done the ironing. I've been putting that off for ages. Oh - and I got the bike cleaned. Well, to be fair, I couldn't face it so I paid someone to do it for me from here. But I got it DONE.

How would you feel if you were the "other" waitress reading this? :((

PeckhamRose. I AM a fictional character.