PeckhamRose

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.

Stabbings? In East Dulwich? Loads? Is it "famous" for them? In the whole of London, maybe.

WELCOME BACK!!!!!!! It's changed a bit since you left. But it's still lovely and friendly and thrilling and exciting. And that's just the whole of LONDON. :D

My cousin used to tell a joke about a mate of his caught doing rude things with 10 sheep in a phone box. To which his mates would reply "In a PHONE BOX???" Like as if having fun with the sheep was understandable. My cousin was from south Wales.... But to this barrrhhh story, all I can say is the sheep probably never felt a thing...

Nope but it's nearby so will soon and report back.

Aha! A picture of a motorcycle!

Good point. Doesn't seem to have affected all the twee tricket cutesey shops though. So what else do we need there if not another restaurant? Something like The White Company for linens and clothes? I think PRED* is pretty well covered for all its needs! Or am I missing something. Music shop perhaps? *People's Republic... macroban Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Griddle me this. > > Is there a saturation point for East Dulwich > eateries? > > Do we get to the point where a new one opens, is > willing to run at a loss for a couple of years to > get established (depreciation of refurbishment > costs will take at least this long), this takes > away the marginal sales (where the net profit > lies) of a couple of established restaurants which > then have to close.

Yo Steak?

Good non-chain steak restaurant. Yum yum And have it open for breakfast. Steak and eggs. Ooooh yum yum.

In my humble opinion this sort of activity is why people's kids can't afford to buy into the areas they grew up in. She writes in answer to the question, "What is your financial priority?" "Paying off our mortgages and making sure that we have a roof over our heads." How many heads does she have? She says she thinks inheritance tax is "absolutely disgusting". Well I think owning more homes than you can live in is, too. Having said that, she's a great actress and I LOVE Gavin and Stacey!

I do like the fact that he says he will think about things. He does not act on automatic party lines.

I'm enjoying this thread! Does any of us keep bees? Can they be trained to harrass squirrels who climb up 3 flights and massacre my troughs? My cat is too scared... embarrassing truly.

It was an absolutely daft idea. This is a City and we need to get around it. Not just on foot or by public transport. Forcing traffic on to fewer, smaller and/or narrower roads does not make sense. I did not vote Boris in, but he has done the right thing with this decision I believe.

I have a third floor flat on a hill, balconies front and back. The back balcony faces Peckham Rye Park and gets sun in the afternoon and the front door balcony faces the views of London and gets its sun till about 11.00 when the sun then swings round to the back balcony. Large flower troughs and pots line both balconies and everything is going crazy. The two new honeysuckle plants bought only a month ago are now knocking on the doors upstairs having grown over the top of the balcony and the wisteria similarly is growing up the walls over the roof above the top/4th floor and back down to join its mates on the back balcony. Didn't plant toms this year but the sunflower's doing well. But I may need to split the papyrus plant soon and will offer people here a split of it. The cat uses the leaves at the end as dental floss. Edited to add: and yes I have a rose bush! But it's a miniature one and I've never been that successful with roses.

BEFORE IT BECOMES ILLEGAL! http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=803420 This is truly appalling.

Least it wasn't a BEE. Third nipple effect.

I have never wanted kids as my own childhood was shite and I remember thinking even as a kid "I'm not putting anyone else through this!" as I could not be sure I'd do a better job. What annoys me these days about some parents is that they think they have a godgiven right to be first/rude. That never used to be the case, did it? I dunno. Linking this topic to that about the man with 20 kids on BBC - one thing is sure, that not all parents are the same! But whatever they are like, when I enter a pub or restaurant and see kids, I still think I ought to go elsewhere as I usually do not tolerate screaming kids running around the place very well (no matter what class of accent they are screaming in!) Having said that, often kids seem attracted to want to talk to me, and this doesn't surprise me too much because specially the area I live they know they won't be patronised, or talked down to, and will be treated as small adults, and not automatically treated with suspicion just because they are kids. What I REALLY hate is when people say "You don't have kids, do you." As though I can't possibly love or care for a kid when I don't have any of my own? I remember being one! I still have love in my heart and am aware of it without breeding.

There are so many things wrong with the benefits system. Rich people can get child benefits. Why? They don't need it. Rich people over 60 can get free prescriptions. Why? They can easily afford them. If you're diabetic you can get them free. If you're asthmatic or heart condition or some other condition that requires you to have medication just to stay alive, tough. Still have to pay. Even on a low income. But curiously diabetes is singled out. The point I think some are making is that if the man and people like him did not drink and smoke but saved all the money instead, err.... he'd do what, exactly?