PeckhamRose

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?

Darling bf after many years of work has signed on in Peckham for the 1st time. Child free and mortgage free, he is entitled to ?60 a week. For everything. He asked about retraining and they told him they don't know anything about that other than he's not allowed to even apply for 13 weeks. The signing on process was absolute hell and involved repeated interviews asking the same things. My view is there is as much crime (Social and otherwise) being committed by nice middle and upper class people and companies, it's just a different 'invisible' type of crime. Corporate crime and environmental crime for example. But I have come across so many of the sort of man in the BBC programme in my work, that I am very worried about where my politics is heading. Having said that, isn't there supposed to be a problem with the sperm count in the nation?

One big advert for a juice company. I was just reading it as I was drinking my.... juice. Wot I made myself. From fruit and a juicer. They'll start a company soon which sells people pre-cut lettuce soon.... Be able to buy a bigger one-roomed home in Mayfair!

Well, Marmora Man, if only. I have been given a questionnaire (perhaps along with all regular people who take part in the Ward Police Panels?) to gauge my opinion on policing. The questionnaire addressed from Ian Blair tells me what the targets are, and tells me what will happen in all areas of policing when the need arises. Example, someone will visit after a burglary has been reported within so many hours or months or something. The questions are basically along the lines of, "Are these points easy to understand" and "Do you have any other points to make?" Oh yessss, and oh so very yesssssss.... Marmora Man Wrote: > Policing (in the broadest sense) depends upon > community agreement - we agree (or grow up with > and imbibe with mother's milk) certain norms of > behaviour and we empower others (uniformed police, > community leaders, the older and more wiser etc) > to enforce those norms.

There is a lovely big pub on the Broadway opp the tube station. Can't remember it's name. Big pub with lots of architctural features and tellies if I remember. Have fuN!

Define "interesting", do. AllforNun Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > More to the OKR stabbing than meets eye. It been > closed off for 2 days now and there are some > intersting plain clothes units moving around the > place,.

So are you saying that there is no difference in te stats from 20 years ago? LostThePlot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That ties in with what my wife saw when she worked > in A&E there, about 20 years ago...

Sorry, how do "we" do that? Approach all kids and ask them if they have a knife? Storm the school and parliament gates and demand they educate and bring up the kids that the kids' parents can't manage to do because of their own (the parents') shortcomings? All I can do is be friendly to the youngsters on my estate and listen to them if they have problems. The kids carrying knives are not One sort of person. jumpinjourno Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What on earth is going on and how do we tackle > this. > > Woman in the prime of her life stabbed to death > around 11pm last night in Bellenden Road area... > > Somebody must have been up and around about that > time - lets pull together and root these people > out once and for all... > > Southwark News has launched its Stop a Stabbing > campaign and calls on everybody to do their bit! > > [Title edited to be less dramatic - The > Administrator]

Is the shopkeeper the same person as the 20 yr old woman in Bellenden referred to in the article? Or is that a separate one? bon3yard Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We had to take a detour around Old Kent Road > yesterday because a shopkeeper had been stabbed to > death in a row with a customer. Madness.