PeckhamRose

Peckham Rye to me is different area to Peckham. I live on Peckham Rye and Peckham itself is where the Peckham Rye Station is. Peckham Rye station wanted to call itself just Peckham station but the one in Queens Road used to be called Peckham so the one in Peckham called itself Peckham Rye, but then the one in Queen's Road changed it's name to Queens Road Peckham! I think. Anywayyyyy Peckham Rye where the park and common is, is also called Nunhead by some people on the SE15 side, specially those looking to sell their property! Peckham Rye is not 'dodgy' and I lived here 25 years. Just keeps getting better and better! Peckham - Rye Lane area - is also great. Challenging sometimes, lots of aggression sometimes and crime often happens for reasons of drugs whilst the rich can afford their drugs so don't need to resort to crime. I walk down there all the time and have no fears. Would I want to live 'down' in Peckham itself? Depends on who my neighbours were! The Choumert garden square would be lovely. But in the middle of a block surrounded by people playing music too loud and rowing, no thanks. And any of the above can happen at any place in any built up area. But to choose to live in Peckham (or even Peckham Rye!) - assuming you are hapy with your choice of residence, there is nothing like it. But please do talk to people. (And I wish nore people would do this but some are shy) just talk to people at the bus stop and get to see what makes people tick. Even the stressed ones - relax and see what people can be like under the surface. They just want to get their shopping done and go home. GREAT artistic centre 133 Rye Lane! Lots of shops and busses to more expensive ones if you want. Nice to walk around and join Peckham Society and go on architecture walks. Enjoy!

Does Otto know about this??

Yep, I did know that and hubbie is a pro techie bike person. Don't get me thinking about WD40. It's a fabulous smell and if they made an aftershave or perfume I'd buy it. but I'm weird like that... Looks like I need to take Virago to the D Hamlet wash!

I love this forum because ... I just got a fab Home theatre DVD system for ?20 because I happend to be on line 2 mins afterit was offered in the Offered Section and the lovely lady delivered to me! http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?9,140083 I also love it because most of the contributors seem so well balanced and intelligent, liberal and forgiving. Only most, mind.

I make the most fabulous Carrot Cake - indeed am thinking of making one for the September Peckham Rye fete so it can be sold in the cafe if they'll have it (probably EU regulations preventing me!). But I reckon the prices mentioned above are about fair for the time and good ingredients and so on taken. Talking of Summer in East Dulwich, do any of you have any experience or knowledge of local hotels / motels for visitors? Or is this a new thread?

Do residents of SE22 really need to drive to and park in LL to go shopping in Lordship Lane? Just a thought! If you're a motorcyclist there's a bike park on NorthCross Road not often full. I do geninely pity those who have cars and can't park sometimes even in the street where they live. My friend lives in Sydenham and the same happens when people try and park in her street to go to the station in the mornings.

Nice story! Ms B Bike - bicyle or motorcycle? My Motorbike is FILTHY!!! Ms B Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > On the way back from Sainsburys today I stopped to > ask the D Hamlets car wash service if they clean > bikes and they did it for me there and then, no > charge. All the nasty grit pressure-washed out of > the chain in seconds. Completely made my day, they > did. > > And they were pretty cute, too. Bit of a Diet Coke > break moment. > > Anyone else had an uplifting moment in East > Dulwich?

Ms B! I can't believe your opinions are formed by fictional characters!

Hi - don't know if this is the right forum topic and you may have all seen this before and not being THAT much of a footie fan I have not read through all the pages of this topic to see if someone has posted this, but I fell about laughing watching three and a half minutes of very very UN-PC humour on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RsQg1dnwiY&eurl=http://apps.facebook.com/superwall/view.php?src=se&id=1044433371&owner_id=699592637

I just had a vision of one of the bowlers picking him up and bowling him along a nice green turf and then wondering why he was moving a bit further than he had been bowled. Poor little thing! Put an Immobilise sticker on the remaining ones! See my threads re. the burglaries.

Someone broke into my flat, took everything, then before I got back they replaced everything, exactly everything, making it look like nothing happened. All that was different was the cat had turned over. You wait till I find out who did that! But anyway, I recommend www.immobolise.com and if you go to the other thread about burglaries I wrote about this and the local police ward panels and how to get involved.

I also have a load of IMMOBILISE ID kits you can ID your valuables using a yellow marker pen (it is invisible to naked eye) and then write down on the form the serial numbers etc of everything you have written down and marked, best to photo them too (don't keep it on the hard drive of the PC about to be nicked though!) and also register the whole lot on a web page www.immobilise.com. I have quite a few left - I was given them by the police at the local Ward Panel Meeting. I advise you find out where yours is and come along to the next meeting and find out why the police did not come tilll the next day. The Safer Neighborhood Teams make up these ward panel meets so you get to meet your local police and Community Wardens and SPCOs and other interested parties. Ours meets every 2 months at the Carpet School (I can never remember the name of the big exWaverley School at the bottom of Peckham Rye!) And it may be the same one as yours. Put yourself out one evening every two months if you can and make your feelings known. The latest was they wanted us to volunteer to catch fast car drivers using a special speed gun. I said no to that, but anyway, come along. There was discussion at the last one about the burglaries that happened soon after a known group of house burglars were released early to make more space in prison for.... prisoners... The police had caught two of them. (To be fair it may have been the SPCOs who caught them, can't remember.) How to get hold of these Immobolise kits? Well I shall leave a batch at the pub for the social meeting I can't come to. And I left a batch at The Clockhouse, too. Ask Laurence the landlord to give you one of them. And ask your local police station maybe Dulwich have some. www.immobilise.com

Yes, the Cybermen in Dr Who. They always scared me when I was a kid but not the latest RusselTDavies' incarnation. They became too human then. Another scary DrWho monster from the 1970s was the SeaWeedmen. Remember them? FEAR!!!

She really has moved in huh? I was bombing across USA for two months when I wrote earlier... I mean riding, you understand.... And now I shall er... behave.

Does LostThePlot know anything about this?

Just bought tickets for NEXT MARCH for Judi Dench at Wyndham Theatre in Madame de Sade. Judi Dench! And the tickets have already nearly sold out!!!

Oh wow that film sounds like a barrel of laughs. Can't wait, will it be banned in USA like XTCs Dear God was (and which action made them!)

Awww that's so sad! Do let us know if you find him!

Andy Partridge of XTC covered this subject well in the song Dear God. He writes to God telling him he doesn't believe in him. To my probably mentally unbalanced mind, we made Gods up. The existence of rainbows and thunderstorms coincided with human's needs to make stories, to fill in the gaps, so we made up Gods to explain those natural phenomena, and in turn those stories of Gods help control other humans. And it works beautifully. It's brilliant.

Why thank you!! I shall remember to tell you the outcome too. http://www.thegreatparkingticketswindle.co.uk/ Great website I've come across!

Changed title, can't delete message though. Happy Wednesday everybody...

Haven't brain surgeons been able to recreate that final visitation and white light effect some people claim to see on their deathbed, by poking around* in the relevant bit of a conscious person's brain? It's all chemicals and synapses. I think Mr Pratchett is merely very ill, and it is a very sad thing. *very delicately with a tiny stick, of course.

Thank you so much. I shall word my very careful letter of appeal to them now (without admitting it was me, and without denying it was me), and cite the various cases relevant. I am grateful for your help. In the thread discussing why we like this forum so much, I would cite this very case! Thanks David.

Stick around for the ad on Channel 4 for the Kubrick season of films ending with The Shining. The advert for it starts airing 1st July. It is astounding. I was involved in it. 90 second one take thingy. Not the sort of ads you're talking about though. The ones for Parazone wrapped round The Bill are so naff. Yes, I do sometimes watch The Bill.

What about the new BT mobile\phone thingy they;re advertising. Anyone got one yet?