PeckhamRose

If you change your mind about going elsewhere, take the time to enjoy London. It's massive and so fabulous. Indulge yourself!

Well at LEAST get a free dinner. Check out what the extras seem to be dressed like and if you can get to look like them then turn up at the catering van. Film crews dinners is always fab!

Hi - just spent time looking for this old topic because I raised it with Valerie Shawcross / Fiona Colley and got a reply. Below is my question and her reply. "Dear Ms Shawcross With all the dangerous junctions and unnecessary traffic lights, what can you do to make junctions safer for road users (pedestrians included). When turning right at traffic lights it can be very dangerous exercise forcing/encouraging more and more road users to feel they have to turn right on a red light or they don't get to their destination at all! We have worked so hard to try and get TfL and Southwark to do something about one such junction of East Dulwich Road and both sides of Peckham Rye, SE22 and SE15 side, by installing a roundabout and zebra crossings instead but they have simply ignored us. Streetmap link below http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=534478&y=175535&z=1&sv=534478,175535&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf Reply from Ms Shawcross: "I know this location and will again raise the issue with the Council - the local Labour Councillors have previously tried to get this issue resolved... It is something the Council can apply to TfL for funding to implement, but it is up to the Council to make the decision to apply for support to do it. We will let you know the Council's response. Valerie." Maybe people could email her regularly to check progress? It's all very well moaning about things in here where very few people who could do something actually read it, everyone who cares should bombard their councillors with emails and letters and so on. They may still ignored us but at least we know we tried. I'll get me coat....

Good luck, writing is great, rewriting is where the real work lies, and selling it is hell and a-whole-nother business indeed. Writer friends and I regularly have to wait upwards of 2 months for responses from literary agents or anyone we've sent our scripts to, yet when I had my play produced last year I sent it Monday and he called me Wednesday. Unheard of! "Yeah your right Steve!" Don't give them any excuse to get irritated by sloppy spelling though! Also, may literary agents or literary managers send their scripts out to professional readers to read for them. These people are usually straight out of uni with a lit degree with little experience of real life yet, so beware! But best of luck and I hope it goes fabulously!! Let us know!

To all the Nunhead folk in here: I received a reply to some email I sent Valerie Shawcross and asked her what she was doing for Nunhead. She replied: "Is this a question to me ( Fiona works for me) or is it a question to Fiona in her position as a Nunhead Councillor.....? Is there something that you would like me to attend to over and above the pedestrian crossing issue..?" SO write to her with your issues. I have suggested Nunhead needs some of the shopfronts sorted out and of course a secured motorcycle parking bay, as well as they need to stop forcing all the traffic on to that one road by allowing the traffic to go up other roads to get to its destinations. For example that ridiculous one way system outside the Pyrotechnists. Here are their email addresses. Don't whinge in here, whinge to them below! [email protected] [email protected]

Just as an idle matter of interest and curiosity, having done a First Aid for Workplace type course, Sainsburys would or should have entered the Incident in their Accident Book. Are they saying it did not happen? And yes, you lot are mean, but funny. Very funny.

CHERRY ORCHARD part of Chekov season at Lion & Unicorn 42 Gaisford Street London NW5 2ED http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=529083&y=184885&z=0&sv=NW5+2ED&st=2&pc=NW5+2ED&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf MadWorld74 Wrote: > I still haven't recovered from playing Mme > Ranyevskia when I trained at drama school. I auditioned but failed to get that very role. But I still recommend it. I'm not bitter, me. I'm definitely going. Scroll down to the bottom of the theatre company's website to see the details. http://www.actprovocateur.net/home.html

I'm with Sean but also my attitude is that it's not a congestion charge anymore anyway, it's a dirty-fuel-BIG-car-charge. If all the cars became hybrids (and even hybrids use the petrol bit when in the CC area) then the congestion charge area would be ... congested!

If Val Shawcross is upset about it, then we can all breathe a sigh of relief. http://www.valshawcross.com/index.php?id=331 No, wait, that's rubbish, little will change. Done deal etc.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You can't park without a ?400 permit That'll be cars, then. Motorcycles park for free. East Dulwich is crap because it's basically one road with lots of small shops. And that's all.

East Dulwich Near Dulwich Nunhead Peckham Rye and Brixton Innit though! (Bugger, should have put it in East Dulwich not Lounge. Oh well... maybe you could Haiku different areas!)

It's south east London for cryin'ahtlahd.

Got up late, as usual. Checked and dealt with emails. Rode motorcycle to Barnes to see some lying client. Rode back via Sainsbury's shopping and visit to Post office, both in Clapham because motorcycle park round the corner made it convenient to do so there. Thought, "All that money doing out the post office in Clapham and the queue's still out the door." Rode home, did heaps of paperwork while half watching Gosford Park and dealing with post. Thought, "God it's great being self-employed." Thought. Thinking. Pressing "Post Message".

Doodles Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Blimmey. Went away for a couple of days (it was a > big bun) and missed all the excitement. Were any > of those blank messages worth reading? > Ditto! All that fun missed! All I can comment on is the "It's not the size it's what you do with it" post. Which of course is rubbish. Ahhahahaahahaha Off to cook a big fatty fried breakfast. Sad to read someone posted a nasty private message to someone though. So is Nuala really slim and fit then? If you're really fat you have more space to put lots of patches on I suppose. Breakfast frying nicely....

No-one Realises When Its Practically Perfect

The Post office is a service. Thus it should not be a limited company. As someone said earlier, even the Americans have saved their postal service.

The Post office is a treasure and the Post office Manager is the chair of the local Ward Police Panel of which I am a member and also the woman from the DIY shop on the corner. But there are nearly always queues when I go in the PO and since the PO at Cheltenham Road closed it got worse, and now that the Melbourne Grove one, and possibly the Nunhead one is closing.... Love Beauty Plus too tho I only go in there for manicures for posh occasions. Co-Op (to return to thread) is great and friendly. Since most food is in packaging the occasional grubby floor is acceptable. They earn rubbish money and are competing with the Tescos down the road.

How about some longer lasting and bigger plants?

Moos I thank you Your critique is welcome I still wish I could see Muse

The cloudiness is usually millions of tiny bubbles depending on the pressure of the water coming out the tap. The PeckhamRoseHousehold has never had bottled water except when our block had a water outage. So now we keep one spare for emergencies only, along with champagne for the same reason. And that's bubbly too. ;) I am always amazed at seeing people down Rye Lane who don't look like they earn a lot of money doing the most ridiculous money-wasting things with what little they clearly do have: things like carrying 4 liter bottles of water, whilst smoking and eating their fast food. But then that's democracy.. I'm thirsty now. Where's the bolly.

If a statue is to be put on the roundabout would the council pay for it? If the answer is YES, I vote we all vote against it and force the council to use the money set aside for the statue to go to saving Livesey Museum instead. If the answer is no, can Anthony Gormley not be asked to contribute an idea? Give someone else a chance. On the other hand, a statue may divert driver's attentions away from their texting, so best not have one....

I find the Pyrotechnists positively unfriendly and weird and in a time warp. Old Nun's Head is lovely but a bit... bare. Have yet to try the food there though. Man of Kent - remember your cloth cap. Page Two new version Village Inn, comfy but yet to get its atmosphere. Agree with AllForNun re Golden Anchor. I did not stop for a drink. And all of them and all pubs are much better since the government forced them to ban smoking. The only law the government's passed in recent years I agreed with.

Oh wow. OMG I love Muse. And poo I shall be away in April. I would have been willing to find my sleeping bag and queue overnight at RAH for tickets. But they don't do that anymore do they. You probably have to buy online with a credit card and pay over the odds to the credit card companies even for charity events. I hope that is not the case this time. I hope it is a wonderful time for everyone and that they make a lot of money for the charity. I wish I could be there. OMG I love Muse. Oh wow.

As I type I am listening to Radio 4 You and Yours discussing government and how there are too many laws and the history of democracy and so on. I believe that if the post office is on a hit list, then it is a done deal. Councillors, thank you for alerting us to the issue here, and I ask that do what you can, but why is it you only usually contribute something to this forum when it suits you?

Cherry Orchard opens Tuesday 26th at Lion & Unicorn 44 Gaisford Street NW5 2ED. I know some of the actors in it and the director's Russian so he's got his angle. If you fancy catching up on a classic for a tenner you could do worse! A mate of mine saw Mamma Mia recently and she was delightfully surprised. I still ain't going, tho.