PeckhamRose

My mate texted his girlfriend the other day to "Get here at 5pm, strip, go lie on the bed." Least, he THOUGHT he had texted his girlfriend. His girlfriend's name is one letter out from his line manager. Yup. I know. How we laffed. So - plum tights from Primark? Was there a receipt even? Do you know your neighbours to ask them about it? Are they reading THIS? ho ho Another mate has two letter boxes in his door. One says "Letters " and the other says "Junk Mail including Pizza leaflets" beneath which is the recycling box. And the kids always kindly put the pizza leaflets in that one.

Clockhouse.

Ahahahaha. Poor Maurice! I used to work with an accountant who explained that back in the 1930s there were something like 70 independent train operating companies and it all worked splendidly because they worked together as a team. I am not convinced. I would re-nationalise the whole lot. Yet the airlines are all separate companies. Could it be said they work well? But you won't get me off the motorcycle, even in this weather. Well, maybe you can if you aim right, but I am pretty observant and quick to get out of the way.

Maurice you can be one miseryguts in here sometimes yet I am sure you are a happy go lucky lovely "up" person in the flesh! I hope we meet one day and I shall try and persuade you that those of us who live in godawfuldreadful shouldbeblownupPECKHAM are actually nice people trying to make a positive difference. And what's more we live in the 95% of Peckham that is not part of the ?million regeneration area which you deem was wasted. I too had read about goat-damage to crops and was glad Brendan kindly educated us about it - since he knows clearly what he is talking about. But back to topic. I have never sent Christmas cards and never saw the point and everyone knows it so they don't expect them from me, and yet I am amazed each year when still my friends send me cards that land on my mat. But I never forget my friends' birthdays, so I do make up for it. And I make my own cards. But I buy brand new non-recycled paper specially for it, just to make the point... Mmmmm curry tonight !!!

See? That's why I never go places and groups and drinks and stuff - I HATE having photos taken. Hate it. Glad you all had a good time.

Ohhhhhhh and I found all Mauirce's I Love Peckham Tshirts and I Love peckham Rock. I knew he protesteth too much. He LOVES it really.

... the mice do play. Heyyyyyy while you lot are at the part-ayyyy I'm here all on me own sposed to be working an' all. Mmmmm let's have a nosey around. Ooooohhhhh what's in THAT cupboard. And there's the Warnicks Advocarrr and the sherry no-one likes and look! There's those mucky magazines under the sofa. And the porn DVDs. Now whose are these? Can't tell, they're stuck shut with.... eeewwwwwww yeuch! OK, back to work. Hope you're all enjoying yerselves....

Hi I live on Peckham Rye, the SE15 side. it's lovely. Been here 25 years next year! Kitchen's nearly done, too. People who talk sh1t about Peckham when just focussing on a small bit of it really pee me off. It's like those idiots who have money but no imagination so aspire to having a personalised number plate. Get a life. Aas for those who wonder which area they live, if the street name has SE15 on it then you're in Peckham mate. Get over it or get counselling and get over it. Or just "be". If it says SE22 then it's East Dulwich. The postcodes are alphabetical in the areas in which they relate and all Southwark Streets have name and postcode. ie. SE2 Abbey Wood SE3 Blackheath down to SE14 New Cross SE15 Peckham SE16 Rotherhithe and to SE20 Anerley SE21 Dulwich SE22 East Dulwich SE23 Forest Hill Maurice Wrote: > Peckham is a story of its own. Millions and > millions and millions. God knows it should be > better. But 'better' is relative.

I wrote elsewhere on the forum that for a while I used to work in a funeral directors. Not embalming or being a director at the funeral, but arranging them and receiving the people who came through the door to arrange funerals for their rellies or friends. Anyway, three things I learned. 1) These funeral companies charge SO MUCH MONEY for basically cheap things. 2) You CAN do it yourself - so much help and many choices on line these days. 3) That whilst the older generations may like traditional funeral services, the fact is that a lot of people can make more green and environmentally helpful choices these days. And younger generations will hopefully mean we can dispense with the nonsense of handing over thousands of pounds to companies for relatively little, in most cases to ease our religious guilt and stuff. For myself - since I am not religious, and since my life has been saved many many times by the NHS specially when I was a child, I have decided to have my body donated to the London Anatomy Office (google it). My friends and relatives know (and my doctor and solicitor), that when I am dead that my body is taken there and if suitable can be used by medical students to learn on. However, if it is not, then cremate it. It's cheaper. I did organise a funeral for a motorcyclist - that was one obviously very sad but everyone was very impressed and grateful when I suggested to the girlfriend that she may like a motorcycle hearse. And thus it was I organised the country's first motorcycle hearse to take the lad on his final journey. I never got around to organising someone's ashes (pure carbon) to be turned into a firework or a precious jewel, though. All such possibilities are available but not everyone knows to ask, and not every receptionist thinks to offer. Hey - we all die. Yet it's usually such a taboo subject. As someone who's come close many times I don't worry about talking about it. But PLEASE take note of the following: 1) If you're not married to your partner, you won't get his/her pension when he/she dies. Gay people who have had civil ceremonies currently have more rights than unmarried straights EVEN WITH KIDS. 2) If the deceased has not written a will, it makes life very very hard for those left behind. People die at all ages and always have. So write a will. Lecture over ;) Happy Christmas though!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have a great time everyone - I'll be working. Look forward to meeting more of you in the New Year, though it took me a bit of courage last time and then I had to leave a bit sharpish like! Have a great happy time.

I don't think it's weird wanting somewhere quiet to have a meal. Just voicing an opinion, sorry. And not all kids are badly behaved and noisy. Never said anything of the kind, nuh uh, not me gov.

Ohhhh I did not realise that organic grocers / greengrocers was called SMBS, sorry. Yes it is very well reviewed. So um anonymous shops? Dunno. What about the shop further up the lane sells brooms and buckets and flower pots and sponges and stuff like that..... :)

It's just too noisy for me. I was hoping for a nice quiet place I could have breakfast once in a while and read me paper. Not gonna happen. Love the dogs though. Thinking of getting a guide dog, you can take them anywhere. Curious really considering they are dogs like any other dogs. If someone's allergic to dogs or consider dogs to be unhygienic in a food shop, aren't guide dogs gonna be the same problem? Anyway, yeah, love the cafe, glad it's there, but it's just too damn noisy. Someone above also wrote about the crashes and banging as well as the screaming (and that's just the serving staff ahhahahah). I wish the place well. I am just not going as much as I would hope. Be back in the summer though!

I used to work for a funeral directors and I have to say it was an honour of a job, real special work, a lovely caring people. I learned so much. And I believe it's one of the few jobs where - when someone comes in and they're in a state (or sometimes not...) - and it's your job to calm them, help them make the choices they did not know they had - and they THANK you for that work. It's precious. But badly paid. I was just a receptionist and administrator. Not one of the directors or people who actually deal with the dead bodies. But yes, when people asked me what I did during those few years I did answer in a whisper, "I see dead people". And the pay SUCKS. So what abot that organic food shop then near the cheese block. They any good?

I totally agree with the point below. I went to a CofE school and it drove me nuts. In Science they taught you about experimentation and proving stuff, then next lessons asked you to take on faith what you were being told about the story of Christ and so on. Such hypocrisy. Whilst political correctness has its place when it comes to being kind and reasonable and inclusive to all people of all backgrounds, the fear factor and litigious society we find ourselves in nowadays has made it just plain nasty and daft. Myself, I try and be good NOT because of the carrot of heaven or the stick of hell, but because it just makes sense to be good and so on. I have looked into the eyes of women whose kids have been murdered, they know at that point there was no God. It was just humans being bad. There is no God. Get over it people. We made him up when we didn't have the science to explain rainbows and thunder. Meanwhile, when Judi Dench's daughter was a little girl she played the InnKeeper's wife (proving that there have always been crap roles for women over 30 throughout the ages), and the press came and invited her to tell them what the Nativity was about. In true starry style she replied, "It's about this Inn Keeper's Wife...." > > This debate drives me nuts, I am from a muslim > background and am disgusted that christians should > have to defend putting on a traditional play. Keep > 'em going, I loved being in them as a kid. What > has this society come to when we have to ponder > every single aspect of our lives for fear of > "offending" another section of it.

Done.

I hate speed bumps for the following two main reasons. 1) They punish us ALL for the actions of a few. 2) You are taught to drive well by working out what is happening way ahead of you and preparing accordingly. You can't do that if you're concentrating on the immediate obstruction in front of you, again and again and again and again as each bump appears in front of you. They are specially dangerous for PTWs (powered two wheel) and cyclists as the car drivers swerve. OK, we do too. As a motorcyclist we know that if we have an accident we are likely to come off and HURT. Even some young male riders realise this after the first smack. We have to be safer road users therefore than the average cage user with their air bag and their bumpers and their straps and so on. If all car drivers knew that if they were to have an accident by driving badly - that a pointed stick would come out from the middle of the steering wheel and puncture their forehead, you can be sure we'd all drive well and safely. I think all road humps, traffic lights and signage should be taken away - when traffic lights do not work it is understood that there are fewer accidents because everyone usually drives more safely. The most effective thing (and "green") is a roundabout. We all know we'll be able to go when it is our turn and won't be held up unnecessarily when there is nothing else coming (like what happens when lights are red with no other traffic). I tried to get Southwark to consider the idea, and when they stopped laughing they showed me the door, the short sighted fools. There should only be one rule of the road. Drive on the left. The second one should be: don't hit any one or anything. Dream lecture over. I'll get my jacket.

Hi everyone, reviews below! "Well I went tonight and have to say I really enjoyed it. I don't want to give too much of the plot away because it has more than enough twists and turns but you really will miss out if you miss this one. There were a lot of subtle lines and a lot of knowing snigger's from the audience and a fair few familiar faces as well. Come to think of it the lead actor did remind me of someone I used to see at ST a few years ago. Well worth going to see, its a small and intimate venue and I sat on the back row with a couple of trouble makers. Hopefully one of them will do a more complete review as a weblog later, her trade off for blagging a chew from behind the bar." David M "Excellent play. Just got back. Thanks fD for recommending it. Powerful psychological drama set amongst a series of interconnecting couples within the BDSM scene, all unfolding with lots of surprises and excitement. Jolly good acting and gripping all the way through. Thoroughly recommend it." Eddy d.2 "What an amazing play. Highly recommend it. Not just a good sub story but a good story, a good Dom story, and very intelligently written. It treats people into various fetishes as good human beings - it's just their families and careers that screw them up. Anyone thinking of going it ends Sunday. I was really impressed by the script and the brave actors. Don't know if any of them are into this but they acted like they were... !" denise "A Good Sub Story is on at the Unicorn Theatre in Kentish Town. I went to see it last night - and it was brilliant Scene related, but not just titillation: a real story with some twists and turns and excellent acting and direction. I thoroughly recommend it. It's on until the 9th. If you can get to it, do." frankDale

Hi everyone. Don't know if any of you turned up yet but the last week of this amazing play is upon us. The audiences have been incredibly enthusiastic and positive about it. It is on Tuesday to Saturday 7.30pm and the last night is Sunday 9th December at 6.00pm. Take a leap of faith - enjoy a play by a local writer about a sensitive provocative subject and have a laugh too. All the information is at the top of the topic. :)

and someone on Time Out. http://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/events/604770/a_good_sub_story.html Hoorah!

Marmora Man, sorry to disappoint. It's not about that at all.... Hope you can make it. I wrote it. My heart went into it. The actors have put their heart into it. It's very difficult to get shows put on and they're working for free and they are absolutely fabulous. :D http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/show-23378623-details/A+Good+Sub+Story/showReview.do

It's going well. Some audiences are bigger than others (theatre only holds 40). Come say hello to me after in the pub tho! Bit of a trek, I know. End Sunday 9th December. Maybe an EDF group theatre outing could be arranged! http://www.actprovocateur.net/home.html

So what did you raise it for then?

It's like saying Peckham or Motorbikes are dangerous and that all old people going out at night will be mugged. Can't stand these generalisations. It's also a class issue. My mate used to work at Chelsea Police station and the amount of streetcrime in posh streets round Sloane Square was as bad or good as anywhere else. It just wasn't reported. Also, define crime! In the posh offices and companies everywhere, crime is being committed when companies get out of paying taxes or create waste that is not recycled.... I'll get me coat.

Ummmmm Gary Glitter at Margate Winter Gardens. And my school friends the next day said they'd had sex with the band.... I might also have seen Osmonds or David Essex before that at Earls Court - can't remember, but I think it may have been the bad guy. Yikes.