PeckhamRose

Aha Boosboss! I just started a thread in the Lounge as I got the papers today too. My thread's more about examples of money-wasting by Southwark Council. Anyway, my opinions are about the cycle lane proposal is that as a pedestrian I don't like sharing lanes with cyclists anymore than I do with cars. Cyclists are often arrogant as car drivers are. (No, not all of you!) I said that I think the existing pavement should be widened. Their wording was very unclear. I hate multiple choice questions but it makes passing exams easier...

Send us your examples. Here's a few of mine: 1) They bang on about recycling but send you your communications in window envelopes which they say they can't recycle. 2) They sent me consultation papers asking for opinions on a cycle lane on the SE15 east side of Peckham Rye 4 years ago. Must have cost them a lot to ask people's opinions when they probably had their minds set anyway, but guess what. Nothing happened anyway. Today got sent another set of consultation papers and they said that last time nothing happened because they ran out of money. a) wouldn't it be best to send out consultation papers AFTER they're sure they have the money and b) maybe the cost of sending out consultation papers is WHy they ran out of money. 3) They have built a whole load of well built garages on our estate but have done nothing to advertise them for rent at ?9.38 a week each. Call Jason Huggins on 020 7525 5000 (yes, call centre) and ask him if you're interested. Your turn.

Not sure if to put this in the fun Consultation topic or start a new one, but here goes. I won an award for my nomination of Clockhouse for its Flowers in Bloom entry. That is to say - Southwark Council have a Flowers in Bloom competition or some such thing and I nominated the Clock house and it won and I won something for my nomination. Yeah - think that's what it was. So I visited Laurence at Clockhouse and told him. He had not actually been told he had won the award. Southwark sent ME, the nominator, his award for his pub. So I hope we can be sure the winner of the best bar will actually be told they've won. Not if Southwark Council have anything to do with it. Sometimes some of these topics do overlap. I'm just about to start one about cycle lanes and more wasted Southwark Council money.....

Ooooooooooh yes, silly me. I was looking for one word without the indefinite article. Only not see what you want to not see! The food is fabulous. The chef is Morrocan apparently. (I always love the food there!)

Clockhouse. It's got an SE22 postcode so that makes it East Dulwich. It's a pub. not a bar though. But in the pub there is a bar. And Laurence the new landlord is gorgeous. Has to be said. So please include that as I am not voting for any others. So there.

I walk or bike down Lordship Lane on Saturday evenings after work sometimes and on the surface it has a buzzy atmosphere. No violent thuggy looking gangs, and just everyone outside the expensive eateries and pubs. They're outside because they can't smoke inside. They all sound like the soundtrack of the advert Joanna Lumley does for that insurance company "...or maybe half of Yorkshire..." Then I ride down Peckham and it's a different class of people on different incomes having their fun but the noise is from the cars. But it's very different atmosphere. Deliberately so too. I may not be in danger but I am not welcome. So I go home for a cup of tea and a sherry and watch Casualty.

It's called le chandelier. Not "EcoUnFriendlyCheapoLightbulb". Isn't that a clue?

Ahh - sorry. :(

I promise I shall put a flier out and post an advert in here nearer the time. Promise. But that means I can NEVER come to the meetings in case you find out I am the 13 year old boy I really am. Ain't the Tricycle btw.

I got a play being produced in north London end of November. Eee I'm that excited and proud. Not using my own name though, nuh uh. Not even using my pseudonym! I have a literature / writing degree so maybe should call myself ChavWivALoreDegree. ahhahahaahahahaahahahahahaha Brendan Wrote: > Personally I would love to be well known for my > writing. It is not one of the major motivators in > my life but it would be nice.

Really interesting to read people's pov* which is all I asked. It seems really we all agree the post service is appalling but we don't agree about the work situation. My postie is a gem and again as I said he is burdened with so much work he has no time to deliver sometimes and feels awful about it because he won't get overtime if he does. The comments about the sexism and racism is an interesting one, but is not specifically post office related as you hear these stories in many many areas of working life, the City for example. (Not saying it's good!) As for the temporary/casual workers, again it's not just post office related. We've got young generations of kids/young people who don't necessarily have a work ethic ("oooooooh get her!") and can't read properly, as well as the fact their masters at the PO are burdening them also with so much work they're not able to get around. Like a lot of you I think we're doomed to face ?1 letter delivery prices and a forever second class service. In NZ there were two companies doing the mail and if you put your letter in the other company's post box it would not get there. I liken Adam Crozier to Kim Humphreys: eager to make his mark and change things and be seen to be changing things even the things that weren't wrong in the first place. *pov*** is a TLA** ** TLA is a three letter abbreviation (or two) *** point of view Coffee time.

Wow I love this forum. Hope the kids don't make a forum for themselves, they could really learn something on here!!!

I also believe there is a fully stocked dungeon run by a wonderful Dominatrix in Nunhead. Wish I knew where it was as I need to earn some money for a 2 month trip next year. Hey, there is a thread on here about noise from churches. If the noise from dungeons and the like is not bothering us, and everything is consensual, what's the problem? :) School fees are horrendous apparently.

Last 5th November we were walking home about 11pm or so from the best views on Dalston Heights to Peckham Rye and these kids asked if they could join us. We said sure fine, as they seemed anxious. They said they were being followed by kids they knew were bullies and had robbed their friends before. We felt so sad for them! They were such nice kids, too. See? Don't want badly behaved kids in the pub but happy to look after and protect them when they need it. I am glad to read how everyone's pulled together on this and now the police have logged it. Can we attract local police officers as members of this forum? (Do we want that?!) We got the journos, are they taking note? I am often round that area then by Harris School so if I see these girls I shall call 999 and hope I wont be cut off for not reporting a crime as it is happening.

Why is it best not to say anything about the strike though. I'd be interested in reading people's views who have something to say against it as well as for it. Looks like it's been settled now but I'll speak to the post men and women before opinionating on it. Meanwhile, a Special Delivery package I sent 4 days ago, guaranteed next day delivery by 1 pm, still has not arrived.....

And one for motorcyclists. Seriously though. I think it's a bad idea to have a separate forum. We're all in this world together. The kids can access ours to see the crap we come out with and learn from it and we can access theirs to see they're spelling p a w n correctly. Good for the kids who thought of this idea though, see? I love kids! ChavWivaLawDegree Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > and one for chavs

I agree with Cassius. Having the courage to say we'd like a childfree area is such a brave thing to say as immediately everyone says "Oh why do you hate kids?!" I don't hate kids. I love them. I have not got any but that was my choice. I am naturally protective. I am the best person in an emergency because I am cool calm collected and make the right decisions (and carry a first aid kit on the bike and am trained). Indeed children sometimes come to me because they know they will be treated as adults (and they get curious about seeing the bike or my helmet). However, I also would wish to choose to be social in an area whether it be restaurant or pub where I can have a nice quiet drink or meal and not be interruoted by screaming badly behaved kids running around whose parents thinks they're little darlings are expressing their individuality, when actually they're badly behaved kids expressing the fact their parents don't have an iota of concern or care about discipline or "boundaries". So there. The Wetherspoon pubs were one of the first chains to merely become middle/upper class McDonalds and the staff at The Fox On The Hill and others risked life and limb and legal costs by carrying hot food to customers whose kids were running around, but the staff were unable to do anything about it. Now this happens many places. So thanks to those who recommended other childfree areas, such as my local the Clockhouse. Cassius Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well funnily enough I asked the question before I > got the answers - I find that usually happens. > Now I have the answers I will look out the pubs > that have been recommended. > Incidentally I have no problems with well behaved > children ...............

Ooohhhhhhh is THAT what they're for? I'll tell Himself. He has not been using them for the right job and quite frankly it's a pain... Michael Palaeologus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Nipple clamps are used to tighten the things that > distribute grease in the moving parts of > mechanical things - thats all.

Spacey Kubrick Hackman (I called my first cat Kubrick, the current one is Spacey and the next one may be Hackman) When my mate was naming his new Llama (in Cumbria...) he got his neighbour, a school teacher of slowlearning kids or whatever the PC term is - to ask her kids what to name the llama. The kids went to the field to see the llama and when she got them together in front of my mate to ask them what they had come up with, they said nothing. Then she said, "Children? Have you thought of a name?" they said "Yes Miss". She said, "Well? What is it?" and they said very slowly and nearly altogether: "Yes Miss". YesMiss it was.

a m a n a p l a n a c a n a l p a n a m a That's generally acknowledged as being the longest unless I have been misinformed. I wrote it like that so you can read it up and down.

Sorry - can't make tonight after all. Haved a good one and I'l try and make the next one. I vote for the Clockhouse.

Child free car free (motorcycles are much more fun) and now it only takes two pints to get me drunk and all unnecessary. Talking of which - can't make tonight for you to test that out.

Downsouth why say it's best if you don't say anything. That's like - er - um - like a dumb thing to say. Why bother even posting and wasting the bandwidth? I started this topic because I want to hear people's views. Assuming you're adult too - your view and experience may be useful to us all if you have something intelligent to offer the debate :) downsouth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They actually lose 5 and half pence for every > letter delivered - so it's no wonder it's value > for money. As regards this strike thing It's > probably best I don't say anything.

Yes, it is true. Mine was fraudulant also. I went to a CofE school just because the education was better. Peter Duncan (ex Blue Peter) is now the leader of the scout federation and he was interviewed on radio recently. One woman asked him about the hypocrisy of the religion thing. He couldn't answer. Pesky small minded religious types. Pahhh mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > if you have no religion you're not allowed to be > in the guides or scouts > > Is that true? Oops; My youth was fraudulent!!

What's your thoughts? My experience is that I live on a small estate and our regular postman is an absolute gem who can read, and he goes beyond the call of duty (behave!) knowing I work from home and that my post IS my work. I always know when he is away because I get post for other blocks on the estate in my letterbox. Recently, my postman told me - when he delivered a Special Delivery item 40 mins after the 1.00pm deadline - that of course I should claim compensation for that but also, he said, that his work load had been SO great recently that he was simply unable to get around every address he was expected to deliver to. Including my block. So he delivered to my block for free as he had to do my Special Delivery anyway. He felt so bad about it. He was not going to get over-time for it. The other blocks did not get post that day. And meanwhile he is thinking of training to be a teacher. I have written to the bosses at SE15 sorting office but never get a reply from them. But it IS the managers who are a problem and not the dedicated workers, and many of them ARE dedicated workers. Of course, the problem also is the fact that the mail service is a SERVICE and should never have been made a profit making company. What we gunno do?