PeckhamRose

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?

This is a very good thread I think will go on for a while. Unless you all stop. So anyway when the council were banging on about flattening historical bits of Peckham to stick a tram depot in it, they said there was only one church in the area. Research proved apparently there are 17 ! Which is terrifying. I went to the London Alternative Market in Brixton the other Sunday and if the church people who were singing their hearts out in the main part of the building below us, knew what manner of disgusting fun and devilish implements people were selling and using in the rooms above, they'd have died - and gone to their own heaven. Ahhahahaahahahaahahaa What really pees me off is that if you have no religion you're not allowed to be in the guides or scouts and only religious people are given a voice in Thought for the Day. Back to topic, can't we get our friendly new journalist to do a story about noise and hypocrisy and stuff?

See what you've taken on, Jenny? Hope you're up (or down) to the SLP's level of "reporting". I have to admit I never buy and rarely read the rag, simply because of those hideous headlines and how it seems to be aimed at - well, no that would be offensive to say. Am I a snob? Can I afford to be a snob AND live in NunheadRye? ;)

I will try and be there to meet you all. I'm a biker but I'll see if I can't jump on one of those 484 bus jobbies so I can have a swift half or two. (Tho I'll carry the helmet for identification purposes...) Also, I'm not strictly East Dulwich and don't want you to throw me bike over the railings of the railway station. I would say I am Peckham Rye SE15, but since the rebranding of names of places like West Peckham, and since I am round the corner from Evelina Road and shop in Nunhead, I think I am in Nunhead Rye. That sounds nice and should add a nought to the price of the flat... Getting me coat.

Ohhhhhh it gets sillier. There's now officially a place called West Peckham apparently. I think that's around Bellenden Road. Eileen Conn told me about it and I just laughed till I realised she was being serious. To be fair signage is up telling you when you are entering one of the 8 community council areas but they're daft. Nunhead and Peckham Rye starts on Old Kent Road and that's just confusing. Anyway, *Bob* Wrote: > Though I suppose with the current fad and > obsession with 'rebranding' sub-postalcode-sized > areas ("Denmark Hill?! Bellenden Village?! Get a > grip!) the signs could be up and down like a > whore's drawers.

Spooooooooooooooky I just wrote about Dalston Heights being a great location for film crews. I said it was also a great place for to watch fireworks, then I wondered into this topic and guess what. It's blinking Dalston Heights again. OK that's weird. No, really, that's weird George. I'll get me coat.

I agree - this time last year definitely was hearing fireworks by the local yoof. I usually go to Blackheath and if it's not raining it's a fun long walk home. But also sometimes go to the top of Dalston Heights on Overhill Road where there's a big expanse of grass/trees/shrubbery/green stuff and watch the fireworks from all over London from up there. Seen New Year in from up there too. Dalston Heights has one of the best views in and of the whole of London. It's better than Primrose Hill because it looks geographically more right! You often see film crews up there too getting shots of London. Anyway, yes, it's been quiet so far this year.

I have often wondered why vans have stickers saying "Police follow this van" on them. I mean, why should they? Maybe I should put a sticker on the backs of cars that have no tax disc on them, or cars I've seen driving really badly I could sneak up to at the lights and put a sticker on them saying, "Ambulance, follow this car, you're bound to be needed sooner or later". Ho hum.

Nahhh the cancer will get you first.... Talking of funerals, even funeral cars and EVEN FUNERAL MOTORCYCLE HEARSES have to have no smoking stickers on their other wise spotless windows. I rang the smokefree helpline and asked that - since it was law to have a no smoking sticker on all premises - could we have a sticker saying no murder is allowed on the premises and a sticker for every single other law that we already complied to. They said I was taking the piss. I said "you started it".