PeckhamRose

Sooo ummmm if a sign goes up - one of those planning notice things - saying an adult shop is opening - we can expect lots of scared people with children who conceived those children with their eyes shut probably - will write to the planners saying something like, "Oi! Sex Shop? NOOOO!" and we will all individually write to them and say "Yes Please", will we? I will. I really will. Sh! had the thing about men only being allowed in the shop if accompanied by a woman, simply because they wanted to make women feel comfortable and brave about going in, and to be fair it worked and they have done very well. Hopefully we don't need that now, or if one of us does, we can call up our friends in here and ask to go with them. Seriously, an awful lot of women are really curious but dead embarrassed and scared about what actually can be sold in a sex shop. Sh! broke the mould of sex shops in that way. Thankfully it ain't all about porn and abuse of women any more. You can go into top shelf regions of WHSmiths for that.... Anyway, yes, let's hope it happens. New Shopping list Very wonderful and expensive cheese - cheese block LL Best fish and advice to cook it - Sopers Evelina Road Flowers - AG FLowers Evelina Road Bread cakes buns cakes cakes lunch cakes and cakes and bread - JKAyres Evelina Road Vibrator and toys - sex shop LLane Chiropractor - Dulwich therapy rooms LLane (for when me back goes out trying new positions in the books I'll have bought in sex shop) Lunch and beer - Clockhouse pub Hoorah. :)

Ahhahahaahahaha that's funny. longtalljohn Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yesterday the tanoy asked for 'Carl Lewis to the > check out please'. > > She didn't have to ask a second time.

As a newcomer to this forum I am getting the hang of the tone of it. Silly me for taking the sexism and ageism seriously. I'll get me coat... Domitianus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Also let's not discriminate against the turkeys - > their necks are just as beautiful as any other > domestic fowl.

Danny Baker on the radio a few years ago, said "I met that Paul McKenna once and he couldn't hypnotise me. I remind him of that every time I go round on a Friday and wash his car." How we laughed. James Nesbitt was on the front page of Radio Times as the Jekyll Hyde character and I remember thinking - as I stained his teeth with my coffee mug stain - that boy needs to go to my nice dentist on Forest Hill Road and get his teeth straightened.

I'd just be happy with a woman friendly "adult" shop like what Sh! is (exclamation point part of the title as previously mentioned). Sh! was Europe's first woman owned woman run and women friendly sex shop when it opened about 16 years ago. Men only allowed in if accompanied by a woman (and a long line of credit!) They have a concession in Selfridges and I reckon a branch in East Dulwich would be just right. I promise I am not employed to advertise them! Anyway, yes, a simple woman friendly sex shop would be fine - I'm not embarrassed to be seen walking to any of them except the ones in Soho and to be fair even the bigger chains (hohoho) are more woman friendly than they used to be. They know we have money, too. We're adults too, remember? Ok - on with yer smut.

And I was working so can't be there. How frustrating. I hope you all are.

Poor tenant.

And Adrian Lester was in the film Primary Colours with John Travolta and Emma Thompson and when they all went on Oprah she thought he really was an American as his USA Accent was so good. Brenda Blethyn's a local, isn't she. She goes in Beauty Place on Forest Hill Road. Apparently. (ooooooh ouch)

I do hope there will be an adult / private shop in East Dulwich. Going to Sh! in Coronet Street N1 (the exclamation mark is part of the title) is such a journey.... We're all grown up aren't we?

Oooh another biker on the forum. Are you also a member of TLB forum zephyr?

Can we dispense with the sexist ageist crap about turkey necks? Had she been a male you would not have said it. My problem with her is that - like Kim Humphreys of Southwark Council - they are career politicians who are only interested in their own careers and not the difficult media-unfriendly problems of those they claim to represent. I always thought Kate Hoey MP who represented Vauxhall area was pretty respectable and active, and not seemingly interested in being seen to do the right thiings for the sake of it. Tessa Jowell has no time for us but by law she probably does have a regular surgery around here.

You really are a miserable negative so and so, aren't you.

What do I think? I think you should relax, look at signs that say when meetings are taking place, put yourself out and look at the various websites, (foprp have one I think), Community Council meetings - the Nunhead and Peckham Rye one is TONIGHT at 7 at Mary Magdalene school - and make your voice - a voice which we all hear regularly here - heard by elected officials and council officers who have power to ignore you - I mean - have power to listen and hear all of us saying similar things. And stop being so angry in here against those trying to make things better. Since you asked. :)

I love Nunhead, and try and get all stuff from there rather than the supermarkets. Wendy and Sonia in AG FLowers are lovely people, Sopers next door for the fish of course (and they'll tell you how to cook it), and let's not forget Ayres and the butchers. Then you can buy everything from weighing scales and vases and prescriptions and everything else from Kristals, and you've not crossed the road yet. I was sad that the new deli did not open in Evelina Road but apparently there were problems with trying to get the lease on the old haberdashers shop. I hope they don't suffer for not being on the main through road. Page Two incidentally is being taken over by a new couple and becomes O'Brians in a month. And I highly recommend The Restaurant. If you're in a hurry you'll be frustrated, because they cook the food in real time!

Can you find the link to the research that shows the proof that these masts are dangerous for people's health? Oh - and what research I have done, shows that if your mobile is stretching it's signal to a mast far away, it's giving off more energy trying to do so, and thus giving off more radiation... hey I ain't a scientist. However, if there are more masts around the mobiles don't have to work so hard for their connection, so are less harmful. Cracks me up, we all (nearly all?) use mobile phones and yet there are many, many, many things adults and kids do which are far more dangerous to people's health like smoking, crossing the street, eating junk, wasting resources. At the north end of Peckham Rye Park in the middle of the park side of the road at East Dulwich Road, is a tree with no leaves, no branches, and I was wondering if that's a mobile phone mast? I know in the sussex countryside there are several such camouflaged mobile phone masts and I'm a-thinking, what a brilliant disguise!

The Cafe is in Peckham Rye Park. Peckham Rye Park has "Friends". The Friends of Peckham Rye Park" are volunteers who put themselves out to have meetings to discuss things relating to the park for the benefit of everyone. I am a member but I never have time to go. BoosBoss - however - does, and he and the others work hard. The comment "there was almost no serious attempt to engage the local community, most of the residents that I know who live near the park had absolutely no idea." - is a shame to read because posters are always posted saying when the next Friends of Peckham Rye Park meetings are, so it's up to us to see them and attend. I happened to be at the meeting a few years ago when the chosen architects discussed the plans for the much bigger cafe that was going to go up. It was beautiful. It had features designed into it to help "design out" vandalism, and was much bigger than the one now built. Guess what. Money fell through. I'm digressing, my point is that volunteers can't exactly post notes through everyone's doors to say when meetings are due, and please don't be angry at this point. Yes, the cafe does look fantastic. Shame about the timing but hey, let's make sure we make it worthwhile and hope the prices for a cuppa are not silly-money or I'll be sticking to taking me flask to the picnic area.... HOWEVER, I totally agree with your point about council not really wanting people at (community) council meetings. I have to say the community council meetings are reactive rather than proactive, and like all Southwark Council's apparent open-handed dealings, they are there to be seen to ask our opinions and be open, when in truth the deal has been done and the plans already made. Well, most of the time anyway. Right, see the time? Yawn.

What "favourite items" are not available any more? Give an example. I have also noticed they sell bigger portions of food instead of smaller, and considering more and more people live alone that's a tough one. On the other hand, I try and shop anywhere but Sainsbury's/Tescos. Some jobsworth a few weeks ago put a note on my motorbike saying my reg. number had been taken and I should not park outside the CoffeeShop (where I had parked it safely and out of everyone's way, where I could see NOBODY WALKS), but that I should park only in the motorcycle park and if my bike is caught there again I'll be fined!! Guess what? Motorcycle park full of trolleys! So I ran into Jobsworth, I mean I safely rode up to him, and pointed out the problem in words of one syl a bull. Back to topic - I believe Sainsburys have a monthly forum group. Ask the manager if you can join their monthly forum meetings and raise this issue.

PeckhamRose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- And no congestion charge! "It just keeps getting better and better.." > Motorcycle or moped or scooter. Free parking when > you get there!

Motorcycle or moped or scooter. Free parking when you get there!

Which is why roundabouts are the answer in many, many cases. Each road leading up to it should have a zebra crossing, and all car drivers will know they will not be held up unnecessarily (ie just because the light is red, even tho there's no traffic crossing his path). We tried hard for this at the Peckham Rye SE15 junction with East Dulwich Road but the council ignored us. Have any of you emailed either or both of those two email addresses I listed (I think top email of this second page)? If everyone did that they may take note, as you who wrote regarding the 37 bus route made clear.

What cracks me up about the Southwark recycling is that they apply the heavy hand to the wrong people AND they create their own waste. They tell us on our estate anyway that they don't recycle white envelopes or window envelopes. Guess what. EVERY piece of communication I receive from Southwark Council is sent on white window envelopes. Idiots. And some window envelopes (very expensive) even have stickers over the windows with my address printed on. I tell ya, some of these people need a slap.

It's great when that happens, but it rarely does. Southwark Community Councils and also everything to do with traffic schemes are already done and dusted and - as people here have noted - NOT up for consultation before hand. It takes a death sometimes to change things. Hope it ain't mine! If we all turned up to Dulwich Comm Council (is the SE22 side Dulwich or Nunhead/PeckhamRye?) the people responsible for the roads would not be there, and the councillors wouldn't have much power.

Hi - yes I have a postcard from the turn of the century (about 1906 I think) where there is the fountain of which the new one is a replica. There's no water shooting from the original either, in my picture at least. I got several postcards from ebay taken at Peckham Rye, some even with donkeys grazing on. I believe the law was never repealed that says you can't graze your sheep on the Rye either (same applies for Shepherds Bush Green apparently). Anyway, yes the water fountain replaces one that was there 100 years ago. Maybe the original is in someone's back garden. That happens a lot! smith Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If it's a monument to one that was there before, > what was wrong with the one that was there before? > Did it crumble? Suffer bomb damage? Have running > water? Anyone able to source (pardon the pun!) a > photo of the original?

Could only make the fete for an hour or so but the next day when I biked past both sides of the park I remember thinking that for a fete there was hardly any mess, and wondered had the Council cleaners been out late Sunday or early Monday. But no, it was Joe and his very wonderful co-volunteers who cleared up other people's mess. SO well done you lot and boo to the misery gutses. boosboss Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > All the volunteers worked extremely hard to put on > the fete and even picked litter before leaving the > site.

Hello A relative newcomer here (tho I have just celebrated 24 years of living in my flat on Peckham Rye SE15!). I thought you may like some information and my experience. When new traffic lights were put at the north east corner of Peckham Rye a few years ago, turning right from East Dulwich Road to get to my home on peckham Rye the SE15 side, proved very dangerous indeed. I am a motorcyclist. We wrote to our councillor who was very sympathetic and made statements to the Community COuncil about it, and nobody cared. Previous to this - on invitation to all residents from Southwark Council about some long term scheme or plan for the borough where they were asking for our input - I went along to the council offices and made a detailed presentation as to how I think that replacing all traffic lights at small junctions with roundabouts and zebra crossings would make life better for us all. I believe this because if dangerous car drivers know that they will get from A-B without having to wait unnecessarily at a red light, they will get used to the idea of giving way when there is traffic. I know it's a long shot, but I believe the traffic problem is designed against users' natural instincts and forces us on fewer and fewer roads making them angrier and angrier. Anyway, the Council ignored me. Like the COmmunity Councils, these ten year plans or five year plans or schemes the council runs are just talking shops and make out like they're open to us all to justify the enormous amounts of money they get to do what THEY want to do anyway. Soooooo to cut the rest of the longer story short, the traffic lights at the bottom of Peckham Rye SE15 stay, and despite our efforts, they won't even put in a right turn filter light for our safety. As well as your previous emails above suggesting you write to councillors (who are pretty ineffective), you might care to bombard the following two people with your concerns (and mine). They are involved with street management. Nabil.Basri@southwark.gov.uk enquiries@streetmanagement.org.uk They ignored me too, but not everyone knows they email address and now you all do. If we all bombard them, they may listen. PeckhamRose