PeckhamRose

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".

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!