tinagwee

california soul - marlena shaw

you know when people in opposite directions try to pass each other but then spend ages going left right left right but dont quite get it right until one gives up and stands still? How about everyone just automatically goes left like cars passing and then both will pass each other smoothly. I have tried this and has been working quite well. Sorry am procastinating, got to fill in a boring application form and will do anything but fill it in until the last minute heheh

I think both sides have lots of faults on the roads. I got knocked off my bike and it has really knocked my confidence and jump right out my skin when I see a car coming at me from the left now. Therefore I dont feel I am particularly safe on the road- too jumpy. Ive nearly had accidents when pedestrians step off the kerb without looking because they cant hear a car coming so assume it is empty. But on the other side I hate it when cyclists race through pedestrian crossing when people are crossing, they could change speed or direction and they are not looking for a vehicle 2 or 4 wheeled because they are hey..... at a pedestrian crossing. one day a guy came speeding down a hill through people going in both directions and gave one a fright, I caught up with him and gave him an earful but he was totally unrepentant. I've a mate who got knocked over by a cyclist doing this. I've also seen a guy weaving his way through traffic and pulled out quickly to one side and didnt notice the van coming up the inside lane and when the guy nearly hit him he acted like it was the drivers fault but he was the one who pulled out suddenly without looking. Everyone thinks everyone should make way for them.

jesus you would think I had said strangle them all at birth! I cannot believe that someone is suggesting that people who want to get shitfaced should stay at home how about the reply that if you have kids try taking them to the park, or maybe play games with them at home. as for "If you live close to the Plough but it takes you 25mins to walk to the CPT then perhaps you should spend less time in the pub and more in the gym (which incidentally is kid free)." I do go to the gym, and have an active job and I am on my feet all day. The plough is a ten minute walk from me which makes it still local but that further walk to the cpt (which then does become 25mins) does not make it quite so local, and it is my right to define how local I want my local to be. I did very well add that most of the time I do now make the extra effort to go further a field than the Plough. You are making a lot of assumptions there and wrongly. Also my boyfriend refuses to walk quickly so when I am with him it is at least a 30 min walk, and before you accuse him of laziness, he does capoeira as his choice of excercise, he just doesnt like walking fast. Anyway as I've said I will try to see if hoopers or clockwork are close and not so absolutely horrible that finding a tip to sit in would be preferable and will therefore try to avoid the plough during creche hours. End of bloody story ok?

"the po faced old wankers will scurry for their wretched middens " now thats going a bit far, generalising all those that dont have kids as po faced old wankers! As for lost money from meals, the plough as lost my lunch money many a time when I went in to eat and left very quickly. In my defense can I say that the plough is my local and it is nice and so why shouldnt I expect to be able go to my local pub. The Castle is not nice nor is particularly local to me. I do go to the CPT (again not as comfortable) or to 72 to avoid the mayhem but they are a 25 min walk which is fine most of the time but sometimes I just want a magners close to home to chill out, or sometimes I just want a coffee somehere nice before 7pm, didnt think that was too much. Silly me. Question: Where is Clockhouse and Hoopers and I will check them out for "christ sake" as told by someone in this thread. I do get the general impression that round these parts it is considered nearly a crime to not have kids and as such those like me only deserve to live in and hang out in complete dumps. Excuse me for getting above my station mlord. I moved here from Brixton and I never once saw a child in any pub there, funny that. Lots of socialogy students would probably think it would be the working class that do that rather than the up and coming or middle class. mmmm What would Jamie Oliver think of it! heheh Looks like I will just have to do a bit of adjusting and try to avoid the plough during the day even though it is the most convenient place to me otherwise I will just get lynched by the craaaazy east dulwich parents.

"Move with the times dear boy, move with the times. Nowadays if you want a quiet pint and read of the paper on a Sunday afternoon - stay at home." Oh right so I only get to enjoy a pint in the pub if I have kids, I get it, makes lots of sense! (also that sounds like the argument used by smokers recently that if you didnt want to inhale their smoke, stay at home) Didnt realise this argument had been raised last week. I musnt be the only grumber then. We should form a group!

I find it all too banal really. Also if the only contact a friend has with me is to poke me, zombie bite me, or send me a fish, then they are not a real friends. If we cant just bloody meet up and catch up in person then bugger off I say! I only use it to share photos of big nights out or festivals etc and even that bores me. tx

ps I am not a child hater, I have nephews who I take to the park etc and do plan to have one of my own just before anyone accuses me of that. Also I am fine with them everywhere else (excepting the sex club of course hehe)

Why are pubs in east dulwich so totally full of kids all the time, like morning noon and night. I tried to go into the plough at 3 different times recently and had to leave due to the noise and bedlam from many children. I have issue with this for 2 reasons b]Firstly[/b],Is it just me wondering if the pub is really the most suitable place to be bringing your kids? An example of what I mean is the occasion I was in the upland for a coffee some adults and kids came in and settled in for what appeared to be the day as the adults sat at one table and set the kids up with colouring books etc at another. Surely they should've been in the park running around, especially as it was a really bright sunny crisp day. On this lovely saturday they were being ignored, with no interaction with their parents. I can't say I would look back at my childhood with happiness if it had been spent bored in a pub. Are we creating a future generation of alcoholics perchance because they don't know about other leisure activities? God, even in Ireland where people love their drink its not seen as a terribly suitable activity to do with your children. There is nothing there for them to do and these kids will inevitably get bored and go stir crazy. I have seen kids in the gowlett using the a pub as an assault course regardless of other customers in the place. Secondly. Simple manners and consideration. Surely the pub is meant to be the one and only place to go and read your paper with a pint on a sunday afternoon, possibly being of the hair of the dog variety, in peace from either your own or others progeny? I know this has come about because of the smoking ban but folks it's still a pub, not a creche! I am not necessarily saying to ban kids from pubs completely but can we not have some kind of compromise? Say for example no children after 2pm, or only for a certain time limit? Large pubs like the Plough could have kids free zones? I'd go for that. It still doesnt address the issue of why they are in the pub in the first place but at least the manners and consideration to other patrons bit is covered.

my fella tried spice republic and he said it looked and tasted like the meat had been added after the sauce was made and it wasnt proper chicken, more like reconstitued stuff. He wasnt impressed at all and he isnt fussy. any other bad reports on spice republic?

Chavewivalawdegree, surely you cant be a chav and vote for the green party? That sounds exceedingly middleclass to me heheh. Do you buy organic chicken as well (my point being that if you can afford to buy chicken at twice the price then you have moved to middle class as I myself have ashamedly done) Anyway can I say I come from a very workingclass background but a lot of us are not chavs as I understand a chav, and I am not a chav. I do have some chav cousins but the majority are not whilst still being working class. I dont think chav means working class because that would be painting an entire group of people to being exactly alike and all wearing big gold jewellery, lots of burberry caps etc and being lairy. Chavs are more of their own wee subset? Could be wrong. I have mixed emotions about voting too, I totally feel nothing in common with public schoolboy toffs and feel they are so removed from the real world that I feel that there is no point in voting for them but also feel that if women were not allowed to vote I would be enraged so do drag myself along to vote because of that. How can we encourage "regular" people to go into politics?

"Does it need to be a cat / cat arrangement? I have dogs, am happy to enter into a mutual arrangement - no walking required just popping in and letting in the garden now and again if I am held up / out all day. I am in Goodrich. Where is goodrich? I am grand with dogs too. "tingawee - what area do you live? rough idea? we are lucky that we have cat friendly neighbours, but if you can get a cat owner in the nearby street that could be worth pursuing" I live at the top of lordship lane near barcelona tapas bar.

Pickle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We use a cat sitter when we go away - her name is > Tina and she charges ?6 a day (which is for 2 > visits) which is really reasonable compared to > other services I looked at. If you want further > info I'd be happy to PM you with her number. Id be interested in getting her number, thanks. But am still interested in a mutual arrangement as well. If someone lived close enough to me I wouldnt have a problem going around there. Or could keep the cat with me if it was for extended periods. I live at the top of LL, but if we worked out a network of who lived close to whom then I'm sure it could be done if there was enough interest. I will also try the extra food thing for short trips and see how that goes although that may be later as she is only a little thing (only 5weeks at the moment, havent got her yet).

We are going to get a kitten in the next few weeks. However we still like to go away for the odd weekend and holiday and dont fancy the cattery fee's so was thinking we could set up a group/contact list of a people who would keep each others cats at their place or go round and feed them depending on preference etc when ever people are away on hols. Or does something like this already exist in ED?

We moved to ED a couple of months ago and as we are members of streetcar car club, we were able to get a big volkswagen van for 50 quid for 24 hrs and did it ourselves at the time that suited us ie after work etc and it was fine. Although takes longer than if you have crew of guys. Definetly the cheapest option.

I definitely think a second hand bookshop with armchairs would make LL perfect and a Dylan Moran type in there would also be a bonus. Brixton is close by for clubs etc although taxi's are expensive even though it is, what 3 miles? This friday after drinks with ED forum me and me fella are heading to "jerk" at the whitehorse in brixton if anyone fancies it we can all share taxi's back to ED and be home in ten minutes as opposed the over an hour on a night bus from the centre.

Floating Onion Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > tinagwee, still trying to match up forum names, > real names & faces through the haze that was the > forum drinks. Oops. > > Didn't have a quiz team last Sunday, but should > have one this week if you guys are up for it. Will definetly be up for it sometime soon but am in belfast at the moment. Gotta remind the nephews of who I am! Will arrange it in september sure.

I like tingawee too! tina gwee comes from a family nickname coz in the town where I am originally from in Co Derry, there are so many mccloskey's that each family group is known by a nickname and we are the gwee's (its a verbal thing so there is no proper spelling) To answer dulwichmum, I am not on facebook. Am contemplating it but for many reasons have resisted so far. Thanks all for being so welcolming, see you at the next one tchau

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I've only lived in london for three years so still love it (and am always surprised that people hate it) and can't imagine leaving. So far I am loving east dulwich (in my whole 2 weeks of living here). Saying all that, I grew up in a rough part of Belfast, so London is great in comparison. Maybe in a few years when I have forgotten how great it is compared to Belfast, I will grow to hate it like everyone else. Though a few weeks back home would send me running back here I think. Its all relative.

Hiya's Me and my fella are new to the area and went to the drinks in the plough. Had a great night, thought everyone was really cool. Had talked about going to the pub quiz on sunday night in the magdala but we ended up painting the bedroom instead (yawn), sorry about that andrew. We will be definetly up for it other times though, and this sunday is a possibility if anyone else is up for it. tchau tina