Dulwich Born And Bred

I have to admit hands on heart that out of all the pubs in Dulwich, I really love the plough, I love the decor, and the intimate feel!

Does anyone have the number for the delivery office on silvester road as I am expecting some shoes, my mother is always in, no one has knocked on the door or left a calling card so the company advised me to phone the sorting office and ask if they are holding my parcel. Bloody annoying!

LOL!!! I have never woken up in someone's house, broke down crying, danced on the bar or anything like that! For some reason when I start getting drunk, my first instinct is to go home, drink a pint of water, pop a painkiller and go to bed! My body/mind does not let me get to the point where I black out, flash body parts and the rest. The only time I have blacked out was when I was about 19 and I had a drinking competition with my brother's friend at my house, he declared that girls cannot hold their drinks like men, so egged on by friends and family, we both drank straight brandy, rum, wine, baileys, vodka, gin, wine etc....and eventually he dropped, and then I blacked out, but made it upstairs to my bed and woke up with vomit...my own of course...I am sure I had the shakes for a month after that.....ewwww! It has been captured on camcorder also But that was the one and only time I have ever blacked out and that was in the name of a competition which I won!!

I love alcohol but I am no alcoholic. I only drink if i am out at a pub, party, wedding etc which is not often or if I am having a feast at someone's house or my house. I most certainly do not drink every day or every weekend, i can go weeks without a drink but at the same time I can drink every weekend if there are non stop social gatherings. I was brought up on booze when I was a kid, my parents and grandparents always gave me a sip of rum or wine with my meal when I was a kid in order to get me used to booze and to build up an immunity to it as a result I have never got drunk out in public, flashed my boobs, or done a full moon. I know my limit and I rarely go over it, I conduct myself very well in public and I have outdrank many people who thinks a wee thing like me could not hold her drink! I think with the Brits we tend not to drink with our meals, we go to the pub and we have just up until 11pm to drink, hence the bingeing culture, whereas with our counterparts in Europe they drink with their meals, and they have ample time to enjoy a drink. The bingeing culture is NOT new so don't let them fool you, we have ALWAYS been known as louts, look at very old texts and stories from hundreds of years ago and they talk about us drunken brits! I guess it is in our genes...well not mine since i am mixed and I can handle my booze!

I have uncanny timing, I will press the button and it will still be red and the road will suddenly clear...thereby I am left with a dilemma...shall i wait for it to turn to the green man even though the road is clear? or should I cross though it is a red man and a clear road? if I have kids I will wait until it is green since I am teaching them the green cross code but if I am by myself I will dart across the road. To be fair the green cross man is only on for about 3 seconds before it turns red again so who cares??

I joined ESPH, and I didn't really rate it, my sister joined with me, I didn't think the assessment was worth it either. My sister was told she had flat footed and was told to buy an insert to help correct it, so she did, but she does not suffer from flat foot because she checked it out! I then said to my personal instructor that my sister was told she is flat footed , she then said to me ( and that was a week AFTER my assessment with her) "Oh, you are slightly flat footed too so you should buy the inserts also" naturally I didn't because she didn't mention anything about it at the time, she only mentioned it when I informed her about my sister. The instructors ARE helpful and extremely friendly, but we still went on the machines and did what we wanted, I certainly did not feel like I was being supervised to ensure I was doing it correctly, though if I had asked for advice no doubt they would help me, but I find Government gyms and gyms such as LA fitness will offer advice if you ask also. I didn't try the classes out in ESPH because they did not appeal to me. my sister and I have now renewed our membership with fusion and we are loving it! We go 4 times a week, the classes though packed are great fun and the machines does the job for me. Different strokes for different folks!

Bye Bye Mr Patel!! I always used to pop to that shop after school ( Waverley) when I was a wee little girl to buy some crisps and a drink. I hope they have a lovely retirement chilling out and doing things they couldn't find time for since running a shop takes over your life.

gerritsmith you will find MANY people have brought homes in Turkey, it is a beautiful country. And I ditto what Polly says, this Government is no better, all Governments are for themselves. Plus she didn't ask you what your opinion on Turkey was. Polly, I have been to Turkey many times, it is a gorgeous country and there is a huge British Community out there. Which part of Turkey does your mum have her villa in and any photos?

Lots of people have no idea what the toilet brush is for and that goes for both sexes. I remember when I flatshared with a best mate, she was nasty, I actually had to leave a note for her and tell her that the toilet cleaner and toilet brush was there for a reason!!

I have never ever had a problem with taxis or black cabs dropping me to Dulwich!

Quite disappointing really, an empty bar next to the restuarant, at least the bar was empty when I went there. Does anyone know if I can sue them for advertising Lahmacun on their windows but not actually selling it? I love Lahmacun and pide ( Pide is a Kind of Turkish Pizza and Lahmacun is like tortilla with meat, salad etc ) I was so excited that i went there with friends, and they stated they do not sell or make it anymore. Hmmm misleading!!

I noticed him when I was on the bus, he is rather dishy too! Is he connected with Moxon/Moxtons? or whatever they are called since they sell sticks of bread, cheese etc outside?

Oh gosh, I have Bebo too!:-$

PS Is Cafe Nero named after you Nero?

I have facebook and I am quite addicted. Sorry, it keeps me amused when I am at work and the little one is napping and I take over my bosses apple mac and trace family in far off places and stalk old work mates and ex boyfriends. Beside everyone likes to be a vampire!

Ah Seany Seany Sean!! I would never go into competition with Dulwichmum, there is no contest, She is DULWICHMUM and I am a mere Mary Poppins. Oh that naughty step, well, sometimes the parents are in need of a firm hand more so than the kids, and the naughty step does need to be enforced. Especially when parents do not practise what they preach ( i.e 'please do not give Alexander any chocolate or his dummy' and you catch said parent bribing their kids with chocolates and their dummy after spending all day dealing with their tantrums whilst weaning them off chocolates/dummy) As for Jo Brand, she is most delightful! She was awfully good on Junior Jackanory! Now come on, an au pair doesn't compare and I bet the au pair kept the TV on and let the kids watch 'in the night garden' and other mind numbing programmes on cbeebies whilst she phones Poland and weeps down the phone about how she has to iron her bosses underpants which is not what she is paid for!

I was actually gobsmacked to read some of them shop at ASDA!!! ASDA!!! I mean how cheap are they? Only Ocado/Waitrose for me and Sainsbury's if I am desperate these days! As for Camberwell? oh gosh....I avoid that area at all cost....Peckham and Camberwell are the Bronx of South East London. dulwichmum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I tried stirring it up that but they almost > swallowed their teeth. I don't know who posts on > that forum, but they all claim to shop in Lidl and > adore being shot at in Norwood and mugged in Gipsy > Hill. I don't get the impression they are > representative of West Dulwich at all...(sigh). > We really are extremely posh you know.

Ahhh Those West Dulwich Lot are just haters!!;-)

Ahh DulwichMum, Have you considered a good old home grown British Nanny? we can be quite good you know! We don't get homesick, and we can cook good old British grubs and there is no need for broken down English. Plus the kids don't take the mick out of our accents. We do require more than ?70 a week sadly! Only because this country is so bloody expensive and we quite like shopping in white stuff and going to EDT for lunch and a glass of wine! The kids rather enjoy it too! The lunch...not the wine (gulp)

Excellent!!>:D My munchkins are at a private school in Dulwich > and since September they have both come home with > notes warning of scabies, impetigo, head lice, > diarrhoea, mumps, chicken pox, verrucas and worms. > I have a good mind to wrap my poppets in cling > film and forcing them to wear surgical masks > before dropping them off each morning. I would > love to disagree with HeidiHi about the rampant > prevalence of these infections but I can't. > > I blame the au pairs. They are clearly bringing > these infestations into the country from lesser > developed countries, and should be boiled in oil, > scrubbed with nail brushes, and have their luggage > set on fire as soon as they touch down in Luton > Airport.

My sister had her first baby in Kings College, she got her own room, she was released from hospital the next day and the staff were pretty good regarding the birth, gave her lots of attention. However she was left for ages without food or drink, they didn't even tell her that there was a college machine outside that she could use for free so she was sat in her bed for hours wondering when she was going to get a drink and the bathroom was not clean, my mother actually turned up with cleaning products and cleaned the bathroom so my sister could wash. St Thomas, my sister was neglected there, the staff were rude and not helpful she was supposed to be released within ex amount of time but was kept waiting for no particulary reason for hours and hours until my mother demanded to see the head person and my sister was released. Both had good and bad points, it all depends on the staff, what mood they are in, how busy they are and so forth. My sister would like to go private next time! So no help here!:)

I pass his little forecourt every week on my way to sing and sign and I find it awfully amusing, a little enclosed space! I have never seen anyone enter that shop either, I find it bizarre like that Ravlon Shop and the arcade....

My mum gives to both, Mind doesn't seems to take anything to do with kids, like toys. Where St Christopher takes everything but we have yet to see any of our stuff on their shelves! Now my mum just go to Sainsbury's and use their clothes recycling bins.

For the record I got headlices when I was at school also and we are very clean, ( I am not dumb, I do know nits are not about how clean or dirty you are!) I never had worms but then my mother has always taught me to wash my hands after the going to the ladies, before handling food, to wipe down the toilet flush and so on. BUT a few of my nanny friends have been popping quite a few worming tablets simply because their charges and their employers are not cleaning the loo seats, washing their hands after the loo, or before touching food and work surfaces so naturally it just keeps doing the rounds all the time. There is actually a book about the rise and fall of a Yummy Mummy who actually echoes my sentiments about the rich not feeling they have to be terribly clean and living as if they are poor ( wearing ripped grubby clothes etc) but again, we all based things on our experiences, what we are exposed to and what we see. You and I obviously move in completely different circles despite living in the same area. C'est la vie!

Ohh for goodness sake! This thread about is about someone on the West Dulwich Site Mocking us on the East Dulwich Site, So I returned the favour by mocking the West Dulwich lot! Hence being Crass! After all us East Dulwich lot are working class people wandering about with buggies and pretending to be so far up our backsides. Also you are not reading my post properly as I never said I didn't check their feet! nor did I say EVERY SINGLE kid there has it! I said the AMOUNT of kids in the village with said ailments is shocking! and it is TRUE! And if THAT makes me a SNOB then I am not going to apologise for that. Regarding kids and teenagers getting these types of ailments is correct, hence why I stated tongue in cheek that they were too 'posh' to do anything about it! Like making their kids wear protective socks, or ensuring they wash their hands after toilets and before handling food. I have been a nanny in quite a few households in the village, and have nanny friends in the village and it is a battle to instil simple things like hand washing when their parents do not enforce it or do it themselves (well they can't if the kids are looking at us blankly and asking 'why'? when we tell them to wash their hands) Nor it is good when a nanny is stating that the kids cannot partake in their swimming lessons because of said kid having a verruca and the parents of said kid/kids states whilst waving their hand in the air " Oh it doesnt matter" yes it does! I remember in my school days we could not ENTER the swimming pool if we had any signs of infections on our feet. Do you live in the Village??