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I quite like P.O.P - their stuff is really good quality, although also on the pricey side.

It is an awful name. I think the stock is pretty uninspiring too, tbh. Have shopped there a few times in the past though out of convenience. Shame Soup Dragon was kicked out by their landlord - especially as the property has remained empty ever since.

They're not shutting their ED store are they? I like Il Mirto.

I thought a solarium was just another name for a tanning salon.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > El Pibe Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > *ahem* > > I read that in the first series, the "blue meth" > was made from sugar, and supplied by a local > confectioner. After the show finished, she > continued to make it, bagging it up and selling it > as memorabilia. I'm now sure that would stand up in court.

Even on a Saturday, you can get parked in East Dulwich if you're willing to walk 10 minutes. If you're not able to, then there are disabled bays.

Train to London Bridge also late and then held outside London Bridge.

Without proper enforcement, it's all just more pointless street clutter.

James Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So why is this line so much worse than others? Has > it been cursed by black magic? To be fair, services into London Bridge are screwed and the East London line has been extremely unreliable too. It's almost as though the regular above inflation fare hikes and huge public subsidies are being used to generate dividends for shareholders, rather than to provide a public service.

Thanks for this, I have responded. Really fed up with the rubbish (and worsening) public transport in SE London.

ed_pete Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Simon Carter do very nice cufflinks and they have > a shop in Crystal Palace. agree, I have some Simon Carter ones

Trio has finally opened on Bellenden Road.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I personally prefer Tesco to Sainsburys because they > don't pretend to be anything other than a big > supermarket. What / how does Sainsburys pretend not to be a supermarket?

Henry_17 - what I meant was that it's not as simple as implied, when someone says - 'build more houses, it's just supply and demand'. That implies that the only solutions are supply side ones and also that there is an easily reached point of finite demand (there is at some point, but we're not dealing simply with a domestic 'homes' market). The fact is that the huge increases in property prices are not only the result of increased population. Policies have been implemented which have been aimed at increasing prices by encouraging speculation. I don't think it's at all likely (or necessarily desirable) that we will be able to build the number of properties necessary to satisfy the latent demand in the international, property speculation market - certainly not to the extent where it would make a significant impact on affordability for the average low paid worker in London. It is also true that there are different models of supply. There is a big difference between the building of 1 bedroom luxury flats and the creation of good quality, socially rented properties, or secure, long term rental contracts in the private sector. So I would invest in the 'right kind' of supply, and pursue policies which target the 'wrong kind' of demand. Use the taxation system to discourage people building up huge property portfolios and restrict the number of overseas speculators. So yes, I guess I misspoke, but what I was getting at is building 'luxury flats' everywhere, whilst selling off social housing, ignoring 'affordable housing' quotas and marketing new builds in Singapore and Malaysia is unlikely to help the barista who was mentioned.

I can't believe how much people spend on cufflinks. I loose mine too regularly to want to spend that much. Agree with what's been said though. Keep them fairly simply.

I think it's fair enough using a forum like this to recruit participants. How's it lazy? Also, DaveR 's question is a fair one. It is just a question after all. This is a forum - people converse innit.

... the pooled tears of hundreds of late commuters perhaps?

Do you remember 'The Word' had a section called "I'll do anything to get on TV"? That.

Quids, you're being a bit patronising to be honest. The fact is that there are a lot of reasons why property prices have soared over the last few decades and they're far more complicated than just supply and demand. Of course, the population of London has increased and supply has not kept pace - but that is not the whole story.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > NIMBY city - we've got a fooking housin shortage > in case people hadn't noticed We have a housing affordability problem.

Commercial property is constantly being labelled as 'no longer viable' and then converted to flats. The thing about the viability of a business is that it is highly dependent on the rent being asked for the property it leases. If there wasn't any prospect of change of use being granted, then the market would find the right price for a commercial unit, the point at which the business would be viable. The truth is that there is significantly more money in residential property. During a recession say, many businesses may find that they are 'no longer viable'... but that's not to say that 5 years on a similar one may well be. But once a commercial property has passed over into 'private residential' it is rarely going to travel back the other way again. What this means in practice, is that over time, we get lower and lower amenity to housing ratios. Amenity ends up reflecting demand as it was during it's lowest level in any given area. The reduction in the number of cheap commercial properties is a barrier to entrepreneurism. It's leads to clone high streets, lack of creativity, lack of dynamism and an unbalanced economy. Councils can't bear for there to be boarded up shops or offices (and property speculators play on this), but sometimes leaving a property empty can be preferable than loosing it's commercial potential for ever.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > McDonalds is what it is. Processed food. But I'd > rather eat this stuff which confirms to all sorts > of regulations than something processed from a > back street take away that has a food hygiene > rating of 0. > > Louisa. Yep, exactly this. With the ubiquity of somewhere like MacDonalds comes a high level of scrutiny. They probably have higher standards than a lot of places. Still processed junk though.

Yes, it's being turned into flat unfortunately. It's a shame.

I was surprised that all their meat comes from Britain and conforms to the 'Freedom Food' standards.

My daughter's reception class has a different topic which they focus on each term. The current one is 'superheroes'. I asked her what she had learnt and she said - "superheroes run around the streets in their underwear". :-)