dulwichmum

Dear Dany, Clearly, one can do that too!

Dear Mockney, I know, I don't know what came over me! I fancied a bit of controvercy about something other than whether ED is better now or not, and I became mildly hysterical. Perhaps these shoes are cutting off the circulation to my brain, and I have a low blood sugar too. Is Primark really a bad plan? I shall never go there again. That is dreadful. I think I subcosciously knew that, but I have been too exhausted for it to register properly. It's back to the Boden catalogue for me. Ho hum.

Dear All_star, NEVER venture as far as Peckham. Yes, there is a Primark, but that is not enough. 'Bellenden Experiment' my eye. Just because the folk from Living ETC Magazine bought houses up there and installed lots of sheet glass in their homes, it does not make it a fit environment in which to live, shop or eat 'bruch'. Oh yes, lets go to Peckham and buy ourselves some bush meat, vegetables that look like they have been harvested on mars and strange looking dried fish - why don't we. And we can have our throats cut and get ripped off while we are there. A great family day out. Hurrah!

Dear Bob, Yes the service is not what it could be. If you are expecting them to ring your bell and help you remove it from your kitchen, you are out of luck sweetie. Get yourself an au pair, she will wheel it out to your garden gate and everything!

Dear Spadetownboy, Hambledon Court, a blast from the past!

They did film 'Londons Burning' all around Forest Hill. I remember they used to block off the roads, and they have made a dreadful ad. for e-sure or some insurance in Dulwich Park near the coffee shop recently. Oh the heady excess of it all!

Dear Mr Batdog and Mr Huguenot, This is all very dark - obviously you need to be married, and this talk of the Marquis de Sade (it wouldn't be a Catholic wedding you are going to Huguenot, would it?) Wash your mouth out young men. You should be ashamed of yourselves. The next thing we know you will be justifying the use of contraception, and then poor East Dulwich will be on the turn for sure. (Did I spell contraception correctly Fr O'Oconnor?)

Dear Red_cat, I was just wondering, "3.The area has attracted a rather undesirable type of snob;" Do you consider therefor some types of snob to be more "desirable" than others?

Dear Mr Batdog, I thought that you said you were not a married dog? How would you possibly know about the pleasures of the flesh? You have shocked me now!

Gosh, you are a cheerful lot!

Er, what are DINKIES?

Yes, come back Louisa! We can appreciate your point of view too.

CrystalClear - you have returned! Where have you been?

Yes, before Mr Nesbitt cleared off to live in a capacious mansion in Herne Hill - having first secured places for his little ones in the Dulwich Village Infants from his old address.

Dear Louisa, I genuinely value your point of view, but in seriousness, I used to drink in The Lord Palmerston about twenty years ago when I was a student. I even spent several New Years Eve's there, as my friend Sarah used to love it. It was always empty, and there was never anyone playing a musical instrument. There was plenty of evidence that LL had once been a thriving retail area, but it was a ghost town then. I think that it has improved hugely from then. We have all changed. My husband would not have recognised me in my student attire with a pint glass in my hand (please don't tell him, he thinks I have always been a 'lady' and preferred white wine). We all mature and change.

I wonder when exactly it was that these lovely singing locals were congregating around these piano's? I remember the old Lord Palmerston, and it is vastly improved, as has The Forresters Arms, and the EDT. I also remember a local from East Dulwich telling me about twenty years ago, that the Old St Francis Hospital (near East Dulwich train station, pulled down now) used to be a work house. I think that things have undeniably improved for East Dulwich.

Dear Louisa, I know a little about the Village and I think you are being rather harsh. East Dulwich is a cosmopolitan and lively townlet. I don't remember it being 'lively' when it was more working class. There was a 7/11, The Lord Palmerston, Walshes the Glaziers, and lots and lots boarded up shops and tumble weed blowing down the street! Dulwich Village has a selection of estate agents (4), branches of Pizza Express and Bella Pasta (or whatever they call it now) a branch of the Dulwich Trader, a branch of Question Air, and a branch of Sheppards - and is probably as typical as any other upmarket London village. I love the Village (SE21 is my home), but I love East Dulwich too. It has real character (as has the Village), and it is a lively alternative to its more sedate neighbour.:)

Dear Tom, Speak for yourself! I am physically perfect (at the moment) - although I plan to re-kindle my relationship with Sainsbury's triple chocolate ('chocolate bottoms' I prefer to call them) cookies as soon as I have my gall stones zapped.

I would imagine so Mr Batdog, because you would have to buy two pairs of everything you fancied, as you have four legs - being a dog!

Are you implying that East Dulwich is populated by a crowd of fattypuffs?

Gosh, Mr Mockney Piers, whatever have you been smoking? "the bathroom was the size of a newborn tortoise" That is the most wonderful description - I can feel a blog coming on......

I wish I had joined you now. It sounds like you had a great time. I would love to put faces to the names, and I know James too is more than keen to meet Batdog. Sadly though, our au-pair was out for the evening and we had no-one to watch Max and Freya.

Ha, ha, ha!

Hurrah! I shall worship there too, although Burberry is so last year!

Boys, boys, boys, you are so superficial, the lot of you. I love the local churches, and frequent the lot of them. I would hate Father O'Connor to find out I was hanging out with the protestants, so I go to him at St. Thomas Moore, and I love and respect the vicar Diana at St Barnabus - so I am to be found there too. I worship enough for the lot of you - so worry not, I have covered all the bases, and will get us all into heaven!