malumbu

Get a cab or early train to Stratford and jump on the bus. It is a bit scuzzy but will be fairly quick at that time.

Sorry wasn't meaning to sound disrespectful. He shoujld be as much remembered for his equal rights campaigning as his sporting ability. Media coverage is already suggesting this, and hope that everyone under 30 will now understand the importance in this respect.

Has he? Didn't notice. Please be a little more imaginative with the title eg - sad news or celbrating the life of a great man

Ivy is a relatively unspoiled mid 20th century pub with a stage. It's lost it's billiad tables, and needs the fourth bar reinstating. Most of the interior is still the same, and most importantly it has full height urinals. It has been rebuilt and remodelled many times no doubt. It's even lost its original name. It is not a Dickensian coaching inn, early Vicotorian, high Victorian, Gin Palace, Edwardian, back room with a hatch, etc etc boozer. But what is not traditional? Oh it isn't frequented by middle aged men desparate to get away from the missis, it has too many beers, it certainly has too many fancy beers, it doesn't do pickled eggs etc etc. But my view of an earlier 70s pub clientele wouldn't be very successful today. You are welcome to your SE22 pubs. Good luck.

Three pubs that did good business and were in prime locations - the Rye Hotel, the Dulwich Woodhouse, The Greyhound. But the powers that be decided they could do even more business by becoming restaurants/hotels. And two of them changing names. There is sweet FA to include value to the community. Too late in ED. Thank fac the last lot came up with ACVs. The Big Society thing is a sham (either it was happening already or it woudl never happen). But let's recognise some good things that came out of it. Irony that the Ivy was asved by a mainly group of middle aged people who recognised its value but in part no doubt to keep afloat it attracts hipsters from miles around. Good timing though looking at the rate of gentrification. My fave pub in central London, the Speaker, has a sign up saying if you are on your phone you wont get served. Nice one. http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/18/1898/Speaker/Westminster

We've reflected on 66 and 70 and there is plenty of stuff on 96 at the moment. Spare a thought for 73-74 where sadly it was two famous stalwarts - Bobby Moore and Peter Shilton, who got us kicked out (although some would argue it was the 0-0 against Wales). Good footage here on the two Poland matches (one follows on automatically) England being kicked out was unbelievable to me as a 12 year old.

As I regularly point out you have to go elsewhere for a trad boozer - Blythe or Ivy. In this respect East Dulwich is a desert. You can also try the Chandos in Honor Oak if you want an old school pub with TV, lager and stares. The General Napier could be like the Chandos, but could be like the Blythe, and doesn't know which way to go. The Foresters aka All in One is reasonable as well and has some lovely architecture being a 1940s pub bolted onto a Victorian one. Chandos definitely ticks the boxes for edgy.

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > SE23 exile makes a good point. But he also, > inadvertently, demonstrates the weakness of this > site. > > To start with the subject matter. I similarly used > to post on SE23 but gave up due to the draconian > controls. Posts being delayed, amended, or just > not put on at all. Threads being moved to the 4 > O'clock in the morning slot, where no one will > ever read them. New threads being started from an > existing discussion by the webmaster, and killing > a conversation dead. The forum appears to be run > as a personal Fiefdom by someone who does not > understand (or have any) sense of humour or fun. > And is not open to any challenge either via the > site or by personal communication. This is > therefore not a community thread > > The has led to a turgid and unimaginative site, > obsessed by train times and house prices, and > dominated by a few individuals with too much time > on their hands. Most of the creativity of a few > years ago appears to have gone. I guess from my > knowledge exile you may be Baboonery, Bigbadwoolf > or Toffee Jim. > > Now this forum is in deed much more exciting. But > too often you go off track into banal and/or > juvenille discussions totally off thread. Witness > this above as you go quickly off thread. > Censorship (as with SE23.com) is out of order, but > I don't know why you lot act so childish at times > (queue a new thread). And from the disrespect to > women there seem to be a lot of Liam Gallagher > disciples out there. > > Perhaps the Sydehham Town Forum has got the right > balacne between moderation and free speach. I was really impressed with the above posting and even more surprised that it was from me. Sadly six years later you lot still go off thread so quickly, as I am doing here. Good post though Malumbu

Best Guinness is of course in the Blythe. I used to prefer Murphys but aint seen that for years. But neither are proper ales and there were plenty of porters and proper stouts around before everything was rebranded as craft ale bollox. So back to my history Snake bite was generally drunk when the ale was bad. Funny how horrid larger and horrid cider could taste ok together. Ditto for poor man's black velvet - Guinness and cider aka diesel. Horrified when I first came to London and they tried to put blackcurrant into my snake bite (even worse, pernod - 'purple nasty'). They also used to serve larger and blackcurrant when I was a kid (as well as larger and lime) so sod anyone who thinks alcopopos are a recent thing. Most pubs wouldn't do the latter as it discoloured the slops that went back into the dark mild cask. We used to serve 'mixed' (bitter and dark mild), Micky Mouse (larger and bitter) and Donald Duck (larger and mild). Not heard of those for ages. when I was more of a boozer and tried to max out on free drinks when they were then provided on short haul flights I used to ask for Baileys ane brandy (and perhaps Tia Maria?). Briefly also tried Special Brew and barley wine. Good heavens. Not exactly the world/league of Ollie Reed and Richard Harris though.

All this reminds me of a motorbike accident in Jersey in 1982. A Riley Elf turned right across me and over the handlebars I went. What's a Riley Elf I hear many of you say. Well there was also a Wolsley Hornet. http://www.classicandsportscar.ltd.uk/Wolseley-in-our-showroom Great days when BL kept some of their old brands for more exotic versiiion of their range - in this case a couuple of odd looking minis. Shame BMW couldn't do anything more exotic with the new mini. Second car was a Dodge Avenger. A Hilman Avenger with a Dodge badge on it. Never found out why it had a Dodge badge on it (Dodge and Hillman then being in the Chrysler empire - it wasn't a South African model as they were made out there)

Caroline is great. She has a similar name to my sister (Carolyn vs Caroline). Not a fan of Mike at Ryanair, but at last he has realised that customer satisfaction is a good thing.

I've been watching footy for almost 45 years. Leicester fans were always a bit dodgy, but not sure about their relationship with Sunderland. I expect by the finishes of both teams at the top and bottom of the Prem they's just have a celebration rather than any punch up

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The best song about football ever. > > Good local boys who support the Palace. Let that be a lesson to you all glory hunters. (I Ludicrous, who I sort of know through a couple of degrees of separation)

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > [Monkeys] Wow! There was a nice surprise

Wolseley - now we are talking (although in my dad had one of those) So onto dad - First car I remember was a Khaki Morris 1800 (aka land crab) - there was an Morris Oxford before that but I only recall that in photos Followed by a Wolseley 16/60 - auto gearbox always going wrong and car flooding on starting Then another 1800 - green Austin Followed by ..... a flame Austin Allegro. All down hill for Leyland then. I quite liked its quirkyness but of course it was rubbish - failed clutches, failed engine, overheating, soft suspension and body rot. But great square steering wheel

Salsaboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh bloody hell - I had a Morris Marina as a first > car when I was 18. *Hangs head in shame* Totally underated car. Very simple if sligtly agriculutral. If it could have broken the Cortina's monopoly on the company car who knows how successful it could have been. So it is 1987. My mate has an 1800 green metalic coupe. Some one pulls out of a side road into him. Mate says insurance details please. Scally says 'no insurance wack' (It was genuinely Liverpool). Mate says either we call the police or you pay me the value of the car (maybe ?500 on a good day). Scally says OK I'll pay. ?1000? No ?950. Deal. And mate gets the cash a few days later, expecting a cosh over the head not cash in his hand. Malumbu gets the car for ?50. A few trips to the scrap yard, some paint from Halfords and bobs your uncle. Sadly three years later another mate ploughs it into the back of a pile up on the M1. 8 other cars drive away, one dead Marina. Fine car.

Wowsy - any of us brave enough to try this? I've now started to use Skycanner and there are some alternatives during busy times which work if you are prepared to add a few hours onto your journey. Also like this one Use the Easyjet refund trick to get the difference if the price drops after you've booked.If you've booked a flight with Easyjet, check the price afterwards to see if it drops. The airline's little-known price promise guarantees that if you do find the same flight for less after booking, you'll get the difference back as a credit voucher. You'll need to have booked direct though and you won?t get the difference back if the lower price you?ve found is a sale price.

Mate tells me you can book one of the business flexible tickets and then move flight times/days to a period of high demand ie when all flights cost far more. Is this a runner; I am worried that this has let the cat out of the bag and we will all do it. Eg - ecnomy flight to the sun at Xmas = ?400 Premimum flight the week before = ?200

What the first one? Reliant, Messerschmitt , Bond car? Austin 1100 BTW and motorbike was a single cylinder 2 stroke Yamaha RS125 (almost bought an MZ150). ?225 for the car, ?150 for the bike.

Kin hell Louisa Do you even stop. There are excellent food hygiene and traceability regulations that stop people becoming ill and dying. It's a balance between allowing freedom of choice and protecting our population but do you see one good thing about the EU? The reason that most of our food is shite is that as a nation we prefer to buy uniform unripe or uninteresting food from the supermarkets at the lowest cost. Well done German outlets for bringing in some change. Go to many EU countries and food and catering are much better, something we can learn from. And regional too. Mind you it was no doubt the EU that shut down the Moor Park Hotel

I sat in the family enclosure at Goodison once. It was a pain az the kids just fidgeted. They'd be on their i pads now of oourse

There is a stat on commuters using the cable car - 40 or something like that What 40,000 No 40 hundred No 40 Some daft vanity projects. Ken had some too. Bendy buses dropped due to revenue - they were nice to sit in but shite to cycle past

Some points (1) That writes off all the young men in East Dulwich re getting a job (2) SOTV (3) is this Brexit related as I see Louisa posted? No doubt the EU outlaws fun (4) SOTV tonight (5) If you don't like William Rose (I don't eat meat so have no interest) come up the road to Libretto and daughters by the Moor Park Hotel, and also admire his motors Review from the Indie Good meat well met My local butcher's, K Libretto and Daughters, is an acquired taste. The man with the cleaver, Kim, refuses to join the 21st century by insisting that his customers pay by cash or cheque ? he doesn't take cards. The d?cor dates from the 1970s, and he doesn't take on any extra staff, it's just him in an apron. But in return he makes each customer feel special by talking to them at length while he serves them (you have to set aside 45 minutes for a normal weekday visit) and he supplies, arguably, the best meat in London. So when I turned up at 8am on Christmas Eve to pick up our turkey order, I spent a chilly hour and a half in a long queue of loyal customers devoted to this very retro butcher. Yet the line was full of people reading Kindles, looking at iPads or tweeting from their BlackBerrys. This is the British Christmas experience of today: we want the authenticity of a traditional butcher, but we need 21st century technology to help us get through it.

Well you have to travel out of borough for a good Italian (Sydenham) and now they have trumped you again. Damned independent non-hipster restaurants. http://www.happycow.net/reviews/the-calabash-of-culture-south-east-london-48450

Oaxaca, sorry Wahaca, aint a South American restaurant, it is a British version of what we think is Mexcan food. If you go dowh Brixton Market there are a few Mexican inspired places that are better. There is an odd Colombian canteen off Black PRince Road, but not a lot of help if I don't know the name.