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The speed limit is the maximum, so in effect this is the minimum speed that you have to drive. Very few cyclists can get up to 30mph, therefore it is best to ride on the pavement. The problem with pavements is the pedestrian. They have no rear view mirror, nor indicators (or will not make normal hand signals) and therefore do some very strange things such as suddenly stop without warning to check a text, or just cross the road without warning as they are listening to their i-pod or on the phone. There should of course be a walking test, a footpath code, and prosecutions for those who fail to obey it.

There has been a sense of humour failure I'm afraid. Tripping, Robbie Williams

What on earth has OFAH got to do with Peckham? Delboy has a vague SE English Accent. The only black bloke in there has a Scouse accent. Peckham in the 1980s and 90s would have had people from West Indian, West African, North African, Irish, the Indian Sub-continent extraction and no doubt a myriad of other ethnicicities living there. Now Eastern European as well. Desmonds reflected some of this very well. OFAH didn't. To make things even more amusing, the prequel thingy even managed to have an underground station in Peckham as well. Enjoy the sitcom by all means, talk about artistic licence, but do me a favour and please don't suggest that this reflects the people of Peckham over the last three decades. I would personall prefer to live in Walford, where you know you can go into the local/pub/cleaners and find a partner, job or local gangster, no one works in town, no one shops in Tescos, that apart from the occasional ethnic stereotype everyone is all knees up mother brown.

I dunno what this preoccupation with Only Fools and Horses. Yes a very amusing sitcom, but nothing to do with Peckham. Desmonds however was brilliant and I cycle past barbers that appear just like this.

Skatatlite of Love - Lou Reed (or various inferior covers)

Morning has Broken, traditional hymm/ Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)

Great article in the Grauniad today. Think it really should have been entitled let's move of Bellenden Road, the Rye or East Dulwich. One of the thing that makes Peckham is the great diversity, that also makes that the shops are far more interesting than most high streets. Yes I know that this has both good and down sides. Yet who did they find to talk about Peckham? Locals with such exotic names as Susie, Rosie and Sarah. [PS I am being ironic/sarcastic]

Change Link in Victoria chuffing brilliant www.change-link.co.uk For years I used holes in the wall when abroad, not realising that Barclays were fleecing me both on the exchange rate and commission. Watch out in the US, totally antiquated banking system and they will charge you to change money.

This thread has lost the plot. And have you ever wondered how you get triangles from a cow. Looked at my modern music to find that most of it is latter albumns, because my finger is no longer on the pulse. But two more - Billy Bragg, Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy and Wait for it Air Moon Safari Oh and if you are going to talk about the Cure, which is so dated (both the early 80s stuff and curent stuff) Siouxie and the Banshees, The Scream

Erasure-ish - Bjorn Again (well played the Aussies)

Actually not a bad list, and Damn someone has already got the Clash in but you can add the Damned whilst you are at it. I think this depends on longevity ie can you still play it years later - one that just seems to get better is Kate Bush the Kick Inside, it just seems to have extra dimensions. Soft Cell Non Stop Exotic Cabaret. Searching for the Young Soul Rebels, Dexys Magazine, Magazine (still blows your socks off) Joy Division, Warsaw (oh I am just being clever) Half Man Half Biscuit Back on the DHSS Buzzcocks Another Music in a Different Kitchen I'll come back with some more modern stuff!

Reminds me of a great Jonathan Ross interview on radio about two years ago, so tell me 'celeb' to you like any new music, like Primal Scream (only a quarter of a century old). Also most of these just lived on there off their one 'great' album, but fair play to Noel who quickly realised that most bands only have two great albums in them. To continue.

Ah good link Where's Captain Kirk - Spizz Energy (and I vaguely know the punkster)

The Lazy Song, Bruno Mars (video features Leonard Nimoy) Or Going down to Liverpool, the Bangles (video directed by, and cameoed in, Leonard Nimoy) Or The Tale of Bilbo Baggins, song by Leonard Nimoy Scraping the barrel here, but have to do something to cheer myself up

10538 Overture, ELO (OK a bit of lateral thinking) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC02EnshI5U

8 more bikes for sale, I am surprised the seller doesn't Google his number and find that this thread is the first hit.

Day by Day Generation X

The Goose is using it regularly for folkish gigs, including Friday: www.thegooseisout.com/events.html#wizzj USE IT (ps no connection with the Goose or the Ivy, but live music needs to be cherished, as do trad pubs

Some blokes jumped out at me the other day when I was driving topless down by the Gowlett (normally people actually say nice things). I got chased by some guys on bikes about ten years ago up by the estate near Champion Hill A Man City fan shouted at me to 'come back you bastard' in about 1982 30 years ago some Welsh teenagers tried to beat me up because I was an innocent 16 years old drinking in their pub. Is there any sort of pattern here?

Passed Traf Square today and had the fun of watching the Mayor and PM join in wheelchair tennis. Whilst I can make cheap shots at their expense until the cows come home, two questions: 1. Should they have at least taken their ties off, or probably put some sort of sports casuals on 2. Should they have sat in wheelchairs, as able bodied people often do, to experience what it is really like. A confident chuffer I knew was there and said that would have distracted from the two guys partnering them in wheelchairs. I am not knocking the event (launch of Paralympics) of course. 3. Or should I get a life?

Doom Bar is sweet and yucky and Sharps have just sold out to Coors. Coors in turn closed the Tetleys Brewery down in Leeds Which in turn is now brewed under license by Marstons, who do similar with Courage beer. Marstons is of course actually Wolverhampton and Dudlay brewray aks Banks's. The Watneys brewery became Budweiser (the bland US rubbish) which is now closing it to brew somewhere in Eastern Europe. It's all rubbish really. Even the 'craft' American beers we are now seeing are actually big brewers.

Moods for Moderns Elvis Costello

Shut it, you slaaaagggss

Youngs have sold out. Clear that when the shut the brewery down in Wandsworth 5 years ago the writing was on the wall. The pubs were quickly made-over after this. Such a shame as they had a good (if limited) business model, the pubs were cheap and well frequented. They have now ditched beer to concentrate on their pubs, ie make them even more flatpack by design. Not a lot of interest to you lager boys out there, and the gastropubs of Lordship Lane, but London has lost something dear.

Wooden it be luverly (Audrey Hepburn/Julie Andrews)