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Anything by Tony Parsons. Lovely Bones

Confederacy of Dunces- John Kennedy Toole Barnaby Rudge- Charles Dickens

Apparently there was a gang of youths who crashed a party at the Constitutional Centre on East Dulwich Grove and it all kicked off. Quite scarey by all accounts. Police called and all the kids at the party had to stay in the Centre until picked up by an adult.

Please not Michael Maloney- ever since he hopped along the South Bank in Truly Madly Deeply I can't bear to watch him !

Mr Patel (for it is he) is at LL chemist for 3 months.

........and thank you to the stray Arsenal and Chelsea fans who were very kind to us woebegon Leeds supporters at the end of the game yesterday in the CPT...... ........and thank you for the message of support from my Hereford Utd friend, apparently we'll be playing them next season.... ps Doncaster played much better and deserved to win

Come on Leeds !!! CPT showing Leeds game. See any Leeds fans there ????? (Or Doncaster for that matter........)

Marching on together........ Yay...... Leeds are in the play off final !!!!

We went there last Sunday and a very helpful resident pointed out that parking is free on the left side of Hackney Road (as you go north) but you have to pay (loads ) on the right hand side. She moved her car so we could park ! How lovely was that?

I meant to delete that post but my finger slipped ! Sounded a bit churlish. It just made us laugh (at her expense of course). ps second child going there this Sept and looking forward to it very much. Local friends , fantastic .

My daughter got a detention for being 2 minutes late for school on her birthday -first time she's ever been late. When she got home there was a birthday card from the school

How about a good old spider plant ?

I LOVE Gary McAllister. Him and Gary Speed. Good luck Gary. Let's start by stuffing Southend tonight Shall we start the Dennis Wise/Dave Bassett backlash ???

Then they have to learn to negociate.

Forgot to say- my mum works in a charity shop up north and if they get anything they think may be worth a decent amount of money they send the item to the head office and it goes on e bay and then more money made for said charity. Maybe that happens round here too.

Give them a break. I can't bear the tone of some of this thread. I personally am not bothered if the staff take home a few bits and pieces that people are chucking out. They are volunteers in the main . Good luck to them and thanks for giving up their time which most people reading these posts would never be unselfish enough to do. Just give money directly to St Christopher's Hospice if you feel the charity is being hard done to. I bet we all know someone who has been treated there.

Nero - I am not stalking you (honestly) but by strange coincidence I was parked outside-ish yr house waiting for my daughter to come out of school last night. A young woman was pushing a double buggy along with twins in and went inside with the house. I may be wrong but I got the impression that they were a lot lot younger than three. Maybe wrong house altogether. Maybe wrong twins altogether. Or maybe it feels like they've been there for 3 years because of all the racket but actually they are only 18 months /2 ??? Any thoughts? ps I know Edori which is why I know(ish) where you live !

Henry- please let us know if you hear if they've been caught. I am feeling very angry on behalf of all of our innocent families/friends who are being victimized in this way.

Well as it happens I know the mother of one of the victims from the previous mugging mentioned so I will of course talk to her. Thanks for keepig a look out everyone.

Two older teenage girls followed two 13/14 year olds from the 176 bus at the stop by the co-op chemist on Lordship Lane tonight. They went along LL and up Hansler Road to a house opposite Dell Autos. They prevented the two younger girls from going into the house and threatened them with a shoe, being hit and demanded their phones. The two younger girls saw a woman in a red and white coat nearby and asked for help. She started to come over,and one of the attackers thumped one of the younger girls full in the face twice before running off down to Lordship Lane. The police came straight away and are taking this very seriously. Did anyone see/hear anything??? Are you the Good Samaritan in the red coat who helped chase off these pathetic cowards ? (THANK YOU ) If you have any info please send me a pm. One of the victims was my daughter. These 2 attackers had been causing trouble on the bus. Hopefully the CCTV was switched on. Descripton- 1 black girl, medium height. 1 mixed race girl taller wearing dark blue track suit with pink stripes and a light blue comb in her hair. We must look after each other round here.Please don't look the other way if you see children in trouble.Thank you.

Amanda- go and talk to Jane who works in the garden at Gumboots Nursery on Crystal Palace Road. They had chickens there for quite a while before foxes / bird flu scares/vandals took their toll. She knows a lot and talks a lot of sense. Good luck !

Or recycle last years cards and send them !

Not directly on topic (but the owners currently live in East Dulwich and have done for years) Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace is a fantastic independent bookshop-lovely staff and extremly knowledgeable. Try them if you are up that way ,or even if you are not go and try them anyway.

Yes it is- there's a whole piece on Lorenzo's oil on the ALD website www.aldlife.org/

Sorry - website is www.aldlife.org/