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Can come but can't drink:(

First law of economics, supply and demand. This is a very small country with a very large population with most of the serious economic activity concentrated in London and the South East. I could hardly agree more that, at the moment, supply exceeds demand. All I am saying is that this situation could, and is more likely in the UK than almost more than anywhere else in the world at the moment, to change surprisingly quickly. It may not be the bottom of the market yet, but the fact is that we enjoy some excellent housing stock in ED which in recent years has been improved and restored and, with all the other amenity values of the area, schools, transport restaurants etc etc, should be in high demand when some confidence returns. Even if the septics (not sceptics) bugger up the banking system. As for those bankers, greedy bastards, eh?

Does anyone still believe anything in the Daily Mail (Evening Standard being part of the same group I think)??? Just to quote benmorg "the thrust of your argument as you seem to be saying there is so much uncertainty that a rise in prices is as likely as a fall, i.e. the market could swing either way with equal probability." er, yeah, thats what I think. The market could be complete crap, could be a blinder. Hence saying extreme caution is how you go ahead. But, and it really does kill me to say this as I can't stand the centralised bigotry of the bloke, Gordon Brown is right about one thing (and one thing only) the UK property market is very, very different from the US property market and there lies our salvation (hallelujah). We have a very small supply, which will choke very quickly as the number of building starts stops, so to speak, and the number of people prepared to sell drys up. In essence, the market could turn very quickly. But you might be right, the fact is no one know what will happen next.

As I said, totally unpredictable. The base rate set by the Bank of England is becoming increasingly irrelevant as so much money has been lent by and to banks. LIBOR is what matters, but for how long? All together now, "Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner, That I love London so. Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner That I think of her wherever I go. I get a funny feeling inside of me Just walking up and down. Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner That I love London Town."

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can East Dulwich be the next Hartlepool and hang a > rabbit for spying? Could bring us some much needed > notoriety. It was a monkey. They later elected a monkey (the local football teams mascot) as Mayor. Much to the annoyance of the sitting MP Peter Mandleson. Snigger, snigger.

Probably said this before, but the property market is incredibly unpredictable. Just when you think you know where it's going it turns round and bites you in the arse. Having already experienced, the two worst property recessions since the war, the only advice can be extreme caution. Either buying or selling. Now is not the time to make a hasty decision, but you can still make the right one. So this could actually be a very good time to buy, or sell. benmorg, what are you taking about over 30's being tired of London??? Thats a bit early. "Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." ? Samuel Johnson

It's been spotted in William Rose. Not looking too good either.

So we're agreed then? The Beatles were a bunch of losers, that couldn't write a decent tune between them, and didn't know how to spell the names of respective offspring. It must have all been a massive con trick by EMI & 'Sir' George Martin. How were we all so easily fooled??

It's a lovely road and very quiet, I've lived in the road (but not the same house) for over twenty five years.

I like the interior, it's very soft and unthreatening. You don't get the feeling anyone would even think of causing any trouble in there. Food wasn't bad when I ate there and good value I thought, the cheeses looked particularly yummy. Was a bit cold in there last night, maybe an open fireplace would make it feel a bit warmer.

Blinder, thanks.

"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" Disraeli

I'm all for Deci time myself 100 seconds in a minute, 100 minutes in an hour etc etc Roman months They might have been cruel the old Romans but they were onto something you know?

Or to a show for unemployed bankers

Surely it's Mull of Kintyre? Pure bloody genius!!

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > To put hedging into context, it's like you've got > a potential rendezvous with an absolute hotty at > work but you tell the not so hotty certainty from > your local that you'll probably be in later..... > about 10ish.... Good shout.

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I know I moved here from Surrey darlings but can > no-one just pronounce South as it's meant to be? Can I be the first to point out that Dulwich (& East Dulwich) is in fact in Surrey? We should all watch our P's & Q's.

For our money they should thank us

But d'Artagnan had second sight

To procede without fear

Does TSB stand for Try Selling Banks?

Apparently the old Camberwell Council was twinned with Deventer in Holland and the development was named after several Dutch towns because of this connection. I don't know if Camberwell Council was twinned because of the Glenlea connection which could be a possibility. But it's worth mentioning that quite a few of the agents stationed there lost their lives, I copied this from the Dulwich Society website, I found it quite moving. Huize Anna During World War ll, Tappen House on Dulwich Common (formerly Glenlea) was leased by its owner to the Dutch Government. It was used as a base for the Dutch Secret Service for agents who were trained as radio operators before being parachuted into German-occupied Holland to work with the Resistance. Many of these young patriots were captured and executed by the Nazis and the full story is described in the Dulwich Society's World War ll history - Dulwich- the Home Front 1939-1945 (published in 1995 and reprinted in 1998) . A new book by Henri van der Zee which highlights the life of Dutch exiles in Britain during the war was published in Amsterdam in April. Mr Van der Zee recently returned to Dulwich together with a representative from the official Dutch Archives with a view to compiling a book of sites such as the one in Dulwich, aimed at Dutch visitors to Britain on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands. Glenlea was given the code name Huize Anna (House of Anna), by the Dutch when they took possession in January/February 1943. The first agent was dropped into Holland in March 1943, the last in the spring of 1945. Of these young men, two were killed when their plane was shot down on the way to their mission; 14 died in action - either resisting arrest or in subsequent concentration camps; 6 were arrested while in action but survived the concentration camps; 5 completed their mission and returned to allied territory; 8 completed their mission but remained in Holland until the liberation. In 1985 the Dulwich Society invited one of the survivors, Mr Bram Grisnight, to speak to members on his experiences both at Glenlea and in Occupied Holland. The Society, at the end of the evening presented Bram with a watercolour of Glenlea commissioned from local artist Audrey MacLeod. The Society continues to keep in touch with him and his wife Ann. Ann met Bram (then aged 20) when he was at in training at Glenlea and she was a sixteen year old JAGS schoolgirl. They married in 1945 after his release from Auschwitz.

Could be greed.

No, but it's going to be very good for Lloyds. It highlights what a useless bunch the government and the regulators/Bank of England are.

Does anyone think that it's rather ironic that Lloyds-TSB were not able to buy Abbey as it would have given them too much of a monopoly and Abbey has been sold to a Spanish Bank. But now they have bought HBOS at a knock down price and ended up with an even larger share of the market than if they had bought Abbey. They must be laughing all the way to the bank, so to speak.