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CraigJam - you really ought to contact EDF member Leon Parker, who runs this site - British Record Shop Archive.

Also in the Brixton area - the left turn from Camberwell New Road into the top of Brixton Road has now been permanently blocked.

Is this the layby you're referring to, apbremer? http://i57.tinypic.com/vgn2mf.jpg

Thanks to everyone for the advice. I'll wait for a while before booking and will see how 2 single tickets compare with a return. Womanofdulwich - good idea, but flying's impractical because of the amount of luggage we'll have. Blah Blah - according to that link, MegaTrains don't operate trains from London-Edinburgh.

I don't travel outside London by train much and could really do with some help figuring out the best time to buy advance tickets for a return journey in December from London to Edinburgh. I need to buy three adult returns, leaving London on the morning of Friday 4/12 and returning the following morning. According to thetrainline.com, three Off-Peak Super Returns will cost just over ?402 if I book now. (I can't check prices on networkrail.co.uk because it's too far in advance.) Does anyone know if I'm likely to find cheaper tickets if I book closer to December? Any tips would be gratefully received.

When the Plough was called the Goose & Granite, the bus stop there remained "The Plough" and I seem to remember that there was a stop on Streatham Hill called "The Cat's Whiskers", years after that club became The Studio, then The Ritzy and finally, Caesars.

If it hadn't been for her and her office's help, I would have missed a close friend's wedding in the USA last year - and lost hundreds of pounds, too. Thank you (again), Tessa.

+1 to hoonaloona's post.

DulwichFox Wrote: > This is what we are all missing.. > > https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3nvC5LIQAAh1AH.jpg > Ah, I can see you're a bit confused, DF. That's not a photo of a Franco Manca pizza - this is one of their (?4.90) pizzas. http://www.ramsonsandbramble.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Franco-Manca-Pizza-A-Glass-Of-Wine.jpg?98eb40

Many similar experiences have made me decide to leave DMC, after 27 years as a patient there. It's an appalling "service" and as hard as the front-line staff try, it seems that the owners/managers are incapable of running the practice properly.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If it's a bargain you want then wait 'Orange > Wednesday' it used to be called, bogof on pizzas > at pizza express > > Louisa. *Pizza Express pizzas cost between ?7.80 and ?13.40 (yes, ?13.40) (menu). You can only get their BOGOF offer on one day a week and it's only for customers of a particular mobile phone network. *Franco Manca pizzas cost between ?4.90 and ?6.95, seven days a week - whatever network you're on. (And they taste much better...)

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Not that if ever entertain posh cheese on toast as > a meal option, but I was told that this particular > branch of Franco Manca is only open on weekends? > If that's the case that's just ridiculous. > > Louisa. According to Franco Manca's website, the actual opening times are Mon-Sat 12:00-23:00, Sun 12:00-22:30.

My family and I have been patients at DMC for 25 years (when they were in the house opposite the Upland Tavern, now the Actress). As they've become bigger and busier it seems that the centre is run more for the convenience of the practice rather than the patients - look at the appointments system, for example. In my personal experience, the prescription service is also terrible - I have 2 medications on repeat monthly prescriptions and there's been a problem every single month for the past year or so. Prescriptions aren't sent through to the chemist in time, wrong prescription etc. I think it's time I left DMC.

I've eaten at their Chiswick and Tottenham Court Road restaurants and thought they were both excellent.

davidallotey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was once told that the Gardens was > SE15 before some plum in the mouth snobs had it > turned into SE22. When did this happen? I've been here for decades and AFAIK the area west of Peckham Rye and south of East Dulwich Road has been SE22 for a very long time.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > It's been there for a lot longer than 4 years - > > try 12 or 13 years. > > Not in its current form.. > > It was once.. get permit .. turn up on the day .. > pay the market inspector. So using that logic, how many years would you say Camden Market has been going - 3? 5? 11?

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Have lived in East Dulwich since 1980... 34 > Years. > > So I survived 30 years without a market. It's been there for a lot longer than 4 years - try 12 or 13 years.

I'm going to Heathrow tomorrow and would like to be at T5 around 9am. If anyone is driving there and would like a paying passenger - or would like to share a taxi - then please send me a PM. Thanks.

The original Brixton FM is tiny, so it's no wonder there are queues - however, I've eaten many, many times at the larger Chiswick FM and have never had to wait for a table. The ED one will be of a similar size, so I doubt that there'll be much queuing apart from at the obviously busy times. I'll miss the Draft House's burgers, but am looking forward to Franco Manca's excellent but inexpensive pizzas on LL.

This site is very good, in my experience - http://travelmoney.moneysavingexpert.com/ There's a bureau at London Bridge (Ace FX, where Richer Sounds used to be) and they're much cheaper than the post office.

eddie: I think the figure you quote for playing music in a shop is bit misleading. According to their tariff (here) the PRS licence for a shop up to 100 square meters - say the old chemist on the corner of LL and Matham Grove - is ?151 a year. Shops larger than 6,000 square meters (are there many on Lordship Lane?) can pay "up to ?2,000 a year" but only if they've been caught without a licence. The PPL licence (for record companies/performers) is at a similar level ("your music licence could cost ?122.64 a year").

Been going regularly for 20+ years and never had a problem - a great and inexpensive asset to the area, IMO. Do any of the posters who mentioned head lice and fleas have any evidence or is it just unfounded scaremongering?

I certainly wouldn't suggest that you don't post your wacky and provocative opinions, Louisa - personally, they often make me chuckle. You might want to brush up on your "irony and sarcasm" though - it seems that many people here think you're actually being serious when you tell people there's only one correct way to eat poached eggs. Maybe using "smiley faces" would help?

Louisa isn't really serious about this and, as SJ says, she has a long history of posting just to wind people up. If you look back at her previous posts, you'll see that she orders a venison and red wine pie at the chippy and drinks fancy wine (?12 a bottle!) so her "anti-snobbery" poached egg posturing is simply classic trolling.

I know you're not really serious about all of this but don't you ever worry that you might come across as a bit...bossy? Telling people what's "acceptable" to eat at breakfast or how burgers "should be served" etc. Do people tell you that you "shouldn't" order a venison and red wine pie from a fish & chip shop or point out that spending ?12 on a single bottle of your sparkling Banrock Station is "snobby"? (After all - it's "just" fermented grape juice, isn't it?)