jimbo1964

Have you tried rebooting holding down apple and R?

I'm stepping aside to politely let this thread pass.

'I rarely come across working class parents locally these days' My son goes to a local state primary school and I can assure you the vast majority of parents aren't Lord and Lady Toffington. Strangely they're mostly quite normal local people.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > PokerTime are you saying kids potentially causing > injuries to themselves and other isn't a biggy? > Wandering around the streets with strangers > walking past? What a bizarre comment. > > Louisa. Children playing while commuters walk past? This thread is going right off the crazy scale.

I can honestly say I've never been forced out of the way by a 'Yummy Mummy' with a pram. And what about all the working class mums and dads? There's plenty of them too. Do they doth their caps and let you pass? I sometimes step aside to let someone with a buggy pass rather that make them push their infant into the road. I think that's just being courteous and it's usually greeted with a smile.

James Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Got to be honest, I find the smug middle-class > mummies of Lordship Lane with their sharp-elbowed > sense of entitlement far more annoying. Like for > example their habit of unloading their offspring > out of a 4x4 into the middle of the road (why not > the pavement side, FFS!!!?) It all smacks of "I'm > far too important and my time is too precious to > give way to anyone else for a second." Oh FFS what's this got to do with anything? Just a bit more chip on shoulder, cliche ridden nonsense. I'm sure the kids playing in the alley are offspring of people having hair and nails done. Kids have always played in the street I don't think it's too much of a bother. I remember as a kid myself always being told by some grumpy old sod to go and play somewhere else. They're only little children.

I've never seen any fur balls but intrigued.

Not me.

A Picture House would be a brilliant addition. Fingers crossed it happens.

Last year I had a leg injury which required a trip to the nurse for a dressing change twice a week. Unfortunately, they didn't have any appointments with the nurse for about three weeks so I had to wait every time at the drop in surgery in Peckham or at Barts.

The old wall that was built in 1865 and never been maintained was unsafe. A section has been taken down and rebuilt with a stronger core structure. The original bricks have been cleaned and will (I've been told) be used as the outer skin of the wall so it matches the original wall. No more trees are coming down and no access road. I've been told they will be replacing shrubs etc.

If anyone is missing one. There's one parked on Balchier Road with missing number plates, slashed tyres, broken wing mirrors and lights. I've reported it to the police.

The Packermans Wood houses do look lovely. I'm a fan too.

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > it's a good route, but I wish the barrier didn't > go right across Chandler Way (so as to allow bikes > past). > Last night I rode up to the barrier, got off, walked around it and started riding again. Total time off bike 10 seconds. It's not that much of a disruption to one's journey.

Not sure sure about Honor Oak. The Overground is pushing prices up. And the high street is already considerably more appealing than a few years ago.

I hate the look of pollarded trees. It's been discussed at length in a thread about Barry Rd. I'll be interested to see what those trees look like this summer.

Yum.

Lovely. It's not changed too much.

I miss it. The garden was great in the summer.

Where is the fabled ?12 burger available?

Every restaurant review is still usually prefixed with a paragraph about how extraordinary it is to find anything decent to eat in Peckham.

Actually all the new housing that runs from St Georges Way to Peckham Road seem perfectly safe. Very well lit and seems like nice unthreatening neighborhoods. I go down Chandler Rd sometimes and cross into Lyndhurst Way. The Canal path can be a lonely place at night.

There's still Morrisons, Aldi and Asda just around the corner so hardly bereft of places to shop cheaply. There's no doubt that Peckham has changed a lot and will change a lot more. I'm not sure how 'useful' some of the shops on Bellenden Rd are, but it's better this way than a betting shop riddled dump like Norwood.

Twenty years ago did Bellenden Road really have anything useful on it? Apart from the wishing well and the Poodle Parlour?

Horrible.. Sumner Road is a good alternative. It's a numbered cycle route and pops you out opposite the Peckham Burger King.