bawdy-nan

At school start and finish times there is an almost constant stream of children wanting to cross the road. I've seen the impatience of drivers snarled up and stopped by the lights or the valiant lollipop people. With no lights to indicate priority and with a constant stream of crossing at the proposed crossing points i'd be very worried that drivers would feel they had to push and nudge to make any progress and would race to get across in potential gaps in the child flow. .. it's a frightening prospect but one that would hopefully be considered in any analysis.

The Plough has lots of sofas and is a lovely space during the day - not so busy as some cafes and near the park if you fancy a nice stroll ...

dexter

I always make one out of bits of the christmase tree, ivy, holly, rosemary, dried orange slices etc. I wouldn't say it's especially, er classy, but then, my christmas tree always looks like I've just emptied a bin bag over it ...

We used to just put down a large ikea fleece blanket to tip the lego onto and then use that to funnel it back into a box.

At this age my children LOVED a big playmobil Noah's Ark and a Big Red wooden bus with passengers (ie things you can put things in and that have lots of people to play stories with)

Lego (the "plain variety"), a marble run set ...?

:) pah! rumbled! For sure, that's sometimes the case, but it's a huge risk. TBH, I've had both "types" Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think you might just be trolling a bit there, > bawdy-nan, but I'll reply anyway. > > Some people like going to the small-scale > landlord, as the Property pages on this very site > will attest. When it is your only place, you go > that extra mile to make sure you have a happy > renter. Keeping the good tenants is key. > > But I'm sure there a good reasons to go with a > big, faceless entity as well.

Aren't you just a bit cross that your cunning plans have gone awry? Frankly, the more small-time amateur investors who are put off from becoming amateur landlords (often ill-informed about their responsibilities under housing law, "having a go" at their own repairs etc)) the better. From a tenant's perspective, a large organisation is infinitely more easy to deal with on a professional footing than a private individual who has read about a cunning financial wheeze in a Sunday supplement and has decided to launch themselves into property management rather than divert their cash into yet more Danbury Mint and Noro Virus cruises.

edhistory Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I'll drop an email to the filmmaker (who I > interviewed for the programme). > > Oh! You are evidently easily alarmed / excited - might I suggest a calming cup of tea and a regular walk?

ianr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jah Lush Wrote: > > bawdy-nan Wrote: > > > rendelharris Wrote: > > > > > > > > Is that film available online anywhere b-n? > > > > > > I don't think so - but it has a website here > > ... > > > > http://www.thepublichousefilm.co.uk/index.html > > > > > > I;d LOVE to see it again, on a big-screen, at > > > the ED Picturehouse say - it's absolutely > wonderful. > > > I'd love to see this film too. > > I checked with ED PH, who replied: > > "I'm afraid we don't really do screenings on > demand as such. We sometimes do > one-off screenings of certain film, but it's not > the easiest thing to get. > However we do have a partnership with ourscreen , > a platform that allows anyone to programme a > screening, and if enough > tickets are sold, then the screening goes ahead. > You can find more details > about how it works here . I have > had a look for *Public House* and they don't seem > to have it in their > catalogue yet, but they are very receptive to > suggestions and if you drop > them a line they might be able to > source it for you." > > I thought it would be best to check first with the > film makers whether > there would be any availability (?format) > problems. The automated > response says they only check their email > sporadically now, so there > may be a wait. I'll be back when I hear from them. What an absolutely brilliant idea. I'll drop an email to the filmmaker (who I interviewed for the programme).

Chris is in the programme ....

edhistory Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > One thing I've not been able to resolve is whether > in Blake's time it would have been possible for > oak trees to grow on any of the five distinct > "Peckham Ryes". > > Can anyone help on this? > > And, does anyone have a copy of the Blake Society > text that was used in Peckham Rye Park? I think there's a sound recoridng of the event ...not sure how full or complete it is

Bunhill Fields (Islington)

edhistory Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > One thing I've not been able to resolve is whether > in Blake's time it would have been possible for > oak trees to grow on any of the five distinct > "Peckham Ryes". > > Can anyone help on this? > > And, does anyone have a copy of the Blake Society > text that was used in Peckham Rye Park? Chris McCabe (who's just published a book about Nunhead Cemetery (Cenotaph South: Mapping the Lost Poets of Nunhead Cemetery) thinks it was a hawthorn. He tracked all the mentions of angels and trees in Blake's poems and letters and found only one instance where an angel's mentioned in a tree and it's a hawthorn ... WITH 1 Happiness stretch?d across the hills In a cloud that dewy sweetness distils; With a blue sky spread over with wings, And a mild sun that mounts and sings; With trees and fields full of fairy elves, 5 And little devils who fight for themselves? Rememb?ring the verses that Hayley sung When my heart knock?d against the root of my tongue? With angels planted in hawthorn bowers, And God Himself in the passing hours; 10 With silver angels across my way,

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is that film available online anywhere b-n? I don't think so - but it has a website here ... http://www.thepublichousefilm.co.uk/index.html I;d LOVE to see it again, on a big-screen, at the ED Picturehouse say - it's absolutely wonderful

edhistory Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > It's a poetic resonance, a story told about a > story told about a story told. > > Are you saying it's untrue? > > John Rocque is not a reliable cartographer. He > made things up and put them on his maps. Field > boundaries are particularly dodgy. I regret > including one of his maps, at least without a > caveat, in one of the books I published. I'm saying that I think its very hard to say whether this is "true" or not. I know that it is a story that has come to have meaning and importance for lots of people since Gilchrist, so I think that when we talk about that story we're talking as much about how people have come to understand Blake as pinpointing a precise historical fact. Even in the Gilchrist it's vague - "as a boy of 8 or 10". For John Hartley, the artist, who planted the tree (in association with the Blake Society) that you find hilarious for not being in the correct historical place, it wasn't trying to replicate the "tree" as much as celebrating what the story might mean, now, in Peckham. What does it mean to have a vision of angels, what might they be noww, in Peckham? This was the same for the artist Sarah Turner whose absolutely, blindingly beautiful film, Public House (about the Ivy House community takeover), recreated the "vision" on Peckham Rye partly because it was a film about celebrating community shared cultural memory. They seized on this story, I suppose, because it's a powerful image and one to hang Blake's radical ideas about the human imagination.

edhistory Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Blake's local connection is trudging through raw > sewage overflowing from Camberwell Marsh, but > that's not so romantic, so let's invent a myth. And yet he wrote that it was North London that made him sick ... ?When I was young, Hampstead, Highgate, Hornsey, Muswell Hill, and even Islington, and all places north of London, always laid me up the day after, and sometimes two or three days, with precisely the same complaint, and the same torment of the stomach; easily removed, but excruciating while it lasts, and enfeebling for some time after.?

Well here's a detail from a 1746 map (John Roque) which puts "Peckham Rye" close by Goose Green. But I think the point of the story in the biography is about asserting a kind of myth of origin for the artist. It's the story of an artist who spoke and wrote and sang of visions and constructed a mythology. I think trying to pin down the veracity (and quantity and how many might fit on the head of a pin) of the angel vision and its exact geographical location is splitting the lark. It's a poetic resonance, a story told about a story told about a story told. As much about how it has been told and by whom as anything else.

I dreamt a dream! What can it mean? And that I was a maiden Queen Guarded by an Angel mild: Witless woe was ne?er beguiled! And I wept both night and day, And he wiped my tears away; And I wept both day and night, And hid from him my heart?s delight. So he took his wings, and fled; Then the morn blushed rosy red. I dried my tears, and armed my fears With ten thousand shields and spears. Soon my Angel came again; I was armed, he came in vain; For the time of youth was fled, And grey hairs were on my head. Here you go, edhistory, David Almond reading this, just for you.

The account occurs in the first biography written by Alexander Gilchrist after Blake's death and drawing on interviews with people who knew Blake. The story is at the beginning of the book and has the feeling of myth. Is it "true"? What does that mean, I wonder? Did he have visions? He certainly described having them and for a while followed Swedenborg ... Is it a story designed to make the case for the power of the child's imaginative influence on an artists imagination and creative life? Maybe. Is it a fiction? Maybe. But it's a resonance felt by lots of artists and writers and is a kind of imaginative provocation...

Well, no...

It's William Blake's Birthday, a visionary poet and artist with local connections. As a boy he'd wander round these parts, striding out from his home in Soho. Always favouring South London, in later years he wrote to a friends about how a visit to North London would cause him take to his bed for days with a violent sickness. At the age of 8 or 10 he saw his first vision of angels in a tree on Peckham Rye, "bright angelic wings bespangling every bough, like stars". It's this moment that's celebrated in the mural, by Stan Peskett, on Goose Green. I made a programme for Radio 4 about it and it's now downloadable as a podcast here: http://bbc.in/2gENw1N It's also being broadcast again on New Year's Eve at 23.30, so the Radio 4 audience will be spending New Year in SE22 and SE15...

Pop your glasses on, (down the back of your armchair, where warriors lose them?) pop9770 - not my comment ... pop9770 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > DovertheRoad Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I have it on good account that rents on flats > are > > actually starting to fall slightly in East > > Dulwich. More and more people seeing better > value > > in other nearby and less family orientated > areas. > > Nonsense bawdy-nan and my neighbours are not > seeing that clearly there's an impact. > > As this new tax only comes into effect from next > April this looks like the beginning of the > increasing rents. > Some landlords are getting going before the > changes and likely property price collapse. > > In my experience when a Tory government messes > with the property market it always ends in > disaster.

pop9770 Wrote: > > > We need a smart person from 500 years ago.. Machiavelli? Thomas Cromwell?