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Muttley

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  1. The forum is definately being taken over by the word definately. If you do a search of the word definately you'll find at least 46 of them, probably more now that I've written this message. At first they were sporadic, but now they are arriving at a rate of about one per day. And it's not just a single offender, looks like everybody's at it. The search software fails to throw up a single appearance of the word definIT*ly, even though I know there's at least one in there somewhere. I tell you, it's a conspiracy to corrupt the local spelling, probably perpetrated by posh schools in SE21 to make sure they retain their 'competative' advantage in the league tables. Fortunately, the adjective definite is still safe - there are nine of them in past threads, and only one definate. Sigh, there goes the 'neighborhood'.
  2. You got the right person Keef. Here's an excerpt from an article he wrote last year in The Times about life in his new home in East Dulwich: "Everyone living down my road who isn?t a baby or a mum is a semi-famous lesbian comedian who occasionally crops up on Radio 4, being gently arch about something.....Where on earth can I be? I?ll tell you where: London metropolitan suburbia. Dulwich, to be precise, a place which makes Crouch End resemble Compton on a bad day. Its very name is a giveaway, pronounced Dull Itch...But how Lordship Lane has changed! All those lovely food shops and bars and restaurants: if we can get rid of Somerfield and Iceland and Cafe Nero, we will truly be back in 1950 ? which was a much better place to be, by all accounts, except for the Korean war and the tail end of rationing, and rickets and polio. Right now we have a butcher, a few bakers, a candlestick-maker, boiled-sweet shops and a strange outlet that sells only white things. It?s like living in Trumpton."
  3. Rod Liddle, journalist, former editor of Today and subject of tabloid expose, was buying a paper on Lordship Lane today. He probably reads the forum. Hi Rod.
  4. Anyone know what Southwark/TfL think that the consequences will be for traffic flow once the roadworks are completed? It seems to me that a road that is reduced to two lanes can only mean slower road journeys to Elephant and Castle for everyone. On the face of it, that would negate all the work done before the Congestion charge that was intended to speed up bus journeys. But I'd like to think that the planners have worked all this out and reckon that buses will flow just as fast as they ever did once the works finish. Probably wishful thinking...
  5. Great stuff tonight, one of the best of the series.
  6. > It is a very E Dulwich type of cat i.e. craps in other people's gardens. {retires to bunker and awaits attack}
  7. There's been reliably sourced info for a while that 116 is to become a "gym", and they've been refurbing the place in the last few months.
  8. SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Isn't there a Muttley dog around as well People often make that mistake. Having the name Muttley gave me no end of grief as a child. Why couldn't my parents have called me Peter? Or even Dick?
  9. I don't do 'rubbish arguments' but I sometimes do tongue-in-cheek ones;-).
  10. It's probably a question of which is the least unreliable bus. I'd say it's the Lordship Lane ones - i.e. go to Denmark Hill by bus, despite my recent bad experiences. The 37 is in my experience London's least dependable bus.
  11. Let's put this ?15 'overpriced' bag in perspective. Somewhere around there's a person about to spend ?300k on a small flat in Bawdale Road. Imagine how they'll feel in a year's time when somebody says "you paid what? you been done mate...". ?15 seems small beer, especially when it's for a bag that now looks set to become a limited edition collectible, like the Sinclair C5.
  12. There's a popular maths book on that very theme.
  13. Toy shop a good idea, there's a discussion about the old one somewhere on this site. Have you tried putting in a lower offer for the shop rent?
  14. I don't know about scientologists in SE22, but there's clearly a small group obsessed with topping up their travelcards. I think they're the Blue Oyster cult.
  15. Isn't there a stream running along Oakhurst Grove, too? I seem to remember being told that years ago.
  16. Outside Caffe Nero is a bus stop, with a display to indicate when the next bus is due. About two years ago, this display briefly spluttered into life, but then was switched off after a few weeks of testing. Why? I know these things aren't exactly reliable, but a bit of information to suggest there may be a bus on the way fairly soon is better than nothing. The bus stop opposite Kings has a working display, so why not Lordship Lane? This particularly irked me today, because I had to catch a train at 1.54pm from Denmark Hill. I left myself plenty of time, because I had an important meeting to get to. This is what happened next: Walk down Lordship Lane in rain for ten minutes(no sign of any buses) and stop at Caffe Nero at 1.25 to wait there, as rain is getting worse. No bus. Wait for ten minutes. 1.35, still no bus. Long queue building. "Next bus is going to be full at this rate, better start walking". Make it to East Dulwich station, constantly looking over shoulder. Still no bus. Can't afford to miss that train. Resignedly begin trudge up Dog Kennel (in steady rain) at which point, just as I pass Sainsburys, midway between two bus stops that are a long way apart, two 185s, a 40 and a 176 all go past. Bloody typical. Catch train with four minutes to spare. If I know there's not going to be a bus for ages then I'll walk. But it's the not knowing I hate. Can somebody in Southwark get that display working? Grr. End of rant.
  17. Looking forward to Wednesday. We never miss an episode, and will particularly enjoy this one. Hope Kev gives you the thumbs up!
  18. Muttley

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    If Hilary Benn ever becomes Prime Minister, he's going to get pretty fed up with the jokes.
  19. Perhaps folk should read Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue before criticising American spelling. Many words like color and realize are actually the original old English spelling, so they're being more traditional than we are. On the subject of spelling, do a search of the words "definately" and "definitely" on this forum. You'll find something very interesting/disturbing depending on your point of view. They do say that in America, all nouns can be verbed. In East Dulwich all threads can be lounged. Do I see the Pythonesque foot of the Administrator approaching...
  20. We went to Cinema Paradiso upstairs at EDT last night to see A Mighty Wind. First time at Paradiso for three or four years, and loved both the film and the atmosphere of the event. Upstairs at EDT is a great venue (better than all the previous ones) - good vibe in the bar beforehand, and the room lends itself very well to showing a film. The local film 'short' at the start was quirky but a fun addition to the programme. Yes, the seats are uncomfortable, worth bringing your own cushion, and there's a little bit of noise from LL traffic, but for me Paradiso at EDT is exactly what makes East Dulwich such a fab place to be. When the short Paradiso season finishes, how about some comedy upstairs at EDT on Tuesday nights? It's about time East Dulwich comedy...or an offshoot...returned to its roots. And anyone interested in Paradiso doing some one-off classic film specials a-la-NFT? They seem open to suggestions.
  21. You'll find the history of all the roads and just about everything else East Dulwich in John Beasley's book, which has been serialised in past issues of SE22 magazine (a copy of which possibly came through your door last week). You should be able to get the book at Chener Books on Lordship Lane.
  22. No, what I'm saying is that the toddlers haven't just been replaced, they've quadrupled, at least in this sample road. It's a change in the demographics. If this pattern has been repeated elsewhere in SE22 it suggests a lot more competition for primary school places. If families stay put here, there could be a heck of a lot of teenagers hanging around in Lordship lane in ten years time. Gulp.
  23. You speak a lot of sense, Huguenot, but on the child front I can offer some harder evidence for you. Let's look at the houses on my stretch of road, the ones whose occupants I can trace back to 2001. Six years ago there were 3 young children in those 20 houses/flats. In those same houses there are now a staggering 14 children aged under five, with at least one more on the way. The parents aren't moving (a)because they love it here and (b)because in any case, it costs a fortune to move. Another piece of anecdotal evidence is that a couple of years ago, the number of NCT groups in East Dulwich suddenly doubled, at least I think that's what Mrs Muttley told me the other day. Not conclusive, but a sign that something significant may have happened in SE22 recently. I'm going to guess that East Dulwich will steadily regress to more typical birth rates in the next few years.
  24. I reckon the number of infants has doubled since 2001. You can add in my six for a start. (I exaggerate slightly.)
  25. I've always liked the ambience of "Mr Liu corner" (Melbourne meets Lordship), with that horse chestnut opposite I reckon it's the best restaurant setting in East Dulwich. When they knock down the Police Station and put up something more tasteful there, it will be even better.
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