capt_birdseye

The place where the kitchen shop is had been empty for well over 2 years. So you don't like it? Would you prefer all the shops you don't like to be replaced by empty shells? It's easy to knock these places but I don't see lots of alternatives suggesting themselves.

I wonder which of the following takes up more room on a pavement? Modern Pesky 3-wheeler: http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/buggy.png Traditional side-by-side buggy: http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/ce/century-double-pushchair.jpg

dishwashers?! In East Dulwich?! Whatever next.

Oh go on then.

For all of you residents who constantly feel the need to take swipes at all aspects of a "gentrified" East Dulwich (pointless shops selling nothing, poncy restaurants, expensive houses, North London/Clapham escapees) I would like to invite you all to express your gripes on this thread so that we can be done with it once and for all. Good day to you all.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The food is mostly rustic French, and yes the > older diners probably do prefer traditional > cooking rather than some fancy blob of nothingness > which costs a bomb and leaves you starving after > three courses.. I would say that "Traditional Cooking" is very much the main thing these days. The blobs of nothingness were very much prevalent in expensive restaurants during the 80s and 90s.

Good on you for sticking up for yourself TW. Despite the somewhat hazardous layout it's still a damn fine deli (in my humble opinion).

What a great way to continually get free food and wine! Disparage a business online and then get them to change your viewpoint by cooking ou a slap up meal on the house. That Franklins looks a dive.

I really don't see how this thread can be seen as snobbish! It's a fact of life that passing trade are unlikely to stop off at a restaurant with a shabby exterior. If we've never been to a restaurant and nobody has recommended it to us then all we have to judge it on is its appearance. Yes that may mean potentially missing out on a good meal and also spending money on bad meals at better looking restaurants, but if I'm going to take a chance on a new restaurant then I doubt it would be on one that looks grubby from the exterior as, has been mentioned above, it suggest grubbiness on the interior.

My daughter weed on the floor of the toy shop in the village. They were very good about it too.

Tale of Two Cities is ace. Great Expectations less so, partly due to the main character "Pip" being such a twerp.

Yeah, not what I want to read about when I've been fighting with ASP.NET GridViews all day. (6)

Donna Tartt's the little friend is an amazing book. I found it much more enjoyable than the Secret History, hard to believe it's the same author really. Not that the Secret History was bad though.

Come here for a hug big guy.

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Of course some parents wouldn't be happy to leave > their nipper unattended in such a situation, but > that doesn't mean those that do are 'asking for > it' or being bad parents! I'm not saying that at all. OK, I agree that citing Bulger was perhaps over-extreme and alarmist. But I get the feeling that being protective of a child in such a scenario is seen by some as a bit odd and pathetic! Your initial, rather sarcastic, comment being a case in point.

OK sorry probably over-egging it a bit (sorry!). But I still wouldn't feel comfortable leaving a child outside on their own and if people want to take the piss out of me for that then that's fine.

Does anybody remember a boy called James Bulger, whose mother left him outside a shop while she quickly nipped in to buy something?

I didn't realise this was the ED Naturists Forum. Sign me up for the next meet!

There also seems to be a worrying amount of people who find it a reasonable idea to leave your child outside in their buggy while they browse round the shop!

Or your evil twin has been posting under your pseudonym again...

Get back in the knife draw Mrs Sharp!

This lady lives round these parts: http://www.film-forward.com/confetti.jpg

There was never a problem when it was a lingerie shop. I wonder why?

More free brownies please.

Not Melbourne, Blackwater St. The favourite stopping off point for people going to the butcher's of a saturday. I've had experience of CPZ in 2 other areas, in both cases it made life a lot easier. The only CPZ problems I've had have been in areas where I'm not a resident. So serves me right really!