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I paid 3.50 for a slice of cake in a place that sold nothing but different varieties of cake, apparently these caked themed slaps in the face of impoverished Shoreditch are called 'Patisseries'. I hope they never take off! Hipster idiots!

Also, if there are traffic inducing diversions, why not decrease intervals between buses leaving the original depot. ?

I searched for an existing thread on this but couldn't find one, so apologies if there is. what is happening to the number 37 bus? this evening train from St Pancras was diverted to Herne hill due to fire at Denmark Hill. The desperately crowded 37 bus was like the last copter out of Nam, taking no more passengers, so started to walk and nearly made it all the way back to E.D., including longish waits at each stop, before another one came past me over half an hour later. Last week waited 35 mins. Wouldn't it be brilliant if we had a truly coordinated transport system where a broken down train could be met by some empty buses. It probably happens in Switzerland.

Big Thanks today to Petty's Traditional Greengrocers in Northcross Road who contributed two big boxes of veg today! re parking, the little lane next to Pecan can be used as drop off despite double yellows- any trouble warden-wise, Pecan will sort it out.

yes I just dropped in but check times as some days they close earlier than others. I walked with my basket on wheels but you could park in Lidl and walk along. re-non perishables, fruit and veg welcome but it needs to get there in the day so that it can be distributed same day.

hi everyone, hope this is the right section for this. Yesterday I made a first visit to our local food bank at Pecan, 121a Peckham High Street, to donate a few bits and pieces. The volunteers told me that they are making up hampers to be distributed a couple of days before Christmas, each one to feed a family for five days, and I offered to publicise this on the EDF. I can't attach the list as a photo as it's too big but here is a link to the website http://www.pecan.org.uk/our-projects/foodbank I will format it all smaller later to add. They are really grateful to receive any donations- I managed to make up a couple of bags of things mainly from the extra tin/bar of chocolate in a multi buy. Also staples are good cos they can make up more meals and be stored- plus anything Christmassy that these families couldn't possibly budget for- a Lidl advent calendar or a tiny bag of decorative chocolate balls. I know that lots of people feeling a very hard pinch this Christmas, but if you can, every little spare thing builds to make a bigger bag. We could coordinate a drop if people wanted to give maybe one thing. Fresh fruit and veg is a problem and some local greengrocers said they would donate end of day produce if someone would collect. If you are such a greengrocer, p.m. me, I will give you my mobile - I have a car and may be able to do a run. The problem is it needs to get to them that day, for distribution that day, and the only day they are open till 5pm is THURSDAy I think, so this would have to be very specifically targeted.

Ayres xmas puds are delish!

very sorry to hear this.

That's good to know. I was still mourning its predecessor Andreas so will give it a go.

Of all the days to go to Sainsburys without mobile phone, today was it, as car broke down. Nice man pushed me into a bay out of the way. Nice Sainsburys people found me a landline. Nice RAC man fixed car- luckily the kind of old model you can fix on the spot without rebooting a computer! so thank you all round.

I think Burton And Taylor used to stay in a friends modernist house in Sydenham as a hidey-hole.. http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/bromley/10383487.How_the_swinging_sixties_started_in_Sydenham___Richard_Burton_slept_off_his_hangovers_in_our_sauna_/

oooh thanks!

Seans on Grove Vale can mix anything.

thanks but Cote pretty booked up so after something similar. huge in numbers, want simple lunch.

I am organising a large family lunch at short notice in December. Cote are booked up- they ticked the boxes with a Clapham junction easily accessible location for relatives coming from eastern counties and southern ones. What is similar reasonableness, affordability and good parking/transport links to try do you think?

We get them jammed in Nutbrook Street and have asked council to put advisory sign so lorries don't even start down that route. As for ringing the companies, there are loads of them, new every time!

hi Louisa, where was Peckham School for Girls- did it become Waverley?

also, how did Mary Datchelor School, the beneficiary of an old charity thing, with a brand new block for science, end up as luxury flats?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhuagMMcA_E this is part two, but part one is listed next to it on you tube.

love the post office in Rye Lane.

a couple of my friends did the West Highland Way this year, over 8 days as a warm-up for their one month 400k Camino de Santiago. They said is was beautiful.

Nice thing in the FT weekend mag about the new doggy shop !

Ive got a missing polo one. Do you think they are the same and do you still have a spare? Would be very grateful,if one still going. Thanks.

yes that's the one Loz!

The little greengrocers in Nunhead has started selling some interesting and unusual (to me) veg and I have bought a flat discus shaped pumpkin related veg. Shall I roast it? if so, how? stuff it? disembowel it? any ideas gratefully received!