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Clapham is all smart but even Clapham has lost Arding and Hobbs - it is now an umbrella building for smaller franchises. Barkers, Derry and Toms and Pontings have also disappeared from Kensington High Street. Instead the old Barkers houses many different shops. Perhaps the Department Store as a concept, except for Selfridges, Liberties and Harrods, is no longer a viable enterprise. Not just Peckham.

one day it will fall on a waiting pedestrian.

Ivy HOuse quote:Monday 10th February. Woolly Mondays - 7.30pm. Last week's first session was a great success with about ten people sitting near the fire, supping ales...and knitting.

dogs are allowed off the lead in Dulwich park too, except in designated areas...

where exactly is that?

I hope so!

She analyses the data and reaches a logical conclusion- that makes her a good detective. She analyses human relations in exactly the same way, but human relations are not necessarily logical.

delicious takeaway tonight!

yesterday I was stuck behind this for so long that I assumed the right hand turn light was out of order. After about 10 mins wait everyone went for it. It was only as I went across that I saw filter was still red and I had shot a red light. Didn't see a flash of camera but was making a judgement that it was out of order. Is that a defence?

adonirum I didn't hear the sirens. I watched it unfold, the rain fell heavily, one man refused to move his car at all, so it blocked all traffic both ways down Bellenden Road, while the other man had pulled aside so they could shout some more. The whole thing had arisen cos there was only room for one and they both decided to go for it and got stuck and were scratching each others mirrors. Two jaguars, two stag-uars, at bay. At this point I made a dash out of the rain and headed for home, but had a feeling it would not all end there!

National Rail timetables tell me everything is working but last time it said that on a Sunday, nothing was. Anyone know? thanks

was it a jag-type car? There was a hell of a near-road rage incident in Bellenden Road yesterday late afternoon, with car abandoned in road and creating jam as two men in two jags who had stupidly refused to give way to each other shouted and screamed and looked like they might be 'phoning a friend'.

I could take ten, but they would be for my mainly middle class consumption, so only if no other takers.

Bellenden Road- the supermarket has really improved its stock, specially choice of veg. I use it more and therefore Sainsbury's less. as for the lost shops of Bellenden- when we first moved here there was a dodgy second hand junk shop and now there are two better ones. There is the kebab chippy Sams on corner of Bellenden and Maxted that's been there as long as I have- fifteen years. Except for the plumbers which have now gone, all those 'missing' shops are represented, if under different names. The deli- if that was the Turkish one- was awful with terrible stale bread capitalising on its idea of a new middle class clientele. It didn't last long. ''Ossie the plumber, Dackecome car spares/ The > turkish deli, Bakery, Chaz, Many small grocers.The > Prince Albert. Mr Patel the papershop. The dry > Cleaner, The very good cafe. Chinese takeaway. > Takeaway foodshops. ''

the hippies have the best idea for dramatic and fundamental style change- add fairy lights to everything.

update: husband planed down bottom of door as it was sticking a bit. This has greatly improved leakproofness. Perhaps water was getting trapped under the jammed door and wasn't able to flow out through the holes.

yes but there was a falling out

can Chris move next door into the caff?

Because it is slim I have now pushed my bins to the end of the front bit that's furtherest away from front door so it doesn't look so horrible. It doesn't look half as bad as the full size.

Ive now got a slim blue bin and it s more discreet than the overspilling boxes I had.

I used oil based with a brush in a duck egg blue and it looks lovely.

Our huge bins are hideous. Our local streets were part of the Southwark regeneration scheme with Victorian railings, tiled pathways and plenty of potential for little flower beds or pot plants. Unfortunately the size of the bins means that any such planting would obstruct the bin men, so narrow is the space. Putting our bins directly next to our front door and planting on the other side of them, under the bay, is even more hideous, with the bins crowding round the path, looming by the door and filling the view from the front bay window. In Edinburgh the council provide several jumbo bins that are used by the whole street. They sit in the road. This saves money on rubbish collection as well, I assume, and it leaves the fronts of old houses looking good. Maybe Southwark just don't trust Londoners to make the effort to walk a few feet to put their bin bags in one of these?

how about a bollard motorists can actually see from the driving seat of their car?

Old breadbin?

Greetings is fantastic. They often have really lovely unusual things for presents.