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PeckhamGateCrasher I used to ogle internet pictures of that beautiful house a couple of years ago when it was 650 thousand. In that time it's doubled, unbelievable!

We are only the third people to live in our Victorian terrace. Our house remains pretty original with rooms arranged without being knocked together. The sisters of the builder were the first owners. Followed by an old lady who ended up living with her sister in an informally divided house. The two things we changed, eventually, was to move the huge bathroom at the back to the middle of the house. I think they were just stuck on the back of the houses when bathrooms became de rigeur. Also adding a window to the back of the kitchen overlooking the garden. So many houses we looked at were ''blind'' at the back, with ony french doors from the ''back sitting room' overlooking the garden. This is because no one wanted to be in the garden and have to look at the skullery maid in the kitchen working away. A couple of years ago, to make room for a piano, we knocked away a very solid looking corner''shelf'' in our dining room- it turned out not to be a shelf, but the chimney from the old copper boiler in the kitchen running to the main dining room chimney. Some of the original wallpaper appeared when a radiator leaked onto it and we have exposed it all in the hall. We have succumbed so much to the original spirit of our house that sometimes I think it is us that are haunting it.

East of The Rye, I wonder if your child goes to the same comp as mine.(Two words, first word four syllables) We have had offers of exorbitantly priced trips several times over the three years she has been there- overpriced skiing, ridiculously expensive short trips to the States and recently an art trip to Morocco- we said no to all of them! And so it seems did many others- the american trip was cancelled because of low uptake. Instead, My daughter went on a budget skiing trip with her (very active!) granny last spring half term, at a quarter of the cost for twice the time. She is not bothered at all about us dismissing these school trips. There doesnt seem to be big peer pressure- I dont think many are in the financial position to accept them and even if they were-they are clearly overpriced.

re KIDS COMPANY, I went to the Royal Academy exhibition on fashion this weekend and there is an extra (free entry)exhibition at the back of the academy from Kids Company. There are shoe boxes, each expressing the home life and the aspirational home life of a child made by the children. I found these very moving. More moving than the sad desperate backgrounds of these kids was their vision of something better, their hope that things could change and turn out OK. The exhibiton also had some of the t- shirts and other clothes made by kids company kids on sale. I highly recommend this exhibition, as for the first time I got a glimpse of the human hearts of the children who can get so swept up in the gang thing .

take em back.

sillywoman i think he meant because your partner is a potential witness to murder and you don't know who reads this forum.

em, it's not suggesting weaning before 6 months but to add solids earlier surely? I breast fed mine for a year but also introduced solids at 4months. I think this article is being misinterpreted as encouraging mothers to stop breastfeeding when it certainly isnt.

maybe they are just selling loft insulation...in which case they will look a lot less dodgy if they say so instead of talking about doing surveys and being sent by the government.

well either to persuade old ladies that their houses needed unnecessary work to fit in with 'regulations' (''you should have received the information blah blah in the post'')or worse case scenario to gain entry into your house with one of them as a distraction person.

men saying they are on govenment emmission surveying team currently ringing door bells in Nutbrook street(Bellenden area)yellow jackets and vague id citing ''head office''. I said 'so which department are you from in the government.' He said 'emmissions' I said 'environmental agency?' he said yes. I said 'I think you are a private ecompany' he said 'yes.' 'So you are not from the govenernment?'....They may not even be that. Anyway, sent them packing.

we've had a few recent cases of children being knocked over, killed even, crossing at green man crossings locally- where lorries have shot the lights or snuck in an illegal turn- so personally I am very glad to have lollypersons even if they seem superfluous to you.

I'd love a Waitrose in Lordship Lane and would still shop regularly at small grocers, greengroces in Lordship and Nunhead Lanes. The only place I would no longer go to would be sainsburys. Also I like the ethics of the workers owning Waitrose as part of John Lewis Group and can imagine it might create some more permanent employment too.

How extradordinary- so they went for residential planning permission which excluded nursery use and then are opening as a nursery anyway.. I wonder if it has been sold for nursery use- a lot of people live there. How very wierd.

workmen banging away all christmas bank holiday- yesterday and today from 9am.

she was there today, bought a pie.

I didnt wish him dead. just ill. but Ive found my wishing has no influence on the outcome of reality anyway.

yes the pie lady puts all the effort, not to mention financial investment and risk, into making her delicious pies, which she stands in the cold and sells all day saturday- and some little s***bags wipes out all her work, all her profit, in one moment to shoot up his stupid arm. However her pies spread good karma in our tums and freezers while we hope the little sod overdosed himself.

thanks Eileen, just sent him a link.

thanks Barry!

Hi Barry, I am meant to be visiting my mum in Dorchester tommorow. Internet information shows trains running normally, but realistically do you think it is safe to make the journey from Peckham rye if wanting to get back same day? thanks.

jeremy, it does not have planning permission for both daycare nursery and loft conversion. the two applications are mutually exclusive -only one allowed. The loft is if it stays residential, the daycare if it doesnt do the loft. They were told if they wanted change of use they could not have loft. I understood they had dropped change of use. If it is attempting both it has broken regulations. I know this from correspondence with Tom Buttrick as some of us residents backing onto this structure were very alarmed. If anybody thinks the owners are going for loft while turning it into a nursery, please inform Southwark immediately. Contrary to Isc's experience, I have found Southwark planning absolutely on the ball, we had rogue developers doing all sorts of stuff and they made them undo the work. They were inspecting suspected breach of planning within one hour of getting phone call.

ring southwak planning-Tom Buttrick Planning Enforcement Officer

terrible and terrible Sandra the pie lady. Sandra I bought a pie off you late afternoon and love your stuff, can't believe some little arsehole trashed your well being today. Remember the goodwill towards you far exceeds anything the little scumbag will experience in his lifetime.

I tell them I dont do direct debit. That is enough.

I always knew us Bellendeonians were really East Dulwich.