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also, in older people, dementia type symptoms can come from urinary infections and dehydration. But I expect you have probably checked this out.

yes most bathrooms were brought out from the back and put at the top of the stairs, the other half of that 'off room'/bedroom creating the corridor to a modern bedroom. We looked round loads o fhouses when we were buying and there were quite a few with the original arrangement. We still have separate reception rooms too- quite small when you have friends round but fantastic if the children want to watch telly and you want do do something else. The victorians were brilliant at making the best use of space. If you have ever wondered why so many unrennovated houses do not have a window or door at the back of the kitchen ,but a side looking window, while french doors go out to the garden from the reception, this is because the scullery and kitchen was the realm of the day maid- which most families, however modest employed- and you didnt want to be looking at her at her work while you were in your garden. See Noel Cowards film 'This Happy Breed' to get a good gander at the interior of the victorian/edwardian house in the inter-war years which was unchanged till the seventies. The absence of a telly as focus of a living room also made for a totally different arrangement of furniture- chairs in a semi circle round the fire, a work table at the side.

mine is still laid out like this pretty much- The loo off the scullery has been insulated, its external door walled up and an internal door put in. Our scullery is our kitchen and the old kitchen is now our dining room. We recently removed what we thought was a very sturdy shelf from our dining room - it turned out to be a side crossing chimney that would have been above the copper. We had the back bedroom and the bathroom behind it. We are currently moving this- but we've had it like that for ten years. It was lovely when the children were small to have a huge bathroom attached to their cosy bedroom. But now it is annoying to have to walk through a bedroom. We still have some original victorian lino in patches stuck to our top landing. The original wallpaper in the hall revealed itself to us when we had a radiator leak that removed the wallpaper on top. We have partially restored this with help of varnish and stick on flowers! Our house is pretty characterfull and gothic, but many would find it dark. We bought it off an old lady and we are the third owners since it was built. edited to add: our bathroom renovations haveonly just removed the piping for gas lamps which lined the back bedroom.

Oxleas woods is great for exploring. I havent tried the caff but apparently it is very nice.

Greensky, if it does really well they would maybe have to make another video in the host country of South Africa and you could be in it then.

We were told off for testing our tent erection in Dulwich Park.

What song will ignite our boys with the wherewithal to really get somewhere this time. Well I think this might do the trick! what do others think?

''I haven't seen her for ages, she's probably married some silk scarf clad bloke'' or joined a witness protection programme

you could ask him if he's OK. Then you'd know.

Hi Ive got a bag of childrens books. I live near Adys Road and have a car. I am happy to drop off stuff at Brixton as long as someone comes with me to fight off the traffic wardens while we unload.

This is a very scaremongering thread about one of the many possible but extremely unlikely things that can happen to your child, if I may say so. Most of these awful dog stories you hear, like awful child abuse stories, happen within the childrens own family and home. Peckham Rye is a very safe park for both dogs and children as regular users will know.

lame curtains still there, theatre still there but painted a deep edwardian plush red, with the addition of a glamorous dressing room for the thespians and musicians and the pool room has lovely cosy sofa and chairs.

yes last night they were not on. But half midnight the night before they were - could they have been triggered by a fox? thanks for advice everyone, I will ring school too. Oh and I think the floodlights are a security thing to deter thieves/vandals- its a three way light suspended over the playground.

Last night I went upstairs to looks at the night views for the first time from our near-completed loft conversion which will shortly be our bedroom, imagining stars, wavering trees,twinkling street lights. The horror! It was like Colditz. We are two streets away from St Johns, but the playground security light clears the houses on amott road and floods straight into our new room. What it is doing to the houses immediately oppostite must be even worse. It is not appropriate lighting for a residential area- its more fitting for an out of town factory or airport. Anyone else getting this light pollution?

do the GGT even exist? or is it a wind up to draw out the inner daily mailness of east dulwich?

I hear they have been dressing as clowns

Is this thread as long as the one about the Mind shop yet?

I live in South Stoke Newington. Which is Peckham.

I think she was in a domestic violence situation and had some kind of breakdown. She lived at the other end of my road though I didnt know it till that incident. I'd see her from time to time after that (clothed) in the street but she didnt give any sign of recognition so I didnt engage her. She was completley zombified at the time of the naked incidnet and I thought she had been attacked. I believe she's moved now.

Peckham Rye I believe is the correct area identification for address even though its not Peckham Rye.

a naked woman once wandered our road and she was clearly mentally ill. We covered her up with an eiderdown and called an ambulance. It was very sad. She had a small boy with her. I never saw that eiderdown again.

Look on the bright side. Perhaps the people who own the house are the same property developers who have bought the flat next door to my house, erected what we experience on our side as a seven foot fence and turned the light out in our sunny south facing garden in the twinkling of an eye while erecting whatever they want behind it. Now that would be karma.

its not like stealing a car though is it. Theyre not going to sell it on. Its more borrowing.And I mean that as an analogy by the way.

I think back to the early eightees- Bonnington Square, Hubert Grove, Mildmay Grove, Engelfield Road N1,Victoria Parks Cadogan Terrace (a lesbian separatist squat that one)- all empty council properties that would have been demolished if it hadnt been for the squatters sitting it out until councils had a change in aesthetic values.For councils it was cheaper to rebuild than conserve. I had friends living and squatting in incredibly derelict slug-ridden properties. The houses survived because of them and those roads are now preserved and genteel mostly private victorian terraces instead of rat runs and high rises that the council wanted to replace them with. Alas they could not save the beautiful old and huge houses on the site of the now yuk Angel Estate in Brixton which could have provided much social housing in themselves, nor Coronations Buildings the site of M15. Our loss. Different from the GGTs maybe, as this house has a future and an interested owner, and it seems rather opportunistically motivated - rather than direct conciousness raising action in the belief property is theft, development rides on the back of blah blah blah . Nevertheless please don't forget squatting has a radical and useful place in British history that has often been regenerating and creative..

Couldnt spot which one it is. Is it the Dulwich Baths/fusion centre? about time.