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blimey, Chelsea and Maida Vale above average for violence and anti social behaviour!

chris the piss is alive and well and has been using his real name of Chris Lynham for a number of years. When he is not running the Popcorn Club or touring with that famous Russian clown, he is doing gigs sometimes even with the firework.

upstairs at the EDT used to house a theatre- the ED Comedy, poetry nights, panto, new plays and also play readings, and the first very successful ED festival all run by the Steve Frost contingent. Although really popular, after fifteen years, the pub thought it more profitable to turn it into a pizza restaurant. . Then the lodge. The EDT theatre was one of the reasons we moved here from Pimlico, it being the hub of our thespian community. Luckily ED comedy itself found a new home at the Hob inForest Hill but I for one certainly miss that buzzing hub of theatrical goings on right on my doorstep- the childrens theatre workshops on a saturday, new plays, one man shows., Something similar would be brilliant- but it would have to be secure, and free from the vagaries of fortune and the changing plans of landlords.

lol

The back of the Ivy House is an original intact edwardian theatre and is already used a lot. If it became a permanent theatre space it might be lost to the many music nights and Pull The Other Once extravagant comedy and entertainments that it is home to.

I love Peckham.

Islington as a borough is a much larger area than smart Upper Street and takes in Archway, Hackney borders, some of Kings Cross, Holloway, Finsbury Park so I'm not surprised that it comes up more stabby in statistics. Finsbury Park always scared the beejesus out of me.

They still make them in Mexico Huey.

A small theatre would be brilliant! What about places that are being currently being developed like the old Wishing Well in Bellenden Road- are their any rooms there, like the old billiard room? Talking of billiard rooms, there is meant to be a beautiful delapidated one inside Peckham Rye Station- how about something like that?

Homeophobes!

We seem to be much better round our way at the moment- I have to say that if there is shit outside my house I pick it up with a carrier bag.

on the peckham rye to london bridge train, as it pulls out of one of the stations- Queens Road I think- if you look down you see a whole road of campervans and I often wonder what they are doing there. Maybe a garage?maybe a campervan hideout?

what a very sad tale all round.

what ??? said- a lot of our children have raised money for Haiti on their own intitiative, a lot of us have given to Haiti through national appeals as well as events sponsored by people we know/our schools. why should we suddenly suspend our caring for our own environment ?

If it wasnt for the plastic around the flowers, they would disintergrate/wither naturally;pollen and petals blow away ...and more poignantly represent the fragility of life...or is that a health and safety issue?

''hahahahaha - Who'd have thought that Daffodils would inspire such a fierce debate.'' ..as opposed to inspiring one of the greatest poems of the nineteenth century ? if the daffodils are the pennies of the natural world then its worth looking after them so that the pounds look after themselves.

yes falcoa, but I believe those boys were caught.

JB's comment sounds more like Burgess Park.! The Woody incident shows just how communicative this forum is on anything grave happening. I think we would have a forum full of reported specific incidents if they were happening. After six years of daily walking on Peckham Rye with dog,and ten of walking with children,cycling with children, footballing with children,adventure parking with children- I have to say that JB's experience is not my experience. I suppose it depends what time you go. But I go in the morning with the dog, in the afternoons, weekends with the kids. Once at 3pm in the afternoon I saw a group of boys with several staffies sitting on a park bench one summer. But the dogs were on leads and nothing happened.

what year is your camper Sam, so we can keep an eye out if its parked in any of our streets- part of the reg ?

blast! Ive got lots of ambition but no talent.

Legal, you got to practise with the stilton at home so he knows you have the stilton. We hate stilton and I always buy it by mistake at Christmas,so have supply, but I understand camembert is a good one. In fact now if dog has nose in kentucky fried chicken and is about to start his 'dance' of buggering off with it, I scream 'cheese!'

Ive found pocket full of crumbled old stilton cheese invaluable for getting dog back when he is focused on all the bones dropped in the park.It s stink can over-ride anything else. Ive also started to teach him hand signals so he is watching to see if there are any coming- it completely knackers his brain. (i emphasise I am the one doing the hand signals, not the dog,)

the day I wrote the post there was one, and as a regular dog walker i did 'tell her' . She was exercising her dog deliberately in the picnic area because she thought it would keep her dog safe. She kept saying she had been told it was alright to do so. Hence in my original post on this thread a reference to it. Maybe in real terms it doesnt actually have any impact on potential picnickers in the winter- but what it does have an impact on is the anti-dog lobby who go 'look, I told you so.'

But Mscrathew, have you not discovered the dog circuit walk in Dulwich park? the muddy track round the edge? its pretty quiet-and then the big field...though the big field can get a bit intense. I still prefer Peckham Rye for dogs any day, or early morning Nunhead cemetery.

This is a Recall issue- everyone should be able to call their dogs back from picnics, joggers, other dogs as a first principal. All dogs (ok most) can be taught recall. You just have to be more interesting to your dog than anything else in the park- I find stilton cheese is irresistable...or rather, doggy does.