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the onion tarts are out of this world with onions caramilised and juicy. Lovely cafe au lait- wonderful juice mixtures (carrot apple and ginger is my fave) and yummy thick soups, sometimes cold pea and mint ones. The food is just jolly nice in an unpretentious environment. There's a little garden at the back. Another wonderful caff if you can risk the parking (in brixton you risk a ticket even with a valid ticket)is the lounge in railton road opposite the wholefood shop... The paninis are transcendentally delish and it's very reasonable. They do those portugese custard tarts too. Sofas and plenty of airy space. Well worth the trip if you are stocking up on giant bags of luxury organic muesli/porridge across the road in the heroically and legendarily bitterly staffed wholefood shop . Oh! and me and my lunching chums have started to go to the Frog and Bucket(?)if that's what it's called, the deli on that main drag that takes you from Morrisons to Nunhead. Again, nice soup and paninis, great salads and a bit of shopping while youre there- they do very nice organic suffolk beers at a very reasonable price too, a great accompaniment to this late evening tennis.

Jacks is brilliant but one of the key players has been poorly for a while, so I suspect this is what they are working around . When it's shut I just patronise some of the culinary surfeit of lordship lane which just makes jacks even more appreciated when it is open again.

I think my friend who lives in Worlingham road had the back of her silver van broken into last week too.

so I wonder where all those teachers who are jumping ship have gone to? Who's the competition in the state sector in south east london? the harris academies? or have they taken the private shilling? all these previously selective schools have had to adapt in the last three years- askes, Prendergast, Greycoats, - and no longer have the privelege of choosing their pupils like private schools do. Let's face it, the attraction was the standards of a private school but for free. Is that what you want? So it's not a bastion of middle class privelege anymore. In my opinion that is a very good thing.The school believes in delivering to all sections of society, maybe because it has been forced to do so but Standards, ofsted, sats and gcse's are still just about the best in the state sector...anywhere. Third I believe and that's with value added. ofsted said it was an outstanding school.

I liked the way you could pop in for a beer or glass of wine without it being a wine bar or a pub. Sometimes there was a little bit of live music, once we did our show 'elvenbitch' there in the corner to a few punters, it was such fun. Then suddenly it smartened up and began to take itself very seriously with posher tables. I think maybe that's where it went a bit haywire -as with lots of places the urge to capitalise on success can lose the very qualities that were making it successful. Also the peckham experiment was a very fine name, bringing to mind philanthropy and times when people believed they could change the world through fresh air and healthy eating. and it is very pretty! oh Libra Carr, it would be wonderful if someone could bring it back to life.

trouble up management I believe.

it will provide succour to those who have survived the queue in lloyds bank.

but the peckham experiment(its predecessor) was successful and popular when it was running because it offered people the kind of things they wanted to eat- good sausages and mash, sunday roasts, excellent veggie. I really miss it. Bellenden road has different things going on from ED anyway- it's got artists studios and workshops both on the road and close by . The 'bohemians'- working artists rather than people in funny clothes- tend to snatch their busy lunch breaks in the cross roads caff so maybe that is all a 'bohemian' area really needs. edited for unnecessary apostrophe.

was this the guy morris dancing for the lord? his hopping on one leg was a miracle anyway.

Stokey didn't have a suspicious clown though' no, but it did have a totally random psychopathic killer in Clissold Park.

i thought this man was already in jail.

The normans refused to speak anything but french for absolute yonks.

lost contact lense? delivering those sacks for clothes for pretend charities?

I understood it's not very chloriney-it certainly doesn't have that smell. Why don't you ask them or even take a sample? Ive just gone for a little lunchtime swim today there and there were only three other people in the pool. lovely....

Jags pool is very nice. At half term and school hols it is often very quiet. I like the ease of use. My only gripe is that during times of kids swimming lessons children leave all their gear in the cubicles in the ladies changing room ,rather than lockers,which is extremely annoying for other users. I joined mainly for the swimming.

wildflowers need barren and scruffy land to grow on, I expect it will take time for them to take off properly.

and lovely new benches on Peckham Rye, plus the mysterious fenced bits have now been unfenced to reveal two lovely wildflower meadows full of poppies.

Ive got a close female relative with narcissistic personality disorder. It's impossible to change their scripts through reason, intervention, anger, kindness...you are who you are in their script and you cannot change it. Prettty scarey if they are stalking you though..

The monson(temple grove) intake this year was 35. The school already took children from this school before as it is a local school.It is now part of Haberdashers and As a primary it will soon be oversubscribed. They took it on to make Askes more balanced- it was after all pretty biased towards middle class intake with telegraph hill and music scholarships making up the majority of places. The 'several members of staff leaving' is urban myth. The only people who arent getting in who were getting in before are the outer catchment which was done on lottery- east dulwich I'm afraid....some friends in Nunhead didnt get in but others did.

About two months ago, afternoon time, where I live in the Bellenden Rd area,I was locking my car door - standing in the road to do so- when I saw a small pale hatchback/poss saloon/ waiting to go past on my side of the road. I squeezed against my door to give him room and he drove so suddenly and so close to my car that if I hadnt leapt forward around my bonnet he would have crushed me. As I shook my fist and swore at them they slowed down, opened their windows and jeered. I jumped in my car and followed them for a bit but lost them on east dulwich road. It was a scruffy car and was driven by a youngish white man -poss wearing a baseball type hat-with at least one other white male passenger. I was left in no doubt it had been deliberate, perhaps they thought they were going to swerve away at the last minute. But I am a middle aged woman and was about to pick up my children from primary school and the idea I might have been snuffed out and my kids orphaned for their puerile pranks-gone-wrong was horrible.

Ive managed to see series up to and including series 4 thanks to the good people of the forum, Cazza and Sean. Now I am ready for Series 5- could any kind forumite lend it to me?

actually I think you'll find that that counts as Peckham Village!

No doctor Proctor, it was not, so perhaps the father having been to a very establishment school (mine)then sent his son to a progressive school (yours) or the father, having been irredeemably damaged by a freudian (humus)dip, then sent the son to something a bit more conventional. But a girl from my other secondary school (the one Vicky Ling daughter of Crossroads inventor went to)went out with the younger Hamlyn for a very long time-that is if the younger Hamlyn is still the younger one.I am nowadays rather ancient so I spose he probably is too.

doctor proctor I think I went to the same school as you to do my A levels when they first began to take girls in the sixth form. I went to Paul Hamlyns house once and he had squash courts inside it. But maybe it wasnt Paul Hamlyn I was at school with but Michael Hamlyn- whichever one was the son. I went to a lot of schools altogether- three primaries and three secondaries.

Hey Benjaminty, I went to school with Peter Ling's daughter Vicky.