Jeremy

Peckhamgatecrasher is right. If it is old, worn out, and you spent many weekends hunting high and low in vintage shops, flea markets, etc then it's awesome. It doesn't matter if it's too big or it sags in the middle, just imagine telling all your great chums how you stumbled across it and just had to have it! However, if you order one from a regular shop then it's tasteless mass produced junk.

lenk Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Huge dubstep night on Wednesdays. I expect that particular craze will be long gone by the time anything materialises in these buildings...

Sounds good.

"La" Surma?

Personally I would avoid Herne Hill too. I'd get to Brixton via Champion Hill and Loughborough Junction.

I actually disagree that the polish tradesmen situation is a simple case of supply and demand. I would suggest most of them came here not because they couldn't get work in Poland, but because they could get paid a lot more in the UK - and have an opportunity to run their own business to boot. Most of them probably returned home because of the weak pound. Good builders with strong reputations will rarely be short of work (in my opinion).

There are loads of bad British plumbers/builders/etc who do a crap job and try to rip you off. We have all witnessed it. The Polish tradesmen had an excellent reputation when they first starting working over here, however I'm not sure that reputation is still relevant. There are a few dodgy ones around looking to cash in on that reputation. But I think a lot of Poles are heading back because of the weak pound.

The fact remains that there is a large inequality between us and our nearest neighbour when it comes to intake of asylum seekers. I think we've covered most of the possible reasons for this. Time for me to bow out of this one now I think.

The point I'm making is... why should some countries in the EU make it harder for asylum seekers than others? To me this seems like exactly the sort of thing the EU should intervene in... spread the costs of providing asylum fairly, make sure that asylum seekers are cared for adequately wherever they go, etc. Or perhaps the EU are more interesting in governing fruit and vegetable shapes and enforcing the metric system.

They are kids... just because the repugnant Jackson family pushed them on stage at this most tasteless of ceremonies, doesn't make their emotions less genuine.

Good post SM, it puts some of the big "news" stories into perspective.

Some surprising stats in there (for some of us, anyway). However, I think it is noteworthy that the UK is #1 in terms of absolute numbers of asylum seekers http://www.nationmaster.com/country/uk-united-kingdom/imm-immigration This indicates that compared with other countries of similar population and economic standing (particularly Italy, France, Spain) we're doing more to accomodate them. But we didn't need statistics to prove this - we already know from the numbers of refugees trying to get across from Calais, that the UK is seen as a more appealling prospect.

ayresc Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I say give them all stab vests, let them protect themselves at least. Stab vests for wheelie bins? I can tell you that these are pretty much standard issue in Camberwell.

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I agree with PGC, I've had to do the same thing before. I had to "moisten" the area to get it to stay flat.

Sounds awesome, are they doing this all summer?

A cat who brings you croissants... I'll have one of those please. Less of the toads, though.

Why don't you get a proper external aerial? I'm not surprised you have problems if you're using an indoor one.

I hope you've measured the distance in metres from your house to the postcode borderline.

Just steal the cones - you don't need to park your car there, someone else is bound to. Eventually he'll give up and the space will be liberated!

PetuniaButtons = TedMax

Relieved that the cat had been found? Even though it was dead?

Cooper Station Blues - Chris Murray

Peckham denial is a common phenomenon!