
SimonM
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I think blokes that got all 6 totally wrong should get a poitn too....(6)
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For the last couple of years I have ordered ours online from our bank website (HSBC), and the cash arrives the next day. Not sure how good the rates are compared to, say, M & S, but the convenience is unbeatable.
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Brum v Bolton 1-0 Chelsea v Blackburn 2-0 Everton v Man Utd 2-0 Pompey v Liverpool 1-0 Sunderland v Reading 2-1 Spurs v Arsenal 2-0 Hammers v Boro 1-2 Wigan v Fulham 0-0 Man City v Villa 2-1 Derby v Newcastle 0-2 SimonM
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Family Friendly Caf? in East Dulwich
SimonM replied to AnnieFen's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
>>Both the traditional cafe and trendy cafe have a place in East Dulwich and more than enough punters wanting different >>types of dining/cafe experience to be successful.<< Yes I agree, but thinking of how many cafes there are already in ED - and I just mean "cafes" both trendy/traditional and excluding all the restaurant/bistro/pubs-with-food/full meals joints - I wonder if we are getting close to saturation point? -
>>These lights will be kept, mark my words.<< I agree wholeheartedly. The argument the Council will employ for retaining them will be along the lines that as everyone will after two years be used to them being there, it would be dangerous to remove them....
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>>And THEN at 08.37 this morning a leaflet was put through my door which said " We notice your blue bag/box was not >>presented today" followed by other stuff and ending with "you may be fined ?75 if you do not recycle". >>This was delivered, hours before the recycling collection people came. I was incensed. I am an avid recycler and >>composter. In << Then their leaflet was unquestionably a libel and perhaps you should write back pointing this out, and promising to pass on any similarly libellous literature to your solicitor....The leaflet was not inside a window envelope I suppose? :))
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Family Friendly Caf? in East Dulwich
SimonM replied to AnnieFen's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
>>except a small greasy spoon.<< It is though a very good "greasy spoon" (tu) - and not that small inside anyway - which is long established and quite popular...:)) Has the cafe roughly midway between the Green and the ceramic painting place now closed? -
Water main works in Lordship Lane
SimonM replied to Townleygreen's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Perhaps the guys who do these roadworks also have kids and want to take them on holiday? >:D -
>>Then it just comes down to whether you value good service and if so how much are you willing to pay for it.<< The problem with this though is the next step in the progression: where the waiter/bog attendant/whatever instantly assesses each new customer for their "tip potential" and then proceeds to render a quality of service designed to realise that potential. The waiter blatantly and shamelessly working one table (to the detreiment of the adjoining tables simply because he rightly surmised these were businessfolk on expeses or rich americans or whatever and would tip him royally at the end of the meal used to be one of the real curses in eating out...
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>>Blue mountain are opening up in Sydenham as well,so they cannot be doing that bad.>> Good for them, and I hope they prosper! But the Forest Hill branch did not last very long did it?
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England v Russia 1-1 Scotland v France 1-2 Iceland v Northern Ireland 1-2 Slovakia v Wales 2-0 Czech Republic v Rep of Ireland 2-0
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>>I'm not sure that exact terminology was required to make the point that the cafes aren't owned outright by the >>operators, and can be periodically put out for reassignment and/or competitive tender.<< Er beg to differ - and at the risk of getting boringly technical - but if the cafe operator had a proper commercial lease rather than just a licence then they'd have a good deal more security and be much harder to get rid of :))
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>>I don't think park cafes have "leases" - in the usual legal meaning of the term "lease" - because the licencee (unlike >>a lessee) only has access to the premises when the park is open and not 24/7." >>Believe me that do, and the access issues you've detailed as no different to shopping centres that are not accessible >>to shop leaseholders during hours when they they are closed. Well - ahem - I am not sure what system LB of Southwark employs with regard to cafes in the Borough's parks, but I was basing my assertion on what happens - or used to happen - in the LB of Lambeth, where the park cafes did indeed have 3 year licences and not full leases. (I happen to know this because at one time I was the luckless lackey who drafted them :))) The point I was obliquely making though was that, if the current licensee isn't cutting the mustard then he/she will be out sooner rather than later, both because of the shortness of tenure but also because licencees have less statutory protection. Given the evident,raging popularity of the place they do seem to know their market however - even if the place is not much to my taste either.
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>>Lovely Sean, fancy a roll up?<< I soemtimes get confused....a "roll up" is just a cigarette right? :)
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I don't think park cafes have "leases" - in the usual legal meaning of the term "lease" - because the licencee (unlike a lessee) only has access to the premises when the park is open and not 24/7. Licences are often of only three years duration rather than the usual commerical leae term of 12-15 years and usually just go the highets bidder - who in turn is only going to maximise profit if the customers get what they want.... Anyway with the gallery cafe and the two excellent places around the corner from each other in the Village I think it would be commercial suicide to pitch the place at that level.
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That ploy of slotting all potential buyers into the same 45 minute slot is not, I believe, exclusive to Foxton's - and it has much to commend it. You only have to tidy the house up, bake bread and crush coffee beans on the floor that one time and not more or less continually for one thing. And I suspect he is correct it can/does drive the price up.
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Excellent post Bob...agree with every word
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Are the East Dulwich Deli Sausage Rolls the best?
SimonM replied to Marmora Man's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
>>PS: Dried apricot in a sausage roll??!!<< Yes, and it is a triumph! Highly recommeneded although I wish they did a slightly small size too. I suppose now words is getting around they will sell out as quickly as the lovely mini-quiches that stall does too....(6) A long time since I went, but Ayres in Nunhead used to do wonderfully peppery sausage rolls... -
OK for real oldies... Dr Kildare Fireball XL5 Rawhide and Champppppppppppppppiiiiooonnnnnnnnn The Wonder Horse....
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Scotland v Lithuania 2-0 England v Israel 2-0 Latvia v Northern Ireland 0-0 Slovakia v Republic of Ireland 2-1 Wales v Germany 0-2
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>>so that Louisa can have her old-fashioned sing-sings.<< Isn't this carrying the New York analogy a little too far then? :)) And if you're hoping to rope in Admin. he's going to insist on a sizeable lounge....
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>>On White Horses<< Oh yes!!!
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6 Lordship Lane (& other shop planning applications)
SimonM replied to Nero's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
>>I think that she may be able to claim obstruction of a public highway in this situation and ask the police to enforce >>it, which would be a shame for William Rose hence the solution they have now is more or less the best for everyone >>(apart from maybe a bigger premise that is) That sounds doubtful to me as, firstly, the public highway is the road and not the pavement and, secondly, it's not an obstruction if you're actually moving - and as William Rose employ gazillions of assistants even the longest queue moves at a pretty fair lick... But the "solution" is obviously the diplomatic way to go, especially if WR still harbour long-term aims of buying her out and need to keep her sweet. -
There is certainly no crossing 20 metres away and you really do need a pedestrian crossing between the doctors's surgery, park entrance and bus stop on one side of the road, and the parade of shops on the other.
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All this messing around appears to have arisen from the fact that the lorries needing to "access and egress off of " (sic) Colyton Road could not cope with the island halfway across the pedestrian crossing. I just wonder why said lorries could not access the site from the Nunhead corner of Peckham Rye, turning right into Colyton Road? Omce again the poor old pedestrian has to suffer... And the answer to speeding cars is enforceable speed limits, not creating a mini-gridlock twice a day.
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