SimonM

There used to be (may still be??) a Chinese restaurant on the outskirts of Peckham with its very own Elvis impersonator....

>>yes, well admittedly Miranda was a few years back now and she did have the slightly distracted look of someone just 'passing through'<<< Miranda Richardson did live in Forest Hill in the middle/late 80s...."a few years back" you say? :)) Could have been visitng old friends of course...

I suspect it has suffered from the downgrading/demolition of Dulwich/St Francis Hospitals. IIRC this used to be quite a popular watering hole for the doc's'n'nurses, on or off duty. :)-D

I thought the site plan actually promises both a Sainsbury's in-house cafe as well as a Tarbuck's? :))

Interesting! I really thought noone did these days because the Sunday Papers are so heavy and huge. I suspect we are outside the catchment area though - we get papers deivered 6 days a weeks from the Wood Vale newsagents which seems to cover Underhill.

I think a car park is a terrible idea. I would suggest that all it would do would encourage even more cars into ED for shopping etc: build a 500 car car-park and 1000 cars will arrive. Roughly the same principle applies when motorways are given more lanes... As for an M & S, I'd welcome a "Simply Food" branch if it took over the Somerfields... Anyway I think what ED really needs is a newsagent who will deliver Sunday papers...>:D<

Isn't there supposed to be one on Dulwich Golf Course too? (allegedly one reaon why That Woman bought one of them Barratt houses near the College...)

Oh excellent! I trust you have now given him the "Don't you ever do that to me again lecture?"! And is he microchipped by the way? If you have not then trust me it is worth every penny.

>>seeing as EVERYONE in ED seems to use the mighty Ocado Waitrose, wouldnt this be a FANTASTCI idea that would benefit all members of the community as well as supprot out most popular local business<< There is in truth the germ of a fabulously good idea here, as long as you extend it to the likes of Pretty Traditional's & William Rose's delivvery vans too. (And I know the likes of Tesco & Sainsbury's also do home deliveries, but really one hs to draw a line somewhere eh what?). Thanks to online shopping/supermarket home delivery I & no doubt scores of my near-neighbours now never have to inflict our exhaust fumes or use up valuable car parking space in and around Lordship Lane/Dog Kennel Hill. I get all the heavy boring stuff - cases of cat food, dishwasher tablets, loo rolls, cans of curried baked beans etc etc - delivered cheerfully to my door - nay to my very kictchn table! - freeing me up to do the quality food shopping locally and car-lessly at my leisure. Mind you I think William Rose could go a step further in the environentally-sound delivery direction by dumping the van and instead acquiring a number of old-fashioned butchers' bicycles - the sort with the big wicker baskets attached- but I suppose these might be chased by foxes as well as dogs hereabouts and that hill up Lordsship Lane is a bit of a bastard....

What on earth possesses parents to name their offpsring after garishly yellow rubber gloves?! (?)

>>Anyone mentioned the lovely lovely people who work in Paine and Hunter?<< Good one! My reading glasses were given an emergency repair free of charge by the very helpful lady in there. But kudos too to Prettys and William Rose - the latter seem to employ about 9 people behind the counter and every last one of them is helpful and friendly....

>>No attempt to explain the locking of the door<< Simply not so. TW gave a perfectly reasonable explanation for why the door was lcoked. Generally I think it would be nice if we could discuss, praise and occasionally criticise various ED establishments without matters degenerating closely to flame-wars..... My opinion for what it is worth :))

>>there used to be a Poppins too.. anyone remember that?<< Oh yes! Years and years ago when I tried to make a point of sampling every greasy spoon in the area, I rashly ordered gammon steak and pinepple in Poppins. When it arrived the "pineapple" turned out to be half a tin of cold chunks poured over a thin round pink slab....

>>Simon, I had no idea you read anything but dog-eared copies of Men Only<< Well there's gratitude after I shamelessly gave your book a plug! P.S. Please forward the latest "Men Only"...

>>>for those of you that do like our shop and mention this and I will give you 10% off and a free loaf of bread.. excluding the marked down table all at ?2.00.. xx<< Well call me shameless and brazen but I do like the shop, and even liked it when it first opened and seemed to have only fresh pasta on sale. And yes it is packed to the gills with merchandise but I think we have been so spoilt with vast supermarket-style aisles nowadays we have quite forgotten what "old fashioned" provision stores used to be like - basically any empty space is lost choice as well as lost profits amd you need to look where you are going... Just wish it still sold the cans of Illy coffee beans to save me the trek to Dog Kennel Hill...

Found this about the St Trinians films on the "Independent" web site:- "Meanwhile, the famous "gym-slip" uniform worn by pupils in both the Searle cartoons and later films was based on that of James Allen's Girls School in Dulwich, south London, an independent school where Searle sent his daughter, Kate."

I came to ED in 1975 and the only restaurant that was there then and is still there now was The Curry Cabin - which is odd really as it always seemed one of the worst Indians in ED - The Surma opened either late '75 or '76 I think

On the right sort of day I think it would be quite marvellous in Dulwich Park - somewhere close to the cafe perhaps?

The bakery stall on North Cross Road on Fridays & Saturdays does a terrific chocolate cake.....

>>>Walking round this morning i caught sight of another terrific house, it slipped my mind before - the snazzy white "stealth" house behind the Jeannie Avent gallery on Lacon Road. All the Blue Montaineers must of seen it now the hoadings are down<<< That one was the subject of a feature in either The Grauniad or the Observer (I forget which) not so long ago. To me it looks decidedly incongruous just there...

>>And us Mums could use the door bell too! Good idea.<< Surely that's what the au pair is for? Pressing shop doorbells and/or discouraging the unwelcome foisting of additional offspring.

>>I am the one with the braids in my hair<< Don't they get in the way somewhat when you are laying bricks? B)

>>> Anyway, what do people think of the new flats being built on the corner of Underhill and (I think) Overhill? I can't make my mind up:D

>>That looks like the CPT last Friday! I wanted to remain anonymous too - please remove my photo!<< So which one are you then? :))

<< A curious and ill-informed attitude to disability, if you are right on the author DM (and illegal too, AFAIK, if they were to refuse/protest at wheelchair access/use). Louisiana *suddenly very depressed by the idea of braying shopkeepers wishing wheelchair users to disappear*<<< The shop has to make "reasonable adjustment" to be accessible to/for people with disabilities. I think they could successfully argue that the very nature of the interior of the shop makes it intrinsically nnsuitable for ramping/allowing wheelchairs etc inside. As long as they are willing to send an assistant out to deal with a wheelchair user's purchases I think they're obeying both the letter and spirit of the law. Or they would be if they had an outside "doorbell" for such customers to press, as the main post office on Lordship Lane does, and the sub post office on Forest Hill Road.