Cyclemonkey

Lowlander, whilst accidents are alway horrid for those involved cycling on the pavement is illegal and dangerous. I am a cyclist but being an adult i cycle on the road. I am increasingly irritated by cyclists who peddle at speed up the wide pavement at the Peckham Rye end of East Dulwich road. On Tuesday i was nearly hit by a cyclist as i walked down to the bus stop outside the Costcutter.

No bread makers here!! - I hand bake my bread - usually using Sainsburys own brand flour. Although i have been known to make sourdough which i presume is irredeamably middle class. i shall have to tell my old dad, a tenant farmer who left school with 1 O-level and has done manual work all his life that eating smoked salmon now marks him out as a middle class snob and he should desist immediately or be taken away to be re-educated by the Peoples Commisariat of East Dulwich.

I can't see what is wrong with smoked salmon and scambled eggs for beakfast - lovely. however i would imagine your average middle class person probably doesn't dine on this every day for breakfast. In a small survey of the middle class people of my household reveals that breakfast this morning for me was Sainsburys own brand branflakes and a blackcurrent yoghurt - Mr Cyclemonkey had some bread that i made the night before with a cup of tea. Not sure whether this meets with middle class breakfast approval - must try harder tomorrow.

James one of the issues i should think is that Lordship lane is very busy and tight for space - not helped by people parkign on both sides of the roads. You also witness some very bad driving and lane positioning = perhaps people unknowing enter the bus lane more than some of the large red routes where things are clearer or smaller roads that are elss busy. A clear long term objective would be to reduce the traffic on lordship lane and do something about all the cars parked there - often very badly.

Beef has never beena "cheap" food. If your burger is cheap then you are eating horse bum or floor sweepings reshaped into a burger. There are plently of wholesome, cheap cuts of meat but beef generally ain't one of them. Believe me, haivng grown up on a farm there is nothing snobby about wanting good quality food. Ehere i will conceed there is hilariousness in london where people do not really understand seasionality and costs of production so therefore do not really know anymore what a fair price for good quality food is and can get seduced by words such as locally sourced and artisan. Louisa has a point about some of the more stupid shops in ED/Peckham - the fact we have a "farm shop" is fairly laughable and the General Store in Bellenden road is outrageously priced. Good quality food should be accessible to everyone - you see people in towns in Italy and France buyign the best they can afford. We seem to have tuirned food either into an expensive hobby obsessed with provenance or as an exaggerated badge of working class pride to eat the cheapest shit imaginable. There is a middle way and that is often reconnecting with how food is grown and produced the real effort and costs involved. That is why i will happily pay good money for decent meat and cheese but laugh you in to next week if you try and charge me ?2.50 for a cupcake or ?3 for a tiny jar of fruit jam. (both of which hapepend recently at a Peckham food market)

That is an oddity but is the data on a postcode or ward level? Is there more bus lanes under council control in Ed than other areas of Southwark? (red routes are under TfL control)

Rules exist for a reason - we have to share limited space in London and fines are there to deter motorists from taking actions that are dangerous or cause inconvenience the majority. If you don't want a fine i suggest you don't drive in the bus lane. It is usally made pretty clear what motorists can do to avoid such fines. I have never known a group like motorists for special pleading and whinging. You live in a city with some of the cheapest and most extensive public transport in the country perhaps if motoring is so expensive and difficult try walking or getting the bus once in a while. Those of us without cars have to do this everyday - including carrying children, buggies, five bags of shopping etc.. it's cheaper and has the side bonus of keeping you fit.

Well that's good news the old pub site has been turned in to something good it hasn't been the Adam and Eve pub for a long time - it was empty for a while and before that was a series of venues known for poor behavior of certain customers (i believe there were rumours ocne that it was going to turn into a lap dancing venue) so given all that i'll take a developments of flats i can't afford and a bakery.

It's just a mansion block with a communal garden - what's weird about that? Fl0wer i don't think it is an HMO - just a block of flats - it is fairly normal for blocks of flats to share bins. Often the management company or freeholder will deal with bin cleaning. I lived in a medium sized private block in camberwell and we had those massive industrial bins and the freeholder used to organised haivng the bins cleaned every six months or so. i am thinkign now we probably need to clean the bins we share in our little four flat block :(

and additionally the Tesco on East Dulwich Road closes at 11pm

Hmm - a bit out of the price range of this "young professional" and i prefer my house not to look like it's just fallen out of a house developers catalogue.

There's a 24 hour costcutter at the end of East Dulwich road (near the Tesco!) Whilst i have concerns about Tesco dominance my immediate concern over the last few days has been the odd rotting smell that has been hanging around the car park of the East Dulwich rd Tesco.

A separate room from the living room, not an open plan space with a kitchen that looks like it has been built in a coridoor. New conversions never provide enough kitchen space. My purpose built, turn of the century flat has a good sized separate kitchen with enough room for a table and chairs. It also has cupboards and a larder.

Half a million and you don't even get a proper kitchen?? Truely there are people out there with more money than sense. I saw a 3 bed semi on Peckham Hill street on offer for ?800,000 the other day. Who is buying these houses???

I don't - it wasn't very good. I think people have hit the nail ont he head - the space is awkward and doesn't work well for a bar whatwever the offer. In general old shop spaces do not really make good bar spaces. If you notice purpose built pubs in London tend to be on street corners where the building can be designed for a much more genial space

It's always been very empty. We went there a couple of weeks ago after dinner on a Saturday night - a pub cannot survive if it only has about 5 customers at 10pm on a Saturday night in the summer. I wouldn't think this woudl be the last closure in SE15/SE22 Over the last couple of years i have been astonished that London and in particular our area seemd to have bucked the recession and more and more cafes, pubs and restaurants opened. Our household cannot be the only one that suffered the twin body blow in increasing bills and a decreased household income. We certainly spend a lot less on going out than we did 3 or 4 years ago.

Ahh sounds like it then. I was just suspicious because someone mentioned that there seemed to be parties there regularly every weekend with DJs so i wondered if the party was a slightly more professional operation.

As i said upthread it sounds like someone stretching the lines between private and commercial parties. It would be very very unusual for the council to grant an licence for an outdoor event with music to go one after 11pm (one of the reasons Franks only has a license until 11pm) you don;t need permission to have a private party on your own property (however you will be subject to noise legislation) however form the descriptions from people nearby these do not sounds like private parties - if they have professional DJs and seem to be held regualarly every weekend i doubt it is someone having a BBQ for their birthday. I would report them to the council but mention this as well as even if the party is free - if it is regular and is a professional type operation they will need a licence or at least a temporary event notice and will have to comply with various safety demands.

Sound sliek there were two different parties - our was at completely the opposite end of Rye Lane. The one near us stopped at 11pm mercifully - i think it helped it was clearly on Southwark property so maybe they were able to exert a little more influence on their tenants? You should get the noise team involved. Sounds like the guys near Aldi are taking the piss - fine have a private party once in a while but if you are getting DJs in and having an event on a regular basis that sounds more like a organised event - if they don't have the appropriate permissions - even if it is invite only they could be in a lot of trouble. I think we may be seeing a bit more of this recently - partly due to the hot weather and partly due to Peckhams continuing reputation as a cool place to come for a night out - we may be getting more party minded visitors and and indeed attracting more "party" residents who don't seem to have the need for a 9-5 job like us longer term residents. We need to be clear with them - come here and have a good time but respect the fact that whilst it is a "cool party place" to you to many of us it's home and we don't appreciate being kept awake by loud music on a work night.

Hi, I'm not going to add any comments on the current debate as i am not parent to a child that is schooled around here (my partner has a child at school in North London) If it helps put things in perspective i went to a primary school that had a number of "bulge classes" whilst i was there - our classes were around 30 - 40 children and there were a number of classes held in temporary class rooms/the school hall and lunches and sports activities were on a rota system. (and this was in the mid to late 1980s when quite frankly state schools were seriously underfunded - we had outside toilets that froze in winter, almost all my primary school classes were held in portakabins and we had no onsite kitchen so lunch was brough in from other schools and always cold and horrible!) This mainly happened due to a unexpected increase in young families in the two villages the school served (mainly due to a serious building programem of houses in the 1970s and 1908s encouragign young familes to move there out of the local town) and a serious lack of funding (the old Victorian school had been on a waiting list for rebuilding for many years before i joined and only happened in the late 1990s i think) Of course school is not the only influence on a child and there are other detirminates of success but i came out absolutley fine and there was no detriment to my early education (although i remember being annoyed by the split lunch times if i could not have lunch with my friends from the other classes in my year)

Seems to be quiet now. Big thanks to the Southwark noise people, quiet after 8 hours of this i'm grateful for a bit of peace. Definitely worth my council tax money!

We're opposite! I have had a very trying Sunday. I think we may have been talking about 2 different things. I am off Peckham Rye and this is the first noisy thing in the immediate area this summer, i think it is a private party on the estate. I haven't heard the Rye lane thing, could it be one of the bars. I know the Bussey building do stuff on their roof but i think they end at 11. There was an after Pexmas party in Holly Grove last Saturday but that was done by 11 (cos i was at it!)

Hi all. The one you are referring to i think is a party outside in the Council estate off Fenwick Road and East Dulwich Rd. It's been on since 1pm today. Council noise people on their way. I'm not near enough to Rye lane but is it perhaps Canavans pool place, i know they do late ish parties however all inside i think. I really hope the noise people deal with it soon, i've had about 8 hours of this now and it's wearing a bit thin. I went and spoke to the guy running the party earlier, he was perfectly nice but seemed astonished that anyone would find the noise annoying or indeed than i might want to get a decent nights sleep before work.

Yep done, they are on their way but apparently very busy tonight. Seriously am i the only one who has to go to work tomorrow?

Right i have told the Council now as it's 10pm and they are still going strong, which is a bit rude for a Sunday night i think.