rob

blimey...

Sean, is Guy Chadwick really mending your sash windows?

NOTE TO DEVELOPERS

Please knock this decrepit, rat-strewn, turd-heavy, tramp-magnet house down and take out the tile warehouse and the harvester while you're there. Leave EE House tho' - thanks.

I'm obviously way off beam on the tapas front as I thought Finca was below par too! It's shut now, hasn't it? I'll stick with Rebato's and the salt yard...

Mrs Rob and I went there once or twice about four years ago and never really liked it. Service wasn't up to much, food was pretty bland, all that sort of thing. If you want tapas you've got to go the extra mile and make it up to Rebato's. Everywhere else is a bit lame in comparison...

The trouble for Chener is the same as the trouble for all other book and record / dvd shops. I can sit here in my chair and order anything I like when I like and have it delivered to where I like. The idea of trudging down to Chener - or HMV, or Virgin, or anywhere, really - to root through and see whether they a) have what I want in stock b) have it at the price I want c) are going to make me stand in line for ages just for the pleasure of buying it is just ludicrous.

Mrs Rob and I lived in Camberwell for a few years before moving to ED seven years ago. Still go there for:

1 Hoa Viet on Camberwell Church St - best Vietnamese in S London

2 Ginseng Noodles - a proper SE5 landmark now. great noodle soups, juices and fried noodles. Lovely people too.

3. the chinese supermarket.

4. that's it.

used to like:

Funky Munky

The Kerslake

King William IVth on Camberwell New Road - before it got bought by property developers and turned into, well I'm not really sure what they did turn it into...

Me and Mrs Rob went to Dulwich Tandoori - the "vintage" looking one next to Somerfield - a month or so ago and it was great. Always avoided it before, but the food was very good and the service quick and friendly.

One of the all-time great routes, the 176. Up there with the 19 and the 31 in my book... Sorry, is this a bit off-topic?

A friend of mine used to know the (ex) landlord of The Castle. he introduced me to him one evening. I got home at 2:30am :(

We went to the Rye Hotel yesterday for lunch. Big mistake. Admittedly we wanted to go to the Herne but that was already booked up last Monday - as was The Palmerston - so The Rye it was. We'd been to TRH a few times before - about 12-18 months ago - and it was really good. Great pies, steaks, roast hams, lamb shanks, all that stuff. But none of that was available yesterday. The badness breakdown goes like this:

1. Brilliantly sunny Sunday. Garden closed.

2. Stuck in horrible tent out the back.

3. House wine "rough as a badger's tongue".

4. One roast on - chicken, the least adventurous roast imaginable - which actually meant one pre-cooked leg (thanks!), cold, pre-frozen "roast" potatoes, a half-burnt, half raw Yorkshire pudding and some greasy fried veg.

5. That'll be ?10.25 please...

On the plus side - the three under threes all enjoyed their fish goujons and chips - so the deep-fryer's on form at least.

Went to pay, four adults, a couple of pints, a bottle of cheap white, three little ones (no starters, no puds). Nearly a hundred quid.

Escaped to Petitout immediately afterwards - which was, as ever, fantastic. But do yourself a favour and avoid The Rye Hotel on Sunday lunchtime.

If you like Simon & Garfunkel you should try Tobias Froberg. Actually, even if you don't like S&G you would still like him...

Old Waterboys fans would love it... It's called Book Of Lightning and it's out middle of April. It's fantastic, honestly!

New Waterboys album

Plan B

Findlay Brown

The Pierces

Alela Diane

The Earlies

Maps

Cherry Ghost (new, very good...)

Trademark

You are all correct - Snow Patrol are awful, but this remix of Chasing Cars is fantastic...

We had a great time - it was good to meet a few of you. We also came home with 40 quids worth of wine, so Kate should be applauded for her great sales technique at the very least!

Thanks Posh Mum! OFF TOPIC ALERT!

Should we trade links?

I can't be sure but might this be the incredibly well-written and informative piece about Mix CDs that was in in the music section you mentioned?

I loved Spymum's thing. But I also really liked the incredibly well-written and informative piece about Mix CDs in the music section. I wonder who wrote that?

Banksy - very 2002. End of.

We always use Carriages - 020 8693 1000 - and they've always been really good. I always feel like I might be about to get knifed when I walk past Panther Cabs.