*Bob*

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you give an annoying relative a kicking down > the pub one night you wouldn?t go waving your > knuckles in their face all the way through > Christmas dinner would you? As totally bizarre statements go - this is one of my favourites so far.

Perhaps the Olympic committee is considering some new ideas for opening ceremony in 2012, rather than knocking-out the same good-old Brit staples as plucked from a page from the Eagle comic, circa 1973? Then again, I doubt it. We'll probably get the Chicken Shed Theatre holding up a thousand bit of paper to form a mosiac of a full English breakfast, then.. WHOOSH.. the 'arras fly over dropping the old red white and blue smoke - and from this, the kids get their cue to turn the cards over and bingo - it's Princess Di, - gawd bless 'er!

Now there's a post which won't be up for too long.

There are lots of good things about The North. But the 'de rigeur' choice of gravy on chips never sat well with me. It just isn't right.

Alan Dale Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > *Bob* - that wasn't funny, rude, disruptive, > controversial or interesting. You've been > assimilated! Enjoy it while you can - a slew of furiously miserable postings is never far away.

Now then. Chips. We are still looking for a decent local chippy. Sea Cow is the usual place because the fish is usually good, but chip quality is variable. And I don't like 'posh chips' - you know - those chunky, quite hard ones. Chips should have a certain crisp to the outside but a certain mush in the middle. And it helps if they're a bit stuck-together. The finest chips in the world, incidentally, are in a chip shop in the Midlands, where they coat the chips in a kind-of orange batter before they cook them. I have not found better. Tried Emily's chips last week. Nothing special. Apparently the on Forest Hill Road (ie Forest Hill itself, on the corner, I think someone said) are highly recommended.

Alan Dale Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > OK then. I do find East Dullites seem to spend a > lot of time feigning disappointment at the arrival > of Foxtons. They do. It's a subconscious self-loathing thing.

I think you just call it 'feigning disappointment at the arrival of Foxtons'.

Brad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I do find Nunheadians > seem to rant on and on about that fish shop. I think you'd call it 'clutching at straws', Brad.

Australia is the most overrated country in the world. What's even more irritating is that you fly over several hundred more interesting places on the way over there.. but you only realise this on the way back.

Third World or not, it's in Zone 2 - with excellent transport links and home of the mighty 'Silver Buckle'. Beat that, Malawi!

LuvPeckham Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- ....and Bob's your cross dressing auntie This is why I tend to avoid the 'forum drinks'. I sure you understand.

Surely the 'issue' with music on mobile phones is the dreadful scratchy sound quality. In my day, if you wanted to treat/inflict your music on the general public in shared public spaces, you at least had the decency to make sure they could hear it properly. If it didn't need at least 4 Ever Ready PP9's to power-up, it ought not to be seen out of the house.

I heard they just found out how much the jam costs on that little market stall.

You can get plenty of natural light in a basement.. you can have as many windows looking-out onto 'light wells' as you fancy. Drop some of the garden down a level as well and have doors leading-out from the basement. Oooh.. I'm getting all excited now - I may have to have a lie-down. Given the proportions of the average victorian house and the original windows it's been designed with, I'd venture to suggest the basement could be lighter than the existing ground level.

Now you're for it, Maurice.

Didn't you know..? 'Going down' is the new 'going up'. Digging-out a basement is a great idea if you can afford it. Live reasonably normally in your house whilst the work goes on. Get those subsidence problems sorted hee hee. A good one would cost you ?150k+, but if you think about it in terms of getting as much as 50% more living space and then look to see how much it cost you to move and achieve the same, it's starts to make sense.

HA HA HA doh!

downsouth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's been converted into flats last time I saw - > seven if my quick glance was accurate. Not as far as I understand it.. it's being marketed as a five bedroomed house with posh new fitted kitchen. Maybe the developers had a change of mind half way through. It's obviously a fantastic house with (potentially) an amazing garden. But I'm still not quite sure who would want to pay so much cash to live.. there..

Aye. That's the sucka.

You can't have it both ways, Maurice. You can't have the area and the architecture. I wouldn't have minded a nice little Georgian flat-fronted number, but there aren't any in SE22. And if there were they'd be, er, quite expensive. Anybody seen inside the ?1.7million house for house for sale on the corner of Peckham Rye on Forest Hill Road. Opposite the Co-Op. That's Forest Hill Road, Opposite the Co-Op and 1.7 million quid.

Amusingly, whilst I was typing that last posting, a brochure for (you guessed it) Foxtons just plopped through my letterbox. Nice and glossy. Much more impressive than the cheapo ink-still-fresh flyer which Winkworth rushed-out only last week. Nice pictures of the management. There's Warren, who manages sales. He's got a nice round friendly face and his fingertips are meeting in that classic Gordon Brown trust-me style. And then there's Anthony (lettings). He's doing more of an aggressive Blair-style horizontal hand 'I mean business' move. There's something in the eyes I'm not sure about.. but I'm sure he's keep the tenants on their toes, so.. whatever. That's it! I've decided to sell-up. Goodbye, everyone!

My God, downsouth! What else have they done?! What have YOU heard?! Was it Foxtons by the grassy knoll? Is Shergar tied-up in the back office? Is the property thing just a front for a worldwide fleet of cruel whaling ships?

I have heard that Foxtons eat babies and are singlehandedly responsible for poverty in Africa.

Is it me, or has the arrival of Foxtons stirred a few 'new posters' into action on the Forum? Spooky.