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This is a great idea, Brendan, I am gonna write to the lovely Tessa asap. Let's hope others do the same, save those lovely pubs!!

PPolly, I hope you are right, but oil has just reached $140 a barrel, they are predicting it will soon reach $200, and air fares next year will rocket and many airlines will go bust. Apart from that, the news is all good (NOT). Sell that house abroard before it is too late.

Is this the website you were referring to, LibraCarr? http://www.noparkingtickets.co.uk/

pathetic and utterly feeble as a post, IMHO

I work in East Dulwich and live in Beckenham. The 176 from Penge is easy enough, plus a little walk at the start.

Funnily enough the (fairly) new BMC in Sydenham seems very popular...there's always crowds in there when I drive past in the evening rush hour.

The First Surrey Rifles had a long connection too with Alleyn's CCF. When they were disbanded in the 60s, quite a few items from the battalion were presented to the Alleyn's CCF, which still has (for instance) the engraved silver bugles which are used on their Remembrance Sunday parade at the Chapel in Dulwich Village, when around 150 Alleyn's boys and girls are in attendance (with about 20 from Dulwich Coillege). The ceremonial uniforms of the FSR's CO were also housed at the school's Officer's Mess for many years until they were transferred to the Army Museum in Chelsea in the early 90s.

as to the open day, you'll have to consult the bodies concerned...

I'd love to visit it - after all, it's the dead centre of town.

Yes, Asset they turned it 45 degrees - in Nepal etc it is always shown with the 4 main lines straight up and straight across.

Alleyns don't have a sports club. They have the facilities, it is just that we can't use them/

A survey I had sight of a couple of years ago showed that Alleyn's pupils came overwhelmingly from local postcodes (SE21, 22, 24, 5). SE22 was second only to SE21. Significant minorities came from Blackheath, Balham, Clapham, Battersea, Beckenham and Wandsworth. I would be surprised if things have changed around that much in a couple of years. Certainly, it seems likely that SE22 people would stick with their excellent primary schools till 11. Of the 125 places the school offers at 11, 40 will be filled by its Junior School pretty well automatically. So it is around 600 applicants going for the remaining 85 places. A number of those will be applying from private juniors and preps. Apparently, before their Junior School opened in 1992, 85% of Alleyns intake was from state primaries.

Turkey IS a lovely country, and your friend is very wise to sell. The cost of flying there will go throught the roof in the next few years as oil gets inevitably much more expensive. Few will be able to afford to go there very often. The bottom will drop out of the market totally I am afraid. You could go by sailing boat I suppose? Or hope someone invents a way to fly that doesn't use a diminishing resource?

There are of course two good local pools at JAGs and Alleyn's....

It is good to hear mostly encouraging things about the Charter. They has been similar news about Kingsdale recently, too.

No, DM I think it deoends on income...the plan these days is to give bursaries to people who couldn't afford to go to the schools, rather than scholarships to people who might be rich anyway. That's partly due to the government threatening to take away charitable status of the schools. Alleyn's wasn't fully fee paying until Wilson abolished the direct grant grammars (which it used to be, like Manchester Grammar) in 1977-ish. It like Dulwich was 90% free places until about 1970.

I believe Alleyns has had some lead stolen from its roof(s) - at least once if I'm not mistaken

I'm definitely voting green - their candidate is even better looking than Boris!! No seriously, I think I will vote for Sian. She has the policies I support.

ebenezercm, is that Mary Datchelor?

I switched from Barclays to Virgin One a few years ago and it was really easy - I mean it. So don't hesitate to change if you are unhappy. I would recommend the One account too - I have nearly paid off my mortgage since I made that move.

I may be going blind, but I couldn't see any mention of Camberwell's tube in that article, Alan....

You can read the article online, here is the link http://www.dulwichsociety.org.uk/newsletter/200712-12-15.shtml Merry Christmas all Mike

I tried Omrith on saturday. It was very good, nice decor, good food, pleasant and firendly service. Thanks for recommending it!

M&S in Bromley, Croydon have bureau de change so you don't have to go up to town. Just a thought.

I think if you brought it to their attention, yes they would be moved. Frankly, it is thoughtless and unprofessional, lazy and also very disrespectful to the people living in that road. The clueless types that drive those vehicles should spread them around other roads. Of course, that would inconvenience the little loves because they'd have to rememember where they left their beetles. Its far easier for the empty headed estate agents to have them all together. If that was my street, I'd be round straight away to give the boss a large piece of my mind (which is very small).