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This is clearly the climax of Ken's plan to gridlock our part of South London - roadworks on Forest Hill Rd, Lordship Lane, and Gallery Road simultraneously - brilliant! Sadly it looks like people will have to use the smaller streets of ED like Upland, Underhill etc.

Well Sean, the notices said they were due to start on 3/9/07. They began today, one week late. So don't go all superior on us. If they can't get the start date right, then its no surprise if people don't bother with the signs, is it?

Well Gallery Road is still shut, that's one option shut off. What on earth have they been doing there apart from nothing. I expect it's another of Ken's attempts to give up using the car because of artificially created congestion. I expetc many people will go along Forest Hill Road instead, or Upland.

This is causing massive traffic jams. Anyone seen where exactly it is? Apparently it will take 3-4 weeks. Gulp!

Sorry hoolley, not sure which road you are trying to cross.

I used to like eating in the Anatolia - but haven't been in there since 1980!! - when I moved away. Now that I'm back, I must give it a try again. Just haven't given it a thought for some reason. I think FH road IS a bit of a backwater.

Snorky, which is the best pub for "posh totty" on the Lane?

RV Jones has to be a strong favourite - see Microban's comment at the start of this thread - he played a seriously major part in our winning World War 2 according to a certain Winston S Churchill. A genuine local ED boy who attended Alleyns before it was an independent school (it was a boys grammar in those days).

Have you tried beerintheevening.com? It features most ED pubs. Much better than fancyapint IMHO.

Silly question - maybe - but does it have to be in Nunhead or would ED do??

I've always found the tyre guy on the corner near the police station to be very reasonable - both for tyres and puncture repairs.

Michael P, you are wrong - most of the ice at the poles is on land. If (when?) the ice of Greenland and Antarctica melt, sea levels will rise by around 65 METERS. I'm afraid the whole of ED will be under the sea in that case. I guess parts of Crystal Palace might just be above water. Makes you wonder why you bothered having children...

I bought a caterpault in Tenerife - I use the plastic corks as ammo to scare off the pesky grey squirrels from my garden. One day I hope to hit the b*stard...

When I get married I think I'll take my wife's surname...

Never heard anything so ridiculous in all my life!! Frenchy, what are you thinking of? I tip 1 GBP to my barber. Tipping the man who reads the meter is just unheard of in polite ED society.

Apparently they are relaying the sports field so that they can in future be able to accommodate the 1st X! for football and cricket. The new building encroaches quite massively on those pitches, you see. That's all. It definitely isnt any new buildings apart from the theatre. The NYT are getting a rehearsal room they can use as part of the building. The NYT's founder used to teach english at Alleyns. he left in 1958 to start the NYT. Michael Croft is his name.

Could you take them to the small claims court? Isn't that meant to be low cost, for stuff like this?

I've just bought a deep purple flowered bougainvillea. At least that's what it says on the box it came in. I've always loved those plants, they are so colourful. Not sure how well they'll do in sarf Lundun though. At present its in the conservatory. At some point I'll be brave and put it outside on the patio.

I hope everyone gets what they want, though...

No I absolutely agree, no point worrying about stuff like that. You wouldn't be able to function if you did.

The thing in the Dulwich golf course was a Royal Observer Corps place. Basically it was a partly buried trench-type thing which would have been used to observe and report the location of the various nuclear explosions in the central London area had World War 3 happened. The views from the higher parts of the golf course (including the club house) across London are fantastic. This is what I was told by an alleged expert a while ago. Ghastly thought. Reminds me of my childhood during the Cuban missile crisis. We wondered what we would do when we got the 4 minute warning of incoming Soviet missiles. What would you do in your last 4 minutes on earth?

Presumably not!

Alleyn's used to have an absolutely brilliant jumble sale before the car boot sale. Happened for years until someone invented the car boot thingy. I don't know why it stopped, other than it was felt too be too downmarket for the school's current image. Yes I'm sure that was the reason. No doubt.

Sorry, what is greens?

Yes I agree about Springers, I've always found it good.