jim_the_chin

yes, I do, i've never known them to cash the chque until after we've started. give them a call, they're quite approachable. It might be that they've put him in a class and not told you.

i remember bejam in woking, it was the last stop after being dragged round godawful shops all morning. didn't they become iceland?

you should new thread this - it's the last non-gentrified pub in the locality and it'd give people a good chance to moan.

back on topic, i saw under the old motor traders sign that they pulled down is a very old one that reads 'cooperative society' suggesting there was a bit of community up there once. before the chinese medicine people turned up I wanted to turn that shop into a British style restaurant, like St. John's in Smithfield, as it was an old Kennedy's butcher shop with all the old decorative tiles still in place.

maybe not everyone wants to be rich bob, maybe they have enough customers the way it is, maybe they're happy.

why do they want passing trade? they trade on word of mouth. its just a bit olden days in that respect - they're like a community restaurant. we're all a bit too wrapped up in global branding to understand that this sort of thing still goes on.

my 4 year old seems born to play rugby (welsh grandparents - related to jp williams of course, as is everyone in wales it seems), i beleive the peckham panthers is where i should be sending him, any reports/experinces?

Alan, don't mention the UR We are SUBUR

muttley, i was thinking it was north of peckham road, wells way perhaps. cracking house it was.

i do think if they keep putting flashy restaurants and gifty shops in ED then we will need a car park - i'm with you on that one jeremy

http://www.passmoreedwards.org.uk/ i'm suprised that i'm struggling to think of an outstanding building in the locality, all i can think of are the art deco places atop horniman heights, but they're se23 really

my boy picks up the red elastic bands too, trouble is he puts them in his pocket and it cost us 70 quid to get them removed from the washing machine drain pump! lol

how can a CPZ lose money?

cheap journalism, cheap paper

there are loads of beautiful houses around there so don't be sniffy about moving, it's only a mile away. i'm having to consider *shudders* forest hill.

don't forget jumpers over shoulders when it gets a bit chilly

there's not room to change your mind in that shop

sounds a bit ridiculous to me - parking outside your house is a bit of an unreasonable demand these days.

the Southwark Liberation Party - previously known as the People's Front of Southwark. (or the south london stress)

C.R.E.D. The Campaign for a Real East Dulwich. East Dulwich, not East Clapham I've noticed some of you like a moan about the possible future of ED and the dangers of it becoming clapham etc. Why don't you all get togther under a banner and start lobbying people, handing out leaflets, even staging events to get into the SLP or even the nationals. It may be that some chains wouldn't like the negative publicity. i would do it but i don't really think its a problem

i've also googled the name on the j-cloth packets in the past, and at that time found that it was a company which was going into liquidation or something like that. nothing to do with charity at all. i'm much more sceptical now. i tend to use the 'no cash in the house' response. (and, no, i don't remember the name of the company)

congrats to bawdy nan for an informed answer. there is absolutely no housing for those in desperate need of it at the moment. there are derelict properties all over london that could be used for this purpose.

as i said above, having a surplus right now in mental health means you're likely to have it lifted to pay for the acute (medical) trusts shortfalls. so, perhaps flying close to the wind in terms of budget and keeping assets to one side is not a bad thing after all. i also reiterate that the emergency clinic is not being shut because it's a great, if expensive, service. it's just not viable to keep it open for the small numbers who use it. true, the funding crisis is being used as a bit of a smoke screen to reorganise inefficient parts of the service. but, like closing the 'bins' years ago, it needs doing. edit: oh, and how much would you do stuart bell's job for? 8000 staff to deal with and outside pressures. i wouldn't do it for that money.

i worked in windsor walk 10 years ago - i remember watching the last houses shut up, and seeing the old couple at the end who were the last survivors. the old lady used to scrub thew doorstep surrounded by derelection. it was a poignant sight. at the time i thought they were waiting for that couple to leave before they redveloped the whole site. i really doubt it's been deliberate though, its their inability to act that most often causes them problems.

But, by suggesting its a deliberate strategy you have to picture the board of the Maudsley, including lay members, sitting around a table and deciding that a few million pounds are more important than people in distress. The alternative view is that the emergency clinic is an expensive service used by a small-number of people who can be helped by a more responsive type of service delivery. Your talk is pure tabloid-ese, with a suggestive raised eyebrow at the end. It finds something anomolous and attributes it to some non-descript evil intention. The property angle is a red herring. If you know anything about the management of NHS trusts you'll know they're riven with bureaucractic mis-management, rather than malevolent financial speculation. I would say that the South London Press has its own mixed agenda in the need to find stories to sell papers, and well knows that a 'campaign' shifts copies. I would trust the intentions of the Maudsley over those of the SLP.