Dez

I think the guy with the old firearms used to work at the Upland pub years ago.

honk Wrote:

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> Imagine if Waitrose opened in ED. That would

> really complete some people's lives.

Wonderful but I can't see Waitrose opening a store around here as they're generally found in better locations and I think ED is still a bit tatty. IMO

Since Jones & Higgins went out of business Peckham has declined

It was good enough for Boris Karloff

KalamityKel Wrote:

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> Dez Wrote:

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> > The council should allocate one car space per

> > property.

> >

>

> Do you live on a very long road with only few

> houses?

>

> If the average road had, for arguments sake, 60

> houses do you really think you could fit 60 cars

> down our roads?

>

> I've expressed my views in the past to a certain

> NO and so I won't go into it again except for

> this... how many in the roads around Herne Hill

> are happy with such controlled parking at present?

>

> Nice idea at the time but not practical or

> particularly fair when it is in action.

I lived in an area which introduced residents' parking and it improved the problem of commuting motorists who clogged up all the available space and then took public transport into the centre of London. I guess it depends on your point of view.

The council should allocate one car space per property.

Where I live I get large vans parked outside sometimes for days. One supermarket owner hogs a space by getting a workmate to drive a second car into the space whenever it's vacated for a while.

Some people aren't as obsessively house proud as others.

Don't think you're allowed to shoot them now and the local council won't do anything about them because it says that the animals recover their numbers pretty quickly after culling. There was a vixen with three cute cubs in our next door neighbour's garden shed a couple years ago.

Perhaps the Mercedes has been placed as a work of art which may prompt us to consider the vulnerability of the motor car in contemporary society.

It sometimes happens when motorists do something they shouldn't have done.

He makes an appearance every so often. I seem to remember there was a thread about him or that scam. He usually says that his mates are just down the road and they'll be along to do the job in a couple of hours. His rates are reasonable, I seem to remember though, so not bad value for entertainment.

A group of us family and friends ate there a couple years ago and found it just as you've described - disgusting. It was added to our must-avoid list of local so-called restaurants. A recent fresh addition to the list is Piaf in the Village after a farcical Christmas Day experience and probably the worst meal I've ever been served. They didn't charge me for it but I would have preferred a nice dinner!

I saw a man steal a terrier puppy out of a car on Wood Vale in December.

Why was the puppy left alone in that car?

Bring back the Routemaster

The Norwegian Blue species is quieter than the green ones.

Unless there's picture of it on the till then you're likely to be faced with that incomprehension. A lot of the bar staff are probably cheap seasonal part-timers.

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I didn't do no grammar at school and always got my quadrilaterals confused with my irregular comparatives.

Eating and drinking outlets seem to be the ones making most profit and the places you've listed are just hobby shops I'd guess.

I'll be wary of them in future.

That's the best time to be wary me ol' china.

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> Negotiate for your tree.

I tried that but even so felt a little guilty at my feeble attempt to rob him of his limited seasonal opportunity to earn a crust. A bit like Jona Lewie once saying that his annual income came only from the yuletide sales of 'I Wish I Could Be Home For Christmas'.

I just bought a small Christmas tree in Lordship Lane and it cost ?25. I checked up and down from the Plough to Goose Green and they were all starting at that price. Up to last year I could usually pick one up for ?10-?15. I guess it's all the prosperous young professionals now in the locality that's caused the upsurge!

Fortunately the recycle men wouldn't have emptied as the contents weren't garden waste. How will you explain the mulchy smell on the kids prezzies?

Although Strasbourg and Vienna don't seem particularly Oriental. I'd be looking for a city that was full of eastern promise.

And if you do fancy coughing up the arm and leg to do the Orient Express then don't wear jeans and trainers! They do go to Istanbul from Paris. Looks good.

Orient Express routes