Louisa

I find most of the parents I am refering to as annoying, obnoxious, arrogant, misguided and rude. Most of these people who I refer to as "three-wheeler buggy" types, tend to think they are the only people in the world with children, and therefore have some sort of right to just blindly force people into the road because they chose to procreate and take the result of this event out in some monstrocity of a luxury fashion accessory. I think they choose to come out at the most inappropraite times of the day, and they usually allow some of their tots (these people tend to have multiple numbers of kids) to walk along without any sort of support, so the child can freely wander in any direction. Children should be seen and not heard, and when they are heard told to shut up.. Equally 'yummy mummy' *type* parents, should be aware that they are not the only people who want to go out shopping, especially at WEEKENDS, should therefore have a little bit more understanding of others. ;-)

I love Thai food, but it would be nice to see a Malaysian or Vietnamese restaurant along the lane. I think the problem for certain cusine nowadays is that it's been ravaged by chains who want to say that this is Italian or that is Chinese.. and it just completely takes away the authenticity of the cuisine... This is one reason I have gone off of Chinese, Italian and Indian food in recent years... Thai food is going the same way I am sad to say... I hate to go back to it, but you cant knock a success, and Le Moulin is a good example..

I love Wimpy.. they still have a shop along Rye Lane in Peckham... there used to be a Poppins too.. anyone remember that?

i'm on prozac - all is well :)

Rumbelows... "dont pay anymore Mr's Moore".. not sure that saying would work round here Ant lol

Yes and it's bizarre that in those days the street was not filled up with them - everyone goes on about unemployed low income single mothers, and yet I see very few of them when I go out and about in places like Peckham or Lewisham, and yet when I am home in ED, I cant seem to be able to move for them! The four-wheeled pram variety so wonderfully advertised above by capt_birdseye is a good example of a much bigger four-wheeled buggy, and yet I luckily rarely see them on the streets of ED, however those bloody three wheeled things are everywhere! Yummies.. please... stay home and watch daytime tv or something... take it in relays to go shopping for that must have stainless steel egg-cup in moo2...

Alan so it's perfectly ok for the three-wheeled buggy brigade to only have to pop round the corner onto LL to get their weekly groceries in the small independents, but the other low income four-wheeled pram owners should have to like it or lump it by going a bus journey away to Peckham to stock their cupboards? Surely you cant have the whole of LL filled up with indepedents that cater for certain income groups as well as chains which do the same? I see no point in Iceland closing for M&S when you have one of those supposedly upmarket Somerfield stores already along the lane..

Mark, it's always certain *types* of people who appear to have an affinity with these larger than life luxury three wheeled monstrocities.. is an ordinary pram not good enough?

I dislike the way people with three-wheeled prams think they own the pavement, I swear these yummies should be made to take a pram test and get a licence and tax disc! ... Perhaps we should petition for a three-wheeled buggy lane along both sides of LL, that way the yups and their wee ones could walk along unhindered by some inconsiderate oldtimer out shopping or even worse a smelly unemployed working class person getting in their way! :) (it's enough to scare the life out the poor kids, those bizarre cockneys speaking a confusing form of English)

Clarkes are already on LL arnt they?

I think there should be a three-wheeled buggy lane along both sides of LL, so that the yuppies are able to freely and openly express their expensive cultural fashion accessories without being hindered by some elderly person getting in their way or common folk scaring the wee ones with their confusing working class use of the English tongue... I think these poor hard working selfless yummies deserve a break, dont you? :)

Grove Vale has always been a dive.. I think it should be pedestrianised and turned into a weekday farmers market!

Manzes is still going in Peckham, it's been on those premises since 1926.. Theres also one in Nunhead called Churchill's I do believe..

Sean it's a very valid point, but please dont use the Guardian to make it, it kind of backs up my current opinions of the way ED is going lol !! :) When I was a child everything was organic, that was just the way it was.. and we didn't pay more money for the produce or even give it some fancy name like ORGANIC... What gets me is a business like William Rose, which was trading in Bermondsey for years without using the word Organic, then it moves into the new look ED, and suddenly the word comes into use, and the three wheeled prams are queueing up in abundance outside every saturday!! it's amusing thats all...

I will do everything in my limited power to make sure Iceland is not forced out by bloody M&S.. I really do take offence to people who blindly come out with ill thought comments.. The store has been on LL for many years and it has a large customer base, i'm sure the yummy mummy community have more than enough overly priced indepedent food shops to buy organic produce at without forcing long standing locals into Peckham to buy their weekly groceries!

lol - lets not get too politically correct here - I hate the fact you cant park a car for love nor money!

I have an awful lot which gets my goat about the new ED, but what really gets me is the use of the word ORGANIC!! ARGHHHHHH... now that really sums things up nicely for me..

I've eaten at the Hungry Horse in Sutton Coldfield and must admit it was a bit bland - but that comes with the territory of eating north of Watford I guess. As for Le Moulin being stuck in the past - well, Eric is French and brought with him many local dishes when he opened up the restaurant, and I cant understand how you can link an old French place to the steak houses of old which may well have put people off the Diane for life. His menu is almost entirely French anyhow, though he will knock up a Prawn Cocktail if your gagging for one. On the topic of traditional food, the chappie who owns Emilys fish bar on North Cross tells me he has been given planning permision to open a traditional London pie and eel house at his current premises, with work starting in the summer.. I bet that would get the young professionals and their yummy mummies running to the nearest estate agent begging to get out of ED as quickly as they came in! haha

Jeremy - Dame Edna Everidge and her sidekick Valmai :)

I quite agree, and there has been a renaissance in places cooking up simple dishes which work, and that is why Le Moulin is still in business, they have never tried to change the formula and risk losing what they have.. I personally dont see whats so wrong with melon balls and prawn cocktails.. they always fill me up.. maybe bob can teach me how to enjoy other foods which are obviously more satisfying, I just didnt know it until now ;-)

The food is mostly rustic French, and yes the older diners probably do prefer traditional cooking rather than some fancy blob of nothingness which costs a bomb and leaves you starving after three courses.. by the way bob whats wrong with prawn cocktails and melon balls? (even half of those fancy places along LL serve these items on the menu!)

There isnt a criteria, you can be a believer or a sceptic! Just come along to the next meeting, you dont even need a camera!

Mark the Dulwich Paranormal Club has been around for years! We used to meet up in Dulwich Park on a sunday evening, but this all stopped about 4 years ago now. I've been going to meetings for a long time, we often meet up in Dulwich Library for group sessions with guest mediums, but the most interesting aspect is when we do our walks and investigations! We quite regularly can be seen walking around Dulwich Common, love investigating the woods, there are some very old spooky buildings up there. Being a tech savvy poltergeist isnt easy mockney, it takes me ages to gain enough energy to type!

Jenny I am a member of the Dulwich Paranormal Club, and we go out twice a week in and around Dulwich. We gain access to old buildings and we all have cameras and other equipment. It is exclusively female thus far, and there are 32 people so far with age ranges from 18 upto 64.

Eric and Margaret love the existing customer base because they are on first name terms with most of them, they will deviate from the existing menu if anyone fancies something a little different or less common (and trust me eric knows his regional French cuisine), and most importantly they do take things on board if they are realistic for the business, but they are not ones for being given advice by people who were probably in nappies when they first started running the restaurant lol, if he needed advice on how to stay open, i'm sure he would have approached Gordon Ramsey by now!