flong

Worth noting, perhaps, that by their own admission, this lot on Goose Green are not what anyone above 35 would call students. If they're in receipt of EMA, as they say they are, then they are pupils of sixth-form age, not students. EMA is granted only to 16-18 year-olds. It did prompt me to wonder why the hell they aren't living at home with their families. JamesF has come up with the only explanation so far proffered. Do these "squatters" have a better one?

Mark Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So what else does the cryptic press release say? Nothing. Just "Confidential - coming soon to East Dulwich... Den Lodge Private members' club."

I've just seen a rather cryptic press release announcing that a private members' club called Den Lodge is to be opened in East Dulwich. There's no other info on it, other than the contact details of Antic (www.antic-ltd.com), the company that owns the EDT and a clutch of other pubs. Anyone heard anything about this? (Given the name, perhaps its target market will be the local population of foxes.)

I was walking past and saw you getting the parking ticket, as it happens - at least, assume it was you. This spot is a cash cow for Southwark, and their officials check it regularly. As mentioned above, legal parking half-off the pavement doesn't start until about one car-length from the junction with Grove Vale - but the road markings are so faded that you should have a reasonable case.

My favourite snippet in that book is that a boy at Harrow School was "known as Bum Bathsheba on account of his opulent posterior parts"

Kebab and wine The whimpering noise you make the morning after a doner

Fuck yeah! Best of luck to Steve and Bev in Porthcawl (being Welsh myself, I know they'll need it...) I was there on the first night, and I was there on the last. And to hell with the Clapham wine bar that takes its place.

falcao Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Statistically is there a higher quota of curtain > twitchers in East Dulwich then any other area of > London? I reckon a pie chart is needed. That's the whole point of the forum - you don't even have to get off the sofa to go and twitch the curtains.

I've yet to come across a vixen that sounds like Lorraine Chase losing it on the Campari. No corpses - just a load of empty Super-T cans in the front garden.

...does anyone have a clue what's going on? There has been about half an hour of screaming from the Crystal Palace end of the green, and I'm damned if I'm going to get dressed to go rubbernecking.

Pissaro knocked around locally, and painted the now defunct Lordship Lane station (on canvas, that is - he didn't apply a coat of Sandtex to the ticket office). Walk about 200 yards up Cox's Walk from the Harvester and you can still stand on the bridge from which he painted it.

ratty Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Flong, glad to hear the house on EDR has not > caused you too much trouble cos I work for the > organisation that runs it! :) Er... I suppose that there's more to it than that. I've disturbed their sleep with my occasional drunken interludes (breaking in when key is actually in pocket, etc) far more than they've ever disturbed me. Pass on my apologies.

More to the point, there is already a halfway house for vulnerable or troubled adults on East Dulwich Road - exactly the sort of place that gets NIMBYites hot under the cassock and off painting their placards. I have lived next door to it for more than six years, and never had any trouble (except, once, for a week of VH1 being played a bit loud in the early hours. I dropped a polite note through the door, and they stopped).

A gang of six teenagers tried to mug me on an almost deserted train out of East Dulwich. Very stupidly, I didn't give them anything, and they moved on to the only other people in the carriage, battering a young woman about the head and nicking her bag as the train pulled in to the next station. About a year later, I recognised the face of one of the gang - on the front page of the Evening Standard. He'd been locked up for a few years for being part of a "steaming gang". A couple of years after that, I saw him on the front of the Standard again. He'd been sent down for killing Damilola Taylor.

4hw Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have lived on Fenwick Road since September and > have always felt very safe whatever time of the > day and end of road I was walking from. I have not > seen any gangs of youths hanging around - I think > this must be a problem of the past! Welcome to the > area, Jenni. Oh well. Should have tried to buy that flat when it was still nearly affordable.