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is this post ever going to get back on topic?

Hmmm, Strada is a good Italian, but I hate chain stores. It would be just another notch in the belt for chain stores taking over ED. I'd rather hold my breath. A good independent Italian restaurant will open eventually.

yum, pancakes! Yes, please.

Ganapati is the ONLY Indian restaurant I will eat at now. Try it and you will see why. The rubbish available on LL is not even worth a sniff.

SE22 is a great magazine and the editor (Angela) is very nice and a very caring member of the ED community. The only issue with the mag is that Angela does not yet circulate it to all of ED. The new expensive middle class house I've moved to isn't in her catchment area (yet) so I rarely see it any more. :( Don't know if she uses recycled paper though...

Just checking - we've had a few dodgy buggers on this site pretending to be something they're not.

15th is out for me - I play cricket Thursday nights.

Snorky, you've pretty much complained about everything that is East Dulwich. Sorry but you'd better move to Brixton, Peckham or Camberwell where things would appear to be much more up your street! Cheap and tasteless. After all, you get what you pay for. Mockney, you take what back?

who is who in the snaps and who showed up that didn't make it into the photo's?

Wales is great - it's got many many sheep and even some cliffs to push them up against!

Spookstudio=Carlos

Until I read Paul's statements I would have agreed that the roundabout should stay. It's a great "Welcome to East Dulwich" icon and kind of segments LL from the not as nice Grove Vale. I would say though that if this is the only reason we want to keep it then there are other way's of achieving the "Welcome to Dulwich" effect and maybe getting all the good things that Paul suggests. How about a big pretty floral arch above the entrance to LL stating "Welcome to East Dulwich Town Centre"? It won't get covered in rubbish, it's a pretty icon, it safeguards the entrance to ED and probably makes a better statement than the roundabout. I've got to be honest, I can't see that this roundabout is terribly efficient. I'm a pedestrian mostly and often see traffic backed up down LL right up to the roundabout. Especially on Saturday's. It's difficult to cross at the roundabout and the backed up traffic down LL makes it difficult to cross anywhere on LL. Cars frequently sit stationary on the road around it spewing out fumes maybe more so than they would if they were waiting for the lights to turn green and blocking buses from getting through. When I DO drive I avoid the roundabout and LL like the plague as I know it's such a bottleneck. The roundabout itself is pretty, and is an icon. But I think we can still have an icon (the arch or similar), and the better walking and traffic conditions that Paul states. We all know ED could use improved public transport options, so why not start here by streamlining things a little for ALL and letting go of something that really doesn't offer much. You're living in the past man!

Pavillion - not bad but a bit boring. Sema Thai - YUK - how can anyone call this decent food. A RAT wouldn't eat it...!? Thai Corner - YUUUUUUM!! Try the omelette, the red/green chicken or vege thai curry, or the chicken with veges and cashews. Best value, great food, great atmosphere. PS - the time slots are 19:00-21:00.

Sounds like Southwark Council doesn't think it has enough money...great, just what we need: more Council Tax rises! http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/southlondonpress/southwark/tm_headline=council-tax-hike-warning%26method=full%26objectid=18498529%26siteid=50100-name_page.html

I've got a nice house but not yet bought curtains, so I'm using blankets. :(

I lost my Gollywog when I was about 4....in NZ. Any chance he's been smuggled to ED and I could be reunited with him? :(

Carlos, are you sure you live in the area? How long have you been here?

HA, I don't go off topic do I? By the way has anyone seen my dog? Mark I'm glad my rep has helped re-instate freedom of speech on this forum. I'm all for freedom of speech, and going off topic, so long as: 1) only registered members are allowed to go off topic, not one hit wonders afraid to show themselves, like Snorky. 2) everyone agrees with ME! 3) actually scratch #2 as if everyone agreed with me I'd have no one to disagree with and people wouldn't get annoyed with me. In the interests of not going off topic - GOOD LUCK PETALS!

Stoned, more like...

beatnic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Imagine what it would be like if everyone just > talked things through like this everywhere... Yes, that's called being a Politician beatnic, isn't it?

27th? Can't make it sorry. Out of town. Have fun!

- More trees - Traffic lights (with ped crossing) at juntion of ED Grove and Lordship Lane. This will also allow better access for the #37 bus to get in and out of that road as it's a tight turn. - Spruce up the footpaths with cobblestones like (or similar to) the one's that have gone down in NorthCross Rd. That should include the pavement area's that are actually owned (but not used) by retailers. Some of the walking surface outside some of these shops is appalling and the owners don't give a hoot about it unless they actually use the space. This is especially obvious at the south end of the town centre from the shoe shop down the the tyre shop (where Moxon's is about to open). - Get rid of the phone boxes outside Somerfields. Honestly, who uses them any more? If they do get used then move them to the nearest side street so they don't block pedestrian access in one of the busier parts of LL.

LOL, I'll give you that one Steve. That would be sux eggs from the M&S frudge!

I guess every dog has his day, I'll let you have that one mockney. ;-)

Mark, how about listing the posts in newest to oldest format (i.e. newest on top) so we don't have to scroll down to the bottom of the page past posts we've already read?