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Well I am. Which reminds me I've got an AA meeting to go to. Obviously I still drink but under a different name. Swigs last of glorious '66 Armagnac and rushes for the door, byeeee.

Marvellous, well done. Three cheers for Mockney. Gets down from the sofa, swigs large balloon glass of "bloody hell this stuffs good, may I have another?"

I haven't been in here before. Just thought I'd pop in so I could avoid Big Brother. Yikes! Bloody hello there's rats in here. Leaps onto nearest sofa, screams like a big woosie. Get me outta here. Oh! no one's just run up my trouser leg. Help!!!!

Oh God! It's started then. Missed it last night. I'm desperately going to try and avoid it as it is so damned addictive but I can somehow feel it's pull already. I may have to stay out for the next month or so while it's on. A good excuse to take a holiday abroad I suppose.

El Rincon Latino on Clapham Manor Street is rather good. Haven't been in Barcelona for ages despite it being at the bottom of my street.

I like the Kent/Sussex borders, a little bit into the country and not too far from the sea but I'm very happy right where I am thank you. A bigger house would be nice though.

A family that eats together stays together. Having said that I live on my own. Doh! I love to eat out with friends in the local restaurants or uptown, although that can at times prove to be incredibly expensive but it's usually worth it. Rarely get takeaways these days, always cook for myself, always fresh and never anything from out of a packet. I try to use the local shops as much as I can but confess that I have a weakness for the excellent Waitrose near where I work.

Thanks Asset, rather sinister and violent, but then so are most nursery rhymes. Back to thread. Hello, hello hello.

Hello Asset, come on then, let's hear it, don't hold back.

Hello Dulwich Mum, I'm afraid the Welsh are a breed apart. And you should know you married one. I did a gig in Wales once and had a bit of a run-in with the Welsh mafia (Tafia) and they made me an offer I couldn't understand.>:D<

Growing up as I did in Dulwich Village in the 60s and 70s this was a normal custom, everyone greeted each other with a cheery hello or a good morning or afternoon whether they knew each other or not. This seemed to die out in the 80s and 90s where if you said hello to a passing stranger most people got the impression you were a nutter. It's only since a lot of my friends moved to the countryside over the last ten years or so that I noticed that the natives there still did this sort of thing so I hope it catches on here, but then again if we were to say hello to everyone we met on our busy streets then you probably are a nutter. Hmmm....

That's what worries me Louisa. I demand Wandsworth water!

I hope the pages won't be stuck together once you've finished that Mr Overhill.

Yeah, I'll be nipping up for that. Should be fun.

Good on yer Peckham Perkster for liking your ale and thanks for the info on Youngs. I'm a bit worried about the move of the brewery to Bedford as surely the water will be of a different texture and a pint of Special surely won't taste the same.

I agree that the Forum can be rather addictive but Keef, you haven't got one of those Crackberries have you? Now that is sad.:(

Keef, you're right about the Uplands, the refurb may have ripped the soul out of the place but then it's always been a bit of a dump. Anyway, soon I must venture to the FHT and check it out. It'll be the first time I've been in there for more than 20 years!!! It always struck me as being full of thugs "Oi! you staring at my pint."

It's all right if you want to sit outside in the summer and watch the world go by over a few pints.

Anyone one know where one can get hold of any decent pheasant around these parts, what?

Louisa, I remember when the EDT was an Irish pub back in the 90s and it was a shit hole. I practically lived in that pub between '83 and '87 and it's only over the last couple of years or so that I've started going back in there now and then.

Because Louisa, some people in East Dulwich haven't been around in ED for as long as you or I have and they need to find out for themselves one way or another whether they like a place or not. Why do you have such a downer on the newbies?

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Irish pubs have > equally been doing it in and around ED for > absolutely years!! i'm not completely oblivious to > this fact.. That'll be the Castle then will it Louise?

I'm getting a terrible feeling of deja-vu on this thread. We've been here before haven't we?

I'm not surprised the Clockhouse is having teething problems. As well as changing management last year, Youngs & Co also changed ownership. The Ram brewery has now moved from it's home in Wandsworth since the 16th century and has been bought out by Charles Wells and Co in Bedfordshire. A similar thing has happened at the Dulwich Wood House, another Youngs pub. You can still get a good pint of ale in both of them though, but if it's food you're after take my advice and go somewhere like the Palmerston or the Herne Tavern.

Thanks for that Georgia, I'll try and get along later. Enjoy the rest of your week off.