Robert Poste's Child

Gardenia, if you're close to N Dulwich station a good fallback for getting into the city is the 42. It starts at the bottom of Sunray Ave and although it's a small bus you can always get a seat, even on train strike days. It's not the quickest but if you've arrived at ND to find trains are cancelled it's probably easier than heading back to ED or P Rye on the 37. Also worth having a shortcut to the Network Rail live departures/arrivals board as it's usually more up to date than station announcements, even at LB itself.

If you like Cote, there's one close to HMS Belfast/London Bridge Station.

Disgustingly arrogant, inconsiderate, bad-mannered woman in the library. God, there are some low-life people around here sometimes.

I expect even in deepest East Anglia life has moved on since then. God, I hope so.

Now you're being silly. Places like TKM, Pret, Starbucks et al don't invest without a much bigger guaranteed footfall than they'd get around here.

LadyNorwood Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Robert Poste's Child Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Good lord, where did some of those nominations > > come from? There are one or two, particularly > in > > the W Dulwich area of SE21, that I had quietly > > thought must be due to pull the plug soon given > > how empty they are. > > > Which nominations in WD do you mean - I'm curious > to know.... If you click on the SE21/22 category (it seems to cover all parts of Dulwich together) you'll see which ones I mean...

Good lord, where did some of those nominations come from? There are one or two, particularly in the W Dulwich area of SE21, that I had quietly thought must be due to pull the plug soon given how empty they are.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I visited the Wembley one today. Much easier to get to than I thought as it turns out Wembley's on the Jubilee line (I'm ashamed to confess that on my mental map of London it's somewhere completely different). Not hugely exciting but enough to make it worth a trip.

I guess that's why I want to go - still a country girl at heart.

I'd really like to move out to the country but I'm finding it difficult to square with work and I know I couldn't sustain a long commute. Very envious of anyone who's managed to make it work.

I'm going to be a bit cold dressed like that, aren't I?

Halloween is not a season. It's one evening.

maxxi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > and rows > of warm baby mixers sitting in half an inch of > water on a broken zinc cold shelf. Where I come from, if another girl asked for a pineapple juice you knew she was difficult.

The way I understand it, in English they look exactly the same but in a sentence the gerund basically functions as a noun. 'I'm loving that' - present participle. 'Correcting another person's grammar doesn't win you any friends' - gerund.

Oh no! I thought it was going to be a proper pub, like when they were pubs not bars. Any moment now someone's going to apply words like 'interactive' or 'virtual'.

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > El Pibe Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I am thinking that I'm finding myself using the > > gerund too much. > > I am loving that. I know I'm a pedant, blah blah, but those are present participles... Sorry.

When someone comes in who isn't a regular, there is total silence for two seconds, though it feels much longer to the person who enters. Somewhere between the first and third round, the landlord will ask the newcomer where they're from and what they're doing around here. Everyone else eavesdrops. The atmosphere lightens noticeably. (Where I come from there are still pubs like this.)

There is a dartboard, and a pool table in a room out the back, but no fruit machine.

The walls are nicotine yellow and slightly tacky to the touch.

It was all the drinking on an empty stomach, sorry.

So sorry about your dog. Have you tried www.borrowmydoggy.com? It's like webdating, only much nicer as it involves dogs.

I guess if there was no rumour up to now then this thread's the start of one.

You would be well advised to remove those names before they report you to the police for something worse, like libel or harrassment. I hope Admin deletes the thread.

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They had strippers everywhere in the 70s and 80s. > > Mainly at the BBC. Also a regular feature of life working in banking.

Might depend on the country you're in.