indiepanda

I can think of plenty of places that make me slightly tense... it's just I can think of a good reason for all of them. I think the place that makes me most tense is my office though... sign I need to get a new job!!!

Bus drivers aren't paid anything like what tube drivers get paid - they get around ?10 an hour.

The author of the book posts on here as IngridB so I'd suggest you drop her a private message and see if she can help you. Have to say I love the street art around here, especially the ones by Stik. It's not at East London levels in terms of the quantity of street art, but the quality is high. Good luck with your project.

I've been feeling quite "Christmassy" this year - think it's in good part happiness at being off work all month (don't tell me I am lucky - it's because I worked on the project from hell most of the year and didn't get to take my leave when I should have done!). I have had my very fake Christmas tree up since the start of the month (my place is really too small for a real one) and am enjoying lighting the room by fairy light in the evenings. I started my Christmas shopping early so am pretty much done now, though I do need to write my cards and wrap the last of the presents. Christmas itself will be a one night visit back to family in Essex where my sister will be cooking the traditional lunch and then my aunt doing a buffet tea in the evening (they live quite close to my sister) and my dad will be doing the driving so I don't have to nurse a lemonade all day. Boxing Day will be going over to my other aunt's in Twickenham and back to ED in the evening. What I am really looking forward to is a friend who emigrated to New Zealand nearly two years ago is coming home to her family in Ireland for Christmas and will be visiting us in London after Christmas. We've really missed her on our nights out in East Dulwich and it will be fab to catch up.

I read a book called the Psychopath Test by the journalist Jon Ronson which among other things talked about how they select people for these reality TV shows, and it left me with an unpleasant taste in my mouth, really exploitative. The woman he spoke to sounded like she was booking guests for a program like Jeremy Kyle (but said similar applied to things like Big Brother / Wife Swap etc) and she talked about targeting people who were "just mad enough" - so schizophrenia was too mad but depressed and on Prozac was their perfect guest. If they weren't on drugs they weren't "mad enough"* to be entertaining. I had always wondered how they'd managed to get people onto those shows when they were going to end up looking so bad, and that was the answer. *her words, am not labeling people on anti-depressants as mad - I had to take them for a while myself.

TFL currently says: RYE LANE, SE15: Bus routes 12, 37, 63, 78, 197, 343, 363 and P12 are subject to diversion and delays in both directions on Rye Lane, SE15 due to emergency roadworks. Buses are diverted northbound from Peckham Rye, right Copeland Road, left Consort Road, left Clayton Road, (routes 12 and 343 then go left Hanover Park, right Rye Lane and rejoin line of route) ahead Clayton Road and rejoins line of route. Buses are diverted southbound from Hanover Park, ahead Clayton Road, right Consort Road, right Heaton Road, left Peckham Rye and rejoins line of route. From what Strawbs said it's going to last all week.

We don't have enough housing as shown by the high house prices and given the number of shops have closed/turned into charity shops or estate agents in the time I've been here, I would suggest we have already have plenty of shops, so I would support turning the bookies back into housing. Do we know what the old building opposite the actress that is now being worked on that had been boarded up for years is going to be turned into?

Count me in.

NewWave Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > go to Roullier White on Lordship lane, > they are great at giving advice and have lots of > lesser known scents. > I would sneak in a bottle of her current perfume > and then the sales associate can identify the > notes within it and pick a scent from the same > olfactory family. Great advice. They have a really fab selection of scents in there, I have to steer clear if I am not in the market for a new fragrance as I invariably find myself tempted if I go in. Though the matching toiletries option is also a good one and probably the safer option. I've been bought perfume as a gift before and it's never worked. A friend once bought me Chanel No 5 on the grounds it was a classic that everyone would love. Not me - really can't stand it and struggled to convince myself to wear it - ended up giving it away.

Sema's on Underhill Rd (the end near Crystal Palace Rd) is my favourite. Huge portions (and that's even when you ask for a small cod and chips) and very tasty.

Any space for a newbie? (newbie to curry club that is)

miga Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Admin - is it technically possible to have a > user's post count displayed in the actual post? > In the business section the way I attempt to gauge > genuine recommendations from stooge ones is by > looking at the recommenders' post count. This can > be tedious if there are several user names I > haven't seen before - a post count next to the > user name and timestamp in the header would be > perfect. Some other forums I frequent have this > feature, but understood if there is a technical > limitation. That's a good idea - I know when I look for recommendations I always check the recommender's posting history. If it's a name of someone I know in real life that's the best recommendation, but I have picked up decent ones from regular posters I've not met, having checked they don't just post recommending person X's business every few weeks.

"Never Ever" - All Saints

Never going nowhere - The Bluetones

I got the impression a lot of the reason shops were changing hands in East Dulwich was due to landlords putting rent up to unaffordable levels for the current tenants rather than locals wanting posher shops. I am just pleased that Lordship Lane isn't ending up full of empty shops and that people are still willing to try to make a go of new businesses here. Oh, and that it isn't becoming a clone high street with nothing but chains. Good luck to all the new businesses starting in the area.

Ah, but half life said the number in the bus route stands for the number of pubs, so we could have 13 for the P13 route. Not sure if the writing would match up to the usual high standard if trying a pint in all of them on the same day though!

I get the train into London Bridge later in the morning and it's been a mess recently, much less than 95% reliability. The train I used to get most days now only goes as far as South Bermondsey and the one after is often delayed in both arrival to board and in waiting outside LB to get a platform. Am seriously considering not using the train and getting the 40 instead. I did in the week after the bank holiday when there were no trains into LB and though it took longer on average, it was more consistent as well as being cheaper. Plus I walked to the start of the route and got a seat which is a rare occurrence on the train.

bawdy-nan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > yes, indiepanda - describes my experience > exactly. Trying to solve this by going private > isn't an option for me and my family neither is > taking my children out of school to queue up at > the surgery for several days in a row to try and > see a gp. Definitely worth changing GPs, from what I read on the forum they are easily the worst in ED. Private's only an option for me because they put one in my employers office - think it was because they were fed up of losing staff time when we were having to take time off to go to the doctors. The GP system just doesn't seem to work anymore.

Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Try ringing at 0800 and asking for an appt on the > day. You could ring later and ask for a > cancellation, or you might be offered a > consultation with a prescribing nurse. I saw one > when I had a bad chest and she prescribed > antibiotics. I have to say she was more attentive > and thorough than some of the doctors I have seen > in my life (at DMC and elsewhere). I used to be with DMC and I would ring for an on the day appointment at 8 and sometimes still be re-ringing 40 minutes later having kept getting an engaged signal, only to be told when I finally got through that they had run out of appointments. I also tried queuing outside the door before they opened with many others, and even then found by the time I got to the front of the queue all the appointments had gone. I am now with Forest Hill Rd and they are generally better but for non-urgent stuff I use the private GP at my workplace - it's not cheap and I resent paying for something I've already paid tax for, but it's worth it to get appointments at a time that suits me, and usually with much less in the way of delays when I get there, and a longer appointment slot too.

Mine is quite elderly - it's Bosch and Bosch bought Worcester in 1992 and I am told thereafter labelled their boilers with the Worcester brand, so reckon it's going to be over twenty years old. I am replacing it this winter because it's starting to need a couple of minutes to warm up before you can have a hot shower, and it was quite badly installed / suspect is less efficient than a modern boiler would be. But if I didn't have the money I reckon it would do another winter or two. Does seem to have gone a bit downhill over the last year or so though - it didn't take this long to warm up when I bought the house in 2011.

Yes. I asked one of the staff at the station and he said they only have three lines coming into the station working compared to the usual four so they've cancelled some trains on the route into London Bridge from East Dulwich, he expected that would be the case until January. I am starting to think I might just save myself some money and get the 40 all the way. The amount extra the train costs isn't worth the hassle.

There's a university there, though I have to admit it's further north than I would have imagined Middlesex to go as it's in Hendon. The university has a real tennis court, which is the only reason I know it's there.

Having spent yesterday walking along the Thames Path starting from Windsor, the plane noise here seems pretty limited by comparison. There I could barely hear my ipod as the planes roared over and couldn't imagine sleeping easily through that. Having said that, my boyfriend lives in Richmond where the plane noise is worse than here, but he has lived in the area all his life and has no difficulty sleeping through it. I have never been woken up by the planes. I might hear them if my window is open and I am awake, but not otherwise. Car alarms or drunks shouting in the street on the other hand.... But then I didn't expect the city to be quiet. I moved here to get away from small town country life where it was too quiet socially, can't expect to have the excitement and hustle and bustle of city life and then have complete silence when I want to sleep.

Yes, mine was filthy Monday morning too... and being lazy it's still filthy now.

I suspect there are some errors in some of the property listing sites. On Right Move at the moment there is - a 4 bed on Ulverscroft, nearly 1,300 sq ft, listed at ?649,950 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-28463325.html - a 2 bed on Cornflower Terrace - i.e. further away from Lordship Lane, listed at ?675,000 - less than half the size at 622 sq ft. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-29422404.html I'd love to say it's the Cornflower Terrace one that looks wrong - but I suspect based on other properties around the same price it's actually the Ulverscroft one that is a mistake.