alba

Hello Kyle - London is a great city, but it is an expensive city - come with plenty of money (enough to last you a couple of months)and make sure you have your air ticket home. It can easily take you 6 weeks to find a room and a job. You might have to be prepared to couch surf if you don't have the funds for a room in a shared house - (and remember for a room you will probably have to pay a months rent up front and probably a deposit too.). Unless you have rich parents or a trust fund you should forget renting an entire apartment. I would advise you to look on gumtree.com for an idea of the types of jobs you might be able to get. It also lists rooms for rent and couches for rent (couch surfing - look under flats/house shares - offers) http://www.gumtree.com/london-flatshare-offered.html. Good luck

I'll be very sorry to see Caffe Nero go. There is nowhere else in East Dulwich that I have found where it's comfy to sit and serves good coffee. It seems to me you can get good coffee and hard seats, or comfy seats and rotten coffee. It's a chain and the thin end of the wedge and all that. But there hasn't ever been any other outlet that's ever combined quality and comfort. (I'm not 90 by the way, I just like somewhere decent to sit).

I gave this woman ?10 about a year ago when she knocked on my door late at night. She said she was a neighbour from further down the street and my house was the only one with a light on. She was desperate for money for the metre - cold children, would return it in the morning. She must have done so many streets, she actually had the cheek to turn up again on my doorstep a few months ago with a broadly similar tale. I was speechless and just shut the door.

there is an old dairy (now a motor mechanics place)in Melbourne Grove, right where it meets Lordship Lane. (so opposite the Police Station).

As I didn't see the earlier post I don't know which chemist you are referring to. However, I can guess it may well be the one that muddled up the antibiotic and cough medicine labels for my small baby. Resulting in my giving the wrong dose. I have never been back to that chemists.

While it's not strictly about eggs benedict (ok not at all)... there appears to be nowhere in East Dulwich serving decent quiche. The East Dulwich deli's quiche offering is a shocker and the quiche in the market is disappointing (altho the tartlets are good). I know quiche used to be a guardian-reading joke out of a Posy Simmonds cartoon but if anyone can recommend anywhere, then you'd make this quiche eater very happy.

Anyone noticed the chap from Franklins is on youtube killing (cooking) a lobster? Tapping East Dulwich or Dulwich in brings this up and quite a strange cross-section of East Dulwich activity too - odd chap holding a boot, chaps larking about in on train station platform, a massive hailstone storm. Is this the dark underbelly of life in East Dulwich? I think we need a few typical scenes of East Dulwich life uploaded - buggies, babes, butcher queues.

The Geordie fishsellers is a well-known scam operating across London. The fact that haven't just driven through the night trying to earn an honest penny by selling it to the good burghers of London wouldn't really matter if their fish was any good. The fish is always old and often has gone right off. A well known North London scam (haven't heard of it in East Dul so far) is the man holding a motorcycle helmet and claiming he's out of petrol and for whatever reason has lost his wallet. On the subject of the door-to-door cloth sellers there was a documentary a while ago about a group - they operate all over the country, certainly not on behalf of any charity. And again if the products were either any good or reasonably priced it wouldn't matter. I guess the old saying a fool and his money are soon parted springs to mind. Being rather foolish myself - I handed over a tenner to a woman knocking on my door in east dul late at night, introducing herself as my neighbour from about 9 houses up, with some sob story I fell for. I was torn between thinking -what if she's genuine and I've left a neighbour in the lurch.... mmmmm needless to say she's not my neighbour.