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I was amused to find that a certain Mr Mike Ryan has placed the Placeopedia marker for East Dulwich in the middle of the old cemetery, while Lordship Lane is, well, Lordship Lane. So where is the heart of ED? Edited to remove idiotic spelling error.

I'm finding corporate clients more and more irritating. No amount of money compensates...

It's still at the planning stage. I'm currently exploring terrains and investigating options...

Because what they are doing is socially and environmentally detrimental to communities and to the entire British countryside. Buying up land you don't need (which drives up prices) and then expecting to preserve it in aspic just is not a sustainable model. This month the good people (those that still live there) of Hinton St George in Somerset were demonstrating in London against the closure of their post office. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7507503.stm It's one of the few amenities they have left, along with the village shop of which it forms a part. The reason why these small PO's and shops can no longer survive is that large segments of places like Hinton St George have been bought up by people who don't live there and rarely visit. They don't use the buses, they rarely use the shops that are left etc. etc. It's strange walking around the place - as we did last year - and finding not a soul around, apart from the postmaster-cum-shopkeeper. A ghost village. It has been described elsewhere as having 'a fragile economy'. No doubt the second-home owners were protesting too - but it is their very actions that bring on this kind of local calamity. I'm hoping the shop will survive the lost of the PO income, but... Just how many 'homes' do you 'need', personally, AcedOut? Three? Four? Ten? Twenty? There seem to be quite a few people around who think nothing of owig four or five houses that lie empty for months at a stretch or years. They can clearly afford it. Whether they need them in any sense is another matter. If you wish to own a second, third, fourth etc. property (and no, it's not a 'home') as part of building your property empire, you will be paying some consequences sooner or later. (There will be less of a community left and few services. It'll just be a property. And howling to your 'second/third/fourth MP' about loss of local services probably won't have much effect.) It's just that others (people who need actual homes) are also paying for your greed. So why not tax your greed? Seems fair to me.

I really welcome all the product advice. Thanks all! I haven't had any holes in clothes, yet, that I know of, but have loads of the blighters taking quite a fancy to different parts of the property. Not sure about the different kinds and what they each do (and to what if any degree they overlap in their liking for different things). I kill a fair few by clapping my hands, but imagine that by then they may have done damage. I am very careful about keeping woolies and silks in carefully shut furniture.

I tend to give to smaller charities and causes. I also don't like the in-your-face tactics (chuggers, mass mailings, sales pitches) of some large charities, and tend to boycott those.

Bellenden Belle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The thing I don't get is that this is supposed to > be a "community initiative", but really a shop > selling records for profit is a commercial > enterprise. Bellenden Belle, the words 'record shop' and 'profit' do not really go together these days. Even old-established and previously profitable independent record shops nationally having been shutting down for years. I suspect many that are left barely make ends meet. And this is not a record shop in the ordinary meaning of the words. Enterprise yes, but commercial? I don't think so.

ClareC Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > PeckhamRose Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Interesting topic. > > I have never had a credit card. > > I am not rich, I live cheaply and save hard for > > the things I need. > > And I am fortunate in that I don't have a > > mortgage. > > However, I recently decided to open a new bank > > account with the Co-op and closing my boo-his > > Abbey account. > > Co-op ran a check and have said there is an > > issue. > > Not in my opinion there is not. Experian told > > them there was an issue and Co-op have stopped > the > > application there. > > How can there be an issue? I don't have a > credit > > card and my debit card has never been mis-used > and > > I have never had an overdraft and I have never > > borrowed. > > I guess the answer is: "Of COURSE there is a > > credit issue!" > > Why should I have to pay even a mere ?2.50 to > find > > out what it is and put it right? I did email > > Experian but they basically said pay us ?2.50. > > Back to topic. GOOD LUCK! Everyone's out to > get > > you. I am not paranoid; I KNOW they're out to > get > > me! > > > The problem will be that you havent had credit > therefore there is no proof how you manage it ie > that you pay on time etc. Ludicrous I know but > that is how these things work. The more credit > cards you have, the better your credit is provided > you pay on time!!! Beware though, the more > credit checks you have in a short period weakens > your credit record!! A friend has recently sold a multi-million pound business and has 'more money than I could ever spend', but was turned down for credit cards as he didn't have a mortgage or any other debts... It's a mad world.

I stopped being a city wage slave many years ago, but then became a slave to clients. Am now considering shipping out completely to a wood with a self-build house off grid and all that jazz. Would be interested in hearing from anyone who has similar plans/ideas.

lynchhim Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ...so, we're nearly there. > > yndi halda have got their US visas, thank @#$%&. > > For a moment there, I thought it wasn't going to > happen. > > Their gig in Portugal was AMAZING. > > Then The Early Years played their first show in 9 > months at Sonic Cathedral last Thursday supporting > Spectrum ( Sonic Boom, Spacemen 3 ). > > It was awesome. > > Just got back from their show at Truck Festival on > the Sonic Cathedral stage. > > Again, they blew everyone away. > > A particular highlight for me was seeing > Chapterhouse play. He he, long live the shoe-gazers. Global Communication's 'reworking' of Blood Music - Pentamerous Metamorphosis - is one of my all-time faves (probably the most stupid amount of money I've ever spent on a record), as are bands like Slowdive, Chapterhouse, Ride... We saw Ulrich Schnauss at Glade on Sunday, and he's got more than a bit of shoe-gazer in him too. I'll be picking up my ticket tomorrow, if you're open. My other half would love to come, but it's a weekday and he's a long way away. Really looking forward to Martin Carr, the DJs etc etc. It might be worth flogging tickets at the Gowlett or similar... On the other stuff: it's an idea that's not yet fully formed, and people will rarely part with money for such. There are people in ED interested in having a record shop-space-cum-whatever locally, but are there enough of them? And do they have sufficient commitment? It's probably best for interested people to meet F2F to meet each other and discuss/thrash out, before expecting more. (Three years ago we had a large meeting and launched a pledge on Pledgebank website for 1,000 people each to pay ?5 per month to fund two workers for a cause and it worked: the organisation was formed and has two employees. But it was 'a lot' of work by quite a few people over a long period.)

I'm in the same area. Had loads of problems getting Freeview with 2 different boxes, and internal aerials no better. So I bit the bullet and got a Freeview-style aerial for the roof, professionally installed. All problems disappeared.

Strawbs Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Princess Anne is coming in to my office today so I > will be seeing my first monarch in the flesh.. What, has there been a palace revolution?

House for sale on Barry Rd with DV, @ 1.15 million: 'We are honoured to offer...'

I've mislaid me plus fours and me walking stick. My memory's not what it was... Spit and polish.

What development would most improve your life, benefit the environment, and all that. I vote for a multi-device power adapter, which you could plug any device into to power/charge up. No more dragging around multifarious adapters for various devices. Sometimes half my bag seems to comprise nothing but!

macroban Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > f.f.r.r. > > Mono? It's in stereo, AFAIK

Didn't fool me, as the little trick doesn't work on a Blackberry...

One could say the same of EDMs. Many do. Don't shoot the messenger (Tom Steinberg et al's implementation of the 'e' in e-petitions). Considering this came out a tiny NGO operating on a teeny-weeny shoe-string, I think its impact has been fairly astonishing. If the govt. does not sit up and take note, that's another matter. The government can't be forced to do anything, but as an exploration of new ways of interacting with/presenting public concerns to the government of the day it is no bad thing. And somewhat of a step forward from handing boxes of paper over to some minion in Downing Street.

I'd like to cross-pollinate this thread with the Song Game thread, and propose the marvellous US indie (4AD/Teenbeat/Sub Pop/Matador) band from the 90's Unrest - Imperial (from the album Imperial f.f.r.r.) However, this song - band - is so little known that I can't even dig you out a vid of the song on YouTube... So you don't know what yer missing, probably. But if you can get hold of this little gem, play it loud and play it proud - support your local greengrocer.

If somebody were really organised, they'd put together a calendar on Google Calendar for people to fill in, but a big ask I know...

Another member of the great Oxford-Reading axis of brilliance. This one includes the 2.5 minutes intro, as per the album (so much other footage chops it out).

candj Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dear jrussel, > > I suggest you go visit New York City and see what > Central Park is like and speak to any New Yorker > about what that city would be like without it.... > they don't call it the lungs of New York for > nothing. I seem to recall reading somewhere - maybe when I was travelling to Liverpool for the first time? - that Central Park was originally modelled on Birkenhead Park. (Likewise many countries' national parks took our own scheme as a model.)

Bring back the shoegazers

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I recently felled a tree in my back garden because > it was causing subsidence (or so the insurers told > me) and I genuinely felt guilty for weeks after > and I really do miss looking out at it. I for one > love trees and I think the world has lost enough > of them over the last century so let's give our > big mates a break, and how about we cull the > poster who made this thread and plant a tree in > his/her honour? :-) What a pity Russelia - not be of tree stature - won't fit the bill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russelia > > Louisa.

The presence of a fabulous old tree is no barrier to development in some cases. I've seen grand old trees form part of the centrepiece through a building, such as the one at the Hotel Moka in Cuba http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/americas/hotel-of-the-week-cubas-hotel-moka-471536.html Of course this requires imaginative development, and imagination is in short supply among British developers.