PeckhamNicola
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The signage is really poor, it's just not that visible amongst everything else you're looking out for as you're driving along, especially if you're just turning a corner onto a school street. Obviously you're going to be looking around at street level for any hazards you couldn't see before you turned the corner, not upwards at a sign. If you already KNOW it's a school street well and good, but if not it's easy to be caught out. Even police have said that to me.
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FREE 2 tkts Studio Electrophonique 1-2.15pm
PeckhamNicola posted a topic in For Sale & Items Offered
Last minute change of plans. Would anyone like 2 tickets for SE London book fair event this afternoon 1-2.15pm at St.Giles' Church Camberwell? Message me and I'll send them over to you. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/thesoutheastlondonbookfest/1829684 The amazing story of the home studio that helped launch some of Britain's most beloved bands. The Sheffield space age began in 1961, when local mechanic Ken Patten won a tape-recording competition by recreating the sound of a rocket launch using a pencil and a bicycle pump. In the decades that followed, the makeshift home studio he constructed became the launch pad for a group of young musicians who would shape the futuristic sound of 1980s pop. The Human League, Heaven 17, Pulp, ABC and others made their early recordings with Ken, whose DIY ethic was the perfect fit for a city facing industrial decline but teeming with ideas. Studio Electrophonique tells the story of a generation seeking new frontiers in music, using everything they could lay their hands on - from science fiction novels to glam rock, Dada art and cheap electronics - to get there. Drawing on original interviews with Jarvis Cocker, Martyn Ware, Mark White and others, it brings to light a world of humour, charm, creativity and unfounded yet undaunted self-belief. About the author Jamie Taylor is a writer and filmmaker from Sheffield. He is the director of The Campaigners and A Film about Studio Electrophonique. -
Overhill Road - Education Options
PeckhamNicola replied to Pred02's topic in The Family Room Discussion
Falling school rolls in London might mean catchment areas expand. Kingsdale (secondary) operates a lottery rather than catchment area and a lot of people like it. -
You have to use the right extinguisher for the type of fire - water/foam not to be used for live electrical fires for example. A quick Google says powder extinguishers can be used on the most different types of fire. In a public/commercial setting fire extinguishers have to be serviced every year. Not sure the recommendation for residential ones, but when you buy extinguishers and fire blankets check if there's an expiry date.
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I have one in pieces which you can have for free, i would be grateful to have it taken away! Collect Nunhead.
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give me your views on conveyancers and solicitors
PeckhamNicola replied to Sally Eva's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
It's worth paying for someone who is properly qualified in my opinion. We did when we bought, but unfortunately the people selling to us had used some sort of mass conveyancing centre in Wales to save a few quid and they were rubbish. When I looked into selling our place I asked the estate agent who came to value it whether we could stipulate that a future buyer should use a proper conveyancer. They reckoned yes, so something you might consider asking for from your buyer if not too late. I guess it depends on demand, if there's a queue of buyers you're in a different place to make demands versus someone's been trying to sell their place for a year. I've used Wendy Burgess several times, it seems she's recently moved to a different practice: https://www.hcnlaw.co.uk/attorney/wendy-burgess/ -
Air b'n'b has lots
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I would leave London, or at a push move back to north London. In SE London if you want to get away in a car you are trapped, always an hour to go the first 10 miles, chugging up to the M4 or round the south circular, which is really just a line someone drew connecting a load of roads. and I know there are trains but first you have to get to those mainline stations, unless you only want to leave London to go to Kent. which I don't.
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my bet is it's the same group and no amount of talking to is going to make a difference.
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A friend of mine, not living in this area, goes to a silent book club. they each take their own book to read. at the end they talk about what they've been reading. I like that idea! Quite a lot of the libraries apparently have book clubs.
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Unfortunately there are plenty of shops which don't care and will sell vapes, alcohol and weed to minors, I'm sure they won't care about selling them fireworks. Or the kids nick them.
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Returning to the question, although still not directly answering I'm afraid as ive not lived on that road: I have previously lived in a house where the railway line was behind the house and over a playing field, and also in a flat blocked from the railway line by at least one more block worth of houses. I would not live that close to a railway line again. In the house the noise with the windows open always disturbed me at night. And you need to bear it mind it is not just the timetables of passenger trains you need to consider, at night time there could be freight trains too. That was my problem in the flat: not noise, I was shielded from that, but the weight of the freight trains passing made the whole building shake enough to wake me up. If you are a sounder sleeper or less sensitive to noise it could be fine. I would suggest checking if freight trains use that route though.
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They are very funny at the Herne Hill Oxfam, for a charity book shop, about accepting book donations. Last time I tried to drop off a few bags the woman there was quite cross so I took them right back out, and I will not go back again. Definitely had this very same conversation on this forum before, including about the parking. That time I drove them over to a different charity bookshop in Streatham where - shock horror - they thanked me. And since then I've taken other books in smaller quantities to local charity shops.
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BAD ADVICE FROM HOLLAND & BARRETT
PeckhamNicola replied to i*Rate's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
kids can drink in pubs at 16 if accompanied by a parent who buys the drink. and some restrictions about what they drink- eg not spirits. astonishing I know, but revealed to me by my son who is generally lazy when it comes to schoolwork but very good at research on certain key topics. -
Luckily many makers of comments in national newspapers are not, so crack on with the moderating!
