MadWorld74

yes i suppose. It's all very well to be statistical about this, but if it was me I'd be all over the place with worry. Especially as my house may be mortgaged up to the hilt in order to even have a business in ED. :-S ah the fun of being self employed.

oh my God this is disgusting, what the hell's going on? do they have any idea as to who is responsible for these attacks?

Yes, reinvention and a marketing push is sometimes all you have to rely on.

Oh my God. Where abouts in ED did this happen, do you know?

No, he opened up recently (a few months back) in East Dulwich in a clinic. Just him and one other. He works all the hours to fit in people after work and was gutted when he found out about this proposed new physio openeing up.

Maybe they should just turn it into a bar and serve snacks, seeing as everyone on here has said how good the cocktails are but how the food is, well, not. It would be a great bar space!

Thanks SeanMacGabhann, yes it is predictable I suppose that there will always be this big v small debate. I'm glad the forum allows us 'mere mortals' to have a say. I would hate to be in, or thinking about openeing up a business in ED. The stress. Probably the same all over London.

If only I knew where to get a bigger sword, Jim_the_chin, I'd be a happy bunny bounding through life with gay abandon.

There have been alot of views for this posting, anyone else got any comments?....

Say it like it is Keef, say it like it is.........

Jeremy put yourself int he shoes of the other health professionals in the area who are terrfied by this move in. It will be big. They have every right to not want them there. A Harley street company in ED? Well, the world goes on. We just wait to see who else sets their sites on LL in the months to come.

TT I'm glad you do. I hope it doen't change the 'feel' of the place when they move in. I work in the City and see dozens of shiny upmarket physio/gym type places. In the City they fit in (well kind of) but in a small South East London high street? Dunno....

That's what I think Jeremy. We all know from threads on this forum how much money it takes to be a successful and lasting business in LL and ED in general. Bringing in people from a further flung area than ED is good for a business but good for the locals? I don't know. I feel a little nervous about the building work and money obviously pouring into the area. It's good on many counts, but it could also tear away our 'community' feeling. (I know they're not the Statbucks of this world, that's not the point. The point is other small physical health businesses could/may/will suffer?)

So TT do you understand how I'm not very pleased with this....do you feel the same?

Gym/training/fitness/physio centre......but a big one. And right on LL. It's not the sort of thing you get on an already busy high street is it? Is the council going to provide an NCP car park to cope with the influx of traffic?

I went to see my physio last night and whilst having treatment, discussed the new arrival of yet another physio clinic in ED. He was aware of ES Physical Health moving into the area but NOT into 116 Lordship Lane. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this a fairly big space? There have been previous threads on this forum speculating as to the location. He found out that this was their new site because he actually rang up one of their clinics in Camberwell, and was told by the receptionist that the company were looking for 10 new graduate physios, that the clinic would actually be a 'training and fitness centre' and that it would be open August 07. It pretty much says this on their website. I; like he, was quite shocked at this. To be looking for such a high number of people just at graduate level means they must be thinking big. Not to mention you've then got all the other staff to make a 'training and fitness centre' work. I want to make it clear that his is not an attack on the company at all. What I'm concerned about is what happened to the small 'one-man-band' brigade of businesses that made ED special. People striking out on their own to bring us a very personal service? Healthy competition is one thing, but total market saturation? What do the rest of you think? Having a big shiny physio/training/fitness centre bang on LL? My physio looked at me last night and said in no uncertain terms "I'm going to be out of business".....and I really, really felt awful for him. If Books etc pitched up next to Chener Books, I think we'd all be very sad and a little miffed. Where is Ed going with the influx of bigger businesses?

Foxtons? Oh God ED really is going to go down hill.........

indeed.........what about gathering the D.U.C together. They may be up for a bash on the old wood and strings?

Dexys Midnight Runners on the mouth organ.....?

From ?15 at the Fair to ?2.50??? how does that work...

what kinda music are we talking about jamming here?...

Does anyone know who the DJ was at the end after the band played? He was playing trance like stuff. Thought he was great.

Oh dear it seems like I am the only one to mention or at least acknowledge these 'Loser' flyers?.....I have no idea who put them up. I thought it a little odd is all. Oh well. Curious situations often never get explained. Mr Madworld 74 came over to me at the festival to inform me of how much they were on sale for. Just as well the loud music from the band drowned his 'dismay'...is all I can say.

who was responsbile for the 'Loser' magazine flyers I saw about ED over the weekend???? to do with the 'I heart SE22 bags'..?

Did anyone else see the 'Loser' magazine flyer posted on the front of the 'I (heart) SE22' bags stall, and indeed flyered all the way up LL? I thought it was having a pop at the 'I'm not a plastic bag' fiasco of late. I saw one woman in SMB's with an I'm not a plastic bag' thing, and she looked bemused as to why people were laughing at her. Fashion gone mad?