Huguenot

My favourite street is Nutfield Road, and my favourite house are the ones Nutty snapped in the snow. I do worry that someone's going to cut down those beautiful cherry-blossom looking trees on a subsidence ticket though. Gary Glitter would not be welcome there!

Scaredy cat :))

[speculate] Indoctrinating kids with extremist religion... Gary Glitter... Indoctrinating kids with extremist religion... Gary Glitter... High Priests... Children's homes... ;-) [/speculate]

Gloria?

Good points all Tom. I reckon we might be ascribing too much good will to the owner of this property though. I reckon he bought at a knock down price because of the work required and the listed status, and then deliberately let it go unused and to ruin in order to make a killing on the market. That's not put upon owner who cares about young couples. That's filthy cynical bar steward squatting on someone else's doorstep.

Any pink quiggles or yellow triangles out there? We should be friends!

Just supporting the absent victim you know... :) *ostentatiously scratches groin thru burgundy denim, and admires rubber buttons on yellow polo shirt*

Ooooh, I'd have enjoyed that one ;-) The pile of previously broken display goods almost suggests that he was deliberatly placing surreptitious hurdles in the way of his customers! The locked door... I shall keep my elbows hoisted next time I buy some Andalucian wild boar!

[rant] Catholic schools as a primary influence on location? What was it the Nazarene said.. "Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto Me: for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven" It sort of implies that conscientious adults had no wish to indoctrinate their children, so Gary Sky Fairy had to threaten them with the unknown terror of 'hell' to gain an opportunity. Get them when they're young? It's sicko time! [/rant]

??? Shorely there's about 20,000 people living in Clapham catchment, how many of them could possibly match this unkind description? Is this not just a parade of petty bourgeois prejudice that tars 14,700 people with the steaming pat of our inadequacies? ;-)

Daaaark Blure Troiaangle (Somerset Accent). Scary.

A young chap used to do the same thing down our way, as his mates watched when they got back pissed late from the pub every night. It appears a local anonymously rendered his wheelz temporarily dysfunctional. Rather dimly, he fixed it and then started the same game all over again. Two nights later I saw same bike early one morning dismembered in a skip up the road. I was thoroughly impressed by the sense of social responsibility that allowed the night visitor to put the remains in a skip rather than the owner's front garden! It stopped then ;-)

And I, it seems, will be the one with the bald spot ;-)

*Appears briefly as bowl of petunias, morphs instantly into sperm whale, recalls gravity handicap and swings out of the existential dimension to reconsider strategy*

It must be quite an oft encountered problem - when people park outside my place (being next to the top end of LL they do all day every day), and I happen to encounter them in the act of parking as I emerge from my house, the embarassment, anxiety, combativeness on their behalf is almost palpable! Me, I just give them a wink ;-) as I've never owned a car.... PS, I agree with Mockney; confrontation with neighbours is bad news - they can make life very difficult for you! It may be that she was expecting you to be a casual shopper rather than a neighbour, and was all tensed up for a proper row and got deflated and confused when she realised she didn't have a strnog position (hence the walk-off). She may even have thought you were lying? I'd grit my teeth and invite her over for dinner :-S

Cripes ?30k a week someone earlier said a shop was making? I suppose the EDD could, but then it's two (3?) units not one. I can't see Celestial or even Moo Too managing that (it'd be 40 x ?100 items a day, and I'm not sure they have that many items in the shop?): it's entirely possible that these or Chener books is on a long term lower lease? Mind you, I suspect one of the lady's is one here, maybe she could tell us?? ;-)

Now who was it suggested the People's Independent Secular State of Peckham's Outer Territories...?

Stumbles in hesitantly, palms raised protectively, staring unfocused into the middle distance, twitching and jerking at the slightest noise, swerving clear of unseen predators... number blindness... number blindness... too much excel...

Is there a simple formula to the kind of shop that's possible? For example: rent is ?3,000 a month, salary is ?2,500 pcm for a full time, and ?1,500 for a part time, with overheads (not including stock) at say ?1,000 a month gives running costs at ?7,000 a month without considering tax. If you got your products at 50% of sales price, that would require at least ?15,000 a month in gross sales. My figures are probably way out (so please someone else feel free to do a better job!!), but even so... ...is a shop on LL really likely to sell ?3,500 worth of socks or pants or guitars or independent music every week? You can see why they'd prefer to sell just 35 things at ?100...

Ooooh, I dunno BD, those crystal filled stems are a bit, well, you know... ;-)

Lol! - There's no consensus on any of those! Here's a quick summary (but I expect it to get shot down!) Gyms - there's Dulwich Hamlet FC (pretty good between the wars) which is no nonsense spit and sawdust, Fusion which is undergoing refurbishment and mid-range, and JAGS which is upmarket with a joining list as long as your arm Restaurants - There's 'upmarket' modern european Franklin's and Le Chardon on LL; upper mid is The Green near Goose Green and Palmerston's Gastropub wannabee on LL; Liqorice (LL) is mid 'trendy', Gourmet Burger Kitchen (LL) is mid 'canteen', The Bishop (LL) is mid 'trendy pub', Green and Blue is mid 'Wine Bar', the Magdala is mid 'All Bar One'; euro cafe style is Le Petit Chou (LL). There are 9+ Curry Houses mostly with lunch buffets, at least four chinese, and plenty of other pub grubs within 5 mins of LL. Loads of Greasy Spoons. Plenty of other boozers with a motley assortment of themes. The local green is Goose Green, or you can play footie on Peckham Rye. There's a great library. There's the East Dulwich Deli, the Cheese Block, William Rose Butchers and Moxon's fish shop. At least two health shops. There's a local homeopathic practice. Loads of knick knack shops (well at least 9): Willow, ED, Grace & Favour, Anterior Trading, Mrs. Robinson, Roullier White, Moo Too, Celestial, and the kitchen shop (what have I missed??) One art shop, one picture framing shop There's Somerfield 'Market Fresh' mini Supermarket on LL, or a Sainsbury soon to be hypermarket almost nextr door to the station. At least one place to get booze at 4am ;-) Train direct to London Bridge / Wimbledon from ED station, trains to Victoria from Denmark Hill, Peckham. Direct Buses from LL to Clapham, Victoria station, Oxford Circus and the City Cinemas there's Peckhamplex for the kids next to Peckham station (at 4 quid a shot!), or the Ritzy for a bit more adult stuff in Brixton (15 mins by bus) Is this the best place to live??? What a question, it's the only place to live!!! ;-)

Yep 'tis the same house Jah - it's part of our architectural heritage. It's a point of principle. One shouldn't be able to buy a grade II listed building, deliberately trash it, and then say 'oh no! silly me! well I'll just have to put up 750 noddy homes on it and walk with a cool ?5m profit.'

I love the house too. I noticed that internal supports seem to have been removed, and it seems to have been a cynical exploitation (as an absentee landlord) of a Grade II listed building to deliberately make it fall apart to make maximum leverage from the land. In the face of such abusive behaviour, I believe it should be comulsorily purchased by Southwark council at the original purchase price, and if it can't be restored then the council should resell at market rates for soemone else to make a profit on redevelopment. Whatever happens we should not allow the absentee Git to make so much cash from such outrageously offensive manipulation.

What's the SLP? The Scottish Labour Party?? :-S

Oi'll be very late I'm afraid... :'(