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Actually I think the first part of this thread's title should be K&V. The first bit of the W on their sign has fallen off. Either that or they think Kebab and Vine sounds so much more hipster. Which it does.

Beat local rivals Tooting and Mitcham 2-1 yesterday in front of 1,866 people. Not a great performance but a result that lifts Hamlet to 10th in the table. Onward and upward.

Pick any line from "Bohemian Rhapsody"...

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Londis is a useful convenience store for people, > and considering the number of restaurants and > pointless trinket shops we have around here, it > makes good sense to keep a mixed use high street > which is franchised and independently run, as > opposed to a chain restaurant of which we have one > less than a mile away in camberwell. A lot of > older people prefer going Ina small local shop > where they recognise a friendly face. Anyway it > makes no difference, let's just become a pointless > high street full of restaurants. Who cares about > the community aspect. Meh. > > Louisa. Pay Less / Costcutter is only a short walk away for all those emergency needs.... such as beer at 3am...

Nearly always fine. One was cancelled the other day, but the other was running.

I'm with the Deserter blog when it comes to pub quizzes :-) "You stride purposefully over to the bar, eyeing the punters hunched over their tables and wondering what it is that the atmosphere reminds you of? That?s it, it feels a bit like work. Weird. ?What?s going on?? you enquire of the barman as he pours you a pint. ?Quiz night,? says the barman. ?Oh, for f***?s sake,? you say. ?Shhh!? says someone next to you wielding a tiny pencil. Quiz Night? If I?d wanted to have people shout questions at me from another room I?d have stayed at home with the family..." https://deserter.co.uk/2015/03/pub-quiz/

There's another side to the growth in nail bars ? human trafficking and drug money laundering: http://www.humantraffickingfoundation.org/news/2013/modern-day-slavery-british-nail-bars One nail bar not a million miles from Grove Vale is empty every time I walk past it, but the 'manager' is a young guy driving a very pimped motor. I doubt the nail business has bought it for him. NB Not casting aspersions on Glamorous Nails, which has been around for a number of years and seems genuinely busy much of the time.

Peelings, tea bags, coffee grounds, eggshells and bones are not unnecessary waste, though. There are four of us in our house and we get through one or two caddy liners a week. 10p doesn't seem like an imposition.

Here's LBS's reply in the Southwark News: "Regarding last week?s front page article ?I-watering Southwark splashes out on nearly 2,000 Apple products in it?s bid reduce paper use ? spending over ?700,000? (Southwark News, August 3, 2017). Southwark residents are already starting to benefit because council staff are getting the tools that they need to do an ever better job: Far from ?splashing out? we want front line staff and councillors to be able to respond quickly, with the information that they need at their fingertips, cutting down on form filling and costly bureaucracy. For example, we have created a new app which means that our housing inspectors can much more efficiently manage repairs, doing more in the working day, without the need to come in and out of the office. We are getting much more done, completing more repairs and resolving more issues for tenants as a result. Far from being forced to give up their Blackberries as Cllr Barber claimed, the LibDem councillors also welcomed the change. Indeed the Leader of the Opposition demanded an apology when her councillors were initially left out of the iPhone pilot and later the feedback from the LibDem chief whip was that the iPhone was ?certainly a great improvement on the Blackberry?. Southwark News is right to scrutinise what we spend as a council, just as we did when we decided to invest in iPhones and iPads for staff who need them. We took the decision to change because we had to: our previous Blackberry based technology was no longer supported, so we had to make a change. Your article last week quotes that a Blackberry costs ?20, for the type we were using the last batch actually cost around ?159 and the price was increasing. When choosing to go with Apple devices we took all considerations into account: as we all know when we buy a phone or tablet, we need to think about the immediate cost and also reliability, data security and whether it offers the apps we need. This is even more important for an organisation such as the council: we don?t want to wake up to headlines that sensitive data has been leaked, or to find that we can?t provide residents with the information they need because we can?t run the right app. For all these reasons and more, the real story here is weServe and weSave, not iWatering. Cllr Fiona Colley, Cabinet Member for Finance, Modernisation & Performance Labour Member for Nunhead Ward"

Bermondsey St's best coffee shop: https://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/fuckoffee

The Council's official response, but it doesn't include the actual report: http://www.southwark.gov.uk/news/2017/aug/ledbury-towers-gas-removal

Clear off, KK ? on opening day the window seat's mine!

Madame Tussaud's. Pointless.

Nice to see the short-lived Pussey Liquor alongside such names as Squat and Gobble, Phat Phuc and Sophie's Choice: https://www.justopenedlondon.com/londons-worst-restaurant-names/

I sympathise over the animal rights issues, but putting an end to Norman and his budgies? Noooo...

And yet people had a go at Theresa May for suggesting the removal of the triple lock on pensions and the end of the universal winter fuel allowance. I thought both ideas were eminently sensible, so long as the very poorest pensioners would be no worse off.

Yeah ? angry man!

Crikey. Not sure where this one's going... http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1848149

No :-) The bookies have Dulwich Hamlet as second favourites to win the title... at 16-1. Billericay Town, who are throwing money around like confetti, are 5-2 on for winning it. Let's hope they crash and burn. https://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/non-league/isthmian-premier/winner

So is it a private leak or not?

On the BBC News just now: "... in the exact same spot." What's wrong with "... in exactly the same spot"? Probably doesn't sound informal and American enough for modern tastes. Bah, humbug!

I've always understood "junk mail" to mean mass-marketed direct mail through the post, which of course the Royal Mail is obliged to deliver, rather than flyers, brochures and leaflets. And I agree, if it's useful information then deliver it.

"I'm just getting off of the train." No, you're getting off it - off the train. Save the "of" for a rainy day.

I've looked through the evening services proposed and the frequency is four an hour, as it is now. So apart from those post-23.00 services (which are subject to further consultation), service frequency is either increasing (peak) or staying the same (offpeak). Cllr. Barber on Twitter is talking about 'slashing trains' to ED. Am I missing something?