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One brilliant 90s comedy drama was "Tears Before Bedtime", about a bunch of uptight Islingtonites and their nannies. With Samantha Bond, Lesley Manville, Adrian Rawline, Peter Howitt and a young Jessica Stevenson. http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7d7891d9 Presumably the BFI have it, but it's never been repeated on the box, bafflingly. Streets ahead of "Cold Feet", which sort of covers some of the same terrain.

Elphinstone's Army Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 6.30 - 6.45 Coop type q's, salad and veg section > on the left as you enter looked as though a swarm > of locusts had been through, and what's with the > wine section, red/white/rose, all mixed, if I want > a red Chilean I have to search? (just supposing) > and trolleys and boxes in the aisles? > How could M&S not realised the surge of interest/ > purchasing their long mooted opening would > engender and not stock up and no bread? This is > the optimum coming home tired and weary time > which > we all agreed would be good to collapse into M&S > for instant, nutritious, good range to choose > from, shopping. > > I know it is early days, but v disappointing. > > And why only 2 check outs and when paid, have to > negotiate the automatic pay machine customers, > it'snt exactly streamlined. > This morning three suits stood in the doorway, > shop floor staff busy, shop cold, 6.30, shop busy, > open until 11.00pm, for what? > > I wish M&S had asked a consortium or cross section > of locals, as we all can run the shop better than > they. It's been open for one day, tons of locals have been excited for ages and are shopping there at the earliest opportunity. Do you know how to avoid your re-stocking problem and have 'instant' food at your fingeetips in that situation? Have loads of trucks coming and going all day long. People will settle down, as will M&S's stock. Bet you a tenner the Co-op will still be crap in a month's time and M&S won't be. FWIW I'll be going there after everything settles down after this weekend. I suspect I'll be neither ecstatic nor despondent.

I'm not optimistic either, but I can live with the four-an-hour service. Southern Trains frog-boiling their customers...

I believe that all M&S Food Halls are operated directly, though some Simply Foods and other offshoots are franchises.

srisky Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Great news but I can't find the new timetable > online - anyone know if the 8.51 is running from > next week? > Thanks www.nationarail.co.uk has all the services restored from when they were cut back this summer, so yes the 08.51 is there. But double check at the end of the week, as the revised timetable has only been put online on a week-by-week basis. And I assume we'll be getting our 'old' six trains an hour service resuming when the station and lines are fully open in 2018.

Yep. The St Thomas St exits are a timesaver for me too. Concourse looks good, but the WHSmith looks like it's going to be pathetically small. We've had to put up with a poxy WHS at LB for years now and I was hoping for a proper big one in such a busy location. I have to pop down to the big WHS in E&C shopping centre at lunchtime to get my magazine fix...

Looks like we're getting our trains back: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37225831 "Southern rail is to reinstate more than a third of the 341 daily services it axed earlier in the summer to provide a more reliable timetable. The 119 trains, nearly all in London, will run from 5 September. The operator introduced a reduced service in July after months of delays and cancellations, which it blamed on "unprecedented" staff sickness. Southern is in a long-running dispute with its guards and the latest 48-hour strike begins on 7 September. The reinstated trains include: All of its "metro" services in south London Sutton to Streatham via Wimbledon Twenty-six services on the West London line between Clapham and Watford Junction/Milton Keynes Guildford to Leatherhead"

Or "Trampled Underfoot": "Automobile with comfort Really built with style Specialist tradition Mama, let me feast my eyes, Talking 'bout love, Talking 'bout love..."

No, they were paid stewards not volunteers.

This thread on Urban75 gives you the background: https://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/stewardgate-dulwich-hamlets-long-serving-servants-unceremoniously-elbowed-out.346629/

High prices, poor stock control, rude staff, huge queues, rotten fruit and veg...

It's a modern murder ballad, in the tradfition of "Pretty Polly", "Long Lankin", "In The Pines" and "Hey Joe". The public loves a juicy murder and rightly takes little or no offence.

I've never seen Star Wars, I can't ride a bike and I've never been to Westminster Abbey.

This is the reason why family bags of peanuts are a bad idea. A very bad, bloaty idea.

Yes, the rail franchise system is crap, but passenger numbers are twice what they were at privatisation. It's difficult to see successive governments having made the necessary investment in British Rail over that time to cope with that growth. After all, governments had been cutting rail investment for years. And yes, Southern is abysmal but most services aren't - though the fare system is crap too.

The retail footfall near the Plough is nowhere near enough for WHSmith. Yes, they do well at airprorts and stations, but high street is not so good for them these days, and only the ones with very high footfall do well. Mind you, a newsagent that concentrated on a really comprehensive range of magazines would be good on LL.

eddeal1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > southwark council have been selling not only land. > they have been Selling 100s and 100s and 100s of > houses and flats through Andrew Roberts auctions > for Years.and All of you were Sleeping. Not really. It's been discussed on this forum for at least two years how Southwark's policy under Labour is that any council tenancy which falls vacant and the property is deemed to be worth more than ?300K is to be sold rather than being offered to another tenant. This is utter madness and can only lead to increased ghettoisation of both rich and poor. We're lucky living in a road in ED that is diverse as there are a number of council houses as well as flats, in addition to private houses and flats. If it were all private, we'd be proper la-di-da...

Cherry Tree, EDT - or even better, the club bar :-)

Drivers! Don't waste thousands on expensive vanity plates. Simply change your name by deed poll to HJ08 TRW.

Pugwash Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Details were published in the local papers a week > or so ago. But nothing at local bus stops or in TFL's weekend travel update, which the original closure was.

Due to the crane at KCH being dismantled and removed, Denmark Hill is closed to traffic this weekend. There wasn't much publicity about this - got caught out trying to get a non-existent bus from Denmark Hill station yesterday evening. https://www.kch.nhs.uk/news/public/news/view/20863

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Abe_froeman Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Five seconds is five seconds longer for the > buses > > to wait! Didn't TFL even pay for that junciton? > > I don't know who paid for it, I would guess > Southwark but TfL may have contributed to the > cycling infrastructure. The money was from TFL, from a fund partitioned off by Boris for improvements relating specifically to cycling. Southwark didn't spend a penny of their own cash on the junction, but couldn't resist the idea of spending ?200,000 of someone else's money.

"Apple cider"

One of my regular podcasts has an excellent episode this week discussing race, violence and BLM in the USA. Well worth your time: https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/racism-and-violence-in-america

Cock and balls graffiti on the wall at the corner of Champion Hill and Grove Lane. Old skool.