Ted Max

Stretch of LL and streets around William Rose - Meatpacking District?

I used to like the "which room is invisible today" lottery at BMC. Seasons could change and you could still be waiting in the Chinese room for someone to come and take your order. James, that is unfortunate but if you'd been waiting ages for an outside table and someone came and parked his mum on it, what would you do?

Sounds absolutely terrifying.

Haven't posted on the thread before but that was fantastic. I hope you feel the programme did you and your team's efforts justice, Talisman.

And the very rare batdog?

Lorraine if you can get to Ganapati at lunchtime they have a cheap menu (something like 5-6 quid for a main course with rice/ pickles inc) which will give you a good taster of what they are all about.

Hey, you got a free bus ride. Result.

A commissioned East Dulwich coat of arms, complete with motto, to fly proudly from the G Green lampost would be ideal. I suggest a Bugaboo rampant with Crocs pendant, almond croissants ensigned.

Used to see a walking bus thing going up CP road to Heber school on a few mornings. Does that one still happen? Seemed a good idea to me.

I think we'd best leave it, then, BatDog. We'd only get this good thread lounged. My selfish What East Dulwich needs agenda = more actual wildlife in the Wildlife Garden, more number 37 buses at the weekend and on Thursday evenings, Cheeseblock's amazing samosas to be made less frighteningly moreish, Deuchar's IPA widely available. That'd be a start.

Loving the death slide idea, Mark. Wifi frequency is much lower than mobile phones. Batdog, mobile phones operate either at 900MHz, 1800MHz or 2.1Gz depending on what operator/ service you are using. WiFi is typically in the 2.5GHz and 5GHz unlicensed freqencies. So actually much higher frequencies. As for xG/ xMax. Yes its claims are impressive but are basically untested (not saying they're untrue, btw. Just untested). And yes, the company floated on AIM last year and raised the grand sum of...no money. No wonder the shares are cheap.

Phil, I've messaged you about this if you want to know some more about the local cricket, er, scene.

Seems the biggest change, apart from the colour of the fence, is that the dog "exercise area" (some free weights, a pool and a couple of treadmills, I assume) has got a lot smaller. At the moment the dogs have the whole bit down by the roundabout plus the diagonal on the Ondine side of the Green. This proposal cuts that to just the section by the roundabout.

the whole of ED is too residential How could it be less residential? A few friendly bombs? BTW, I'm 35, and lack just 40% of a child and an SUV to fully meet your terms. And I'd welcome more late night frivolity, (as it were).

It may be academic now, but I think with all the money gone into the Oglander one trick they missed out on was not opening it up a bit more out the front to make it look slightly less "regulars only" - but perhaps they would not have been allowed to. And re the thread header, if it had been in ED proper then I think it would have done OK. Down here I think the "nice pub" crowd (you know what I mean) head to the Gowlett if they're keeping it local, or up to LL. Oglander sort of got overlooked in between.

Hello all. May I? This has to be the Oglander and the paper-thrusters will be the ever-anxious Bellenden Residents' Group. Their objection is more along the lines of the "we don't want more flats, more people, more cars" etc etc stuff than actually keeping the pub - about which they could clearly care less. In fact if there were no pub there and someone was planning to open one you can be fairly sure they'd be against that too.