Dogkennelhillbilly

A lot depends on wind strength and direction. I could hear the music from Brockwell Park clearly from Dulwich Park, but couldn't hear Peckham Rye Park at all from Dulwich Library. Pub in the Park didn't sell well last year, I think.

What do you base that on? Knowledge of the revenue and costs to the council? Or just dark suspicion?

...and it's nowhere near enough. We've had a decade plus of austerity and cutbacks. If renting the park brings in a decent chunk of money for elder care and social services and education and libraries and roads and parks, and doesn't degrade the parks and streets, I'm okay with it. Obviously if there was endless money or it didn't make a profit, you shouldn't bother. You may have a more fundamentalist view - and that's fair enough.

I don't know - you might be looking through rose-tinted glasses there. I never went to Pride but went to other events at Brockwell Park through the 80s and 90s and 00s on and off. It was a bit wild and there was litter and piss everywhere. It was often a bit sketchy in the evenings. Other people here will disagree with me but I am less concerned about the presence of the fences per se. I'm more concerned about the litter caused by poor management, the rehabilitation failures and whether the council gets paid a decent whack.

Can we have a reliable source for this claim beyond "some guy online said a Councillor said something"? There is all sorts of absolute toss made up about councillors and the council on this forum.

You're just a second-rate raven, a second-rate raven...

It's almost certainly this. Everybody calm down.

Yeah - I also didn't read cyclemonkey's comment as suggesting Gala critics like me and you were racist either. Or anti-Semitic. Or bigoted against left-handers or any other prejudice. There was no insult in their post. You've imagined that entirely.

That "news updates" link has 33 pages (!) of posts going back to 2014. Of those dozens and dozens of posts over a decade, 9 of them are about Gaza, all in recent months. Do you think something happened in the last few months that suddenly made Gaza a topic of real concern to her constituents (like @Suggsy) and UK foreign policy a hot topic in Parliament? 🤔 If you go through the topics more generally, you'd get the impression that Hayes is "mildly obsessed" with housing, early childhood education, knife crime, foster care, trains...exactly the kind of stuff that affects all of us in some way.

Unexpected avian attacks?!?! Stone the...well, you know.

Let's not get taken down this weird and unsubstantiated side path about "stabby people". This isn't the Big Biker Bash, and statistically these big events are much safer and more well-behaved than a normal Saturday night of 50,000 people going out to 5,000 pubs across London. No-one is or should be complaining about loads of people getting together and having fun, and as someone on the NIMBY end of the spectrum I didn't read @Cyclemonkey's comments as being a suggestion that I no other moaners were homophobic or anything like that. What people are - rightly - concerned about is a private company gathering loads of people together but not doing the bare minimum to minimise the impact on the environment and the community. Like putting out extra bins and emptying the ones that are already there FFS!!!

Good luck in your quest finding sufficiently authentic Viet Namese cuisine in Sir Ddynbich for less than the cost of a Gregg's meal deal.

If the party that's been in power for 14 years won't fix the Royal Mail despite an MP explaining how it's failing in her constituency, then who is to blame....?

Palm trees are practically indestructible. Don't worry about the tree. I am sure some Hamlethead will be along to clear up the wrapping soon...

I've worked half my life in massive multinationals. I don't know why anyone thinks they're evil geniuses. They make terrible decisions all the time. I mean - the fact they hired me proves it...

You genuinely can't work out why food is more expensive in a bourgeois district of London than in Sài Gòn?

As an aside, 500 Degrees is now in Herne Hill and does very well over there.

A bit unfortunate but worse things happen at sea. Hope you had a nice day anyway, @Sue

The Due Fratelli pizzas are good and the people are nice.

Ahh, you're absolutely right, I think a few of them on either side of that little green have seats outside.

There is an Aldi on Elmers End Rd in Anerley. It's right next to a bus stop on the 197 bus, so if you live close to the 197 it might be convenient (without being exactly close).

Ahh, Mr N, you're going too far there. I (boringly) agree with you whenever you say Rye Lane is neglected and an eyesore. However, the cafes and restaurants can be quite nice inside, and I don't think any of them offers al fresco dining on Rye Lane itself. So it's not a crazy idea at all.

I didn't ask (I was hungry then!) but I don't see why not...

Dulwich Library!

Yes! Nice friendly guy. He buys the bagels in from Brick Lane and then fillings are applied there. I had the salt beef, it was pretty good and reasonably priced.