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Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Divine was a good example of good drag, as was > RuPaul when he lived in the Meatpacking District > of NYC in the early/mid eighties Oh you liked RuPaul in the 80s? That's nice. I preferred his earlier work in Atlanta before he got popular.

What a drag. What is a person supposed to do?

northernmonkey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I'm > particularly thinking of investors who want brand > new properties that have never been lived in and > who keep them that way. These aren't > insignificant in number. How many?

I think the more interesting question is whether Peckham is part of Nunhead.

OutOfFocus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I assume an ID Card would be cheaper tomake than a > passport It's ?161-800 to get a new Biometric Residence Permit, which is basically an ID card for immigrants. (This is not a visa application fee). Nothing is cheap when it gets outsourced to wankers like Sopra Steria, Capita, G4S... https://www.gov.uk/biometric-residence-permits/replace-visa-brp

fishbiscuits Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > BTW an estate agent once long ago described > East > > Dulwich as East Dulwich Village :)) :)) :)) > > > That's nothing. Bellenden Road has - in all > seriousness - been previously described as "The > French Quarter" by estate agents. It's on the Wikipedia page...uncited. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellenden_Road

Bon Coffee has opened up on Lordship Lane to replace "Truly Scrumptious". Seems like the usual coffee and croissants fare. No seating so far - maybe after the C-word recedes..?

SpringTime Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do London residents still enjoy 24 times as much > infrastructure spending as residents in N.E. > England? Perhaps we could have a flag to celebrate > that - one that's nice of course. A rainbow made > out of leeches or something. Leeches? London paid ?32 billion more in tax than it "got back". The North East paid ?10.7 billion less in tax than it got back. How much do you think it would cost to build a new bus station in Peckham compared to a new one in Scunthorpe?

first mate Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Lovely idea but where do you store something like > this? Unless you have a large house with a side > entrance to your property and an outhouse or > garage, I suspect it is totally impractical for > most people. > > Similarly, electric bikes are touted as a solution > for older people who might find the hills around > ED a challenge, but they are also heavy and > expensive, how do you lug them in and out of your > home and where can you leave them that is secure- > if you want to go shopping or similar? Calm down, our kid. No-one was suggesting they should be mandatory. Lots of people in East Dulwich have front gardens and side alleys - lots of people don't. I have no idea where the poster to whom I was replying lives. As for the question about where you leave a bike while you're shopping - the same place everyone leaves a bike while shopping - outside with a decent lock.

ID cards wouldn't be free: either you'd pay for them at point of issue or you'd pay for them through tax. Neither is attractive.

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 😄 cheeky monkey > > 59.9% of > real Londoners voted to stay in the Brexit vote. > Dogger and his ilk could along with others like > him, could end up in the minority, and maybe even > asked to leave/be repatriated with those > likeminded patriots, outside of the new walls of > London. That's a remarkably quick progression from flagwaving to dismissing people as "not real" Londoners to deportation.

Don't regret it at all - altho tbf I do have access to a friend's car when eg I want to buy a wardrobe off Gumtree or whatever. Used cars are more expensive than ever - although that will probably ease in the next few months. Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Seabag Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Get an electric bike or scooter Sue > > > > I expect most of your trips out are fairly > local > > > > And join Zip too. > > > I had thought of getting an electric bike, but I'm > not very steady on a bike and I'm scared of the > traffic. > > My push bike is too big for me and I do need to > replace it, as it's been languishing in a hangar > since I was too ill to ride it, however most of my > local trips are to/from my allotment, and I > couldn't carry bulky stuff on a bike. You could try something like this if there's a shop that would give you a test ride. There's a bit less balance required (esp at slow speed) and you have a little basket for bits and pieces. It might work for you, it might not - everyone's needs are different. https://www.milsegen.com/20-3-wheel-tricycle-with-basket-for-shopping-recreation

It's a solution looking for a problem. You'd still end up eg taking two pieces of ID to open a bank account and prove your address unless you want to reregister with the police/someone else every time you move house. We already have government issued ID for citizens - passports. The government issued ID for noncitizen residents is Biometric Residence Permits - and no-one knows wtf to do with them, and you can't use them to cross the border.

Heritage Cheese on Calton Ave at "Dulwich Square" is having its opening day next Wednesday 15 September. It looks nice inside so far.

Where does Peckham end and Nunhead begin then?

Brexit and COVID has meant that a lot of people have emigrated out of London: some to rural UK and some overseas. Very many of the EU workers were also the part of the population that have primary age kids - 20-40 years old. NB also the shambles of academies: they get money from the council, the council has no control over their operations (no bursar? Seriously?), and when it goes tits up, the council has to clean up the mess.

This is probably one of the most contentious posts I've ever seen on here 🤣 My question is this: if Nunhead exists, what is the border between Nunhead and Peckham? Consort Rd?

I think the council's move is designed to prevent developers turning every shop into a house: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/10/planning-reform-death-high-streets-robert-jenrick-profit

heartblock Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I imagine...I also imagine the numbers of residents that want > LTNs removed as they cause chaos on their roads > are being massaged into fanciful ranges... The numerous #SouthwarkDerangementSyndrome conspiracy theories posted on here are adequate evidence that some people's imaginations are very active. For example: slarti b2 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sadly we appear to live in a one party state with > no effective scrutiny or opposition to our local > (Labour) councillors, the (Labour) cabinet and our > (Labour) MP who seems to be a glove puppet for the > (Labour) councillors. ...in which someone moans extensively online without consequence but compares themselves to a North Korean or Syrian dissident because they have a different opinion from the council about whether Calton Avenue is open to traffic. Get a grip, mate. The people of Aleppo and Pyongyang would give a kidney to have your problems. 🙄

The idea of parents being contractually bound not to drive their kids in is one that ought to be imposed on the many private schools around here next time any of them wants planning permission to build more.

teetomthomas Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If the ULEZ is successful in its objectives to > reduce traffic as well as pollution, then the > necessity for Low Traffic Neighbourhoods recedes, > and those planters can indeed be removed. I think we'd all be happy if the ULEZ expansion is that successful.

Kartuli is very nice - and unlikely that your friends will have had too many Georgian meals recently so if nothing else it'll be a bit of a change

Put down the tinfoil hat. LTNs are enforced by cameras. It wouldn't make any sense for Southwark (which doesn't operate ULEZ and whose LTN came years after the ULEZ expansion and camera plan) to channel traffic away from roads that are covered by cameras to streets that are not necessarily covered by cameras. Amazing that some people seem to simultaneously believe that Southwark is completely incompetent AND ALSO capable of pulling off a multiyear conspiracy. #SouthwarkDerangementSyndrome

teetomthomas Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What are you talking about? I'm trying to think of how far you would have to go for your conspiracy theory that LTNs are a plot to pay for ULEZ cameras to make sense. The answer is: very far indeed.

That's a conspiracy theory I haven't heard before - that LTNs are designed to fund ULEZ! ULEZ: announced by Mayor Boris Johnson in 2013. ULEZ expansion: announced by Mayor Sadiq Khan in 2018, with plans for camera network expansion. Emergency Active Travel Fund: announced by Tory UK government in May 2020. LTN: implemented by Southwark in June 2020. I suppose of course you could imagine that Southwark Council, the UK government and the Chinese government have been conspiring since 2018 to launch COVID on an unsuspecting population so that TfL could buy some cameras.