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If I had a farm my animals would listen to death metal in permanent darkness.

Caroline Phillips-esque musings in the London Evening Standard. Helen Kirwan-Taylor writes about muggings in the Capital... "... a fellow mother at my son's school in sleepy St John's Wood was mugged for her Rolex in front of the school gates with all the mothers watching....One of the other mothers was even trying to pull him off." http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23708520-details/Being+mugged+is+now+part+of+my+everyday+life/article.do you see, it isn't just ED that is er, WRACKED BY CRIME

The fish in the Chinese is very good usually. They also do Madagascan prawns (frozen) v cheaply. Many of the fishmongers stock 'back home' fish for homesick Carribeans - there's still fresh in amongst, but check whether what you're buying has been flown frozen from somewhere or is genuinely fresh. Everything I've had has been good - just don't expect a little bag of samphire and a recipe card, they aren't that kind of fishmongers. They do live catfish for ?10 on the right near Starburger which look very good indeed (next to the shop selling giant African land snails at the moment)

James Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh face it please, some of those butchers on Rye > Lane are obviously filthy. Open your eyes. The > reason they stay open is because they are so > freakin' cheap. > > William Rose is clearly the sensible choice. > Better still, go veggie. Better for the > environment and your health! william Rose got 2 stars on that thing posted above. I think you're just being snobbish. I really doubt you've ever set foot in any of the butchers on Rye Lane.

It just sounds like complete snobbishness. If a butcher doesn't sell enough meat = it closes. You buy bad meat from shop and get sick = you stop shopping there. All the butchers on Rye Lane have been open long enough for market forces to have kicked in. Ergo just because it doesn't fit with your idyll of a smiling man in a striped apron keeping a couple of pheasant aside for you for Saturday lunch doesn't mean it's bad. And as for "a lot of the meat is cheap and therefore likely to be produced in shocking conditions" Unless you personally know the farm where your meat is coming from then it is right to assume this is always the case.

what are you doing on there?

fractionater Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And don't forget all the parasites and worms in > raw fish! Mainly swordfish - and if you're using fish from a reputable source you should be fine.

how do you know all this stuff?

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm sitting in my house and nobody has kicked in > the door yet this morning. > > Amazing. It can only be a matter of time though, > so I'm making plans to move to a less dangerous > area like John 0' Groats. I saw a man near Goose Green night who definitely had that 'comtemplating kicking a door in' look on his face. I followed him for a good 5 miles around South London before he got on a bus and I lost him. : (

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I notice no one has mentioned the former > Woolworths site down in Peckham. I raised this one > with the forum a few months back now. I think this > would be ideal, it is within easy reach of ED, is > the perfect size for a small supermarket, and it > would help to regenerate the Peckham Town Centre > image. > > Louisa. Don't know if you've noticed.... but someone's already taken the lease on the old Woolworths. No, it's not TX Maxx or Waitrose, it's... a shop with no sign that sells homewares.

matthew123 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Iceland may have been great for the chicken > nuggets and frozen pizza brigade but East Dulwich > has moved on and is now in need of something more > upmarket. Are you the mayor? There's new residents reading these threads you know, think of what thery might think reading this kind of thing...

matthew123 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes but were you dragging a suitcase on your > journey through the bad lands of SE22, so local > thugs knew you were one of them to gain instant > respect!? I forgot to mention I was dressed as a policeman. You should have seen the amount of 'spotted: policeman' threads up here last night. Mental.

Last night i walked along ED's notorious Barry Road, Uplands Road and then down LL towards Goose Green. At no point did I encounter any lotharios, whistlers, clowns or dodgy youths. I didn't even see any policemen. The whole walk passed without incident in fact. Pretty boring round here isn't it?

Next January I heard ... :-S

Last time I got it the other way it bailed at E+C roundabout as well. Annoying... and usually happens without warning.

You lot love your independent shops and then do backflips at the slightest mention of another supermarket coming to town... what's it to be? Because another alpha male supermarket on the lane will definitely impact on all the beloved independent shops in the area.

when you want to remove them (for a rare event like replacing saddle etc) you use superglue remover and wait 15 mins. Your average thief doesn't usually have that amount of time handy / carry superglue remover.

Someone was saying that if you read the OP there's a clue as to where

Sally81 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > only been here two weeks and this forum is > flippin' scaring me! I got a cab home for ?30 on > sat night cos I was too worried about walking home > from bus. Not good eh? I'm sure it's safe and I'm > sure it's me being an idiot.....but really, it > would be nice for everyone to post about their > positive experiences cos, now i is sh*****g > myself, innit. Honestly - there is nothing to worry about - if you've lived almost anywhere else in London you were more in danger walking home. I don't think anyone ever posts about the time they got a bus home and nothing happened though. I've lived here for years, and the only trouble I've ever had was a very polite middle-class sounding mugger on Uplands Road who I pushed over a wall.

I've mentioned it on here before, but supergluing a ball bearing into all allen key sockets and using locking skewers on wheels makes it a fairly boring task for thieves to nick anything. Certainly the most common type who only wander around with allen keys.

Will the meats be from William Rose? This will affect the park keeper's decision.

I think it's absolutely disgusting that yet again, nothing is being done.

The nearest tube is Old Street, weirdly enough. Simply catch a 78 bus from the Rye to Shoreditch, and you will be presented with London's famous 'Northern Line' at your complete disposal! Here to help.

I was walking through Clerkenwell earlier and I saw some police as well - what on earth is going on? This kind of thing makes me petrified to live in ED, and is just another example of our descent into lawless barbarianism.

tiger ranks Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dulwich is slowly becomming a GHETTO we need to do > something about the youngsters If you took all the speculative threads on here to the letter, you could probably frighten yourself into a coma quite easily.