lenk

Try dealing with Spanish / US / Italian police I'd rather our ineffectual blunderers than what they have.

I ride through there at something like 15mph. Not really sure how anyone would be able to stop me either.

I ride through there at something like 15mph. Not really sure how anyone would be able to stop me either.

lilolil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Isn't brick lane known for the place to go to buy > "stolen bikes"???? > Thank you for your comments..all have been > noted...... Yep - if you have a bike stolen proceed directly to Brick Lane the following sunday and there's a good chance it'll be there. Or check legalised 'fence' Gumtree.

lilolil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Isn't brick lane known for the place to go to buy > "stolen bikes"???? > Thank you for your comments..all have been > noted...... Yep - if you have a bike stolen proceed directly to Brick Lane the following sunday and there's a good chance it'll be there. Or check legalised 'fence' Gumtree.

an example: Colleague's bike left locked overnight on Brick Lane outside my old office. Morning after had been picked clean of everything except the frame. All of those parts, though seemingly worthless, can be sold. It is free money. A bike out in the still of night with no passersby is a no-brainer. Hate to say it but you don't leave bikes out overnight in London and expect anything of value to be there the next morning. If you're leaving a bike for any length of time I would get 2 Kryptonite 'Fahgeddaboutit' locks, lock both wheels and saddle together, superglue all screw joints (you can remove this with solvent lateR)

an example: Colleague's bike left locked overnight on Brick Lane outside my old office. Morning after had been picked clean of everything except the frame. All of those parts, though seemingly worthless, can be sold. It is free money. A bike out in the still of night with no passersby is a no-brainer. Hate to say it but you don't leave bikes out overnight in London and expect anything of value to be there the next morning. If you're leaving a bike for any length of time I would get 2 Kryptonite 'Fahgeddaboutit' locks, lock both wheels and saddle together, superglue all screw joints (you can remove this with solvent lateR)

case closed

case closed

how long for?

how long for?

Where was it left, how long for, and what locks were used to secure it out of interest? Just so I know what precautions to take.

louisiana Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I hear some private homes are opening their front > rooms to diners in some parts of town. Nice idea. > Unofficially of course. mainly in Stoke Newington though... singer from They Came From the Stars, I Saw Them has been doing it for a while.

SteveT Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Nothing will change for cyclist until the minister > of transport gets on his bike and rides the > Elephant roundabout during rush hour. You have to ride around there like you just stole the bike you are riding and are being chased by its owner. And he's on a motorbike. Armed with a machete. It is definitely one of the worst in London . My number one vote goes to Marble Arch though. And there's 2 memorial 'ghost bikes' on railings around there to prove it : ( I think a 'ghost bike' is being arranged in memory of Meryem from what I've read.

Yeah, I did think they meant well when I read that piece.. Doing good pub food is kind of a 'loss leader' to use marketing w anker speak though. You go in for a roast because it's amazing, you end up staying for 7 pints until closing time on a Sunday. I'll probably go to the Gowlett for a pizza later, but drink about 5 pints while there (ignore my unit tally here) I am aware wetherspoons do food, fortunately there's a whole different market for decent pub food - besides which, I think the nearest Wetherspoons is down near Peckham library - a bit of a trek (oh yeah, and I hate Wetherspoons pubs)

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > On another point to an earlier poster - the > Gowlett sister pub is the Nun's Head a few dozen > yards away. And that seems to be plenty busy any > time I go in They do football and have gastro-aspirations and a good range of beers so I guess that's why - they're also the pub of choice on that stretch if you don't fancy grumpy Irishmen (Pyrotechnists) or The Man of Kent's er, welcoming atmosphere.

njc97 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > EOTR - really? Shame. I was reading an interview > with the new owners (coincedentally in the Frog on > the Green) and it sounded like they had the right > idea, albeit it sounds like they aren't managing > to implement it perfectly. I think they were > always going to struggle though - the previous > owners (also owners of the Gowlett?) served good > food and good wines etc, but it was still always > empty. Don't think the location can support the > sort of pub they tried to run. Did you read that in the freebie 'Nunhead Gazette' or whatever it's called though? Looked like pure advertorial... [it was written in idiomatic Polish english] they want to put the bar back where it was, make the back room less like a train station waiting room, get rid of the crap art, put the taps of 'decent' beer round the front, do pub food that isn't pizzas (the gowlett has this cornered) upmarket bangers and mash / wannabe 'gastro' nonsense (The Rye Hotel does this and they're welcome to it) - decent roast, fish and chips, fryups. Maybe someone should put them forward for 'Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares'...

DrDom Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm with you, > > last saturday, I walked down north cross and > nearly fainted with terror, when a woman with a > sabre 3000+ duluxe pushchair manacingly crossed > the road towards me. > > Close call what kind of useless description is this? I need a full ethno-demographic breakdown on my desk by the end of the day so I know who to sneer at.

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > lenk Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > > > xxxxxx > > > > > > What frog place?? > > > > Frog on the Green on Consort Road. > > > > Great deli, barely any scoffing EDites make it > > over there either due to Nunhead's rampant > crime > > stats and hourly drive-by shootings. Meaning > you > > can usually get a seat. > > > > I don't think opening another deli within 5 > > minutes' walk would really do anyone any > favours > > though... > > xxxxx > > Thanks - will check it out :) > > Is it new? I remember it being there beginning of last year, they do nice range of salads and bits and pieces of hot food as well + homemade cakes - and if i remember right you can wash it down with a decent bottle of beer...

Anyone fancy a house-share in Kew? We'll need guns though.

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That doesn't tell you anything about ED honk, that > just tells you what Vince thinks. > > I don't believe that what I think will tell you > anything about Singapore, nor anything about > Beijing or anywhere else I've lived. True, I just couldn't read vince's post without reading it in a 'Margo from the Good Life' voice. It suggests that Vince might think the denizens of all these areas Vince denounces would secretly sell their own mother for the chance to live in a Victorian semi on Curtain-twitch Lane in ED. Somehow I doubt it.

Vince Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >>It's precisely because ED is better than those two places By what criteria? This post says more about ED than a million posts on here ever could. What a small-minded, pitiful attitude.

> > xxxxxx > > What frog place?? Frog on the Green on Consort Road. Great deli, barely any scoffing EDites make it over there either due to Nunhead's rampant crime stats and hourly drive-by shootings. Meaning you can usually get a seat. I don't think opening another deli within 5 minutes' walk would really do anyone any favours though...

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Twirly bow ties, big BIG shoes, red noses....it's > them again It would be great if someone WAS mugged by a clown on here (before you all hammer the 'report' button like circus seals, I mean this in jest) as the forum would have have a good first shot at a positive ID on here. Presuming the clown was from the area. And wore the same clothes every single day. And didn't sneakily wash his make up off. And struck again in a similar part of ED in front of someone who reads this forum. Yeah, it's likely.

James Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I read a description of three female muggers on > here a while ago. I remembered it and looked out > for them. Thankfully I didn't encounter them. What a lovely story. And the fact you attribute this to the fact that you didn't encounter them, rather than the button-bashing 'description' given on here being next-to-useless is cute. The charity thing you mention is a really basic straw man argument. Well done. I have no 'squeamish PC instincts', I'm just amazed at the misguided, thinly-veiled vigilantism that emerges every time yet another of these threads pops us. Phone the police. A forum won't stop you from being mugged.