Lemming

But of course - 'dynamic, exciting, more interesting Peckham' is really just a couple of localised areas of Peckham, filled with people from East Dulwich and Shoreditch (insert winky smiley) On a less cynical note: there are decent places in East Dulwich, there are decent places in Peckham. You can get from one to the other in five or ten minutes. Everyone wins (assuming you can actually afford to go drinking and eat out, which rules out a sizeable percentage of the people in both areas).

It's all pizzas and eyes down on 'The Laaaane' these days. Those of us who have to travel to buy small calibre sporting firearms and Oirish goods are poorly served.

Never mind the oversupply of pizzas, what about the oversupply of opticians? Don't get me wrong, I like eyes.. but I only have two of them.

cella Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- He is here mainly to put his already being negotiated trade demands on the table I'm not an expert, but I believe that - in order to see and negotiate what's 'on the table' - it helps if you're at least prepared to be 'in the room'.

Trump is a bell-end obviously, but to misquote the football saying: the president is temporary, the relationship is permanent. Let any of the electorate who fancy it float balloons, shout and draw 'cock cicles' and so on, fine. But for Corbyn and his inner circle - those who aspire to hold the reins of government - to engage in such student megaphone tomfoolery? What a bunch of absolute tits.

The shoppe frontte is terriblye naffe, however as mentioned above it's a franchise so that's what it has to be. Behind the signage is someone who's put in a load of work and wants to make a success of it - which is more important. Anyway there's no shortage of other proper eyesores in the area so not really worth getting in too much of a lather about this. As long as they have my personal sugar tipple I will be in for that. And if they don't.. I'm gonna go nuclear.

Loutwo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ah right, that?s ok then. As long as you had fun, > who cares about the neighbours. Alas I can't say I canvassed every house for opinion (perhaps next year) - but as a very sociable bit of street with a lot a neighbours who know, chat and socialise with each other on a day to day basis - I can report that nobody I know was RAVAGED. A few said they wished they'd got tickets. A few said they wished they were younger, or didn't have young kids, so they could have got tickets. Some went out for the day and did something else. Some were a bit grumbly but ended up at "ah well" and moved on. A few said 'our kids are going, hope it's good'. They're generally an empathetic lot, I expect they simply extended some of that empathy in the general direction of the park for a day or two. You should give it a go. However.. I will be sure to let them all know that someone who doesn't even live nearby was determined to get in a tiresome stew about it on their behalf - for internet kicks.

If you'd read the discussion above you would have noted that I walked home from the site in a couple of minutes.

Ravaged RAVAGED, I say

Loutwo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You may think I?m banging the same old drum As long as it's around about 126bpm - carry on.

If you go to festivals (especially ones with multiple stages) you notice how the sound moves around in waves and washes. Atmospheric conditions, wind and so on push it this way and that. Same reason an aeroplane can be in the same place overhead on two different days, one day it's loud, the next you can hardly hear it. We live 'pretty close' to where the speakers were positioned. Last year (on the Monday) it was fairly loud sitting in the back garden; this year we hardly heard a thing. So it may be that those that were dismayed with it being 'louder' this year just got unlucky with where the sound went. From a (purely selfish) punter perspective, we were really impressed with the sound inside the event on Saturday. Loud enough to enjoy properly, but still able to talk the the person you were standing next to without having to shout. Ideal really. You can do your best with speaker placement but there's no magic wand to stop volume and frequency - especially bass frequencies - other than to reduce them. Unfortunately this sort of music requires enough volume to be enjoyable. When it's not loud enough, it's a disappointment, enough to spoil the experience. For some people (and I think we're only talking about a minority) this sort of music will ALWAYS be too loud. They'd only really be happy if you turned it, well, off.

Tenner says the OP's down the Royal Vauxhall Tavern with their top off within three years.