hellosailor

oops, just saw you had attached a pic and yes, he's a parrot! he is lovely!

There was a thread on here recently with people saying they'd seen a cockatiel on the loose (a pet not one of the green parakeets that have bred and live in the wild in london now) and someone posted saying... 'There is a note on a tree about 2 lost cockatiels and for the life of me I cant remember where it is .Am racking my brains to remember.Got a feeling its on the SE15 side of Peckham Rye near Strakers Road which leads to the car park on the Rye.' is it definitely a parrot not a cockatiel? if it's a cockatiel then the owners are obviously looking, but unless someone knows where the 'missing poster' is then how can you re-unite them? how big is he? I'm trying to imagine him grooming your shoulder! :) maybe he can talk and will reveal details of his owners in conversation!

Yes come on GGT! I've no doubt that you're still following this thread! if there is no truth whatsoever in JamesF's claims that some of you are still at school, that you all have homes to go to and most of you sleep in those homes several nights a week, that it's effectively more of an Enid Blyton secret 7 style boy's den you've created there, and that you all regularly pop home to do washing and eat at mum and dad's while taking it in turns to sleep in the 'squat', indeed that one of you lives in the same house as him, then you surely might want to refute those claims?

I was just thinking the same thing! - it wouldn't surprise me if it turned out that the GGT and JamesF were using us as the foundation of their A-level politics coursework. Their tutor at Dulwich College is probably doling out A*s all round as we speak :))

Nope. who can tell if JamesF is telling the truth or not. His description of the GGT certainly seems to tally with the self-absorbed philosophy A-level student tone of the GGT but that could be a coincidence.

I agree genwilliams, that I don't know these boys personally and therefore admittedly don't know, as you say, whether or not they have the option of staying with parents. I would however find it really quite a coincidence if every single one of a group of seven mates of pre-university age (the GGT state that they are college age and haven't been to uni 'yet') have all been simultaneously told they are no longer welcome at home by their parents. Perhaps it is partly their petulant tone when they refer to not being able to pay 'stupid rent charges in london' that adds fuel to my personal guess that they are not likely to be a group of underprivileged or genuinely 'homeless' people who can see no other option but to forcibly take someone else's home. I note they say they are at college and have not been to university 'yet' - does this fit with the suggestion that they are a disadvantaged, underprivileged, homeless group? Who can say. I'm not sure how many of the homeless people sleeping rough on the embankment are planning on paying to go to uni anytime soon.

Actually Meld several of us family members put all our savings together to put a deposit down on the flat I mentioned in the other thread, in order to rent it out to generate an income, 100% of which pays for carers for my mother as she is too ill to wash, dress or cook for herself, and we couldn't afford to pay for her to have the level of care she needed without selling the home we grew up in and spending the savings we had tried to put aside in our early 20s. not an easy feat considering that we were in our mid twenties at the time and none of us have ever earned more than 18k a year. I only hope the flat has gone up 90k, as my mother is not yet 60 and will need increasing care for the rest of her life. So I'm not on the ladder either - I spent the money I could have put towards 'getting on the ladder' on paying for care for my mother because having worked hard all her life the 'system'which you confidently assert is 'working great for me' does not see fit to look after her. Still find it 'funny'? edited to add just read over your other posts on this thread including the sophisticated response to helena handbasket, 'why not wind your neck in and climb back into your box?' and now wish I hadn't taken 2 minutes out of my life to reply to your last 'contribution'.

ImpetuousVrouw Wrote: > > if people are homeless > and rich property owners have more homes than they > need or can be bothered to look after then I think > it's perfectly acceptable for homeless people to > satisfy their fundamental human need for shelter > by squatting the empty property. define homeless? A bunch of students with laptops and internet access does not scream 'homeless' at me. Not many homeless people are enrolled at college and spend their free time chatting in forums on the internet. Not wanting to work your arse off like most people in order to pay rent or to stay at your mums because it's like, waaaaay cooler maan to break into someone else's house does not equal homeless. do we really think that if the GGT weren't squatting in this house they would be sleeping rough? With their laptops tucked into their sleeping bags? And who said the owner 'can't be bothered to look after his property?' - they have only just bought it and are most likely assembling a crew/waiting for paperwork to be signed off to start renovating it! If you went abroad for a few weeks holiday and when you got back 7 students had broken in and decided your home was now theirs, would you think, 'fair play, I wasn't really looking after the place!'

I'm mystified. I bought my flat in East D 4 years ago and have just had it valued by 3 different estate agents, all of whom valued it above what I bought it for, which surprised me as I assumed it would have gone down or at the very best retained the value I paid. The highest valuation was 90 grand above what I paid 4 years ago - are they simply making it up to encourage me to put it on the market?

Domitianus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bottom line is, as far as I am concerned, if I own > something (a house or anything) it is entirely up > to me to decide what I do with it. If I want to > leave it empty - so be it. That is my right. > > If I chose to leave my car parked in my driveway > for a considerable period of time without using > it, would someone else be entitled to come along, > use it, drive around in it and treat it as there > own and justify the fact on the grounds that they > had replaced the brake-pads, topped up the oil and > generally avoided crashing it? Of course not. > > Absolutely agree.

firstchoicegary Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > yeah i am Validated! At last!

firstchoicegary Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > phil collins firstchoicegary are you seconding my suggestion of phil collins?? :))

jenny1840 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thank god you squatted it this year, otherwise you > would have found it far more difficult to live > there. Yeah, cos the rightful owners will be living there

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm sure Keef would be more than happy with that > allocation. :))

Anyone remember there used to be a pub in Greenwich called The Frog and Radiator. Worst name ever.

If Keef is allowed Natalie Imbruglia can I have Phil Collins? Or a step too far?

GooseGreenTeam, I have no desire to be hostile to you but let's not kid ourselves, you have not happened upon a derelict housing falling into disrepair with owners who have shown 'no interest.' You have forced your way into someone else's house while they're briefly absent - 4 months since the owner bought it is no time at all. Interested to know if you think there is a minimum time period before you can count a home as having 'no interest' from the owner (apart from the interest rather implied by them having recently shelled out over 700k on it) a 4 week summer holiday? a fortnight? If I bought myself a home but couldn't move into it for 2 months because I was working abroad, or in hospital recovering from an operation or staying with an unwell parent, or hell, just exercised the choice not to move into it for a couple of months because it's mine and I can do that, would you feel justified in breaking in through an 'open window' and taking it from me? I'd really like to know what your thoughts are? (can we save time by cutting out any 'we know the owner isn't working abroad or in hospital' to-ing and fro-ing as you had no idea of what the owner's situation was when you broke in.)

My most incredible 'brain-fart' to date was when a few years ago when I was at work and had to pop out to buy someone a coffee. As I approached the weighted front door I had what I can only explain as a sort of spontaneous lapse of memory about the precise sequence of steps involved in getting through a door, so I sort of hesitated, opened the door about a third of the way open, hesitated again, put my head in the gap and then with quite a strong sense of purpose, slammed the door closed, knocking myself out cold. in the split second between closing the door with my head in it and slithering to the ground I genuinely remember having time to think 'ah, no, I've done that in the wrong sequence.' I woke up on my own on the floor in the corridoor and then went back to my desk and pretended it hadn't happened! :))

Several times I have wandered round my house chatting on my mobile to a friend while simultaneously frantically looking for my mobile, once going so far as to explain to the friend I was talking to that I couldn't find my mobile. She was kind enough to point out that in order to be speaking to her it was presumably held to my face. frequently try to swipe barclaycard at oyster points, but assume (or hope) that most people do that sometimes. once handed over a tampax to a shopkeeper instead of a fiver when I was buying cigarettes.

Really! I've never noticed. East Dulwich is probably littered with blue plaques I haven't noticed!

Watched that biopic last night on Enid Blyton and thought it was quite interesting. I read the books when I was little but my mum always said that Blyton was supposed to have been rather an unpleasant character- that was certainly the angle that the BBC went with last night! Just looked up Blyton's childhood on the internet as missed the first few mins of the drama and wanted to check something and found out she was born on Lordship Lane, surprised there isn't a plaque anywhere, or is there?

http://www.cracked.com/video_18156_a-trailer-every-academy-award-winning-movie-ever.html This really made me laugh

I wonder if every time a parent hit a child the child hit the parent squarely back in the face it would encourage more 'successful' parenting, or at least be a deterrent against adults being violent towards children on the basis that they are their own. :)

A man in a car slowed down and drove along next to me and asked if I was 'doing business' as i walked home on East Dulwich Grove the other night. (to clarify, my attire didn't exactly scream 'lady of the night.') I told him to F off and he drove off.

A man in a car slowed down and drove along next to me and asked if I was 'doing business' as i walked home on East Dulwich Grove the other night. (to clarify, my attire didn't exactly scream 'lady of the night.') I told him to F off and he drove off.