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It would be nice to have a Wetherspoons open up on LL. No doubt the current pubs we have will bump up their prices of pints on the pretence that they need to recoup money for being closed for 3 months. Spoons will at least give us the chance to get drunk at a reasonable price, and the nearest branch in Peckham is just plain scary- i've heard gang members discussing their latest stabbings in the smoking area more than once!

I believe if you ask nicely one of the fried chicken shops in the Rye Lane area will cater for your wedding food, and it would offer good value. You could possibly feed all your guests well for under ?5 a head, and in tough economic times like this, that is not to be sniffed at.

Ronnijade Wrote: > And one more thing! We?ve had foxes visiting our > garden for years, and I?ve lived in the same house > for 23 years and they have yet to ?make a mess? of > my garden. In fact, some mornings I look out of my > window and they?re cuddled up next to my cats! Highly unlikely. This may have been the case in the childrens book 'animals of farthing wood', but not in reality. Please try to not confuse the two.

They ought to not be encouraged, and feeding them just adds to the problem of them being in urban areas in the first place- they come as there are scraps of food to eat but then are a nuisance by ripping open bin bags, screaming in the middle of the night and generally offering nothing positive at all, apart from the the odd weirdo who thinks they are 'cute'. If you were my neighbour, i wouldnt be best pleased at you attracting them to where i live.

I dont think it would be unreasonable that anyone who attended yesterdays protests to be quarantined for 14 days, if necessary by means of detention. All the sacrifices we made by not going out for months is being jeopardised by a movement who points i agree with, but essentially started because a known criminal was killed by rogue Police on a different continent. If lives mattered so much, why would you potentially put them at risk, just to chant some stuff at Police for a few hours on a Saturday afternoon?

The opportunity for other thefts, burglary in particular, has likely gone down now everyone is constantly at home. Things like bike theft will naturally increase.

rollflick Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- In the near future, you > may see people working on behalf of Openreach in > your area. Be sure to say "hi" if you see them. > I wonder what logic at head office approved that to be in the email? Do they think this is some kind of quaint chocolate box village were everyone toddles around saying 'good day' to each other? Jesus wept.

My go to place for a fry up. Strikes a great balance between pretentious Lordship Lane cafe and greasy spoon. Have they been open for takeaway all this time?

No thanks. Reasons why are summed up quite well here: http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2019/10/the-laundry-bistro-wine-shop-adds-a-fresh-layer-of-gentrification-to-coldharbour-lane-brixton/

this initially sounds like it could be a similar incident to the burglary gone wrong in Hither Green last year.

mary123 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It certainly is...Police have been called and > attended but they just give advice to the groups > to keep noise down, we have tried to contact > anyone involved in Dawson Hill Trust but no > working contacts.. just pray the situation > resolves.. > Would the fact that the Police have attended and, in your own words, 'just give advice to the groups to keep the noise down', make you think that in fact people gathering in a public space to have a few drinks and enjoy themselves is perfectly legal and it may just be your intolerance and possibly a misguided opinion that you are entitled to perfect peace and quiet in a major urban area that is the problem here? There are many, many parts of the country where you will achieve this without needing to twitch your curtains, email the council or call the already overstretched Police force who are understandably wary of attending such scenes without contracting Coronavirus and taking it back to their families. I am actually going to go to this spot and check to observe whether this 'crazy' rubbish that is apparently everywhere is fact or fiction. I suspect it is the latter and is a mere stick to beat the miscreants who dare to cause the slightest bit of commotion which you think is out of place, even though they are perfectly entitled to do so. Still, i suppose you have the other 10 months of year when the weather is rubbish where you wont be disturbed. Then again, i get the feeling that even too many dog walkers in the deep mid winter may also not be to your pleasing.

Peckham is a hotbed for Coronavirus- people should not be gathering there. The demographic of the area itself is how it is and the virus does not discriminate.

Whilst i agree with the reasons behind any protest linked to the abhorrent incident in the US, and also agree that 'Black Lives Matter', i dont agree with large numbers of people gathering during a pandemic in an area that has had very high numbers of people getting ill and dying from the virus. It is almost a sick irony, that lives matter yet by gathering like this they are putting themselves and those of their families in danger of getting ill and as a consequence possibly dying. We hear that Coronavirus affects the BAME community disproportionately higher, with behaviour such as this protest, you can begin to see reasons why.

I was on Clapham Common yesterday evening, by the spot where the ice cream van normally is near Clapham High Street, i counted, within my immediate eyesight- NINE (9) huge bins for people to dump their rubbish in when they were finished on the common.

oh look its a smug, self righteous type who (claims to) work with the homeless, and can therefore lecture people on how to think and act in life.

The Gardens has been fine with me, although i am a healthy and in my 30s, so haven't needed them much. They were a bit cold when signing up mind. Declaring that i was 'just about in the catchment area' as if they were doing me a huge favour in letting me sign up to the practice. Odd.

I cant change the title on other peoples replies im afraid

I've modded it to remove all mentions of the location

I read it that the OP is rightly grouchy and fed up of being ill, and just wanted a whinge. But to whinge about something like kids playing too loud is risible- this is zone 2 in London, not the Cotswolds. There are many people in close proximity, going about their business- nothing wrong with that.

i agree its not ideal for them or anyone else to be living in a car. I wondered if anyone else had noticed and if they thought the same as me. If i notice the person is still there maybe ill put some food or a pint of beer from the pub beside the car. Im not going within 2 metres of the person, and the reason i thought it was spooky as the car is in complete darkness and all i can see is a pair of eyes staring out of the crack between the door and car frame right at me as i walk by, im sorry but its a bit unsettling!

On a couple of occasions last week i walked past a car parked on a road in the ED area Both times i noticed one of the passenger doors was open leaning out to the pavement. The first time i noticed a pair of eyes looking out, assuming it was just someone parking up and getting out of their car, i thought nothing of it. A couple of days later i was approaching the car parked in the same spot, and made a note to pay more attention to it. The front of it was stuffed full of junk (personal possessions?) and again although i didnt exactly look inside the car, there was definitely a figure in the darkness and a pair of eyes staring out at me as i walked by. Has anyone else noticed this character in the car? If im correct surely this cannot be very hygienic, for example i wonder where this person goes to the toilet? Also, its a bit spooky knowing someone is living there in a car.

The OP says they have housemates, which suggests they are quite young. Its unusual for someone presumably in their 20's or 30's to whinge about low level outside noise, wonder what theyll be like once they are in their 60's! My sleep is disturbed each morning before 9am by some building works near me. I just have to close my window, and its largely solves the problem.

Its 'large ugly bins' or rubbish on the common- what would you rather? Take your pick. They have big green bins on Clapham Common over the summer, no doubt you'd say these were 'ugly' (?!), but helps keep the litter in check. Southwark council could certainly learn a thing or two from their Lambeth neighbours.

Heard one go over at about 4:40 this morning, are they allowed to go over that early?

A small house fire is not a 'major incident'. I know round these parts some people would consider a theft of a plant pot a major crime (then come on here and moan about it), but please put things into perspective.