calling all shopkeepers....

[karter]

Being a trader, resident and landlord on LL have noticed alot of eastern european people wearing coloured scarfs blatantly going up to people in their face and begging in the area all of a sudden. Two of the girls have tried to pass on a dodgy 50 pound note but we refused it.They were trying to scam us. Alot of other shops experienced the same so if there are any other shopkeepers on this forum please share info.The police have an alertbox system that shops can sign up for free that sends messages and alarms to all thats signed up.

Between guns, robbers and scammers we really need to keep on top of this to keep east dulwich and London the great place that it is. :o)

K

[monica]

Karter another thing too look out for are the mothers on ll who use their buggys to hold their wallets and other valubles.Time and time again i see the mothers looking for their wallet in the buggy hood.Please lovely mothers of east dulwich dont put your wallets in the buggys.I spoke to a trader and he caught someone in his shop redhanded trying to take a wallet from someones buggy.

[Domitianus]

I quite agree with Monica. Give your purse or wallet into the safe-keeping of the young child in the pram you are pushing. That way it will be carefully safeguarded. If you spend all day pushing them about they might as well make themselves useful. One other thing, Monica. Do your comments not equally apply to the not-so-lovely mothers of ED? Let's not discriminate against the mingers! This is the 21st Century, you know!

[dulwichmum]

Dear Dominatrix,

Some of us are really bad mothers, but we are trying to be lovely, and a not so lovely mother has very little to do with being a minger - that has to do with not enough sleep.

I mean, I am simply gorgous, but no sleep for nights on end, and you may mistake me for a not so lovely mother - a real bad mutha actually... short tempered, no time to use the straightening iron or have my nails done. That kind of thing.

[beth]

Baby spit down the front, kids snot on our jeans - yup, that's me, sleepwalking down Lordship Lane!

But every mother is a LOVELY mother! Ha, ha!

[Domitianus]

But what about those that are congenitally HIDEOUS, rather than just poorly groomed? Do they not also deserve fair treatment? I am attempting to stand up for an unrecognised minority here - the less than glam ED mother (of whom I am sure there are but a handful!)

BTW dulwichmum, who is 'Dominatrix'? A little Freudian SLip there? Allowing a certain side of yourself to peep out and stretch its legs? Go on, you can tell us, you are amongst friends.