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Bellenden Road is nice, I can walk freely without looking-at-listening-bumping-into the people/shops who'd be in the Rye Lane area.


I'm fine with that & i'm sure i'm not missed over there.


Not looking for Shangri-La though. Just a bit of peace, and a decent coffee.

david_carnell Wrote:

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> Chillaxed Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > And I have sympathy for them where all they see

> as

> > the net result of govt spending is, to quote

> > woodrot, nazi grocers. And penis-shaped

> bollards.

>

> Chillaxed - this isn't aimed at you....*deep

> breath*

>

> Ok - I'm coming out the closet. I like those

> bollards. There I said it. They're much bloody

> nicer than the standard municipal-catalogue street

> furniture you get everywhere else. And it was a

> local artist.

>

> And nazi-grocers? Seriously? The poor chaps at the

> General Store are open a week and get this flack?

> They're young, independent and investing their

> money in a business they think the local community

> will like. If you don't, fine. Shop somewhere

> else. They took over an empty unit, they didn't

> displace some sacred cow. There are plenty of

> shops nearby selling mouldy veg for a ?1 a bowl

> and not many selling a nice bit of cheese so no

> one is losing out here and a lot more people are

> winning.

>

> You'd think in a recession some people would be

> pleased to see such developments but seemingly the

> same old misanthropes are out in force.

>

> Put up or shut up.



loving your work here DC.

Bellend it has always been, Bellend it will remain. Even if you were to have "street food" in Bellend it wouldn't improve. Oh, wait a minute "street food", or more commonly known as "food from market stalls", have been offered on Choumert for donkeys.

I disagree - I really like a lot of the shops on Bellenden Road, from the bookshop that has been there for yonks, to The Begging Bowl Thai restaurant. I've eaten there a few times & really enjoyed it.


UncleBen Wrote:

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> Bellend it has always been, Bellend it will

> remain. Even if you were to have "street food" in

> Bellend it wouldn't improve. Oh, wait a minute

> "street food", or more commonly known as "food

> from market stalls", have been offered on Choumert

> for donkeys.

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