My favourite place/street/memory in ED

[Jah Lush]

Indeed, the woods are fantastic. Absolutely beautiful and so peaceful you forget you're in the middle of London. I walked through them a couple of Sundays back with a mate and his dog and then had a couple of pints in the Woodhouse and then walked back through them again. Used to walk through the tunnel as a kid with my dad and big sister. Happy days.

Also sitting outside the Dog on a summer's day watching the world go by whilst sinking a few pints is good for the soul.

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Mates brother was stopped by a pair of bobbys the other week when he was walking into the woods to mess around with his new two grands worth of full frame Nikon dangling around his neck as they thought he was going to take photos of virile young men coupling as apparently the woods have been a very popular cruising spot for some time now. Not sure why they stopped him though, unless it was a privacy thing?

Seeing as the Magdala is going to close or something, perhaps ED will get the decent gay bar it deserves, those woods must get right chilly in the winter!

[Nero]

How can it be a privacy thing? Why would the coppers be protecting outdoor sex fiends? That indeed would be political correctness gone mad!

Anyway, I used to love walking to the top of Barry Road to ensure I got the back left hand seat on the 12 to go into town. It had much more leg room than the others. The bendy has nothing on the Routemaster.

I also remember the heavy snow in 2003, and could see it getting thicker and stickier as the 176 mounted the hill to Dulwich Library. The difference in temperature from the Goose Green end to the Upper East Side (I know, some people hate the term) is quite marked.

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Ooh, a ride on the back seat at the top of the 12, or on the front bottom seat from The Plough to Notting Hill Gate was a wonderful journey!

Talking of snow, the last decent snow I remember in London, was coming back home with a fresh Sega Megadrive after helping with the UK launch and wishing the 176's engine was more powerful as I couldn't wait to be back home and have a monster Golden Axe session...

I remember there being a number 12 routemaster parked outside an ice cream parlour in Sapporo, but never did get a photo of it as it would mean getting off the Chuo-Bus and paying another fare, tch what a skinflint eh? :))

[SimonM]

>>the front bottom seat from The Plough to Notting Hill Gate <<

Ermm...??? Should I ask??? :))

[Cassius]

Snow makes me cry too - but not in the same way.............

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

@ SimonM rotflmao :))

[Ted Max]

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Yesterday, summer gave us a revelatory farewell, an unexpected parting gift from a previously taciturn and gruff relative. I was in Peckham Rye Park, but I imagine the harmonious and grateful mood there was replicated across London, wherever people turned to the sun and uncoiled in its gentle warmth.

I will remember it.

[Jimbob]

the first sighting of a beautiful girl sitting in the lounge of what was the new hamlet inn in 1995. following a little bit of perseverance and probably stalking on my behalf, she became mrs jimbob in 1999.

[Keef]

Ha, I've just realised hat he first time I met Mrs Keef was in the British Legion of all places! There for a mutual friend's party. It was a couple of years and many more meetings through said friend before I finally managed to convince her that I'd be worth taking a risk on. Hope she doesnt regret the risk toooo much!

[SteveT]

Unexpectedly being recognised in Chener book shop by Moos was the most recent

and discovering Moxons fish shop sold Manx kippers which are far superior to the Scottish ones I do not buy.

[Moos]

.........not being recognised by Steve for about 10 minutes is a treasured memory of mine...

Only teasing, Steve!

[SteveT]

Dear Moos, I am so sorry I just do not recognise people at all well, I have never logged faces easily

and can remember driving straight past my business partner having been in partnership for ten years,

so not much chance of saying hello to anyone then.

[Moos]

No need to apologise Steve, I was just pulling your leg.

[Michael Palaeologus]

I see Moos regularly at ED station.

She hides.