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I've got to agree with treehugger and Otta. This is gold dust (mind you any opinion I express at the moment has to be filtered through the understanding that I'm currently on quite strong painkillers).


The challenge now is to run with the concept.


I wonder how many remember the hypnotic opening sequence of the classic 1987 movie set in our (newly) twinned city of New Orleans starring Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin?


I think similar could be achieved using local musical talent and footage obtained by waving a mobile phone around on a balcony of the top floor of the Ladlands Estate. (Did I mention that the painkillers were strong?)

BrandNewGuy Wrote:

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> I'm not sure we are more precious. No-one in or

> out regards Dulwich Village as East Dulwich. And

> Thatcher's house in Hambledon Place, SE21, was

> most definitely not East Dulwich.


Maybe people were less obsessed with this kind of stuff in the 80s. Bits of New Cross used to be called Deptford *shrugs*

Last time I saw Easy D in Time Out it said this:


"Somehow, since the millennium, East Dulwich has gone from being a relaxed, vaguely bohemian secret to a caricature of middle-class urban living. The online East Dulwich Forum is one of the most active local area forums in the country, where people get hot under the collar about unsightly advertising hoardings, noise after 10pm, and whether chain shops are welcome (Waitrose only, it seems)"


Seemed to split opinion as I recall.


I wonder what they say about Claps J Town?

Too Good To Be True Wrote:

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> "Somehow, since the millennium, East Dulwich has

> gone from being a relaxed, vaguely bohemian secret

> to a caricature of middle-class urban living. The

> online East Dulwich Forum is one of the most

> active local area forums in the country, where

> people get hot under the collar about unsightly

> advertising hoardings, noise after 10pm, and

> whether chain shops are welcome (Waitrose only, it seems)"


Sounds like a fair write-up TBH

At the turn of the millenium, it was a cheap(ish) neighbourhood which seemed to have a higher than average concentration of actors, artists, musicians, etc so "vaguely bohemian" isn't exactly the worst description I can think of. But by 2002, it already felt like an area in the grips of gentrification.

newboots Wrote:

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> This just makes me nostalgic for the days when

> Time Out was my most-looked-forward-to publication

> of the week :(



Me too. Time Out was once thrilling to read. Pre-Internet it was the only way to find out what was going on in London.

newboots Wrote:

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> This just makes me nostalgic for the days when

> Time Out was my most-looked-forward-to publication

> of the week :(


Or City Limits if you were a donkey-jacket-wearing leftie with a penchant for grim East European cinema...

Easy D isn't for Bohemians. It's for beautiful people with flowers in their hair who sit on beanbags proclaiming how working class they are and how we should all support the workers' co-operative run Iceland, before rushing off to Franklins or the like.


Easy D? To be followed by The Camber W and Honor O.

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