Time Jaqui did visit the local shop...

[Enough,already]

The newsagent's shop on Inverton Road Nunhead (approx 250 yds from Home Secretarial residency, primary or secondary) now has a card offering "massage" services stuck right in the middle of its door. There goes the neighbourhood, there goes the neighbourhood.

When the last owners of this shop tried putting a similar ad in the window, years ago, some of the long-term residents of this lovely, quiet little area (there are still families who've been here for 3 generations) had a little word about the effect this might have on the shop's custom. The card went and was never replaced with anything similar.

I have lived here for many years and I don't want this to become the kind of place where "massage" services are advertised, or where I, or my neighbours, have a "massage" business moving in next door. It will not be safe for women of any age, it will not be safe for our children, if the kind of men who come looking for "massage" services get the message that this is a place to come.

Seriously, if these people think that this is the kind of area where they can move in and advertise openly, they will bring others after them. Once it gets established, it's very hard to get rid of.

Also, as it is highly likely that any women involved these days have been trafficked here, it does seem quite bizarre that there's a large hostel on Ivydale Road, even closer to the Smith home, which is supposed to be there to help trafficked women to escape the "massage" business at the same time as there's an ad like this in full view just round the corner.

There are six other grocery stores within 300 yards, three of which sell newspapers, and I know where I will be taking my custom in future.

[PeckhamRose]

How else am I gonna advertise? 084 numbers are just SOOOOOOO expensive.