Important questions about local life

[dulwichdreadlocks]

....why is service so slow at Blue Mountain?

....why does the man who works in Healthmatters seem so unfriendly?

....why isn't there a Waterstones?

....why the disproportionate number of Indian restaurants on LL and vicinity?

[Moos]

Can help you with no.3 - it's because Chener is fab!

[dulwichdreadlocks]

Moos Wrote:

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> Can help you with no.3 - it's because Chener is

> fab!

What is Chener?

[Moos]

The bookshop at the bottom end of Lordship Lane.

[dulwichdreadlocks]

Moos Wrote:

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> The bookshop at the bottom end of Lordship Lane.

I didn't realise it was a proper bookshop! Never ventured in as it didn't look real!

[Moos]

I must admit, it took me a over year of living near here to go in as I thought it was a comic book shop. But it is indeed a proper bookshop, and I think very good.

[citizenED]

Chener's shop sign is so ancient it is listed by English heritage.

[Ted Max]

Chener is a portal to lost worlds. The keeper of the gate only allows you to see what he wants you to see.

[dulwichdreadlocks]

I am heading to Chener immediately to see this for myself!

[Brendan]

Moos Wrote:

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> I must admit, it took me a over year of living

> near here to go in as I thought it was a comic

> book shop. But it is indeed a proper bookshop,

> and I think very good.

Are you insinuating that comic books are not proper books?

[Moos]

You could read it that way.

[*Bob*]

Brendan can't read - he only looks at the pictures.

[PeckhamRose]

Answer to number four: the market forces mean they're wanted. When people stop going, they'll close up.

Answer to number one: probably they're taking too much time clearing up after the little ones.

Answer to number two: don't care. Complain to management. No point asking us!

Answer to number three: We don't need more chains here. Cheners is fab.

[Huguenot]

6... What is the northern end of LL, the top or the bottom?

[Moos]

I have been beaten up by several forumites on this point, and can confirm through my broken teeth and split lip that the northern end is the bottom. Can also confirm that I'm very sorry and won't do it again.

[Sherwick]

Moos Wrote:

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> I have been beaten up by several forumites on this

> point, and can confirm through my broken teeth and

> split lip that the northern end is the bottom.

> Can also confirm that I'm very sorry and won't do

> it again.

The northern end is the bottom?

How absurd and preposterous!

[Moos]

*sighs*

*hands Sherwick a bandage and a sticky plaster*

Don't say I didn't warn you. Something about the hilliness of the southern end.

[Sherwick]

I wish to make a formal complaint.

[Moos]

Go on then.

[Brendan]

Bollicks, North is up everyone knows that.

Except in the very olden days when East was up.

[PeckhamRose]

Dammit what was question number 5.

[dukesdenver]

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> Answer to number three: We don't need more chains

> here. Cheners is fab.

Call me shallow but if I have to pay full price for a book I want to do it somewhere a lot less manky-looking.

[Sherwick]

Brendan Wrote:

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> Bollicks, North is up everyone knows that.

>

> Except in the very olden days when East was up.

The East Dulwich Forum. The only place in the known universe where up is down and down is up.

[Moos]

dukesdenver Wrote:

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> Call me shallow but if I have to pay full price

> for a book I want to do it somewhere a lot less

> manky-looking.

Why?

[citizenED]

Perhaps if Dukesdenver goes in more frequently to purchase full-price tomes from Chener the place will be able to un-mank itself.