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Thread: The Windrush Line - Red
Post: RE: The Windrush Line - Red
| I'm happy with the name and the whole rebranding exercise, and pleased that the discussion has become fairly rational on this site, unlike others in the area. |
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baggydave |
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17-03-2024, 11:37 PM |
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Thread: TfL considering running the Overground into London Bridge
Post: RE: TfL considering running the Overground into Lo...
| Gosh, this is good news, something I have been petitioning Ellie Reeves about. It's good to see that SE23.com is still active. Is the Forest Hill Society still involved? |
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baggydave |
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17-03-2024, 01:34 PM |
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Thread: Petition to reinstate our lost London Bridge trains
Post: RE: Petition to reinstate our lost London Bridge t...
| The direct trains to Charing Cross ran every half an hour apart from rush hours in working days. The last direct train was 23.12 (maybe slightly later!) from Charing Cross, a bit early, but it was un... |
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baggydave |
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30-04-2023, 04:47 PM |
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Thread: Petition to reinstate our lost London Bridge trains
Post: RE: Petition to reinstate our lost London Bridge t...
| I'm frustrated about the lack of direct trains to East Croydon and that even before this that service was slower as it became a stopping one. It was great to get down to Gatwick and the South Coast a... |
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baggydave |
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23-04-2023, 03:04 PM |
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Thread: 11 Tewkesbury Avenue Development
Post: RE: 11 Tewkesbury Avenue Development
| Wow, I've not posted for years but was surprised that this came up in a Google search (and I wasn't even looking for the particular development). I wont say too much as this was a controversial devel... |
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baggydave |
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08-02-2023, 12:32 AM |
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Thread: Holiday cottage in Brittany - £180 a week
Post: Holiday cottage in Brittany - £180 a week
| Our holiday home is available to friends and new friends. 1870 stone cottage sleeps 6 comfortably. We take a small amount to go towards annual costs rather than a commercial arrangement. Lovely pea... |
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baggydave |
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03-06-2022, 11:37 PM |
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Thread: Memorial for the Iron Lady?
Post: RE: Memorial for the Iron Lady?
| Make sense if I actually put the right web site down:
http://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no-taxpayer-funding-for-margaret-thatcher-memorial-museum-library |
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baggydave |
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07-01-2014, 10:08 PM |
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Thread: Memorial for the Iron Lady?
Post: Memorial for the Iron Lady?
| Beyond berating cyclists this forum appears rather apolitical.
You may wish to consider supporting this petition https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no-taxpayer-funding-for-margaret-thatcher-mem... |
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baggydave |
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07-01-2014, 09:55 PM |
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Thread: Vaidas cycles
Post: Vaidas cycles
| Just seen that this appears shut.
Hope it hasn't gone out of business. Any news out there? |
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baggydave |
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07-01-2014, 09:48 PM |
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Thread: A plan to save the Honor Oak pub?
Post: RE: A plan to save the Honor Oak pub?
| OK, this is only a fleeting post, but one to inform the debate.
As a nation we don't use our local pubs any more. Like our local shops we only moan when they are gone.
The Blythe is a brilliant... |
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baggydave |
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08-10-2013, 10:34 PM |
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Thread: A plan to save the Honor Oak pub?
Post: RE: A plan to save the Honor Oak pub?
| I'd be interested to know where this pub is. I do recall interesting places like the Swiss Cottage on Stansted Road, and the St Germains.
If you go further down the road you will come to the Blyth... |
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baggydave |
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07-10-2013, 10:50 PM |
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Thread: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and Westbourne Drive
Post: RE: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and West...
| Michael, you don't appear to have read my earlier posting. In deed the Hofhaus on Ringmore Rise is architecturally interesting. But it also represents many things I find wrong about developers and th... |
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baggydave |
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23-03-2011, 11:25 PM |
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Thread: Are we safe from our nuclear power stations?
Post: RE: Are we safe from our nuclear power stations?
| Wow. Good link, AF, the voice of reason. What it doesn't add is the small background dose from nuclear weapons tests in the 60s, but that was a time when the truth was concealed. And in relative ter... |
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baggydave |
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21-03-2011, 04:50 PM |
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Thread: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and Westbourne Drive
Post: RE: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and West...
| I travel out with a kids' football team into furthest South East London and North Kent. You should never think of SE23 as drab/bland/boring/dull as opposed to some of the mono architectural styles tha... |
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baggydave |
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21-03-2011, 04:34 PM |
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Thread: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and Westbourne Drive
Post: RE: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and West...
| Older visitors will know of Baggy's issues over some developments on the posh estate, which he, and many other residents in UDB consider are a blight. I wont use this thread as a soapbox (that is a su... |
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baggydave |
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20-03-2011, 10:53 AM |
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Thread: Are we safe from our nuclear power stations?
Post: RE: Are we safe from our nuclear power stations?
| With thanks to BBC Question Time, and 'This Week' for explaining the dangers of this unstable energy source. When are governments around the world going to wake up to the real risk? The pro lobby go o... |
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baggydave |
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18-03-2011, 01:05 AM |
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Thread: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and Westbourne Drive
Post: RE: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and West...
| Very impressed by the design and this was clearly inspired by Jason Lee: http://bigrab.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/top-ten-football-haircuts/ |
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baggydave |
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15-03-2011, 07:29 PM |
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Thread: Talk to me about primary schools (again!)
Post: RE: Talk to me about primary schools (again!)
| I've beem here before and now will gracefully retire: www.se23.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=318 |
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baggydave |
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15-03-2011, 07:24 PM |
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Thread: Talk to me about primary schools (again!)
Post: RE: Talk to me about primary schools (again!)
| There is the theory and the reality. |
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baggydave |
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15-03-2011, 07:16 PM |
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Thread: Bizarre: Parrot Sighted in Forest Hill!?
Post: RE: Bizarre: Parrot Sighted in Forest Hill!?
| Here's another English parrot with showbiz connections
http://wn.com/Freddie_Davies |
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baggydave |
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15-03-2011, 06:05 PM |
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Thread: Bizarre: Parrot Sighted in Forest Hill!?
Post: RE: Bizarre: Parrot Sighted in Forest Hill!?
| Can I correct you all please, they are not parrots as they don't say 'Who's a pretty bpy then' and 'pieces of eight, pieces of eight'.They to make a racket though. |
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baggydave |
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15-03-2011, 05:27 PM |
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Thread: Are we safe from our nuclear power stations?
Post: Are we safe from our nuclear power stations?
| I don't believe any of this nonsense that the UK's nuclear power stations are of a totally different design to the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. I don't agree that our aging power ... |
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baggydave |
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15-03-2011, 05:25 PM |
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Thread: Talk to me about primary schools (again!)
Post: RE: Talk to me about primary schools (again!)
| You will need to check which are the best feeder schools for Charter or Kingsdale, you may therefore need to consider moving out of the area into Southwark. Alternatively shift South into Bromley. |
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baggydave |
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15-03-2011, 05:12 PM |
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Thread: Local journalist looking for interviewees
Post: RE: Local journalist looking for interviewees
| When you say 'would like to be photographed', can I check that you are not a journo for the Daily Star, or Sport. |
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baggydave |
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15-03-2011, 05:06 PM |
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Thread: Scams
Post: RE: Red bull marketing?
| I got called my a company saying that I had the offer of a cheap holiday. I just managed to stop myself shouting at them that I was on TPS and did not get cold calls, when they explained that I had a... |
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baggydave |
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28-01-2011, 12:22 AM |
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Thread: Langton Rise Road Works
Post: RE: Langton Rise Road Works
| Well would Adam and Eve it - BD had a moan and hey presto, the hole is filled.
But now those pesky people from the worng side of the tracks have dug a big trench down one side of the road. |
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baggydave |
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28-01-2011, 12:13 AM |
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Thread: Jubilee Eastbound - Change at London Bridge or Canada Water?
Post: RE: Jubilee Eastbound - Change at London Bridge or...
| For someone without a season ticket does it not cost more to do London Bridge:
(a) because you switch from train to underground
(b) if you change at Canada Water you do not go into zone 1 |
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baggydave |
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27-01-2011, 12:12 AM |
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Thread: Noisey manhole on Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Noisey manhole on Honor Oak Park
| What a great thread.
I assumed that the manhole cover was a reincarnation of Freddie Mercury and was keeping every one awake at night due to the resurgent popularity of Queen. |
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baggydave |
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27-01-2011, 12:07 AM |
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Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
| Actually to be sensible for a second (what me?) can I commend drabarni for one of the best posts I've seen on this site. Shame on many of the rest of you.
Back to enjoying the demise of Andy Gray |
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baggydave |
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27-01-2011, 12:03 AM |
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Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
| Our kids' football team need someone to 'run the line' ie act as a referee's assistant for Sunday matches. Does the Big Issue lady know the off side rule, if so can someone ask her for us? |
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baggydave |
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27-01-2011, 12:00 AM |
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Thread: Langton Rise Road Works
Post: RE: Langton Rise Road Works
| Damn. I had been dying to start a thread entitled "there's a hole in our road dear Lisa dear Lisa". But I can reveal the conspiracy. Those jealous people on the wrong side of the tracks, first of al... |
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baggydave |
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26-01-2011, 11:57 PM |
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Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
| Call the police then. You'll find that law enforcement is carried out by them in this country rather than vigilante groups. Unless of course you consider that there is some civil action you can take... |
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baggydave |
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12-01-2011, 11:40 PM |
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Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
| chant slightly rythymically at a bouncy fast pace with a nasal Mancunian accent. Altogether now, after me:
Sit right down - write a letter to the Sun
Say... "Bring back hangin' for everyone"
Th... |
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baggydave |
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11-01-2011, 11:39 PM |
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Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
| Then they came for the Big Issue sellers,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Big Issue seller.
Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up. |
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baggydave |
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11-01-2011, 11:34 PM |
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Thread: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington
Post: RE: Direct ELL trains to Highbury start next month
| Great, that will give us an alternative should Lewisham close our library
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh |
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baggydave |
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11-01-2011, 11:29 PM |
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Thread: Our local football teams
Post: RE: Millwall fans arrive in Forest Hill
| But of course by overground and underground Upton Park is now probably second closest. |
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baggydave |
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11-11-2010, 11:50 PM |
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Thread: Our local football teams
Post: RE: Millwall fans arrive in Forest Hill
| Actually Millwall are closer from our north eastern boundary and Palace to South western boundary, or Palace for Forest Hill and Millwall for Honor Oak. It could get very tribal. Just like being at s... |
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baggydave |
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11-11-2010, 11:48 PM |
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Thread: Our local football teams
Post: RE: Millwall fans arrive in Forest Hill
| Surely you cannot support the Glaziers Brian as thanks to the late Malcolm Alison they no longer exist! And in any case you should have noticed that there was a subtle reference to the friendliness o... |
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baggydave |
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31-10-2010, 05:23 PM |
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Thread: Our local football teams
Post: []
| Love the thread on Millwall fans. Just shows how non inclusive many posters are on this site.
They are our local team. Many people in SE23 support them. Go into the only decent pub in Forest Hil... |
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baggydave |
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31-10-2010, 11:46 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill yet again a location for a film
Post: Forest Hill yet again a location for a film
| BD was fortunate to see Treacle Junior at the London Film Festival last week - www.imdb.com/title/tt1542486/
It features our own Horniman Museum and one scene very close to the Moore Park Tavern.
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baggydave |
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29-10-2010, 09:11 PM |
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Thread: Helicopter and Police in HOP
Post: RE: Helicopter and Police in HOP
| There was also a large police presence in the posh estate (UDB/Horniman Heights) last night. Any clues out there curtain twitchers/neighbourhood watchers?) |
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baggydave |
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13-10-2010, 10:50 PM |
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Thread: GPs
Post: RE: Best Doctors In Honor Oak Park?
| I was a practicing homosexual once.
Now I am quite good at it. |
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baggydave |
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07-10-2010, 11:01 PM |
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Thread: GPs
Post: GPs
| All GPs are very good as they have to adhere to professional standards and competences. |
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07-10-2010, 08:44 PM |
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Thread: South Circular closed
Post: RE: South Circular closed
| I've just driven 1200 miles up from Northern Spain along Western France, ferry then to home, and the first traffic problems I encountered were here. Clearly a sign that I am not wanted. |
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baggydave |
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02-09-2010, 11:54 PM |
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Thread: World Cup song from local group
Post: RE: World Cup song from local group
| Whoops, the record industry would not allow them to release it (well authorise downloads or whatever) and hence some of our local children who play at Athenlay FC club have been deprived of £100s if n... |
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baggydave |
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20-06-2010, 10:47 AM |
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Thread: Trust A Tory - Your Having A Bubble
Post: RE: Trust A Tory - Your Having A Bubble
| Ummhh
"you can always rely on labour voters to be bad losers"
Last time labour lost was in 1992; now I can recall having a sore head and being somewhat in a state of shock, but can't recall bein... |
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12-06-2010, 02:44 PM |
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Thread: Location Location Location
Post: RE: Location Location Location
| Curiosity got the better of me and I watched the programme in fast time on line. Wow, what is to become of the cutting edge that is still Forest Hill, despite the intentions by many to gastopub it in... |
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baggydave |
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07-06-2010, 07:37 PM |
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Thread: Trust A Tory - Your Having A Bubble
Post: RE: Trust A Tory - Your Having A Bubble
| I can't believe that bringing Jeremy Clarkson into the coversation has killed this thread. Particularly as I see another linked one on Sun readers. Clarkson of course writes articles for the Sun, and ... |
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06-06-2010, 06:54 PM |
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Thread: ELL Line to HOP: Will it boost house prices?
Post: RE: ELL Line to HOP: Will it boost house prices?
| You need to add a fourth category - something along the lines "who cares" or "aren't there more important things to discuss".
Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't unstable and rampant price inflati... |
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baggydave |
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19-05-2010, 11:04 PM |
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Thread: Trust A Tory - Your Having A Bubble
Post: RE: Trust A Tory - Your Having A Bubble
| Good to hear Jeremy Clarkson being brought into the discussion. There were many that thought he would make a good Prime Minister |
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baggydave |
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19-05-2010, 11:36 AM |
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