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Thread: Zippos Circus Peckham Rye
Post: RE: Zippos Circus Peckham Rye
| From memory this is the only new circus in the UK for the last few decades, the guy who runs it doing it out of love rather than money. Worth it just for his enthusiam and Norman. |
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31-08-2008, 10:45 PM |
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Thread: The planning system
Post: RE: The planning system
| Thanks Graham, can others stick to the point or start a new thread. Can the Webmaster put this back onto the main site as my point is developments in SE23, the rest of Lewisham is incidental.
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28-08-2008, 12:45 AM |
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Thread: The planning system
Post: RE: The planning system
| I did not intend this thread to be a monologue - come on let's have some views out there!
Having had a look at some of the recent applications the main thing I have noted is what could be seen as a... |
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26-08-2008, 09:48 PM |
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Thread: The planning system
Post: The planning system
| Taking time off watching the Clash on Youtube I thought that I'd stimulate some debate about residential and other developments. I've chipped in on other relevant threads in the past but think this n... |
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23-08-2008, 12:13 AM |
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Thread: Love Your Local
Post: RE: Love Your Local
| Regualar readers will now be pleased to note that they can vote for the Moor Park Tavern in Wood Vale, certainly no Stella there. |
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21-08-2008, 11:45 PM |
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Thread: Armed response
Post: RE: Armed response
| What a fascinating thread, no doubt my other readers will agree |
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21-08-2008, 11:37 PM |
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Thread: The 23 Club
Post: RE: The 23 Club
| Ah Rob, now you are revealing your true colours (see: www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/11/11802/Dolphin/Sydenham ) |
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21-08-2008, 11:35 PM |
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Thread: Liberalism / Political Correctness
Post: RE: Liberalism / Political Correctness
| Shame many of you lot weren't aroudn 30 years ago but if you check films and sitcoms of the 60s and 70s you will see what Britain was like when it was perfectly acceptable for white men to make jokes ... |
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30-07-2008, 10:27 PM |
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Thread: Door to door scammers
Post: RE: Door to door scammers
| TJ, this is fraud, so you would be in your rights to carry out a citizen's arrest. Locking them up in your cellar is another issue. |
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baggydave |
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30-07-2008, 12:20 AM |
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Thread: Any tattoo'ed amongst us?
Post: RE: Any tattoo'ed amongst us?
| Actually TJ, it wasn't in Wales, it was in Scotland. He had a piercing in the trossachs! Well somewhere due South from there. |
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27-07-2008, 10:26 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Isn't the East side of the tracks Catford, or lower Sydenham or somewhere equally as ghastly. I thought that they'd closed access as the area had been quarantined. Do we really want or need to take o... |
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baggydave |
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24-07-2008, 09:57 PM |
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Thread: Cycling
Post: RE: Two-wheel hazards
| I must remember to abuse all those pedestrians who walk aimlessly across the cycle path on the shared route down by Peckham canal. Or alternatively I'll just live with it. Odd that this started out ... |
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baggydave |
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24-07-2008, 09:51 PM |
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Thread: Cycling
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| My word Snazy, you appear to be a very angry person. Why not save it for the correct things in life such as bendybuses driving nose to tail over pedestrain crossings, big four wheel drives that have ... |
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baggydave |
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22-07-2008, 10:52 PM |
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Thread: Advice on grass
Post: RE: Advice on grass, in SE23
| Raked the moss away, but it comes back even bigger time. Would love to see how the last piece of advice goes, but looks like we will be doing this in tandem.
Spose I could carry out an experiment an... |
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22-07-2008, 10:44 PM |
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Thread: Perry Vale - Road Issues
Post: RE: Perry Vale road closures
| I'd watch out for cylcists, first they take our jobs, then our women, and now our roads.
BD thought he actually check out the said piece of pavement. Bloomin heck, they don't give you a lot of spa... |
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baggydave |
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20-07-2008, 09:05 PM |
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Thread: Any tattoo'ed amongst us?
Post: RE: Any tattoo'ed amongst us?
| What gets me is buxom ladies who have a tattoo on their cleavage. No matter how hard you try you have to have a quick look. Then it looks like you are a dirty old (in my case) man. Nothing wrong wit... |
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19-07-2008, 10:24 PM |
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Thread: Quiet Coach
Post: RE: Quiet Coach
| My advice would be to move out to Tonbridge. BD once jumped on a train at Waterloo East, to change at LB for Forest Hill. Unfortunately first stop was Tonbridge (they have the occasional non stoppin... |
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19-07-2008, 10:07 PM |
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Thread: Perry Vale - Road Issues
Post: RE: Closure (?) of Perry Vale / Cyclists
| Yes, the sooner we get rid of those evil cyclists the better. You simply wont believe the amouth of abuse I get from those lycra clad nazis, whilst aimlessly crossing the road, without looking, holdi... |
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19-07-2008, 10:04 PM |
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Thread: Advice on grass
Post: Advice on grass
| There that got you looking. Nothing to do with the certain 'factories' springing up but our lawns.
They are dreadful. The grass dies, and is being taken over by moss. I suppose it is a case of la... |
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19-07-2008, 08:03 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Interesting to see that the perspective on the illustrations was distorted. Reminded me of a recent planning application, where the developer managed to disguise the true dimensions, bulk and impact ... |
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19-07-2008, 07:59 PM |
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Thread: Any tattoo'ed amongst us?
Post: RE: Any tattoo'ed amongst us?
| My friend's son went off the rails and at only 16 had a piercing, but modesty prevents me from saying where. I am far to embarassed to ask him about it. |
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17-07-2008, 10:12 PM |
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Thread: Did the binmen strike today?
Post: RE: Did the binmen strike today?
| Wot, not one comment showing solidarity?! We actually did not put our bins out for exactly that reason. It was due to the courage of our forefathers and mothers who challenged the opressive system (... |
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baggydave |
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17-07-2008, 10:09 PM |
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Thread: Loud party noise
Post: RE: Loud party noise
| If we are talking about offensive base and your stomach starts churning then some car stereos manage to achive this.
Re: my earlier posting, chill guys, as my old friends on this site know most o... |
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11-07-2008, 12:08 AM |
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Thread: Loud party noise
Post: RE: Loud party noise
| Glad that the Walters Way street party did not offend.
But living near to the Horniman Gardens I used to enjoy hearing music on Sundays in the summer's. Quite often I would go and check out the e... |
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09-07-2008, 11:49 PM |
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Thread: National Brand Invests in Prominent Forest Hill Shopping Location
Post: RE: National Brand Invests in Prominent Forest Hil...
| I just feel so underwhelmed - it just makes me think of the Ferrero Rocher advert agt the Ambassador's party where our guest to Forest Hill would say "Monsieur with your [Topps Tiles] you are really s... |
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baggydave |
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09-07-2008, 11:43 PM |
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Thread: Local Mobile Signal Strength
Post: Local Mobile Signal Strength
| Despite being loyal to T-mobile the signal is useless in the Horniman Heights area. This is not a call for a recommendation of who to go with (that would have to go elsewhere), just a request for fac... |
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08-07-2008, 09:50 PM |
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Thread: Loud party noise
Post: RE: Loud party noise
| Ah the Walters Way Street Party. Once a year, every year. I am sure you can forgive them for that. Nice chilled out music late on - perfect to relax to.
BD had two contrasting experiences whilst... |
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06-07-2008, 10:08 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| The pools are in the most wonderful collection of pictures:
www.derelictlondon.com/derelict_london_com.htm
with at least two other shots of SE23 (perhaps my readers could add more). Straying briefl... |
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baggydave |
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04-07-2008, 08:30 PM |
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Thread: CPZ Stealth Tax
Post: RE: CPZ Stealth Tax
| Good timing. BD lives in a rose tinted cyclists world and has only just noticed the CPZ. He often debates the relative inadequaces of the London Boroughs of Lewisham and Southwark. But LBS have sco... |
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04-07-2008, 08:08 PM |
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Thread: Planning applications info
Post: RE: Planning applications info
| They maybe inconsistent at the best, and could be incompetent at the worst, and possibly lots of stuff in the middle. And perhaps no better or worse than other local authorities. As we dare not risk... |
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02-07-2008, 12:17 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| So this thread has aroused much interest and most touched by TJ's last posting, still wiping a tear from my eye.
Newer listeners may not be aware that there was a magnificent Victorian pub in our a... |
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baggydave |
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02-07-2008, 12:09 AM |
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Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
| Been away for a week, pleased to see that nothing has changed much. Can the webmaster use his/her discretion and archive this thread out of the way so we can concentrate on more important things? Su... |
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baggydave |
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27-06-2008, 08:00 PM |
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Thread: Planning applications info
Post: RE: Planning applications info
| Would Private Eye or other investigative journos be interested, I haved my suspicions. |
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baggydave |
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18-06-2008, 12:55 AM |
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Thread: More than ten reasons not to move to Bromley
Post: RE: More than ten reasons not to move to Bromley
| Nutfield - so you can now call yourself a proper Cockney!
Brian - shorts are fine, with long socks, a nice jacket, shirt tucked in with appropriate tie, or with collar worn outside the lapels in a ... |
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18-06-2008, 12:52 AM |
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Thread: More than ten reasons not to move to Bromley
Post: RE: More than ten reasons not to move to Bromley
| Oh a further good reason - Bromley hospitals NHS trust is among the 30 or so who have failed hygiene standards. Clearly you don't have to be posh to wash. (For a change that was actually quite amusi... |
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16-06-2008, 10:25 PM |
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Thread: Who is the laziest driver in SE23
Post: RE: Who is the laziest driver in SE23
| Suppose you'd support hoarding petrol and panic buying for those all important 100 yard car journeys. Apologies for a pretty feeble bit of couterattacking, nothing really to get my teeth into today, ... |
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16-06-2008, 12:23 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Society not allowed at Forest Hill Day
Post: RE: F Hill Society not allowed at Forest Hill Day
| Been to it a few times, not much cop. The Jerk Pork thing last year was far more entertaining, and if you go further a field the Carters Steam fair in Belair |
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13-06-2008, 10:15 PM |
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Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
| I am an occasional visitor to SE23.com, and only post on the odd occasion. However on seeing that this thread attacts so much interest, I come to the conclusion that many of the denizens of Forest Hi... |
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baggydave |
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13-06-2008, 10:12 PM |
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Thread: Housing Development next to Capitol Pub - Removal of Trees
Post: RE: Capitol Pub - Housing Development - Removal of...
| I doubt whether Lewisham planning department give a pooh about our area, that is the conclusion I have reached after some of the recent planning decisions. It would be interesting to hear any plannin... |
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09-06-2008, 10:52 PM |
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Thread: Nuclear power
Post: Nuclear power
| Interesting facts on nuclear power - Russians decided to do their own thing and designed an inherently unsafe reactors (RBMK/Chernobyl).
Americans built a bullet proof one ( PWR)but still did their... |
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09-06-2008, 10:49 PM |
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Thread: Tube pricing
Post: RE: Tube pricing
| Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite and storm those (tube) ba... |
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05-06-2008, 10:13 PM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Play Bus
Post: RE: Honor Oak Play Bus
| Does this have much to do with SE23? |
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05-06-2008, 09:57 PM |
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Thread: Posh parts of Peckham
Post: RE: Posh parts of Peckham
| On the subject of bad driving - my favourite is Peckham - always about a dozen cars and delivery vans parked on the double yellows, bus grid lock, people stopping without any indication, driving on th... |
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05-06-2008, 09:56 PM |
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Thread: Who is the laziest driver in SE23
Post: RE: Who is the laziest driver in SE23
| A sense of humour failure to Jane - just like the telly you don't have to watch or you could also turn over to another thread.
And a prize for the only 'I think I may have thought of that already t... |
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05-06-2008, 09:49 PM |
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Thread: Who is the laziest driver in SE23
Post: RE: Who is the laziest driver in SE23
| Michael two wrongs don't make a right (clearly there must be some guilt here)
Jon - what a fantastic idea, drive to one destination and then go to another one rather than returning home first. Nex... |
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04-06-2008, 11:46 PM |
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Thread: Tube pricing
Post: RE: Tube pricing
| Oh and in time Oyster card will be used to profile you - in the same way that the stores use their cards so that they can target advertising at you. Believe me.
Amazon has profiled BD as a sandal ... |
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04-06-2008, 11:41 PM |
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Thread: Tube pricing
Post: RE: Tube pricing
| Though you lot were educated and well read. Clearly not. Now BD is an old trot, couldn't care a fig about market economics but is a realist.
You voted out the last vaguely socialist government in... |
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04-06-2008, 11:38 PM |
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Thread: Who is the laziest driver in SE23
Post: Who is the laziest driver in SE23
| I used to be surprised by neighbours who could not even walk over Horniman Heights and down to the station, and insisted on driving each day.
But I have a neighbour who insists on driving what must... |
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03-06-2008, 09:28 PM |
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Thread: Does Perry Vale need a coffee shop?
Post: RE: Does Perry Vale need a coffee shop?
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03-06-2008, 09:23 PM |
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Thread: Discrimination in the area
Post: RE: Discrimination in the area
| Do we have a private members club in SE23, great, about time to. Can we have some Turkish baths next. |
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