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		Thread: Wood Vale road Post: RE: Wood Vale road I lived on Wood Vale for about one year about 5 years ago. As someone else said, the bus connections are OK (provided you want to go to either Peckham or Crystal Palace which are good connection poin...	reverendlionelblair	Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found	10	12,211	23-01-2013, 10:26 PM
		Thread: Place to get things repaired (eg, kitchen equipment) Post: Place to get things repaired (eg, kitchen equipmen... Hi there, does anyone know anywhere in Forest Hill I can get things fixed? My coffee machine (Gaggia) is knackered and I need to get someone to have a look at it.	reverendlionelblair	Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found	0	1,920	23-01-2013, 10:00 PM
		Thread: Horniman Licence Application Post: RE: Horniman Licence Application 1) If someone sits in the Horniman and bangs a drum and more than 15 people gather round to listen, will this constitute a major event and thus count towards the 10 available per year? 2) It sounds...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	114	89,499	26-04-2012, 02:57 PM
		Thread: Horniman Licence Application Post: RE: Horniman Licence Application So your objection to the alcohol licence is based on the quality of food in the Horniman restaurant? I dont know whether the licencing laws accomodate that kind of requirement but I'm sure the Hornim...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	114	89,499	10-04-2012, 08:10 PM
		Thread: Horniman Licence Application Post: RE: Horniman Licence Application Roz/Gingernuts, what could the good people at Horniman towers do for you to not object to this application? Or would you object no matter what they did as a matter of principle?	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	114	89,499	06-04-2012, 06:17 PM
		Thread: Horniman Licence Application Post: RE: Horniman Licence Application Where do you want the Horniman to provide parking? There is no bloody parking in Forest Hill apart from the Sainsburys and local streets. The thing to do is advertise the Horniman as having NO PAR...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	114	89,499	03-04-2012, 10:01 PM
		Thread: Horniman Licence Application Post: RE: Horniman Licence Application The jerk cookout 2007-2009 was great, Roz didn't like it though. I'm sure the myths about that day will live on through the NCT groups. I support James comments, is there some way to vote such tha...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	114	89,499	25-03-2012, 10:17 AM
		Thread: Bus Route 194: Reinstatement of Leg from Lower Sydenham to Forest Hill Post: RE: Bus Route 194: Reinstatement of Leg from Lower... This is a great idea - the lack of service between FH and Lower Sydenham has always struck me as a strange oversight given the flow of people. Getting to the pool down there on public transport has a...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	8	10,685	18-03-2012, 04:19 PM
		Thread: Highest yields in London Post: RE: Highest yields in London The landlords I've rented off in Forest Hill have certainly made a pretty penny off me. Hooray for them and continued subsidised mortgages for people who need it least! Thanks Bank of England!	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	1	5,423	17-05-2011, 08:03 PM
		Thread: Recycling collection too early again and barking dog ...still! Post: RE: Recycling collection too early again and barki... Thats what I like about you Brian, always able to see the brighter side of things. Anyway, all that free time in the morning will give you plenty of opportunity to find something else to moan about. ...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	63	59,269	17-05-2011, 08:00 PM
		Thread: Recycling collection too early again and barking dog ...still! Post: RE: Recycling collection too early again and barki... I wanted to highlight to you that it might not be so straightforward as you suggest and that your complainiing sometimes hinders the delivery of what many would consider to be a good service. Being W...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	63	59,269	16-05-2011, 11:35 PM
		Thread: Recycling collection too early again and barking dog ...still! Post: RE: Recycling collection too early again and barki... I'm sure the people who spend their lives working in the recycling and refuse collection industries could benefit from all the expertise you have in this area, why don't you give them a call and lend ...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	63	59,269	15-05-2011, 08:16 PM
		Thread: Recycling collection too early again and barking dog ...still! Post: RE: Recycling collection too early again and barki... Surely you can deal with a bin service that comes early? This is a good thing and I always find the chaps who work for LBC to be helpful, friendly and most importantly of all, good at their jobs! I d...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	63	59,269	06-05-2011, 06:25 AM
		Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens Congrats to Ros, Gingernuts and the gang for getting the Jerk Cookout kicked out, was good fun going to Brockwell Park and having the same experience in a much larger space. Somehow I noticed that ...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	293	274,938	07-10-2010, 04:42 PM
		Thread: Church signage on Manor Mount Post: RE: Church signage on Manor Mount I think these signs are exceptionally tasteful and have found myself feeling far more spiritual and connected to the lord god our saviour as a result of having bathed within their flourescent glow. ...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	65	67,366	18-09-2010, 01:06 PM
		Thread: Trust A Tory - Your Having A Bubble Post: RE: Trust A Tory - Your Having A Bubble Friend of ours lost her job at an East London school the other day, she was working as an agency teacher. Cuts across Tower Hamlets apparently, a taste of things to come. I wonder if the Tories re...	reverendlionelblair	Wider Topics	68	55,653	20-06-2010, 08:55 PM
		Thread: football for toddlers Post: RE: football for toddlers This is the one I have been doing some research about. Going to start my son next month: [url]http://www.littlekickers.co.uk/signupDetails.aspx?venue=East%20Dulwich&Fran=27&area=Southwark&day=7[/u...	reverendlionelblair	Wider Topics	2	4,451	20-06-2010, 02:07 PM
		Thread: Flight Paths over SE23 Post: RE: Flight Paths over SE23 Or ignore the noise and get on with your life.	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	72	70,302	02-10-2009, 08:13 PM
		Thread: Friends of the P4 Post: RE: Friends of the P4 The traffic is almost entirely dependent on people doing the school run. In the school holidays it works like a charm... The P4 is surprisingly regular for a small bus.	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	39	36,063	23-09-2009, 08:43 PM
		Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens 5000 at any one time Ros, 8000 could have come and gone over the course of the day. This is so depressing.	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	293	274,938	18-09-2009, 06:48 PM
		Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens I wouldn't consider myself a troll (whatever that is), I would just consider myself a resident of the area who hopes to see it develop economically, all the right things are here, it just needs a bit ...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	293	274,938	29-08-2009, 08:38 PM
		Thread: SE23 v SE22 Post: RE: SE23 v SE22 Isn't it Monday? Not a man of the cloth, in a similar way that Baboonery is not a baboon.	reverendlionelblair	Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found	122	127,817	24-08-2009, 02:21 PM
		Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens Gingernuts, an affirmation of your racism, you started moaning about parking, when they show that can be controlled by the East London Line you start moaning about the number of people generally, call...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	293	274,938	24-08-2009, 08:03 AM
		Thread: SE23 v SE22 Post: RE: SE23 v SE22 Forest Hill is better because I live there and the jerk chicken festival happens once a year. East Dulwich is better for most things though, I go there all the time. doml, do you know the owners...	reverendlionelblair	Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found	122	127,817	24-08-2009, 07:44 AM
		Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens We took our kid and it was fine Ros, there were people from all over the place at the festival, it was inclusive, you just dont want it here because you don't like it (for whatever reason that may be)...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	293	274,938	16-08-2009, 06:50 PM
		Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens What a load of whingeing nimbies. Half the comments on here are borderline racist and tinged with a 'not in my back yard' element. No one called you 'Whitey', you're just paranoid. If this was some...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	293	274,938	14-08-2009, 07:33 AM
		Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens The festival should stay in FH, it is still of a size whereby it can be contained within the gardens and the parking issue is not something that is ever going to go away. Plus, as you all seem to be ...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	293	274,938	09-08-2009, 07:53 AM
		Thread: Sewer Problems in Dartmouth Road Post: RE: Sewer Problems in Dartmouth Road I bet it was those swines at Thames Water who, having destroyed the road, have now buggered the drains as well.	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	14	13,123	24-06-2009, 09:36 PM
		Thread: Dartmouth Road Water Works Post: RE: Dartmouth Road Water Works I'm quite surprised that there hasn't been more complaining about the destruction being wrought upon Dartmouth Road on this forum. The builders were supposed to be there for two to three weeks and ha...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	4	6,792	18-06-2009, 09:07 PM
		Thread: Forest Hill Library Post: RE: Forest Hill Library I didn't grow up in Lewisham borough so wouldn't know about the Tories in LBC, however I did grow up in Brighton which was a Labour council but which was starved of funds by the central authorities as...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	105	112,142	08-03-2009, 11:07 AM
		Thread: Provender Post: RE: Provender Thanks for that, for some reason I never seem to head that way into Honour Oak, I think it's the Hill! You don't happen to know whether they (or anyone else) does bread baking classes do you?	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	11	15,549	08-03-2009, 11:00 AM
		Thread: Using the DLR from Lewisham to Canary Warf Post: RE: Using the DLR from Lewisham to Canary Warf Cycling from FH to CW is fine, I do it every morning and have worked out a good back roads route that avoids most of the main roads. Anyone suggest the route they take?	reverendlionelblair	Wider Topics	14	13,554	07-03-2009, 10:32 PM
		Thread: Forest Hill Library Post: RE: Forest Hill Library I probably go to the library about once a week and as I work, these are always at times when kids are out of school. I must say I haven't had any issues. Occasionally you get the odd twitching loo...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	105	112,142	07-03-2009, 10:27 PM
		Thread: Provender Post: RE: Provender The Cake Shop in Sydenham is a good baker if you don't mind the walk, the bread is infinitely better than Sainsburys and its a local business that isn't part of a huge chain. Anyone know of any oth...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	11	15,549	07-03-2009, 09:59 PM
		Thread: Forest Hill Town Centre Management Post: RE: Provender To Close There are a lot of closed shops; Blockbuster, Mcdonalds, the estate agents, the restaurant (Acer?), the corner shop. Its fairly bleak. You have MK One, the Launderette, the charity shop, Barcla...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	56	42,318	02-11-2008, 09:50 AM
		Thread: Forest Hill Town Centre Management Post: RE: Provender To Close Not to besmirch their name but I always found Provender quite pretentious, eye-wateringly expensive and with fairly bland and uninspiring food. Dartmouth Road is not in terminal decline, at least t...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	56	42,318	01-11-2008, 02:42 PM
		Thread: Planning Application: 6 Church Rise Post: RE: 6 Church Rise Any idea what is going on with these properties now? I am an Earlsfield tenant in a separate property and cannot get hold of them for love nor money. Definitely think something is up though. Be i...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	58	74,719	05-10-2008, 10:38 PM
		Thread: Burglaries on Dartmouth Road Post: Burglaries on Dartmouth Road Hello We have now been (attempted once and successful once) burgled twice in the last week. Living in central FH, very worrying, be interested to hear whether others have had similar experiences...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	12	11,856	05-10-2008, 10:10 PM
		Thread: SE23 v SE22 Post: RE: SE23 v SE22 Its not that bad, it has some shops, it has some restaurants, it has a railway station and four pubs and it has an absolutely stunning museum gardens and one of the best libraries I've ever used. I'v...	reverendlionelblair	Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found	122	127,817	21-07-2008, 08:00 PM
		Thread: SE23 v SE22 Post: [] I really like the Costcutter to be honest, the croissants in the morning are a treat on a saturday and it not as expensive as most other shops like that are for day to day items. The staff are quite ...	reverendlionelblair	Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found	122	127,817	18-07-2008, 06:43 PM
		Thread: Pedestrian crossing by WH Smith's Post: RE: Pedestrian crossing by WH Smith's Pedestrianising Dartmouth Road would be fantastic, it would mean I could still cycle, the baby would get less smog and the shops might all stay open as oppose to closing down, best suggestion I've hea...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	25	27,047	16-07-2008, 09:34 PM
		Thread: Intimidating kids hanging around Post: RE: Intimidating kids hanging around We get them outside our house as well, point being they may be a bit intimidating, but then drunken people outside the Bird in Hand smoking are fairly intimidating, I wouldnt call the police on them u...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	27	30,959	21-06-2008, 12:50 PM
		Thread: House Prices Post: RE: House prices Not that I'm biased about this or anything but just because FH is slightly less over-priced than everywhere else does not mean that it will avoid the price slowdown, it just means that it wont happen ...	reverendlionelblair	Wider Topics	72	63,943	19-06-2008, 10:10 PM
		Thread: Intimidating kids hanging around Post: RE: Intimidating kids hanging around You could always call up Bojo personally and get him to sort them out, five minutes of his waffling nonsense and they'd soon run for the hills. Are any of these kids actually doing anything wrong o...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	27	30,959	19-06-2008, 10:05 PM
		Thread: Forest Hill Central Post: RE: Forest Hill Central Ah well, all these housebuilding firms are going to be forced sellers once the banks take them over, that should see prices coming down a bit. Not that I'm crowing about these things or anything, b...	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	289	273,353	19-06-2008, 09:59 PM
		Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station Post: RE: Ticket Barriers at FH Station I like the way the ticket machine is now on the wrong side of the barriers.	reverendlionelblair	SE23 Topics	761	704,941	01-06-2008, 06:19 PM
		Thread: Anyone for football Post: RE: 5 side football I'd be up for playing if there is space, what time on the 8th?	reverendlionelblair	Wider Topics	42	38,753	31-05-2008, 08:54 PM