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  Thread: Planning: Honor Oak Reservoir & 116-118 Canonbie Road
Post: RE: Planning: Honor Oak Reservoir & 116-118 Canonb...

Long post edited after tried to add a pic and wouldn't allow me to
vipes SE23 Topics 19 26,763 16-03-2017, 11:39 PM
  Thread: Planning: Honor Oak Reservoir & 116-118 Canonbie Road
Post: RE: Planning: Honor Oak Reservoir & 116-118 Canonb...

Clearance work appears to have started on the covered reservoir. I didn't see any Council notices of proposed development and can't see any on the Lewisham website so not sure this is legal given the ...
vipes SE23 Topics 19 26,763 23-02-2017, 09:19 PM
  Thread: Lost black and white kitten
Post: Lost black and white kitten

Hi our 9 month old black and white kitten, Richard, has gone awol around the Tewkesbury lodge estate (Ringmore Rise / Liphook crescent / horniman drive). He has a little white stripe on his nose. He's...
vipes Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,556 27-06-2016, 10:41 PM
  Thread: Junction of London Road and Honor Oak Road
Post: RE: London Road Junction with Honor Oak Road

About time this was taken seriously. The speed cars sweep into HOR is as lethal as ever. I raised it with our councillors 7 years ago: http://www.se23.com/forum-archive/messages/9/44.html
vipes SE23 Topics 58 54,077 14-01-2014, 03:28 PM
  Thread: Warning: Dartmouth Arms parking
Post: RE: Warning: Dartmouth Arms parking

Well the post actually states they did the reverse of going out of their way to help. I interpreted it as a reasonable warning rather than the (rather more duplicitous) 'warning' suggested by your...
vipes SE23 Topics 16 16,729 10-07-2013, 04:45 PM
  Thread: Warning: Dartmouth Arms parking
Post: RE: Warning: Dartmouth Arms parking

@ ciaranm. She was just giving a warning so those with less initiative skills than you (and you clearly have very many) wouldn't get caught out. Why the antagonsim? Would you reply like that to her f...
vipes SE23 Topics 16 16,729 10-07-2013, 03:59 PM
  Thread: Driving Forest Hill to Hounslow
Post: RE: Driving Forest Hill to Hounslow

I spent 6 months commuting from Forest Hill to West Ealing on a Vespa about 10 years ago and found there was little to choose between routes and settled on the South Circular/ Brentford. Can't rec...
vipes Wider Topics 7 7,288 14-11-2012, 09:18 PM
  Thread: Old Gym on Davids Road - Squatters?
Post: RE: Old Gym on Davids Road - Squatters?

What harm are they doing you and in what way will they "obviously" attract crime? Concern with them being "roughly dressed and young" and with "the affect [sic] on house prices" suggests intoleran...
vipes SE23 Topics 6 7,643 19-09-2012, 02:34 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools

I have it on excellent authority (Rob the barber) that on inspection the council rejected the building work. The bricklayers allowed cement to leak over the bricks and harden. Having failed to remove ...
vipes SE23 Topics 2,074 2,034,804 23-08-2012, 09:16 PM
  Thread: is there a jubilee street party on the hill?
Post: RE: is there a jubilee street party on the hill?

We arrived at the Triangle at the top of the hill to small hushed groups of (mainly) adults. Not very enticing so left to join friends at Marmora Road's street party. There they'd collected a tenner, ...
vipes SE23 Topics 20 25,280 05-06-2012, 05:34 PM
  Thread: Robin Bosher to leave Fairlawn Primary School
Post: RE: Robin Bosher to leave Fairlawn Primary School

I notice Ms Christian is now on the Fairlawn letterhead as the new headteacher. Is she in a locum position while the governors advertise for the new local Fairlawn head or has she been promoted? Very ...
vipes SE23 Topics 21 32,314 16-05-2012, 01:14 PM
  Thread: Tewkesbury Ave Mon 30/1/12
Post: Tewkesbury Ave Mon 30/1/12

Just wondering if anyone shed light on events last night 6-8pm at a couple of addresses at the Ringmore Rise end of Tewksbury Avenue? A lot of police involved, some with what looked like guns. One...
vipes SE23 Topics 4 5,243 31-01-2012, 01:20 PM
  Thread: Early hours car horn in Tewkesbury Ave
Post: Early hours car horn in Tewkesbury Ave

V late Last night. Started as if someone was pressing the horn repeatedly and then went on non-stop for 20 odd minutes. Police were called and lots of chatter. Annoying yet intriguing. Can anyone shed...
vipes SE23 Topics 9 8,631 31-01-2011, 09:45 AM
  Thread: Church signage on Manor Mount
Post: RE: Church signage on Manor Mount

To return to topic, and away from the vitriolic (and dare I say racist?) nonsense of some posts I'm not sure there's much wrong with the signage. To avoid these signs you'd need to avoid London. They'...
vipes SE23 Topics 65 67,211 21-10-2010, 09:38 PM
  Thread: Sun readers
Post: RE: Sun readers

Did you read my post? The "extent to which I claimed to be hurt by it" was zero. It wound me up for all the reasons I described.
vipes Wider Topics 23 20,828 14-04-2010, 04:05 PM
  Thread: Sun readers
Post: RE: Sun readers

Baboonery, it is probably absurd to single our Roz's post for the snobbery that does characterise this forum. For the same reason it was also possibly unfair, but the post was overt and hostile enough...
vipes Wider Topics 23 20,828 13-04-2010, 09:15 PM
  Thread: Sun readers
Post: RE: Sun readers

Yes but was the original post funny Gingernuts? Your post says more about you than Sun readers Roz
vipes Wider Topics 23 20,828 13-04-2010, 07:41 AM
  Thread: Sun readers
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens

What I should have said was either way it's snobbery and it stinks.
vipes Wider Topics 23 20,828 12-04-2010, 09:27 AM
  Thread: Sun readers
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens

What's your problem with Sun readers? Or was that ironic? If so how? Either way it stinks of snobbery.
vipes Wider Topics 23 20,828 12-04-2010, 08:51 AM
  Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Liphook Crescent planning application

It's a big house but surely not for that many kids plus staff plus cots plus toys. Kids need space. Also not sure how "wonderful" the Horniman escorted by the poorly paid overworked young nursery ...
vipes SE23 Topics 666 534,249 17-03-2010, 10:17 PM
  Thread: Large Cat Like Animal
Post: RE: Large Cat Like Animal

It's out there again... http://www.dailystar.co.uk/playlist/view/112823/Panther-on-prowl/
vipes SE23 Topics 14 14,180 16-12-2009, 04:07 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak

Well you've licked the "I'm cross about this" look. I'm sure I'm not alone in appreciating all the PR energy you're putting into this.
vipes SE23 Topics 1,398 1,246,075 07-10-2009, 04:26 PM
  Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens

Eventually gingernuts yes, I see your vision. You're clearly well up for the carnival but one step at a time.
vipes SE23 Topics 293 274,888 14-08-2009, 04:33 PM
  Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens

Thinking about it this event has huge potential. It brings people in from far and wide given some of the parking permits we saw in the cars around us, and it has the potential to become much much bigg...
vipes SE23 Topics 293 274,888 14-08-2009, 03:22 PM
  Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens

With a few exceptions what "and another thing" nonsense. We should celebrate these events and have more. Do people know how tedious and suburban it sounds raising concerns about fire engines, traf...
vipes SE23 Topics 293 274,888 14-08-2009, 10:50 AM
  Thread: Newspaper Delivery
Post: RE: Newspaper Delivery

Wood Vale Newsagents do. Reliable too
vipes SE23 Topics 15 14,920 02-07-2009, 07:04 PM
  Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's

blushingsnail is the comment "I do'nt know if it's the original lady or not as they all dress the same way" neutral? Nope. Ambiguous? Nope. Offensive? Yep though it seems you disagree. Give me a break...
vipes SE23 Topics 212 229,767 27-05-2009, 12:31 PM
  Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's

multisync did your school have a uniform? How ever did you tell anyone apart when "they all" dressed the same way. What racist bilge. Unbelievable.
vipes SE23 Topics 212 229,767 26-05-2009, 09:01 PM
  Thread: BNP
Post: RE: Removal of Offensive Literature from Election ...

Charlie Brooker makes a similar point on their "patriotism" today Contrary. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/18/charlie-brooker-bnp-racism I agree, it is disconcerting to find y...
vipes Wider Topics 68 61,957 20-05-2009, 02:40 PM
  Thread: School Places in SE23
Post: RE: school places in Se23

Unless they introduce lotteries the same 'closer the better' principle will apply. Ours got into Fairlawn at 460 meters from the school and the maximum radius this year was 500.
vipes SE23 Topics 20 23,694 19-05-2009, 02:52 PM
  Thread: Serial attacker lives in HOP or FH?
Post: RE: Serial attacker lives in HOP or FH?

Difficult to understand your post DogGod. Why are the police contacting you about this?
vipes Wider Topics 144 117,150 28-04-2009, 09:26 AM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

Hey it still says 999 on the thread menu. Well got it every which way now. I really must get out more.
vipes SE23 Topics 2,074 2,034,804 26-04-2009, 07:40 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

Just wanted post #1000. totally agree with Michael's suggestion for what it's worth.
vipes SE23 Topics 2,074 2,034,804 26-04-2009, 07:38 PM
  Thread: Horniman Triangle Play Park
Post: RE: Horniman Triangle Play Park

Spoken to Fiona Alleyn at Lewisham again. The money's in place to knock down the old block and do up the patio in front of the cafe but there's no money for the other plans - new toilets, new wooden s...
vipes SE23 Topics 163 171,229 23-04-2009, 12:09 PM
  Thread: Horniman Triangle Play Park
Post: RE: Horniman Triangle Play Park

Liked the Lodge. Well placed, looking over the park, and encourages you to get the kids using an area other than the play corner - although the developments at the bottom look impressive enough to dra...
vipes SE23 Topics 163 171,229 29-03-2009, 08:54 PM
  Thread: 11 Tewkesbury Avenue Development
Post: RE: 11 Tewkesbury Avenue Development

Good for you for posting so assertively doml whatever people might think about the development. Must say some of it reads like a Kevin McCloud piece to camera. Got any links to plans or images?
vipes SE23 Topics 50 64,596 18-03-2009, 10:34 AM
  Thread: 11 Tewkesbury Avenue Development
Post: RE: Tewkesbury Avenue Development

Almost back to thread I notice another hideous conversion (read second floor addition) has now gone up on Tewkesbury Ave in the same roof-tiled walled style as the one nearly opposite that I ranted ab...
vipes SE23 Topics 50 64,596 09-02-2009, 09:35 AM
  Thread: 11 Tewkesbury Avenue Development
Post: RE: Tewkesbury Avenue Development

Don't understand your post baggydave. Has permission been given?
vipes SE23 Topics 50 64,596 07-02-2009, 10:43 PM
  Thread: Horniman Triangle Play Park
Post: RE: Horniman Triangle Play Park

There were swings there until about 25 days ago Michael. Great big arcing swings actually, high enough to have preceded whatever legislation on playgrounds has meant their height should now not exceed...
vipes SE23 Topics 163 171,229 07-01-2009, 10:17 AM
  Thread: Camille Pissarro's Paintings of Forest Hill
Post: RE: Horniman Triangle Play Park SE23

Noticed this commentary on Pissaro's painting from last Staurday's Guardian as discussed in earlier posts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pissarro_lordship.jpg Julia Neuberger on Camille Pi...
vipes SE23 Topics 21 35,147 13-12-2008, 09:33 AM
  Thread: Forest Hill Town Centre Management
Post: RE: FH Town Centre Management

"let's try and work together!" Well, as a "public forum" used principally by a couple of thousand residents who pay her wages why does Julie Sutch choose not to use this site as a way to easily commun...
vipes SE23 Topics 56 42,307 03-12-2008, 03:33 PM
  Thread: Horniman Triangle Play Park
Post: RE: Horniman Triangle Play Park SE23

Swings may have been unusable after rain but they were good and high. Unlike the poxy ones at Dulwich / Peckham and any other recently built play areas. Triangle's always been well used in my experi...
vipes SE23 Topics 163 171,229 02-12-2008, 10:15 AM
  Thread: Planning: Tyson Road
Post: RE: Tyson Road Planning Appeal

Can the public access this green space? It's always seemed inaccessible and therfore slightly mysterious if it's the bit I think it is.
vipes SE23 Topics 101 123,357 26-11-2008, 12:43 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Town Centre Management
Post: RE: Provender To Close

I wonder what our very own MP Jim Dowd, chair of the Parliamentary Small Shops Group, thinks Dartmouth will look like in 2015. http://www.nfsp.org.uk/uploads/pdfs/High%20Street%20Britain%202015%20...
vipes SE23 Topics 56 42,307 31-10-2008, 02:47 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Town Centre Management
Post: RE: Provender To Close

"Good Town Centre Management, looking after local amenities such as swimming pools so they don't close and active local planning by the local authority to encourage commercial development." DR was dyi...
vipes SE23 Topics 56 42,307 31-10-2008, 11:50 AM
  Thread: Forest Hill Town Centre Management
Post: RE: Provender To Close

Sorry, my misunderstanding. "Orange behemouth" doesn't suggest affection, but fair dues, that's different from wishing it away. Not sure I'd want to try and sell food next door to Sainsbury's but ...
vipes SE23 Topics 56 42,307 29-10-2008, 10:33 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Town Centre Management
Post: RE: Provender To Close

Baboonery are you actually suggesting it would be preferable not to have Sainsbury's here? For all its many faults it's a good looking decent quality supermarket and the only thing FH has got over Lor...
vipes SE23 Topics 56 42,307 29-10-2008, 10:16 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Town Centre Management
Post: Forest Hill Town Centre Management

[i][New thread derived from SE23 Topics > Provender][/i] Backs up entirely what I've suggested on related threads about the eyesore that is our town centre. Too many outlets for the population. ...
vipes SE23 Topics 56 42,307 29-10-2008, 02:32 PM
  Thread: Farmers' markets in or near SE23?
Post: RE: Farmers' markets in or near SE23?

I think SE23 Mag mentioned a farmers' market at F Hill Pools 2nd Sunday of the month - I make that this Sunday. It's binned so can't check
vipes Wider Topics 14 14,235 10-10-2008, 09:20 AM
  Thread: Labour Leadership Challenge
Post: RE: Labour Leadership Challenge

Silence from the cabinet is pretty deafening too. Except, strangely, the support from David Milliband. Either he's so sure GB is on his way out he can afford to look loyal before he strikes or - more ...
vipes Wider Topics 8 8,445 17-09-2008, 08:11 PM
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