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Thread: Large Cat Like Animal
Post: RE: Large Cat Like Animal
| I notice it doesn't say that they caught that one in 2005! The picture looks familiar...... |
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03-11-2009, 12:20 AM |
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Thread: Large Cat Like Animal
Post: Large Cat Like Animal
| Let me first say that I am always the first to dismiss stories of aliens, or sightings of strange animals.
However early this morning I clearly saw a large cat like animal prowling behind our flats... |
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02-11-2009, 07:33 PM |
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Thread: Tell Me About SE23 Please
Post: RE: Tell Me About SE23 Please
| You can see it online....sounds like a nice place...maybe I'll move there!! :)
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/buying_and_selling/article6856797.ece |
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billham |
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03-10-2009, 07:30 PM |
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Thread: Tell Me About SE23 Please
Post: RE: Tell Me About SE23 Please
| You need to watch out for the annual jerk festival in the Horniman, and practice evasive moves to dodge the Big Issue seller at Sainsbury's and the drivers screaming down Manor Mount the wrong way!! :... |
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21-09-2009, 11:21 AM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| The link in the previous post has a rogue full stop. This should work...
http://londonreconnections.blogspot.com/2009/07/official-launch-of-new-overground.html |
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billham |
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14-07-2009, 11:54 AM |
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Thread: Manor Mount - Abuse of One-Way System
Post: RE: Manor Mount - Abuse of One-Way System
| Maybe what we should do is move the Big Issue sellers from Sainsbury's to the narrow bit at the top of Manor Mount.
Wouldn't solve either problem but think of the length of the thread we would have... |
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billham |
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17-06-2009, 03:12 PM |
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Thread: Central Doors on Council Properties
Post: RE: Central Doors on Council Properties
| All the experience I have of this, albeit in private not local authority housing, is that the postman or whoever presses bells till someone grants them admission. Of course this nullifies the whole in... |
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billham |
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06-06-2009, 04:00 PM |
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Thread: Dogs on Buses
Post: RE: Dogs on Buses
| It would appear that no ticket is required
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/passenger_services/luggage_animals.html |
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14-05-2009, 03:06 PM |
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Thread: Dogs on Buses
Post: RE: Dogs on Buses
| I have no problem with well behaved dogs being on buses or trains, or dogs in general. However they certainly shouldn't be on seats.
I travelled into London in mid afternoon the other day from HOP... |
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14-05-2009, 09:48 AM |
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Thread: Songs Featuring Local Areas
Post: RE: Songs featuring SE23
| Catford of course also gets a mention in The Barron Knights parody 'A Taste of Aggro'.
[To the tune of "The Smurf Theme Song"]
"Where are you all coming from?"
We're from Dartmoor, on the run
"H... |
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billham |
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12-05-2009, 11:55 PM |
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Thread: Songs Featuring Local Areas
Post: RE: Songs featuring SE23
| "South of the river
Down Forest Hill way....." |
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billham |
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11-05-2009, 09:50 PM |
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Thread: Perry Vale - Road Issues
Post: RE: Perry Vale - Road Issues
| or more correctly ON the crest..... |
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billham |
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11-05-2009, 09:48 PM |
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Thread: Perry Vale - Road Issues
Post: RE: Perry Vale - Road Issues
| Who'd have though there could be a 60 page catalogue of benches!
Looks uncomfortable to me...not even sure whether you are meant to sit in the crest or the trough!! :laugh: |
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billham |
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11-05-2009, 09:46 PM |
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Thread: Perry Vale - Road Issues
Post: RE: Perry Vale - Road Issues
| To be pedantic, pedestrians only have right of way if they have started crossing (per highway code 170)
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Take extra care at junctions. You should.........
watch out for pedestrians crossing... |
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billham |
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19-04-2009, 08:56 PM |
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Thread: Searching for english relatives
Post: RE: Searching for english relatives
| Hi Carol
This is a website that concentrates on issues related to an area in south east London. It has nothing to do with family history as such. Unless you know your relatives are in this area it ... |
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billham |
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19-04-2009, 04:58 PM |
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Thread: Used to live there
Post: RE: Used to live there
| Hi Graham
I do still live in Sydmons Court and more than happy to chat. However, I don't really want to post my email address here and I seem unable to leave a private message. Can you see if you a... |
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billham |
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30-03-2009, 05:06 PM |
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Thread: Fatal shooting in East Dulwich
Post: Fatal shooting in East Dulwich
| I must admit when you see this sort of thing happening on a Sunday afternoon at a place where you quite often walk it is scary...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7904586.stm |
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22-02-2009, 06:37 PM |
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Thread: Stolen Siberian Husky Please Help
Post: RE: Stolen Siberian Husky Please Help
| Really glad to hear this had a happy ending! I noticed it earlier and wanted to post but decided against it in case you thought it was someone with positive word! I guess you won't be leaving her outs... |
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05-02-2009, 10:14 PM |
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Thread: Post
Post: RE: Post
| Well I must admit I didn't take an inchtape to it but I do live quite high on the hill, near the Canonbie/Netherby junction. I took a fairly close look at undisturbed snow in our bin area and it was 5... |
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billham |
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05-02-2009, 09:37 PM |
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Thread: Post
Post: RE: Post
| Whilst I do accept that deliveries are more difficult in the current circumstances, I don't think it is unreasonable to expect some sort of service 3 days after 4 inches of snow fell. Checking the Roy... |
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billham |
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05-02-2009, 11:37 AM |
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Thread: Post
Post: RE: Post
| Not seen so much as a bill or a circular in Netherby Road. Might easily be the Arctic up here....the snow comes half way up my....shoes.....
Full marks however to my trusty milkman Lee from Dairy C... |
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billham |
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04-02-2009, 10:24 PM |
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Thread: Snow!!!
Post: RE: Snow!!!
| How ridiculous that Horniman is closed for 'Health and Safety' reasons! Clearly it is a lot safer for children to sledge down roads. :confused:
I know the reason is probably to do with the risk of... |
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02-02-2009, 06:09 PM |
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Thread: SE23 Magazine
Post: RE: SE23 Magazine
| Personally I would feel more confident if you could spell 'write' or 'edition' but maybe that's just old-fashioned Virgo me..... :) |
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billham |
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05-01-2009, 08:54 PM |
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Thread: Camille Pissarro's Paintings of Forest Hill
Post: RE: Camille Pissarro's paintings of Forest Hill
| or here
http://www.art.co.uk/asp/sp-asp/_/Aff--CONF/CTID--861164771/RFID--457103/TKID--15039121/pd--10023210/posters.htm |
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20-12-2008, 03:59 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill's Xmas Tree
Post: RE: Forest Hill's xmas tree
| Most likely it means you have just staggered out of the Hob.... :) |
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billham |
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17-12-2008, 05:15 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| Two carriages on a train out of London Bridge at that time of night is just taking the &^*%!! |
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25-11-2008, 07:55 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| Jimmy?
Maybe that is the way forward, giving all the trains names instead of times. Be just like Thomas the Tank Engine!
Ah, here he comes now that loveable old rogue Jimmy, always late but you ... |
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billham |
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21-11-2008, 02:06 PM |
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Thread: Remembrance Sunday
Post: RE: Remembrance Sunday
| I think if you look closely you will see that the date is actually correct...if we were still in 2006 which is the year at the bottom of this release!
Nice to see the Lewisham website so up to dat... |
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billham |
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08-11-2008, 07:05 PM |
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Thread: Story behind the mask
Post: RE: Story behind the mask
| I new I should have come up with something better than parts of my name! How unimaginative am I!!
Interesting though to see what folk have come up with and I do use more 'cleverer' names in other f... |
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billham |
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31-10-2008, 05:58 PM |
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Thread: Southern Electricity
Post: Southern Electricity
| Just had a visit from a representative of Southern Electricity.
Along with various graphs and diagrams he basically said that Southern could 'see' that my tarriff was high (I am with British Gas fo... |
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30-10-2008, 03:43 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Library
Post: RE: Forest Hill Library
| Being in my early 50s, I too grew up in the pre-computer age. However, I am certainly no technophobe and have been employed in IT for 25 years.
However, on my one visit to this library I really fel... |
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billham |
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25-10-2008, 02:56 PM |
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Thread: Manor Mount - Abuse of One-Way System
Post: RE: Manor Mount - drivers still at it
| I assume we are talking purely about the section between the two ends of Pearcefield so Sainsbury's traffic is not involved since it would enter the end of Pearcefield nearest Davids Road and exit ont... |
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24-10-2008, 12:20 PM |
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Thread: Manor Mount - Abuse of One-Way System
Post: RE: Manor Mount - drivers still at it
| I don't think it is only you Roz. I think most people treat that section as one-way, probably because it logically looks like it should be! I suspect the reason that it isn't is down to the location o... |
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24-10-2008, 10:32 AM |
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Thread: Used to live there
Post: RE: Used to live there
| Hi Margaret
Interesting to hear your memories. Interesting you should mention police flats. I live in Sydmons Court of Netherby Road which was built in the 1950s and I was told that these were orig... |
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billham |
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20-10-2008, 11:43 AM |
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Thread: Dacres Wood Nature Reserve
Post: RE: Dacres Road Nature Reserve
| A voluntary environmental and conservation group. Their web site is
www.btcv.org
Interestingly if you look there (as I did) you will hunt high and low for what those letters mean. The explanatio... |
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16-10-2008, 03:11 PM |
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Thread: Dacres Wood Nature Reserve
Post: RE: Dacres Road Nature Reserve
| Looking in more detail at the route map would suggest that you are right Perryman. Although the canal follows the line of Davids Road if the map is correct it was actually located between Davids Road ... |
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16-10-2008, 10:19 AM |
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Thread: Dacres Wood Nature Reserve
Post: RE: Dacres Road Nature Reserve
| The canal ran right down Davids Road. The attached map shows the canal route - not very close to the railway from HOP to Forest Hill!
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=1095274... |
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15-10-2008, 06:35 PM |
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Thread: Broken Window
Post: RE: Broken Windon
| We recently had trouble over a period with groups of youths hanging around our (private) grounds, smoking dodgy substances and generally making a nuisance. The police response seemed to be that unless... |
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13-10-2008, 12:11 PM |
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Thread: Broken Window
Post: RE: Broken Window
| Sorry to hear of your experience Holly. As someone who has had missiles through a window on a couple of occasions in the 20 odd years I have lived here (though I am not particularly close to the South... |
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11-10-2008, 02:05 PM |
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Thread: WH Smith & Post Office, Forest Hill
Post: RE: Forest Hill Post Office
| And of course there is a posting box inside the post office, to the right as you face the counter... |
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17-09-2008, 04:01 PM |
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Thread: Housing market
Post: RE: Forest Hill Central
| I wouldn't describe predicting a drop in the housing market for 'over 10 years' as scaremongering. It does however smack of backing the inevitable. Housing markets always suffer downturns - the art li... |
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01-09-2008, 10:30 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Central
Post: RE: Forest Hill Central
| Interesting that the Old Bank Italian Restaurant (presumably the one in Honor Oak) is included as a 'local' restaurant. There must be at least 20 restaurants nearer if not more. Do I smell some 'produ... |
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11-07-2008, 04:49 PM |
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Thread: Right-turn from Honor Oak Road into London Road
Post: RE: Right-turn from Honor Oak Road into London Roa...
| Foxe
Whilst I agree that these lights can be extremely frustrating, and I have uttered the odd curse or fifty myself whilst waiting for them to change, this does not in any circumstances make an il... |
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10-07-2008, 11:38 AM |
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Thread: Right-turn from Honor Oak Road into London Road
Post: Right-turn from Honor Oak Road into London Road
| I don't know if this is a regular occurrence or not, but last night about 6.15pm as I was walking up towards the junction of Honor Oak Road and the South Circ at the Tesco garage two cars made a right... |
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08-07-2008, 07:59 PM |
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Thread: Right-turn camera at Wickes/Halfords
Post: RE: Right-turn camera at Wickes/Halfords
| I think you are quite right about the amount of signange. There is simply no way of taking in all the signs that are out there. How anyone without an intimate knowledge of the South Circ ever successf... |
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07-07-2008, 01:15 PM |
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Thread: Right-turn camera at Wickes/Halfords
Post: RE: Right-turn camera at Wickes/Halfords
| Well I had no idea that it was illegal to turn right there and I certainly did it in mid March and then again recently. It's hard enough to keep your eye on the traffic at that corner let alone being ... |
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06-07-2008, 01:22 AM |
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Thread: Horniman Triangle Play Park
Post: RE: Horniman Triangle Play Park SE23
| I think that the link is slightly wrong. Try this
[url=http://se23streets.blogspot.com/2007/04/up-eliot-bank.html]Up Eliot Bank[/url] |
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23-06-2008, 12:44 PM |
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Thread: Intimidating kids hanging around
Post: RE: Intimidating kids hanging around
| I accept that the situation in a public area is more complex, and I imagine it would be very hard to get the police to act unless some substantial disturbance was being caused.
However, I live in a... |
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21-06-2008, 08:20 PM |
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Thread: Intimidating kids hanging around
Post: RE: Intimidating kids hanging around
| Ok Reverend we will send them around to stand outside your house since it would obviously not be an issue for you!!
I think your reply shows a total lack of understanding of what this problem might... |
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19-06-2008, 10:51 PM |
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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
| This does seem a rather strict enforcement of a 'political' group. I could understand that the IRA or Al Queda might reasonably be refused but the Forest Hill Society?? I sense some deeper underlying... |
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13-06-2008, 09:53 AM |
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