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  Thread: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO
Post: RE: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO

Wait a minute...I'm getting lost...let me just take some notes... Self loathing: bad Barely concealed loathing for perceived social inferiors: good OK. Carry on.
spud SE23 Topics 78 59,746 18-09-2015, 12:40 PM
  Thread: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO
Post: RE: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO

Good luck Snazy. I believe the oral exam is particularly challenging. I'll be working on my glottal stops.
spud SE23 Topics 78 59,746 17-09-2015, 05:07 PM
  Thread: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO
Post: RE: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO

Feeling a bit worried now. I've lived in the area for eighteen years but it now occurs to me that I may not meet the new and exacting requirements for the contemporary Honor Oak resident. Do I need to...
spud SE23 Topics 78 59,746 17-09-2015, 04:56 PM
  Thread: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO
Post: RE: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO

Well, I think that's settled the issue.
spud SE23 Topics 78 59,746 17-09-2015, 04:37 PM
  Thread: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO
Post: RE: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO

Hi there, Friends of mine are thinking of moving into the area. But they've heard worrying rumours that the recent influx of middle class newcomers includes a tiny lunatic fringe of mean-spirited ...
spud SE23 Topics 78 59,746 17-09-2015, 03:51 PM
  Thread: Dog Fouling
Post: RE: Dog Fouling

Really? Or would it have been just as reasonable to conclude that kindness to animals, in however misguided a form, was the sign of a generous nature? I might not be convinced of the merits of the...
spud SE23 Topics 48 35,454 22-10-2014, 09:06 AM
  Thread: Dog Fouling
Post: RE: Dog Fouling

'' I confronted the couple about it and they were as unpleasant as you'd expect '' Why would you/we expect them to be unpleasant? That doesn't seem clear.
spud SE23 Topics 48 35,454 21-10-2014, 07:46 PM
  Thread: Dog Fouling
Post: RE: Dog Fouling

Can I ask you a couple of questions? 1) Let's imagine a scenario in which I'd been passing by on the other side of the road. I film the incident on my phone from a different vantage point and from a ...
spud SE23 Topics 48 35,454 21-10-2014, 07:41 PM
  Thread: Followed home from station
Post: RE: Followed home from station

dita - Glad to hear that the police that have been stepping up their efforts. Let's hope that they get a result a.s.a.p. It must be horrible being forced out of your own home like that.
spud Wider Topics 17 13,463 21-10-2013, 12:10 PM
  Thread: Followed home from station
Post: RE: Followed home from station

Just read this thread. I noticed a man/boy matching this description in Garthorne Road this morning around 9 am. He was wearing a black nylon hooded tracksuit and a black wool cap. I'd have esti...
spud Wider Topics 17 13,463 18-10-2013, 10:18 AM
  Thread: Vintage Danish rosewood and smoked glass coffee table £75 o.n.o.
Post: RE: Vintage Danish rosewood and smoked glass coffe...

Sorry - this has been sold now.
spud Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 1 3,853 28-08-2012, 07:56 AM
  Thread: Vintage Danish rosewood and smoked glass coffee table £75 o.n.o.
Post: Vintage Danish rosewood and smoked glass coffee ta...

For sale : vintage Danish rosewood and smoked glass coffee table for £75 o.n.o. Buyer collects from Honor Oak area. PM me if you're interested.
spud Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 1 3,853 26-08-2012, 07:25 PM
  Thread: Electric Guitar for Sale - £200 (Vintage advance AV2HHF)
Post: RE: Electric Guitar for Sale - £200 (Vintage advan...

I would definitely be interested in this if it was still available - probably too late though? Could you PM me your contact details if it's still available? Ta.
spud Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 1 4,463 07-01-2012, 12:38 PM
  Thread: losing Hope updated........
Post: RE: losing Hope updated........

Hi there - it's probably a good idea to use this thread to remind people what your cat looks like, just in case they haven't seen the other thread (I hadn't). Maybe you could attach a photo? Best o...
spud Wider Topics 18 16,289 11-10-2011, 01:40 PM
  Thread: Fox attack
Post: RE: Fox attack

Almost feeling a kind of warped admiration for Brian at this point as he peruses a discussion about local wildlife and concurs that, once again,the key issue is the undesirable effects of immigration....
spud Wider Topics 14 12,614 15-08-2011, 01:51 PM
  Thread: Internet connection in SE23 this weekend ?
Post: Internet connection in SE23 this weekend ?

Our internet connection has been out for action for periods of three or four hours at a time all this weekend. We've not had any problems of this kind previously. We're based in Honor Oak and our ...
spud SE23 Topics 9 9,495 07-08-2011, 01:13 PM
  Thread: Bagpipes
Post: RE: Bagpipes

I think the piper is a Scottish feller called Alan who lives on Whatman Road - I caught him in action at a street party a couple of years back, and I've heard his skirling strains wafting over the gar...
spud Wider Topics 14 13,847 02-08-2011, 11:19 AM
  Thread: Forest Hill in the Times property section
Post: RE: Forest Hill in the Times property section

At this point, I'm really not sure how serious or how ironic Robin Orton is being. (Although I would sign my name to a notional list of anyone who considered their house to be a home rather than an in...
spud SE23 Topics 103 102,708 22-07-2011, 04:18 PM
  Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: Disaster The Old Bank to become a Dominoes piz...

'Disaster' is pitching it a bit strong, isn't it? I live in Honor Oak so the Old Bank site is on my doorstep. It'd be nice to have a decent restaurant or pub there. If it became a Domino's, then I...
spud SE23 Topics 736 618,241 22-07-2011, 02:11 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill in the Times property section
Post: RE: Forest Hill in the Times property section

It's funny, because I don't remember anyone enthusing about 'grot'. Not by using that word. Nor in a more general sense. Maybe someone could and paste the relevant quotes? ..........<eerie wind,...
spud SE23 Topics 103 102,708 22-07-2011, 10:54 AM
  Thread: Half houses
Post: RE: Half houses

There are a lot of half-houses around Honor Oak. These are terraced Edwardian properties in which two neighbours share a common hallway from the front door. This leads to two internal 'front doors'. M...
spud Wider Topics 9 16,334 14-07-2011, 12:01 PM
  Thread: Low water pressure?
Post: RE: Low water pressure?

P.S. Just checked the Thames Water incident map and there's a triangle of leaks (Ewelma Road SE23, Railway Terrace SE13, Inchmery Road SE6) with our neighbourhood in the middle. Could one/all of those...
spud SE23 Topics 32 30,302 07-07-2011, 08:08 AM
  Thread: Low water pressure?
Post: RE: Low water pressure?

Very low, slowing to a tiny trickle this a.m. in Honor Oak. Could find myself brushing my teeth in sparkling mineral water in if it actually runs out.
spud SE23 Topics 32 30,302 07-07-2011, 07:58 AM
  Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage

Can't see why it's an either/or issue. Feminism is for feminists - who specifically want to advance the cause of women in regard of gender equality. Most of the people who'd define themselves as f...
spud Wider Topics 587 486,027 24-05-2011, 12:07 PM
  Thread: Can you not sit somewhere else?
Post: RE: Can you not sit somewhere else?

Incredible. I'd have asked her whether she'd bought a separate ticket for her handbag... Where do people like that get their massively over-developed sense of entitlement from?
spud Wider Topics 49 44,902 18-05-2011, 10:49 AM
  Thread: Tatoo Removal paid for by us.
Post: RE: Tatoo Removal paid for by us.

Now here's a thought: if somebody had a facial tattoo would it be better or worse for them to conceal it by means of a veil? (Everybody stand back. I think Brian's head might be about to explode.)
spud Wider Topics 64 49,554 11-05-2011, 02:22 PM
  Thread: People door knocking offering a roof survey
Post: RE: People door knocking offering a roof survey

I'm pretty sure that there has been an extensive thread on the East Dulwich Forum about the woman-and-imaginary-baby scammer that Marthasmum describes. From memory ,a lot of the features match: plausi...
spud SE23 Topics 19 19,321 28-04-2011, 12:17 PM
  Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red bull marketing?

Well, if they are Andura Guard, then everybody's misgivings seem to have been well founded: http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/andura-guard-c227113.html The link above leads to some inter...
spud Wider Topics 69 122,516 20-04-2011, 01:50 PM
  Thread: Congratulations to France.
Post: RE: Congratulations to France.

Just out of interest, would posters on this topic be prepared to take part in a quick straw poll? I would / would not like to live in a society in which the elected government enforced on its citiz...
spud Wider Topics 50 36,161 14-04-2011, 01:54 PM
  Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red bull marketing?

...although Perry W's experience forms such a striking contrast to the general tone that there's bound to be some sceptics who will suspect him of being some kind of troll or of having some connection...
spud Wider Topics 69 122,516 14-03-2011, 12:17 PM
  Thread: Why are coffee shops so important to 'young professionals'?
Post: RE: Why are coffee shops so important to 'young pr...

Do people 'tend not to go to' caffs? Which people? The Oak Cafe on Honor Oak Park, for example, seems to do quite a decent trade. My partner and myself are both quite fond of it. (It's probably fortun...
spud Wider Topics 13 12,116 24-02-2011, 07:59 PM
  Thread: Why are coffee shops so important to 'young professionals'?
Post: RE: Why are coffee shops so important to 'young pr...

Tend to agree with all of the above. Although I would add that the sort of person who would style themselves as a young professional, eagerly and without irony, may also be the sort of person who's pr...
spud Wider Topics 13 12,116 24-02-2011, 03:51 PM
  Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage

A few idle points... I agree with Robin Orton that it's probably misleading to conceive of a pure and unsullied gold-standard English. The language is constantly mutating. Even Fowler's accepts thi...
spud Wider Topics 587 486,027 07-01-2011, 12:03 PM
  Thread: 3-course lunch for £2 ??
Post: RE: 3-course lunch for £2 ??

Is this the place that I remembered as The Dartmouth Restaurant? With most of the tables in a basement space? Or did Coulters come later? As 1970s teenagers, I'd go there with my first girlfriend s...
spud SE23 Topics 7 8,575 14-12-2010, 02:55 PM
  Thread: Awful Story: Cat Owners Beware
Post: RE: Awful Story: Cat Owners Beware

That's fair enough, Cettee. Intrigued about your brother: where was he at the time?
spud Wider Topics 16 14,640 09-12-2010, 03:25 PM
  Thread: Awful Story: Cat Owners Beware
Post: RE: Awful Story: Cat Owners Beware

...and here's some Sydenham Panther related material. This article from September 2009 concerns cat remains discovered in a Sydenham park. A commentator describes how the 'sandpapery' tongue of a b...
spud Wider Topics 16 14,640 09-12-2010, 12:17 PM
  Thread: Awful Story: Cat Owners Beware
Post: RE: Awful Story: Cat Owners Beware

@ ceetee : The RSPCA's website refers readers to an external link 'The Fox Website' whose line is that it is relatively rare for a fox to attack a fully grown cat (as opposed to a kitten). ''In an ...
spud Wider Topics 16 14,640 09-12-2010, 12:06 PM
  Thread: Christmas lights?
Post: RE: Christmas lights?

We always have had Christmas lights on the main drag in Honor Oak, and they've usually appeared at the same time as the tree. This year the tree's here but the lights aren't. I wonder if they're a ...
spud SE23 Topics 3 5,575 08-12-2010, 12:52 PM
  Thread: Awful Story: Cat Owners Beware
Post: RE: Awful Story: Cat Owners Beware

Yet another possibility - although maybe a more unlikely one? - is that this signals the return of the 'Sydenham Panther'. There have been repeated sightings of an unidentified big cat in the area ...
spud Wider Topics 16 14,640 07-12-2010, 03:58 PM
  Thread: Sound insulation in SE23 halls-adjoining houses?
Post: RE: Sound insulation in SE23 halls-adjoining house...

Well...there are other reasons to move as well. But that might be both the deciding issue, and something we want to avoid if/when we do move into somewhere else. Thanks anyway.
spud SE23 Topics 5 8,764 06-10-2010, 06:27 PM
  Thread: Sound insulation in SE23 halls-adjoining houses?
Post: RE: Sound insulation in SE23 halls-adjoining house...

BCM - thanks, that's quite reassuring. We're not super-neurotic about noise. But the idea of spending several months with a newborn baby (not) sleeping in a cot in the bedroom next to ours is a bit da...
spud SE23 Topics 5 8,764 04-10-2010, 11:25 AM
  Thread: Sound insulation in SE23 halls-adjoining houses?
Post: Sound insulation in SE23 halls-adjoining houses?

We've lived in our Honor Oak half-house for more than a decade. We're fond of the house and the neighbourhood. But one drawback to the house is a very thin dividing wall on one side of the house. ...
spud SE23 Topics 5 8,764 29-09-2010, 12:04 PM
  Thread: Strange caller
Post: RE: Strange caller

The East Dulwich burglaries sound like the same lot that were targetting SE23 recently: ground floor windows crowbarred open from front gardens where tall hedges provided cover from the road.
spud SE23 Topics 18 16,240 29-09-2010, 11:47 AM
  Thread: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & Bovill
Post: RE: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & ...

Turd wars are hotting up in the Honor Oak area. When I walked down one local street today I noticed that someone had not only actually fashioned a cardboard frame for one of the gruesome crap-corries ...
spud SE23 Topics 68 56,136 11-08-2010, 09:14 PM
  Thread: Ridiculous Doctors Catchment areas
Post: RE: Ridiculous Doctors Catchment areas

I'd have been quite happy with the Jenner Health Centre because I live a short walk away. But I've ended up at the surgery halfway down Brockley Road. That doesn't seem logical if other users are havi...
spud SE23 Topics 32 36,641 26-07-2010, 11:46 AM
  Thread: Good local park
Post: RE: Good local park

Honor Oak Rec seems to have quite a popular swing park. It's off of Honor Oak Park accessed down the path by the allotments. The new improved Blythe Hill Fields swing park might actually be bigger...
spud Wider Topics 4 4,530 09-07-2010, 04:47 PM
  Thread: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
Post: RE: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?

Backtracking a bit: at least two posters on this thread would extend the northernmost boundary of Honor Oak to include the stretch between Wood Vale all the way up to Peckham Rye Park. Is that the maj...
spud SE23 Topics 75 78,530 08-07-2010, 08:06 PM
  Thread: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
Post: RE: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?

Maybe 'Celebrity Oak' would have been closer than 'Fornication Oak'? Queen Bess was a big deal back then and her arrival would have caused a bit of a stir. It was probably featured in 'Hey Nonny No!' ...
spud SE23 Topics 75 78,530 08-07-2010, 10:52 AM
  Thread: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
Post: RE: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?

I believe that the cemeteries were so named when they were both within the boundaries of the old London Borough of Camberwell. You can still see the old metal boundary marker half-submerged at the top...
spud SE23 Topics 75 78,530 07-07-2010, 07:29 PM
  Thread: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & Bovill
Post: RE: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & ...

Gabriella - those stencils have been appearing aound the area for about a decade with no obvious effect. Unfortunately. PVP - if you're insisting on a full five asterisks' worth, how about rhymes w...
spud SE23 Topics 68 56,136 07-07-2010, 12:07 PM
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