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20-10-2008, 08:21 AM

Thread: Broken Window
Post: RE: Broken Windon

This topic is horrendous. It is hard to believe that we live in a neighborhood where random bricks get thrown through people's windows? :mad: Ok, after I send my outmost sympahthy to Holly. One pra...

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13-10-2008, 03:00 PM

Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train cancellation Wed 1st Oct from FH

There was a notice on the Southern web site that day detailing the problems. I am not sure if it is still up. But an email to Southern may work. I decided to go home that morning (I have a VPN'd l...

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03-10-2008, 09:53 AM

Thread: Gyms
Post: RE: Can someone open a Gym in FH?

The one on Davids Rd is a bit 'boys only'. I tried it out one day and a guy walked into the ladies loo/changing facilities and said."Oh, I'm sorry. There is usually no one in here."

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26-09-2008, 02:39 PM

Thread: Bomb scare
Post: RE: Bomb scare

I know we campaingned to keep the Platform 2 gate open--but during a bomb scare is a bit much! :laugh:

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10-09-2008, 03:26 PM

Thread: Point of origin.
Post: RE: Point of origin.

Yes, my Dad once drove to Indiana from Boston in a day, 1,000+ miles. But what I really meant was looking at how much people move around and end up in a place miles away from where they grew up. T...

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08-09-2008, 10:17 AM

Thread: Point of origin.
Post: RE: Point of origin.

I moved to London from New York in 1997. In fact I moved to NY in 1990. So 'where I'm from', Boston, feels a bit alien to me. I often get asked for resturant recommendations for Boston and really have...

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07-09-2008, 05:09 PM

Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing

I have a special wooden spoon that is used only for porridge. Nothing else. I get very cranky if it is picked up for something like pasta sauce or eggs. Any other taste would corrupt the porridge. Tru...

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06-09-2008, 09:01 AM

Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing

Well, actually lorries beep when they reverse because they can't really see what is behind them. It is so people don't get run over. Some noise is nessasary. Have you thought of earplugs?

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05-09-2008, 09:21 AM

Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing

No! Podcasts are used by Digital Duffers. "I am a proud duffer"

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22-08-2008, 11:26 AM

Thread: Crime map of Forest Hill
Post: RE: Crime map of Forest Hill

Excuse me, are you comparing the Perry Vale side of the tracks to Dagenham? Seriously? The Perry Vale side is more concentrated residential. The London rd side, has the train station, pubs and res...

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21-08-2008, 09:03 AM

Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing

"...a little too frenetic and shouty..." I love it, Radio 4 too much for some duffers. Toddler in the house, so generally up at 6:00 am. By the time Saturday Live comes on hangovers have mello...

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20-08-2008, 12:11 PM

Thread: Crime map of Forest Hill
Post: RE: Crime map of Forest Hill

Did anyone notice the small pocket of 'below average crime' in the Perry Vale area. Around Kilmore Rd?

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20-08-2008, 12:05 PM

Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing

Anyone listen to Saturday Live on Radio 4? Still not on podcast. (oh dear, Radio 4 on podcast--digital duffing?)

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20-08-2008, 09:14 AM

Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing

Love connection on SE23.com? (Jon is a writer though--hence the cool sentences)

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16-08-2008, 08:43 AM

Thread: Bread makers
Post: RE: Bread makers

If you put the bread in the fridge it lasts a bit longer. Or you could freeze half the bread and eat the other half. If you were a single person. Liz, always here to help.

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15-08-2008, 04:26 PM

Thread: More than 10 reasons not to move to Brighton
Post: RE: More than 10 reasons not to move to Brighton

Platform 5, London Bridge, Friday night, last train to Brighton. You would need a months in a controlled facility to get over it.

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05-08-2008, 11:07 AM

Thread: Liberalism / Political Correctness
Post: RE: Liberalism / Political Correctness

Why would a 'liberal' defend buring down a children's playground?

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30-07-2008, 04:46 PM

Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Ticket Barriers and Gates at FH Station

"Hopefully we will get this gate open 24 hours a day as quickly as possible. " You do mean during operating hours? Any 3:00 am trains?

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29-07-2008, 01:15 PM

Thread: Mayow Park
Post: Mayo Park--climbing frame burnt down.

Does anyone know who or how the climbing frame in the children's park in Mayo Park burnt down?

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28-07-2008, 09:58 AM

Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Ticket Barriers and Gates at FH Station

I missed yesterday because I was meeting some friends in the Soho for a drink. So I got back to Forest Hill at 9:00 pm. The point of this post?--the Platform 2 gate was OPEN! :thumbsup: Was the...

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19-07-2008, 12:20 PM

Thread: House Prices
Post: RE: House prices

Where did you get this data?

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26-06-2008, 03:37 PM

Thread: House Prices
Post: RE: House prices

Don't you have to be a key worker, like a nurse or a teacher, to get in that queue? Or someone on a limited income? It isn't just 'first come first serve', is it?

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24-06-2008, 01:14 PM

Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Ticket Barriers at FH Station

Last night at 6:20 pm, the platform 2 gate was closed. Leaving two families with babies and pushchairs wondering what to do. Luckily they were with a small group and waited for most of the rush to...

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18-06-2008, 09:59 AM

Thread: Spreading the word
Post: RE: Spreading the word

To be honest with you, I can't rmember how I came across SE23.com? I know I found the towntalk site first. A T-Shirt would be fun. Good idea. I remember telling a friend of mine a few years ag...

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17-06-2008, 02:02 PM

Thread: Perry Vale - Road Issues
Post: RE: Perryvale diversion.. whats wrong with people.

Oh dear God! The road is closed now. Stop arguing. It will reopen soon enough, with its electric mix of carefull pedestricans and jaywalkers, its boy racers and sunday drivers, its eco-friendly cyclis...

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13-06-2008, 04:02 PM

Thread: Perry Vale - Road Issues
Post: RE: Perryvale diversion.. whats wrong with people.

I am glad the road is closing sooner rather than later. Last night, my husband was walking home from the station at 8:00 pm and yelled at a black SUV that he was driving the wrong way up Perry Val...

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13-06-2008, 09:44 AM

Thread: Intimidating kids hanging around
Post: RE: Intimidating kids hanging around

I meant to say I WASN'T expecting these kids to be arrested. I hit reply too fast. I was just a little annoyed. I wonder if the last poster has ever been woken up in the middle of the night by str...

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12-06-2008, 09:15 AM

Thread: Intimidating kids hanging around
Post: RE: Intimidating kids hanging around

I was expecting the kids to be arrested. When you have 20 to 30 (yes!) teenagers riding around on their bikes, playing music and yelling and screaming, at 1:00 am, in the summer when everyones' window...

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12-06-2008, 09:14 AM

Thread: Intimidating kids hanging around
Post: RE: Intimidating kids hanging around

101 is a great idea. A couple of summers ago, when it was really hot. There used to be a large group of kids who hung out on their bikes on our street from between midnight and 2:00 am. Again, they...

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11-06-2008, 05:17 PM

Thread: Perry Vale - Road Issues
Post: RE: Perryvale diversion.. whats wrong with people.

Is there anyway access can be blocked completely to drivers, driving the wrong way? As we have seen, signs are just not enough.

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11-06-2008, 11:13 AM

Thread: Thank you, anonymous street cleaner
Post: RE: thank you, anonymous street cleaner

Is he the old man who tends to wear earphones? He is very sweet. I always nod hello when I pass him in the morning on Siddons Rd.

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05-06-2008, 03:15 PM

Thread: Who is the laziest driver in SE23
Post: RE: Who is the laziest driver in SE23

You had a shoebox!? :laugh: My husband once went on a business trip to Arizona. He doesn't drive. So one night, he walked from his hotel to a resturant for dinner. On his way (which he said was...

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05-06-2008, 11:08 AM

Thread: New Furniture Shop on Perry Vale
Post: RE: New Furniture Shop on Perry Vale

The 'heart' of Forest Hill is on the Perry Vale side! Way-hey. I feel a 'Horniman-side' vs Perry Vale side fight brewin'

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31-05-2008, 10:12 AM

Thread: Does Perry Vale need a coffee shop?
Post: RE: New Furniture Shop on Perry Vale

You could get foot traffic from Platform 2 for a patisserie/bakery/coffee shop. Also the new block of flats they are putting up would also add traffic. I would make sure you put a BIG SIGN up outside ...

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29-05-2008, 12:22 PM

Thread: Water Supply Problems
Post: RE: Water problems ie. I've got none

Have you checked that you haven't accidently turned off the water under the taps? It should be a blue lever thing.

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20-05-2008, 02:32 PM

Thread: Perry Vale ex-Threshers site
Post: RE: Perry Vale ex-Threshers site

Ah, but the Dulwich Majestic will still deliver to our side of SE23. Phew....

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20-05-2008, 09:25 AM

Thread: Perry Vale ex-Threshers site
Post: RE: Perry Vale ex-Threshers site

We were told by the manager that someone else had bought the store and was planning on opening up an 'off-license.' Whether that is a wine shop or not (or even if it is true) I am not sure. That parad...

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19-05-2008, 03:05 PM

Thread: Conservation area breaches
Post: RE: Conservation area breaches

You can take my satellite dish from my cold dead hands. :laugh:

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17-05-2008, 10:40 AM

Thread: What are the nicest streets in HOP?
Post: RE: What are the nicest streets in HOP?

Ray guns at the HOP/OTH? Oh no JK, peace to all. :cool:

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15-05-2008, 03:25 PM

Thread: What are the nicest streets in HOP?
Post: RE: What are the nicest streets in HOP?

Yes, outside of living directly on the A205 underneath the railway bridge, you really can't go wrong with many streets in FH or HOP. I would recomend Shipman Rd. However, I don't think there are any F...

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14-05-2008, 12:06 PM

Thread: Accident with Skip on Perry Rise
Post: RE: Nasty bus accident on Perry Vale (Bus vs skip)

I hope no one was hurt. A lot of old people that that bus to Bell Green Sainsbury's

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12-05-2008, 04:29 PM

Thread: Listed buildings
Post: RE: Listed buildings

Isn't the Perry Vale Fire Station in Forest Hill? Or am I thinking of the wrong building? I think all of Perry Vale is SE23. When it hits Sydenham isn't it Perry Rise?

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11-05-2008, 10:03 AM

Thread: Which Side of the track has more people
Post: RE: Which Side of the track has more people

Then again, Perry Vale has a rehersal studio for bands--which has some pertty fashionable young people coming out of it. And we have a funky little antique store. There are also some little funny anti...

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08-05-2008, 02:11 PM

Thread: Trains Tuesday night
Post: RE: Trains Tuesday night

I don't know either, but I was on the 6:51 from London Bridge last night, and we stopped at Honor Oak Park, because of 'problems' at Forest Hill. I ended up walking home from HOP, but never got a word...

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07-05-2008, 09:55 AM

Thread: Remote working and pc's
Post: RE: Remote working and pc's

Yes a VPN is the way. I worked for a Dutch company last year from home. By logging on to the VPN, I had access to all the shared folders, by email, and the company-wide IM system to have instant messa...

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06-05-2008, 04:49 PM

Thread: Mayow Park
Post: RE: Mayow Park.

I'd consider Mayow park both SE23/SE26. It runs along Dacas Rd, which says SE23

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06-05-2008, 01:00 PM

Thread: May mayoral election
Post: RE: May mayoral election

Ultimatley, I think Boris is going to draw up an exectutive commitee to run City Hall. Less of a hands-on mayor than Ken, but maybe some re-assurance that there will be people inside City Hall who hav...

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04-05-2008, 08:19 AM

Thread: Walk to Work Day
Post: Walk to Work Day

I know there are a lot of cyclists out there. But did anyone know today is Walk to Work Day? http://www.walkingworks.org.uk/index.php Now I do walk to FH station, then walk from London Bridge t...

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24-04-2008, 11:41 AM

Thread: Bridge or Underpass?
Post: RE: Bridge or Underpass?

I live on the east side of the tracks. But when I need to go west after getting off a train, I tend to use the underpass. It seems quicker to me. There tends to be a line to get on the bridge. And I t...