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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...

Blackfriars (no tube at present)/ Elephant & Castle (Bakerloo line) to Crofton Park - not a long walk at all from Crofton Park to HOP.
mljay SE23 Topics 1,398 1,249,954 26-02-2009, 05:18 PM
  Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: Disaster The Old Bank to become a Dominoes piz...

ooo really looking forward to the bright neon red and white signage.
mljay SE23 Topics 736 625,341 15-09-2011, 10:56 AM
  Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: The Old Bank to become a Domino's Pizza

As much as I would prefer not to have a fast food chain - if the new business was at least a [b]sit in restaurant[/b] it would be better than having a dominos [b]takeaway[/b].
mljay SE23 Topics 736 625,341 23-09-2011, 08:28 PM
  Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: The Old Bank to become a Domino's Pizza

thanks for template BarCar.
mljay SE23 Topics 736 625,341 28-09-2011, 02:40 PM
  Thread: HOP Recreation Ground to Become a Cemetery?
Post: RE: Save HOP Recreation Ground!

if its about finding a place to put the dead, why not both a burial ground and sports field ... could have a memorial board on a fence line. people could be given a gps grid reference for where their...
mljay SE23 Topics 196 181,499 18-02-2011, 02:26 PM
  Thread: HOP Recreation Ground to Become a Cemetery?
Post: RE: Save HOP Recreation Ground!

I was actually serious about the multifunctional usage of the rec field. We live in a crowded city and an increasingly crowded world. If resources can be used for more than one function, why not e...
mljay SE23 Topics 196 181,499 21-02-2011, 11:03 AM
  Thread: HOP Recreation Ground to Become a Cemetery?
Post: RE: Save HOP Recreation Ground!

@ Me!Me!Me.... it is because you come across like a troll. If you were defending the need for burial space that would be one thing but you obviously just came on the site to be contrary and provo...
mljay SE23 Topics 196 181,499 07-03-2011, 08:33 PM
  Thread: Buggy-hating 176 driver
Post: RE: Buggy-hating 176 driver

everybody has a bad day sometimes
mljay Wider Topics 162 123,506 05-11-2010, 10:22 AM
  Thread: Buggy-hating 176 driver
Post: RE: Buggy-hating 176 driver

the aisles in the buses are usually big enough for a buggy to go through - until the bus design decides to throw in a pole at the end with a curve that stops it (not at the wheels but somewhere else a...
mljay Wider Topics 162 123,506 01-11-2010, 10:53 AM
  Thread: New primary school for Lewisham?
Post: RE: New primary school for Lewisham?

To be fair to fhmum, the proposal was hardly put forward as a solution to ALL our educational ills. Merely an alternative. And I am sure that fhmum will be engaging in many debates over the coming...
mljay Wider Topics 110 109,396 25-01-2011, 11:03 AM
  Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?

I am curious to know what the definition of 'living in poverty' is when you say they are 'making you live in poverty'? Also to say you would be working 'almost for free' - sounds like you would jus...
mljay Wider Topics 101 78,302 13-01-2011, 02:35 PM
  Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?

thanks derbyhilltop - It would not be my definition of 'living in poverty' but to each their own. sorry to hear that you are facing tough times and the nursery bill hike does sound like a shocker...
mljay Wider Topics 101 78,302 13-01-2011, 05:55 PM
  Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?

for any interested on 'living in poverty' - just tried looking up what it means when using the term in the UK(http://www.cpag.org.uk/povertyfacts/#who)
mljay Wider Topics 101 78,302 13-01-2011, 06:20 PM
  Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?

Derbyhilltop - have you considered looking for less expensive nurseries (I know many have really long waiting lists - I put my sons name down when he was 3 mths in the womb and only got a place when h...
mljay Wider Topics 101 78,302 14-01-2011, 11:40 AM
  Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?

It may have only been one documentary but I also recall the Panorama investigation when people were stopped outside of the benefits office and asked if they would like a job which paid above minimum w...
mljay Wider Topics 101 78,302 26-01-2011, 02:38 PM
  Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?

My nursery fees just went up by £100 per month! Boo! Ouch!
mljay Wider Topics 101 78,302 11-03-2011, 10:18 AM
  Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?

My friends work, either full or part time. My relatives are overseas. My husbands relatives live outside of London, and are working as well, with their own families and childcare arrangments to worr...
mljay Wider Topics 101 78,302 11-03-2011, 02:50 PM
  Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?

Brian - sorry, did not mean to jump back at you. The fact is that it does still happen today where people live close to relatives or with relatives. I know examples where childcare is split betwe...
mljay Wider Topics 101 78,302 11-03-2011, 04:21 PM
  Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?

well said seeformiles
mljay Wider Topics 101 78,302 24-03-2011, 10:38 AM
  Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?

[i]bigot [/i]- a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion. I do not think that anyone in this conversation has made statements that could be described as bigoted...
mljay Wider Topics 101 78,302 25-03-2011, 04:36 PM
  Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?

problem with food stamps is that they would just get sold for cash at a bit less than face value
mljay Wider Topics 101 78,302 29-03-2011, 03:11 PM
  Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts

I am pretty sure that DC children attend state school and that they use the NHS. At least DC and GO are taking realistic decisions about how much money there is to spend rather than living in la la...
mljay Wider Topics 94 83,618 11-10-2010, 10:04 AM
  Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts

derbyhilltop To respond, I prefer that we feel the pain now (including me) rather than my childrens children feel the pain later. [i]We all know that the country is in the global recession - why p...
mljay Wider Topics 94 83,618 12-10-2010, 11:48 AM
  Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts

I am not sure how making an observation that hospital cleaners come from a certain place becomes a racist comment. Plus, I saw no comment from Brian about sacking the above cleaners and sending the...
mljay Wider Topics 94 83,618 14-10-2010, 10:42 AM
  Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts

[i]mljay: Thanks for the revelation that the last Labour government invented the benefits system. Could you possibly tell me how unemployed people managed before that time. Say, in the early 1980s whe...
mljay Wider Topics 94 83,618 14-10-2010, 12:09 PM
  Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts

[i]Sp Mljay - what is your occupation ?? [/i] What is yours - and everyone else's on this forum? Why do you need to know. Is it because I hold views contrary to yours?
mljay Wider Topics 94 83,618 15-10-2010, 09:29 AM
  Thread: Extend 63 Bus to Honor Oak Park Station?
Post: RE: Buses to Honor Oak Park station

i dont really see why a double decker bus is a problem. there are already double deckers coming down stondon park/ brockley rise. also large lorries etc go over honor oak road and down the parade. ...
mljay SE23 Topics 85 93,424 13-06-2008, 05:48 PM
  Thread: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington
Post: RE: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington

great to have new destination but anyone else annoyed that the train display only shows one train now because the name is to long - can they not shorten to H'bury and Islington.... or something like t...
mljay SE23 Topics 82 71,520 04-03-2011, 10:26 AM
  Thread: Flight Paths over SE23
Post: RE: Proposed City Airport Flight Paths over SE23

is it just me or are inbound flights into heathrow over forest hill/ honor oak park a permanent fixture now. we moved in about a year ago and I hardly ever heard the planes and the ones I could see w...
mljay SE23 Topics 72 70,362 08-04-2008, 09:31 AM
  Thread: Flight Paths over SE23
Post: RE: Proposed City Airport Flight Paths over SE23

[quote=mljay] is it just me or are inbound flights into heathrow over forest hill/ honor oak park a permanent fixture now. we moved in about a year ago and I hardly ever heard the planes and the one...
mljay SE23 Topics 72 70,362 16-04-2008, 09:02 AM
  Thread: Flight Paths over SE23
Post: RE: Proposed City Airport Flight Paths over SE23

how depressing.... those city jets are noisy.
mljay SE23 Topics 72 70,362 28-07-2008, 02:30 PM
  Thread: Electricity Supply Problems
Post: Driving during the power cut

Did anyone else find driving during the power outage very easy and calming without traffic lights? I drove along the south circular towards brixton from HOP and the first lights that worked were ...
mljay SE23 Topics 59 58,309 10-06-2008, 09:14 AM
  Thread: Electricity Supply Problems
Post: RE: Driving during the power cut

oh! well, I was driving at about 10am - maybe it got worse later on!!!
mljay SE23 Topics 59 58,309 10-06-2008, 01:03 PM
  Thread: Fireplace shop on Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Fireplace shop on Honor Oak Park

Do you know that there is a hairdresser/salon called Attractions on Brockley Rise. And a nail bar on Brockley Rise. And a hairdresser on the HOP parade. I wonder how many more hair and beauty salon...
mljay SE23 Topics 56 57,643 15-11-2007, 10:58 AM
  Thread: Fireplace shop on Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Fireplace shop on Honor Oak Park

A beauty salon i.e. what Beauty Plus would be complementary to hair salons. They do facials, massages and botox and stuff like that, but no hair and I don't think they do nails either. I would defin...
mljay SE23 Topics 56 57,643 15-11-2007, 01:05 PM
  Thread: Fireplace shop on Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Fireplace shop on Honor Oak Park

Noticed some work being done to the empty shop between Goldstar Furniture and Barber shop. No time to stop and query.... anybody know what it is going to be?
mljay SE23 Topics 56 57,643 27-11-2007, 10:35 AM
  Thread: Bar Equal
Post: RE: Bar Equal

it is not about greed. what are the rents like comparable to other areas? perhaps they are quite reasonable. given that a new business (neroli) has decided to locate on the parade, rates cannot be ...
mljay SE23 Topics 56 60,164 24-06-2008, 11:16 AM
  Thread: Parking on Gabriel St, Grierson Rd, Lessing St etc
Post: RE: Parking on Gabriel St, Grierson Rd, Lessing St...

Why is it always assumed that it is people driving from far and wide to park. Sometimes it is people who live in the neighbourhood, who may use the car to take kids to school and then park and go t...
mljay SE23 Topics 50 54,064 22-10-2010, 10:01 AM
  Thread: Parking on Gabriel St, Grierson Rd, Lessing St etc
Post: RE: Parking on Gabriel St, Grierson Rd, Lessing St...

I think the main issue with CPZ is not so much the fee you pay for your own car but the problems it creates for visitors and tradespeople when you have them/ need them. The visitor vouchers which y...
mljay SE23 Topics 50 54,064 22-10-2010, 10:05 AM
  Thread: Blythe Hill Fields
Post: RE: Blythe Hill Fields

Are the plans posted anywhere?
mljay SE23 Topics 44 49,952 15-02-2010, 09:56 PM
  Thread: Buggyjam
Post: RE: Buggyjam

suggestion - find another place to have a quiet coffee other than a museum that is pretty clearly aimed at children (in my view) the newish coffee shop opposite Forest Hill station seems small enou...
mljay Wider Topics 37 30,258 27-10-2010, 09:12 AM
  Thread: Buggyjam
Post: RE: Buggyjam

tiggywinkle - are you a troll?
mljay Wider Topics 37 30,258 27-10-2010, 12:55 PM
  Thread: Fairlawn School and nearby area
Post: RE: Fairlawn School and nearby area

What if the arbitrarily agreed standards do a better job at educating the next generations than local authority controlled standards?
mljay SE23 Topics 36 43,103 19-11-2010, 11:57 AM
  Thread: Fairlawn School and nearby area
Post: RE: Fairlawn School and nearby area

Perhaps some of the governors and parents are also educationalists?
mljay SE23 Topics 36 43,103 19-11-2010, 03:17 PM
  Thread: Green Wheelie Bins
Post: RE: Green Wheelie Bins

Massive shortage in europe for wheelie bins.... http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/NewsAndEvents/News/EuropeanBinShortageAffectsLewisham.htm
mljay Wider Topics 29 27,603 01-08-2008, 01:58 PM
  Thread: Why Why Why do people not move down in trains?
Post: Why Why Why do people not move down in trains?

Almost every morning, getting on the train at HOP, I say the usual "Would you please move down, please, thank you". I would much rather stand in the corridor area, where at least there would be som...
mljay Wider Topics 26 27,646 06-12-2007, 11:16 AM
  Thread: Why Why Why do people not move down in trains?
Post: RE: Why Why Why do people not move down in trains?

Wow.... its good to vent.... I totally agree on the "If you have a seat, you should wait for standing people to get off first" etiquette. The comment about not having anything to hold on to also...
mljay Wider Topics 26 27,646 06-12-2007, 01:08 PM
  Thread: university fees - how to avoid
Post: university fees - how to avoid

[i]immigrate [/i]to scotland for the 3 years prior to university and apply to a scottish uni! alternative, live somewhere else in the EU for three years prior to uni - then you are considered an EU s...
mljay Wider Topics 22 19,515 13-10-2010, 01:04 PM
  Thread: university fees - how to avoid
Post: RE: university fees - how to avoid

[i]The best method of paying for universities is a few pence on higher rate of taxation. [/i] a few pence here for education, a few pence there for nhs, a few more pence for schools, and a few more...
mljay Wider Topics 22 19,515 13-10-2010, 05:29 PM
  Thread: university fees - how to avoid
Post: RE: university fees - how to avoid

[i]Mljay - yes increased tax, yet do the kids of today not become the people of tomorrow, i.e pay our pensions, become doctors, lawyers etc [/i] Yes, I agree that the kids of today are the future. ...
mljay Wider Topics 22 19,515 14-10-2010, 10:55 AM
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