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Thread: The Mount Taymount Rise in 1955?
Post: RE: The Mount Taymount Rise in 1955?
| My understanding is that the block called Forest Croft (built in the late '20s, early '30s I think) is now built on the site of the house what was The Mount at the top of Taymount Rise.
The existin... |
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18-10-2017, 05:12 PM |
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Thread: Life in SE23 - Shops
Post: RE: Italian Deli on Dartmouth Road
| Just a guess, but this could be related to whether there are fresh eggs used or a pasteurised egg powder: this may be the legal difference between being allowed to label the ice cream as 'freshly made... |
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22-07-2015, 03:19 PM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
| Thankfully retaining the trees outside the Sylvan is part of the plan, as is no further reduction in the pavement there.
Excellent news. |
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26-06-2015, 03:48 PM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
| It's not all about the cars and 'popping in' to shops to grab bits and pieces, it's about making the area pleasant to hang out in. To those not too precious about the odd fella hanging about with a be... |
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26-06-2015, 11:38 AM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
| Thankfully doesn't look like the space outside the Sylvan is reduced in the plans. As the only deep space outside a business anywhere along the whole road where anyone can really sit outside, that's a... |
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nevermodern |
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07-05-2015, 04:10 PM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
| Sipping my craft beer very pleasantly outside the sylvan
Have some ambition for pity's sake. |
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06-05-2015, 10:19 PM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
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06-05-2015, 09:56 PM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
| So it's agreed, then! Space to sit and enjoy, pavements to walk on and hang about. Edible high streets, pianos, street markets, open studios...cafes with space outside.... |
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06-05-2015, 09:55 PM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
| Really? Like removing or drastically reducing the only outside areas that can support pleasant outside sitting, eating and drinking in Dartmouth Road?
You future is in food, drink and making shoppi... |
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nevermodern |
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06-05-2015, 01:59 PM |
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Thread: New Pizza Restaurant for Forest Hill?
Post: RE: New Pizza Restaurant for FH?
| Heard a rumour that the pizza restaurant application for 49A Dartmouth Road was turned down due to change of use or something, so other options were being considered as the lease had already been purc... |
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nevermodern |
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06-03-2015, 02:56 PM |
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Thread: Not another estate agent
Post: RE: Not another estate agent
| Such a better class of nail bars these days, though, no?
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09-09-2014, 01:37 PM |
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Thread: New Pizza Restaurant for Forest Hill?
Post: RE: New Pizza Restaurant for FH?
| From the planning notice just next to the one about the new restaurant, it also looks like Aga's Little Deli has applied for an alcohol licence till 11pm on certain days.
Maybe they're planning on ... |
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nevermodern |
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28-08-2014, 11:19 AM |
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Thread: Planning Application: M&Co to become a Morrisons Local?
Post: RE: M&Co to become a Morrisons Local
| I understand they will be serving alcohol 24 hours. Guess it's not unusual - the londis on lordship lane does. |
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nevermodern |
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23-07-2014, 11:54 PM |
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Thread: Planning Application: M&Co to become a Morrisons Local?
Post: RE: M&Co to become a Morrisons Local
| Just noticed this morning that the small shop between Sainsbury's and M&Co has gone 24 hours.... |
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23-07-2014, 10:42 AM |
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Thread: India Gate Restaurant
Post: RE: India Gate Restaurant
| I'm gonna try them at the weekend - picked up the menu and some of the dishes look a little more unusual than the standard. There seem to be some nice-sounding Nepalese and Goan dishes for example. |
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nevermodern |
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28-04-2014, 01:56 PM |
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Thread: Arrival in forest hill
Post: RE: Arrival in forest hill
| They sell very nice Portuguese custard tarts in Aga's Little Deli on Dartmouth Road :) |
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28-08-2013, 01:16 PM |
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Thread: Arrival in forest hill
Post: RE: Arrival in forest hill
| Yes, welcome to Forest Hill, guys.... It's a lovely place :)
Has anyone ever been to Mi Cocina es Tuya in Crystal Palace? It's website says it's a Venezuelan cafe...haven't seen another one in Lond... |
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nevermodern |
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27-08-2013, 03:42 PM |
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Thread: Two questions about Taymount Grange, Lower Ground Floor - heating/ kitchens
Post: RE: Two questions about Taymount Grange, Lower Gro...
| Hi.
I don't live in the Grange, but I understand it's just been grade II listed which would mean any structural changes such as knocking through rooms would need to be to be okayed with English Her... |
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nevermodern |
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28-01-2013, 07:13 PM |
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Thread: London Open House Weekend
Post: RE: London Open House Weekend
| Last week's Grand Designs featured the Walter Segal self-build houses which were accessible through Open House this year.
It's still on 4OD if anyone's interested :-) |
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nevermodern |
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12-12-2012, 06:45 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill and Sydenham Portas Bid
Post: RE: Forest Hill and Sydenham Portas Bid
| Interesting article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businessclub/9502932/Open-High-Street-scheme-to-help-shopkeepers-compete.html# |
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nevermodern |
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23-09-2012, 05:38 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Local Assembly - Monday 21 May 2012
Post: RE: Forest Hill Local Assembly - Monday 21 May 201...
| Yes, it's currently too early for me to attend, too. |
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nevermodern |
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24-05-2012, 10:57 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Food Fair
Post: RE: Forest Hill Food Fair a great success!
| The 'green area' looks quite large to me. Certainly bigger than than the bit outside Paddy Power.
http://www.sydenhamsociety.com/2010/11/forest-hill-pools-whats-it-going-to-look-like/ |
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23-04-2012, 05:36 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Food Fair
Post: RE: Forest Hill Food Fair a great success!
| The Forest Hill Food Fair. First Sunday of every month? On our new 'village green' outside the pools, anyone?
:-) |
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nevermodern |
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23-04-2012, 03:10 PM |
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Thread: tree surgeon, carpet-tile layer, builder
Post: tree surgeon, carpet-tile layer, builder
| I'd really appreciated any recommendations for any of the above.
Thanks, guys. |
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nevermodern |
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26-02-2012, 01:38 PM |
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Thread: William Hill...FH town centre..
Post: RE: William Hill...FH town centre..
| Interesting you should mention Deptford High Street and the terrible effect bookies are having... (?)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4289237.stm |
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nevermodern |
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19-01-2012, 04:46 PM |
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Thread: Let's have a diagonal crossing in Forest Hill
Post: RE: Let's have a diagonal crossing in Forest Hill
| Why would I want to go diagonally?
From the station to Barclays bank (I do this almost every day, crossing diagonally anyway).... From sainsbury's side on London Road to the Dartmouth Arms... |
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nevermodern |
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17-01-2012, 12:03 PM |
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Thread: Let's have a diagonal crossing in Forest Hill
Post: RE: let's have a crossing like this...
| Don't know. Wonder whether it actually costs that much more to put in place than a normal crossing? It's the same amount of lights, they're just set differently, aren't they? Then it's just the centra... |
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nevermodern |
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15-01-2012, 06:24 PM |
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Thread: Let's have a diagonal crossing in Forest Hill
Post: Let's have a diagonal crossing in Forest Hill
| Let's have a crossing like this down at the station, junction dartmouth, london and devonshire.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2009/nov/02/oxford-street-diagonal-crossing |
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nevermodern |
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15-01-2012, 03:55 PM |
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Thread: What would perfect Forest Hill?
Post: RE: What would perfect Forest Hill?
| How about putting a pedestrian crossing arrangement in place at the station like the one at oxford circus/soon-to-be tottenham court road? |
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nevermodern |
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02-01-2012, 02:21 PM |
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Thread: Taymount Grange on Nick Knowles' Original Features
Post: Taymount Grange on Nick Knowles' Original Features
| Tonight on 'Home' channel. Really interesting hour-long programme following a couple restoring their flat and delving into its history. |
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24-10-2011, 11:07 PM |
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Thread: Undemocratic Liberals.
Post: RE: Undemocratic Liberals.
| And don't forget that when the English had the chance to vote on the introduction of regional assemblies in 2004 (which would've had very similar powers to the then Welsh Assembly) they voted against.... |
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09-05-2011, 05:00 PM |
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Thread: Linking Taymount to Thorpewood
Post: RE: Linking Taymount to Thorpewood
| Well, it's private land, so it's up to Forest Croft! |
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03-05-2011, 05:30 PM |
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Thread: Linking Taymount to Thorpewood
Post: RE: Linking Taymount to Thorpewood
| There used to be a pathway through Forest Croft. The amount of anti-social behaviour and litter created, especially late at night, meant it had to be closed.
Two summers ago, some kids demolished a... |
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nevermodern |
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03-05-2011, 03:35 PM |
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Thread: Congratulations to France.
Post: RE: Congratulations to France.
| No evidence apart from almost everyone who knows anything's views, including gay people themselves, who clearly cannot be trusted to answer honestly about the innateness of their sexuality.
Don't t... |
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14-04-2011, 05:50 PM |
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Thread: Congratulations to France.
Post: RE: Congratulations to France.
| Because homosexuality is innate and can't be changed whereas Christian doctrine is simply a view.
No-ones discriminating against a view. Just when the view impinges on people who have no choice but... |
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14-04-2011, 05:01 PM |
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Thread: Congratulations to France.
Post: RE: Congratulations to France.
| That only makes sense if you consider homosexualilty a choice, which it patently is not.
Not sure where the 'here we go again' thing has come from. Don't recall a discussion on homosexuality on thi... |
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13-04-2011, 11:12 AM |
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Thread: Congratulations to France.
Post: RE: Congratulations to France.
| No, no, no. You can believe what you want, but you can't inflict your beliefs on others or use your beliefs to discriminate who you provide goods and services to. Quite simple. And that child who grow... |
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12-04-2011, 11:49 PM |
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Thread: Congratulations to France.
Post: RE: Congratulations to France.
| The difference between the B&B owners and the woman with the burqa is clear: the Christian couple's actions affected the gay couple directly and was therefore discriminatory. A child growing up gay wo... |
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12-04-2011, 05:26 PM |
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Thread: flashing bats at the horniman
Post: flashing bats at the horniman
| Scroll down to No.8...
http://londonist.com/2011/03/the-top-10-rudest-museum-exhibits-in-london.php |
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25-03-2011, 06:56 PM |
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Thread: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington
Post: RE: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington
| Had a great day up a the 'end of the line' on Saturday. We checked out the Estorick collection (great), design shops on Uppers Street (Gill Wing, TwentyTwentyOne, After Noah) And ended up having an am... |
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nevermodern |
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07-03-2011, 12:21 PM |
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Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
| piglet is so right. This is utterly *nothing* to do with whether this woman is doing anything illegal or not, it's about the extent to which her behaviour, legal or otherwise, is the focus of such *as... |
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23-01-2011, 02:59 AM |
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Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
| 'with menaces' : waving a magazine, half-heartedly saying 'big issue'
'innocent people' all of whom have doubtlessly been scarred immeasurably by giving their quid fifty or whateverit is.
Poor p... |
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nevermodern |
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22-01-2011, 07:32 PM |
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Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
| Yes, carob26, please do re-read this thread. You might also, if you have several weeks in which you have no other plans, to re-read the 11 pages - THE 11 PAGES! - which have also previously been spent... |
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17-01-2011, 12:54 PM |
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Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
| There are more pressing things for us to be discussing.
Like the weather. |
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13-01-2011, 11:56 AM |
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Thread: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington
Post: RE: Direct ELL trains to Highbury start next month
| Yey! Direct line to Upper Street's design stores and Paul A Young's hot chocolate (best in London by far) well before the winter ends and the hot chocolate is whisked away.
I heart the new extensio... |
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08-01-2011, 11:02 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| And when did everything become awesome?
:) |
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06-01-2011, 05:46 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Also noticed that nobody asks, 'Can I have a coffee?' any more. It's always, 'Can I get...'
No reason why I should care, but it's like nails down a blackboard.
I should 'get' out more. |
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Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbuy's
| Nothing quasi about my liberalism.
Get a grip on yourself, Brian, for pity's sake.
If you don't like it, just don't give her your ****** money and shut up.
Then she'll go away.
Or just ign... |
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07-12-2010, 03:57 PM |
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Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbuy's
| Who's the idiot for handing another two quid over? What did she do? Mesmerise you?
Have some backbone.
Do we have to retread this well-worn path again? |
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05-12-2010, 12:06 AM |
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Thread: East London Line not running
Post: RE: East London Line not running
| I tend to get the 185 bus to Oval, then tube. Seems to be more reliable than the trains during snow/a cold snap. |
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