CrystalClear

really? cripse!

good to meet you all. like the photos. don't remember much!

with apologies.... http://www.2flashgames.com/anfh2198f23lradf/flash/f-Batdog-2695.jpg

DM, what with all these latvians and slovaks, it sounds like you have an eastern european au-pair emporium!!

Only after the wine DM!

DM, Defra is a government department (farming and the environment and the like), and somewhere deep within the bowls of Whitehall there is a maniquin of a suit, apparenlty worn by a previous generation of civil servants, that looks a bit like this http://www.defreitasbooks.com/bookwebpics/picsGS/Costumes/GSGjacket.jpg Of course, a Defra suit could also be one of those annoying, lazy and faceless civil servants we hear so much about! Keef - I believe Defra aren't soooo keen on the idea of fox hunting.

Oddly enough, I think there's a Defra suit of armour somewhere - I'll do a quick search (physical) for it this afternoon. I was originally going to go with culling spree, but thought there wouldn't be to many takers, this being a liberal ED forum and all that.

Sure he wasn't your Calypso, condeming you to seven years of being driven (mad) around East Dulwich?

I'd have thought fox tastes a little stringy and quite bitter, though I have yet to try it, so shall keep an open mind. It is a pain having to listen to amorous foxes at three in the morning, so would happly join a crusade to, er, do something about them. Maybe we could offload them in Clapham?

But of course DM, I feel a little rude in not having offered already!

Yes, a trap would be essential as you can only buy cases of ten in Majestic's, which will obviously influence my decision.

I'm clearly not to busy today! I think it'll be tough doing something that gets people at the fair involved, but have been thinking. Maybe we could do a thing on the history of East Dulwich up to the present day (we seem to be a knowledgable bunch, perhaps Huguenot could do a talk!). Then maybe we could have a debate on where we, as residents, would like to see ED going in the future. We could, alternatively, just drink. (I also like the faces/names idea).

Not sure anybody's updated this, but...its going to be in the village (so doesn't count ;) Here's the dilema though; my friend is a trainee manager at Majestic, and he said he could get me a discount. Now, assuming this wasn't the real ale talking, what do I do. Shop, at discounted prices, at Majestic, or stick to Green and Blue (of which I am a bit of a fan....)

are we talking about peckham west here?

I think the drung drought is getting to you Piers!

Lest we not forget keef, of DTA fame....

It was good having the comedy in ED, a nice way to spend a sunday evening.

From the briefest of glimpses I thought he was diging around the lampost, so maybe he's doing something with that.

It's a tescos clare.

Oi - that's my cave, git awfff moi land!!! I'm buuilding East Dulwich on that I am.

I did prefer the old Magda's interior.....

I do find it odd that people are so entrenched in their divisions over East Dulwich, fight ther progress and viva progress as it were.... I've lived here for five years, and first came here about ten years ago, well, nine, and, honestly, I do think its changed for the better. Yes, I could buy a roast in the Forresters or Palmerstone for a fiver, but it was never pleasant (reserved only for Sundays of abject hangover pain), and whilst I may not like all the bars on LL, I do like having the choice, and they make a nice change from the CPT (though I would never cheat on her!). I also like having the choice of shops on my doorstep (both the supermarkets and the smaller reatailers), I don't have a car and they are convienent and offer a good range of food, and stuff (as a 28 year old beer drinker I don't really get the stuff shops, but others obviously do and I'm happy tp have them around). For what its worth I think the butchers is great value for money, and moxons may change my attitude to fish - to eat it while we have it! Having said this, its not really the shops and bars that I like about ED. I'm not a house owner either (and doubt I will be around here), so making money from the area doesn't really bother me. I've found ED a great place to meet people and make friends, I think it has a great sense of community (there's an awful lot to get involved in should one wish too) and that's my main reason for liking it, everything else is just a bonus. (I also think this is what makes it different from Clapham, I imagine that C's far to big to have this).

yes, destroying all that green belt to house the workers, disgraceful. Pull it down I say, pull it all down. I've seen a very nice three person teepee and I have a beard, hippydom here I come!

I rather like East Dulwich.

Not sure I agree with you there keef, where are these places that this is the norm? I mean, yeah, there's plenty of places with problems - Kingston springs to mind, but I'm not sure you can argue that people have come to the UK and this is their way of life. A lot of these kids were born and bread in Peckham, so I'd say the probles is home grown and more likely to be a lack of opportunity for these kids, bad parenting, lack of community, group culture/peer pressue, argh, I dunno, but that kind of stuff.