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agree with smeltz... no need for it to be at 10:10 on a sunday night...v surprised that our kids didn't wake up..whatever the timetable was for that indulgent nonsense, they should have brought the whole thing forward 3 or 4 hours.. bah.. still, if it gives little Tarquin a better chance of being an unemployed actor in 20 years time, money well spent.. bugger, now i sound like a bleating commie with a class chip on his shoulder..

I suspect Liverpool in the 50s was a very different environment to East Dulwich in the 21st Century. I'm sure I'm not the only one that thinks that CWALD would like to live in a museum.. I'm surprised he's using the internet. He could make a perfectly good sandwich board from a couple of 'For Sale' signs and deliver his anachronistic points of view just as well..

we went in there once to buy some oil cloth - the fella quoted us ?22 a metre (may have even been ?25) it was ?10 a metre in john lewis - exactly the same i can understand a bit of mark-up for a local shop, but that was just cheeky..

one thing i'd comment on is the over-rated focus on it being child friendly: the climbing frame was broken for months last year - a gap in the side ropes on the bridge was pretty dangerous for toddlers. there's always a load of debris around the bins.. last week our kids had taken their shoes off and we were warned about broken glass. the moguls in the garden just mean toddlers go in/out of view constantly.. finally, the front doors generally open so small children can/will run straight through and onto the street. basically, i spend so much effort keeping an eye on the kids not encountering any of the above hazards, that its not until my 12th pint of stella that i can switch off and relax. i was joking about that last bit..

good grief some people just don't know when to stop do they. i can't think of any truthful, selfless reason why a bloke would be taking unsolicited footage of a playground full of children. to suggest he's a film maker and possibly capturing some essential moment in british social life is giving a naive amount of benefit to a natural sense of doubt most parents are entitled to. generally, documentarians still have the decency to ask their subjects for their consent. and one with any nous, or geniune interests, would be sensitive enough to clear their purpose with the parents and/or people who run the park. good grief (again)

inside 72 was the only bar i'd been in where i heard 'at the drive in' being played... looks like the adventure playlist is designed to attract the sort of character that thinks having a kaiser chiefs cd in their audi TT is cool birkenstocks to the lot of 'em