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Thanks. Hope it doesn't come back now it's discovered a convenient source of food !!

OK folkies and would-be-folkies, we now have the first five folk gigs confirmed upstairs@the EDT - tickets available soon :) 28 March - Dave Swarbrick (ex Fairport) 25 April - John Kirkpatrick (ex Steeleye Span and brilliant musician and entertainer) 23 May - The Woodentops (special acoustic set !) 20 June- Tim van Eyken (bonkersfolk - Twelve Joys of Mary with an oompah band, anyone? Actually anyone know of an oompah band in ED we could borrow for the night?! Apart from doing bonkers interpretations of songs, Tim is an acclaimed award-winning traditional singer and musician) 18 July - Jackie Oates (sublime. And we had to have a girlie after all those blokes) All these are on Friday nights. There will be Folk2Future DJs from 7-8pm, live music (including floor singers) till 11pm, and more chilled DJing with a late bar till midnight. You will be able to book a table and there will be food available. We're just producing the publicity, website etc - if you'd like to be put on the mailing list for information, please PM me - and tell all your friends, if these five are a success (fingers crossed) we will be carrying on after July. In the meantime, look at our MySpace page on www.myspace.com/thegooseisout ! :)-D

AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH feeding the birds has taken on a whole new meaning - a bird of prey sat in my garden last Thursday with its claws on a screaming starling, which it then proceeded to fly off with (grammar). Anyone got any idea what it was likely to be? It was quite big with a speckled underside. Having rushed into the garden clapping my hands, I belatedly realised that was not a great idea in case it ripped my face off :( Luckily it didn't :))

Never realised it would be quite so much work though, it's taking over our lives even though we've had great support from ED ites and other folkies :))

Nero Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The 666 on the way back after 9pm is OK. On the > way into work it's poor. 63 is the way to go. > Aldwych bus stop is underpopulated queue-wise, but > the one at Somerset House gets busy with nary a > civilised line to be had. Nero @@@@@@@@@@@@@ 666?? There isn't really a 666 bus route, is there?? :)) Oh, erm, duh sorry yeh you mean the 176 innit :-$:-$:-$

:))Well I once had a parcel delivered when I was out, and a notice put through my door "parcel in dustbin" And it was !!!! Luckily tbe dustbin people hadn't been ........ I also once had a parcel left on my wall which was nicked - it was a book from (sorry) Reader's Digest, and the title was something along the lines of "How to Get Things for Free" :))

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ah I remember the chicken shop, the chicken was > bloody awful, BUT they did great pizza for a > pound! (well as great as any pizza for a pound is > going to be). We were regular visitors when 3 of > us were sharing a flat on Barry Road and drinking > ourselves almost out of work! Happy Daze! :)-D @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ But there was another great pizza place up the road (Northcross Road) which they tried to put out of business, and succeeded, that was SO BAD :( The people in there were so sweet :) and it was great value pizza, and where are they now????

YES!!!!! We have Dave Swarbrick, folk legend extraordinaire, booked for our opening night - 28 March upstairs at the EDT !!!!!! ex Fairport Convention, but maybe best known for his amazing gigs/albums with Martin Carthy, possibly the only folk musician (or indeed anyone) to have had an obituary printed in the Daily Telegraph (sic) whilst, erm, not actually dead - duh. :)) If you were there or wish you had been there, this will be amazing - and floorspots and Folk2Future (Big Chill) deejaying too! And food! And a late bar till midnight with chilled music!! AAAARRRGGGHHH not sure I'm supposed to be doing this on this thread, but hey! It's exciting! Folkies and would-be-folkies, watch this space!!! Folk is coming back to East Dulwich !! :)-D From the hammered dulcimer to the laptop :)-D And we have so many people, from Martin Carthy via Alasdair Roberts and Jackie Oates to Tunng all keen to come to the EDT !!!! YAY !!!!!! :)-D Oh and PS, The Goose is Out - look out for the Goose !! (tu) Tickets will be available in advance, more info soon

Things are moving fast and furious, John Kirkpatrick and Tim van Eyken booked so far, Dave Swarbrick and Alasdair Roberts we will hear next week, watch this space !!!! Tell all your friends!!! First night will be 28 March and we need loads of punters to make sure the night is a success and we run and run :)-D

Well hopefully you folkies will also come to our new night :)-D Hankdogs no longer at the Ivy House, anyway ..... unless there's something I don't know .....

Aaaaarrrrrggggghhh what a week! The meeting on Sunday for interested people is back to 4PM AT THE PLOUGH, sorry for any confusion - please PM me if you'd like further details, otherwise just turn up and find us if you'd like to help out with the folk club or woud like to find out more :)

Rather hard with the photo virtually obscured !!! Says it has lovely views over a green - which one? And has a tandoori oven, so presumably is/was an Indian restaurant??

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The 176 service had got a hell of a lot better than it was before the Ken improvements (I once waited over two hours in the early evening for a bus back from Charing Cross Road to ED). But I agree it's got worse again recently, it's terminating early in both directions, and that stop to change drivers is particularly irritating in the morning when I'm trying to get to work. But on balance I'd still rather sit on a bus - even with a long journey time - than be crammed onto rush hour trains/tubes.... it's cheaper, too :) EDIT I once had an occasional job mystery travelling for London Buses, and it was very noticeable how much quicker my day finished when the post-Ken timetables came in - very definitely the buses were much more frequent than they had been before.

(6) :) Oops got smileys wrong way round first time :-$

chuff Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Last year when I moved I cleared out a lot of > stuff that didn't fit me anymore. Nearly all of it > was lovely stuff but knowing that I was never > going to fit in a size 8 again decided to part > with it all. There were approximately 20 bin bags > full, mainly women's work clothes from shops like > Karen Millen. xxxxxx Maybe next time you could advertise it on Freecycle?? I'm sure someone would be delighted to take it. > > All of the charity shops in the area (including > Peckham and Forest Hill) refused to take them > because they had too much stock. I ended up > stuffing it all in the clothes recycling bins at > sainsburys which made me a bit sad. > > chuff

Has anybody else noticed the guy behind the bar at the CPT has a wonderful tee-shirt with "Everybody pretend to be normal" on the back?? (from Little Miss Sunshine, but hey, appropriate to the thread - erm, maybe :)))

Blimey, I think one of those would look great in my living room :))

giggirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I must admit I've never been inside. In the days > before the smoking ban The Drum always looked > particularly smokey - that's very off-putting in a > small place. xxxxxx It was extremely smokey. It was vile. I once spent an unpleasant couple of hours there practically choking to death and never went back as a result. When the smoking ban came in, I had got into the habit of not going to the Drum..... I wonder how many other people were put off by the smoke .....

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ha Ha.. good spot, LTP. > Don't know about you, but I can't wait to get my > hands on the roll-up suede backgammon set and > textured leather frames. > > Does anyone have any cyanide? xxxxxx For you or for the owners ??? Or for the purchasers of these items ???? :))

Anyone know who runs the jazz club, also at the EDT? I want to check out some practical issues re the venue :) If noone knows I will ask via the EDT :)

Yeh I agree, it was a useful shop :(

Just found this whilst looking for something else on the net - is this true, or an urban myth??? "We have vivid green parakeets - escaped from a Tarzan film set at Elstree Studios in the 1950's and they have colonized the South of London" :)

I saw a water rat (?vole?) at the edge of the water in Peckham Rye Park a while back - the bit where you go over that little bridge. Also saw a newt in the water there once :) Often see the parakeets (?sp?) and have seen a load of them on someone's bird feeder near the path going up to the woods - blimey, getting like Oz round here :)) Why is it that I get zillions of sparrows and starlings in my garden, when they're the ones whose numbers are supposed to be dwindling, but hardly anything else (pair of blackbirds, resident robin, a wren once, the odd great and blue tit, one collared dove and that's about it) And they get through the most enormous amounts of bird food, they're eating me out of house and home, occasionally helped by a squirrel :) Would love to attract woodpeckers or long-tailed-tits (my fave birds) but so far zilch :'( maybe there aren't any ltts around ED, but I know there are woodpeckers!