Sue

Hear Hear SeanMac. I am delighted that finally people are actually being fined for dropping litter. Maybe a few hard lessons need to be learned by some so that we can live in a decent environment with clean streets.

Agree with all you said, Bignumber5. Am tempted to have a rant, but won't. And litter is litter, whether it's a food wrapper or a cigar/cigarette butt, Christian 952, surely people don't need a public information campaign to tell them that. And as I previously posted, cigarette ends are not just litter but potentially dangerous, particularly to small children. :X

Why not let's just bring back hanging and flogging while we're at it. And dispense with a trial. In fact let's just hang anybody we think might become a robber in the future. Or hey, let's just hang anyone we don't like the look of, that would make the world a far far better place :))

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Bloody hell, if that's the tax, he must be doing OK from the sale, so that's good :) I suppose ...... More flats, oh jolly jolly good :)) Who needs wood, anyway ..... :(

HonaloochieB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > If only the protest had been at Victoria, > geddit > > :)) > > > > Sorry :-$ xxxxxxxxxxx > > > Are you suggesting that some of the people > involved were queens? xxxxxxxxxxxx Eh? I was referring to a Fall song. Victoria, Victoria, Victori-a, Victori-a Bash bash bash bash etc etc etc Edit: This quoting business is a bit hard to make sense of, innit - it wasn't me who mentioned queens, just in case anyone thinks it was .....

If only the protest had been at Victoria, geddit :)) Sorry :-$

Pity the flocks of starlings in my garden do not disappear to a safer haven, I might have some smaller and less bullying varieties at the feeders :) Those beaks !!!! :)

I have obviously morphed into a complete wimp :))

I'll be sorry to see it go too, it was so much part of the ED scenery. Let's hope the guy is making a load of dosh from it. The wood man, not the developer :)

I was in Oxford recently on granny duties, and a group of shop assistants were having a fag outside their shop. They turned to go back inside, and one threw a lit cigarette end behind her without looking, and it very nearly hit my granddaughter (in her buggy, not yet one) in the face. All I can say is, none of them will ever do that again !!!!! And as my daughter said later, if I hadn't noticed it, it could have landed on the buggy or on her clothes and set her on fire. Doesn't bear thinking about really. I also once got a lit cigarette butt stuck between my toes when I was walking along wearing sandals. I'm all for fining people who drop litter. I did once pick up litter when I saw people drop it and say "excuse me I think you dropped this", but I wouldn't do it these days, so Rose you have my utmost admiration !!!!

I made the mistake of involving my insurance company when cracks started appearing. After a period of monitoring, they said it was subsidence due to problems with the drains, which supposedly they fixed. However the premiums were indeed hiked up massively, and I can do nothing about it because other insurance companies always ask about subsidence, and as soon as I say there's been a problem they won't go any further. In future I'd just sort it myself/with a builder unless it was really really bad. :( Hindsight is a wonderful thing .....

I've lived in ED for sixteen years on and off. Only incident I know of personally round here was in the mid-nineties when a pizza deliverer was mugged outside my house by two guys. What upset him most was that one of them pulled a medallion from his neck, which had sentimental value. We took him into our house, but the police took ages to come, by which time the muggers had long, long gone. I've had my purse stolen twice, and each time was due to my own stupidity in having it in an open bag. I now always keep it either in an internal zipped pocket or if the bag doesn't have one, I put it in a carrier bag inside the handbag so it isn't obviously a purse.

Maybe that was what bore away a horribly squealing starling from my garden the other week - it sat in the corner of the garden with its claws in it before flying off. Are they quite large with sort of speckly breasts? My bird book only shows the peregrine falcon from the back, so it could have been a sparrowhawk ....

I haven't been on this thread either much lately, but blimey, I'm open-mouthed to come across this c**p from Alicia. Scaremongering doesn't even start to describe it. It's great to see the vast majority of posters on the thread have common sense and a heart. Sooner she moves out of ED the better, it seems to me. Hope I never get to meet her in the meantime .....

Genuine apologies to the administrator - thanks for your patience, and this will be the last post in this thread :) It's just to let people who have been following the progress of the East Dulwich folk events in this section of the forum know that tickets for all the events, including our opening event with Dave Swarbrick, will be on sale TODAY - see my post in the "What's On" section of the forum for more details. All future posts relating to the folk events will be in "What's On", as our website has - finally - gone live and we are starting putting publicity around. My thanks to everyone who has supported this venture so far - if it hadn't been for your enthusiasm, this would never have been more than an idea which came to nothing. :)

I think it would be great to have lots more flowers around. There was a vote (last year?) for what should go on the roundabout, and I think the outcome was that it would be a tree, though I did point out that it would be preferable to have something which didn't restrict vision across the roads ..... And that public art is often crap (I didn't use that word, naturally). Hanging baskets in Lordship Lane would be great. But yes, they do take a lot of watering so I can understand why some shops might not want to be bothered. I have a feeling one year the hanging baskets in North Cross Road were stolen in the night - cut down. And the year before last my windowboxes were all stolen (just before Mother's Day. The police said the thieves had taken a van around the area). They're chained to the sill now. Er, different ones, obviously :)

Just to set matters straight, I was told at the time by the administrator that my previous thread had been lounged because it had been up for a long time (five days), that Folk was a minority interest, and that the forum had to cater for majority tastes. When it was lounged, it completely disappeared from its original thread with no indication that it had ever been there or that it had been lounged. People told me they could not find it, and nor could I (I rarely go into the lounge as it says it is for issues unconnected with East Dulwich, which are not what I come to this forum for). It was reinstated when I responded that I felt that the forum should be for everyone in East Dulwich not just the majority. I am very happy to abide by forum rules, if they are clear and consistently applied, but let's be accurate about what's happening here. The reason the folk events are not advertised in the Events section yet is because there have been problems with the website and until they are sorted I can't get the tickets on sale or the publicity out. I have spent a great deal of time and energy on getting this on the road after sufficient people expressed an interest at the start to make it clear it could be viable, and it is very disappointing to have people squash my efforts by wanting me to split matters relating to the Folk events in several different threads all over the forum where interested people may not see them. Edited to split up long paragraph

Thanks Keef, that's great, I've PMed you. Edited to remove comments relating to forum policy on second threads and lounging :)

If anybody could help out with putting round posters and/or flyers for the Goose at the weekend, that would be great, particularly if you live outside the immediate East Dulwich area (Peckham, Herne Hill, Tulse Hill, Camberwell, Dulwich Village etc etc) or could put up a poster in a college for example. PM me and I'll arrange to get hard copies to you (or I can email them as jpegs if you can print them out cheaply yourself - they're all black and white). But please only offer if you are sure you have the time and inclination - good intentions won't get our flyers round and we'd rather they were sitting at our place than yours. At least we'd know how many we had left :) We might even buy you a thank-you pint on the opening night :) :)-D

I am hoping that tickets for all the gigs will be available this weekend, just got to get the website live so all the publicity can kick off at the same time, you will be able to buy tickets in advance either online or at the edt, watch this space :)-D The Goose Is Nearly Out! :)-D ******* hell, I can't believe we've done all this in a month !!!!!

MelbourneGr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Too close to the EDE...is good enough reason for > this Forum. Eh? Don't understand - please explain :-$

I've always found Maceys (Macys?) on North Cross Road to be very good, and the pharmacist will tell you if the over-the-counter cost of the prescription is cheaper than the NHS cost, without asking (or maybe I just look very poor :)) )

:)):)):)) How much was the change ?? And did you get it ?? :))

Anyone know what's happened to the Saturday night disco at the Village Inn (ex Page 2 Bar) ?? We went down there once, had a good time, passed the place on Thursday night and there was still a poster outside saying "disco every Saturday" or words to that effect - so we went down there on Saturday and no sign of a disco .... just a virtually empty bar .... The barmaid just said there wasn't a disco (which was blindingly obvious) but the poster was still there .... Surely not EVERYBODY was watching the ******* rugby?? :))