Joe likes dinner

I think that is a good idea, problem is when you have to live with someone it needs to be atmosphere free!!

I like your thinking Asset, just a shame that their letterbox is also mine...could just pile it up outside their door? At the moment i am making a lot of in-direct noise stamping on bottles and cans and banging the bins a bit hoping they will get the message - typical Brit - hate confrontation!!!! Bring on the fines!

A little bit off the point here but does anyone else have a problem with other flats in your building dumping anything and everything in the recycling bins? We own our flat and there are a number of tenants in the flat upstairs doing a flatshare which i wouldnt have any reason to complain about except for the fact that they have no pride in the house at all. The council refused to take our recycling bins last week because they were so over-full with any old plastic, metal etc and included packaging with food still attached...this is not the first time they have been left un-collected and we now have a nice collection of flies to go with said rubbish. I have requested extra bins and bags which i keep inside my flat and use for my recycling but i still have to put up with having a refuse site outside my front window. Have tried to huff and puff about this - does anyone have any advice or going through something similar?!!!!

i was in a student band called 'Jimmy and the Thundercats' and ironically we did actually have someone called james in the band and managed to get a projector with the red logo to project out from the back of the stage, seemed quite funny at the time.

you could also try King's College Hospital rfc - they've got a decent first team and suitably casual and sporting 2nd / 3rd teams, also, the griffin training ground in dulwich village is pretty nice also. Along with the King's College Rugby club, its one of the oldest clubs in the UK and was a founding member of the rugby fottball union.

I've been out to much comedy in South London recently, althogh in my heady thespo student days i used to be in an improv group that did shows at the Canal Cafe Theatre in Little Venice, which was a lot of fun. Proper improv, no plans, pre-written jokes, just one microphone, a bell and an audience. Would recommend a trip to the canal cafe to see the news review on a Sunday - claims to be the longest ongoing comedy show in london and has an impressive list of performers and contributors from over the years - canal cafe was also home to The League of Gentlemen in the early days. For anyone whose not been up there, its above the bridge house pub and combined with a stroll along the canal to regents park, can make for a splendid sunday out of ED!

there is a knightrider court and pub called 'number one knightrider court' in st pauls otherwise, i feel that parts of honor oak certainly echo an east dulwich of days gone by, although it does remind me also of parts of modern-day streatham but with slightly smaller houses and hopefully less terrorists.

Jenny, I'd thoroughly recommend a nintendo Wii, great fun, although not so good in the middle of the summer, Perhaps the paranormalists need a blogger?

louisiana - if the mixtape is the one I'm thinking of, you should listen to the herbaliser one from the series (ninja tune?) for mixtape podcast types, I'm liking a 'Cover me Badd' mixtape from stone's throw records. 45 minutes of some quality / hilarious cover versions.

Whatever comes along, if they put some money and effort into tidying the pavement, then they are welcome in my book. As for the strange shoe shop, it always strikes me as being a 'ligit business to hide dodgy back-room dealings' kind of place. No evidence, purely based on personal prejudice and having never seen anyone, let alone customers go in that place! The zin oriental could do with a bit of a make-over also.

The bbc this morning is reporting that a massive network of garages have been skimming cards and using it to fund political conflict in Sri Lanka..

Back to the dickens / eastenders / illustrations - am quite a fan of george cruikshank, who did the illustrations for oliver twist, which were generally said to have done more for making the story a success than the writing. If anyone is after a blend of Dickens / Hardy and Milan Kundera, I'd recommend some Ford Madox Ford - accepted as the first author to 'start in the middle and move backwards and forwards' and the inventor of the 'impressionist' style. His novels are mainly set during WW1 and have a very victorian feel to them, but written in a modern way. Parade's end which is pretty collosal, but for a lighter read, go for 'The Good Soldier' - definitely one of my favourtie books! His main issue was trying to get rid of the rigid victorian formulas discussed a bit further up on the thread. Am pretty sure i have copies of both if anyone is interested.

however for full claphamisation we need a swarming of australian 18-22 year-old who live 15-to-a-bedroom and work behind all the local bars. We are also lacking with the everpresent scent of barbeque and the sounds of drunken games of ozzy rules and ultimate frisbee.

I am currently excavating our back yard and can happy supply a skip's worth of soil and other buried ephemeria, which I'm sure includes a few dead animal bones which could add great dramatic effect. Simimlarly, there are a couple of large campervan / motor homes in the area - perhaps one or all of these could be repositioned appropriately?

top stalking ednerd!