franglaisia

There you go, how very now. ???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Chekov - Posh, useless family thinking they are > about to lose their home, vacilate and twitter > whilst their trees are cut down THE END

That would be about right. The foreign language stock in Dulwich alone ran to hundreds of volumes. The usual thing would be to sell surplus stock off to the public but they certainly didn't do that, would have noticed. Think books last seen by me about 1990. Was that the era of the oily Jeremy Fraser as "Labour" Council Leader? - now a PR consultant for JP Morgan and various other plagues on humanity. Someone out there must know what happened, we demand the truth.. cdonline Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was told, by a librarian, that a number of years > ago, Southwark Libraries dumped/ got rid of 25% of > its entire stock, without any public > consultation. > > I certainly remember when I was at school that > Dulwich Library had quite a good drama section. > > I'm curious where they all went.

> So if they're getting them in now, that means they have previously been lacking Dickens, Austen, Hardy, in an English public library in the middle of London. Libraries and book shops and street stalls in the most far flung corners of the world have these authors, and often in English. Don't tell me, there was a Southwark council ctte meeting at which some thieving lying useless grafter announced that they weren't modern enough for the modern library. Has anyone tried to borrow 1984?

> That's a handy tip thank you, "second hand clothes bit" sounds more like it. The kind of ladies who spend their days wandering round SE22 spending hubby's money on shiny useless things in very silly shops usually turn the clothes over very quickly - including quite a lot they never wear and chuck out a year later to make room for more new stuff. Must be going somewhere. The other thing is that there's no charity shop in Dulwich proper so you might think some of the SE21 excess might end up here? I might try Herne Hill in case it's going thataway.

About 20 years ago they had Chekhov in Russian in Dulwich library. Yes they did. They also had a wide selection of French, Spanish and Italian classic literature. And the entire works of Georges Simenon, which is what I read. I was going to get round to the other stuff, I blame Southwark for throwing it all out before I could borrow it. I was never able to get a consistent story out of them about where it all went and sometimes wonder if there is a big dusty cupboard somewhere...

Thank you for your shopping tips. I didn't know, truth be told, what you could buy new in SE22...there's something about wearing newish swanky clothes for 1/8th of the rrp that endears me to buying second hand and avoiding the shiny shops. Will go see tho' in case there are any actual bargains to be had. dulwichmum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dear Franglaisia, > > Why don't you shop on the Boden sale website - > they have 70% off at the moment, and > Ed/Tomlinsons/the Duwlich Trader currently have > similar discounts on Hobss/L K Bennett and Avoca > in their sale too!

Hm. Shirts.. are you talking bloke apparel? Maybe it's different for boys. Asset Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > dunno about that frangla, have seen Kenzo, Paul > Smith and Agnes B shirts in the Mind shop > recently.

Meaning of size 8, cerca 1985 - circumference of waist Meaning of size 8, cerca 2005 - circumference of thigh

Definitely unfair to me! But still can't see the commercial sense of it in East Dulwich, as there are plenty of people who would pay higher prices for such items from the charity shops themselves, and probably raise the overall spend in the shops while they were there. Look at thread on here about a "retro shop" which reads as tho' started and continued by the shop owner and friends. Oh well. The stuff that does get put out by the ED charity shops to sell to locals is pretty grim though. There are better ones quite nearby where you can pick good stuff up, just puzzles me why the SE22 ones are so grim.

I can see why they would put the best stuff on ebay, although that's going to take up quite a lot of staff time, and I have only seen a couple of charities - mainly Oxfam - do this. But I don't understand why they would let vintage clothes traders and market sellers have first pick of the goods, before trying to sell them in the shop, because the traders are then going to get the profit? If they're doing it unofficially it strikes me as wrong...

Living here since 1985 I have waiting for the influx of loot, and especially of corporate wifeys, to show up as lots of lovely cast offs in the the second hand shops - eg Hobbs, LK Bennett, Avoca, Boden, even, but all I ever see is the same old worn out scruff that got donated 20 years ago. Well worn M&S seems to be the best you can hope for, as one of the shop workers offered helpfully the other week, "you could wear a jacket over that..." Does this tell us just how mean the rich are, or am I hitting the shops at the wrong time?

Thanks for letting me know United. Grr grr, now I have to go all the way to Blackfriars just to post some letters. I remember the days when those of us with no sense of time whatsoever lived with the comfort of knowing that you could always go to Mount Pleasant or even to Kings Cross in the middle of the night and give it to the nice man on the post train.

There used to be a late - 18.30 - post collection from the box next to the Mind charity shop near the Goose Green roundabout. Before I go out in the cold to look could some kind soul let me know if they still collect at 18.30? Many thanks.

A 25 year celebration of what, exactly?

Hello last August I was bitten on the ankle by something I didn't see - was on hottest day (101 degrees) while planting out drought-tolerant plants marked "From Mexico". Am selling house shortly and a bit worried in case anything still lurking re poss buyers with kids or small pets. Left bicep totally numb for 5 weeks, as feeling came back lots of little red pin pricks all over muscle - someone suggested this was venom breaking down? No-one in NHS had faintest idea.

I didn't even know there was supposed to be a Nunhead Regen area, but then I live in the off-Ivydale bit that isn't even really Nunhead...the land that time forgot. Never seen much diff between the population of many cemeteries here and the ones still walking about. There have been councillors that actually lived in Nunhead but they didn't seem to make a lot of difference, as I recall. Hardly surprising as there's never been a residents association or even subdued mumbling at the many crimes that have been inflicted on us, like the massive ugly plastic church that replaced the original one with its Cotswald stone and gothic arch windows and had been built in harmony with the surrounding houses... I could go on....looks like a maximum security prison. Do any of the current Nunhead cllrs actually live here?

I have not posted here before but I wanted to share some wee facts that I noticed when the idea of pumping lots of money into the Bellenden Road area was first born, in the 1990s. At the time it was a dingy place with a lot of run down houses, empty shops etc. Just like other places in Southwark continued to be. Two people who lived there however were: Jeremy Fraser, Labour Leader of Southwark Council; and also the Labour Chief Whip of Southwark Council, one Ian Wingfield. I have sometimes wondered about other people who moved into the area just before the regen funds were announced. (Pls note I was not a political opponent and was only ever a member of the Labour Party until giving up in despair circa 1994, since when have not wasted any ink on voting).