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Not really sure to be honest, It just sounded like incoherent yelling and muttering.

There definitely a guy who matches that description who hangs around London and Dartmouth roads in Forest Hill. He pushed past me very roughly a couple of weeks ago at the crossing by the station and he was shouting and muttering to himself.

I did a really good course in the mansion at Beckenham Place Park last year.

I dunno. "Facts " like you can get to Crystal Palace and Sydenham Woods via Sydenham Hill?

Now you've insulted the 363 bus. 😁

Crystal Palace and Sydenham Woods are both very much worth travelling up Sydenham Hill for.

Ooh I'd LOVE a mini Lidl there. So much more convienent for me than Camberwell or Sydenham.

Community Fibre - £21 per month for 150 mbit/s plus TV. I think a package with voice calls is £5 more but I have not had a fixed landline since 2004 so didn't bother.

Do none of you go abroad. Tourist taxes are really common in continental Europe and do vary a lot city by city. They are collected by the hotels/rental apartments. They are usually a tiny part of your holiday costs. In Narbonne recently we paid €1.30 per person per night. The next town we went to charge 80 cents per person per night. By comparison Cologne is 5% of your accomodation.

I cook at home - almost 95% of what we eat at home is cooked from scratch. But eating out is more than just having dinner, it is socialising and doing something different. Also,sometimes it is nice to pay someone else to cook and clear up.

All the swifts seem to be in France. We are in Narbonne and the city is teaming with them as the sun goes down.

Agreed, it absolutely is, but not as easy to get these days. We are going to Narbonne next month by train and I tried almost every permutation to avoid going to Paris, but to no avail.

We go to the South of France by train most summers. It is pretty easy and you get to arrive right in the centre of the city. TGVs are generally efficient, reliable and comfortable. Unfortunately the direct London to Marseille Eurostar train seems to have been a victim of Brexit so you have to change in Paris - most South bound service go from Gare de Lyon - about a 15 min RER rise from Gare du Nord. Allow plenty of time travelling back from Gare du Nord, it always was horrid but has reach new levels of chaos since Brexit. I would recommend, at least for the home leg, booking the entire journey through Eurostar. That way if your French train is delayed or cancelled and you miss your Eurostar connection back to London, Eurostar will get you on to a different train home. As for destinations - there is a lot of the South of Fra.ce to choose from. What are you looking for? Also Ouigo trains can be a cheaper option than TGVs, but watch out you have to pay extra for things like luggage and seat reservations. Also they sometimes stop at TGV stations outside the city centre.

Peckham rats have nothing on the Crystal Palace park rats. Those lads are absolute units.

Like most festivals these days, Gala were using those heavy, hard plastic reusable cups that you pay a dsposit for. It would be a pretty serious wind to blow those out of bins.