Mabel2001

Sillywoman, your snide comment reminds me why I rarely read or post on this forum. My boyfriend was born in 1976 and went to Alleyn's in the early 90s, long after any local ILEA scholarships ceased as the previous poster has noted. He stayed friends with around ten of his classmates there, many still live in the area and in fact he's working on projects with two of them at the moment. Everyone's experiences are different, and I meant to strike a note of positivity here. Your negative echoing/mocking of my comment is not appreciated. Signing off, sayonara forum.

Although I don't have a pooch, I visited the new dog shop on Northcross Rd out of interest and it was super-cute, with an unusual collection of vintage and luxury dog items. The owner was very nice and had a charming little grey dog in the shop called Edie who was a real sweetheart. The shop had only been open two days. Though people may miss the sweet shop, I think we should try to keep a positive attitude toward all local small businesses, even if they may not be to our taste.

My boyfriend, born and bred in Camberwell, was given a scholarship at Alleyns on academic merit, and says it changed his life.

Thanks everyone for your sympathy and replies. We have considered moving but are a young couple who simply can't take the time right now with our jobs. We've contacted the council (no reply yet), and our landlords, who will also take it up with the council. It's a real shame what she's done to the house: as the next person lucky enough to live there as a council tenant will have no garden whatsoever. The hedge/trees are within our control though, as they are on our landlord's property and we will try to bring it home to her that she must consult us on anything that affects our property. As before, we have always been pleasant to her and are great friends with other neighbours on our street: she had every opportunity to let us know if the upkeep of the hedge was concerning her on her side (in thr past, we had weeded her front garden many times before she concreted it over). It's especially disappointing as she is virtually a shut-in who rarely leaves the house (our neighbours shop for her), so she doesn't use her garden. It's like she hates nature!

Just talked to our neighbours on the other side, who say that not only has the council tenant illegally paved over the front of the house, she also paved over the back garden without getting permission before we came... So that's 3 incidences of her doing whatever she pleases to the property.

It's a hedge made of a mixture of shrubs and trees that are over 3 meters tall that it is growing on our property (on our side of a low trellis fence), that separates our properties. Now we are exposed and can look straight into her backyard and the backyard next to hers. She is a council tenant, we are private tenants. We had been trimming it from our side, and on top as well but there would have been some overhang on her side. She's been friends with our neighbours on the other side for years, who we told we are going away, so I imagine she planned cutting it down for when we weren't there so we couldn't object.

Il Mirto on Melbourne Grove is a nice traditional family-owned Italian and only a hop, skip and jump from Lordship Lane.

Wow, that's awesome street art. What a shame it was painted over.

Thanks Borderlands and Hugenot for your replies. She is a council tenant and the hedge separates our properties. If the council cut the hedge down on her behest, surely they would have to notify us? If she had it cut down privately, she surely would have had to notify the council? It's really drastic - the hedge has been razed in half. Will try to post some photos.

Just returned from holiday to find that this elderly council neighbour has now brutally razed the back hedge that separates our properties, chopping it down to give us a fabulous view of her backyard. She did not notify us, and neither did the council if they in fact did the work. We had been successfully trimming the hedge from our side and on top, and it in no way needed this treatment. Once again, she has behaved as if we do not live at the property, and has acted with complete disregard for anything that might affect us. Advice, please...

I posted in 2 different sections, and in response to another thread on local teams.

I'm posting on behalf of my boyfriend who doesn't have an account on the forum, but is looking for a regular weekend basketball game in ED or nearby. He used to play in Dulwich Park with whoever is around but obviously harder in the depths of winter! He also previously had a team in Peckham that disbanded. He is 6 ft 4 and plays to a good standard. Please let me know if you have a regular game with friends etc that he could join, or if you are interested in forming a team to play regularly over the winter and could split indoor court hire. Many thanks. (not sure why this posting was just deleted, admin: perhaps it's not as important as bottles of pee).

Hi all, I'm posting on behalf of my boyfriend who doesn't have an account on the forum, but is looking for a regular weekend basketball game in ED or nearby. He used to play in Dulwich Park with whoever was around but this is obviously harder in the depths of winter! He also previously had a team in Peckham that disbanded. He is 6 ft 4 and plays to a good standard. Please let me know if you have a regular game with friends etc that he could join, or if you would be interested in forming a team to play regularly over the winter that could split indoor court hire. Many thanks.

Hi, just tagging on to this thread about local sports: does anyone know of a basketball team in ED or Peckham? I'm posting on behalf of my boyfriend who doesn't have an account on the forum, but is looking for a regular weekend basketball game in ED or nearby. He used to play in Dulwich Park with whoever was around but this is obviously harder in the depths of winter! He also previously played with a team in Peckham that disbanded. He is 6 ft 4 and plays to a good standard. Please let me know if you have a regular game with friends etc that he could join, or if you are interested in forming a team to play regularly over the winter and could split indoor court hire. Many thanks.

I'm posting on behalf of my boyfriend who doesn't have an account on the forum, but is looking for a regular weekend basketball game in ED or nearby. He used to play in Dulwich Park with whoever was around but this is obviously harder in the depths of winter! He also previously had a team in Peckham that disbanded. He is 6 ft 4 and plays to a good standard. Please let me know if you have a regular game with friends etc that he could join, or if you would be interested in forming a team to play regularly over the winter that could split indoor court hire. Many thanks.