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I agree with Louisa - how do we know the guy wasn't the same dangerous pervert who was taking "waist-high" photos of children in Peckham Rye? Or, and this might even be worse, maybe he was from an al qaeda cell intent on blowing up the area before the Adventure Bar can wreak even more drink-soaked, godless insanity on Lordship Lane? I say, hang him. Only language etcetc

Franklins - thirded

I can't believe no one's mentioned Le Moulin - their ice-cold barn-owl gratin served with a chipped tea-cup of cabbage-stalk risottini is to die for.

Oh, I love the Sonic Cathedral people...

right - just got the answer-phone the last couple of times I called, so it made me wonder... Thanks

i'm actually heading to Eric and Margaret's later for their Monday Night early-bird, blue-plate special - tonight it's their legendary boiled-otter fricass? with barn-owl croutons. Yum!

Previous posts tend to suggest this and the one by The Herne are very good - still true?

27 The Urbani Truffle Butter in The Gowlett is past its sell-by-date

26: A working class person had the temerity to wear unattractive sportswear in the vicinity of my Croc's-N_Boden bedecked child whilst I was purchasing line-caught Grouper on Saturday morning.

I agree Brendan. I think if we all calm down a little we'll remember that almost all instances throughtout history of Swastikas on windows are merely situationist pranks by hi-spirited humanities students. Thank goodness for Louise's cool head!

I know loads - and I mean loads - of ED / DV mummies and they are, almost without exception - completely lovely people. Maybe I'm just lucky.

"...SE22 is now corporate lawyer and banker country - they are working in a US culture and increasingly living it - hence lots of people here for whom money is completely divorced from reality or value..." Oh please spare me. If you want to slog over to SE15 to buy your Clarks (does mummy know you're posting?) and save ?2.87 then good luck to you. But some of us have got stuff to do and don't mind paying a bit more to get what we want, when we want, where we want. That's not being "divorved from reality" it's just what happens when you have more pressig concersn than whiling away the time before tea because you've been asked to move on from the library.

*senses a lounging*

Hey Kat Mrs Rob, Rob Jr and I are (very) regular customers of Hoa Viet in Camberwell. Would be great to have a place nearer (tho', their spicy beef noodle soup may be hard to beat...) Good luck!

I don't think Louisa will take too kindly to you all talking about her house like that. Working class pensioners find it hard enough to keep themselves alive in the winter, they don't have money for home improvements like all these pesky incomers, you know.

I'd love a folk night, as long as i get to play Pentangle, The Trees, Anne Briggs and Shirley Collins records all night

i prefer the idea of only allowing people who are identifiably working class and have lived in God's Own Postcode for all their lives to even walk down Lordship Lane. That way they can have unrestricted access to the fruit machine shop, Kebab and Wine and Iceland while all the yummy mummys and other assorted grotesque, middle-class incomers have to sit at home and wait for Ocado to deliver.

my friend Angela used to live on Camberwell Grove. She was burgled three times in six months and her car was broken into almost weekly :( I lived in Camberwell for a couple of years and loved it, but there is no way i'd move back there now seeing as how, unfortunately, it's a complete, unsalvagable dump. be lovely if it wasn't, but it just is.

To be honest, I couldn't give a monkey's. I'm much more interested what's going on IN the shops, bars and restaurants than what happens above them or round the back of them. But then, I am crashing Phillistine and should probably be ignored.

When me and Mrs Rob moved here in 1999, Franklins, Chardon and Blue Mountain were all regular haunts. I used to love Chopstics when it was a takeaway, but have never been back in. As keef said, Inside 72 opening was big news - an actual bar! As was The Palmerston makeover (though The Foresters becoming The Bishop was even better). EDT had great comedy that moved to the (bizarrely decorated, pre-sportsbar) Magdala. Mr Liu's Peking Cuisine still had that broken venetian blind in the window.

no - let's reminisce about how good the magdala pizzas used to be (with the first, middle-aged bloke chef). used to be a real treat going down there to take advantage of the two-fer-one deal on a tuesday. Sometimes managed to swallow three pints while they cooked, would totter home with hot cargo for bottle of Valpol and Holby City. Then they started using much cheaper ingredients (mushrooms, ham etc) and the magic was gone. Barely been in there since.

Lidl? That's that place in Peckham where old people and the unwaged buy broken German biscuits, right?

I'm a middle class white person who's lived in ED for nearly 10 years. Do I win a prize?

Me and Mrs Rob went to Heber this morning. I really liked it and - yes - the head is very nice chap indeed (and it's our nearest school too). Village Infants is fantastic - but only a little bit more fantastic. And they're about a mile away. So it's Village Infants 1, Heber 2 and (prob) Goodrich 3. Saw Dog Kennel Hill too but it seemed kind of tatty and worn out (as did a lot of the kids, tbh).

I believe that if you so much as glance at a free newspaper your opinon on anything is immediately void. Buy a real newspaper or read a book.