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  1. Asset Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This thread has gone totally barmy. in reflection of place which has gone totally barmy, as per SE22 - in a shop devoted to uselessness, you can buy an African cooking pot, next to the Rajasthan throws and the bamboo whatsits, for ?15 or 500 yards away in SE15 you can buy the same African cooking pot, in a shop devoted to selling African food, shopped in by actual living African people, who you could actually talk to, and enhance your retail experience, for ?1. But on no, yeuch, oh, screamy scream, we can't go to SE15, it smells, there are too many black people, who obviously all want to rob me, yuk yuk. It's not the thread that's barmy, it's the place which is totally de-ranged.
  2. taper Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >> Peckham is a lot more dangerous than ED. But it > can offer things that the rather dull and > comfortable ED cannot. Er, not meaning you personally taper, but we should all be totally ashamed that this division has happened. And it has happened in the last 20 years, a time when SE15 and SE22 were both inclusive areas, until you can now draw a line on a map between worlds. It is not all right to have a white middle class enclave with mock Victorian sweetie shops, trinketry and frippery food, 400 yards from an immigrant/under class reservation where you can go for, as you describe them, less "dull" and "comfortable" things. As long as your own hildren don't have to grow up somehow through the less "dull" and "comfortable" things? Here is a terribly sophisticated idea. Why don't all the lovely people in SE22/SE21 grow up and stop buying drugs? Why don't we stop taking a quick profit and cheap goods out of destroying other people's economies, and then maybe they wouldn't have to come here in the first place. Then there wouldn't be any violence in Peckham, would there, without the drugs market? And the people who don't have a three-generation well-worn, inevitable-from-my-school-and-family passport into the law or PR or "voluntary sector management" or accountancy or the BBC, those people wouldn't be going into drug wholesale, retail and marketing as their ordained career path. Re earlier remarks, the reason that Marks and Spencer, Dunn & Co etc all shut down and pulled out of Peckham circa 1989-90 was that they weren't making enough money to stay open. There was a recession, I recall, in 1989? The death of Rye Lane was a traditional high street wasn't caused by crime on the North Peckham Estate, both these things were caused by government policies which **eed on ordinary people the world over, free marketeering and globalisation. Do we really think that the people living in Peckham and eating "smelly" food wanted to leave their own homes, culture, language, families, country, everything that they knew and made them who they were, to come and clean your house (cash in hand, obviously) and be sneered at for doing it, on the other side of the world? It's our government policies that have forced and are forcing huge numbers of people off the land/out of work across eg Latin America, and that is getting a whole lot worse as entire countries are being turned over to producing biofuel and animal feed crops for export to the rich, rather than feeding their own people. Did you see the ad in the Evening Standard, guaranteeing 10-20% returns on "Green Gold", ie, crops from Argentina/Brazil/Paraguay - the "united republics of soya". What do you think was happening on that land before UK speculators bought it? How do you think, exactly, that your 10-20% guaranteed return gets screwed out of the country and its people? And once people have been shoved off/forced out of what was their family's home for generations, they may as well come to London as the totally lawless squalid city in their own country. If you drive down Peckham Rye and Rye Lane at 5am the people you see waiting at the bus stops are Chinese, African and Latin American people starting their first job of the day. The reason the "smelly" shops are open so late on Rye Lane is that the same people need to shop and eat after working for 14 hours. They do have to eat you know.
  3. Or you could try Nunhead. 13 minutes to Blackfriars from Nunhead station, you can always find a parking space by the station, low levels of crime, beautifully quiet and peaceful - just look on the map, we are insulated from London's traffic by two reservoirs and two cemeteries - the only part of London zones 1 and 2 that has no major road cutting though it. And if you want a bit of class, try Frog on the Green on Consort Road. Don't think I will try to describe the tower of extravagant meringues, or the chocolate cake, I might get over excited.
  4. Hello Chantelle. I take it if you are put off by seeing drugs being sold on the street you are one of the apparently very few people like myself who has never taken an illegal drug of any kind and never will. I think you are going to be very hard pressed to find anywhere that is drug free to live though. There is a bar on the ever-so-bourgeois-boheme-middle-class-lovely North Cross Road which has drugged up idiots falling out of the door day and night. Drug use among the city and media classes in SE22 is rampant. Over here in Nunhead we have a new neighbour, the Home Secretary no less, who has admitted to taking drugs at university. Apparently, she was unable to withstand the peer pressure. Sadly her moral capacity and decision taking abilities don't seem to have improved with the passing of the years. I agree with your observations about what is happening around Peckham Rye station at the moment. There are drug sellers actively targeting and approaching people as they get off the train, I have seen this happen twice in the last couple of months, both times they targeted young men and literally followed them out of the station pestering and trying to sell the stuff. Otherwise some of the comments on here about Rye Lane are absolute nonsense from people who obviously have never been there and are shot through with racism. I have travelled on the 12 and 63 bus down Rye Lane, or come out of the station and walked down Rye Lane, and changed buses outside the old Co-op there, often at gone 9.30/10 at night and have never encountered any problem. Been doing it for years. The other week as I took my Oyster card out at the bus stop, there was a chorus of voices. A boy of about 12 pointed out that I had also pulled out a ?10 note which had fallen on the pavement. Guess what, all of those helpful lovely people at the bus stop were, (whisper if you dare), black people. I suspect that some of them were even immigrants. . Where I have seen violence and aggression from drug users, directly, is in investment banks, law firms and media companies, in the city and west end, where I can quote you over and over instances where "executives" on their 3rd day or so without sleep, to keep the lunatic macho money culture going, enabled by cocaine, behave like total lunatics.
  5. Why do we so spinelessly accept that there just has to be more and more housing stuffed into London? The last tiny little bit of space on the junction of Ivydale/Inverton Roads, tiny, but very important bit of green breathing space/visual break, been sold off for yet more flats, while the private section of the other recent flats opposite appears to be still largely unoccupied. There used to be daylight and a general feeling of space here for people going to and fro, waiting for the bus etc, but now the whole area is always in shade, giving it the air of mean streets/bedsit land. The development has been so greedy and aggressive (including that of the church with its ludicrously priapic tower) that it has blocked all the sight lines at a busy cross roads. The penthouse on the opposite side of Peckham Rye has affected the whole Rye. Part of the Rye experience was its spaciousness and light, now there's a dirty great interrupting blot on the skyline. Why was this visual damage allowed, to benefit one developer and one occupier? Is the intention to raise building levels all round so that the Rye is "blocked in" on all sides? Is the new school going to be - 4, 5, 6, storeys? Sorry to go onnnnn.
  6. Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > If we can keep "class" away from the > discussion I thought an ongoing thread on the > political issues of the day might prove > interesting. So you would like to discuss politics as long as no one mentions politics. Gosh, one has to love the English for their magnificent capacity for self delusion. I am ashamed of myself for encouraging you at all by replying.
  7. This article by Naomi Klein rather takes the froth off... Article - Obama's Chicago Boys as does this [quote name= Cluster bombs?a horrific hybrid of aerial bombs and land mines?kill hundreds of innocent civilians and children every year. Last month' date=' 111 nations committed to a much needed global ban, but Bush won't sign it. The United States is the largest producer, stockpiler, and user of cluster bombs in the history of the world. When 111 nations gathered recently to draft a treaty to ban these horrific weapons, the United States was conspicuously absent. Once again, the President of the United States came down on the wrong side of international peace. On January 20, 2009, the world will watch with hope as this country inaugurates a new President. A president who has the potential to undo the damage George Bush has done. A president committed to joining the world community in its struggle for a more peaceful future. So far, the leading presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain, have been silent on whether they will endorse this new treaty banning cluster bombs. We need a President who will do the right thing.] But will they/we get one?
  8. louisiana Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- last week I went out and > down the road in my slippers... That's the joy of living in Nunhead though L. Keep your slippers on, your rollers in and leave your teeth out. Who's to care? I excelled myself this week by "loosing" first pair of sunglasses, and so donning second pair. No-one told me I was still wearing the first pair resting on my forehead, did they. Oh no, they let me walk around like that. Actually it works quite well because when you inevitably put the second pair down somewhere daft, you can bring the first pair back into play again.
  9. Glasses: pair in car, pair in desk at work, pair in locker at work! Foolproof, except have forgotten which is my locker. What we need is some sort of emergency service for the absent minded. Someone who can race into action and offer memory breakdown cover to help cover our tracks, a bit like bicycle repair man.
  10. CamberwellOz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I forgot my husband's (was boyfriend at the time) > name in bed and called him my ex. > > I don't know... I think I felt worse than leaving > ?300,000 on the bench. That is truly shocking. Mr CO must be a lovely fellow with a very developed sense of humour, to get hitched to a hussy who could not summon up his name. You could at least have got one of those temporary transfer tatoos for your arm, with his name on, which would have looked like devotion while sparing embarrassment. I find that I often get people's names confused, but can always remember the names of their dogs.
  11. I am not sure if I have understood your eating programme? It looks as though you're suggesting two meals a day, breakfast plus one other. No tea or coffee (with or without milk) throughout the day, either. That's a permanent fast. Your person never has any kind of social life, either, of course, for they cannot cook for or eat with others, ever. As pointed out already here by those who have experienced the reality, you have not been in the shoes of people dealing with even short term, let alone medium or long term poverty and hardship, not for one step. All the material comforts and security that sustain your sense of who you are, and define society's view of who you are, were still there. Wait until a tile comes off your roof and the rain starts coming in, or you crack a tooth and you have to walk about in pain trying to find an NHS dentist. If you were lucky you would end up with a mishapen lump of lead filling that you could not hide and that would, literally, wipe away the superior smile that, unfortunately, one is led to imagine must be your habitual expression. One of the biggest causes of poverty is ill health, yet it is never even mentioned any more by politicians, as though they can simply wish the problem away, as per all the other varieties of hysteria they have substituted for rational government. No doubt it is supposed to be a matter of faith. Welcome to the Middle Ages.
  12. Solidarity, Moos. Can we demand the reinstatement of the poor "senior intelligence officer" they have now sacked? It's all very well them saying the person shouldn't have taken the info out of the office at all except in a locked box, but as we know, he/she probably had no intention to take it anywhere, and walked out of office without realising they were carrying it. We, the chronically absent-minded, deserve to be represented at all levels and branches of government, and I say, this is my kind of person. Makes you wonder how James Bond would go in reality though.
  13. Banana custard - yum yum. Envelope was still on shelf, all unnoticed by hungry workers in jam packed snack bar, 1 hr later. Strange to say, also forgot to mention incident in office. One of those situations where one learns the meaning of a phrase one has heard all one's life, as in, "she was possessed of an icy calmness as she retraced her steps". (Just as well didn't mention the other things then, HB. Definitely better not mention the other things.)
  14. Just wanted to offer solidarity with the very important person who left the nation's key pieces of top top secret information on the train. Top forgettings in my household: leaving ?300,000 of employer's assets in Benjy's, on the shelf above the banana custards, after putting envelope down to pick up vital tub of banana custard my brother (left in Boots) purchase of work syndicate lottery ticket that came up for ?700 Is this more than average forgetful?
  15. Good grief ratty you are very keen on and knowledgeable about firearms for a small furry creature. Please don't start encouraging your furry friends to go armed, they are worrying enough already. It seems all kinds of creatures are more tolerant of seeing guns being wielded than I am. Weren't there anarchists and angry Armenians hatching explosive plots in Nunhead a whole century ago, and sorted out by the British stiff upper lip and good sense, without a firearm in sight? (Or I may be completely wrong about that).
  16. That's my ? I still find it very odd that there are armed policemen round the corner from my house. If the prime minister and the chancellor need the umpteen levels of security provided for Downing St, what is the Home Secretary, who I would have idly imagined, may be more at risk than the Chancellor (from terrorists, not the British public in general), doing living in a bog standard house with an 6ft deep "front garden" on a grotty road in our neck of the woods? Doesn't this put the police officers unnecessarily at risk? And what about the risk to the public, who have to walk by 18 inches away taking their kids to and from the very nearby school, going to church etc. Even more puzzling is that sometimes the police are right at the pavement, firearms to the fore, but very often, eg this evening, they are not holding guns. Just all rather odd. Advertising her presence in this way in such a vulnerable place looks a little as though someone is trying to make a point rather than actually put safety first? I seem to recall, that either Norman Lamont or Geoffrey Howe, used to live on Trafalgar Avenue, which I also used to travel by twice daily, but I never saw armed police outside that house, even at the height of the IRA bombings. What do people think of the armed police being there?
  17. Finding it hard to believe that people actually want this over-glossed ad mag stuffed through their door. They are worse than Readers Digest. Twice on the most freezing days last winter I came home to find that they had stuffed this pesty mag into the letterbox, leaving it wedged wide open all day and turning the house into a 3* ice box. Same thing today, and as there are rats running around outside, this is absolutely not a joke. I have asked them half a dozen times over the years to stop putting it through my door. It's a hugely silly waste of paper and my heating bill. How can I stop these vandals?
  18. maxsharp Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > snoozequeen, I don't think it's the size that > counts with freezers. Small is just as good. Just > might take a little longer to get through freezing > your wardrobe. > > That sounds very fnar fnar somehow. I find nothing salacious in your helpful comment MS. Really. I am freezing my clothes in batches and then sticking them in vacuum sealed bags, accompanied by much obsessive dreary dusting and vacuuming. If this fails I may have to burn down the house. That'll show 'em. I will report at a later date as to whether this has worked. Meanwhile all I need to know is how to lure next door's rats into the freezer as well.
  19. That's very kind of you but I really don't want to have to get that close. Does anyone know what the legal position is? The neighbouring house is owned by a housing association which has convered it into two flats. They are appalling and have left a problem with the drains unfixed for years. I saw a rat run towards the area that water is leaking from today and wondered if that's where they're coming from. Southwark Council tell me that they have to be invited in by the tenant of the property and unfortunately these tenants don't seem to care, they are still letting small children play in their rat-infested garden, and they do not look to me to have asked the Council in. What to do in this situation please? Any law I can use to get some common sense (and rat poison) applied?
  20. maxsharp Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So the only solution is to invest in a chest > freezer and tip your wardrobe into it. Okay, I am do doubt being more than a bit thick here, but please why is everyone saying it has to be a chest freezer? Just for the size of it? The freezer part of my fridge is smaller than a chest freezer, but it still freezes? Or doesn't it freeze them hard enough? Apparently sealing in bags with dry ice also works, but the minimum order is ?40 so I'm thinking you might as well get a chest freezer if necessary. I thought I had got rid of them, having been definitely moth free for the first time last year, but have seen 3 in the last two weeks. That's nothing like as many as before but of course it only takes one to start the whole thing off again. AAAAAghhhhhh. Please someone tell me that sticking the clothes in the freezer part of my fridge in an airtight back for a few days will do it? Also I am still in need of a firearm of some sort (cannon, blunderbuss, small nuclear device) to deal with the giant rats running around in the neighbour's garden. Or a flame thrower?
  21. SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > and to think I misread this thread as "good lovin' > " I misread "Beer Prices on Lordship Lane" as "Bear Prices on Lordship Lane" and "Car Surfing on Jennings Road" as "Cat Surfing on Jennings Road". Newcastle is the best place to live. Anything you can buy in London, you can buy in Newcastle. Except the people, many of whom are not for sale, unlike venal metropolitan types. They have principles, values, good grace and good sense. Newcastle has a large accessible ocean waterfront, as opposed to a stagnant pond overcrowded with rapacious ducks. Newcastle has lovely houses, lots of open space and is very close to some of the most beautiful countryside in the world. Newcastle has short queues, for which all service providers apologise even if you are only waiting 30 secs. People in Newcastle do not feel the cold, at all, and so need no clothes or heating and do not contribute to global warming. When it falls below zero they eat curry. Everywhere else from Sheffield north is also superior and should immediately declare independence from Westminster and join Scotland in a new improved and very popular country.
  22. TheePope Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > b) putting all her clothes in a chest freezer for > a few days to kill any of the buggers left, semms > a bit mad but it's cheaper than dry cleaning and > best of all it worked That would be excellent if it worked. Do you know whether, if I put clothes in an air tight bag, they will be definitely ok, no condensation? Am undoubtedly being quite thick here, but will it definitely not damage clothes to freeze them?
  23. bon3yard Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Strolling eh, was it wearing a cravat and smoking > a pipe? Could not see if it was wearing a cravat, but it did have the generally carefree air of the aristocrat taking a stroll on his lawn. If you are missing a cravat, I would look no further. I was wondering about the squart/frankenfurry, does it hold its bald tail curved up, like a squirrel's, or is it kept down, in rat position?
  24. early_doors Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've seen a squirrel with a hairless tail. Nasty > looking critter. Are these typical or a new breed > indigenous to Nunhead? Oh no. Not a crossbred squirrel/rat. The fearsome Nunhead Squart. Or it could be a Squirat or a Ratirrel? It says in my kiddie wildlife book here that squirrels use their tails to communicate with other squirrels. Have we got hard squirrels, then, the bald-tailed Nunhead Squart being a squirrel of few words? Like the Rotherhithe bald-headed grunting male?
  25. It wasn't a hamster It wasn't a squirrel It wasn't a cat in a hat But a big fat rat If I obtain photographic evidence of the Giant Rat of Nunhead, I shall post, with "Not for nervous" notice.
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