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Ta for advice. Mr/Ms Asset - I have emailed the locker people and awaiting response. I was wondering tho' as per Pandora comment below, whether any thief/vandal so driven they will steal an old saddle would also try to break into the lockers. Whole area seems to be littered with corpses of broken bicycles still securely locked but with missing wheels/bits. SteveT - I never thought of that, and now can't work out why didn't occur before. And they say exercise sharpens the brain. Only thing is I would have to source a very thin chain to loop through saddle support as they are quite shallow - do you manage to lock through your saddle and if so can you kindly point to where to get thin enough but still secure chain? Pandora - thanks for links and steer about security of lockers.

Used to do it daily but that was 15 years, one serious illness and two stones ago. You are right though it is surprisingly easy to get about by bike, even for me. It's just that I'm not convinced I could hack it back down the Old Kent Road at end of long working day. I think it may be safer for the faster cyclist, not she who takes a while to speed up!

Well, it's a thought. And about three days later I would have recovered enough to cycle back again...

I was just wondering if these are secure and a good thing, as if so have thought of finding out how to get them to put some at Nunhead station. Recently left my rusty old bike, bought for ?20, with both wheels locked up, and got back late only to find someone had filched the saddle. I would take my bike into town but I just can't carry it up the Nunhead station stairs mountain.

Someone told me about the place you have referred to on this forum, and hence I was able to purchase Nicole Farhi jumper from there that is a sort of a mixed work of art/engineering, for just ?10. Find I am now suffering from desire to ask you pls not to tell anyone else about it, or the prices will go up and all the good things will go before I can get there again. Isn't that awful.

It's living in "south Nunhead" that does it. In truth all natives must be jolly grateful for your bringing entertainment to our doorstep. Also perhaps if you do get Nunhead Forum going area will spring to life, you know, as in, "if you build it, they will come".

What, a bus that would run regularly up and down Ivydale Road? Now that's just fantasy. Are you having any luck with Nunhead Forum? (Can't wait for dicussions on where to buy the best fish and chips. (The fish and chip shop) or the best Chinese (the Chinese)).

Posh is just what I would count anyone who has been on Radio 4 (and poss even BBC7). It's extremely posh for round here. It is good you have experienced Ivydale Road, it may be responsible for the general air of low spirits that affects us. Riding it is cheating though. To get the full benefit you do have to walk it, twice a day, 5 days (x 47 weeks). Treetop walk is idea of genius. There is a path that runs along the other side of the cemetery from Borland Rd down to the station but it's so narrow and scary that not used. It could be infilled with building rubble and raised to tree height, thus creating delightful and stimulating daily experience and transforming entire population and area. Please put in bid for funds.

I think you are a much properer person, as would I be right in guessing you are actually famous (as counts for hereabouts anyway) and are actually the same Vivienne who spoke and all on a radio programme that was on BBC 7 in middle of night recently. I had flu so might have been hallucinating, I seem to recall an antelope and some very nice guitar music which I wouldn't have minded dying to, and then, this chap who is coming Thurs starting taking to a Vivienne...really, I wouldn't have wittered on at you if I had known you were so posh. It is not fair really I expect if you start a Nunhead Forum it will all focus on the unattainable glamour of Nunhead Lane and down here we will be left with nothing to say but "Is Ivydale the longest and most boring road in the world?" "Yes" "Hm, I thought so".

Could there be a Waverley Gardens forum? And signs saying, "You are now entering Waverley Gardens. Please behave."

Townleygreen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There are of course two good local pools at JAGs > and Alleyn's.... More satire then.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think M&S give away end-of-shelf-life stuff to > employees. When I was younger my mum worked there > for about 2 days, but managed to fill the freezer > with enough food to last us weeks. They still do that. But even after staff have taken what they want they often have loads of perfectly good stuff left and they just chuck it out. You can live very well for a week on the contents of a couple of M&S black bags that have just been placed outside the back door...perfectly intact and still chilled. The very wonderful headteacher of a quite local school once catered a fundraiser by doing this. I am not going to let on who it was. Same person used to save school funds by presenting bouquets at every leaving, birthday, whatever, recycled from the dump where the cemetery used to chuck them after 3 days. A sterling public servant. I daresay this is off topic but I'm just following on....

Just as a matter of interest, I wondered if any of this person's constituents has ever got her to express an opinion on anything? I have written to her via email about three issues recently. The first two emails through the website, theyworkforyou.com, which keeps and publishes records of which MPs can't be bothered to reply to their own voters, and the third went through the website of a campaign group. She replied to the first email saying that she would pass on my comments to her colleagues, but there was no sign of her own opinion (which is what I had asked for). She replied to the second with an email just acknowledging receipt, nothing else. She hasn't bothered to reply to the third one at all. If you meet her face to face - if anyone ever does meet her outside a photo opportunity, or press conference - does she just give one of those sickly patronising smiles and say nothing? Is there any other job you could get, apart from Member of Parliament, if you just sat there in the job interview and failed to answer every question?

Please can anyone shed any useful light on this? It seems a fairly small number of people across SE15 and parts of SE22 have had letters saying their houses have been "randomly selected" to be surveyed as part of "Southwark Council's House Condition Survey". Dark rumour has it that what they are actually about is carrying out valuations for the purpose of borough-wide Council Tax rebanding. As I understand it, every property is still Council Tax banded according to its value when the heinous tax was introduced, hence people with large mortgages on standard fairly grot properties that have gone up in value by about x6 in the interim would be in for a very nauseating shock.

> Can you get Botox anywhere in ED? You can get "Frownies" patches at the much maligned Dr Boo shop. Yes, I was even prepared to go into something called "Dr Boo", situated next to a replica sweetshop, Disney Victoriana-style, in order to buy these. They work. Stick em on your forehead (or area of your choosing) and the wrinkles disappear after about 3 hours. The effect is temporary but at least you are not injecting cocktail of unknown chemicals into bloodstream (although I know a lot of people around here pay to do that, too). My hot Frownies tip, though, do not forget if you put one on in the morning in order to get the benefit by evening, and then go out to corner shop, unless you are lucky enough to live in Nunhead, where we had ladies who went about in their curlers until quite recently, and very little causes comment. By the way will mention as has been much criticism of Dr Boo shop for being snooty, that as an ageing pasty overweight pauper with congenital scruff hair and dressed head to foot from ebay, they have always been lovely and helpful to me, although possibly they may see this as a social service and have dispensed entirely with their usual customer-assessment criteria. I think the difference between one go of Botox and one box Frownies is about ?200 so feel free to offer me bottle of wine from proceeds.

I thought Southwark Council is spending ?220 million (I haven't checked that so it could be wildly wrong) moving its HQ and most of its staff on to one site at London Bridge. You know, right in the middle of the borough. Ever so convenient for the public who want to attend meetings etc. They are I believe selling off the current Town Hall in SE5 together with other current council buildings. So don't understand why a new municipal building would go up in SE22?

Pearl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I thought when they opened the gym to the public > that the pool was set to follow 2/3 years > later???? I think you are right there, that's certainly what I remember being told, was looking forward to it. When nothing happened a couple of locals contacted them, after we heard about a scheme elsewhere, to ask if they would let us use it at weekends if we formed a proper club and all that. They ruled it out completely on the grounds that insurance and safety considerations would make it impossible.

Azul Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > where I won't have to work 80 hours a week. > The problem is that I'm pretty useless. > what else can I do ? If you have a mastery of Portuguese, you can work non-stop as a Portuguese-English translator in London. Unless you are already working as a Portuguese-English translator, and poss. your standards are too high, hence the 80 hour weeks? Just make it up and bung it out like 50% of the industry does (I never said that). Instant 40 hr week.

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Nero Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Tess Jowell MP reads this site. I will alert her > to the thread. Nero Is that the same Tessa Jowell whose husband is consigliere to Silvio Berlusconi? The same one who has been a government minister for the last decade or so? What would we be "alerting" her too? Oh please, please!! Hohohohohohohohoho (Splits sides laughing, rolls on floor, etc)

Thank you for taking an interest in this. Ten years ago a couple of us Nunhead-dwellers tried to interest them in allowing an adult swim club to use the pool outside school hours but they weren't interested. When I moved to London I was really shocked by two things: how small and badly supplied the local libraries were, compared to any small town in the north of England, and the total lack of anything but decaying or closed Victorian swimming baths. It should be astonishing to realise that children hearabouts will have less chance of being able to swim than the Victorians. Although of course I think the current government would probably have a go at the Factory Acts for causing a loss of income to British industry.

PeckhamRose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Snoozequeen1 are you serious? > Want me to persuade you of the crap of which you > speaketh? > >PR, what language! are you a Nunhead girl? I rest my case. Though I grant you, one of the mini-marts has started trying to sell veg that's not baked beans and not in tins. But I don't think they realised they had to provide an identification chart for anything that doesn't say "Heinz" on it. The last thing we need around here is gentrification. Even with all the halfway houses and hostels Southwark Council used to automatically plonk in Camberwell we still have peace and quiet. Apart from the people who live on Harlescott Road and keep their curtains open and the lights on full beam 24/7 to show off the decorating, there are absolutely no pretentious people living here. Everybody either does a) a proper job or is b) a proper, old fashioned criminal. Isn't it lovely? No students. No hoards of actors or stylists or people in advertising or lifestyle coaches or management consultants. Only one barrister and I think he works for the Crown Prosecution Service. Not a single estate agent. FOR GOD'S SAKE, SHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Thieves took ?500 from my debit card after I bought petrol from the Texaco on East Dulwich Road (September 2005). I was in a big hurry and as I explained to the police and bank at the time, I believe the man behind the counter had retained my card. There was only one other customer at the petrol station. I left the garage at 16:00 and over the next 5 hours, at half hourly intervals sums of around ?100 were spent on my credit card at other petrol stations in south east London. It only stopped because I discovered the card was missing at just before 22:00. I did raise the question of whether the other petrol stations were involved, but the police could not be bothered to investigate, and I never heard anything from them. Did get all my money back from the Woolwich but it took 3 months.

vivienne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Very impressed by the East Dulwich Forum I > wondered whether there was one for Nunhead. It > appears there is, and yet when I try to register > it says that it is unknown and doesn't exist. any > wisdom from ED? Vivienne! What are you trying to do to Nunhead (I mean Nunhead South, I realise the Nunhead Lane bit has already tried to clone ED). Nunhead Forum? Discuss the Waverley Arms. Discuss the Stuart Arms. Can anyone recommend the best place to find a dodgy bloke to burn out your car on Peckham Rye? Which mini-mart has got the most heavily processed white bread today? Is anyone looking to share a social worker? Our lovely social worker is having a nervous breakdown in April and we just don't know who is going to monitor little Ashley's asbo. Did you see my scratchcard man? I dropped my scratchcard, I think my scratchcard won. Have you seen my staffy? We think the bloke next door might have stoled him but my partner is in a drug induced coma in the garden and I'm not going over there on my own. Nunhead Forum. Really. Nunhead will never need a forum. If people in Nunhead want to have strange dysfunctional conversations, we do not need cyberspace, we can do that at home or with the neighbours.