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It's definitely got potential. With regards to the cheese stall, I think that keeping a narrow, good-quality range might be its strength - I think a lot of people get intimidated when faced with a whole counter of weird and wonderful cheeses, such as at the EDD or Cheese Block. (I ought to declare an interest here, though - I've known the Mootown lot for years.) And a massive advantage for the warehouse as a whole is that there's room to manoeuvre pushchairs - as amply demonstrated by the number of wheelie-bairns in there on Saturday.

Happened when I was sitting outside the Bishop last year - the stupid chuckers missed, though.

I know that someone on Nutfield Road did phone Foxtons to complain about all the parking spaces being filled. They were called back promptly - and told to "fuck off".

I refuse to go back to the Chardon now, despite some good times drinking calvados till the early hours there with (since-departed) staff, many years ago. Several bad experiences there of late, and my last meal was just abominable. My girlfriend and I had the cheapo lunchtime express menu, and from the outset we could tell that since we weren't spending much money, they just couldn't be bothered with us. The steak was so disgusting that we asked the put-upon and bullied-looking waiter what cut it was, and he scuttled off to ask the chef. He came back, and told us "The chef says he will not answer to me - he is French and angry." Put simply, that place deserves to fail now, and I wouldn't shed a tear to see it go under.

Ah, the wonderful front-page splashes on the Southwark News. The golden age was round 1999-2001 - I have kept several of them, notably... ONE-ARMED DRUG-RUNNING BISHOP ON THE RUN! REVEALED: THE FILTHIEST FLAT IN LONDON "Nonce and hookers in sordid den of iniquity" DEMON WHEELCHAIR PERV GETS FIVE YEARS

For the benefit of anyone in the East Dulwich Road area... Looks as though the "locked out" woman is back - got a call on my door intercom at 20 past midnight from someone asking me for a word at the door. I asked what it was about, and she said she was a neighbour from number 37 (which is right across the other side of Goose Green from where I live) who was locked out of her flat. After I mentioned the fact that the police had leafleted us about this, she cleared off pretty sharpish. Anyone else heard from her recently?

I think whinging is healthy as long as it's kept in a smile:whinge ratio of at least 2:1, and there's plenty to feel sunny about in East Dulwich at the moment.

What a nice bunch of lads were gathered outside the Tav last night. You could tell with one glance that they were looking for an excuse to kick off, and sure enough, one of them decided to smash an ashtray across a stranger's head at about 10.45 (he looked as though he was too drunk to feel it, but I bet he's feeling it this morning). Fortunately a police car was passing, but the bloke did a bunk and got away with it. Absolute scum - and at the risk of sounding like the Daily Hell, I'd say that gangs of scrotes are cropping up more and more in the pubs on Lordship Lane. Hardly ever saw trouble three years ago, and now I get a ringside seat at some sort of ruck at least once a weekend. (That said, still not as many rucks as in the days of the Forester's, Rosie's and the pool-table-era EDT...)

One for art buffs: follow the railway track a few hundred yards from Dulwich Common junction, and you can stand on the bridge from which Camille Pissaro painted Lordship Lane Station.

Mark Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm not disagreeing with you but how come the > Sun's front cover today has a photo saying "Doctor > Evil, face of bomb suspect medic"? Surely that's > implying that he did it? > (I'm talking about a different crime here by the > way, just to clarify) Even the Sun - which sails as close to the wind with the law as it can - put the all-important inverted commas around 'Doctor Evil'.

> I think you actually have to name someone, or give > info away which makes that person easily > identifiable for it to be considered contempt. Not at all. If you imply that a person being held for a crime is the one who actually did it, that constitutes contempt whether you name him/her or not. It could still potentially influence a jury, after all.

I think it's pretty much covered in the posts above. Once proceedings are active - which is usually taken from the time of an arrest, but can be interpreted even more tightly - strict-liability contempt comes into effect. When this happens, there's very little you can publish about the case (and posting on a forum counts as much as publishing as does printing in a national paper). If identification is a likely issue at trial, you have to be very, very careful indeed. Granted, a small local web forum is unlikely to halt a trial and have a case thrown out; but how would we feel if it did? (And sorry to harp on, but there is still material up on this thread that is pretty much textbook contempt of court... Anything that alleges "they've probably got the right man" is going against the law.)

Speaking as a journalist who learned the hard way about the contempt of court laws that operate in this country, I think the admin ought to get rid of that last post pretty damned swiftly.

I live on the north side of Goose Green, with a long garden that abuts the Ondine/Muschamp junction - I'll take a look this evening.

Tempted - I live on Goose Green, just down the road. Will look into the logistics of keeping a cat in a raised ground-floor flat - with no way of having a flap put in, would have to let him/her in and out.

The Peckham Panthers were started by a very good friend of mine - one of the many other Mumbles and Swansea exiles in SE22 - and she's very dedicated, devoting a hell of a lot of time to the club. I'm sure she'd love to welcome some new recruits - the website is http://www.peckhampanthersrfc.co.uk/ There's a bit of a Welsh presence at the Old Alleynians, too. We get everywhere, boyo. jim_the_chin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > my 4 year old seems born to play rugby (welsh > grandparents - related to jp williams of course, > as is everyone in wales it seems), i beleive the > peckham panthers is where i should be sending him, > any reports/experinces?

dulwichmum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The place was full of mature new mummy types > insisting on Soya Milk Latte and various > confections for their children which were > manufactured in a nut free environment. I am not > exaggerating at all - just for a change! Four out > of five of them had diet related allergies! The > one with the nut allergy decided to throw caution > to the wind when she saw how super the pastries > appeared - which is alarming, because (and I do > know a little about this subject) anaphylactic > shock is not something you can decide to just put > up with because you fancy some cake! It prompts me to wonder whether they were true allergies - which, as you mention, may be life-threatening - or the fashionable ailments that are "intolerances"... no doubt disgnosed by dangling a crystal over the kiddies' stomachs at one of the alternative health practices that SE22 suddenly seems to be riddled with.

You could always take a scenic walk to the Dulwich Wood House - up Lordship Lane, along the trackbed of the old Crystal Palace branch line (and past the bridge from which Pisarro painted Lordship Lane Station) then on to Sydenham Hill. It's a lively Young's boozer with a cracking garden - and often a barbecue outside on Saturdays and Sundays.

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Slightly off the manor, but the staff in Buddha Jazz are absolutely fantastic - as is the food, to go off topic yet further. That place deserves far more custom. And the lot at the Phoenix are a good laugh as well (and one of their dads used to manage the Human League). It's been enough to shift my eating/boozing fulcrum a few yards up the hill towards SE5. Back in the homelands, I'd agree about Tandoori Nights and the Mirash.

First post here, though I've been lurking for a while: hello to everyone. Does anyone know about the corner house that looks like a defunct pub - now apparently a private residence - on the corner of Spurling Road (behind the EDT/Bishop)? It bears the sign "The Edenberg". I've often wondered about it as I've walked past, and can't find any info on the web...