
languagelounger
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Not a business but moved to Business and Trades...
languagelounger replied to languagelounger's topic in The Lounge
Administrator Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Moved to the What's on section, sorry for any > confusion caused. Much appreciated, and if you should ever feel the desire to parlez in another language, you would be most welcome to join us and enjoy the shockingly uncommercial ambience. -
Dear Administrator I have received an email saying that due to New Rules (I confess to failing to be cognisant with the EDF Rules Handbook, Supplement No whichever, my apologies) the Language Lounge posting has been moved to Business and Trades. We are neither a Business nor a Trade, but a social club (which I can assure you does not generate a profit of any kind, which would tend to be my definition of a business), so please could we go in the What's On section? Really, it is some people's idea of fun, even if it doesn't quite meet the definition of entertainment. That would be much appreciated. Regards, merci, grazie, etc. Language Lounger
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I have lost count Curmudg. This week though someone actually bothered to give me back some of my post that had been misdelivered to them. I did try having my post stopped at the sorting office, which you might think would be foolproof. But there were days when they were still delivering to the house. It was starting to look as though the one way to get your post delivered, was to ask them to keep it at the sorting office. Favourite recent moment: finding a recorded delivery parcel stuffed through the door without any attempt to get a signature - not the first time they have either done this, or left a recorded packet/letter with neighbours without getting a signature. Very reassuring particularly when they left one parcel with a family of local criminals; finding a parcel just left on the doorstep. The chaps in the sorting office at Peckham I have dealt with are obviously trying to keep on top of the mayhem though. They are very helpful. It does seem to be the case that the service goes to hell when they have agency staff filling in. It's the relief postpersons who have been responsible for delivering recorded/registered letters and parcels without bothering to get a signature.
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No he doesn't. Are you sure you aren't thinking of Mike Leigh, who makes gruesome patronising films. Ken Loach not. Didn't you see Kes, even? ???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ken Loach, like Tony Benn, thinks all working > class people are wonderful, which is: > > a) Wrong > b) Patronising > c) So middle-class marxist
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Post Office open anywhere before Tues?
languagelounger replied to languagelounger's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
PeckhamRose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They are trying to close them down so it is not in > their interest to have us GO there. > > Saturday they're open but I think they close 12.30 > though the postman makes the collection at 12 so > if you go in to get something weighed and posted > at 12.15 hoping for a Monday delivery, tough. Ah-ha. With your help I may defeat this cunning ploy. Sure they do not really want us to post anything at all, even if we can find post office. Postie here has given up all pretence now and just leaves parcels of any value on doorsteps, sort of pot luck for passing thieves. -
I cannot find the answer to this simple question on the Post Office or Royal Mail websites. There is a lot of stuff about marketing, mobile tops ups, rod fishing licences and international driving permits, but so far as I can see, nothing at all about if and when there is a post office open between Good Friday and next Tues. Help.
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L'Invasion francais par stealth?
languagelounger replied to Reg Smeeton's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Reg Smeeton. Ce n'est pas une anagramme. -
Radio Interference - Local Pirates?
languagelounger replied to Marmora Man's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Haar, haar, haar. -
Radio Interference - Local Pirates?
languagelounger replied to Marmora Man's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
lenk Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There's a couple of ace pirate stations v close to > the Radio 4 frequency > Centreforce is a good one, usually around 88.4 . > Select is my favourite, around 99.3 - plays a lot > of old electro and house. > There's also a couple of good Ghanain ones That's all true - there are also a couple that have been sitting on Radio 3 for years. It can be very irritating but as Lenk says some of them - including Latin/Central American broadcasts from SE15/SE17 - are also v good and they are a door into the parallel universe inhabited by those people you kindly employ to clean your house, etc. If he wants to boost R3 and 4 Marmora Man could maybe follow local tradition and put up his own rig: "Here's pirate Radio 4, coming at you tonight from Honor Oak Rise". -
police helicopter hovering over the rye circa 9pm
languagelounger replied to shoshntosh's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
nunheadbelle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I wish they'd go away, it's doing my head in. > > Nunheadbelle Well done - 10:35 - they've gone. (This is probably a silly question, but what can they usefully see from up there? They were doing circuits of Nunhead and Peckham Rye, from a fairly great height, so they weren't following a vehicle. How can they tell a villain from the citizens of Nunhead - this is not joke question, pls refrain from Nunhead-unfriendly responses) -
Life expectancy in East Dulwich and Nunhead (Lounged)
languagelounger replied to macroban's topic in The Lounge
Michael Palaeologus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Most of Nunhead is a cemetary. Surely to GOD that > tells you something about the place... Most of Nunhead is a cemetery that has been used as a contaminated waste dump for the past umpteen years. A word of well meant advice to people who buy veg from Honor Oak Allotments holders: In the late 90s the allotment society removed a lot of top soil from one of the affected areas for use on the allotments. I have the correspondence advising the relevant LBS officer that this was happening, plus his reply to them telling them not to do it. Not a definition of healthy veggies. -
Life expectancy in East Dulwich and Nunhead (Lounged)
languagelounger replied to macroban's topic in The Lounge
Knowingly. They were shown photographs of huge mounds of dumped waste and asked, both verbally and in writing, how exactly it came to be that the person driving the dumper had the key to the council's own lock to the site. They took no action. They refused to even listen to a highly regarded independent expert who offered to address them on how to properly manage their cemeteries. When local people organised their own meeting for that person to talk to the public, Connor, the cemeteries manager, and his boss, one Keith Weir, came to the meeting organised by the public, and Weir was witnessed threatening the independent expert with violence. The witness was a South London Press reporter, it was in the SLP at the time. That was years ago. Personally, I shall be refusing to pay the rise in council tax that they will want to dump on us too, to fund the clearance. These costs must be met by the councillors and officers who allowed it to continue. We also need a full independent epidemiological study of the population who have used the cemeteries, as they were urged to by the Council, for "leisure". -
Life expectancy in East Dulwich and Nunhead (Lounged)
languagelounger replied to macroban's topic in The Lounge
Or, could it be that Southwark Council knowingly let its cemeteries manager continue with a cosy little arrangement to dump toxic waste in the cemeteries which surround us, for pushing, what 15 years plus? Carcinogens, asbestos, and was that aromatic hydrocarbons? Anyone for leukemia, a range of lovely cancers, MS, lupus, sjorgren's, RA etc, etc? -
Life expectancy in East Dulwich and Nunhead (Lounged)
languagelounger replied to macroban's topic in The Lounge
Ceaseless toil and grinding poverty. -
Black ice everywhere, cars skating all over. Horrible accident on Peckham Rye East. Car wrapped around railings outside Ivydale School. Pizza parlour was still sending pizza scooters out through blizzard. About 11pm, near to nil visibility, the only light is from the blue flashing emergency beacons. Pizza boy just phuts past ambulance, fire engine and police cars and the now open-topped car on Peckham Rye and nips around the police van blocking the junction at the bottom. I hope you people are grateful for your pizzas. Very bizzare sight.
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Getting to Honor Oak Park station
languagelounger replied to TJ's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
There used to be a route on the flat which was well used by Nunheaders. There's a gate into the cemetery from Brenchley Gardens (not the big one, a small one quite near the boundary of One Tree Hill) which then led you into Honor Oak Recreation Ground, where you could enjoy the grand vista opening out across Kent as you stolled across to HOP, having cut out the whole mountaineering section of the route. Older readers will remember that this route was blocked off, causing huge inconvenience to the public, by one Terry Connor, the now former Cemeteries Superintendent for Southwark. Mr Connor, who still apparently lives in the Cemetery Lodge, features prominently in this week's Southwark News. Mr Connor has been relieved of his duties and is the subject of a criminal investigation into the extensive dumping of toxic waste in his cemetery. "Southwark Council, dumping on the living and the dead for over 40 years". -
Bookshop out Card shop in!
languagelounger replied to Richard Weekes II's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Thanks for that Siduhe. I hope we can take the Southwark News as the right version and they have ruled out closing any libraries. It's a bit weird though as I just looked at the SLP website and they still have "Breaking News - libraries to close". Dulwich is not mentioned - surely they wouldn't dare - but Nunhead is and isn't Nunhead is now part of virtual SE22? There was an earlier story about them chopping some of the many council-subsidised festivals and if the alternative to that would be to lose libraries or any of the remaining services for elderly and sick people then I'm sure they could lose some of the festivals and events without too many tears shed. A lot of the "festivals" are pretty thin affairs and would happen in some form without subsidy. They could also be started up again when the fabled economic recovery happens. I realise this is wandering off topic so I will cease. -
Bookshop out Card shop in!
languagelounger replied to Richard Weekes II's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Speaking of books, according to the South London Press, Southwark is going to close 4 of its small libraries. First they junked the foreign language stock, then they junked the books for "intellectual-type people, stuff like that"*, then they junked any book that didn't have nice big shiny pictures in, and now they are junking the libraries. Southwark's libraries are all very well used. If they offer any space to sit and read they are packed. As per the Livesey Museum, which the Council tried to sell without having the right to do so, does anyone know if any of the buildings have any protection from trust deeds etc? If it has really got this desperate re funds, and I can guess that a Labour government might well starve a Lib Dem council it is could (comment made in total ignorance of how local govt funding works), can't we have a vote that they sell off the huge social club for council staff in Dulwich, and anything else that's lurking on the books that isn't actually for the benefit of the despised pubic? * Dulwich library counter person, 1995. I was trying to borrow a popular English history book. -
Well that's useful to hear from other people about the history. I know that women can be left desperate with children to feed (gambling gene in male line) but I also know that practised blaggers spot me coming. I used to go out with a bloke who had the same effect on sellers of Old Moore's Almanac and between us we couldn't get more than 6 feet down the high street without being accosted. I don't think this woman is mentally ill though. If her choices for making a living are very limited I give her a gold star for not choosing prostitution. I have myself taken payment for my labour from companies that make huge profits out of causing social and environmental devastation, and no one is calling the rozzers on them. I don't regard myself as in any position to cast stones. This person obviously has some dramatic talent as she apparently puts on (at least a partial) performance several times a day for her money. There are lots of BBC types and thespians living around here, couldn't someone give her a job on Casualty or something?
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There's a woman begging in the street outside the newsagents in Inverton Road, Nunhead. She starts to cry when people come and go from the shop. She says she only has ?33.50 a week to live on plus ?17.50 in child benefit for three under fives plus a baby, her gas and electric have run out and they are all freezing and she hasn't eaten for three days. Her hands were freezing. She says she has an appointment at the CAB in Lewisham tomorrow to try to find help. I gave her ?1. She said two other people had already given her ?1. She spotted a ?10 note in my purse and said "Look, there's a ?10 note, why won't you give me that?" She is standing outside the newsagents sobbing and saying "Why won't anyone help me". Would she be better off seeking help in East Dulwich?
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jumpinjackflash Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Assuming you are talking about the gated entrance > to the cemetery accessible on Brenchley Gardens? > That gate is open from morning until about 4:30pm > (later in the summer). It's a shame that they > can't leave it open a bit later as it's an > excellent short cut from Honor Oak station. The > P12 is also very unreliable and not very frequent. I didn't mean the main gate. There's a small one opposite the top of Kelvington Road, which was installed in days of yore precisely so that people could conveniently walk between that side of south Nunhead to Honor Oak, via the public open space. It has since been locked by the bureaucrats of Southwark Council. HA! Progress... Now that there is more need than ever to get to Honor Oak station, and given that it would give us viable access to the much heralded East London Line extension, I say we need another Honor Oak Riot (see 1905), or a can of WD40, and get the access opened again. Agree with you also re the main gate, for people who live further down. And that it's not an option to tell people to get the P12, when they could walk it in 5 mins if the gate was open. Last year I waited 47 minutes at Nunhead Station for a P12, laden down with bags, in freezing, driving rain and being harassed by rowdy kids who had nowhere to go but the bus shelter. Outside the rush hour it's useless and at any time you would have to factor in another 45 mins to make sure you picked it up in SE15 and arrived at HOP in time to get the right train. Who has the time?
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It's a shame you can't go as you sound like just the person to sort it out (and also you should have the evening off, of course). I am due to be going to listen to: Andreas Haefliger performs Jan?cek's Piano Sonata I.X.1905 ('From the Street'); Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C, Op 53 ('Waldstein'); Piano Sonata in F sharp, Op 78; and Brahms's Piano Sonata No 2 in F sharp minor, Op 2. On the other hand I could give this up and hang around a church hall/whatever all night listening to apparatchiks go blah, blah, blah. I don't think I could be held accountable in the presence of Southwark Council functionaries. Would have to be at a safe distance before hearing the excuses for stopping the Nunhead populace getting easy walking and cycling access to the coming East London line when it wouldn't cost them a penny. I am confident however, that Southwark Council is fully capable of coming up with something it will call a reason. Delivered via a forty page working party document involving "extensive public consultation" carried out by Our Mates Consultancy plc at a cost of 100,000 squids, entitled "Why We Can't Open the ****** Gate". Oooooh, I'm turning into Alf Garnett and I'm not even totally bald yet.
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This doesn't actually involve setting foot in SE22, admittedly, but would anyone be interested in trying to get Southwark Council (groan now, breathe deeply, count to ten, think of your favourite things, yes, you can handle them), Southwark Council, to open up the existing but locked gate in the Camberwell New Cemetery just opposite the road that leads ofF Ivydale up to Brenchley Gardens? The idea being that Nunhead dwellers could then have a 5 minute walk through a little bit of cemetery and then the lovely Honor Oak Recreation Ground, with its lovely panoramic views, completely on the flat, down to Honor Oak Station. Rather than a 25 minute hike along the length of Brenchley Gardens, up the lovely 1 in 2 hill and all the way down the other side. Because the very nifty short cut is deliberately blocked off, even though it goes entirely through council-owned land open to the public, Honor Oak station is effectively off the map for Nunheaders, even though it's quite close and the services are handy and are going to get much handier. When Honor Oak gets linked to the East London Line, it would make a whole lot of London a whole lot more accessible for us, no? Is there any public spirited soul out there who could have a go at making this happen? It's seems a tad silly with all the hoo-ha about getting people to walk, cycle and use public transport, that this couldn't be done? There would be absolutely no cost involved except possibly some WD40 for the lock on the Edwardian gate and I would be happy to donate that.
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The Duke (used to be Page 2/Village inn)
languagelounger replied to reds's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Do you know if they have internet access? -
Amelie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Slightly off the point, but my grandmother was in > service between the World Wars with a family > composed of 2 sisters and a brother. They owned > one of those huge mansion flats in the Albany and > a shooting lodge in Scotland. The brother would > go shooting each season and bring back pheasant. > Now of course, as you all know, pheasants have to > be hung until they are 'high' before being cooked. > So my grandmother would have to pluck the 'high' > pheasants, with maggots crawling up her arms > ............:'( I'm absolutely convinced that should have ended with her shooting the lot of them with their own pheasant-potter. Are you absolutely sure she didn't shoot them and then hang them up in the pantry?
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