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Thanks Lewis. I will get in touch.

Does anyone know about the planning permission applied for on 'land adjacent to 379 Upland Road'? (that's the LL end near Court Lane/Plough) This is third time around within around a year, and the application seems to be for something bigger each time (this time is 8 flats on 4 storeys, last time was 6 flats). I'm assuming people have objected to the previous plans?? (as car parking and cycle storage have been added). Any info welcome. I tried phoning the council last time, but the relevant person was never around and I don't have the time to go there to inspect.

I think it's fair enough to pay more to get things more quickly. I only object to paying for next day courier delivery...and then getting something four days later! This happened to me last month with Misco (IT things). The courier concerned was Citylink [? yellow and green livery], who were useless and made repeated false claims (e.g. on their tracker system and by phone) to Misco and hence to me. And I only got the 4-day delivery (Saturday) because I kicked up a stink and spent a lot of time on the phone, harassing. Even Misco couldn't get any sense out of them. They had apparently put stuff on the van and taken it off again for no apparent reason. Twice. Then when they were rumbled they changed all the tracker info, backdating a load of garbage entries. A Complete joke. Unlike UPS, which last month pulled all the stops out when Sage screwed up address info for a software delivery (Sage had put a London postcode with a Berkshire address!)

They have placed something called 'Dulwich' in the middle of the golf course, adjacent to Sydenham Hill Woods. Of course that ward is called 'College', not Dulwich. But I suppose a place called 'College' might seem a little odd. And North Dulwich station is in Camberwell. Which stretches almost down to Village Way. And the church on the Green is in Peckham. As are a number of East Dulwich facilities. While political boundaries may be all very well for...politics, they bear little relation to community, development and planning issues.

I have come across three of me in other parts of the world: a journalist in Brussels, a tennis player in Australia and an agronomist in California. All found on the interweb, never met face to face. That would be strange.

Rob da Bank in the pharmacy on North Cross Rd this afternoon.

I was taken aback by how good and interesting Yoko Ono's gig at Patti Smith's Meltdown was, a few years back.I hadn't been a fan.

Geraint Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Propaganda - now that's something I haven't heard > for a while! Way ahead of their time, loved P > Machinery back in the day. They still sound so fresh. P Machinery was on a brilliant 80s ZTT sampler (still not issued on CD). You can now get the wonderful Propaganda album Secret Wish on CD. Every tune a gem. And speaking of ZTT, try also the Art of Noise. > > Definitely go with Ulrich Schnauss, Boards of > Canada ('the campfire headphase' is more > approachable than some of their other stuff), > first two Air albums (Premieres Symptomes + Moon > safari) I'd also recommend their Virgin Suicides soundtrack album. Would highly recommend 'Nathan Fake - > drowning in a sea of love' Yes! and 'Sabres of Paradise > - Sabresonic' which is a bit of a classic though > it might still be deleted, > Also any Lemon Jelly or Orbital, William Orbit > (Strange Cargo III) and Aphex twin Selected > Ambient Works Vol.1 1985-1992 and although I > wouldn't class it as electronic, 'Nightmares on > wax' have some great laid back albums. Ninja Tubes has many fab artists, and their label compilations are a good point of entry. Also check out Ninja artist DJ Food's Raiding the 20th Century, an hour long mash up masterpiece. It should be on his website and elsewhere, free download.

If you have the urge to tidy, but can't bear the thought of throwing out your own stuff, come round here! I spend the whole of last Saturday tidying and throwing, and there's 10x that still left to do! Seriously, if anyone knows someone who can help with this sort of thing, for cash, let me know.

Boards of Canada (more ambient) - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country is so beautiful and too short Ulrich Schnauss - start with Far Away Trains Passing By Trentemoller - The Last Resort Booka Shade (more dance) The Field - From Here We Go Sublime The Knife (more pop) M83 (more chill e.g. Dead Cities.... album) Tosca - start with Suzuki, totally excellent Milanese (more challenging) anything by Global Communication, starting with 76:14 (also many things under their many other monikers - check them out on Discogs) and check out the Global Underground Afterhours series Scott Walkers's Tilt is fabulous (but is it electronic?). And his later The Drift I have yet to fully get to grips with.

trinity Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My experience to date has only been with the prep > age range and I have noticed a distinct lack of > children from SE22 and particularly from the east > side of Lordship Lane. Those I mentioned previously going to JAGS/Alleyns/DC - we are on east side of LL. > > From comments so far on this thread it does seem > as if there is an influx of local children at 11. > This suggests that there is a confidence in the > state primary schools which is does not exist for > secondary schools. You may be right.

There are kids in this street that go to JAGS etc.and I've known other locals go to Dulwich College. Parents with secondary age kids will have paid relatively little for their home but it's still not easy finding the fees, which seem to have gone up very rapidly in recent years.

pablogrande Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > that's not strictly true, the council hands over > the debt and the enforcement company is meant to > follow a strict set of stages to enforce the debt. > > > Southwark council in my experience don't give a > flying f**k what happens once the debt has been > passed on, there's plenty online about this and > questions asked in parliment about a case in ED > involving an MPs daughter http://www.lmag.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=131

JBW is clearly a racket (claim money for things they've never done). And councils are going along with the racket. But they are all at it. I let out a flat for some time to someone who didn't pay bills, fines etc. He also punched a bus driver in Brixton! For years afterwards (when I moved back to the flat), I received quite literally hundreds of communications from so-called bailiffs, all claiming they had visited the property but failed to get an answer. As I was on the other side of the front door in all cases (I work from home) and would have heard them knocking or ringing just feet away, their claims were clearly spurious. Some 80+ of their letters claimed to have visited, but none of them ever had! (The only ones who did were CID, in relation to the GBH incident in Brixton. We had a nice cup of tea to help me get over the shock.)

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Tried to get onto the legitimate electoral > registration site this morning - it's been > hijacked by this site which is quite amusing: > > NOT the official version! Peckhamgatecrasher - can you tell me exactly how you got there? (I do a lot of work on elections and digital, and we (Open Rights Group) are once again fielding election observers this May. I'm interested in what really happens, people's experience, as opposed to the theory of what *should* happen.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mind_Mapping_software OmniGraffle for Mac is only around 50 squid.

I don't buy petrol or buy using debit card on the interweb or use internet banking (I use telephone banking), and my debit card has never been compromised in 20 years. My company credit card was one of thousands compromised in the last Fasthosts debacle (thousands of customer details stolen) - HSBC rang to tell me before any loss occurred (they were clearly working their way through a list of hundreds of their own customers), then I had to get my card cancelled and another reissued, which was a pain as I was travelling at the time. It makes sense not to store CC details on websites: if it's a large organisation, they'll have good defences and data protection but will be a major target for worldwide thieves 24/7. If they're small, their security and data protection may not be sufficient.

I have been known to leave the house with my bag of kitchen rubbish to put in the bin, and then gaily stroll past the bin towards the shops, bag in hand. But I didn't do it today, thank goodness.

I have tried to stop talking and singing to myself as I wander down LL, for similar reasons. But it's hard, really hard...

Ha ha I do this too. Especially in winter, when you can pile on the layers.

Some friends of mine used to have a photo of a business rival pinned to the office wall, so that they could throw darts at it. Perhaps someone can dig out an image of said Mr Nesbitt, and we could toss our virtual darts towards his nether regions? It could have health benefits: getting rid of excessive stress.

In fact, now that we have ED bags, how about an ED stab-proof hoodie? Or should that just be for Peckhamites? Or would the ED hoodie be fair trade organic linen/cotton number rather than stab-proof?

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I hear Bestival has changed it's rule on Thursday > camping this year, which is good. > That's good to hear. The year we went, it was fairly strange - but surprisingly easy - having a band manager friend turn us into fake band members to get us into the VIP area (involved interchange of bracelets, waving arms out of moving vehicles and a range of verbal fobbing off tactics - we deliberately did it at dusk and no earlier). Of course, once you're in, you can't go out and come in again. But it worked to just get camping the first night.

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > louisiana Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > But who gives a ff about the line-up at a > festival? That's not why most of us go. > > > I know what you're saying, but if I'm paying ?150 > to camp in a smelly field with the worst toilets > in the known world, I want to see one or 2 good > bands aswell! Well I should have said: who gives a ff about the headliners. That's mostly what's been announced, and what seems to be talked about by those not going. > > I thought a couple of the acts had been announced. A handful out of hundreds. Mainly headliners. There's also a big 'Jay-Z is backing out' rumour doing the rounds right now. But given that - like most others attending - I probably plan to spend a squillionth of a second at the Pyramid stage, if that, to me it's neither here nor there.