Peckwich

Hindenburg

Colonel

Whether the road is private or not, I have avoided it. Just felt a bit sorry for the residents but didn't realise it was meant to be that way. Not all vehicles parked on that road are 4x4's. Felt so bad for my poor little car, it was worse than driving over cracked speed bumps! (Owners of small cars would know how that feels.)

Bob (said with an American accent)

Unappreciated

Ignore

Oh, it never occurred to me that could be the reason. Thanks for clearing that up. I guess the Google car noticed the sign where I didn't.

I shouldn't find this funny but couldn't help laughing when I read it. In the Does anyone know Sarah Russell thread on the main forum, the first reply (which there is now no trace of) was: Yeah! Heard she is a right s**g! So juvenile and unhelpful. Reminds me of my old work place when I'd ask a simple question and would get a silly answer in return.

None this week but 1 last week. We get post for a different house number but on same road more often. About 1 per week on average.

When I first moved to this area, was driving around partly to look for a good parking spot and partly to explore the place. Happened to end up on Homestall Rd turning in from the end of Therapia Rd. What a bumpy drive that turned out to be! Stupidly, about a week later, I somehow forgot all about it and ended up driving through it again looking for parking. Never again! Even the Google car doesn't appear to have gone down there. The residents of the road seem to live with it happily though or am I wrong?

Training

I created an account but rarely use it. I get email notifications when someone is 'following' me on Twitter even when there is nothing to follow. The one time I have found it useful was when on the way home a few weeks ago there was a massive diversion on Old Kent Road whereby it was closed off from Albany Road to Bricklayers Arms. Couldn't find anything on any news website about it but went on twitter and found a few people twittering about it and what had happened.

Mushrooms

Feeding

Ted Max Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Guantanamera. Thank you! The name sounds familiar - will have to YouTube it. Took a good few days to get that tune out of my head.

HonaloochieB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > #ONE DULWICH FORUM > THERE'S ONLY ONE DULWICH FORUM > ONE DULWICH FORUUUUUUUM > THERE'S ONLY DULWICH FOOORUM# > I give up. I have been singing this with a particluar tune in my head and it is bugging me where I heard it (the tune). It's someone singing about one of something and may have been from an advertisement.

Heehee, HonaloochieB outfunnied.

I was approached on Farringdon Road today by a young lady, teary eyed, said she had just been in a bar (at this point I was feeling trepidation that a crime may have occurred) and had had an argument with her boyfriend and needed to borrow money home. She needed ?7 to go from Farringdon Station to Dorking. I could take one of her earrings as collateral, would meet me there again tomorrow to repay me, or I could speak to her mum on the phone. She offered me an earring twice and insisted they were real (they were giant pretzels painted in gold). She didn't convince me somehow, when I said 'no' she exclaimed, "I don't believe it" and as I walked away, heard her trying to flag another person down. Went past her on the bus and saw a suited gentleman stooping down to listen to her story. One thing for sure, she had been drinking. It's a hard call to make and if I had been in a different mood or if she had caught me at another time (or if she hadn't kept offering me her cheap earrings) I may have been more sympathetic. I have been caught out once by a girl in a supermarket carpark asking for bus fare home as she was alone and her parents hadn't given her enough dosh to get the bus home. I thought nothing of it and gave her the money which wasn't much but every penny was counted at the time, being a student. She immediately headed off to join a group of people who looked like her family! Small fry, I guess but it made me that little bit more cynical. Another time, a friend and I stopped on the Southbank as there was a teenage girl sitting on the ground weeping whilst numerous people walked by. We asked her if she was okay and she said she needed money to get to a hostel in Camberwell. We asked how much and when she said ?10, alarm bells started ringing in my head but my friend being quite naive got out a tenner and gave it to her. She did ask for more money at this point but did not get it. My friend may have even offered her a lift there instead but she declined!

Erosion

Tartar

ForestHillRoad (what?)

Nuts

Rafael

D & M Van Hire, bottom of Rye Lane.

Oh, and what is up with writing 'no tip' on the receipt? I only got it once but some colleagues have had it a few times as they have to taxis for work. Why do they expect a tip for a 10 minute ride it's so expensive already?