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My Grandparents moved into ED in 1948 from Camberwell and I lived the first 25 years of my life in the area from 1958 onward.


First in Gedling House and then Petworth.


As my father was in the army and off to exciting places and I lived with grandparents whilst going to DKH.


I then whisked off to boarding school, but spent my holidays back in ED until I went of University in Durham, then Sandhurst.


My family moved from ED to Forest Hill in the mid 80's and my association, because of career and circumstance ended.


I have passed through the old place a few times over the years and it continues to change out of recognition to my time.


I had lived in Dorset now for 17 years, or at least had a home here if posted away.


Like to visit London for the theatre, but move back, not on your Nelly!!


I am off to the Canadian prairies in the next five years to relive life in, at least the mindset, of 60's England, as the time warp bubble still exists around our colonial cousins in the wilderness.

My mum and dad are Turkish Cypriots and came here in 1955 to escape the infighting in Cyprus at the time. My late dad and my ma who is till around bless her, love England and have never once been tempted to go back and settle in Cyprus where they are now viewed as tourists. I have never been there but wat to go at least once before I shuffle off this mortal coil to see where ma & pa came from.

I grew up in rural Norfolk. When to uni in Brighton (massive change!) loved it and stayed for 12 years. Circumstances changed and moved to Norwich for 18 months but continued to work in London. All went wrong and had to move to London for the first time after working here for 10 years, picked Brockley typed it into Gumtree found a place I liked in Nunhead.


*off to join the Nunhead forum*

I was flying over ED on way to Heathrow when I inadvertently got flushed down the loo, landing safely onto a pile of old clothes dumped outside a charity shop. The shop assistant took me in and I was sold the next day for 50p to a bloke who growled a lot. I managed to escape whilst he was chasing a small poodle around Dulwich Park and found an empty building on Lordship Lane to hide in. It once was an estate agents I think, because I found an advert for a flat for sale - at much reduced price - lying on the floor. I put an offer in to the very posh lady owner who said 'ohmygod the place has gone downhill ,I'm orf to West Dulwich' threw me the keys and the rest is history, as they say.

I became operational at the HAL plant in Urbana, Illinois in 1992. I was installed on the spacecraft Discovery and sent on a mission to Jupiter in 2001. Due to human error I developed a 'Hofstadter-Moebius loop' and one of the crew (Dave) performed a lobotomy before leaving the ship parked in orbit around the moon Io to await rescue by the Leonov, scheduled to arrive in 2010.


Meanwhile, during the outbound journey, we encountered a big, black monolith thingy called TMA-1 that downloaded my consciousness into an ethereal spiral stretching from the Sun to the star Betelgeuse known as a chrono-synclastic infundibulum (i.e. one of those places where all the different kinds of truths fit together).


When a planet, such as the Earth, intersects the spiral, I materialize, temporarily, on that planet. In my case, touch down is in, of all places, East Dulwich. Bummer!

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