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Thread: Forest Hill Station Subway
Post: RE: Forest Hill Station Subway
| On the face of it, a disappointing bit of graffiti. Nothing that interesting.
They appear to be simple tags. In the Wildstyle form of graffiti common in the US. I understand that tags can contain s... |
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02-04-2013, 02:58 PM |
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Thread: Let's move to Forest Hill
Post: RE: let's move to forest hill
| [quote=Michael]I can only urge others to send them a list of the reasons why Forest Hill is such a terrible place to live; the massive increase in independent coffee shops filled with well behaved chi... |
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18-03-2013, 03:54 PM |
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Thread: No trains: Sat 16 & Sun 17 March 2013
Post: RE: No trains: Sat 16 & Sun 17 March 2013
| Thank you very much blushingsnail for your OP.
You really saved me on Saturday. I saw your posting last week and realised that it involved me. I had to get to London’s Glittering West End for mid-S... |
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18-03-2013, 10:48 AM |
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Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: Pub guide to SE23
| [quote=Michael]Baggydave…does anybody else still remember his contributions…[/quote]
Absolutely.
Dearly missed by me, on here. When I log on each time I hope to see BD’s name in the recent posts.... |
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07-03-2013, 03:07 PM |
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Thread: Missing tabby cat in Devonshire Road
Post: RE: Missing tabby cat in Devonshire Road
| [quote=CatherineEB]Also thanks to Rob for leaving me a voicemail…[/quote]
Hi Catherine,
My pleasure for the voicemail.
I live very close to the Forest Hill end of Devonshire Road. I also have a... |
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22-02-2013, 07:27 PM |
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Thread: Planning: 2-4 London Road FH (Launderette)
Post: RE: Launderette closing
| [quote=Michael]What might work here is the German solution…[/quote]That idea is just begging for From The Forest and the Launderette to knock out the connecting wall between them. They’ll both clean ... |
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28-09-2012, 11:24 AM |
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Thread: article in the guardian - Do you feel rich
Post: RE: article in the guardian - Do you feel rich
| Hi fernglory and Medley,
Very interesting conversation to follow with you both about property ownership.
You may be interested, or indeed already following, this week’s Economist Debate.
The mo... |
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22-09-2012, 05:48 PM |
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Thread: Planning: 2-4 London Road FH (Launderette)
Post: RE: Launderette closing
| [quote=Akhnaten]…I dislike community forums.[/quote]The owner of the laundry may well be agreeing with your opinion, Akhnaten, after you have shared their private business on this one. |
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22-09-2012, 02:28 PM |
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Thread: article in the guardian - Do you feel rich
Post: RE: article in the guardian - Do you feel rich
| Thanks daveherne for your original post. I have come back to the article quite a few times and printed it off. It is a curious thing about what makes us feel rich or poor. And how that has changed i... |
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18-09-2012, 12:58 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| [quote=Medley]Water temperature is a real triumph - at last, a pool that isn't that bit too cold.[/quote]How yellow was it at the time? |
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18-09-2012, 12:19 PM |
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Thread: Cyclists
Post: RE: Cyclists
| Thank you very much DeedeeVonNoodle for grabbing that info from the LCC’s facebook page. That ties in with what I’ve been reading on the bit of the [url=http://www.getaheadofthegames.com/things-you-s... |
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25-07-2012, 06:21 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill and Sydenham Portas Bid
Post: RE: Forest Hill and Sydenham Portas Bid
| Hearty congratulations to everyone involved in this successful bid.
I observe in this [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18972391]BBC article[/url] that more than 400 towns made applications a... |
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25-07-2012, 09:35 AM |
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Thread: Departure board at Forest Hill station
Post: RE: Departure board at Forest Hill station
| Greetings and Welcome LeeH,
I don’t have an answer for you.
Although, I have taken a mild interest in the comings and goings of this departure board over the last month or so. You may have noti... |
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20-07-2012, 01:06 PM |
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Thread: Cyclists
Post: RE: Cyclists
| Hi hillsideresident,
I can’t assert as confidently as yourself that the “…only thing the new scheme has over the old one is a catchy rhyme...” because the Two Tings campaign is hard to locate to co... |
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04-07-2012, 09:52 PM |
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Thread: Cyclists
Post: RE: Cyclists
| [quote=hillsideresident]Sharing towpath scheme abandoned …[/quote]
The actual sharing of the towpath appears not to be abandoned from my reading.
How I read it is that the “Two Tings” campaign was... |
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03-07-2012, 11:11 AM |
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Thread: Celebrities in Cafes
Post: RE: celebrities in cafes
| My suspicions are starting to get aroused.
I’ll pull together a couple of threads and let’s see if they tie together…
Only two days ago we wake up to find that we have a [url=http://www.se23.com... |
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22-06-2012, 08:17 PM |
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Thread: Celebrities in Cafes
Post: RE: celebrities in cafes
| Until Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z publicly deny this, we have to accept it as true. This story is sweeping the interweb. Four Google news hits if you search on Beyonce + “Forest Hill”. [url=http://www.s... |
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22-06-2012, 02:43 PM |
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Thread: I dispair for London
Post: RE: I dispair for London
| Because of your exceptional actions, Londondrz, I see optimism for London. I think it is glorious that you caught this woman, then stood up to her even when she is hurling out abuse not long after the... |
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11-05-2012, 06:47 PM |
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Thread: cat sitter wanted
Post: RE: cat sitter wanted
| Hi Kate,
I can highly recommend the delightful Sioux. Here is a link to her thread called [url=http://www.se23.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=5886]Pet sitter available[/url].
There is a recommenda... |
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13-04-2012, 12:30 PM |
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Thread: Burglary in SE23
Post: RE: Burglary in SE23
| From a recent article in The Economist ([url=http://www.economist.com/node/21542438]Not Worth Nicking[/url]), which suggests that burglars can be analysed as consumers, it mentions that, “…in London, ... |
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11-04-2012, 02:21 PM |
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Thread: Horniman Licence Application
Post: RE: Horniman Licence Application
| [quote=Londondrz]I think you should look at stefan's post again[/quote]Ah, I got caught out with Stefan’s marvellous wording.
Phew! Still the only gay in the village then, thank goodness. |
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05-04-2012, 10:50 AM |
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Thread: Horniman Licence Application
Post: RE: Horniman Licence Application
| Stefan, I'll have you know that I'm the only gay in the village. Please move elsewhere.
[quote=BMqpr]…who says the next event might only attract a very civilised crowd.[/quote]I like your thinking,... |
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05-04-2012, 10:31 AM |
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Thread: Budget 2012
Post: RE: Budget 2012
| [quote=Brian]8 or 9p to the youngsters.[/quote]
How dare they serve bitter to the youngsters. |
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29-03-2012, 05:38 PM |
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Thread: Budget 2012
Post: RE: Budget 2012
| [quote=Sherwood]Their silence probably indicates that they are not pensioners![/quote]Not a good budget time to be a pensioner, then?
Lucky, if you like, that the government are delaying the pension ... |
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29-03-2012, 05:09 PM |
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Thread: Budget 2012
Post: RE: Budget 2012
| [quote=Brian]…what would you think Keston is.[/quote]
Is Keston a real place? I thought it was a mythological place that only appears in tales and folklore. Like Atlantis, El Dorado and Cloud Cuckoo ... |
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29-03-2012, 03:03 PM |
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Thread: Budget 2012
Post: RE: Budget 2012
| [quote=Brian]Wetherspoon Penge Beer Festival is 1.80p per pint[/quote]Thank you Brian.
Penge? I hope that you are joking by even suggesting that I'd venture so far south. I'd get a nosebleed. At th... |
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29-03-2012, 11:31 AM |
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Thread: Budget 2012
Post: RE: Budget 2012
| [quote=Michael]…discuss minimum alcohol pricing…[/quote]
I’d like some control on maximum alcohol pricing.
Have you bought a pint in some of the fine watering holes in SE23 lately? They charge li... |
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28-03-2012, 11:00 AM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| Thank you very much for your opinion, opinion!
And also thank you very much for that “tame solicitor” action in Australia, jgdoherty.
Yesterday, orange said in post [url=http://www.se23.com/foru... |
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08-03-2012, 07:48 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| I'm trying to understand Andrew Reid's sentence in the email to some of the TLERA committee and others (from post #600):
"Do we have a tame solicitor who would do some research for us?"
Does "ta... |
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08-03-2012, 02:47 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| [quote=orange]The thread is a democratic debate and as such, no one expressing different views should be attacked.[/quote]Then why are you doing it to me? |
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07-03-2012, 04:57 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| [quote=orange]Can anybody make me understanding this?[/quote]Nobody can make you understand anything.
You have to want to understand.
I'm not sure by the use of your rhetorical devices and you... |
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07-03-2012, 03:12 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| There are so many excellent, thoughtful posts on this thread that have really helped me to understand this matter.
What has emerged in my mind is that some of the behaviours of the street rep on Li... |
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07-03-2012, 12:02 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| Thank you gingernuts.
[quote=gingernuts]I feel sorry for Piplings, but also for the neighbours.[/quote]Have you met either of the parties?
[quote=gingernuts]You dont have to have an agenda to ha... |
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06-03-2012, 01:32 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| [quote=gingernuts]Phew - that's a heated statement from someone who claims to be only an observer![/quote]
As another observer, gingernuts, please help me to understand your motive for spending so ... |
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06-03-2012, 12:20 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| This concern has been more than a little dis-concerting to me.
And unusually so.
Particularly, to my mind because I, as a 45 year old, have no plans to either create or foster/adopt children.
I'm r... |
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03-03-2012, 07:20 PM |
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Thread: Cyclists
Post: RE: Cyclists
| [quote=Applespider]But it's another barrier...[/quote]
How might we nudge (oh dear, I can't believe that I've just used "that verb") getting a Cycle Licence to the level of being an esteemed right of... |
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03-03-2012, 07:05 PM |
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Thread: Missing Tortoiseshell Cat - Pebbles
Post: RE: Missing Tortoiseshell Cat - Pebbles
| [quote=Jane_D]Could you go round the nature reserve calling her - it must seem an exciting place for a cat to explore?[/quote]I’d be hanging out there, too, if I were a cat, Jane_D. Especially now as ... |
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23-02-2012, 05:22 PM |
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Thread: Post Office Conversion
Post: RE: Post Office Conversion
| I understand. That is a tricky quiz question. Not my cup a tea or pint of beer either.
But I do like some of The Hob's quizmasters. Particularly that bloke who dresses up in hilarious costumes.
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17-02-2012, 07:40 PM |
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Thread: Cyclists
Post: RE: Cyclists
| [quote=wayfarer]The cyclist is very lucky to be alive…[/quote]
Totally agree.
[quote=wayfarer]…and the driver gets 17 months. Something wrong somewhere[/quote]
17 months does seem on the slim s... |
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17-02-2012, 04:41 PM |
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Thread: Post Office Conversion
Post: RE: Post Office Conversion
| [quote=tomangel]...hopefully they'll be doing a better quiz than the Hob's - which is a bit annoying these days.[/quote]How so? |
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17-02-2012, 02:05 PM |
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Thread: Supermarkets
Post: RE: Supermarkets
| I like it when brands are brutally honest with their contents.
For example, Jolt Cola from the USA.
[img]http://www.se23.com/forum/attachment.php?aid=1010[/img]
Their tagline in the 1980’s w... |
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16-02-2012, 02:38 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| [quote=Michael]Why has nothing been done to sort this out amicably and neighbourly rather than closing down one of 50 businesses on the hill?[/quote]Agreed.
A Mediation Service is one of many pote... |
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02-02-2012, 01:58 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| [quote=Michael]If there is anything I can do to help neighbours work out their differences I would be happy to assist.[/quote]I heartily applaud Michael’s offer. |
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27-01-2012, 01:37 PM |
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Thread: Mugging in Honor Oak Park Saturday 14 January 2012
Post: RE: Mugging in Honor Oak Park Saturday 14 January ...
| Hello mitchy999,
Thank you very much for taking the time to warn people in the area about this incident last Saturday night.
And those residents of Grierson Road who came to help you were amazin... |
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20-01-2012, 07:37 PM |
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Thread: Car damaged by cyclist - Garthorne Road
Post: RE: Car damaged by cyclist - Garthorne Road
| Excellent spot, Joffe. This is the old Neighbourhood Watch in action. Now called [url=http://www.ourwatch.org.uk/]Our Watch[/url], I believe.
The BMW owner could well know this cyclist from an earl... |
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19-01-2012, 04:42 PM |
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Thread: Train and Buses Fares increase
Post: RE: Train and Buses Fares increase
| [quote=Applespider]The roads really aren't as scary as you think…[/quote]
I have pleasantly discovered that, as well. And I’m easily the most panicky scaredy cat in the Greater London area, if not We... |
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08-01-2012, 06:09 PM |
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Thread: Train and Buses Fares increase
Post: RE: Train and Buses Fares increase
| [quote=ryananglem]I also feel your smugness.[/quote]
I understand that when we cycle that the exercise stimulates the release of endorphins about 30 minutes from the start. These endorphins produce a... |
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07-01-2012, 11:06 PM |
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Thread: Train and Buses Fares increase
Post: RE: Train and Buses Fares increase
| [quote=Applespider]I've started cycling to/from work…I reckon I saved myself £800…[/quote]
You save £s…and lose lbs!
I’m doing exactly what you are doing Applespider.
What a sweet deal. And now we ... |
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07-01-2012, 12:57 PM |
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Thread: Hidden Gems
Post: Hidden Gems Part 2
| Hi Deano,
I was busy surmising this the other day after I went to reply to shimmysister’s request to help their Mum with a [url=http://www.se23.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=5570]Dentist who will sed... |
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Thread: Jeremy Clarkson
Post: RE: Jeremy Clarkson
| [quote=hillsideresident]Surely Clarkson's BBC salary is paid by the tax payer, which makes him a public sector worker himself?[/quote]
Very good. I like your observation, hillsideresident.
Are the... |
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