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  Thread: New Year's Eve events in Forest Hill
Post: RE: New Year's Eve events in Forest Hill

Hello GregW, The Hob rings in the New Year with a band. And fireworks. And a raffle! The magic starts at 8pm.
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 9 13,280 30-12-2007, 11:19 PM
  Thread: Threat to Conservation Area
Post: RE: Threat to Conservation Area

I have enjoyed reading IWereAbsolutelyFuming's thoughtful observations on this thread about this planning application. One point that I felt I resonated with is "...that people should make their ow...
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 34 32,523 16-01-2008, 10:42 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park Secrets
Post: Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park Secrets

I found this tourist brochure about Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park. [size=2][b][url=http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/2FF892AF-0AAD-4316-8204-F38A27328649/0/ForestHillandHonorOakfinalPDF.pdf...
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 4 8,864 21-01-2008, 10:21 PM
  Thread: Where am I?
Post: RE: Where am I?

The multimap link, posted by Ghis, shows Honor Oak and Honor Oak Park in the same grey upper case font as Forest Hill. Are there two separate suburbs called HO and HOP?
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 22 20,779 24-01-2008, 10:02 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Overcrowding on Trains to London Bridge

Attention Commuters! On yer bike! I started riding mine to Baker Street each day since the beginning of this year. Prior to that, for the last six years, I've been doing the train commute from The ...
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 1,398 1,248,771 25-01-2008, 12:17 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Overcrowding on Trains to London Bridge

e_r, it could be that Roz was inciting debate rather than commuter chaos. I come to this conclusion because on this thread, [url=http://www.se23.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=370]DECENT DEBATE WANTE...
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 1,398 1,248,771 25-01-2008, 02:13 PM
  Thread: Which is your Favourite Pub in SE23?
Post: RE: Which is your favourite pub in SE23?

There's a Moore Park Hotel (RIP) and a Moore Park Garage. Where is the Moore Park?
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 66 70,594 29-01-2008, 09:52 AM
  Thread: Which is your Favourite Pub in SE23?
Post: RE: Which is your favourite pub in SE23?

Thank you baggydave for keeping the fond memories alive. I don't feel I quite got to my answer in your posting. Where do the former hotel and garage derive their names? Does anyone know if there...
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 66 70,594 30-01-2008, 01:27 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Overcrowding on Trains to London Bridge

[quote=michael] [quote=Ghis] Anyone has photoshop and wants to have some fun with that poster? [/quote] I believe this is what you are looking for: http://picasaweb.google.com/shannon.carver/Wier...
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 1,398 1,248,771 30-01-2008, 03:11 PM
  Thread: Big cat in the area
Post: Big cat in the area

A few years ago, one of our neighbours in Sydenham had a nocturnal brush with some exotic feline. See this [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4370893.stm]BBC BIG CAT NEWS ARTICLE[/url]. ...
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 7 8,448 01-02-2008, 02:04 PM
  Thread: Getting lost
Post: RE: Getting lost

These tales of getting lost reminds me of this scene from the Channel 4 series Spaced. Tim: Where are you? Mike: Err, Sheffield. Tim: What are you doing in Sheffield? Mike: Fell asleep on the...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 6 5,972 01-02-2008, 02:18 PM
  Thread: Old Blue Mountain Cafe in Forest Hill - a rant board in progress.
Post: Old Blue Mountain Cafe in Forest Hill - a rant boa...

I tip my hat to the person or people who are making the outside of the old Blue Mountain Cafe in Forest Hill a visual feast. If you haven't seen it, then just opposite The Hob on the South Circular...
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 18 21,106 08-02-2008, 10:05 AM
  Thread: Travelling from FH to Paddington
Post: RE: Travelling from FH to Paddington

I travelled from Forest Hill to Marylebone (2 stops before Paddington on the Bakerloo line) for six years using public transport. I stopped last December and switched to using my bicycle. (Mostly to g...
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 14 15,634 03-04-2008, 10:32 PM
  Thread: May mayoral election
Post: RE: May mayoral election

[quote=Sherwood] Is Boris really likely to win? [/quote] I've been wondering about this, too, Sherwood. To answer for myself this same question I've been connecting the dots between two thing...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 77 63,697 29-03-2008, 04:27 PM
  Thread: Travelling from FH to Paddington
Post: RE: Travelling from FH to Paddington

[quote=hillwalker] Hi Cellar Door So how long does your journey take on bike? I'm thinking of doing a very similar journey soon and was thinking about the hour mark? [/quote] Very good thinking,...
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 14 15,634 04-04-2008, 02:04 PM
  Thread: Travelling from FH to Paddington
Post: RE: Travelling from FH to Paddington

[quote=baggydave] Graham W, I did not understand your poem, I know that they don't have to rhyme, but this was too deep for me. [/quote] grahamw's inspired poem of unfulfilled public transportati...
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 14 15,634 05-04-2008, 09:46 AM
  Thread: Lewisham borough a vibrant place to live - it's official
Post: RE: Lewisham borough a vibrant place to live - it'...

[quote=admin] Enough already :rolleyes: [/quote] Bravo, admin. Both of our dear forum users in this dust-up obviously have something in them that needs to be heard. I?d be reluctant to see the...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 23 26,210 12-04-2008, 07:01 AM
  Thread: Lewisham borough a vibrant place to live - it's official
Post: RE: Lewisham borough a vibrant place to live - it'...

[quote=admin] Interesting points Cellar Door, though I'd suggest that members would prefer not to see petty name-calling anywhere. Thankfully the above is a rare occurrence. [/quote] Indeed. ...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 23 26,210 12-04-2008, 10:22 AM
  Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing

[quote=Jon Lloyd]?quite often grumpy?[/quote] I do get the grumpy in Jon?s allegory. I do get it. He may well be right. I would like to enhance this definition if you will indulge me for a br...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 61 55,346 18-10-2008, 01:43 PM
  Thread: St. George's Day
Post: RE: St. George's Day

[quote=david.lathwell] It's a shame that the local pubs aren't doing anything at least [/quote] david.lathwell, Forest Hill's The Hob has also come to your rescue. I walked past earlier today ...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 16 13,693 23-04-2008, 06:34 PM
  Thread: Linda Barker and Other Celeb Types in the Area
Post: RE: Linda Barker and other celeb types in the area

Dear Forum Readers, I think I just saw Elton John's purple helicopter fly in a north westly direction over SE23 about 30 minutes ago. A friend of mine texted me a few weeks ago to say that he sa...
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 47 81,389 23-04-2008, 07:16 PM
  Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: We should ban all dogs from the Horniman

[quote=vipes]Is there any way this could be put this on the agenda for Sunday? [/quote] Vipes, I should think that this link below, provided by admin, may give you an opportunity to get your conce...
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 293 275,281 24-04-2008, 06:38 PM
  Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: We should ban all dogs from the Horniman

[quote=vipes] ...Tewksbury Lodge Residents' Association (under whose banner, I note, the meeting on Sunday is arranged)...[/quote] Thank you Vipes for pointing this out. Based on the other threa...
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 293 275,281 25-04-2008, 06:39 PM
  Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Sun 27nd April 2pm: Public Meeting re Redevelo...

[quote=admin] For more information on what will be discussed [url=http://www.horniman.ac.uk/gardens/gardens2.php]see this[/url]. [/quote] Also, see the Tewkesbury Lodge Residents Association's webs...
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 293 275,281 25-04-2008, 06:56 PM
  Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: We should ban all dogs from the Horniman

[quote=Woodvale] Maybe a letter to the parks dept at lewisham counsel would help. [/quote] Hi Woodvale, I suspect you'd be barking up the wrong tree. Maybe another SE23.com Forum Reader ca...
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 293 275,281 30-04-2008, 11:05 PM
  Thread: Sexist comment?
Post: RE: Sexist comment?

[quote=sandy] Why did I find it irritating or why did I find it sexist? [/quote] I'm curious on why you found it sexist.
Cellar Door Wider Topics 16 13,929 09-05-2008, 09:53 AM
  Thread: Who is the laziest driver in SE23
Post: RE: Who is the laziest driver in SE23

[quote=baggydave] But I have a neighbour who insists on driving what must be less than 400 yards to Horniman School. He is fit and well. [/quote] The school administrators must be wondering if h...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 26 22,549 05-06-2008, 11:31 PM
  Thread: Moral Question
Post: RE: Moral Question

[quote=brian] ...my fellow coffee drinkers who all [u]seemed[/u] to codone it as OK... [/quote] [quote=brian] ...that the other customers [u]seemed[/u] to think ... [/quote] [quote=brian] ...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 19 16,190 12-06-2008, 03:16 PM
  Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing

[quote=Jon Lloyd]If I were to shift it into my shed, and make my loaves in there while listening to the shipping forecast in my slippers, I would be well on the way to duffing nirvana.[/quote] Jon,...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 61 55,346 15-08-2008, 03:41 PM
  Thread: Bread makers
Post: RE: Bread makers

[quote=Elizabeth25]If you put the bread in the fridge it lasts a bit longer. Or you could freeze half the bread and eat the other half. If you were a single person.[/quote] Thanks Liz. That sounds...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 11 10,945 15-08-2008, 04:39 PM
  Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing

It will have to wait much longer since if sexuality were a ballroom then Jon and I are dancing down different ends. I'm trying to work out what being a Gay Duffer means. For me it's being squeamish...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 61 55,346 16-08-2008, 02:43 PM
  Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing

[quote=psyche9] Dr Who, libraries, church flower-arranging, gardening / allotments, going down to Kent, caravans and camping, knitting, tea in teapot, baccy smoking, fish paste, dancing, elderflower w...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 61 55,346 16-08-2008, 08:32 PM
  Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing

[quote=Jon Lloyd]...I have just finished eating the first pie I've ever made (chicken, leek and mushroom - delicious). I made it listening to Leonard Cohen, after spending the day weeding and chopping...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 61 55,346 16-08-2008, 09:36 PM
  Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing

[quote=Jon Lloyd] I don't know about oblivion, it was quite a spiky hedge and I very undufferishly neglected to be wearing the correct attire for the job.[/quote] Yikes! I've got a much less prickl...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 61 55,346 17-08-2008, 11:23 AM
  Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing

[quote=Applespider]?so not sure I hit the heady duffer heights...[/quote] Fear not young Applespider. It may not be about achieving any goal. I'm not aware of any Duffer mountain that we must climb t...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 61 55,346 18-08-2008, 12:54 PM
  Thread: Newsflash?Wookiees arrive on planet Earth.
Post: Newsflash?Wookiees arrive on planet Earth.

My sources in the newsroom at a major news agency have just discovered the real truth behind this breaking story - [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7564635.stm] Americans 'find body of B...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 6 6,508 18-08-2008, 02:16 PM
  Thread: Passengers break out of airport
Post: RE: Passengers break out of airport...

Hi Roz, I don't travel much anymore by Aeroplane but when I did take to the skies from BAA airports I never experienced anything as out of the ordinary as your incredible experience. I didn't know whe...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 5 6,728 19-08-2008, 10:55 AM
  Thread: Holidays without air travel
Post: RE: Holidays without air travel

[quote=Brian]I agree Bognor Regis not everybodies cup of tea , even George the fifth said ***** Bogner.[/quote] If Bognor Regis isn't your thing like it appears that it wasn't for George the Fifth, t...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 63 79,340 19-08-2008, 07:06 PM
  Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing

[quote=Elizabeth25]Anyone listen to Saturday Live on Radio 4?[/quote] Hey Elizabeth 25, I like Fi Glover but Saturday Live is a little too frenetic and shouty while nursing my usual Saturday morning ...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 61 55,346 20-08-2008, 11:21 AM
  Thread: Holidays without air travel
Post: RE: Holidays without air travel

[quote=shzl400]Cellar Door - you sure you didn't mean to post on the Duffing thread?[/quote] Well observed, shzl400. Admin could cut all of my posts in this entire forum and paste them into the Duffi...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 63 79,340 20-08-2008, 11:42 AM
  Thread: Newsflash?Wookiees arrive on planet Earth.
Post: RE: Newsflash?Wookiees arrive on planet Earth.

[quote=Perryman]Yes, I heard a few Wookies will be passing over SE23 in a balloon soon, wishing that 'the Force be with us', or some such.[/quote] Everything you wrote young Perryman is true. I have ...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 6 6,508 20-08-2008, 12:07 PM
  Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing

[quote=Elizabeth25]Oh dear...sad duffer now.[/quote] Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Elizabeth25, please don't say "sad duffer". You'll spook the horses. Say "Proud Duffer". Here, please listen t...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 61 55,346 20-08-2008, 12:26 PM
  Thread: Holidays without air travel
Post: RE: Holidays without air travel

Hi Fany9560, go to [url=http://www.brittany-ferries.co.uk/home]Brittany Ferries[/url]. You can get return weekend tickets with a cabin for October for as little as ?60 right now. That?s the foot p...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 63 79,340 20-08-2008, 09:28 PM
  Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing

That's it Elizabeth25. You go, Girlfriend. [b]*snap of the fingers*[/B] I'm dancing around the room like I'm Oprah Winfrey and you're a guest who's just had their sweetest epiphany.
Cellar Door Wider Topics 61 55,346 22-08-2008, 12:23 PM
  Thread: Holidays without air travel
Post: RE: Holidays without air travel

Theotherbrian, You sound like an appreciator of train travel. Thank you the tip-off about clicking on France on the map. I also find Rail Europe a little lacking. I travelled in 1999 to Barcelon...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 63 79,340 23-08-2008, 08:02 PM
  Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing

[quote=jon14]I'm quite young but got quite excited when my first copy of my Gardner's World subscription came through the door on Firday.... Does that count?[/quote] Absolutely. Welcome to the Duf...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 61 55,346 26-08-2008, 11:44 AM
  Thread: Chess in SE23
Post: RE: Chess in SE23

[quote=roz]So, are there any closet chess players of any level out there who would be interested in a game or two over a pint?[/quote] Yes, please roz, I?d love to join you in any chess events. I o...
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 15 12,596 05-03-2009, 01:22 PM
  Thread: Story behind the mask
Post: RE: Story behind the mask

For Cellar door, I first heard it in the 2001 movie Donnie Darko. Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is speaking with his teacher Karen Pomeroy (Drew Barrymore). He sees the words ?Cellar Door? written...
Cellar Door Wider Topics 17 16,419 31-10-2008, 03:27 PM
  Thread: Make a wish
Post: RE: Make a wish

Many thanks bigbadwolf for acknowledging my travels along the road to nowhere as I crossed 42nd Street.
Cellar Door Wider Topics 1 3,600 19-11-2008, 12:22 PM
  Thread: Old Blue Mountain Cafe in Forest Hill - a rant board in progress.
Post: RE: Old Blue Mountain Cafe in Forest Hill - a rant...

[quote=VictorianNoah]? like something out of a fever dream.[/quote] I sometimes stare at the handwriting VictorianNoah and I break out in a cold sweat thinking that I recognise it as mine. Written ...
Cellar Door SE23 Topics 18 21,106 05-03-2009, 04:50 PM
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