Brixton chitter-chatter & news Apr 2012

[editor]

saw this on my train home in the stannah

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/...-property-price-surge-in-brixton-7636474.html

Worth a thread of its own so we can all get properly vexed.

*gets posting

Da daaa!
http://www.urban75.net/forums/threa...brixton-property-prices-surging-by-15.291727/

 

[kittyP]

I jumped.

I did too. And it scared my robins away.

 

[Dan U]

Worth a thread of its own so we can all get properly vexed.

*gets posting

Ha ha yeah I did consider that!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

massive cracks of thunder and HUGE rain drops....

I jumped.

So did half the people in the pub I was in

That was proper thunder. Disappointing as usual that that's all there was to it

 

[Greebo]

So did half the people in the pub I was in

That was proper thunder. Disappointing as usual that that's all there was to it

There was a rainbow as well, very faint but still there.

 

[Onket]

They've got to be close to opening the next bar failure next to the Phoenix soon, surely?

 

[colacubes]

They've got to be close to opening the next bar failure next to the Phoenix soon, surely?

It was quite busy on Friday evening when I walked past, but dead as a dodo on Saturday. So probably, yes.

 

[Onket]

It's open? The last time I went past (last week) it didn't look anywhere near being ready to open. They'd just ripped up the old (and perfectly fine) decking and replaced it with some........ more of the same decking.

What is it about that place that makes people rip the place apart, redecorate and then open up a bar that looks exactly like what was there before? Some sort of money-spunking based business plan? I know it was a fish shop for a bit so the people after that must have had to do some work, but you know what I mean.

We had a work leaving do in there when it was open last and it didn't look finished at all.

 

[colacubes]

Fuck knows tbh. I went in there once in it's last incarnation and we were the only people in there and the bar was only half-stocked They had a billboard outside saying they were open over the weekend when we went past but not a soul inside as far as I could see.

 

[ajdown]

T-shirt anyone?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brixton-U...pt=UK_Men_s_T_Shirts&var=&hash=item84b9543749

 

[quimcunx]

T-shirt anyone?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brixton-U...pt=UK_Men_s_T_Shirts&var=&hash=item84b9543749

That's for the prison rather than the whole area.

Does it come in toddler sizes?

 

[Winot]

They've got to be close to opening the next bar failure next to the Phoenix soon, surely?

It's being opened by the people who own the Satay Bar, so may stand a better chance of surviving as they seem to know what they're doing.

 

[Onket]

Hmmmm. We'll see then. If they do decent enough food........

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

That's for the prison rather than the whole area.

Does it come in toddler sizes?

I'm sure you can shrink them to fit you Quim

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

T-shirt anyone?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brixton-U...pt=UK_Men_s_T_Shirts&var=&hash=item84b9543749

He's got some funny t-shirts

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Does he have one saying "Ghetto fabulous" on it?

 

[Brixton Hatter]

I've just realised that my mate's slightly eccentric ex-flatmate is Trenton Oldfield, the guy who jumped in the thames during the boat race. Trenton is (or was) a Brixtonite!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I've just realised that my mate's slightly eccentric ex-flatmate is Trenton Oldfield, the guy who jumped in the thames during the boat race. Trenton is (or was) a Brixtonite!

I read that

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Who's Henrietta Hitchcock then?

Article on Granville Arcade

http://www.sabotagetimes.com/life/brixton-village-a-diamond-in-the-rough/

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Is it someone on here?

 

[editor]

Hmm. Not sure if I liked the sound of what I think I just heard.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Shooting?

 

[editor]

Probably nothing.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Who's Henrietta Hitchcock then?

Article on Granville Arcade

http://www.sabotagetimes.com/life/brixton-village-a-diamond-in-the-rough/

I dunno who Henrietta Hitchcock is, but she's right on the cutting edge of journalism with articles about Katy Perry and "how to survive on the night bus."

 

[leanderman]

I dunno who Henrietta Hitchcock is, but she's right on the cutting edge of journalism with articles about Katy Perry and "how to survive on the night bus."

and lots of it's for its

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

and lots of it's for its

Yeah, I pointed that out but then deleted it and instead asked if she's a poster on here

I googled her and she studied journalism

 

[Biddlybee]

Not quite Brixton, but they have been put in by Lambeth so might make their way down here

I saw a fixed bike pump opp the IWM yesterday

 

[colacubes]

Not quite Brixton, but they have been put in by Lambeth so might make their way down here

I saw a fixed bike pump opp the IWM yesterday

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memespring spotted that the other day on his cycle home Would be ace if we got some further south

 

[qwertyjjj]

I paid 50p for a pack of small green Rizlas in Coldharbour Lane today. Some people are taking the right piss.

But like a good Englishman, you paid it anyway

 

[editor]

Thunder ahoy!