Brixton Chitter Chatter and News - June 2012

[boohoo]

The downside of having a baby is the deleterious effect on ones range of adjectives.

No, yummy isn't mummy talk. Here is the list for those with small children!

Here's my reviews:
Honest Burger - nom nom nommmy (but for vegetarians)
El Panson - Nom nom nommy
That Thai Place - Nom nom nom
Grace and French - Nom nom nom
The ice cream plane -nom nom no
Bellatonis - nom nom no
Elephant - nom nom
Brick Box -nom nom
Agile Rabit -nom no

 

[Onket]

Franco Manca is miles better. I would even prefer the Reggae Reggae pizzas in the Dogstar

Franco Manca itself is highly over-rated anyway.

 

[Kanda]

Franco Manca itself is highly over-rated anyway.

Agree. So is El Panzon.

 

[Onket]

Anyone interested in Social Cleansing should watch the programme after Newsnight - it's about Deptford High Street and what happened after WW2 when the LCC planners decided to decant the residents to Harlow, Bury St Edmunds etc and demolish good quality terraced houses - even if spotlessly kept. The owners suffered compulsory purchase at low rates - then demolition. The new flats built then now in turn need to be demolished.
It was shown last Wednesday and is a real shocker - but beautifully crafted as a documentary I thought.
Take note - look at Guinness Trust! (Southwyck House next?) - pass it on!

Saw this last week- it's a great programme. The next one (tonight) is about a street in Camberwell and looks like it's worth a watch too.

Deptford- http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod..._History_of_Our_Streets_Deptford_High_Street/

Camberwell- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jzpm3

 

[kittyP]

Franco Manca itself is highly over-rated anyway.

Blasphemy!!

 

[kittyP]

Agree. So is El Panzon.

El panzon took a big step up when they first opened at the hootahob but have gone down hill.

 

[Onket]

Blasphemy!!

The food is nice enough, but it's not 'amazing' or anything. And the place itself is squashed and uncomfortable.

 

[idumea]

I need to buy a small set of LEDs in Brixton tonight-- the kind that can be hooked up to an Arduino. Like this. Any ideas of electrical shops that would have them in Brixton?

 

[Chilavert]

For those of you interested in the Olympics, the Torch Relay will be heading through Brickers on the 26th July, I think along Coldharbour and Acre Lanes between Camberwell and Clapham. Should be at around lunchtime...

 

[Kanda]

I need to buy a small set of LEDs in Brixton tonight-- the kind that can be hooked up to an Arduino. Like this. Any ideas of electrical shops that would have them in Brixton?

No idea. probably more luck going to Oxford Circus Maplins...

 

[Orang Utan]

For those of you interested in the Olympics, the Torch Relay will be heading through Brickers on the 26th July, I think along Coldharbour and Acre Lanes between Camberwell and Clapham. Should be at around lunchtime...

I hope someone lights a spliff on it

 

[trabuquera]

I hope someone lights a spliff on it

I hope someone tries to nick it and run off with it. There is a great deal of athletic talent round our ends and most of it is being squandered on inadequate competition. Drunk, confused or tiny hipsters don't offer our lads the chance to exercise their best turns of speed.

 

[Onket]

Cliche ago-go.

Any more?

 

[Badgers]

The food is nice enough, but it's not 'amazing' or anything. And the place itself is squashed and uncomfortable.

What pizza do you prefer in this manor?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I hope someone extinguishes it in Brixton's fountain, except 1) there's a hosepipe ban and 2) I doubt that fountain's capable of putting a cigarette out

 

[Kanda]

I hope someone extinguishes it in Brixton's fountain, except 1) there's a hosepipe ban and 2) I doubt that fountain's capable of putting a cigarette out

Hosepipe ban lifted at midnight tonight.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Hosepipe ban lifted at midnight tonight.

Lambeth will probably forget to switch it on as it's hard to remember it's there as it's so pathetic

 

[Onket]

What pizza do you prefer in this manor?

I've never had one to write home about. I'm not an expert though, tbf.

 

[el-ahrairah]

i actually like the pathetic fountain. it pleases me.

unlike any pizza i have ever had in brixton. by which i mean the nice pizza places. none of them have ever really satisfied in the way the dirty cheap pizza does.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Hosepipe ban lifted at midnight tonight.

I thought it was tomorrow night?

 

[Kanda]

I thought it was tomorrow night?

If it was tomorrow night I would have said tomorrow night wouldn't I?!?!?!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18419163

Anglian Water, Southern Water and Thames Water have confirmed that they are to remove the restrictions from midnight on Wednesday.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

If it was tomorrow night I would have said tomorrow night wouldn't I?!?!?!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18419163

I thought it was Tuesday today

 

[London_Calling]

Goodness, the Ritzy's got new bogs.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Goodness, the Ritzy's got new bogs.

FFS. They expect you to pee in sinks now

 

[London_Calling]

Yep, nothing changes.

 

[el-ahrairah]

I thought it was Tuesday today

so did i. now i'm a bit happier!

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Goodness, the Ritzy's got new bogs.

is that the mens or the womens? The mens were always utter shite....(and usually smelt as such)

 

[London_Calling]

LOL. Not the infamous Gents, I suspect ... They really, really were/are mingin.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Franco Manca itself is highly over-rated anyway.

I think they do a pretty good pizza. Given I don't eat meat, they always have a decent selection. My only gripe is sometimes their plates aren't hot enough, which means your pizza goes cold a little too quickly. (And you have to go in the daytime on a weekday, or the queues are mental.)

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

LOL. Not the infamous Gents, I suspect ... They really, really were/are mingin.

Have any gents loos in this country got these types of sinks yet? No plughole, just a big long sloped trough. Means you can puke whilst washing your hands without clogging the sink up