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Well, reading Rosie's press release when she launched her book, she really suggested that she took the shop and made it successful rather than getting an establish business with a customer base off someone who had to sell it.
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Well, reading Rosie's press release when she launched her book, she really suggested that she took the shop and made it successful rather than getting an establish business with a customer base off someone who had to sell it.
Winot
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Jackie was lovely and I find Rosie's schtick and meeja connections as irritating as those upthread, but to give her credit she is a much better business woman than Jackie was.
Winot
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Or the restaurant at 20 Trinity Gardens if you are going back further. However there's clearly been a 'step change' (cliché alert) more recently associated with changes to the market, and Boca/Rosie's was probably in the vanguard.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
I've also noticed lots of the strip lights which are embedded in the floor of the square have stopped working or the bulbs/LEDs have gone. Can't anyone build anything these days that lasts for longer than 12 months or so?
Minnie_the_Minx
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I went past yesterday, hoping for a glimpse of the wonderful fountain, now that the hosepipe ban has been lifted. Has anyone informed Lambeth Council the hosepipe ban's been lifted and they're allowed to turn the bit of spit back on?
Orang Utan
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Minnie_the_Minx said:I went past yesterday, hoping for a glimpse of the wonderful fountain, now that the hosepipe ban has been lifted. Has anyone informed Lambeth Council the hosepipe ban's been lifted and they're allowed to turn the bit of spit back on?
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I must get back to counting the chair ratio again
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Franco Manco was the real game changer in the covered markets. For all the meedja Rosie's attracted, it didn't actually make a difference to the market in the way that Franco's did. And it was cheap.
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hiraethified
That fountain has been a spectacular waste of money. Why couldn't they just install the good ones that everywhere else seems to have instead of this ludicrous feeble dribble/fine spray non-entity?I went past yesterday, hoping for a glimpse of the wonderful fountain, now that the hosepipe ban has been lifted. Has anyone informed Lambeth Council the hosepipe ban's been lifted and they're allowed to turn the bit of spit back on?
Minnie_the_Minx
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I'd love to know how much that spit cost
We need dancing fountains for the kids to play in whilst their parents sip their Pimms
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Yeah, because there's been NO criticism of the village or gentrification from locals....
Minnie_the_Minx
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They'd be even happier if it was bigger though
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Yeah I think you're spot on there about Francos.
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hiraethified
Of course, but quite a few would prefer the proper ones that are installed just about everywhere else. Chelsea has no less than *three* right next to each other on the King's Road
Winot
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Yes, I think you're right.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
How long will it be until media backlash against the village? Endless GREAT reviews can't go on forever. I reckon within 6 months we'll have articles saying "Is Brixton Village past it's best?" "It's not as good now as it was in 2010" etc etc...
Orang Utan
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It would be ace if they had the kids' fountain they have on the South Bank
Minnie_the_Minx
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Probably not, but we need bigger fountains. I'm surprised the kids aren't having fights over who's going to get the water from the fountain
We need one like the South Bank had
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
It'll be like a celebrity, build 'em up and knock 'em down!
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Funnily enough, no. I took my youngest to play in the King's Road fountain a couple of summers ago, and was told off by one of the Chelsea ladies for changing her into her swimming costume in full view of the public
. She was 2 or 3 at the time. 
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Left Of The Dial
Told you so moment waiting to happen eh?
Yeah, and most of these so called local entrepreneurs will move onto their next locality.
Be afraid, New Cross. Enjoy your coffee.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Funnily enough, no. I took my youngest to play in the King's Road fountain a couple of summers ago, and was told off by one of the Chelsea ladies for changing her into her swimming costume in full view of the public
I can understand that though. Before I posted that pic of the South Bank fountain, I was going to put up another one but it had toddlers wearing just underwear. Decades ago, this wouldn't have been a problem, but now you think, "uh oh, must be a kiddie fiddler posting pictures up like that". It's got to the point nowadays, where you feel guilty sitting on a park bench watching kids play in case their parents think you're a pervert, and there's absolutely no way I'd get my camera out in case they think you're going to post pictures of kids onto dodgy websites
Orang Utan
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Yes, New Cross and Deptford are next
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