HiUrb Scrunting said:Hi Brixtonites,
My name's Urb Scrunting and I'm a singer songwriter. A wee while ago there was some chat about my song "Sainsbury's Brixton Local" on this sight and randomly a reporter caught it and did a story on the song which was in The South London Press last Friday.
gaijingirl said:New permanent sign on the, finally repaired, Dick Sheperd (Tulse Hill) gate warning all and sundry that it is an area where people experience crime in the evening. I'm assuming that they mean if you walk across the (locked) park at night it's dangerous?
Sometimes I feel like I live in a parallel universe ....
memespring said:the prince is getting a smoking shelter: http://tinyurl.com/2vv2tr
Way to go!Donna Ferentes said:
editor said:Way to go!
Nice to see you back posting here too!
And on another Brixton related note, a Merchant Navy steam locomotive just thundered by, pulling a lovely set of malachite green coaches.
*adjusts band-aid glassesMinnie_the_Minx said:The Merchant Navy has trains?
snowy_again said:The Prince Regent pub quiz descended into heckles and threats of violence last week. Its justa pub quiz.
editor said:The big crane that was looming over the bankrupt block of half built flats on Coldharbour Lane (opp Barrier Block) has finally been taken away. I wonder if that block will ever get finished?
Well, it can't be looking good with the crane being taken away when there's still work to be done.Bob said:I'm sure it will be - the place is almost finished and must have £10m worth of flats in it. Surely whoever the debtors are will eventually have the site sold to somebody who will complete it?
snowy_again said:Its a bit like the Archers in there...
There's a couple of regular winning teams and a fair bit of chatter going around the room. Last week was a tie breaker question for the winner. When Normal Winning Team #1 lost the tie break, Normal Winning Team #2 chose to loudly tease them about how sad they were to see their rivals lose. Cue pushing and shoving, accusations of cheating and threats of violence etc.
It would have never happened in Howards day, is all I can say. There's meant to be some reparations (in some form or other) tonight. I'm going for a swim, but I might just pop by on my way home to see the repercussions.
NB. Sadly I didn't attend last week, so this is all second hand gossip.
Edited to add - pub quizzes and smoking bans don't really go hand in hand do they?
Crispy said:those things are in hot demand right now - I'm surprised it didn't get taken away sooner, tbh.
gaijingirl said:Eh? This just didn't happen!! There was no tie break last week? The winning team were miles ahead... (ETA I wish it had though - it would have been quite exciting and distracted us from our pathetic score!!) - I'm sure I would have noticed all of that happening!!
Agree about the flying ants though at the Lido.. although it didn't stop us getting cake....