Brixton chitter chatter part 1 (Nov 2006-June 2008)

[clandestino]

Flat top? That's all I used to get from him.

It's a ritual every Brixton-dwelling male must go through - the Andy's haircut!

 

[clandestino]

Really? Surely that'd take more precision that his shirt or very short military style crop he specialises in.

Yeah, it's a kind of military crop with a hint of flat top to it. The ones I've had were anyway.

 

[zuszsa]

I wonder if it's guy?

It is indeed.....

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Ah, excellent.

He will be on the Streatham and Brixton chess blog tomorrow morning....

 

[Not a Vet]

There is going to be a new fishmongers in Herne Hill (where Kennedy's used to be). It's opening in a few weeks and although I was told the name of it, I can't remember it now.
It's great that we will have somewhere to get fresh fish but I fear it will attract yet more yuppies (if that's the correct term).

 

[Winot]

I fear it will attract yet more yuppies (if that's the correct term).

You're absolutely right - far better that it remains empty than to risk attracting people different to yourself.

True tolerance.

 

[kyser_soze]

There is going to be a new fishmongers in Herne Hill (where Kennedy's used to be). It's opening in a few weeks and although I was told the name of it, I can't remember it now.
It's great that we will have somewhere to get fresh fish but I fear it will attract yet more yuppies (if that's the correct term).

What as opposed to the traditional fayre of Olly's Fish Bar that has a long queue of salt-of-the-earth Herne Hill-ites coming out of it?

 

[snowy_again]

Ah, excellent.

He will be on the Streatham and Brixton chess blog tomorrow morning....

Boo, I now feel conned. Played last week. Resigned after 25 moves cos there was a police man asking us both to move along as we were causing "congestion on the pavement".

I'd never heard that as an excuse for my poor Sicilian defense before.

 

[editor]

There was a feature on gun-totin', knife wieldin' London gangs in Saturday's Guardian mag. Guess whose bedroom could be seen behind the head of one of the bad bwoys photographed?!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

There was a feature on gun-totin', knife wieldin' London gangs in Saturday's Guardian mag. Guess whose bedroom could be seen behind the head of one of the bad bwoys photographed?!

were you waving out the window?

 

[zuszsa]

Guess whose front door could be seen.....decided not to send the article to my mother with an arrow pointing it out

 

[ringo]

They've been filming The Bill on Agnes Place this week. I suppose a dramatic reconstruction of the Rasta Temple eviction is too much to hope for.

 

[fjydj]

another tyre fire? mentioned on the radio on acre lane, was this as dramatic as the last one?

 

[gaijingirl]

Maxi Jazz came up recently as one of Brixton's famous residents and he's playing at Mango Landin' on NYE it seems.

 

[Structaural]

He's always in there - just doesn't publicise it...

 

[gaijingirl]

He's always in there - just doesn't publicise it...

ah well he has on this occasion - or rather they have.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

I've never noticed this before but does Morleys always fly the British flag?

 

[gaijingirl]

I've never noticed this before but does Morleys always fly the British flag?

S'prolly the Queen in doing her Christmas shopping - they've got some lovely Egyptian cotton towels in there at the mo. Not sure Phillip would approve though...

 

[zenazena]

Maxi Jazz came up recently as one of Brixton's famous residents and he's playing at Mango Landin' on NYE it seems.

he also came up as a famous 'west norwood' resident in my free lambeth life

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

S'prolly the Queen in doing her Christmas shopping - they've got some lovely Egyptian cotton towels in there at the mo. Not sure Phillip would approve though...

 

[editor]

There was an almighty kerfuffle just going on in Moorlands Estate.

There was a massive row between a gang of people and tons of shouting.

Then a bloke started going bananas calling everyone a cunt as he was arrested.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Within 5 minutes of each other my son & daughter nearly got hit by police vehicles as they came onto the estate to sort out said kerfuffle. Son and daughter coming to my house...they're not kerfufflers.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I've never noticed this before but does Morleys always fly the British flag?

It's Dutch-owned.

 

[quimcunx]

I did not know that. i thought they were independent.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Well they certainly used to be. My grandfather lived in Holland and came across the fact that a Dutch company owned them and he noticed because he'd bought me some very good sheets in Morley's in Brixton and was very impressed with the store generally. He's been dead for 13 years now, so they might have changed hands again.

 

[Pip]

A bar or restaurant is opening on Streatham High Road and is ACTUALLY called St. Reatham's!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

A bar or restaurant is opening on Streatham High Road and is ACTUALLY called St. Reatham's!

oh FFS

 

[Jonti]

Noticed a woman dressed in a traditional Muslim style (not full chador, but hijab plus long flowing black robes) breast-feeding her new born babe in public (in the BRC) yesterday.

That surprised me somehow. Dunno why. The baby was doubtless hungry

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Maxi Jazz came up recently as one of Brixton's famous residents and he's playing at Mango Landin' on NYE it seems.

ages ago (before he was famous) he used to live in the new flats/houses at the top of railton road/start of atlantic road. he thought it was pleasantly ironic that, with all the property destroyed in the 80s riots, the riots actually led to the building of the new houses which then gave him a home

 

[Jonti]

There's a bit a Railton Road at the end of Effra Parade taped off by the cops right now. They told me there was a firearms incident in The Harmony pub last night. No-one got killed.