Brixton chitter chatter, part 2

[teuchter]

I'm pleased to bring purpose to people's lives.

 

[ajdown]

I'm pleased to bring purpose to people's lives.

Me too.

Oh wait...

 

[Planty]

Where is it Planty? Never heard of it before.

It's where that Max Oliver cafe used to be, on that little road off Coldharbour Road, just past the corner where the juice bar used to be.

 

[Planty]

Rushcroft road
And that would be Coldharbour LANE.
Sorry, my brain is hurting this morning.

 

[quimcunx]

So where should I take someone for breakfast tomorrow morning?

 

[nagapie]

Negril. Not far to go either.

 

[paolo]

Paulo'z

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

So where should I take someone for breakfast tomorrow morning?

Fry up at Paulo'z = fried egg, chips, beans, 1 sausage, couple of rashers of bacon, sliced tomato and 1 slice of black pudding + toast and a cup of tea = £4.50

Never been to Negril for breakfast

 

[teuchter]

It depends who you are taking for breakfast and why.

 

[quimcunx]

It depends who you are taking for breakfast and why.

Someone who, it would appear, gets up early enough not to miss the local eateries' breakfast menus.

 

[quimcunx]

.

 

[nagapie]

Pauloz is cheaper and nice but Negril has more interesting stuff on the menu and you don't have to put up with the telly.

 

[paolo]

I wish Negril would put a proper menu up outside. I've still no idea of what stuff costs - apart from a vague memory when I once went in and went hunting for a menu. Noone came to help, so I ventured further in and got told "You can't come down here" (the correct challenge would have been "Can I help you".)

So I went back up, hunted around a bit more, and found some photocopied menus on a table and had a look. I'm not sure me doing that really added to the ambience for people sitting down for dinner. Some, understandably, wondered what I was doing.

I'll probably eat there one day, but only when I can see the menu without all that messing around / being told off Etc. There's easier places to spend money.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I was recently a bit disappointed to discover their disabled toilet is now a storeroom

 

[ash]

Did you say anything??

I was recently a bit disappointed to discover their disabled toilet is now a storeroom

 

[quimcunx]

We went to Negrils because it wasn't raining.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Did you say anything??

Nah. Went downstairs

 

[ajdown]

Apparently the River Wandle has a flood alert on it as part of this humungous storm that's battering us at present - as does Streatham and Norwood. Hopefully I'll be ok at the top of the hill.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Apparently the River Wandle has a flood alert on it as part of this humungous storm that's battering us at present - as does Streatham and Norwood. Hopefully I'll be ok at the top of the hill.

What storm? Is it raining?

*looks out window*

 

[quimcunx]

I was recently a bit disappointed to discover their disabled toilet is now a storeroom

It was always a storeroom. Brix had a lovely laugh at me over that.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It was always a storeroom. Brix had a lovely laugh at me over that.

Not when they first opened it. I'm sure himself used it once, but I could be wrong

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Brixton was mad this morning!

I felt like Snake Plissken trying to escape New York.

 

[quimcunx]

There was a problem at West Norwood which probably increased the number of people wanting to use Brixton, but Brixton to Victoria was suspended for a while so, yeah, it would be.



Not that it isn't normally.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I couldn't get a bus down Tulse Hill, Effra road was jammed anyway. Then got a 415 at Brixton which terminated at Ken Church, then got another 415 to Elephant....and had to change again......blooming nightmare, but strangely still only took me 45 minutes to get to work!

I don't understand why bus driver can't announce that Brixton Station is closed, which would stop so many people getting off and then trying to get back on again!

 

[quimcunx]

Bus drivers have got to have their fun too.

 

[quimcunx]

Not when they first opened it. I'm sure himself used it once, but I could be wrong

I'm sure there was no toilet in there. I doubt they'd put in all the equipment then rip it all out again a few weeks later to put some mops in it.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Bus drivers have got to have their fun too.

Y'know what? I hate Bus Drivers.

I always say thank you to them and they almost never respond with any kind of acknowledgment.

They smell!

 

[quimcunx]

I always say 'kyew. they'll know themselves which they deserve.

 

[nagapie]

I saw a bus driver on Brixton Hill ram a car on Saturday that had pulled out in front of him presumably to discuss a bump or something.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Great. Just as I decide to go to bed because I have a very long day ahead of me tomorrow, it's helicopter time