Brixton chitter chatter, part 2

[quimcunx]

You can please all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time but you can't please all of the people all of the time.

Given the choice most people would choose 10.30pm on a Saturday rather than 4am on a Tuesday.

Perhaps we need a poll.

 

[ajdown]

10.30pm is better than 4am indeed, but 8pm would be better.

If, of course, it's necessary to set fireworks off at all - I'm sure they can't do the ozone layer much good.

 

[quimcunx]

10.30pm is better than 4am indeed, but 8pm would be better.

If, of course, it's necessary to set fireworks off at all - I'm sure they can't do the ozone layer much good.

Not if you're having a nap.


They are not harmful to the ozone layer.

Anyway. I thought you were ready for bed?

 

[ajdown]

I can't sleep that late in the evening, I'd just sleep straight through and wake up at some unearthly hour, preferably not by some idiot inspired by this page to see how many people they can wake up at 4am with fireworks.

Bed seems a good idea. Nite.

 

[quimcunx]

I can't sleep that late in the evening, I'd just sleep straight through and wake up at some unearthly hour, preferably not by some idiot inspired by this page to see how many people they can wake up at 4am with fireworks.

Bed seems a good idea. Nite.

I can though, unless someone decides to set off some fireworks (you probably as you think it's such a good idea! ) did you think about that, or are you just selfishly thinking of yourself? Hmm?


Goodnight.

 

[quimcunx]

*looks out those left-over fireworks*

 

[teuchter]

I was going to set off some fireworks right now but then I saw this thread and I realised it would be anti-social so I didn't.

 

[happyshopper]

Champagne

... then had to get a bottle of champagne and Tesco were doing loads of it at half price so I got a very respectable brand in a good looking bottle for £13.

They have some drinkable bottles at £9.99 at Lidl

 

[teuchter]

Brixton Hill this morning. Please accept my apologies for the rubbish bin spoiling the photo.

 

[boohoo]

Brixton Hill this morning. Please accept my apologies for the rubbish bin spoiling the photo.

Do you catch the bus to the tube station?

 

[teuchter]

I catch it to the town hall, actually.

 

[boohoo]

That's only a couple of stops... I often walk from Herne Hill to Brixton station in the morning.

 

[teuchter]

That's only a couple of stops... I often walk from Herne Hill to Brixton station in the morning.

If I were to walk, I would have to get up about 5 minutes earlier.

 

[malice]

Even at the moment, with it being so rubbish with all the road works? I've given up on the bus from Hill in the mornings, and walk to the tube.

 

[tarannau]

Yep. Teuchter must be slightly slower than a snail with a foot complaint if he can't outwalk the bus to Brixton at the moment.

 

[Bob]

Even at the moment, with it being so rubbish with all the road works? I've given up on the bus from Hill in the mornings, and walk to the tube.

Roadworks now over - as of yesterday night.

Plus the wonderful Juan (ex of Shotgun Reloaded) has opened his own hairdressers at 118 Railton Road. Mrs Bob swears by him.

 

[quimcunx]

If I were to walk, I would have to get up about 5 minutes earlier.

Exactly. Some of us need those 5 minutes.

Roadworks now over - as of yesterday night.

in what way are they ''over''?

Is that the finished article then?

I did see two men inspecting a hole cover this morning.

 

[malice]

What about the massive big hole on brixton road road just by Ferndale road? was there this morning

 

[twistedAM]

So, seems I missed the news that Josephine Avenue will have no entrance from Brixton Hill. They're building a bikestand.

 

[teuchter]

Even at the moment, with it being so rubbish with all the road works? I've given up on the bus from Hill in the mornings, and walk to the tube.

Yep. Teuchter must be slightly slower than a snail with a foot complaint if he can't outwalk the bus to Brixton at the moment.

This is why I get off at the town hall as I said earlier.

Getting the bus to the town hall is quicker than walking there. This is a scientifically proven teuchter fact. Unless the indicator says that the next bus won't come for 3 or 4 minutes, in which case I sometimes walk. Sometimes the bus comes earlier than the indicator says in which case it overtakes me, but you can't win every time.

I object to any implications that I am a slow walker. I am frequently told off by dawdling companions for walking too fast. I have engaged in and won many a fast walking competition.

 

[teuchter]

Roadworks now over - as of yesterday night.

No they wasn't. This morning there were still two storm drain covers still to be finished on the East side and the hole to plant the traffic lights in at the South end of the central reservation was nowhere near finished.

 

[ajdown]

No they wasn't. This morning there were still two storm drain covers still to be finished on the East side and the hole to plant the traffic lights in at the South end of the central reservation was nowhere near finished.

... and a big trench all the way from the railway bridge police station, more or less, reducing everything to a single lane going Northbound.

I was 20 minutes late for work thanks to that mess they call the roadworks. I don't think anything will be improved for traffic by all the changes, it'll just be so long since traffic flowed freely people will have forgotten and fall for believing it actually is an improvement.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Going thru Brixton is terrible right now - I really loathe it because if fucks up both ends of my day.

 

[quimcunx]

I get the bus in the morning. i don't leave in time to walk. The bus is faster in 999 out 1000 instances. However walking to the temporary bus stop in the evening usually seems like more hassle than it's worth so I usually walk.

And southbound traffic in the morning is bloody rubbish just now but is still quicker than walking all the way.

I will concede that jogging might be faster than getting the bus on some occasions but I, and I'm sure teucther too, would never consider doing something so unseemly.

 

[Bob]

No they wasn't. This morning there were still two storm drain covers still to be finished on the East side and the hole to plant the traffic lights in at the South end of the central reservation was nowhere near finished.

Oops.... I meant the Railton road roadworks. All I can say is that I was in a hurry and got confused.

 

[Planty]

They've cut down that beautiful tree on the island near St Matthew's Road. :-( When did that go?

 

[snowy_again]

Plus the wonderful Juan (ex of Shotgun Reloaded) has opened his own hairdressers at 118 Railton Road. Mrs Bob swears by him.

I've got a photo of the shop somewhere. I was almost agog the other night when I saw it. Best of luck really, is Mr. I working with him? He's not had the best of times lately.

 

[quimcunx]

So, seems I missed the news that Josephine Avenue will have no entrance from Brixton Hill. They're building a bikestand.

It's to discourage kerbcrawlers, I believe.

They've cut down that beautiful tree on the island near St Matthew's Road. :-( When did that go?

Where? Beside the traffic lights half way round the triangular roundabout?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Brixton Hill this morning. Please accept my apologies for the rubbish bin spoiling the photo.

Ah, I saw them parked outside the Co-op at 10.00am. Do horses park?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Roadworks now over - as of yesterday night.

That's irrelevant really isn't it? As long as they're still doing the pavement works, there'll be contractors' vans clogging up the roads.

Are they EVER going to give us our bus stops back? Why is there no new shelter outside KFC yet?