Brixton chitter chatter, part 2

[Badgers]

Does anyone know if the Tesco in Brixton (Acre Lane) has one of those coin sorter magizmos?

 

[tarannau]

Yes. Whether it actually works is another thing.

 

[Badgers]

Yes. Whether it actually works is another thing.

Cheers...

I tried to give them a call but (surprisingly) nobody answered.
Should I lug my ton of coppers down there and risk it?
Perhaps not on a lazy Sunday

 

[Planty]

Hmm. Does anyone know of a good garage for service and MOT around Brixton? I'd be very grateful for some advice.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Hmm. Does anyone know of a good garage for service and MOT around Brixton? I'd be very grateful for some advice.

The one down the side of the White Horse has been there for years

 

[Pip]

Does anyone know if the Phoenix is open today? I'm starving hungry and bored out of my mind.

 

[Kanda]

Hmm. Does anyone know of a good garage for service and MOT around Brixton? I'd be very grateful for some advice.

Aye, Hearne Bros on Brixton Hill

http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/directory/1066/29839.php

 

[twistedAM]

Aye, Hearne Bros on Brixton Hill

http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/directory/1066/29839.php

Yeah, they'll do. There's one in Clapham North that only does MoT and they're good too but I forget the name

 

[Planty]

Thank you

 

[fjydj]

There's one in Clapham North that only does MoT and they're good too but I forget the name

http://www.claphamnorthmot.co.uk/

need to book ahead with them.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Does anyone know if the Phoenix is open today? I'm starving hungry and bored out of my mind.

Come here, I'll feed you.

 

[Pip]

Come here, I'll feed you.

Nah, I'll just buy some jaffa cakes.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

 

[twistedAM]

http://www.claphamnorthmot.co.uk/

need to book ahead with them.

Really? Last time I went there was two years ago and just queued up. You have to book at Hearns as well.
I'm a bit suspect about Croxted Rd garage though the god thing about that is you can leave and pick up the van/car at any time as it's a 24 hour petrol station as well. I think they charged me for shit they didn't need to when a word in my ear would have sufficed and then tried to charge me for a second test. I pointed out that the cheeky fucks had put their sticker under my licence plate and demanded the equivalent for the MoT for the free advertsising.

 

[editor]

Does anyone know if the Phoenix is open today? I'm starving hungry and bored out of my mind.

It was open at 1pm, as was Honest Foods opposite.

 

[harys francke]

look at SPANISH HARLEM INCIDENT IN BRIXTON on youtube for some good views of east brixton

 

[editor]

look at SPANISH HARLEM INCIDENT IN BRIXTON on youtube for some good views of east brixton

Why? What's it about? You gotta give us a bit more...

 

[Mrs Magpie]

It's his video of a Bob Dylan song filmed around the Loughborough Estate from the look of the first few seconds of it.

 

[editor]

It's his video of a Bob Dylan song filmed around the Loughborough Estate from the look of the first few seconds of it.

Yes. With a grumpy-looking women wandering about the 'edgy' backstreets.

*waits for obligatory Barrier Block shot...

 

[editor]

It's a few years old though as it shows the arches on Brixton Station Rd before they were done up. Not quite sure what the point of the video was, tbh.

 

[honto]

Just had 3 hours of no electric. Apparently around 96 houses in Brixton were cut off. Working again now, so was a pleasant pub interlude rather than a long cold night.

 

[fjydj]

Really? Last time I went there was two years ago and just queued up. You have to book at Hearns as well.
I'm a bit suspect about Croxted Rd garage though the god thing about that is you can leave and pick up the van/car at any time as it's a 24 hour petrol station as well. I think they charged me for shit they didn't need to when a word in my ear would have sufficed and then tried to charge me for a second test. I pointed out that the cheeky fucks had put their sticker under my licence plate and demanded the equivalent for the MoT for the free advertsising.

...re clapham north MOT, it may have changed now, but they were using one ramp less than last year, so it was best to book, you didn't have to but it was better to.
Except for saturday which was still turn up and wait.

the one on Ferndale road also preferred you book ahead as I tried to go there a few times too... without success at getting a cancelled slot.

 

[fjydj]

an amazing snowman on Bonham Road and Sudbourne...

not my work but thanks to whoever made it. Its brilliant.

 

[snowy_again]

The fish shop in Herne Hill (Cape Clear?) has gone into receivership. Big old lock slapped on the front door, National Rail eviction notice on the window and a shop full of stock still inside. Its going to smell.

There was a great snow sculpture on Railton Road, by the purple house, near the junction with Shakespeare Road. Oh and a massive snow cock on the grass opposite St Matthews Church, but it seems to have been demolished already.

 

[quimcunx]

It sounds like it's raining outside but I can't be bothered getting up to look.

I want snow, not rain.

 

[teuchter]

It sounds like it's raining outside but I can't be bothered getting up to look.

I want snow, not rain.

And you thought that someone on the internet might save you some effort by getting up and looking themselves and then typing a report out for you here.

But they didn't.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It sounds like it's raining outside but I can't be bothered getting up to look.

I want snow, not rain.

You don't deserve snow after slagging our London snow off

 

[Not a Vet]

it is raining. Not sure that count as chitter chatter though.
If you are height restricted, it might be a big deal getting on a step ladder to see of its raining..

 

[quimcunx]

it is raining. Not sure that count as chitter chatter though.
If you are height restricted, it might be a big deal getting on a step ladder to see of its raining..

Thank you, Not a Vet.

 

[twistedAM]

There was a little bit of snow just before midnight.