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It's one of the houses backing onto the park I think - this seems to be a regular summer occurrence.... shocking choice of music (definitely not the Specials)!!
 
editor said:
A fresh batch of those fucking stupid and highly annoying buzzing mini-bikes seems to have arrived around the block.
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What gets me is they seem so proud of the bloody things. Fer fuxache, they sound like somebody strangling a lawnmower, they make the rider look like a clown. So why the hell rev the fsckers up every time they pass a group of girls, it only draws attention to the rider being a complete tosser?
 
gaijingirl said:
It's one of the houses backing onto the park I think - this seems to be a regular summer occurrence.... shocking choice of music (definitely not the Specials)!!
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If it was late afternoon and was a mixture of Neil Young, Graham Parker, Primal Scream, and Wreckless Eric, then it might have been me. Though I'd be mildly surprised* at being heard even as far away as Max Roach Park.

* Only mildly surprised. I've had complaints about the noise whilst playing across the road from the Albert Hall, playing entirely accoustic (because the mics were crap), and following a heavy metal band.
 
ericjarvis said:
If it was late afternoon and was a mixture of Neil Young, Graham Parker, Primal Scream, and Wreckless Eric, then it might have been me. Though I'd be mildly surprised* at being heard even as far away as Max Roach Park.

* Only mildly surprised. I've had complaints about the noise whilst playing across the road from the Albert Hall, playing entirely accoustic (because the mics were crap), and following a heavy metal band.
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No - this was between 9 and 10pm and it was more Abba/Gloria Gaynor/Wham.... :D typical karaoke - it wasn't that bad .... :D The sound carries across the park really easily. When there are events in the lido or outside on Dulwich/Norwood Road I can hear them clearly in my flat on the other side of the park. Can't really complain as compared to the rest of Brixton, it's otherwise positively bucolic - with (apart from the odd full on all-nighter/domestic in my block/helicopter in the park) only the geese and foxes to wake me up.. :D
 
Nanker Phelge said:
That might just be me - I was singing Specials songs really loud while having a dump :D
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Speaking of which . . First week resident in Brixton, Busting for a dump in the park and I gotta hand it to them, the Mens lavvies are some of the cleanist I have seen in the UK!
I wonder what treats are in store for me when i pack my trunks for the lido next week?
 
gaijingirl said:
No - this was between 9 and 10pm and it was more Abba/Gloria Gaynor/Wham.... :D typical karaoke - it wasn't that bad .... :D The sound carries across the park really easily. When there are events in the lido or outside on Dulwich/Norwood Road I can hear them clearly in my flat on the other side of the park. Can't really complain as compared to the rest of Brixton, it's otherwise positively bucolic - with (apart from the odd full on all-nighter/domestic in my block/helicopter in the park) only the geese and foxes to wake me up.. :D
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Probably not me then. I do a version of I Will Survive, but more in the style of Tom Waits.
 
bloomboy said:
Speaking of which . . First week resident in Brixton, Busting for a dump in the park and I gotta hand it to them, the Mens lavvies are some of the cleanist I have seen in the UK!
I wonder what treats are in store for me when i pack my trunks for the lido next week?
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Hopefully not the discovery of why the lavs are so clean. :hmm:
 
The traffic lights on KFC corner are out, which is causing a little congestion in Central Brixton, to add to the various roadworks, diversions, closures, holes being dug etc.

I popped into the new "Dynamic Discount Market" at the top of the hill just up from the Telegraph. Not a bad shop at all really, lots of interesting bargains with apparently more stock to come soon. The delay was apparently waiting for 3 months for the electricity to be switched on. Lots of stuff in there that Sainsburys do, only cheaper in DDM. If the top of the hill Sainsburys is your normal shopping location, it's certainly worth a detour.
 
ajdown said:
The traffic lights on KFC corner are out, which is causing a little congestion in Central Brixton, to add to the various roadworks, diversions, closures, holes being dug etc.

I popped into the new "Dynamic Discount Market" at the top of the hill just up from the Telegraph. Not a bad shop at all really, lots of interesting bargains with apparently more stock to come soon. The delay was apparently waiting for 3 months for the electricity to be switched on. Lots of stuff in there that Sainsburys do, only cheaper in DDM. If the top of the hill Sainsburys is your normal shopping location, it's certainly worth a detour.
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That's Sainsbury's is crap

I want to know when the Portuguese Deli will be open :mad:
 
I notice there was a sign up asking for witnesses to a woman under a train on 22n june. I take it that was the one shiftybaglady was asking about when all the police where there.

oh, I'm home, btw. *waves*
 
Group of bus spotters sitting on the corner of coldharbour lane and moorland road this morning. Are there special buses out today or does this happen often?
 
shakespearegirl said:
Group of bus spotters sitting on the corner of coldharbour lane and moorland road this morning. Are there special buses out today or does this happen often?
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Sure they were bus spotters, rather than doing a traffic survey?

I noticed them as I came round on the 45.
 
ajdown said:
Sure they were bus spotters, rather than doing a traffic survey?

I noticed them as I came round on the 45.
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They looked too old for that. They looked like a load of guys that should be sitting outside a coffee shop playing chess





or snap :D
 
I've seen these folk in central London in the last few weeks. I think they are doing a traffic survey, did they have little hand held computer thingy's that looked like giant calculators?

They were hanging around in Bloomsbury last week. Old[ish] geezers, hanging around on street corners, fold up chairs, sensible shoes, hiking trousers, all sounds like what I saw last week.
 
Foucault's Wife said:
I've seen these folk in central London in the last few weeks. I think they are doing a traffic survey, did they have little hand held computer thingy's that looked like giant calculators?

They were hanging around in Bloomsbury last week. Old[ish] geezers, hanging around on street corners, fold up chairs, sensible shoes, hiking trousers, all sounds like what I saw last week.
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That sounds like the guys i saw
 
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