Brixton news, rumour and general chat - August 2014

[Rushy]

You misunderstand - it's just a grammatical error. They have been watching your trees and bushes and tracking their growth rates. They have worked out that one of them is going to cause a nuisance within 14 days, and they want you to take pre-emptive preventative measures to ensure that nuisance doesn't happen. Now you've just got to work out which one.

All perfectly reasonable imo, don't know what you're complaining about.

Admittedly I binned the letter so that blip may be my error!

 

[shakespearegirl]

Did you put it in the bin? Surely it should be in the recycling

 

[Rushy]

Did you put it in the bin? Surely it should be in the recycling

I have three bins

 

[thatguyhex]

I was born in Newcastle, South Africa, which back then was a tiny one horse town. Practically everything there is named after places here, including a city that's called 'East London'!

Yeah. And if that wasn't confusing enough, the local football team in East London is called... Blackburn Rovers.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

I have three bins

 

[boohoo]

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did Rushy grow a hipster beard?

 

[boohoo]

BTW I was on the radio on Tuesday talking about murals - listen from the 1hr:30min mark.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023f8f0

 

[Rushy]

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You have coincidentally posted this on the day I dismantled a row of three compost bins almost like those, which I built out of pallets more than 10yrs ago. They have rotted through and become part of the compost. I felt unexpectedly sentimental. So much has happened and changed since then (mostly wrinkles).

(Those three were not included in my bin count!)

 

[Rushy]

did Rushy grow a hipster beard?

Not likely - my not very hairy genes protected me from any temptation to join the hipster revolution.

 

[colacubes]

(((peak beard)))

 

[friendofdorothy]

Does anyone know what happened near RVT in the early hours today, causing closure of Kennington lane and traffic chaos around Vauxhall x for most of this morning. Think they said assault or incident on the radio this morning - does anyone know?

 

[Tricky Skills]

'Early morning fight'

 

[colacubes]

If you're passing by the Rec this afternoon there's people giving out free Levi Roots jerk seasoning.

 

[xsunnysuex]

If you're passing by the Rec this afternoon there's people giving out free Levi Roots jerk seasoning.

And free bags of rice.

 

[ViolentPanda]

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Is that a pair of secateurs in his pocket, or is he pleased to see you?

 

[Smick]

If you're passing by the Rec this afternoon there's people giving out free Levi Roots jerk seasoning.

I'd rather some free Levi jeans.

 

[Jangleballix]

Seen on Brixton Hill. You'd think Coke's marketing people would have thought this through.

 

[DietCokeGirl]

That has got to be deliberate....

 

[thatguyhex]

For lack of a dedicated "depressing rental options in Brixton" thread (or maybe reflecting my not searching hard enough for one) have a look at this turd on Railton Road. A grand a month for that. Christ.

 

[el-ahrairah]

i reckon. and i bet even the location has been chosen deliberately - somewhere young and "fashionable" where people will get the reference and lol knowingly and thus have a positive association with the brand.

 

[el-ahrairah]

For lack of a dedicated "depressing rental options in Brixton" thread (or maybe reflecting my not searching hard enough for one) have a look at this turd on Railton Road. A grand a month for that. Christ.

i've lived in worse

 

[RoyReed]

Wasn't that always there? Was it the stables?

Yeah, it is annoying, having to get around there. You either have to stick to the other side of the road or walk in the road

The stables used to be at the other end of Morrish Road, either between the Hand in Hand and what used to be Mum's Plaice (the fish and chip shop - now a pizza place?) or between Mum's Plaice and the first house - I can't remember which. They closed in about 1990 IIRC.

And the extension to the warehouse was there when I moved in to Morrish Road in 1979 (I lived diagonally opposite at 42 on the corner of Sulina Road for nearly 25 years). Not sure when it was actually built, but a lot of music videos were shot there in the 1980s.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The stables used to be at the other end of Morrish Road, either between the Hand in Hand and what used to be Mum's Plaice (the fish and chip shop - now a pizza place?) or between Mum's Plaice and the first house - I can't remember which. They closed in about 1990 IIRC.

And the extension to the warehouse was there when I moved in to Morrish Road in 1979 (I lived diagonally opposite at 42 on the corner of Sulina Road for nearly 25 years). Not sure when it was actually built, but a lot of music videos were shot there in the 1980s.

So it's been there a fair while then. Does seem strange why it was allowed in the first place. Have tried looking for pics on the internet to figure out how long it's been there but gave up

 

[teuchter]

Batten down the hatches, people of Brixton.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

People might be interested in this decent gallery of Black Panther pics here - some of Brixton http://libcom.org/gallery/british-black-panther-party

 

[shakespearegirl]

Lots of Brixton in this video and I like what they've done

A friend of mine is the organiser, bit more background info here on how it works

http://www.shots.net/features/article/84861/ben-gregor-talks-yes-drs

 

[Kevs]

I feel like a right kill joy but the noise from the lido tonight is REALLY LOUD. It's a Tuesday night, I've been up since half five, and I'm knackered. I'm gonna go over there and pop their inflatables.

 

[editor]

I feel like a right kill joy but the noise from the lido tonight is REALLY LOUD. It's a Tuesday night, I've been up since half five, and I'm knackered. I'm gonna go over there and pop their inflatables.

I was hearing a bit of a racket just now. Surely it can't be them?

 

[Kevs]

They just finished. It was really really loud considering how small the lido is. I wouldn't have minded at all if they gave us some advance notice, but there's a lot of families round here. Might get some kip when they've all got in their cars and gone

 

[buscador]

They just finished. It was really really loud considering how small the lido is. I wouldn't have minded at all if they gave us some advance notice, but there's a lot of families round here. Might get some kip when they've all got in their cars and gone

Yes, it was loud. I was trying to do the pub quiz and was quite surprised that something was louder than the quizmaster.