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Hmm. We had a cunning scheme planned for this. I wonder if they've caught wind of it.

On the event website, it is now showing as "Full" ... wonder if it is actually fully subscribed or they have simply shut the event down. In most cases, they would offer a place on the waiting list, but this hasn't happened.
 
On the event website, it is now showing as "Full" ... wonder if it is actually fully subscribed or they have simply shut the event down. In most cases, they would offer a place on the waiting list, but this hasn't happened.
Tricky Skills has been engaged in some lively probing over this so I wonder if it's related.
 
On the event website, it is now showing as "Full" ... wonder if it is actually fully subscribed or they have simply shut the event down. In most cases, they would offer a place on the waiting list, but this hasn't happened.
If people thought they'd be getting a pre-app consultation at a knock-down price, I'm not surprised it sold out.
 
The fact that I actually had a confirmed and purchased ticket, and then they sent a cancellation ... very strange behaviour. It certainly points to an exclusive meeting to discuss things that the council wouldn't want out in the general public.
Or incompetence. This *is* Lambeth we're talking about.
 
Why would they sell tickets on the internet if they wanted an exclusive meeting to discuss things that the council wouldn't want out in the general public?
 
The fact that I actually had a confirmed and purchased ticket, and then they sent a cancellation ... very strange behaviour. It certainly points to an exclusive meeting to discuss things that the council wouldn't want out in the general public.

'Enquiries' have been made. The event is sold out. A 'developer friend' ;) was told this directly. The developer friend was also asked to leave some details as "there might be a way in..."
 
There's apparently a crackdown on fly-tipping along the top end of Brixton Road. I hate fly-tipping. There does seem to be some confusion though over the crackdown and the suggestion from Lambeth Council that leaving fly tipping might act to prevent further selfishness.

BBuzz piece.

HONK han.
 
I thought there was a dedicated Streatham thread but couldn't find it so I'll put it here:

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Streatham Hill residents unite to fight luxury flat development that ‘appeared overnight’
 
Fascinated by an example of either selective memory, censorship or naive ignorance in the article on Earls Court in the property section of Wednesday's Evening Standard. Surprised also because the journalist is a Brixton luminary and presumably right on when it comes to social matters.

The article makes no mention of Earls Court's gay heritage - which was very famous in the 1970s through to 1990s.

Just as the property and development boom is eradicating Earls Court's "famous Art Deco exhibition centre" some of the minorities which once thrived there are being airbrushed out of history. The Australians only just make it into the online version (but not in print) http://homesandproperty.co.uk/area-guides/greater-london/spotlight-earls-court-property-area-guide

I moved to London in 1977 (a year before actually moving to Brixton). At that time the choice of gay pubs in central London was limited to the Boltons and the Colehern in Earls Court and the Salisbury near Leicester Square.
 
Today's random 'where can I get' post,... I've just managed to break one of the legs off the sideboard. Anyone know where I can buy legs for furniture in Brixton?
 
I don't know whether it's strictly Brixton but I heard that Paco, the drummer from Conflict has died. I don't know any details.
 
what is the biggest beard you have seen in brixton recently. my mate reckons he saw a four footer the other day.
 
At the heart of the Black Britain’s spiritual capital Windrush Square, Operation Black Vote (OBV) will launch its General Election voter registration campaign. Although the bus is targeting BME voters, we are also working with other organisations including Operation Disability Vote and Bite the Ballot.

26th Feb 2015 at 12 Noon
Windrush Square
Brixton

http://www.obv.org.uk/news-blogs/obv-express-bus-tour-launch
 
Today's random 'where can I get' post,... I've just managed to break one of the legs off the sideboard. Anyone know where I can buy legs for furniture in Brixton?

Not in Brixton. Some carpentry supplies websites sell Queen Anne legs, bun feet etc. A decent carpenter is what you really need, though.
 
Thats interesting article.
The "Modest Proposal" is online here.
Radio 4 15 min profile of Vanis here
He is a hit with the ladies.
I heard the Radio 4 profile. Very rounded.
Yanis Varoufakis is surely the first Russia Today pundit to end up in government (so to some of us he was not a wholly unknown quantity). It's a pity we don't have imaginative people like him in an electable position in UK politics.
 
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