Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Boki on Norwood Rd overlooking the park. Gets very busy though so you will need to book.
Brixton news, rumour and general chat - January 2016
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Boki on Norwood Rd overlooking the park. Gets very busy though so you will need to book.
brixtonblade
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Ta for the tips
T & P
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Apparently no one ever sees them being created from scratch. Still, if it brings coinage to them, fair dos.Saw this in Brixton on Saturday. Sand sculptures. I have seen this in West End as well.
Gramsci
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This one was not finished when I saw it. Hence the tools around it. Asked the guy to let me photo it without him working on it.
I have seen him do it from scratch in the West End. As he starts it in the morning.
At end of day he keeps the sand in the cloth its on in photo and carries it off.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
I have seen reports - denied - of a cardboard mould being used.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
So is putting a zero at the end, so £2.50 become 2.5. It's the artisan way of doing things. First noticed it at Fuck Mondays, the most artisan cafe on Brixton Hill.
editor
hiraethified
Gotcha. And shortening street names and making up local areas is on trend too, so if I opened up a cafe near me, my advert would read:
Artisanal Flat White for 2.7 at The Old Corrugated Iron Factory - 367 Coldharbour - Barrier Block Quarter - Brixton.
Fuck that place sounds great. I'm on my way!
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
I've got a rule of thumb that if the word artisan appears on a menu the place is probably run by some chancer who googled around a bit for an idea and asked daddy for a loan.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Until the one opens opposite. It looks even more artisanal in there!
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Well if the place actually was any good they wouldn't have to ram the "a" word down your throat.
Like what the hell is an artisanal brioche bun when it's at home? If a good place was proud of its bread it would name the supplier.
T & P
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I myself pay very little attention to whatever grammatical or writing style a given venue might use. At the end of the day what counts is the actual vibe and clientele of the place when you visit it, not what the management churns out for their literature/ menus, or whether Pound signs and decimal points are used.
shifting gears
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Stumbled? You're the chief treasurer.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
I think you are confusing big and small C. Easy mistake Shifty. How was your date?
Tricky Skills
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Dropping this in here as the previous discussion about legal highs appeared in a monthly thread.
Eleven people have apparently been fined so far since Lambeth Council introduced the Public Space Protection Order:
"More than half of the fines (1584) were for littering, as well as over 500 relating to illegal waste dumping, 142 for unlicensed street trading, nine for urination, five for spitting and 11 as a result of Lambeth’s pioneering approach to legal highs."
[Council press release sent out today.]
It will be interesting to see how the police handle this legislation at events like Splash.
Eleven people have apparently been fined so far since Lambeth Council introduced the Public Space Protection Order:
"More than half of the fines (1584) were for littering, as well as over 500 relating to illegal waste dumping, 142 for unlicensed street trading, nine for urination, five for spitting and 11 as a result of Lambeth’s pioneering approach to legal highs."
[Council press release sent out today.]
It will be interesting to see how the police handle this legislation at events like Splash.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
Wondered why I haven't seen so many of those little metal gas container thingys on the pavements of late.
Is it because:
a) lambeth policy
b) fashion (they were so last year)
c) more responsible disposal
d) someone sweeping them up all night.
Is it because:
a) lambeth policy
b) fashion (they were so last year)
c) more responsible disposal
d) someone sweeping them up all night.
editor
hiraethified
I've got absolutely no problem with the gas being used - it's a lot less harmful than fags - but I wish they'd find a more eco-friendly way to package the goods. It seems an inordinately wasteful method of delivery.
Gramsci
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Rushy
basically a scrotum
Cheers. I'd been on that page but got bored scrolling down and gave up!
Gramsci
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See the 99p shop on Brixton road is now being turned into a Poundland.
Poundland bought up the 99p shops a while back.
Will miss the 99p shop. Bit more anarchic that Poundland.
Controversially this merger got go ahead despite reducing competition.
Poundland bought up the 99p shops a while back.
Will miss the 99p shop. Bit more anarchic that Poundland.
Controversially this merger got go ahead despite reducing competition.
Tricky Skills
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Looks like the local economy is on the up then.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
but we've already got a poundland - does that mean we will have two?
To be honest I haven't noticed any anarchy going on in 99p shop and I find the staff in poundland marginally more cheerful, but there's not that much diffence in what they stock.
All these £1 shops have replaced Woolworths in my heart.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
Come to think of it there used to be so many places to buy cheap things/ plastic things/ cleaning products/ household bits and bobs/ diy stuff/ interesting tat -
eg in no particular order - Woolworths, Robills International, Force Homecare, Fads, that place on Electric ave I never knew the name of, various places around the market, etc.
and now I can only think of: Poundland, 99p shop and some places around the market.
eg in no particular order - Woolworths, Robills International, Force Homecare, Fads, that place on Electric ave I never knew the name of, various places around the market, etc.
and now I can only think of: Poundland, 99p shop and some places around the market.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I'm a bit worried about this.
Lidl have stopped their "Half Price Weekend" offers as well.
What we need is one of these
T & P
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Those shops are very useful but I do miss the 'next level up' kind of shops, like what they get in Spain. For some reason always run by Chinese people, as well as 1 euro items they have just about everything from leather belts to swimwear to luggage for just a few euros- the kind of products that just could not be offered for a quid, no matter how hard they try.
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