Brixton news, rumour and general chat - June 2014

[Badgers]

I've seen local kids wearing 60 pound trainers... A lot more expensive than my kid's scooter.

I saw a kid buying sweets with a £20 note the other day.
Could not have been more than ten the little tyke.

 

[shakespearegirl]

However cheap or expensive they are, little kids haring down the crowded hill with the supervising adult way behind is dangerous. Not as bad as the parent riding his bike on the crowded pavement, which I also saw this morning.

 

[Rushy]

I think the point is that they are not cheap because some are expensive. Or something. A bit like chips (as in "cheap as").

My, my. I don't think I've ever come across such a huge chip on Urban.

 

[leanderman]

However cheap or expensive they are, little kids haring down the crowded hill with the supervising adult way behind is dangerous. Not as bad as the parent riding his bike on the crowded pavement, which I also saw this morning.

I'll get a lead

 

[uk benzo]

However cheap or expensive they are, little kids haring down the crowded hill with the supervising adult way behind is dangerous. Not as bad as the parent riding his bike on the crowded pavement, which I also saw this morning.

Was the parent wearing a green shirt per chance

 

[teuchter]

I use the one on Acre Lane a couple of doors up from McDonalds. No problems or issues to report.

thanks

 

[shakespearegirl]

He might have been you know.... Was it you?

 

[Manter]

I think the point is that they are not cheap because some are expensive. Or something. A bit like chips (as in "cheap as").

Gosh, now I want chips.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I can't believe I posted the price of kids scooters, TWICE.

 

[Manter]

Slightly tangential but no idea where else to put it... I saw the guy who makes these riding one http://ligneusbikes.wordpress.com/

absolutely stunning

 

[alfajobrob]

Slightly tangential but no idea where else to put it... I saw the guy who makes these riding one http://ligneusbikes.wordpress.com/

absolutely stunning

There was a poster on here who made bamboo bikes\frames.....can't remember his name though.

 

[OvalhouseDB]

thank you, but the guy i mentioned back in post 969 admitted to us that he had bought his kid bags of multicoloured bands because he didnt want them to lag behind so there is a class element

That's a peer pressure element.

Round us scooters are not class signifiers, neither are rubber bands.

It does demonstrate how very wasteful and littery the Royal Mail are.

 

[Crispy]

There was a poster on here who made bamboo bikes\frames.....can't remember his name though.

Boycey

 

[Onket]

There was a poster on here who made bamboo bikes\frames.....can't remember his name though.

Boycey

 

[el-ahrairah]

It does demonstrate how very wasteful and littery the Royal Mail are.

they get through 2 million a day, apparently.

 

[Badgers]

There was a poster on here who made bamboo bikes\frames.....can't remember his name though.

Boycey

 

[leanderman]

Selectors music emporium of Brixton Hill has shut down

 

[gaijingirl]

When I was heavily pregnant with my first, my husband and I used to go on walks around the Tulse Hill estate late at night having a competition to see who could find the most red PO rubber bands. Do I win?

 

[Crispy]

Do I win?

Depends. How many did you find?

 

[gaijingirl]

Depends. How many did you find?

More than him.

 

[quimcunx]

Selectors music emporium of Brixton Hill has shut down

I only went in there once, but still.

 

[SarfLondoner]

Selectors music emporium of Brixton Hill has shut down

I thought they had been closed for a while now,I passed by a few times recently and they have been closed.I know they were doing a lot of business online and not so much in the shop.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Selectors music emporium of Brixton Hill has shut down

Hm, probably too small for a Chicken shop. Hair, nail shop maybe?

I remember when that used to be a cab office

 

[SarfLondoner]

Hm, probably too small for a Chicken shop. Hair, nail shop maybe?

I remember when that used to be a cab office

Did selectors take over from the cab office or was there another business(maybe a small hair salon) in between that transition?

 

[Onket]

Burger King??

 

[Badgers]

Burger King??

YES

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Did selectors take over from the cab office or was there another business(maybe a small hair salon) in between that transition?

Can't remember. Only remember the cab office because I got pepper sprayed in there

 

[SarfLondoner]

Anyone remember the chip shop on the corner of Blenhiem gardens and Brixton hill? It was run by a lovely Chinese couple I cant recall when it closed down.

 

[SarfLondoner]

Can't remember. Only remember the cab office because I got pepper sprayed in there

Sorry to hear that Minnie, I know the cab office was well dodgy and attracted some right arseholes.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I have visions of African clothing and masks and wooden sculptures in the window

I'm probably thinking of Pempamsie though