Brixton news, rumour and general chat - May 2014

[leanderman]

It's late every year. Every year there are complaints and every year Lambeth ignore them. We sit through lots of hot weekends with no water and then when it does eventually gets switched on it inevitably rains for ages... I can't remember exactly when it happens but I've written to them a number of times over the years about it. CBA anymore.

I gave up on that a couple of years ago. Youngest barely knows it exists

 

[Winot]

when i wasnt sat in a puddle inside a concrete tube i remember playing hours and hours of Against The Wall football... if youve got a football and a wall you've no excuse to be bored in my book

and what about "adventure" playgrounds back in the day? even as a kid with no sense of danger or consequence i was scared of them

are there any adventure playgrounds in brixton? atlantic rd?

Interesting article on the revival of 'junk playgrounds':

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...hildrens-playground-the-land-plas-madoc-wales

http://www.londonplay.org.uk/conten...nture_play_in_london/adventure_play_in_london

 

[boohoo]

Slade Gardens is a great adventure playground. We played on it as a kid - in fact the mural there records that time. My sister wrote a nice piece about it:

http://londonmuralpreservationsocie...ler-slade-gardens-adventure-playground-mural/

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Slade Gardens is a great adventure playground. We played on it as a kid - in fact the mural there records that time. My sister wrote a nice piece about it:

http://londonmuralpreservationsocie...ler-slade-gardens-adventure-playground-mural/

Great article. As opening sentences go, this is pretty good;
"In my memory, the Eighties are tinged with Seventies colours and filled with sherbet sweets and fur trimmed parkas."

 

[SarfLondoner]

everywhere
people pissing on the stairs you know they just dont care....rats in the front room, roaches in the back, junkies in the alley with a baseball bat

everywhere
people pissing on the stairs you know they just dont care....rats in the front room, roaches in the back, junkies in the alley with a baseball bat

Sometime it makes me wonder how i keep from going under.

 

[editor]

It's going to be a hot one today!

 

[SarfLondoner]

It's going to be a hot one today!

Then rain from Tuesday onwards according to the forecast.

 

[Badgers]

Good for the garden etc..

 

[SarfLondoner]

Good for the garden etc..

Fair point but we have had a fair bit this year and this news has put a dampener on my plan for the week.

 

[technical]

Which was?

 

[teuchter]

Following on from various posts further up the thread, I was doing a bit more reading up on Antic pubs and their shenanigans, and thought it deserved its own thread which I've started here:

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threa...-and-unpaid-debts-what-does-u75-think.323848/

 

[ska invita]

Slade Gardens is a great adventure playground. We played on it as a kid - in fact the mural there records that time. My sister wrote a nice piece about it:

http://londonmuralpreservationsocie...ler-slade-gardens-adventure-playground-mural/

lovely piece...seems like there are still a lot of adventure playgrounds around though

Interesting article on the revival of 'junk playgrounds':

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...hildrens-playground-the-land-plas-madoc-wales

http://www.londonplay.org.uk/conten...nture_play_in_london/adventure_play_in_london

really interesting.
ive read the two colin ward books, child in the coutnry + child in the city, looking at the pros and cons of childhoods in both settings. his positive description of city childhoods contain risk, but creative risk is increasingly eradicated in modern london. risk of getting bullied/beaten is higher than ever though. but yeah, spaces to piss around in and burn and break things are important! a healthy impulse

 

[SarfLondoner]

Fair point but we have had a fair bit this year and this news has put a dampener on my plan for the week.

Which was?

Cycling,,Sitting in the park and writing some lyrics, a bit of poetry(the sunshine inspires me) and going down to Brighton to check out a couple of holiday apartments.

 

[el-ahrairah]

Supposedly theres a Max Roach Adventure Playground and a Loughborough Park Adventure Playground
guide to london adventure playgrounds here
http://www.kidsfunlondon.co.uk/kids-days-out/london/playground.html

call them adventure playgrounds? in my day adventure playgrounds were one broken swing and a patch of gravel etc etc.

 

[ringo]

Yep, I complained last year. I think the reason was they have some sort of contract that means the water doesn't get turned on until June and gets turned off at the end of August, even if May and September are nice, which they usually are. Lambeth are cheap bastards.

Rubbish policy innit

 

[ViolentPanda]

There's an adventure playground on one bit of the Tulse Hill Estate.

Greenleaf close.

 

[Onket]

I've just had a lightbulb moment.
Onket owes me a pint plus he has agreed to buy everyone a pint when he turns up. That means two pints for me free.

This is not the case.

I have agreed to buy everyone who is present a pint at 17:05.

 

[Winot]

This is not the case.

I have agreed to buy everyone who is present a pint at 17:05.

I'll be popping in at 17:05. However, I have some other stuff to do so will have to leave after a quick pint. Will be back about 8.30pm.

 

[Onket]

I'll be popping in at 17:05. However, I have some other stuff to do so will have to leave after a quick pint. Will be back about 8.30pm.

Taking advantage of my (ill-advised) generousity.

 

[Onket]

Also, due to quite a few reasons, I expect I'll only be there for an hour or so.

 

[Manter]

Also, due to quite a few reasons, I expect I'll only be there for an hour or so.

from 17.05 tp 18.05?!

 

[Onket]

Aproximately, yes.

You?

 

[xsunnysuex]

The video was uploaded 23rd of March but the Brixton Booty started on 27th April 2014.
I guess that the organiser was using this as an 'example' of what a car boot sale looks like, but never (?) actually claimed this was their own event.
That would be misleading at best if the case.

Haha, they've added a new video on their facebook page.



And added this disclaimer to the other one.

• Attention All
  
  We feel the need to clear up the video uploaded on May 3rd as it has led to various comments about #BrixtonBooty that need clearing up.
  
  The video is for recognition purposes to depict a clearer picture of the terminology used as part of our name, Hence "Booty" and it's suggestive type of meaning.
  
  We will be uploading a recently shot video of Brixton Booty that was taken on May 18th for everyone to see what it currently looks like to date!
  
  Please accept our sincere apologies for any misunderstandings over this matter
  
  Thank you
  
  Admin
  
  Email: info@brixtonbooty.com
  Phone: 0203 745 4950
  
  @brixtonbooty #BrixtonBooty
  
  
• 
  
  

 

[Onket]

p.s. Was good to see zenie, editor, Moggy, Maggot and rapattaque in The Albert on Saturday night.

 

[Winot]

Taking advantage of my (ill-advised) generousity.

Joke. Will be there about 8.30pm - sorry if that means I'll miss you.

 

[Onket]

Yeah, I'm disappointed I'll not be there longer, tbh.

 

[boohoo]

Also, due to quite a few reasons, I expect I'll only be there for an hour or so.

sorry, had to be done...

 

[Onket]

sorry, had to be done...

zenie ripped the piss out of me when I told her.

At least I am coming this time.

 

[teuchter]

So basically any member of the public reading this can turn up at 1705, claim that they some urban75 member or the other, and Onket will buy them a pint?

 

[Onket]

No.

They must be wearing one of the name badges leanderman mentioned earlier in the thread. They wll be distributed by him beforehand.

PM him for further details and to arrange.

No badge = no drink.