Brixton news, rumours and general chat - Aug 2013

[pissflaps]

/throws into the feeding pit

http://www.economist.com/blogs/blig...emography?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/gentrification_blues

 

[Frumious B.]

Three PCSOs standing around in Electric Ave. "Community tensions between the Afghans and the Africans." There's been a fight and an arrest.

 

[cuppa tee]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/m...he-conservative-club-thats-now-a-hipster-bar/

telegraph bloke said .."go and visit "

 

[RubyToogood]

Our foreign correspondent writes: Today I went to Tooting Market (and Broadway Market, they are kind of part A and part B of the same thing). I was interested to see that it was absolutely thriving. I was last there maybe 6 months ago. Quite a few of the more remote units were unlet then, and there seemed to be moves towards trying to Brixton Villagify it, eg a branch of Brickbox had opened up and people seemed to be trying to do vaguely arty things.

Today when I went back Brick Box had gone and the only remnant of all that was one small wine bar which looked wildly out of place. The occupancy rate looked to be nearly full and was entirely useful, busy, small shops for the non-wealthy, mostly Asian and Afro-Caribbean.

My guess is the landlords saw what had been done at BV, tried to replicate it, put the rents up, failed, and put them right down again.

I came home with some bargainaceous fabric and some excellent fruit and veg.

 

[OvalhouseDB]

Brixton's rising house prices, 20% over the last year, was just featured on BBC news.

 

[leanderman]

Yale lock was on, but due to a knackered warped door, it's less than perfect and could in theory just be jiggled/knocked open without much noise or effort. Which is why I nearly always deadbolt the other 2 as well at night. But the door was definitely shut and not ajar - it would have been "interfered with" in some way to open it up.

The last three burglaries in this road have been on single-lock properties, and almost all those in the past year.

Except where they have gone in an open window.

 

[secateurz]

looks like I am moving to Tooting then. Nearly 6 years in Brix and its just unrecognisable now.

 

[nagapie]

I need to print a flight ticket today and the place on Brixton Hill has closed for the day. Where else can I print a ticket from an email in Brixton/Tulse Hill that will still be open?

 

[Frumious B.]

In the past I've used an internet caff on Tulse Hill opposite the new Sainsburys. Dunno if it's still there.

eta It's 37 Tulse Hill, calls itself Strategic Ventures. It's on streetview http://goo.gl/maps/5jE66

eta again They have a phone numberhttp://www.allinlondon.co.uk/directory/1166/140323.php

 

[Winot]

I need to print a flight ticket today and the place on Brixton Hill has closed for the day. Where else can I print a ticket from an email in Brixton/Tulse Hill that will still be open?

Surely a friendly Urb will oblige? (I would offer but we are about to board flight ourselves)

 

[xsunnysuex]

I need to print a flight ticket today and the place on Brixton Hill has closed for the day. Where else can I print a ticket from an email in Brixton/Tulse Hill that will still be open?

There's a place I've used up Coldharbour Lane. Just before you get to Jimmy's chip shop.

 

[Boudicca]

I need to print a flight ticket today and the place on Brixton Hill has closed for the day. Where else can I print a ticket from an email in Brixton/Tulse Hill that will still be open?

Have you tried next door?

 

[nagapie]

Have you tried next door?

We were thinking about it actually

 

[Boudicca]

We were thinking about it actually

Sorted

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I need to print a flight ticket today and the place on Brixton Hill has closed for the day. Where else can I print a ticket from an email in Brixton/Tulse Hill that will still be open?

There's a few places on Brixton Hill you should be able to do it. They can't all be shut!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

looks like I am moving to Tooting then. Nearly 6 years in Brix and its just unrecognisable now.

What will you do when Tooting starts to look like Brixton?

 

[nagapie]

Surely a friendly Urb will oblige? (I would offer but we are about to board flight ourselves)

One has

 

[simonSW2]

looks like I am moving to Tooting then. Nearly 6 years in Brix and its just unrecognisable now.

That's sad to hear. Are you moving cos you're sick of the hipster takeover or is it the stupid £££? Or both?

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Either a massive gunfight or fireworks in Central Brixton.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I can see fireworks

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

I can see fireworks

Mine were by the Canterbury Arms, either at the pub or neighbours shrouded by leylandii. Went out onto balcony and saw some shadow flashes ,saw smoke rising and the smell of what i think is cordite. It was good.

 

[colacubes]

Fireworks innit. I assume related to Eid.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Mine were by the Canterbury Arms, either at the pub or neighbours shrouded by leylandii. Went out onto balcony and saw some shadow flashes ,saw smoke rising and the smell of what i think is cordite. It was good.

This is what I saw

 

[shygirl]

Think they were in the old primary school flats next to police station and opp International House. Minnie, I'm trying to work out where you took your pics from, proper confused by the position of the clock and those buildings in the background.

 

[Frumious B.]

I saw a geezer wearing illusionary socks earlier. He had shorts on, and from a distance it looked like he had knee length socks. But they were just one inch deep straps, or tape maybe, below his knees. Apart from that his legs were bare. Is this a thing?

 

[shygirl]

Or were they just somewhere completely different? Its bugging me...

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

I saw a geezer wearing illusionary socks earlier. He had shorts on, and from a distance it looked like he had knee length socks. But they were just one inch deep straps, or tape maybe, below his knees. Apart from that his legs were bare. Is this a thing?

Might it have been strapping for his patellar tendon? Sportyhipsteritis innit.

 

[Greebo]

I saw a geezer wearing illusionary socks earlier. He had shorts on, and from a distance it looked like he had knee length socks. But they were just one inch deep straps, or tape maybe, below his knees. Apart from that his legs were bare. Is this a thing?

AFAIK those bands do exist - it's a compression thing which is supposed to improve knee-related ligament problems in some people.

 

[Frumious B.]

Hmmm...OK...looked quite like this but with tan tape.

BUT if you were going out on a Saturday night, and you needed to have this tape on, wouldn't you wear trousers? Unless you just wanted to look like a bit of a cock?

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

Hmmm...OK...looked quite like this but with tan tape.

BUT if you were going out on a Saturday night, and you needed to have this tape on, wouldn't you wear trousers? Unless you just wanted to look like a bit of a cock?

Not necessarily. I wear strapping when my tendinitis gets bad and don't change my wardrobe, people can stop looking at me if they don't like it. Fuck 'em, I care far less about my wardrobe or want people think of my wardrobe than I do about my body (((poorly tendons)))