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Brixton news, rumours and general chat - Aug 2013

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Dexter Deadwood said:
TNT are also failing to deliver the post. Either that or A4e Brixton office are getting very nasty with me after they learnt my complaint about a violent incident in their office was passed to the Independent Case Examiner. Never received an appointment letter which has led to a doubt being raised on my entitlement to claim JSA. (around the same time TNT took over some of the deliveries to my block of flats,)

This is a spiv nation.
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TNT are snaking up this road too.

Opening up the mail market to competition just means worse-paid and fewer staff, later deliveries, higher postal costs and more road traffic.
 
Manter said:
yeah, looked at a couple of Polish places yesterday. May just have to strike out for N London to satisfy the craving....
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I was chatting to a Czech friend at the weekend, and the subject of strudel came up, as it does. She told me that she makes strudel pastry with quark, and that you don't have to do loads of rolling and re-rolling, you just roll out a big sheet, put the apple at one end and then roll it up into a big sausage.
 
RubyToogood said:
I was chatting to a Czech friend at the weekend, and the subject of strudel came up, as it does. She told me that she makes strudel pastry with quark, and that you don't have to do loads of rolling and re-rolling, you just roll out a big sheet, put the apple at one end and then roll it up into a big sausage.
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My gran did something similar, but the pastry she used was fine enough that you could read through it...
 
Manter said:
the hellfire and damnation preacher outside Iceland today is enjoying some of his lines a bit too much- he keeps intoning 'you will die' and pausing to glare meaningfully at whoever catches his eye. Mostly small children....:eek:
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Father of a future world heavyweight boxing champ if Steadman's comments in the 'Uncle Steadman' documentary are anything to go by.
 
We had a self-organized barbecue on the St Matthews Estate on Monday night. Lambeth Living's grand was well spent as we are lucky enough that among our residents are professionals including a chef and a DJ who worked their socks off for their neighbours. A couple of hundred locals including dozens of kids enjoyed free jerk chicken, roasted plaintain and corn, fruit skewers, cakes and fruit or rum punch and chilled out to classic sounds. All smiles, no trouble, everyone loved it.

A small shadow was cast over the proceedings later in the evening when one of the ladies who had been up since 9am helping out and serving food raised the alarm that her carrier bag with 2 phones and a tenner in it had gone missing. After much soul searching, someone had the bright idea to turn the music down, stand by the bin sheds and ring one of the phones. Sure enough, our heroine was able to make out her ringtone issuing from within a black bin liner and the party was back on track.
 
The illegally parked Dogstar beer dray lorry is back. Had the driver tell me to "fuck/piss off" this morning, as well as accuse me of "not having a girlfriend" which was a bit cryptic. Noticed he was decidedly less lippy when i managed to collar a traffic warden who summarily issued a ticket. Hey ho - letter written to Lambeth council and the Dogstar management.
 
pissflaps said:
The illegally parked Dogstar beer dray lorry is back. Had the driver tell me to "fuck/piss off" this morning, as well as accuse me of "not having a girlfriend" which was a bit cryptic. Noticed he was decidedly less lippy when i managed to collar a traffic warden who summarily issued a ticket. Hey ho - letter written to Lambeth council and the Dogstar management.
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I had a chat with them too this morning, and the ticket inspector you were talking about.

I mentioned to the driver that they were in the way of 15 cyclists, and blocking the road to cars. I got a shrug rather than abuse, but I guess that was because the Traf Warden was on his bike next to me. He issued a second ticket. The lorry blokes weren't concerned about extra tickets - they were just going to be paid as part of the fee to deliver beer, so it's no skin off their nose.

Traf Warden told them he'd ticket them every time he saw them doing it.
 
pissflaps said:
The illegally parked Dogstar beer dray lorry is back. Had the driver tell me to "fuck/piss off" this morning, as well as accuse me of "not having a girlfriend" which was a bit cryptic. Noticed he was decidedly less lippy when i managed to collar a traffic warden who summarily issued a ticket. Hey ho - letter written to Lambeth council and the Dogstar management.
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Good work.

They should clamp them next time.
 
pissflaps said:
how will this affect my property value?
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not as much as if Tesco had taken over the old pub, once Lambeth Council get wind of that they'll... well they'll do fuck all obviously, but they'll be hypothetically vexed at the missed opportunity to be invited round Mr Tesco's for tea again.
 
So it seems the knock-on effect of landscaping/stripping/sanitising/improving/social cleansing/upgrading* Windrush Square is that green space outside Southwyck House is now the place to be for street drinkers/street shouters/street urinators/food litterers/domino hollerers/leery drunks.

(*pick whichever you feel is applicable)
 
Maybe the Brixton Square residents will kick up a fuss in time, and they'll be pushed onto the Moorlands Est. The council couldn't give a shit if it affects w/c areas.
 
shygirl said:
Maybe the Brixton Square residents will kick up a fuss in time, and they'll be pushed onto the Moorlands Est. The council couldn't give a shit if it affects w/c areas.
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Most of them are down the Moorlands end, so they're not spoiling the Brixton Square vista.

Talking of which, I met one of the new BS residents over the weekend. I told him I lived in the Barrier Block and he went all sneery about what a horrible building it was. Twat.
 
editor said:
So it seems the knock-on effect of landscaping/stripping/sanitising/improving/social cleansing/upgrading* Windrush Square is that green space outside Southwyck House is now the place to be for street drinkers/street shouters/street urinators/food litterers/domino hollerers/leery drunks.

(*pick whichever you feel is applicable)
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welcome to Brixton
 
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