Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
You wouldn't put meat in a compost heap though but it seems to be fine in the waste bins.
Brixton news, rumours and general chat - November 2013
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You wouldn't put meat in a compost heap though but it seems to be fine in the waste bins.
I've heard you can do a special meat compost with tiger worms but it has to be kept separate from the other one.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
thought the problem wasn't so much that meat/bone doesn't rot into compost (obviously it does, viz: Prehistory) but that it takes aaaaages and while it does is likely to attract rats & foxes which most people don't want in their gardens.
Ol Nick
beer in Brixton
There's so much stuff to reply to. In this case, when did "bellies" become an acceptable word for "tummies"?
Answer: It's not. The word is tummies. Or often more correctly, intestines. (Maybe "stinnies".)
Effrasurfer
SW2 I Love You
Bellies is more Caribbean though. Cf. Trini saying 'Rub meh belly, ah go scratch yuh back' or Jamaican 'Wen man belly full, im bruck pat'. Yes OK I googled those.
Gramsci
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One fact about the Brixton Rec is that the majority of users are payg. Other Rec run by "Better" the majority are members. It a sign of people not being that well off. Do not like to many Direct Debits. This make queue longer as people pay at reception. Usually in cash.
When I am at reception they are dealing with calls a lot. Also parents with kids trying to book etc.
What they need is more staff on reception. With separate staff to deal with calls.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Full council meeting - 20th November
Gramsci had promised us notes - and I see that the minutes are still not available from the Council itself, so I thought I would paint a picture from my own dysfunctional perspective.
I arrived 6.45pm - Gramsci and the masses were busy demonstrating with stalls, banners etc - good pictures of this elsewhere on the threads. I pushed through the throng into the Town Hall vestibule - where four security staff were stationed at the top of the stairs to prevent access. I pushed to the front and fortunately someone can from committee saying "Four more". I was strategically positioned so managed to slip right in.
Up in the public gallery it was packed. Managed to get a full set of papers (about 2 inches thick).
I got a seat in the second row on the far left. In the row in front on the right was Alex Olowade, and on my side directly in front of me Carlton - the Brixton tube station morning preacher - and a row of quite young black guys who seemed fit and passionately intense.
As the chamber filled with council leader Lib Peck meandering around and some of the Labour apparatchiks such as Sally Prentice taking their position Alex was getting restless - obviously getting ready. He had a group of supporters who mainly looked like young Italian or Spanish anarchists/communists.
When the Mayor entered Alex started - "When will you grant us our deputation Mr Mayor" he bellowed. The Town Hall pa system just couldn't cope. None of the elected representatives could rival Alex's stentorian tones.
Councillor Wellbeloved got it in the neck - "Wellbeloved!" boomed Alex "You traitor. We want our college. We don't want property developers. We want University access courses - not training to work in Tescos! Lambeth is racist etc etc"
Alex's supporters were chanting at loud volume "Lambeth College, Our College"
The Mayor kept hitting his gavel but no-one could hear it.
The Mayor said - at the highest volume the Town Hall pa system would allow - "The gallery doesn't speak!"
Everyone in the gallery laughed.
Meanwhile Carlton and the youth were getting restless. I was wondering if there was some kind of split here between the ultra Left factions. I knew Alex had, by repute, received training by the American Sparticist League in Atlanta [and seems to have paid off!]. I wondered whether there was a rival more British ethnically based faction, since Carlton and others were actually standing and tugging at Alex physically to get him to sit down - and also telling him to shut up and let the Mayor speak.
Actually what happened was the council meeting was adjorned and someone was despatched into the gallery to negotiate. In due course Alex announced to the masses in the packed gallery that they had won - the council would grant them a deputation to the next meeting in December (?).
Alex and crew departed and the council meeting resumed at 7.50 pm.
First up was announcements. Deaths of Cllr Ruth Ling, and former Cllr Lesley Hammond. Cllr James Chatterton Dixon gave an odd tribute to Cllr Hammond (a former left-wing battleaxe) - "I didn't always agree with her" said Jim. The chair of planning gave a moving tribute to Cllr Ling - anyone would think she was Mother Theresa. My own experience of Ruth Ling was she had the homing instinct of an Exorcet.
Next up was petitions - and it finally became clear what Carlton's crew were up for.
The blessed Rachel Heywood rose to present a petition with 970 signatures for there to be provision for a boxing club at Brixton Rec.
She mentioned the work of Carlton and others in the gallery. Clearly this was why they were getting freaked out by Alex - not politics, but they thought Alex would cause the cancellation of the meeting and the loss of their petition.
I do not propose to give a full account of the rest of the business. Only that - whatever people on here think of him - I think Pete Robbins is the best speaker. I was disappointed that there was no detailed alternative proposal for the Town Bloody Hall from the Lib Dems.
My impression of Lib Peck's leadership style is that it is actually patronising. And other councillors Labour take the lead from that. Of course if you have a majority of 2:1 it's easy to patronise the opposition. We have a council which suffers from Consultant Capture and grandiosity, combined with a ludicrous amount of outsourcing.
The Labour Leaders of the 1980s were patronising (thinking Ted Knight and Linda Bellos). In fact I vividly remember Linda Bellos - as leader shrieking at Mary Leigh (wet Tory leader) the Torys could no more run Lambeth than run a game of Tiddlywinks - and then throwing Tiddlywink counters all over Ms Leigh.
We haven't got to that stage yet - but I am very worried that "Co-op" Labour's obsessive flirtation with PFI property developers will end up as a millstone round the neck of future generations - apart from dislocating the local community by forcing out the sons and daughters of local residents who will not be able to afford to live in their own area any more. It does not help that our political process does not currently allow serious debate.
Gramsci had promised us notes - and I see that the minutes are still not available from the Council itself, so I thought I would paint a picture from my own dysfunctional perspective.
I arrived 6.45pm - Gramsci and the masses were busy demonstrating with stalls, banners etc - good pictures of this elsewhere on the threads. I pushed through the throng into the Town Hall vestibule - where four security staff were stationed at the top of the stairs to prevent access. I pushed to the front and fortunately someone can from committee saying "Four more". I was strategically positioned so managed to slip right in.
Up in the public gallery it was packed. Managed to get a full set of papers (about 2 inches thick).
I got a seat in the second row on the far left. In the row in front on the right was Alex Olowade, and on my side directly in front of me Carlton - the Brixton tube station morning preacher - and a row of quite young black guys who seemed fit and passionately intense.
As the chamber filled with council leader Lib Peck meandering around and some of the Labour apparatchiks such as Sally Prentice taking their position Alex was getting restless - obviously getting ready. He had a group of supporters who mainly looked like young Italian or Spanish anarchists/communists.
When the Mayor entered Alex started - "When will you grant us our deputation Mr Mayor" he bellowed. The Town Hall pa system just couldn't cope. None of the elected representatives could rival Alex's stentorian tones.
Councillor Wellbeloved got it in the neck - "Wellbeloved!" boomed Alex "You traitor. We want our college. We don't want property developers. We want University access courses - not training to work in Tescos! Lambeth is racist etc etc"
Alex's supporters were chanting at loud volume "Lambeth College, Our College"
The Mayor kept hitting his gavel but no-one could hear it.
The Mayor said - at the highest volume the Town Hall pa system would allow - "The gallery doesn't speak!"
Everyone in the gallery laughed.
Meanwhile Carlton and the youth were getting restless. I was wondering if there was some kind of split here between the ultra Left factions. I knew Alex had, by repute, received training by the American Sparticist League in Atlanta [and seems to have paid off!]. I wondered whether there was a rival more British ethnically based faction, since Carlton and others were actually standing and tugging at Alex physically to get him to sit down - and also telling him to shut up and let the Mayor speak.
Actually what happened was the council meeting was adjorned and someone was despatched into the gallery to negotiate. In due course Alex announced to the masses in the packed gallery that they had won - the council would grant them a deputation to the next meeting in December (?).
Alex and crew departed and the council meeting resumed at 7.50 pm.
First up was announcements. Deaths of Cllr Ruth Ling, and former Cllr Lesley Hammond. Cllr James Chatterton Dixon gave an odd tribute to Cllr Hammond (a former left-wing battleaxe) - "I didn't always agree with her" said Jim. The chair of planning gave a moving tribute to Cllr Ling - anyone would think she was Mother Theresa. My own experience of Ruth Ling was she had the homing instinct of an Exorcet.
Next up was petitions - and it finally became clear what Carlton's crew were up for.
The blessed Rachel Heywood rose to present a petition with 970 signatures for there to be provision for a boxing club at Brixton Rec.
She mentioned the work of Carlton and others in the gallery. Clearly this was why they were getting freaked out by Alex - not politics, but they thought Alex would cause the cancellation of the meeting and the loss of their petition.
I do not propose to give a full account of the rest of the business. Only that - whatever people on here think of him - I think Pete Robbins is the best speaker. I was disappointed that there was no detailed alternative proposal for the Town Bloody Hall from the Lib Dems.
My impression of Lib Peck's leadership style is that it is actually patronising. And other councillors Labour take the lead from that. Of course if you have a majority of 2:1 it's easy to patronise the opposition. We have a council which suffers from Consultant Capture and grandiosity, combined with a ludicrous amount of outsourcing.
The Labour Leaders of the 1980s were patronising (thinking Ted Knight and Linda Bellos). In fact I vividly remember Linda Bellos - as leader shrieking at Mary Leigh (wet Tory leader) the Torys could no more run Lambeth than run a game of Tiddlywinks - and then throwing Tiddlywink counters all over Ms Leigh.
We haven't got to that stage yet - but I am very worried that "Co-op" Labour's obsessive flirtation with PFI property developers will end up as a millstone round the neck of future generations - apart from dislocating the local community by forcing out the sons and daughters of local residents who will not be able to afford to live in their own area any more. It does not help that our political process does not currently allow serious debate.
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leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Who will make the decision on Lambeth College? Is it the council - or its own board?
Could be used as a site for a primary school - or expansion thereof
Corpus Christi had wanted to expand - and Sudbourne is doing so.
Could be used as a site for a primary school - or expansion thereof
Corpus Christi had wanted to expand - and Sudbourne is doing so.
My concessionary rate card for Brixton Rec is so-called PAYG, although I use it for the pool (at the free times) 99.999% of the time. The automatic entry machines aren't compatible with my REAL card, so I have to queue up, even when I don't have to pay.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
This is discussed elsewhere. No firm conclusion. Councillor Wellbeloved is connected with the college in some way - hence Alex's haranguing. The college is a charity - but does not have to register with the charity commission so report & accounts are not available through that route. I think it is likely that the college is on Lambeth land.
Compare Lambeth's listed building at 126 Atkins Road which was used by SLAM for mental health but now Lambeth have sold it to Opus Dei for use as a fee-paying Catholic girls school (30% discount for third child 40% discount for 4th child - all others free)
http://yourcareyourway.lambeth.gov.uk/Services/161/Mosaic-Clubhouse-Ltd
http://d1space.co.uk/d1-use-atkins-road-london-sw12/
http://www.thelaurelsschool.org.uk/fees_78.html
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
There has been a serious incident on Stockwell Park Walk at the back of the Academy
the road is completely shut with many police in attendance, also a blue tent thing in the road
which is a sign of something very bad I think
RTA according to twitter and the air ambulance is on route
There has been a serious incident on Stockwell Park Walk at the back of the Academy
the road is completely shut with many police in attendance, also a blue tent thing in the road
which is a sign of something very bad I think
I've just walked pass there, looks serious. Some kind of emergency transport vehicle outside Barnardo's not sure if the two are connected.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Elderly woman pedestrian killed, says Brixtonblog on Twitter.
RTA according to twitter and the air ambulance is on route
I've never understood the value of having the air ambulance for places like Brixton which are relatively close to hospitals - with all the landing and taking off and then landing again surely it would be quicker for an ambulance to drive the 1-2 miles to King's or do the air ambulances have specialist equipment?
editor
hiraethified
I walked past earlier and saw a load of police cars by the junction.
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My concessionary rate card for Brixton Rec is so-called PAYG, although I use it for the pool (at the free times) 99.999% of the time. The automatic entry machines aren't compatible with my REAL card, so I have to queue up, even when I don't have to pay.
When I was going every day, there was some sort of a glitch which caused my membership to be suspended. My direct debit didn't go or something. It was my fault whatever it was.
I then started to queue each day and when I got to the front I would just show my card and get let in. In fact, she would just recognise me and open the door.
It was only when I went back at a quiet time and asked could they sort it out to prevent me queueing that they worked out I hadn't been paying. I could have gone on for months and nobody would have challenged me.
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hiraethified
Here's some photos from Sunday at the 414. It was an entertaining mix of jazz, funk and spoken word.
Apparently the woman above is from East Enders, not that I would know!
http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2013/11/...and-play-jammin-at-bar-414-sun-24th-nov-2013/
Apparently the woman above is from East Enders, not that I would know!
http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2013/11/...and-play-jammin-at-bar-414-sun-24th-nov-2013/
editor
hiraethified
And here's something worth supporting:
Statue to honour fallen black war heroes proposed for Windrush Square, Brixton
"A servicemen’s organisation has announced that it is seeking community support for a memorial in Windrush Square, central Brixton."
Statue to honour fallen black war heroes proposed for Windrush Square, Brixton
"A servicemen’s organisation has announced that it is seeking community support for a memorial in Windrush Square, central Brixton."
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
Just off to see Skat Injektor at the Windmill, hope i survive uninjured. 
Sirena
Don't monkey with the buzzsaw
I'm not one for war but I think memorials are a good idea.
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