Brixton news, rumours and general chat - October 2012

[Ms T]

When we had the smackheads living on our floor in the Barrier Block and the busy crack house below, it would have been easier to tell the milkman just to hand it to them directly!

Grim. We have a resident alkie who is always asking for money/cigarettes, but I don't think she would nick anything tbh.

 

[Badgers]

I'm not sure where that is....

Edit- googled. Pls ignore me

One of the off-world colonies

 

[Ms T]

I'm not sure where that is....

Technically Herne Hill, but walk a few doors down my street and you're in SW2.

 

[Ms T]

One of the off-world colonies

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'm not sure where that is....

Edit- googled. Pls ignore me

Herne Hill, posher than SW2

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It's even more civilised in SE24.

Well SW4's probably more civilised, but my friend used to frequently nick the milk of neighbour's in Elms Road. It was only when I asked him how he'd been to the shop and back so quickly I discovered he'd been nicking it

 

[editor]

We have had nothing nicked... and one deliveryman left two cases of champagne for a party on the front doorstep in plain sight
One of the reasons I am loving SW2 so much more than SW9

Keeping it real, eh?

 

[Ms T]

Keeping it real, eh?

We'd all be politely ignoring that one....

 

[twistedAM]

We'd all be politely ignoring that one....

Err, I think that one might be strored in the memory banks for future use.

 

[Dan U]

didn't know where else to put this, saw this and thought of Editor

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/16/yummy-mummies-primrose-hill

 

[Badgers]

didn't know where else to put this, saw this and thought of Editor

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/16/yummy-mummies-primrose-hill

I thought of him too when I saw this in the Metro/Standard

It is known as the WEWH (Wish Editor Was Here) factor.

 

[Dan U]

It is known as the WEWH (Wish Editor Was Here) factor.

 

[editor]

didn't know where else to put this, saw this and thought of Editor

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/16/yummy-mummies-primrose-hill

The comments section has some gems:

I think people feel resentful towards well-to-do Mums languishing in a Nigellissima life-style, paid for by their banker husbands and trust-funds, while ordinary people are forced into a premature return to work and handing over their kids to grotty day-care- have-nots serving the haves their £6 coffees while wishing they could be at home with their own colourfully dressed off-spring.

 

[kittyP]

Does someone want to refer us so they get their free shopping?
Won't be able to start it til Monday though.

 

[editor]

It is known as the WEWH (Wish Editor Was Here) factor.

I'm sure there's a TV show in there. Somewhere.

 

[Ms T]

didn't know where else to put this, saw this and thought of Editor

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/16/yummy-mummies-primrose-hill

I thought exactly the same when I saw the original article in the Standard last night! Not just Brixton, clearly.

 

[Dan U]

The comments section has some gems:

some corkers in there. although i do think people forget the size of prams when they were little. mine was a veritable tank that wouldn't fit through many doors, let alone inside a coffee shop

 

[Ms T]

some corkers in there. although i do think people forget the size of prams when they were little. mine was a veritable tank that wouldn't fit through many doors, let alone inside a coffee shop

Apart from there weren't really any coffee shops - tea shops maybe, but my mother certainly never went to one. People had much less disposable income than they do now.

 

[editor]

some corkers in there. although i do think people forget the size of prams when they were little. mine was a veritable tank that wouldn't fit through many doors, let alone inside a coffee shop

My own kid had one of those cheapo folding buggy things that let him annoyingly wedge his feet under the straps for extra drag and parent-annoying factor.

Some off road-capable, armour-plated 4x4 vehicle-prams are so big they look like they should need a tax disc and could be called upon to pull a caravan out of a bog. That said, some can look quite stylish in an over-engineered kind of way but I imagine they'd be a nightmare on buses (not that I expect the average owner of these creations to be catching many buses). .

 

[editor]

Apart from there weren't really any coffee shops - tea shops maybe, but my mother certainly never went to one. People had much less disposable income than they do now.

Wimpey for the win in my day

 

[Ms T]

Wimpey for the win in my day

I could only dream of Wimpey.

 

[cuppa tee]

First world problem it seems...........http://www.scmp.com/topics/ralf-ruller

 

[editor]

I could only dream of Wimpey.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I thought exactly the same when I saw the original article in the Standard last night! Not just Brixton, clearly.

Sounds like the same story that was coming out of Nappy Valley a while ago

 

[editor]

First world problem it seems........... http://www.smh.com.au/

This purist - not to say militant - approach to coffee drinking extended to a long list of rules at his brew bar, the Barn Roastery, including a ban on extra milk, spoons, laptops, dogs, mobile-phone ringtones, loud phone calls and ''media'' (apart from newspapers). Sugar is discouraged.

But the rule that has provoked the most heated reaction is Mr Ruller's decision to prohibit pushchairs and prams. ''Coffee Nazis, choke on this swill'' and ''totalitarian coffee regime'' are just two of the many messages of protest Mr Ruller received after he installed a stone bollard - complete with a picture of a pram with a red line through it - in the doorway of his coffee house in the northern Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg. (The bollard is moved for wheelchairs.)

Fixed link: http://www.smh.com.au/world/grounds...offee-house-bans-the-pram-20121013-27joc.html

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

People had much less disposable income than they do now.

A lot of them still do. I'd imagine there's little cliques that occur (as they do everywhere), where the richer middle class mothers go off to one fancy cafe for their expensive coffees and the poorer ones go home and make the tea

 

[Manter]

some corkers in there. although i do think people forget the size of prams when they were little. mine was a veritable tank that wouldn't fit through many doors, let alone inside a coffee shop

Mine was huge and navy, with springs and those big wheels. Partly so my gran could leave me outside for an hour every afternoon, even in a force 10 gale, as the 'fresh air is good for babies' and it would ensure I didn't grow up weedy. Presumeably surviving repeated hypothermia toughened you up.... Not sure the Florians of the world get that sort of treatment from their child minders....more's the pity

 

[Manter]

Keeping it real, eh?

Hey, I like champagne at parties. So sue me

 

[Crispy]

Hey, I like champagne at parties. So sue me

How good's your lawyer?

 

[Manter]

How good's your lawyer?

Um.... Is that another Brixton accessory no one warned me about?