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Brixton news, rumours and general chat - October 2012

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Brixton Hatter said:
No, it just means next time you have a disagreement with someone on here, your 'champagne comment' will be dragged up and used to beat you around the head with!!!

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<<sigh>> would it be easier if I just pretended to be something I wasn't? FFS <<flounces off>>
 
wow, so many posts in so little time.

I love Milk and More and nothing has ever gone missing.

Quite a few people tell me they have been to Brixton Village, yet, on close questioning, realise they had been to Market Row only.

As for Brixton's sense of community, there wasn't much spirit in our road until quite recently.

Different 'tribes' tend to keep apart. And, worse, many are renters who soon move on.
 
Our milk used to go missing in SW12, twenty-five years or so ago, when the milkman didn't come until gone ten. Or in the summer it went off. Then they gave us a little box to keep it fresh until we got home. Since we've been in SW2 (23 yrs) it's never been taken. But he has said he has to deliver a little later (7 not 6) because he doesn't feel safe earlier, which is a bit depressing.
 
fortyplus said:
Our milk used to go missing in SW12, twenty-five years or so ago, when the milkman didn't come until gone ten. Or in the summer it went off. Then they gave us a little box to keep it fresh until we got home. Since we've been in SW2 (23 yrs) it's never been taken. But he has said he has to deliver a little later (7 not 6) because he doesn't feel safe earlier, which is a bit depressing.
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I remember those little boxes! Could probably sell them for £20 in a retro store now....:rolleyes:
 
Hello I'm new here. I just want to send big love and respect out to Seven in Market Row and Agile Rabbit for catering my wedding a couple of weekends ago. 375 pinchos from Seven and over 200 mini calzones from Agile Rabbit. It all got eaten, prices agreed were definitely reasonable and the plans for getting it all delivered to Bayswater went faultlessly. Which all added to an incredible day. Massively thankful, go eat at both.
 
Dan U said:
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
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Read this today.:mad: And the ES one yesterday. Read the first page of comments at end of it. Ed put up good one #702 Also this


God, I'm bored of this middle-class army of networked female interns in the Guardian given platforms to witter on about self-reflexive "lifestyle" crap like this.
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A quote from the writer of the piece:

The age-old choice between domestic and professional is being rejected; maybe it's time we were allowed to do both. Maybe we can take the cash that we earned in a well-paid job and spend it on lattes during our maternity leave.
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Clueless idiot. No conception of the lives of most people in this country. A lot of women really struggle, especially with the cuts and recesssion. Women like her ought to be made to go an shop in Iceland once and a while. They have not a clue. They sit there in there cafes acting like everything is just fine.

The article misses the point of the ES one. I know the Russian Tea House its an institution in Primrose Hill. After 20 years they were faced with an 70% increase to renew there lease. So are closing down. Another shopkeeper, closing after being told his rent would be triple, said that they diversity of the shops was being eroded and being replaced by cafes.

I am often up at Primrose hill and its not just the well off there now its the uber wealthy.

Another quote from the comments section of the Guardian article which is spot on. However nice these people are when u meet them they do have a sense of entitlement. They ignore the inequalities in society. As a lot of the uber wealthy see themselves as separate from these issues.


these particular woman attract resentment because they are wealthy and don't have to do paid work. They have therefore got a lot more leeway in terms of throwing their weight about than most of us who have to answer to the boss and/or the benefits office, and are likely to have an elevated sense of entitlement.
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I also think the ES article was deliberately headlined to cause people to start making comments on the well off. The lower case title "Cafe rents forcing shops to close" is the real issue. By highlighting Yummy Mummys people can be accused of the politics of "envy" and being sexist. Clever of the ES to set out the page like this. Undercuts the real issue whilst reporting it.
 
Phill said:
Hello I'm new here. I just want to send big love and respect out to Seven in Market Row and Agile Rabbit for catering my wedding a couple of weekends ago. 375 pinchos from Seven and over 200 mini calzones from Agile Rabbit. It all got eaten, prices agreed were definitely reasonable and the plans for getting it all delivered to Bayswater went faultlessly. Which all added to an incredible day. Massively thankful, go eat at both.
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:hmm:
 
Victoria line was a bit of an arse today. Really overcrowded and seemed a lower number of tubes appearing? Vauxhall had shut the gates due to overcrowding.

Plenty of announcements stating good service :)
 
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