Camberwell news and chitter-chatter

[mango5]

No word on Snowbird???!!

Can't believe this has flown below the Camberwell chatter radar!

The former Funky Munky....

Hello! Nice to hear from you The former FM looks so boring I haven't bothered to go inside. But now you've recommended it I will. Maggot's right. We should go and give it an Urban stress-test.

 

[Badgers]

Anyone go to the Camberwell car boot sale today?

 

[teuchter]

I didn't

 

[Thimble Queen]

There's a jumblesale in Lucas Gardens on Sunday if anyones interested

This is on from 12-6 today.

 

[mango5]

We went there, it was part of the Elephant and the Nun. There were some great bands, we followed one down our street. I bought this for £1 in the jumble. Very chuffed

 

[Crispy]

We went there, it was part of the Elephant and the Nun. There were some great bands, we followed one down our street. I bought this for £1 in the jumble. Very chuffed

Grate find

 

[Maggot]

What's the Elephant and the Nun?

 

[Crispy]

http://www.se5forum.org/about-cambe...x_cal_phpicalendar&tx_cal_controller[uid]=159

 

[Thimble Queen]

I got loads of good stuff including a jumper and three scarves. I spent a about a tenner in total. I heart jumble.

 

[mark dodds]

The landlord of the Sun and Doves has been trying to get community input into a share ownership thing, because he said some time ago that he couldn't continue to run it. The last I heard, the community was showing no interest in it!

Just a reminder that, far from the community taking no interest in it, just short of seventy people contacted me within two weeks of the idea being published in the local press; the Guardian picked it up and I had, literally, to shut down the idea because the pubco made it absolutely clear they wouldn't consider selling the pub for anything less than £1.7million when its true value, without my business netting the pubco £160K a year while leaving me broke, was more like £800K

http://flic.kr/p/7HvPJ2

That's not 'the community showing no interest' is it?

That idea has moved on somewhat to a more strategically significant proposition for a radical new type of pub company; The People's Pub Partnership; the John Lewis of pub companies: http://bit.ly/qpe85z

 

[mango5]

Indeed, we did talk about it on these boards somewhere, and I went to speak to Mark around that time. I remember a good handful of Urbs were contemplating 'investment' (real life chat).

Sorry for your loss, Mark.

 

[golightly]

Wow! Camberwell is having a one day music festival called Oxjam. A fundraiser for Oxfam it would seem. I might go seeing as it would require very little effort.

 

[Thimble Queen]

This is when we're in Berlin

 

[golightly]

I'm sure they would postpone it if you asked them.

 

[ringo]

Anyone been to No. 67, the new South London Art Gallery cafe yet?

Looks nice: http://www.southlondongallery.org/page/caf

Can't decide to go there or to the Crooked Well for dinner on Friday. CW probably better food but more expensive.

 

[Crispy]

We went to Crooked Well for my brithday. The food is indeed excellent, but it's fancy restaurant pricey.

 

[teuchter]

Anyone been to No. 67, the new South London Art Gallery cafe yet?

Looks nice: http://www.southlondongallery.org/page/caf

Can't decide to go there or to the Crooked Well for dinner on Friday. CW probably better food but more expensive.

I've been to no. 67.

The food was good in quality, not so good in quantity as far as I remember. There were some quality control issues with a gin & tonic that we ordered. The service was friendly if slightly shambolic for what you'd expect in that kind of place.

Sitting in the front room is quite odd as it's like sitting in the ground floor of a London terrace house that's been converted into a restaurant. The bit out the back (glassy extension) looked nicer.

Overall, it was towards the upper end of my pretentious restaurant tolerance scale.

 

[Onket]

I nipped in and had a look around a few weeks or so ago. The place looks nice. The cake we bought to take away was overpriced and dry, like it had sat on display for days.

 

[ringo]

Cheers, reckon we'll give the Crooked Well a go.

 

[Thimble Queen]

I really liked no 67. but we've not been for over a year so might have gone down hill since. Find the crooked well website really off putting but have heard the food is quite good.

 

[Ms T]

I agree with Crispy about The Crooked Well - good but pricey. Packed when we went a few Fridays ago.

 

[ringo]

Loved the Crooked Well, every dish was excellent, great place to have on our doorstep.

 

[teuchter]

Carbuncle

 

[teuchter]

Quite nice

 

[BoxRoom]

Quite nice

Do you know any details about this lot off the top of your head?

 

[ringo]

Carbuncle

Grim prefabricated boxes at the end of my street

 

[ringo]

Do you know any details about this lot off the top of your head?

Both are on Coldharbour Lane, Camberwell end. The Carbuncle is at the junction with Lilford Road, the brick building down towards Camberwell at the junction with Crawford Road.

 

[BoxRoom]

Grim prefabricated boxes at the end of my street

Agreed. Couldn't believe when they started putting in the lego plastic on the balconies.

 

[BoxRoom]

Both are on Coldharbour Lane, Camberwell end. The Carbuncle is at the junction with Lilford Road, the brick building down towards Camberwell at the junction with Crawford Road.

Cheers, I know the carbunkle is being dealt with via Fabrik, shared ownership type thing, but the one further down keeps evading my memory to check out whenever I go by.

 

[teuchter]

Cheers, I know the carbunkle is being dealt with via Fabrik, shared ownership type thing, but the one further down keeps evading my memory to check out whenever I go by.

The brick one has "Bugler" written on the hoardings, although I can't find any mention of it here.