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davidaheath said:
Hi everyone I have an important update with regards to our sunflower which I have not previously posted about so please consider this the first update but also the most recent and important.

So my housemate bought a fucking sunflowers didn't she.

Put them outside like it said on the packet.

Don't have a single fucking sunflower though does she.

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Look at the size of that fucking thing it's like seven foot tall. I dunno if it's that tall I haven't measured it but it looks like it seven foot tall for fuck's sake. But where's the fucking sunflower mate.

What season is this supposed to flower in then?

Next door have a glorious sunflower and it's looking at me every morning as I walk past it I can see it looking at me I'm like "what mate" and it's just staring doesn't say a word and I get home and this bastard has grown another 4 inches and hasn't opened the fuck up yet.

What the hell do we do in six weeks time with a nine foot green fucking stem fucking hell.
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Do you actually get any sun in your garden?
 
davidaheath said:
Hi everyone I have an important update with regards to our sunflower which I have not previously posted about so please consider this the first update but also the most recent and important.

So my housemate bought a fucking sunflowers didn't she.

Put them outside like it said on the packet.

Don't have a single fucking sunflower though does she.

sunfail.jpg


Look at the size of that fucking thing it's like seven foot tall. I dunno if it's that tall I haven't measured it but it looks like it seven foot tall for fuck's sake. But where's the fucking sunflower mate.

What season is this supposed to flower in then?

Next door have a glorious sunflower and it's looking at me every morning as I walk past it I can see it looking at me I'm like "what mate" and it's just staring doesn't say a word and I get home and this bastard has grown another 4 inches and hasn't opened the fuck up yet.

What the hell do we do in six weeks time with a nine foot green fucking stem fucking hell.
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If it's of any encouragement - my sunflowers just bloomed or "opened the fuck up" in the last few days. I was close to despairing about the fuckers too frankly. I also live in Loughborough Junction area, so I assume our terroir is similar. Keep the faith.
 
Thanks for the support everyone.

If there are any updates that include an actual flower appearing I will be sure to deliver this momentous news.
 
Seems Loughborough Junction Business Forum is having a meeting about the future of the arches:

REMINDER: the LJ neighbourhood planning forum and the LJ Business Association invite you to a meeting to discuss the future of the railway arches in Loughborough Junction on Thursday 20 August at 6.30pm at Sunshine International Arts, 209a Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8RR.

In case anyone interested wants to attend. I'm a bit worried about this - given the bizarre attitude of Network Rail to viable businesses in Brixton.
 
leanderman said:
An optimist planted three sunflowers out front on this road three years back. Soon decapitated.
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It can be done. Two houses on Dalberg or Rattray Roads compete in the front garden every year. Huge. I stole a couple of seeds from them one year and discovered that successful growing is most definitely not a case of simple genetics.
 
I was one of those houses for a while. Took two years to persuade my neighbours to share some of their flower heads - and then the competition moved to the back garden to stop the midnight lopping incidents.
 
I have been thinking it's time to challenge my neighbours' 4-year-old's sunflowers. I reckon I have a planting position with a bit more sun and could soon put him in his place.
 
shygirl said:
Such grandiose claims from Camilla again. The children would die without her :rolleyes:
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I have followed this and really cannot work her out.

She is a charismatic figure and used that to get funding. It looks like her strategy in the end did not work.

She did highlight that young people do not get the support they need or have a right to have.
 
shygirl said:
Such grandiose claims from Camilla again. The children would die without her :rolleyes:
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I had not realized until the TV coverage about the closure & demos that Kids Company were using the community centre building in the middle of Loughborough Park.

That must have been the most under-used youth club/sports facility in Lambeth in its time. I remember them putting in a load of wieght training equipment in the mid 1980s and then it not being open due to cuts - back in 1986.

If Kids Company were using it, it does prove that it is useable with the right "business model" as the council now say. Maybe they should put Fred Taggart on the case, instead of encouraging him to turn Carnegie Library into a sauna!
 
Hi

What was the Vietnamese and more recently Ulupica has reopened as The Junction - a bar with live music (mostly jazz). Nice atmosphere, good music, decent beer selection, friendly people giving it a go. Open to ideas (e.g. open mic, comedy etc) and done a lot of the decoration with help of local businesses like Second Time Around. Think there is an official opening night in September but open for business now. Cafe open during the day- good coffee and snacks (locally made cakes). No food yet, kitchen being sorted out.

Give it a try!

They have sunflowers in the front window if you need any more persuasion
 
Harbourite said:
Hi

What was the Vietnamese and more recently Ulupica has reopened as The Junction - a bar with live music (mostly jazz). Nice atmosphere, good music, decent beer selection, friendly people giving it a go. Open to ideas (e.g. open mic, comedy etc) and done a lot of the decoration with help of local businesses like Second Time Around. Think there is an official opening night in September but open for business now. Cafe open during the day- good coffee and snacks (locally made cakes). No food yet, kitchen being sorted out.

Give it a try!

They have sunflowers in the front window if you need any more persuasion
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I saw that it had been rebranded a couple of days ago. Is there a website?
 
Blimey, that Ulupica didn't last long.

I hope the bar works out - think it'd be good to have a pub/bar along that stretch again.
 
brixtonblade said:
Blimey, that Ulupica didn't last long.

I hope the bar works out - think it'd be good to have a pub/bar along that stretch again.
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The Ulupica guy is still the licensee so he's working with the people running it. He just couldn't get enough people through the door of Ulupica, had trouble with getting the kitchen going and was only open weekends, often for private parties ... one day I came home to find a 7 piece mariachi band tuning up outside my place (before going into Ulupica to play). My wife thought I'd arranged it as a surprise. Where else in London, eh?
 
Harbourite said:
The Ulupica guy is still the licensee so he's working with the people running it. He just couldn't get enough people through the door of Ulupica, had trouble with getting the kitchen going and was only open weekends, often for private parties ... one day I came home to find a 7 piece mariachi band tuning up outside my place (before going into Ulupica to play). My wife thought I'd arranged it as a surprise. Where else in London, eh?
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That's interesting.... hadn't realised it was only open weekends. Could've sworn I'd been there midweek last year.
 
brixtonblade said:
That's interesting.... hadn't realised it was only open weekends. Could've sworn I'd been there midweek last year.
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The guy running the cafe bit quit earlier this year - so it stopped opening during weekdays ... then only weekends, then the occasional weekend ... so you're right it was open during the week last year
 
teuchter said:
I will add a map into the first post (which I've left blank for now) so people can see the extent of where all the arches are.
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editor

Are you able to put my first blank post back in so that I can add a map. I think it would be useful to have this at the beginning so people can see the scope of what's being discussed.
 
teuchter said:
editor

Are you able to put my first blank post back in so that I can add a map. I think it would be useful to have this at the beginning so people can see the scope of what's being discussed.
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Your post appeared at the bottom of the new thread because it was posted after the earlier comments so I can't change that, sorry.
 
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