Comments on: Give me Cotton

By: Joe Damage

Joe Damage — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:03:57 +0000

Back to the skatepark business; Here's a photo And here's a Southwark flyer in PDF format

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:26:37 +0000

Just further up, Stories Mews is fascinating, it’s like a country lane from a Constable painting. It has no tarmac. My 3-year-old daughter likes watching the blokes putting up houses from scratch, monitors their progress. There are some fab old garage doors with a tree growing in front of them.

By: Newbie

Newbie — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:27:52 +0000

I think the cab was probably a good idea — Love Walk seems to have enough drama without the screams of childbirth. It is very pretty and (usually) tranquil though, I still can’t quite believe we’re in London when we’re sitting in the garden surrounded by huge tress with the birds singing.

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:50:37 +0000

That sounded like someone being mugged, Newbie, not expressing a need to play hockey in the middle of the night. Still, it was kind of you to offer.

I love Love Walk. That’s the walk we should all be doing. When Baby Poppy was born in March, I wanted to walk down Love Walk with my partner on the way to King’s, but the contractions were too frequent, so we had to take a Camberwell Cab.

By: Newbie

Newbie — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:33:35 +0000

Thankyou everyone. I feel reassured, and I will definitely be having a go at the Maudsley Shuffle. Last night I was woken at 3.30 by someone screaming for help, but I couldn’t see anything as I leaned quivering out of my bedroom window, boyfriend’s hockey stick at the ready. It’s clearly the witching hour in Love Walk.

Hope to meet some of you around and about!

By: Mushtimushta

Mushtimushta — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:20:41 +0000

I think you’ve just been really unlucky, Newbie. I’ve lived in Camberwell for 20 years and have not had any problems — no burglaries, muggings, nothing. Am I living in a parallel universe? Perhaps. And I don’t even do the Maudsley Shuffle to blend in (love that, Dagmar — we’ve all seen it, but have never given it a name before!)

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:27:27 +0000

every

where

By: ben patio

ben patio — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:22:21 +0000

On the first evening we were in Camberwell, some rude boys set fire to a van outside our house. Since then — well, just the one pistol-whipping / mugging.

But then my mum lives in leafy Chiswick and bad stuff happens there too. It’s London, innit.

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:31:08 +0000

I have just spent the weekend driving in a Mini in the heat between Camberwell, Bristol, Worcester and Bath. I came back on the coach from Bath for £7 via Chippenham, Swindon and Heathow.

Everywhere, are built skateparks for youth which are vandalised. Skateboarding is for sensitive male youth in the provinces, a thoughtful tribe under threat from yobs. The nastiest things in the UK happen in places like Yeovil. You’re right, Stuart, people are more with it in places like Camberwell.

It is a matter of young male youth in packs. If they walk alone, they feel different. It is a national problem to do with maleness, materialism, spiritual destitution and the problems of parenting amongst the relatively poor.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:11:06 +0000

I’ve lived in Camberwell for over 3 years and have never had any problem. I used to live out in a relatively affluent part of Surrey and you would see fighting in the streets every weekend at chucking out time.
I don’t want to down play the darker side of Camberwell, there obviously is crime here, but personally, I haven’t been effected (hope this comment isn’t tempting fate!).