Comments on: New Year

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:08:21 +0000

Signs of the glistening, insect-trapping black shoots of slump & bust must surely be the reduced number of freight trains passing through and also, perhaps more sinisterly, the apparent discontinuation of the free biros in Barclays bank.

Still, we were out and about today when the Venice-Simplon Orient Express passed through served by two Class 67s 67021 and, taking up the rear, 67019, locomotives made by Alstom in Valencia, Spain, almost quite 3,000 horsepower, commissioned in 1999–2000, 30 of them, to draw the night mail, with a top speed of 125 mph.

In the gloriously camp pullman carriages, lovely ladies with elegant long necks ideal for strangling and well-groomed gentlemen with a touch of the talented Mr Ripley about them chattered and laughed with each other, oblivious of the depression in Loughborough Junction, Camberwell and Peckham, and of the gawping faces of two Dagmars framed by the rusty iron railings.

Denman Road has a fabulous Alfa Romeo 1750 at the moment in what at first seems to be a 1950s ultility light grey, but on closer inspection is a slightly lighter, delightful, dawn-mist grey from the late 1960s. Perhaps this is a subtle shoot of recovery and a sign that the depression may not be as dark as at first appears.

By: Mumu

Mumu — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:07:35 +0000

Waitrose for Camberwell? http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article5525953.ece We can hope

The Co-Op sale has been given the go ahead — http://uk.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUKTRE50E4ZZ20090115 and they will have to sell off 133 stores

By: JanetD

JanetD — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:21:17 +0000

I hope you don’t think it is inappropriate to place this information here but …

A national campaign is being launched next week aimed at ending stigma and discrimination around mental illness. You can get further information at http://www.time-to-change.org.uk. You might be interested/want to get involved.

Thanks. I am a regular reader of this blog but have hesitated to contribute before.

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:24:25 +0000

You may experience thefts in the Spoons but you will drink well.

By: Mark Dodds

Mark Dodds — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:40:17 +0000

I visited Xanadu in Cuba funnily enough. So now I must go to that Wetherspoons.

Unfortunately my photographs of Xanadu were lost in a theft. I will have to go back to Cuba to recover the loss.

By: eusebiovic

eusebiovic — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:25:38 +0000

Dagmar

Indeedy, the Walworth Wooworths is where the Argos now resides…I think

I like the Forest Hill and wish that the Wetherspoons was still an Odeon…

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:53:36 +0000

There used to be a Walworth Woolworths. The finest pub in our area if not the whole world must surely be the Wetherspoons in Forest Hill on the right soon after the Horniman in the old Capitol cinema. It is absolutely mind-boggling inside — you expect Bruce Forsyth to bounce onto a stage to Wurlitzer organ music. The gold mouldings of cherubs, putti and other naughty figures are bubblingly fun-filled, the carpets are oringinal cinema carpets, the Greene King IPA — one of Britain’s best beers — is 99p a pint and the place is vast. This pub is Xanadu.

By: Mumu

Mumu — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:19:19 +0000

We already have the pleasure of an Iceland in Camberwell — on Camberwell Road near Burgess Park

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:05:55 +0000

PhilG, this lad who was fishing with his dad at the lake once told me, “That bloke over there, they call him CK, carp killer.” The bloke’d posed for a shot with a giant carp but dropped it and the carp died. CK. Carp Killer!

By: Genfink

Genfink — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:46:51 +0000

Well it’s definitely not an Iceland in Camberwell, the list of the Woolies stores that they have bought was just published, no Camberwell mentioned.