Comments on: Camberwell Social

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:24:54 +0000

Here’s to Spring Song by Mendelsohn, originally called Camberwell Green, one of the stapels of drawing room piarno, wrote while he was staying here. It’s normal to be gay, it’s great to be a noodel, spring is here, all is well again.

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:55:41 +0000

The police are the thin blue line. Villains big and small are nasty and would ruin our lives if left to it. It is no use expecting police to act like social workers, even though they are treated as such by the free-market state apparatus, with all the paperwork they have to fill in, quality standards to meet and there-there attitude to adopt with every stroppy me-me person they deal with.

There are wheels within wheels, veils behind veils and a shimmering grey penumbrae of doubt over the most rock-solid surety.

Take the HELLO! magazine special edition handed out with the Evening Standard on Tuesday along with an umbrella which may or may not have a “winning poison tip” in some daft competition.

On the cover is SIENNA MILLER AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN HER BEFORE. The diligent commuter slave opens the mag to see ONE OF THE MILLER SOCIETY SISTERS — pic of several crisp ladies — ALEXANDRA VON FURSTENBERG SHOWS US AROUND HER CHIC, ART-FILLED L.A. HOME.

Art-filled.

“My family love LA… Marie-Chantal had her filth child here.”

Ho! So, one immediately notices, there are no full stops in “LA” in the upper and lower-case subheads but they must appear in the caps headlines. So the mystery thickens.

Beethoven passed through last Friday, the last engine to draw a train under British Rail in 1997, an 23.15 departure from the marshalling yards at Folkestone bound for those at Wembley. By midnight, the whole rail system had fallen into American, private hands.

The Surinam Toads at the Horniman look like large dead leaves at the bottom of the pond, strange critters. (Perhaps they could save Somerfield’s bacon at the last minute — toad fritters in breadcrumbs, the new crunch food fad.)

So it goes. Things are not as they seem, nor is it otherwise.

By: Phil G

Phil G — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:55:30 +0000

What stuns me about plod is just how stupid so many of your average PCs are. And as for PCSOs, Christ…

And do you know that these folk can retire a decade before you or I on around £20K a year? So they’ll get a guaranteed £20K pa not to work for half their adult lives.

Maybe they’re not so stupid after all…

By: yak

yak — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:02:34 +0000

and Sansom Street is on Minder as I type.…

By: Ari

Ari — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:10:48 +0000

Reg,
PC Plod has a special team — FIT, to take pictures of the public and darling Jacqui S. has sicced them onto taking snaps of people — just in case. Plod also has an unknown (to me anyway) number of CCTV boxes for making sure we are all good citizens.
NB There is an exception to the use of CCTV — when driving an infernal combustible vehicle the police no longer have any powers to do anything about them breaking laws, it is down to the local council and TfL. Luckily TfL have one of the largest fleets in London with the damned things forever parked on the pedestrian x-ings on Denmark Hill
Stay tuned for more on the Mass Shoot

By: Lulu

Lulu — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:07:18 +0000

I have sympathy for both sides but you can’t blame cars for always being in the wrong. I see many cyclists on a daily basis skipping the lights and nearly mowing pedestrians down. I little less street furniture, a little more respect for all road users irrespective of your mode of transport is the way forward.

On a happier note, turn over to the Brits on ITV and watch Camberwell’s own rising star Florence and the Machine who’s reportedly receiving the hot new talent award.

By: Liliana

Liliana — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:20:46 +0000

@ regen: sympathy?! outside, now!

i actually feel strongly about this but am too tired today to write about it

on a related note though, you’d be pleased to hear that we are planning a massive shoot (walk) through at the moment undecided area in camberwell/peckham to do just that, shoot the cars endangering people — shoot with cameras that is. i’ve been meaning to set up a naming & shaming photo page on peoples republic of southwark website as i have now twice avoided death by cars driving onto the pavement :S

By: sg

sg — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:14:29 +0000

actually, regen, I do two of those things but I absolutely love the area.

I’ve lived in far, far worse places — and better — but camberwell is just fine with me and I won’t hear a bad word said against it (unless in jest)

By: Regeneguru

Regeneguru — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:09:15 +0000

It’s none of your business where I choose to live, Brunswick, or why.

I’d say the people regularly driving out of the area to second homes, drive-shopping to Dog Kennel Hill and taking two to three holidays a year are the ones who really dislike this area.

By: Brunswick

Brunswick — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:01:19 +0000

Why on earth do you live here? You really hate it so much, I just don’t understand why you stay.