And I’ve still got all my own teeth

A new local hero: 100-year-old Buster Martin, who fought off three teenagers who tried to rob him.

Buster, who still works five days a week as a car washer and mechanic, was followed by the gang when he left a pub.

He said: “They pushed me against a wall and tried to take my money from me.

“I went mad. I was lashing out on the floor and then I stood up and was kicking them all.

“I pushed one and kung-fu kicked the other one between the legs.

I might name my firstborn son Buster.

Author: Peter

Long-time resident of Camberwell, author of this blog since July 2004.

65 thoughts on “And I’ve still got all my own teeth”

  1. Kirsten would eat you alive, Lord Henry. She has Danish bikers for breakfast, Swedish bikers for lunch, Norwegian bikers for dinner and German bikers for pudding.

    If she knew you spelt Scandinavian “Scandanavian” — you fancy Dan! — she would make mincemeat of you, then roll it up in a jumbo cigarette paper, with one hand, and smoke it while svigging from a quart of snakebite made with Jack Daniels, wood alcohol and distilled whales’ semen!!!!

    Now you are securely tucked away in Australia it is safe to hold Southwark Women’s Week.

    The highlight of this is on Thursday 8th March, Women’s Day itself, the Mad Chicks Losing It night at the Corsica Studios, Elephant.

  2. @squidder- near enough yes. I have been to a few things at the Winter Gardens- Bags ball, football club dinners, CAMRA beer festival.

    Never made it to the Folk festival. Maybe next year…

  3. @ copeywolf and NickW — funny that you were both within earshot! Felt like a big girl for not intervening. I also think that it’s difficult for the staff when they’re all girls to stand up to two violent types. There was no burly landlord as is traditional to throw the blighters out. And the police can clearly not be relied upon to arrive sharpish.

  4. @dagmar — The mad chicks event looks great doesn’t it? Mrs Squidder is in fact an artist, and is exhibiting there as well. I’m very excited about it.

    @ alan — the folk festival’s really good. It’s really family orientated, so you get a nice mixture of young and old. And the beer’s cheap!

  5. Yeah, Squid, it does look like the craziest happening for a long time. I got the Southwark Women’s Week booklet from the SLG and was sceptical reading through it, but the Mad Chicks’ flyer fell out and the more I found out about them on the web, the better it got. They are exactly as described on the tin:

    mad

    chicks

    I bet it’ll be hard to shift ’em when the gig finishes at 2 a.m. There’ll have to be a couple of Black Marias full of WPCs and even then, they may pile out with their truncheons and join in!

    It could be the premature end of the effeminate Blair and his non-sexual regime. Hazel Blears will appear riding a vintage Italian…

  6. Hi

    I went to see The Real Tuesday Weld throw a sectret gig at the Corsica Club last year, and was very impressed with the venue — best use of an archway that i’d seen in a long time.

    The ‘Weld are , I think, doing some low key gigs sometime soon, and if you like eclectic jazzy beats you should check them out.

    http://www.tuesdayweld.com/

    Drew Mishmash

  7. on another subject- what is going on with the Angel & Gypsies ? there are blogs going back to last summer about its impending opening.
    Have the owners gone back to Columbia for another coke shipment to finance completion?

  8. bunbohue. Good point. Someone somewhere here said they knew the owner and could get updates. An update would be good.

    WHO ARE YOU UPDATER?

  9. Back to the mugging discussion. I was mugged walking back to my flat on a Sunday evening and contrary to all advice automatically swung round and hit him very hard as he tried to pull my handbag off my shoulder. He immediately backed off (i think i must have hurt him quite a lot — despite being a girl i’ve been having kickboxing lessons at least once a week for about three years so know how to throw a good punch)

    But as we stood and stared at each other both wondering what to do next it suddenly occured to me that he could have a knife or a gun or at least a load of other mates waiting for me — so i ran home very very fast.

  10. I despise you, Dagmar, for pointing out the only spelling mistake I have ever made on this site.

    You shall espy me, you hussy, at both the Southwark Women’s Week and Woman’s Day, my trusty Tommy Gun in hand — rat-a-tat-tat!!! rat-a-tat-tat!!!

    P.s.

    I am on opium at the moment, and I am dreaming of Kirsten eating me alive!!!

    P.p.s.

    I have actually drunk distilled whale’s semen, like Herman Melville before me. Can you say the same???!!!

  11. Mark
    is the veg stall still on for sunday?
    Will you make a regular thing of it..or expand with more stalls?
    if so.. may be able to help

  12. If the Sun and Doves veg thing does take off, perhaps a butcher could be invited to have a stall there. It would save everyone having to go to East Dulwich…

  13. I’m sorry, Henry, each facet of your message is normally so perfectly cut, whilst my errors blow everywhere like crisp packets.

    Southwark Women’s week has been a low profile, word of mouth matter for the cognoscenti, a cult thing, for hardcore fans.

    There’ll be much rattling of long earrings when you turn up!

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