Sydenham Town Forum

summerbreeze wrote:Digime I thought you had an aversion for smiley faces.

Admin what is the EDF?

Obviously not as great as my aversion to being called a liar!

EDF is the East Dulwich Forum but to get there you have to pass through the Bermuda triangle of SE23.com. Not for the faint hearted.

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Hello and welcome. I'm male and try to be grammatically correct but don't take burning pokers to those that fail. Hope that helps. Don't Lie, One of our first ever conversations you highlighted it Quote:It seems that mikecg's grammar isn't as good as the rest of us.:Unqote. Er, no, looks like your ...

Hello and welcome.

I'm male and try to be grammatically correct but don't take burning pokers to those that fail.

Hope that helps.

Forget the place in East Croydon (church street). Went there today and the building is being demolished.

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Thomas - yep, and that would suck but you're describing inconvenience and the potential for paying more than you'd like for your life long investment. That's not ideal but is in no way the same as never being able to afford your own home or having to leave the place you grew up in to be able to buy ...

Negative equity can also stop you re-mortgaging - handy if your existing mortgage becomes uncompetitive, or if you want greater security by switching from a variable rate to a tracker - and not being able to move is also a problem if you need a bigger home, for example if a young couple start a fam...

Personally I think it's good news that house prices are falling. You wouldn't if you were in negative equity as many are. G-man For most people that just stops you moving. Hardly the end of the world. I do have sympathy for anyone who can't meet their payments but also can't sell. Labour did a lot ...

Draw from the statistics what you will, but the crude hypothesis that the educated, home-owning middle class want many more upmarket shops doesn't bear out. Why is the hypothesis crude? Why do you have to be "educated, home-owning [and] middle class" to want a wider selection of places to...

Personally I think it's good news that house prices are falling. I agree there has been an obsession with property over the last 15 years or so. One of the things I think the last government got wrong was allowing the market to inflate unsustainably. It seems blatantly unfair to me that those with m...

Simon, Sydenham retail is important. It's important to the businesses and the community that live here. A successful high street is good for everyone. I don't understand why some people have such animosity towards the idea of local shops and restaurants becoming successful. Especially when the alter...

Dot, you've just listed different types of shops, you haven't shown the high street has the diversity to attract a broad range of local residents. The fact is a large number of Sydenham residents routinely "carry on with their business" by going to other areas to spend their money because ...

There's quite large Chinese supermarket in East Croydon on Church Street (roughly where Argos is). There's also one in Camberwell.

Also, SMB foods in East Dulwich will probably sell it.

Tim Lund wrote:The highlight of my chess career was something over thirty years ago, when Jon Speelman personally complimented me on my decision to resign a game - after just seven moves

If I played Jon Speelman I would have resigned a lot earlier than that.

I've never quite understood how Crystal Palace attracts such an array of interesting, independent shops that Sydenham never does. W. Wonder I think you need a 'critical mass' of decent places to shop, eat and drink before you can start to get enough people through the door and make business investm...

Are you sure it's a Tomcat and not a Big Bad Wolf?

Assuming it might be the latter I'd advised you to double up on that Whiskas. 8 out of 10 big bad wolves prefer it.

I think curry leaves make a curry, having been to southern India and had a days cooking observation at a family house they are an essential ingredient, can't say for the rest of india but down there they are. G-Man Exactly. They are essential in a lot of southern Indian food. They just don't work i...

Have to say I find their curries a little bland. Plus they have an obsession with curry leaves. Why do they throw them in everything?

Don't worry. We understood what you meant just fine and, for me, that's the true test.

I'm not a fan of the grammar police and their rules-is-rules dictatorship.

If the library gets cut they'll be little hope for heathen upstarts like me!

Look's like Mikes grammar's not a's good a's the rest of u's.