Sydenham Town Forum

Yes, Casey's seem pretty reasonable. Sorry about your sale - if you do have to put things into storage while you rent, though, I'd very much recommend doing it through a removals company rather than one of those 24/7 self-store places. It can work out very expensive, especially if it takes you a lot...

All I can say is that I hope you don't have anyone anywhere in the vicinity who leaves unsecured bags of soiled nappies around, otherwise you may find your attitude to the cute cubs changing rather rapidly (she says from experience).

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Have all the diversions cleared yet? The LP Road bus stop was still out of action when I went to Crystal Palace on Wednesday.

And I'm sorry about Alex Feakes, too. As local politicians go, he struck me as reasonably good.

Depressed by both local and national vote. Well done to Tom, I had a feeling the Lib Dems would be demonised (as they have by the press) by the electorate, but not to this extent. I think Alex deserved better, especially locally. Looks (to me) like the national vote came for to: Ed Milliband doesn'...

Thanks, Pat. I didn't even know about the sewer works until the other week when I needed to get a bus up to CP. Had I known, I'd have gone Penge-wards and saved myself a lot of trouble!

As I attempted to go up to town on the bus this evening, I noticed a sign up Crystal Palace Park Road indicating a diversion from 8 pm this evening. It looks as though Lawrie Park Road won't be served by buses, so I'm guessing they'll go all the way up to the top and then down Westwood Hill. Is ther...

This bridge still gets clouted almost every day, it's unusual for one to get reported on. A-ha. I suspected as much when I looked on Southeastern Journeycheck and noticed a distinct shortage of uncancelled trains on the further reaches of the Hayes line - despite a lack of SE actually admitting wha...

His poor record in parliament, his physical manhandling of Bob Marshal Andrews in the lobby because he had the temerity to vote against a government terrorism bill on principle, his slavish voting record when Labour were in power including his support for the Iraq war, his refusal to condem Purelak...

Darn, I wish I'd known.

Is it usual for a Labour candidate to be interviewed by someone as openly (I'd almost say rabidly, but time may have mellowed him) Conservative as Iain Dale? If so, who are Labour providing to interview Cameron?

Were they flash or non-flash (if non, then I would have no idea, but if with flash I might possibly have been expected to notice something)? And could you tell whether it was a proper camera, the sort of thing that could take decent photos in low-light conditions? It does sound a bit suspicious, but...

[There used to be a rule of not parking within a certain distance of a junction. I've forgotten it. I guess few now learn it. No one enforces it. 15 foot? Bromley enforce it insofar as they have painted pretty excessive double yellow lines at all their junctions with Venner Road, so Byne, Wiverton ...

I was all in favour of RTB first time around, but that was because I blithely assumed that the money made would be ploughed back into the provision of new council housing. More fool me ...

Thanks. I knew they hosted hustings last time around, and wondered whether they'd be doing the same again.

Hmm, we didn't get anything through our letterbox: are the deliveries restricted to the part of Sydenham that's in Lewisham, or something? Given that more than half of Venner Road, not to mention most of Byne and Wiverton, is in Bromley, that seems a little counterproductive.

His partner, fellow mp Janet Anderson claimed London home expenses on the home she shared with j dowd which he already claimed expenses for - or something. that may be what you're thinking of although there are other reasons, imho, that it's time he stepped down Ah, perhaps that was it, but in that...

It would have been really nice to see some publicity about this: it was only yesterday evening that I suddenly realised "Hang on, wasn't it the second Saturday in the month, and wasn't the market supposed to be back in April?" I don't know how many people read this forum on a regular basis...

To be fair, Jim Dowd did actually take part in a debate recently, in relation to the trains mess at London Bridge (or not at LB, in this particular case). However, in my early days on the forum - whether it was before or after the last general election I'm not sure, although it may have been before,...

It's ironic, isn't it? I got some sort of email communication through the other day from an estate agent in the West Wickham area already telling people to buy because of the Bakerloo extension - when there is absolutely no guarantee that it will ever get anywhere near WW, or even further south than...

I was discussing drive-in takeaway restaurants with a friend the other day, and wondered how the McDonalds down by Big Sainsburys is settling in? I didn't think I'd seen anyone complaining about antisocial behaviour or anything on these boards?