Sydenham Town Forum

Why thank you. I'll see you and your good lady at the next STF gathering? How did the 18th pan out?

And they are particularly fine purveyors of local cheese. Hence my lame joke.


Sorry for offending any sensibilities with that one.

I'm so sorry for my presumption that you were male Natalie (you need not confirm my equally presumptive guess). Is your surname also Benson? Anyway, you are right. Religion often incites lack of meaning, understanding or empathy (both ways - those that lack faith now deride those who hold faith and ...

bensonby wrote:What we really need is a Booths....but I think that even less likely than a Waitrose

That request is just cheesy Bensonby

I popped down the golden lion last friday and saw a wonderful blues band. Did anyone else see them? Errol Linton Blues Vibe. Apparently they were playing at a club at Wardour street the night before until 3 am. Can't make the next couple of fridays due to family commitments, but any feedback on sta...

I know you were. In the same way that natbeuk (pray tell natbeuk, what does your moniker mean?) was equally valid in his Celtic beliefs. Frankly, the chavs just see Haloween as an excuse to get even fatter but still to try and 'slip' into (cue copious amouts of Talcum powder here) skinnier and skinn...

B.T.W Bensonby - I do not mean to imply you are stupid to believe in god. Having listened to you and sat with you in person I clearly know that not to be the case.

In case you infer that meaning I'd like to go on record that it was not my intention.

Because it is fun. Christmas has a meaning to some, but to others it is a reason to get presents and eat a lot. Halloween/Samhain/All Hallow's has a meaning to some and to others it is a reason to go out and try to get sweets. Why not just do it on the 15th May instead? The shops would be a lot qui...

do people actually like the idea of All Hallow's Eve being warped by such a ghastly trans-atlantic import? I go to church on the 1st and nothing more... Clearly they do. In much the same way we all celebrate something on December 25th borrowed heavily from the Roman festival Dies Natalis Solis Invi...

Please god, not an Iceland! Being realistic, I think the chances of Waitrose wanting the Sydenham branch are slim. I'd be happy with a Co-op - they are "the UK's most eco-friendly retailer", after all ( http://www.co-operative.coop/food/Shop-Green/ ). Maybe if enough people email the Co-o...

actually I wanted to ask about halloween too. I don't have kids but in my old neighbourhood we would buy stuff for the kids that come 'round door to door. I take it this doesn't happen in Sydenham? In my experience it does. There are a good many 'comfortable' streets here in Sydders and I have seen...

To bring it back to Dope Smoking Dad and not the issue of decriminalization, the man was holding, what I gather was, his child and smoking dope. I’m a very liberal person and understand many, many things about race, class and gender. However, the man was smoking dope and holding his child. I really...

Another tough and contentious one this. I can understand the difficulties faced by cyclists, I really can. Forced to ride in the gutter, huge double-deckers cutting you up, spray being forced up at you, the wind disturbance, the noise - effectively everyone seeming to be trying to kill you. No wonde...

Excellent news that you have the registration also L. I hope you didn't think I was hinting that your actions were stupid, I was just trying to understand why you didn't wire it - I thought there might be a reason (one weekend the W/Union site went down for the whole 48hours and my friend was desper...

Edited to remove posting for the moment. ------------------ I have deleted this thread as the incident of threatening behaviour is effectively 'sub-judice' at the moment and with the extensive previous deletions incomprehensible to new readers. Hopefully Greg and/or Mr Price will report when a concl...

To be honest, decriminalised/reclassified/legalised...

It's all a bit hazy, a bit cloudy even and I never even touch the stuff!

Imagine how confusing it is for my mate at the Radiohead concert and Dope Smoking Dad in their constantly addled states.

I was drawing a substantial amount of money from Natwest on the high street, about 4pm when 3 20 something black males walked in, stood in the queue, and generally were just hanging about looking shifty. I left the bank and walked up the high street to the corner shop to transfer the money. I am tr...

Those houses on Crystal Palace Park Road are fantastic aren't they? I am aware that there was one house that was bombed during the war and was never rebuilt (this, I think, was no75, and there is pedestrian access to the park on the site) - but were there any more houses built that for whatever rea...

Welcome back Greg! The 'gingerbread' style villas that fringe Crystal Palace Park were designed by John Norton, the architect who re-modelled Tyntesfield (in Somerset) creating the Gothic Revival extravaganza that has been magnificently restored by the National Trust. The villas were built to help ...

...if only you could make the 1755 to Dorking. Its not busy, its aircondtioned and it only stops at Forest Hill and Syd. Heaven. That's exactly the points we have been making about the 1825 a few posts back in this thread (also to Dorking) which is why we sit on it rather than the 1818. Only stoppi...