What's it like to live in Brixton / Brixton Borders

I has a hustlebucks t-shirt that I bought from that very shop. It's noice.

Not strictly Brixton, but the Seven Bridges festival is on next weekend:

http://www.7-bridges.org/

FRIDAY 03 JUNE

Pop-up Warrior, (opposite the Green Man Pub) Coldharbour Rd, Loughborough Jct, SE5 – 7pm till late

A night of music, comedy, poetry, performance and theatre

SATURDAY 04 JUNE

Cambria Road, Loughborough Jct, SE5 – from noon till night

Live music, history walk, art tent, face painting, talks and an evening literary event at the pop-up Warrior

SUNDAY 05 JUNE

Wyck Gardens, Loughborough Jct, SW9 – from noon till 6pm

Parade, live music, craft workshops, African story teller, circus skills workshops, fairground fun, clowning around, puppets workshops, Vietnamese lion dancing, Loughborough Olympics, fairy cake decorating, refreshments, arts & crafts

YAY, sounds good.

On another note, our lease is up at the end of June and we've just had an email from the estate agent saying they want to increase our rent by £350/month - thats right THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY POUNDS per month.

I might have to leave Brixton :(

Harsh, but might be worth negotiating with them - It'll still increase by some but they won't want the hassle of moving new tenants in so they should agree on something more reasonable.

Renting in the UK is a joke.

YAY, sounds good.

On another note, our lease is up at the end of June and we've just had an email from the estate agent saying they want to increase our rent by £350/month - thats right THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY POUNDS per month.

I might have to leave Brixton :(

Christ, move out and find a non agent managed house. Friends of ours have just got a 2 bed flat in poet's corner for 700pcm.

Christ, move out and find a non agent managed house. Friends of ours have just got a 2 bed flat in poet's corner for 700pcm.

So, is that a lucky find or are we gonna find similar priced flats if we start looking? :-P (I'm also currently looking for a place around brixton / camberwell!)

Do you already live in the area? That sort of helps...

Snowster - what was that street party at the back of mine/end of your road yesterday? Rain kinda killed it...

Ah, no that was the Mervan Road Big Lunch thing. Our neighbour was roasting a whole sheep.

Someone got shot up on Tulse Hill last night; which brings the local fortnightly murder count to 3 and 3 other serious assaults. You'd never know if you just saw the Granville Arcade world of Brixton.

really? fuckinell. and someone got bikemugged at the ropey end of palace road t'other week.

theres some nasty estates round there packed to the rafters with human effluent. send in the gunships, i say!

Bike the Borough in Lambeth today... Lots of stuff happening in most of the borough's parks from 10am 'til 4pm including Rollapaluza, an LBS build-a-bike-up-and-race-it-up-a-hill competition and loads more... Details here... See you at Brockwell Park! x

Streatham festival nextweekfactfans. The highlight of my week.

Bike the Borough in Lambeth today... Lots of stuff happening in most of the borough's parks from 10am 'til 4pm including Rollapaluza, an LBS build-a-bike-up-and-race-it-up-a-hill competition and loads more... Details here... See you at Brockwell Park! x

They got lucky with the weather!

Rikki Fredo and the Fabulous Fucktones and the Furious Fuckettes will be there en masse, we'll be up near the house on the hill... Come say hi, bring snacks and drinks... x

Can I come?

The big squat on Coldarbour Lane's being evicted as we speak, big OB presence... That's why the helicopter's been buzzing overhead all morning... Lots of dejected looking people out on the street clutching their belongings... Sad... :[

Also gonna leave this here...

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6032/5890511185_3936371e69_o.jpg

Anyone about for the Country Fair this weekend?

Possibly. With child. I can be one of those annoying Tarquins.

^^ or you could click here http://tiny.cc/rfatfft

The big squat on Coldarbour Lane's being evicted as we speak, big OB presence... That's why the helicopter's been buzzing overhead all morning... Lots of dejected looking people out on the street clutching their belongings... Sad... :[

Its fucking disgraceful, there has been no mention whatsoever of any kind of help thats going to be offered to the evicted residents, the very people which having looked after the building for 10 years or so, its the least Lambeth could do for them.

^ big society indeed. so long as by 'society' you mean 'property owners' and 'absentee landlords'

Fucking tory scum. Bleak.

I went past later in the afternoon and saw loads of riot-geared private security types leering out of the building's windows at local passers-by... Disgraceful... Coppers guarding the front door but doing nothing about it...
Money moves in, everyone else needs to move out...

^ What, pray tell, are the coppers supposed to do about it. What goes on inside the building now is the business of the owners. It is private property after all. Is leering an offence?

Is leering an offence?

Oh yes, your nicked.