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

Lambeth Country Show in Brockwell Park this weekend:

http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/Country-Show/LineUp/index.htm

Annoyingly I can only make Sunday, but have booked Monday off work to deal with the Chucklehead hangover...

Who's in for Sunday?

I will probably be showing my face early, so out by half three as I have to get to feltham, have Punchdrunk tickets (which is on this Tuesday 23rd), and we need to talk wood..

Woop! Punchdrunk, I'd *almost *forgotten about that...

Weekend is 'rents wedding anniversary, so probably not best time to sort out the loft. I'm seeing them day time Friday but I guess you're TdFing?

Meet mid morning Sunday?

Yeah, might be doing breakfast/lunch in clapham junction, but keep in radio contact and we'll sort out a time..

Apart from working from home, I'm available for the next couple of weeks, so pencil it in soon..

Apparently, Brixton Hill is "New Swinging London"

Brixton Hill is the only place I've been offered sex whilst walking the dog at 6am

if that was simba the cat, then the offer wasnt aimed at you

"walking the dog"

Simba the cat doesn't say "Do you fancy some business?"

"walking the dog"

Indeed. I've been short on the excuses since I had him put down...

^ All heart! ;)

I was also offered sex on Brixton Hill. However, this was stopped at some traffic lights at about 2am on a motorcycle in leathers and wearing a crash helmet. Might have been a bit tricky so I politely declined.

^ All heart! ;)

I was also offered sex on Brixton Hill. However, this was stopped at some traffic lights at about 2am on a motorcycle in leathers and wearing a crash helmet. Might have been a bit tricky so I politely declined.

So that was Gerald's inspiration?

You can still get business outside the Brixton Hill Sainsbury's... I often see the pre-breakfast crowd pulling up down the side of Lambert Road on the way to work...

My old street St Matthew's Road was also a very popular spot for the more cracked-out ladies of the night tho' Saltoun Road BITD was the probably the worst I've seen, blowies in doorways pretty much any evening after dark...

The first time I ever saw ladies of negotiable affection on street corners was as I parked outside my at-the-time girlfriends parents house in Derby.

It was slightly awkward saying "no thank you, but good luck with your evening" as I also tried to shake hands with Mr Girlfriends Father.

I often see the pre-breakfast crowd pulling up down the side of Lambert Road on the way to work .

That's a little bit of a detour for you, joe...

Peartree?

Anyway.
My one and only time of getting asked "do you want any business darling?" was in Manchester.
She fell out of the back of a transit van, approached me with what I thought was a cigarette in her mouth, I reached for my lighter, I noticed it was a mascara brush, she uttered the words above. I ran.

^
Ray Davies.

Peartree?

I don't know the name of the area, street after street of big (five bedroom or so) Victorian red-brick semi's.

Not Brixton but Battlebride Rd round the back of King's Cross was the worst that I've ever seen for that. The ladies would just line up by the wall by the gas holders and cars would near enough queue up like at a taxi rank. I kept my pedicab in a shed at the end of the street and every morning I'd have to pick my way though the discarded johnnies scattered on the cobbles. The whole street is gone now, swallowed up the King's Cross redevelopment.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2013/aug/02/alex-wheatle-gentrification-brixton-video

I've never paid more than £4.50 for a burrito in Brixton...
#tapspistisnose #middleclassprofessional #theeffrausedtobegreat

He's a complete fail - don't walk down effra parade and tell people it was 'broken down houses'. It was always the school and the workers houses - they've been the posh end of herne hill since I was a kid.

There's lots to complain about in Brixton lately - he just doesn't target the right things - Lambeth is screwing up entire communities by selling off assets, and yet he picks on a burrito. Lazy.

TS, we've been out dancing. At the Half Moon of all places. Your hips couldn't take it.

There's lots to complain about in Brixton lately - he just doesn't target the right things - Lambeth is screwing up entire communities by selling off assets, and yet he picks on a burrito. Lazy.

TS, we've been out dancing. At the Half Moon of all places. Your hips couldn't take it.

Yup, keep hearing terrible stories from Lori about her colleagues and students being forced out of their council-owned Victorian conversions so they can sell them off to (much richer) people like me...

Need to get down to one of those nights, love a bit of Ninja Tune every now and again...

BTW My hips are fine...

^hip(replacement)ster