Slothrop
Tight but Polite
Have you ever been around Erith / Bexleyheath way?
Dissensus Drinks Sunday 26th?
luka
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i got lost coming home from dartford once and ended up cycling along the a13. i think it was the a13 i dont drive so im not good at the names of roads. it was quite terrifying. then i ended up in dagenham. that was a bit scary too as the sun was starting to go down. luckily i know that area a little bit and got my bearings again and no one threw any bricks at my head or anything. lots of werid stuff happens in dagenham. you dont want to be alone there as the sun goes down.
I spent a lot of my youth in Dagenham. Weird to look back on though at the time I experienced it as boring. Memories of smoking 'teenths in the parks, Dean Kenny fireboming one of the benches, trying to break into the huts, endless bus rides - in later years tagging all the windows. God, it'll all come flooding back. I had a summer job in Fords once, that place is insane. It's like a megacity.
Luka, yeah it would be the A13. You might've encountered this totally bizarre and incongrous piece of public art:
Apparently the lights are meant to make it look like the flyover is floating, unsupported, but it doesn't quite work. Really weird thing to run into when you pull out of the estates onto the motorway.
Luka, yeah it would be the A13. You might've encountered this totally bizarre and incongrous piece of public art:
Apparently the lights are meant to make it look like the flyover is floating, unsupported, but it doesn't quite work. Really weird thing to run into when you pull out of the estates onto the motorway.
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There's some more information on that here:
http://www.lbbd.co.uk/4-arts-culture/a13/arterial/a13-holding-pattern.html
Shaping up into a great thread this.
Zhao should have one day to visit every place mentioned., providing photographic evidence. For each failure, he has to down a pint of ESB.
http://www.lbbd.co.uk/4-arts-culture/a13/arterial/a13-holding-pattern.html
Shaping up into a great thread this.
Zhao should have one day to visit every place mentioned., providing photographic evidence. For each failure, he has to down a pint of ESB.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
S-E London is only slightly less scary than Grozny.
that picture makes it seem a lot better than it actually is. This thread got real local, real fast.
I'm a resident of one of the 'souless semi's' in ilford which are, as you described, just like rows & rows of grey. Mind you Dajehnham is like that in some places. Lodge, Becontree Ave for example, exactly like that, just more racist
oh and luca valentines has still got the cafe with the food/sweets in the little compartments, near the swings, jesus that takes me back!
I'm a resident of one of the 'souless semi's' in ilford which are, as you described, just like rows & rows of grey. Mind you Dajehnham is like that in some places. Lodge, Becontree Ave for example, exactly like that, just more racist
oh and luca valentines has still got the cafe with the food/sweets in the little compartments, near the swings, jesus that takes me back!
luka
Well-known member
my mum would take me there. shed get some tea and cake. i suppose i must have had some lemonade or something. later ilfords shopping centr was quite exciting to me. even barkings one i quite enjoyed. youd mostly look at pairs of trainers. mill about. that was good in those days. shopping malls were the latest thing.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Great Mark Steel comment. One of the only stand-ups worth going to see.
Went to the Salisbury last night, which apart from bumping into the ex-husband of a girl I used to sleep with right after she broke up with him (he apparently didn't recognise me, through some kind of PTSD memory loss manoeuvre), was very pleasant. Good pub, played 'Hurt', which always gets me smiling.
Went to the Salisbury last night, which apart from bumping into the ex-husband of a girl I used to sleep with right after she broke up with him (he apparently didn't recognise me, through some kind of PTSD memory loss manoeuvre), was very pleasant. Good pub, played 'Hurt', which always gets me smiling.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
So what kinda time we thinking for this next Sunday? Early afternoon (a suggestion betraying my alcoholicness, ahem)
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
yes, with a solo cam on each of the protagonists to capture minute facial tics.
haven't had time to look over everything in this thread but i'm sure whatever we (you guys) decide will be nothing short of eye opening... the church looks mad...
i will find out the address of the place i'll be staying friday night, so we can coordinate sunday better. i'll likely be up and about sometime after noon... it's a crazy week, playing both thursday night and friday night, but i should have some life left in me if i don't take too much drugs the nights before.
so who needs guest list for Guanabara friday night? it's going be a "mainstream" Ngoma set LOLOL
idle rich
Baboon
Mr. Sloane
Sufi?
Tea?
who else?
i will find out the address of the place i'll be staying friday night, so we can coordinate sunday better. i'll likely be up and about sometime after noon... it's a crazy week, playing both thursday night and friday night, but i should have some life left in me if i don't take too much drugs the nights before.
so who needs guest list for Guanabara friday night? it's going be a "mainstream" Ngoma set LOLOL
idle rich
Baboon
Mr. Sloane
Sufi?
Tea?
who else?
But zhao can have authentic Momus whenever he likes in Berlin
