How do you know he was from Bruce Grove?
Is that the only hail and ride bus in London? It seems like a thing from another time or place.
Sounds like the beginnings of a good story there. What's a pre-robbery pitch?"Bruce Grove was part of his pre-robbery pitch, the ice breaker, also being from London."
Sounds like the beginnings of a good story there. What's a pre-robbery pitch?
First off, Groningen is one of the nicest cities in Northern Europe - compact but busy, more bikes than people, not expensive, soft air and the cathedral bells playing what sounded like a Belgian ravecore medley on Thursday night, but may have just been Bach.
But Wednesday had been a hell of a day, really intense business stuff in Germany, followed by a long drive and torrential rain. So my brother and i found a suitable coffee shop and started a small blaze. I was keen to move on after a bit. This young fella gets up with us and follows us out, chatting shit along the way, checking we're from London, confirming he is "yeah mate, N17, Bruce Grove, Tottenham proper", tries to sell us something we're not interested in there and then, before getting up into personal space and rooting around in my jacket pocket. Nope. So I brought my elbow up sharp and whirled out of range, picking up my phone which I must have jogged out of his had onto the ground behind me. He fucked off pretty sharp after fronting for a few seconds and probably weighing up we're big enough to get the better of him even if he had a knife. He had followed my brother up from the coffee shop, so I reckon it was his iphone he was after rather than my blackberry, but he chose the luckier, hyper-vigilant brother.
I'll be moving to Brockley in September. As I'll be working from home we basically went for a place close to my girlfriends school (which is the purpose of the move).
I found it surprisingly hard to find good information on what the neighborhoods are like online. Lots of link spam sites and generic discussion boards with housewife talk about good schools, but not much else. Asked some friends and went for average rents and crime rates basically. Off course I should have consulted Dissensus first...
Anyways, if anyone has Brockley tips, stories or information, would be much appreciated.
Not really a tip but the one person I know who lived in Brockley really liked it.
Cool, good to hear that, helps the pre-move jitters. Man what a hassle moving is, London better be worth it (I'm pretty sure that it will be).
anyway got any tips for places to live in london where you can rent a 3 bed house / flat for £1500 pcm or less - my only real stipulation in terms of area is that it has to be about 1.5hr's from brighton via public transport - so anywhere where you can get one direct train to clapham junction, east croydon, victoria, london bridge would work. would rather avoid changing too many times or taking buses / tube if possible.
surrey quays / canada water / rotherhithe (downtown) is still pretty cheap and houses/big flats are around - just did a quick check for you :
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/Rotherhithe.html?sortType=1&minBedrooms=3&maxBedrooms=3
looks like we might have found somewhere in sydenham/forest hill in the end - if the offer goes thru.... whats good around these bits? bars, shops, pubs etc?