I've moved to Clapham on purpose
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quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
A one day zone 2 travel card.
zenie
>^^<
Windmill does a good roast.
Other then that I only use the hairdressers in Clapham
Headmasters at Clapham South are good and I usually go there. Rush on clapham high st does a good cut but customer service wasn't great and it felt very rushed (heh) once they finally got to me to cut my hair.
The restaurants are 'ok' Carmen Tapas has been good in the past but I haven't been for ages.
Other then that I only use the hairdressers in Clapham
Headmasters at Clapham South are good and I usually go there. Rush on clapham high st does a good cut but customer service wasn't great and it felt very rushed (heh
) once they finally got to me to cut my hair.The restaurants are 'ok' Carmen Tapas has been good in the past but I haven't been for ages.
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
I used to socialise in Clapham a lot - lived just off Wandsworth Rd. When I first moved there (1984) there were a lot of 'old men's/two men and a dog' type pubs - I remember when the Bread & Roses (then The Bowyer) & the Manor Arms were backstreet pubs and even when The Sun had carpet and a mahogany back bar with 'Mrs Flanagan's Parlour' written above it! Clapham changed unbelievably in the time I lived round there.
Every time go back, it still has that feel of home.....but definitely not sorry I moved. IMHO Clapham's heyday as a great place to go out was about 1995. Despite saying I'm not sorry I moved, I would be happy to live there again, braying yups and all.....it is lively, has the Common and some interesting history.
Every time go back, it still has that feel of home.....but definitely not sorry I moved. IMHO Clapham's heyday as a great place to go out was about 1995. Despite saying I'm not sorry I moved, I would be happy to live there again, braying yups and all.....it is lively, has the Common and some interesting history.
T & P
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Well at least it's not North London.
ska invita
back on the other side
it always opened late - they were on a weekly multidrop i used to do and it was always a hassle getting someone to open the door there
Favelado
I'm loving Engels instead.
Gelato is ice-cream. Why do people use the italian word for it? When I'm speaking in English about Spanish ice-cream I don't say "helado" or "sorvete" for Portuguese ice cream. You're going to have to learn the word for ice cream in every single language that exists if you want to get this right.
5t3IIa
Registered User
What's a 'weekly multidrop'? If you were doing that maybe it was you being confused about the time?
5t3IIa
Registered User
Gelaterias are a thing in London now days. Ive seen them mostly out east (as I've been mostly out east). I think possibly it's because a certain demographic don't go to pubs so need somewhere else to be social and indulge. It's also part of cupcake gentrification.
We'll know soon enough as the guardian will mysteriously do an article about them.
Favelado
I'm loving Engels instead.
Cupcake gentrification made me smile. Poor old fairy cakes.
Clapham North used to be normal enough a fair while back and even the High Street wasn't that poncey until you got to the common.
I used to enjoy a jacket potato and a sasparella at Jacket's, which had a sister branch in Brixton. There was very little that was up-its-own-arse at a branch of Jackets. I'm sentimental enough to feel nostalgic about even that. I never had beans, just cheese, so don't ask.
5t3IIa
Registered User
I think someone mentioned it in this thread. Looks like it's still on! http://www.cafecairo.co.uk/visit-us.html
EastEnder
Brixton Barnacle
But hypothetically speaking, if you had had beans as well, would they have gone under the cheese (a.k.a. beans-then-cheese) or on top of the cheese (a.k.a. cheese-then-beans or the more colloquial, Badgers-unforgivable-disgrace) ?
Favelado
I'm loving Engels instead.
Two adjacent piles, one of cheese and one of beans, nestling inside the space of the halved potato would be a neat way round this most profound of philosophical problems. Getting a member of staff to take such a request seriously may have presented some difficulties.
ska invita
back on the other side
they still have the odd dub session in there...i havent been in years....id call that stockwell personally
Favelado
I'm loving Engels instead.
This was the eternal debate when we lived there. If you look at the Ferndale Road end of Hubert Grove, are you in Clapham North, Brixton or Stockwell? We never got consensus on the matter in two years.
ska invita
back on the other side
its on the border but feels like stockwell to me - definitely not brixton technically as even brixton tube is technically in stockwell IIRC
Favelado
I'm loving Engels instead.
That would be a technicality destroyed by the reality of no-one thinking that surely. Brixton Academy would be more debatable. I used to say I lived in Brixton because that's where I wanted to say I lived. I have some photos of the scary footbridge over to Ferndale Road, covered in cage mesh and graffiti, that I could post sometime.
ska invita
back on the other side
yeah beyond the techincality stockwell starts at skate park i would say
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
a) I am of partially Italian heritage myself and grew up saying the word
b) the place itself calls it "gelato" and itself a "gelateria"
c) Gelato is, in fact, a (slightly) different thing from just general ice cream - different ingredients, different texture bla bla bla (i.e balti is just one variant of curry, ramen is a particular sort of noodle)
d) I had just typed the phrase "ice cream" (in "ice cream place") and didn't want to repeat it twice in a single sentence.
So is all that OK by you, or some gentrificationist offence against Britain to type the word gelato on u75?
Favelado
I'm loving Engels instead.
Gelato is no more different from helado than normal ice cream and my original point still stands. If it's a different thing, how do Italians say ice cream from other countries in Italian? They say, erm, "gelato" don't they? Do they call Mr. Whippy "ice cream". No, they don't, because they're not bell-ends.
I'm sorry you grew up in such a pretentious household. Kids with Italian families I knew called ice-cream of coming from any country "ice-cream".
I don't accept your explanation and I think you are indeed guilty of a horrific gentrificationist offence. I think that you should go to prison, possibly for the rest of your life, and that you should send a PM to every single U75 poster apologising for what you've done.
hipipol
Peckham Wry
The first time I saw the word, Gelato was in what over the door proclaimed it as an Ice Cream Parlour - not to frighten the natives I suspect - in the High Street in Perth in the 60s when I couldn't even reach the counter
Over the road was a chippie, run by their cousins
As far as I can recall, BOTH were the best in the chosen culinary activity I have even come across
Gentrification?
Total bollocks
Without the Italian Ice cream makers coming to this country in the late c19 we wouldnae ever ha seen it ataw
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