please empty your brain below

I'm confused.

I started off thinking this was a post about the Magic Roundabout or accidents on roundabouts (not 'roundabout' but 'round and about'). Then there was Sevenoaks of Chelmsford. They've moved!

Mind you, ir doesn't take much to confuse me early on a Monday morning...

The only time I put TV on (apart from old films) is for the London news, the local blogs may provide a service, but will this mean the end of the local newspaper. Is it good to have so many sources of local news?, there is not normally that much happening locally and the more outlets there are for news the more time it takes to trawl through them. Whereas a local paper which I can read on the bus serves me well at the moment. I do not want to start browsing the internet via a mobile telephone, as seems to be what some people do, (even in the cinema!).
Of course getting to know a local gossip is another way to find out what's been going on, I suppose the local corner shop was also at one time a source of local information, and perhaps that's the gap the local blogs fill.

Have you noticed that people very rarely visit their local museums, unless they are involved as a volunteer/scount group etc etc... same interest in 'local' news, I suspect. The stuff people want to know about goes very fast around the grapevine & then loses currency. (Taxi & cab drivers are good 'sources'.) The people I know who have left E3 don't want to know about the place anymore - they've 'moved on...)

Some areaas are deserts for local news, though - Greenwich council's propaganda rag aside, the two poorly-resourced freesheets that serve this area very rarely get delivered here, and they leave things like council meetings unreported.

Actually, DG, it might be worth you or someone else popping down to the next Tower Hamlets full council meeting - there'll be a lot of guff about areas you don't care about, but you might pick up a few E3 titbits there.

Thanks for listing my blog, but could you amend the hyperlink to read Kennington/Vauxhall, as I cover the entirety of SE11 (which could technically be called Lambeth, Kennington, Oval and Vauxhall).

Many thanks!

BW - cheers, those first two paragraphs should now read properly.

Tri - I've relabelled it SE11, OK?

Everyone in E3 - I'd still love some help with this, thanks.

Hi DG -

Love to help you with this project, from the very western edge of E3 (so far west from my window I can really only see E1). Shame that I'm leaving in about 4 weeks for northern climes (N-something).

Timing!

EP

Since Vicky Park was taken over by LBTH has it not been assimilated into E3?

Best wishes from by the Crown Gate on the E3 / E2 border.

E3 4XR reporting for duty, sir.

I love the idea and have really enjoyed your blog since I started reading it a couple of months ago, so I'll keep my ears pricked for anything that might be of interest.

I have only lived here for just over 3.5 years (full disclosure, I'm Australian), but I adore living in Bow and am really interested in the history and in local current events. I've bookmarked eethree and look forward to reading it.

Thanks v. much Diamond Geezer. That's fantastic :)











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