Crazy Diamond

Walked up the stairs, foot nearly went through. Landlord didn't even seem bothered. The property in Wimbledon Park is a matter of minutes from Southfields station, Albert Drive. What's it like round there?

Have thought about it briefly. North London is not really my bag but if push comes to shove then I'll probably give it some more thought. Cheers. I've found three properties and am making enquiries. They're in Ealing and Wimbledon Park, one of which I really like.

Alright geez. You've got me. Have heard plenty a bad thing about Feltham. Would dearly love to live in Chiswick but that's way out of my price range. I went and saw a flat dead centre between Earlsfield and Wandsworth Town, £590 PCM and it was ****ing terrible. Feel free to PM me, though I should say I'm looking for a place just for me, not really open to sharing a place - I'm sure you're lovely, but I did it for three years as a student and have had enough of it.

My grandfather was a courier. Does that count? The fact I'm thinking of west London kind of rules out any cockney wannabe-ness, I have to say. Did you fail your O level geography? £0 I believe.

Thanks for the replies guys, much appreciated... Ealing is absolutely ideal - I found around six places I liked, but then forgot that they didn't include bills or council tax. Ealing/Acton is my first choice. I'll give Borough a look - I just assumed that anything remotely close to the centre of London would be out of my price range. If you're thinking of moving to Crystal Palace, I'd probably look at West Norwood, not too far away but a better area. I used to live in an area that apparently is now called West Barnes, I'm keen for something a bit closer than that. Yep I have a feeling it is too Right. Well my mother's half of the family are born and bred in Lambeth, my grandfather was from Vauxhall, my grandmother from Kennington. Apparently there was a side to the family that was a bit nawty so keep your lipped buttoned down or I'll trace them and get them to give you a going over. Know what I mean? Me personally, I'm from Winchester and am a classy fellow. I saw a place in Kennington, great location just down from Vauxhall but no pictures of the inside of the flat. Just the one place though on a property search unfortunately. As I have mentioned, I have roots from Kennington and know it a bit. Shoreditch isn't my bag at all. I'm not flat/house sharing, I'm avoiding that like the plague. Have had enough of that from university. Trying to avoid overground trains in general but I like Wimbledon so will bear it in mind. Putney or Southfields would be nice. My father's side of the family came from Wandsworth, my grandfather even worked for Wandsworth council. I went to see a place on Garratt Lane, it was an absolute ****hole.

I've been asked to write up a look ahead to the new season, should be online today.

No results I'm afraid Mr. Days, thanks for the heads up though. I found a few nice gaffes but then forgot about bills and council tax. Ouch.

I thought your advice was to avoid London at all costs, in a rather Alan Partridge way. Or was that Dune? Pimlico is probably too expensive for me... Yep, checked and no results in my price range.

Sure am, with me old man. I reckon I can spend about £900 PCM at the moment, I'm guessing and hoping that a permanent position will result in a pay rise. Wimbledon is a place close to my heart so I thought about looking around there but I really want as few changes with trains as possible, hence looking at the Piccadilly and Central lines. Yeah the new office will actually be closer to Chancery Lane than Holborn. Sounds good advice though, cheers. Yeah Acton was one of the first places I thought of, have seen a nice few places around there. Also looking at Ealing. Yeah I'm currently around that way at the moment, we're based at the Crystal Palace athletics stadium. West Norwood looks like a nice area, can't seem to find any places there though. My mother is from Kennington originally, not too far away from there, my father is from Mitcham. All familiar areas, basically.

Well it seems that I might just be set for a permanent position at my place of work. I'm doing a three month contract at the moment but it sounds as if they want to keep me on. As I discussed on another thread not so long ago, I am commuting from Shawford up to Crystal Palace. Our offices are moving to Holborn however, but commuting takes up a lot of my day, energy and money. £442 for six trains every day, getting up at 5:30am and getting home at about 7:15pm to go to bed at 9:30pm in fact. With all this in mind I'm looking to move to London, or I should say back to London, I lived there from birth until the age of six in Motspur Park. I'm looking for something out west on the Central or Piccadilly Line and wondered if anyone had any advice. I know we've a decent west London Saints representation on here - your thoughts guys?

Why oh why do you have that picture of Syd as your avatar? I read Nick Mason's 'Inside Out' the other day. Interesting book, kind of glosses over the albums though, doesn't talk about them in great detail.

If it happens, it happens. I really don't know what the fuss is about. I also would like to believe that if we were to be sold it wouldn't be to a bunch of bloody cowboys and a hell of a lot of research was done. If it's from that football rumours place then lock this thread immediately - also mods, please ban anyone that copies from that site of utter arse gravy.

I was born in Kingston where they currently play and have kept up with the club. I can't see it happening any time soon, as you say, if at all. They talked about this a while ago and the greyhound stadium wasn't big enough for a proper football pitch. Don't know how they've got round that one. The council whilst supportive of the club are tricky customers, so again, doubtful. Then there's the funding. They have one of the smallest budgets in the division and these plans will cost a lot of money, more than schemes like the football ground investment types can provide.

The bucket rattlers (copyright Crab Lungs industries) are going to be bitten on the arse by this new found 'wealth'. Just sit back and watch it unfold. Far cry from when I worked there, administration, tax bill, transfer embargo. They'll probably end up back there though.

Would be disappointed if he went there. Can do a job in the Championship and has more going for him than that club as a whole.

And Blackburn have made a move for Jordan Rhodes.

Just those three? Hardly a surprise, though if that's from the club then it's the confirmation we've been expecting.

Rondon is awesome. Wouldn't mind him here.

The princely sum of **** all, is what it's worth.

More like FML.

It's a film you need to see twice. First time a lot of it felt very fast, too fast. Second time it seems much more settled and easier to appreciate.

Ha ha ha

Cheers Dan, best of luck at Forest.

If what's going on at Portsmouth is a 'murder' then there are a few thousand (obviously not the full 18,000) witnesses who are accessory to murder, as they just let it happen, encouraged money to be spent, sat back and watched the victim die.

Cat One and Top Dogs.