Peregrine Falcon spotted on Nunhead Heights. News of Nunhead for 10 Dec 2012.

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9 PM Monday 10th December 2012 Nunhead Heights.

Nunhead, Southeast London, is also what Germans call the white bit of the finger nail – Das Nun’s Head. Did you know this? No? I made this up. Nonne Kopf!

The News of Nunhead

Friend Doug Brooks of Friends of One Tree Hill spotted a Peregrine Falcon atop Nunhead’s highest point over the weekend.

The Peregrine Falcon’s name means ‘wandering falcon’ and is the Official Bird of Nunhead American Radio. I just decided this today.

The southern link of  London Overground trains opened on 9th December linking east London with southwest London.

1.3 miles of track were re-laid to connect Surrey Quays (pronounced ‘keys’) with Nunhead and points west. This allowed the 150 year-old South London Line rail trains to be removed from service. Now it’ll take 15 minutes to get to Clapham but 40 minutes to get to Victoria from Peckham Rye Station.

We will ask our guest, Councillor and friend Renata Hamvas, what can be done about this!

According to the Southwark News, East Dulwich artist Heather Burrell is to recreate from old shoes the stolen Barbara Hepworth statue. The Dulwich Park art was believed taken for its scrap metal value. Why old shoes? Who’d steal old shoes.

Peckham Open 2012 & Charity Art Auction Event, which Nunhead Arts is involved in is happening at Peckham Space. The exhibition is running from 30 November – 20 December. Check out Nunhead Arts website. I don’t know what this is but it is something!

The Nunhead Community Choir, led by friend Richard Swan, is having a festive pub carol crawl on Sunday 16 December. Meet at the Rye Hotel at 2pm at the bottom of Peckham Rye. I have often crawled pubs Carolling. Also Debbying, and Sarahing, and Elizabething…

They’ll be at the following pubs at the approximate times singing:

2pm – The Rye Hotel, Peckham Rye,
3pm – The Old White Horse, Nigel Road, Peckham
4pm – The Old Nun’s Head, Nunhead Green
5pm – The Waverley Arms, Ivydale Road – ‘followed by the usual carousing and raucous behaviour leading to embarrassing videos on Facebook in the morning.’

THIS JUST IN: Save the Ivy House has just received an offer of funding from the Architectural Heritage Fund. The plan is to buy the Ivy House and run it as a cooperative pub and community hub. Keep informed on twitter and @Save_Ivy_House and at the Save the Ivy House website.

Tonight’s guests are the brilliant Brian Damage and Krysstal, famous musicians I’ve known for years. Nunheader Ed Hammond was scheduled but he’s coming in next week. Instead we have Renata Hamvas, Nunhead Heights Southwark Council councilor talking about the trains! And maybe the cemeteries and parking and bicycles…

With the Dulwich Ukulele Club, our house band, and a new song for Christmas! Lisa Moyle is our lovely co-host, and Chris Dixon, our Man. Possibly Claudio on the desk. Who knows?

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Diary of a pre-Edinpausal man. Bits and pieces from Nunhead.

2pm Monday 23 July 2012 Peckham Rye Park, Nunhead 

This is the week leading up to the Edinburgh Fringe is the busiest week. 

First, I  just realised I’ve not written a new show – ten days before the Fringe kick-off.

For my first Edinburgh  I started panicking ten months in advance;  the next year I felt stressed in March; last year the nerves hit in June.  At this rate, next year I’ll forget to turn up. 

What jumps the tension up is the boys are off school and I’m expected to look after them – them being a sensible 11-year-old and a nine-year-old wild one 

I must write about the escalating annoyingness of children. Every day they fight for their freedom with increasing moaning, sibling fighting, demands for money and things, and general disobedience. I feel it and I’m just a part-time parent.  You’d never let a child go if they stayed as loveable as a two-year-old.

And tonight is my radio show on London Arts Radio. We’ve got scheduled Doug Brooks from the One Tree Hill Society, Trees of Nunhead blogger, Graham Head, possibly the Bee Lady of Nunhead Sharon Bassey, and confirmed is my Postman, Alan Lewis. This is brilliant micro-broadcasting and not just for Nunheaders. 10:30pm at 104.4fm and streaming on http://www.resonancefm.com.

Here are some other subjects on hold until I lose the kids and am done with Edinburgh:

1. The annoying quality that  women have of asking for a favour and then telling you exactly how they’re going to pay you back – as if you’re not doing them a favour at all.

2.  How mass immigration benefits those who employ people and sell stuff.  And how  anti-racism campaigns stigmatise the “indigenous” populations who are the economic losers. 

3. My most recent comedy debacle and how I’m using the tenets of Zen Buddhism to understand my perceived  pain at blowing it again. 

But that’s for the future.