Olympic Borough house prices

According to today's Evening Standard house prices in the borough of Greenwich (and other olympic boroughs) are up 7% on last year.
So I thought I would have a look at some of the local estate agents and see whether this rings true for Plumstead. I think not.
If anything I think the house and flat prices in Plumstead are slipping - and on a separate note if you are selling your house try tidying up before the estate agent pops round with his camera...
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Woolwich stabbing

Quite worryingly I can't seem to find much news coverage on this but Woolwich station was closed following a stabbing on Wednesday night. There also appears to have been two retaliation acid throwing attacks which resulted in both Lewisham hospital and Woolwich hospital being closed whilst the fire brigades tested the chemicals (assume to make sure they weren't Chemical Ali style).
All of this took place on a train around 8pm, hardly late and I should imagine still full of commuters. Yet there is a short piece on this on one online site and nothing at all on the news or in any other press.
I asked a taxi driver what it was all about and apart from a racist rant he was very vague about the whole thing as if he had been told not to talk about it. Very odd indeed.
I have no idea why local hospitals being closed and yet another gang stabbing isn't local news but the last two days have seen the trains and stations manned with police which is a good thing although rather a case of after the horse has bolted...I guess it is incase there is any more retaliation. Be interested to hear if anyone else has heard about this.

The right side of the common

I heard a very funny conversation yesterday. At one point I thought it must have been an Estate Agents convention but no just a group of women...Who knew but apparantly there is a right side and a wrong side of Plumstead to live in and near heart failure if you live near the high street.
Now I have friends who live near the high street and their house is much nicer than some other friends I have who live behind the Slade, even their neighbours houses are nicer.
What I wanted to say to these people was that it's still all Plumstead, you still have an SE18 postcode and you probably can't afford to move out of it so get over it...
Oh except I apparantly live on the right side of Plumstead...phew.

Tesco

I think I must be behind the times as I can't remember hearing about the proposed Tesco plans in Woolwich, but I am informed that it will be the largest in Europe when it is built (not even sure if they have received full planning permission yet)....Hopefully it will have Florence and Fred, I'm quite partial to some of their stuff. I still can't believe for the size of Sainsbury's on the peninsular that they don't have homewares and TU.

New school...

now this looks interesting.....http://www.shootershillprimaryschoolofarts.com/

Murder and Rape

I just heard on the radio that a girl was murdered in Plumstead on Saturday night and that her supposed killer has just been remanded...Nice hey. So I did a search to try and find some more details about it and there wasn't much. But, the story underneath was about a rape that supposedly took place in January. The story says basically that a woman got drunk, fell asleep in the taxi, it took her to Plumstead police station, she paid the fare and the police "warned her not to walk home". Seriously, could they not have done more than warn her. She had been at a work's party, was drunk, fell asleep in the cab and they seriously just let her make her own way home. Christ the police in Plumstead need sorting out. No wonder there is a new Chief Super or whoever, this is the same station that let the cab rapist go without being caught for far too long as well. Doesn't fill me with confidence that if anything happen they will be there in a flash. Apparantly they warned her not to walk home and did offer to (or did) call another mini cab but she'd gone. Um yes she was drunk she probably didn't know where she was going, who in their right mind lets a drunk woman walk around in according to the police her "an area renowned for robbery".
Well done Plumtead police, you must be so proud.

New bathroom

We've decided that we would like to redo the bathroom so have been having a look at some recently. Aren't they cheap  if you just want a basic white one. The main problem we are having is finding anyone to come and quote for it. I can't believe all the workmen in SE London are that busy that they can't fit me in and if that is the case then being a kitchen/bathroom fitter/handyman etc seems to be the job to do at the moment as demand for work seems to be out stripping the supply. At this rate we shall be doing it ourselves.