Tooting

How far will that possible diffusion accomplish itself? Let us first of all consider the case of those classes that will be free to exercise a choice in the matter, and we shall then be in a better position to consider those more numerous classes whose general circumstances are practically dictated to them.

What will be the forces acting upon the prosperous household, the household with a working head and four hundred a year and upwards to live upon in the days to come? Will the resultant of these forces be, as a rule, centripetal or centrifugal? Will such householders in the greater London of 2000 AD still cluster for the most part as they do today in a group of suburbs as close to London as is compatible with a certain fashionable maximum of garden space and air? Or will they leave the ripened gardens and the no longer brilliant villas of Surbiton and Norwood, Tooting and Beckenham to other and less independent people? First let us weigh the centrifugal attractions.

The first of these is what is known as the passion for nature, that passion for hillside, wind, and sea that is evident in so many people nowadays, either frankly expressed or disguising itself as a passion for golfing, fishing, hunting, yachting, or cycling.

And secondly, there is the allied charm of cultivation, and especially of gardening, a charm that is partly also the love of dominion perhaps, and partly a personal love for the beauty of trees and flowers and natural things.

But there was a mourning from that.

There was a bit of a shock of... there's a bit of a um you know me living with silly lads is jesus oh and so and and and on a branch that all of me friends who lived around there and it's it's a kind of a love letter to i always say it's a love letter to the lads do you know what i mean to your pals and and there's girls in there as well who are friends we have a big friendship group uh luckily in london and um And we lived on Fish Pond Road in Tooting.

And our house, as naturally boys do, we called it the Fish Pond.

And stupid lads, you know, all giving ourselves fish-related nicknames.

It just couldn't be further from me.

I genuinely reckon getting to somewhere like Wimbledon or Tooting for me is, I may as well go Birmingham, honestly, mate.

It's probably quicker, yeah.

It probably is quicker.

Pimlico was up twenty-six percent revenue half year on half year.

Tooting was up fourteen percent half year on half year.

And then the downs, the decreases are the wind down of, of, of DCI and the closure of Crystal Palace getting us from the five two oh two to four seven, four point seven million.

On the PBT side, the trading element of the franchising business was up by 111K year-on-year PBT.

The net effect was a significant profit uptick.

Pimlico's profitability was up by 24K.

Um, Tooting was down slightly, basically on the back of the appointment of a high-performing sales director in the business and the timing difference around their sales pipeline.

So the start of Q3, slightly frustratingly, has been phenomenally strong.

I, I, I think it's, uh, unlikely that these professional referees have been doing it now for some of them for 20 to 30 years, don't know the intricacies of the laws that they're applying.

Uh, Adam in Tooting, "I agree with Rory.

It's not human error.

Human error is a consequence of a weak system, not a cause of itself.

But the thing with trance, again, it was in my local area.

It was right by St. George's Hospital in Tooting.

Ah.

So, and it was in a disused nursing home, right? So it was, you had to go round the back of the nursing home, climb over this fence, climb, the bottom, glass panel on the door was put through.

So it wasn't an active pub, but it was a space open for rent, but it had a bar, you know?

Is that the place in Tooting?

Tooting.

Yeah.

Tooting Bec, exactly, yeah.

Yeah.

So, uh, we were there for a long time, so that was-

You know?