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What do you enjoy most about Charlton life

What aspects of living in Charlton or being part of this community do you enjoy most? Are there local places, events, organisations, or experiences you think others should know about? I’m curious to hear what residents appreciate and why.

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  • Lifers.

    I love them All !  <3
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,659
    This isn’t a Charlton residents forum @cherwana

  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 1,684
    This could be a WUM.
  • Leeds_Addick
    Leeds_Addick Posts: 4,802
    Nothing, it’s all rubbish and better up north 
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 65,717
    When the team is winning / has won
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 33,462
    cherwana said:

    What aspects of living in Charlton or being part of this community do you enjoy most? Are there local places, events, organisations, or experiences you think others should know about? I’m curious to hear what residents appreciate and why.

    Personally I spend as least time as possible in SE7, 90 minutes on a Saturday and some Tuesday evenings is enough for me. Then I’m back to sunny East Sussex. I’ve also heard that most away fans want to leave as soon as they have arrived.
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,716
    edited February 26
    Welcome to the forum cherwana.

    Good timing really as I've been asking myself similar questions. Always feels like we will get spanked every week which is a bit wearing. Fortunately we have improving relations with Millwall fc thanks to this site. It's nice to share the glow of the relative success of our local neighbours, just down the road. The obvious next step would be some organised cultural exchange trips but it's just shyness that holds us back I think. We should be creating new memories, not constantly re-living the old ones. 
  • Dave Rudd
    Dave Rudd Posts: 2,947
    edited February 26
    cherwana said:

    What aspects of living in Charlton or being part of this community do you enjoy most? Are there local places, events, organisations, or experiences you think others should know about? I’m curious to hear what residents appreciate and why.

    Personally I spend as least time as possible in SE7, 90 minutes on a Saturday and some Tuesday evenings is enough for me. Then I’m back to sunny East Sussex. I’ve also heard that most away fans want to leave as soon as they have arrived.

    You're missing a lot, @LargeAddick.

    We live 50 or 60 miles away these days, but the halfway point in terms of time on the journey home is the Blackwall Tunnel.

    We enjoy creeping along the lower road, cutting up others around the Angerstein Hotel and fighting to join the slow moving traffic on the Tunnel approach.

    Add in a glimpse of IKEA, a mournful look at the old Molassine building (now Brenntag) and the opportunity to pay the toll charges and you have the perfect day out.
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 4,013
    @cherwana are you really Collins looking for some good food recommendations?
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 1,684
    Welcome to the forum cherwana.

    Good timing really as I've been asking myself similar questions. Always feels like we will get spanked every week which is a bit wearing. Fortunately we have improving relations with Millwall fc thanks to this site. It's nice to share the glow of the relative success of our local neighbours, just down the road. The obvious next step would be some organised cultural exchange trips but it's just shyness that holds us back I think. We should be creating new memories, not constantly re-living the old ones. 
    Let's create some new memories by beating Millwall FFS.

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  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 35,243
    cherwana said:

    What aspects of living in Charlton or being part of this community do you enjoy most? Are there local places, events, organisations, or experiences you think others should know about? I’m curious to hear what residents appreciate and why.

    I take it you're new around here.
  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 7,442
    cherwana said:

    What aspects of living in Charlton or being part of this community do you enjoy most? Are there local places, events, organisations, or experiences you think others should know about? I’m curious to hear what residents appreciate and why.

    Drop me a DM if you’re interested in joining our local dogging group.
  • My posts.

    Sometimes I read them back to myself and really wonder how I won the lottery of life to be such and intelligent, astute, funny individual.

    I also enjoy sharing all my superior knowledge with fellow lifers to educate them whether they appreciate it or not.
  • Any thread about politics, where everyone is rational and they all get along without it ever descending into an argument.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,659
    cherwana said:

    What aspects of living in Charlton or being part of this community do you enjoy most? Are there local places, events, organisations, or experiences you think others should know about? I’m curious to hear what residents appreciate and why.

    The Deer Park is fantastic for young families 
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,741
    The parks
    Riverside
    The new shops
    Charlton House
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,536
    What I love most about living in Charlton Kings is the proper village community feel, whilst still being only a stone's throw from the centre of Cheltenham.
  • Stig said:
    What I love most about living in Charlton Kings is the proper village community feel, whilst still being only a stone's throw from the centre of Cheltenham.
    Yes, I was in Charlton Kings on Monday.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,536
    Beautiful part of the world.
  • It's ok but sports wise it's lacking a bit, though it does have a lido..

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  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,378
    South London is wonderful, South London is wonderful, full of….
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,682
    The absolute meltdown after we lose to a team that has outspent us 5:1
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,659
    Here is Greenwich Borough’s official welcome to Charlton guide video. Mad mess

    https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CRMjWg4fH/?mibextid=wwXIfr

  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 13,016
    Laddick01 said:
    cherwana said:

    What aspects of living in Charlton or being part of this community do you enjoy most? Are there local places, events, organisations, or experiences you think others should know about? I’m curious to hear what residents appreciate and why.

    Drop me a DM if you’re interested in joining our local dogging group.
    I'd be interested in that.

    Our miniature schnauzer is pretty good but needs more help with her recall.

    Where do you meet?
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 4,013
    Oh me too, mines coming along but needs muzzling at times...happy to car share too if it's helpful?
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,165
    Its a s***hole and I wanna go home
  • MrWalker
    MrWalker Posts: 4,224
    Charlton life is infinitely preferable to Millwall life
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 27,196
    For me, it's the obsession with other people wetting the bed. 
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,970
    edited February 27
    Old days -
    - 10p mix up from George's
    - Going up Cox's Mount with my air rifle
    - Sneaking into the corner of Oak / Horse at 15, plucking up the minerals to ask for a coke
    - Tennis round the park
    - Puting round the park
    - Fishing down the Thames
    - Swimming down the Thames
    - Five Finger Belinda from up the top
    - Mini league round the Mount
    - Stone fights in the club house over Stones sports field

  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,798
    The palpable sense of sullen misery that's descended on the site today for some reason  B)