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Ah-ha! You spotted my deliberate mistake. The fact that my spelling and grammar are both appalling was kind of my point and the reason for my excitment. Still want to know what he got wrong....

Hello MarsAttacks and welcome! It's all a bit quiet today, but I'm sure things will pick up after the weekend.

PGC I'm about to head down Lordship Lane PM me if you want to meet for a bun! I'm not wild about peep toes either, but I think that's because I've got really horrible toes! For my wedding I got dance shoes made in white satin from the Freed shop on St Martins lane. They were unbelievably comfortable and looked lovely. If you've got time you can get satin dyed to match the dress.

The toast ones better that the M&S Just the three of us that haven't gone away for the bank holiday then?

Love them. For the record, I really liked the flatties to and if you've got the right legs and lovely little ankles I think they would work with the dress. Heel will be more flattering though. Great outfit, you'll look lovely.

Virgin Radio - All 80s All Day! believe me, the sun always shines on TV...

Well hello Anthony, you sneaky little devil! Well done for coming back on. Make sure you post when you're playing next at the Plough and I might pop in and have a listen.

I'm with the Co-op and my debit card has been used fraudulently three times I think. Each time the Co-op identity fraud department have noticed the "unusual activity" on my account before I have and phoned me. They have cancelled my cards and refunded any money spent immediately and all I have to do is sign a form to say that the transactions in quesiton weren't mine. Each time it's happened I have asked them how they think it's happened and have been told it's possibly using the card on the internet, but it's impossible to tell. I kind of just accept it as part of modern banking and really appreciate how efficient the Co-op bank is at delaing with it.

Oh dear, only just caught up with this. So sorry PGC, pop round to ours for some feline therapy sometime. x

Yes, definitely post your outfit. And yes, I think of things to post all the time, mostly completely barking. Fortunately, my brain to mouth, or rather brain to typing fingers, filter is usually quite good. I do have occasional, embarrassing lapses though and the crazy sneaks out.

ps. Also, great news about the user numbers, although I find the idea of that many people reading potentially reading my rambling a bit unnerving.

Oh no! Too late. He's already edited. What did he do? What did I miss? I'm so flattered to be called the grammer police. I post with reference.com open in another window to double check as I go along and get BN5 to proof read, because I'm so afraid of the pedants.

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Food Heaven Fresh bread and butter Olives Fish - the fishier the better. Espeicially smoked fish, but even cheap horrible things like tinned tuna or (cringe) fish paste! Pizza Cheese Roast potatoes Thick, salty chips Oh, i could go on forever. Food Hell jumpinjackflash you are so right... Bananas and porrige are evil food. Milk - especially warm milk except in cappuccino (too many Ps and Cs?)

spadetownboy, you've taken ontheedge's comment about the baby next door completely out of context. He/she was actually using that as an example of expected, baby-related noise that wasn't a problem to show that he/she isn't generally noise intolerant or unrealistic about children. I don't see anything in the orginal or subsequent posts to suggest ontheedge is a child-hater and I think you're being a bit unfair.

Not that weird, or at least not alone, bignumber5 had a real thing for Ruth!

I'd like to add my sympathy, although no clever solutions I'm afraid. We're also in the ground floor of a cheaply converted building with minimal or possibly no soundproofing, I think it's very common in an area like this. Fortunately, our neighbours are a couple with no children who don't seem to agrue much or have noisy sex (hmm, suddenly feeling sorry for them!) but even just walking around and chair scraping is noisy enough to be disturbing at times. Also, if they have friends over to dinner and move their table we loose channel five and several other channels, most distressing if it happens during the CSI series finale! Being on the ground floor anything in the small communal hallway (door slamming and long, late night goodbyes mostly) sounds like it's in our flat, which can be annoying and embarrassing (on both sides, nothing like realising that if you can here their key turn in the lock they can probably hear you talking to your cat!) Like I say, I have no clever solution, I just wanted to offer my support and say no, you're not being unreasonble. It's really hard to know what to suggest. We spoke to our neighbours about noise in the hallway, they were lovely about it and mostly make an affort to keep it down, but we don't feel we can complain about them just doing normal things upstairs. I think the key for you is to try as hard as you can to be objective about whether the noise is reasonable or not. I know it sounds a bit obsessive, but try writing down when you're particularly bothered by noise, what time it is and what sort of noise. If you build up a bit of a record you'll be able to see if there actually is an unreasonable level of noise, or if it's more or less what you'd expect. I'm not for a moment suggesting you build up a dossier of some kind on your neighbours and run up there waving your noted book at them, just that it might be useful to help you be objective. Other than that all can suggest is what we've decided to do, move as soon as you can afford to and never live on the ground floor again.

Steve, you are a gentleman. MW74, my sympathy to you and MrMW74. I'm sorry that you're in such a painful and frustrating situation and wish you well.

We have a different bin related problem. *glances over shoulder for Mr Admin and decides to risk a topic tangent* Our wheelie bin is all present and correct, but someone keeps dumping their rubbish in it. We rarely fill out bin so it wouldn't be a problem except that it's reclyclable waste, mostly cardboard, being dumped which the standard bin men won't take away. So, every week the bin men pull all the dumped cardboard out of our bin and leave it by the side and we have to crush it all up and try and squash it into our recycling bag. I realise this isn't really that big a deal, in the words of Baby's dad in Dirty Dancing "this is not a tragedy", but it is beginning to annoy me. Does anyone have any suggestions or bright ideas to stop it happening?

Two days without posting mockney, is that a record? Since you're definitely not offended it had better be me who apologises next. Clearly I'm much too sensitive for all this "masculine humour" Steve, do forgive my feminine weakness!

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Pah. Was going for home-made, ED sourced, chicken > pie tonight, but after an afternoon in A&E > couldn't be arsed. Oh dear. Nothing too serious I hope PGC.

Oooooh, can't resist, just to annoy Sean here's my list, almost all the ingredients from Sainsburys this morning (last minute lunch guest) Soda bread and smoked salmon Sirloin steaks on rosemary potatoes and lemon rocket salad Chocolate brownies with hot chocolate sauce and Green & Blacks vanilla ice-cream. To save me from going straight to hell for supermarket usage I should say it was all cooked from scratch and the soda bread was homemade with buttermilk from SMBS. Hee hee

Ok, that's enough now parents, this is a ranting thread after all. If you don't stop all this baby talk I may have to have a little rant myself about the way parents constantly moan about the downsides of having children, whilst simultaneously telling you at length about how it's life-changingly wonderful, completely unlike anything else and something you just won't understand if you're not a mother with a patronising head tilt. Sorry :-$ rant over

A prize for Brendan! That makes up for missing the Life of Brian / Not The 9'0'clock News one the other day ;-)

A very gracious apology Steve. Although, just to be clear I wasn't saying mockney was offended, I wouldn't dream of speaking for anyone else on here, it just went a bit far for me.