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Whoops, my bad!

"There is nothing that a meat eater eats that can't be recreated for a veggie with the above ingredients. " Utter patent nonsense, but your heart's in the right place I guess. At this time of year I've been using lots of the pumpkins, squashes etc. Dice and roast em up for 45 minutes with cloves of garlic and goose fat good olive oil and they're great accompaniment for many dishes, nice in risottos too. Ratatouille with nice courgettes, aubergine tomato etc on some good quality rice (rather than the boring long grain stuff), shove a little bit of wild rice in for nuttiness and texture. Basically, as CrystalClear would say, start with some garlic and chili and go from there.

Langford village, the longest village in Europe I'll have you know!

Ooh, I can just picture, Heston Blumenthal serving olive oil ice-cream and snails while the locals grind to the likes of Jimmy Witherspoon and Nat King Cole, can't wait!! nd I've no idea what you're talking about old boy, I live in the village donchaknow?

Does he still bake bread though? Perhaps a barbecue bake off in the summer on Camberwell Green if the makeover get the go ahead. Thence to the Silver Buckle for celebratory drinks! In all fairness a nice gastro makeover for the Silver Buckle and replacing Somerfield with a lovely M&S Foodhall would achieve more than any park spruce by the council.

Nonsense, Hallelujah's a great song!!! "I'm Shaun William Ryder gonna lie down beside you fill you full of junk"

Great slice of late sixties UK invasion pop I'm kind of a latecomer to. The Zombies - Brief Candles

Weak ? great for tourism and exports. Currency fluctuations give with one hand and take with the other. Yes I braved the west end for christmas shopping on friday, incredibly busy and it did seem a bit crisis, what crisis?

Went to see Waltz with Bashir at the weekend. I thought it was very good. I realise it's been controversial from two points of view, some people feel it unfairly criticises Israel, whilst others feel it understates Israel's complicity in the Sabra and Shatila massacres. I don't think it's either of these, it's a well made, very honest autobiographical semi-documentary account of a man who's trying to look into his past and understand where his psychological trauma was rooted as a young draftee. Not going to be everyone's cup of tea by any stretch, but worth a watch if you think it might be.

Well this comes from a different perspective, and has world war 2 at $5 trillion with Iraq at $3 trillion. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article3419840.ece Bear in mind both this and the bailout have been almost entirely funded by borrowing, the vast majority of which has been bought up by the Chinese, I wouldn't be throwing in my lot with that currency. Mind you, the pounds not looking any healthier if Gordon gets to solve all our borrowing woes by...err..borrowing lots more.

Touch? :)) On another matter can anyone check to see if there's any credibility to these figures? "Incredibly, financial bailouts being approved in Washington now add up to $8.5 trillion, a figure beyond comprehension. ABC News commented: "In comparison, the total U.S. cost of World War II, adjusted for inflation, was $3.6 trillion. The bailout will cost more than the total combined costs in today's dollars of the Marshall Plan, the Louisiana Purchase, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the entire historical budget of NASA, including the moon landing."

"european government...it's all about the 'elite' knowing what's best for us plebs" Substitute European for pretty much anything and it still rings true. Westminster, Strasbourg, same **** different ****. Having said that the pound is in freefall and the Euro may soon be the world's dominant currency. Have you thought about changing your name to ????? ;-P

happy with that. Weird, Leeds don't seem to be in that draw. Surely some mistake?

It is of course absolutely shocking but it's hard to know what to say. Though I totally agree with Nick that what goes on in the subcontinent is of course of interest and concern to all of us, after an event like this it would seem mawkish and inappropriate to come on somewhere like here and say something like 'my thoughts...' or somesuch. I remember at the time of the London bombs lot of people coming on some of the flickr forums which should really only be about long exposure techniques or somesuch and saying something like 'my prayers go out to y'all in London, England' to which I just thought, well, frankly, fuck off!

ha ha, true enough. I ordered by interesting, and unfortunately interesting in flickr world involves eith heavy HDR, cats and babies, or heavily HDRed cats and babies!!

Blimey they should have just checked flickr out

aern't orcs just bigger goblins, I thought they were all goblins, that were elves who were....a.arargh...not...having....this ....effing....conversation..... Plenty of goblins in Playa del Ingles I can tell ya!

I have seen them, and they are a bit odd now that I think about it. I spent some time in Gran Canaria with a mate a few years back after our respective bosses coincidentally forced us to take time off at the same time due to burnout (I was commuting to Amsterdam at the time!). We got the first cheap package out of the country and ended up there. Playa Ingl?s was basically scum hell on earth, caught as you are between last night's revellers, pickpockets and naked fat germans, so we ran quickly away, looking up at the big volcano and deciding to walk there in the midday 40 degree heat. Pretty soon we left the town and entered, as Moos says, Mordor. No vegetation, no life and these weird broken sunbleached edifices. We had our floppy hats on and my mate (ex army) started getting flashbacks to foot patrols in war-torn Croatia and by the time we got to the top he was suffering severe heebie-jeebies (probably brought on by dehydration frankly). We made it back to the apartment (25 mile round trip) turning down offers of lifts from clearly drunk English people driving jeeps erratically, and only left said apartment and poolside for supplies over the next 5 days. I have never, and will never return!! Had a great tan mind!

Aston Villa 2 Fulham 0 Middlesbrough 1 Newcastle 2 Stoke City 1 Hull City 0 Sunderland 2 Bolton 1 Wigan Athletic 2 West Brom 1 Chelsea 1 Arsenal 1 Man City 1 Man Utd 2 Portsmouth 2 Blackburn 0 Tottenham 1 Everton 2 Liverpool 4 West Ham Utd 0 My Hull mate sent me this from their forum: I lve the "just kidding, but" for as we all know, everything before the but in a sentence is bullshit!

I'm inclined to agree with quids. We're showing some signs of improvement, but not enough to beat a half decent team. I hope someone kicks Mascherano though; twonk.

Do eet,dooo eeeeeeeeet

I think most 'celebrities' are just normal people really, I'm sure they're lovely when you meet them. I've met that thingy wassisname from Stereophonics a few times when I worked up in Camden and he was lovely. Except Paris Hilton, I don't believe for a second she actually exists, I think she's either entirely photoshopped or an animatronic puppet.

Good plan Bat Man, a forums drinks means more people to meet and an even wider emit of pubs to go to! Hurrah!! We'll be at the Hobgoblin in no time!!

That's unfair MP, it's also the road you take on the way to Blackheath, Greenwich or Lewisham