mockney piers

First tuesday in Feb, I'm there, hurrah.

I wanna be adored - Stone Roses

In the mouth a desert - Pavement

I thought it was maria carey ;-) Doh my turn! Way Out - Yeah Yeah Yeahs or Ghost Town - The Specials

Get Behind Me Santa! - Sufjan Stevens

Red Rain - Peter Gabriel (any more rainy colours out there?)

good point people There's a good list here to which we can mentally add marijuana I reckon. As for the rest of it I'm going to have to have Garlic Snake Gourd (no idea, but sounds funky) Tomato Chilli Rice

There's little I can say here and a close eye may need to be kept to avoid legal issues on this thread. I will briefly add that I've spoken to the owners about this and people shouldn't be to quick to judge or harsh. They've invested hugely into their enterprise, financially and personally and despite some pretty rotten things happen to them, they've remained positive and even generous of spirit. The aforementioned blog was a regretful outburst from someone truly at the end of their tether and has long since been removed. I echo Jah in saying it would be a sad loss to the lane and my wine cellar if we were to lose G&B.

Aaah, the old fruit/vegetable argument. Had a big barney about this in the office once. After some research it boiled down to vegetable being pretty much any part or all of any plant. Tuber, leaf, fruit, seed, no matter. But a fruit is a matured vegetable ovary containing seeds. So all fruits are vegetables (including your tomato), but obviously not vice versa. I think a strawberry fits onto the fruit definition, but can't guarantee as a botanist I ain't. Traditionally a vegetable is a savoury thing in cookery, so I guess from whence the debate arises tomatolly. Can't remember where mushrooms fit into all of this.

I'm a wuss for 1/12 of every year . Well, in practice it usually works out as 1/24th, but I'll give it a good crack this time if it helps the missus quit the evil weed.

are these the only vegetation on the island? If so that could seriously colour my list.

No drink January for me so don't know if I'm popping in for this one. May say hello anyway but I'm weak, staying out of the pub is the only guarantee for me.

"Hope you're up and running soon" Having just spoken to him you might want to consider rephrasing that. All thinks considered he sounded remarkably perky!!

More mellow music, and an appropriate title for how I felt yesterday. ?-Ziq - The Fear

What?!?!? Oh my god, are you okay?

Ooops, I obviously had a sense of humour lapse in the office, thankfully I'm back to normal now. Now wash your mouth out with soap and water PGC ;-)

"we all get our day in the sunshine" speak for yourself, we've never won the league, frozen ground in 85/6 saw to that. Then unsporting, jammy liverpool stole our FA cup...grrrrrr

Greece was the freest country out of the whole survey; possibly as a result of it being completely disorganised.

I was saying that I never got the impression from the trailers that it was a horror. Roll on the zombies; I fell in love with Vampires after Salem's lot and Fright Night, Zombies with Return of the living dead that progressed me to the night/dawn/day of the dead films....marvellous. Thence to the wonderful evil dead/army of darkness trilogy....masterful.

Oh yeah, sorry about your b'day result there Simon. My Palace mate was made up if it's any consolation...which I don't suppose it is.

We can't pull off two upsets in a week. Plus last year's emirates victory was a against the grain of Arsenal away. Miwwaw's always a swearword Lizzy ;-)

Come on people, handbags away. What is this, the Barton family reunion or something?

This made for depressing reading for those who were saying Singapore is such a terrible place. http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-559597

I think I'm on a) though by the state of the office I may be the only person doing this, with everyone else on e). Darn!

"irony, or sarcasm?"pedantry> sarcasm may be cheap irony by the way, but it's still ironypedantry>