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Is Croydon North still available?

Ok, cooking for my mums tomorrow night, and maybe it's my goddarned cold but I'm just not feeling inspired. Any one got any signature dishes, old favourites or just bloody good recipes to help point me in the right direction. Oh, one of them is gluten intolerant so most pasta stuff is out. I stumbled on this in search of something which has had me chuckling for ages, but hasn't been much help ps I'll post up some of my specialities in due course

If beards and grown men slapping each other with inflated bladders scares you then you might want to avoid this one. However Sandy Denny, if her untimely demise wasn't one of music's great tragedies I don't know what was.. Fotheringay Tam Lin

Steph, no mention of Half Man half Biscuit? Birkenhead's greatest export?

You are a member of the aristocracy no less. If you'll just make yourself known to the authorities Mr Lucan, I think they'd like a quick word.

Actually as a teen pals and I were prone to the occasional use of laudanum drenched tobacco. I'm glad to see I'm in such literary company, and I turned out alright in the end.* *debatable on that last point obviously

* sniggers quietly to self as presses record button on digital camcorder * * thinks this'll make me famoius on youtube he he *

One for Crystal, well everyone really. Modest Mouse - Bankrupt on Selling

Really Mark? Fantastic. I stayed in a bizarre looking hotel called hotel Italia which was outside the centre near the old university, but an interesting 20 minute walk in, or a couple of minutes on the tram. It was pleasant enough and not too pricey by any stretch. Hopefully some of the accommodation costs will have dropped as they get hugely inflated by big NATO and UN presence there, which is now being scaled back big time. Ooh, I'm sooo jealous, I loved Sarajevo. Make sure you go to The Bar which was just superb. And get a ?eleznice top, my brother loved his. And be sure to load up on Euros before you go, you don't want to have to go anywhere near a bank, of this I can assure you.

I live on Denmark Hill...hurrah :D Sorry Jeremy, I mean booo

Sorry James, my bad. Travelling with the Irish Mrs Mockney, she suffers from the irish ailment of needing to find a connection with people in a Kevin Baconesque fashion. Of course they're highly skilled at this and she usually manages it somehow. Last time we were in Ireland we met an ex-Dulite now living in Sydenham (not you Keef).

Sorry Calvo, that wasn't the impression I was trying to give. I was less discouraging consuming, more paying closer to opportunity costs for our products. This may have the knock on effect of buying less, but then we'll have more money available for taxation to pay for those things we'll need to pay for such as protecting London from going under the water, paying for all those lovely resource wars we'll end up fighting as the world goes tits up ;) I'm no expert (putting it mildly) I just get a bit frustrated with the me me me attitude prevalent today. I've seen the UK change for the better and the worse over my 29 years here, but the most damaging change I've seen is a decline in social and community engagement, respect and consideration for others. As far as I can tell this has become subverted by defining ourselves by individual rights and wants, seemly a position against that of the greater good. And I'm not talking hoodies here, I see it in the chap(ess) losing it over a contested parking space in sainsbury's car park, or people not standing up for someone in need on the tube/bus (I still do). I can't really offer solutions for this, just laments. Things like the forum have actually helped assuage some of this pessimism in me, there obviously is a desire out there to make things better and engage, which is great.

I think the denmark hill will be a different train turning up at the same overland station.

Precisely Blinder. Wrong side of bed James? Being Andalucian I can't tell you how much we admire the salt of the earth Englanders who don't learn the language, eat sausage and chips, play bingo and puke all over our fine streets after too much carling. We just hate those middle class types who enjoy and embrace the culture, disgusting ;)

geh, I don't know about you but I pay my taxes to provide public services, health, education, policing, defence etc (defence, not attack, but don't get me started on that one). As gov't money is our money, you'll be paying for your expensive bulbs one way or another, I happen to think with the added administrative costs on shuffling the cash, it's an absurd waste of money. Ban the gas guzzling bulbs and be done with it, fait accompli. As capt'n quite rightly points out, we all save in the long run. It's short termism that got us into this mess, and maintaing this as a stance won't get us out of it. Sticking our heads in the sand won't actually make the problem go away. We need to stop thinking consumer politics a la thatcher, major and Blair and start thinking about society as common and shared experience, not one defined by consumer choice and market led forces.

Hmm There was a big 'discussion' of this over on flickr. Well, it was more of a savaging. I thought it was summed up nicely by a certain dashingly handsome flickrite .

brilliant blinder, thanks :)

No ones going to produce this at a loss if the economics simply don't work, and it could just be the case that green bulbs will never be cheap enough to tempt people over. At that point coercion must be used because using money better spent on public services, to subsidise goods to tempt people over to them is economics of lunacy frankly, but exactly the sort of thing this government would come up with. A slight aside, last night on BBC London news saw something about an award winning product, basically a wax filled box you attach to your fridge thermostat. It mimics how cold your food is and more accurately manages how often your fridge turns itself on. On average refrigeration bills are reduced to 30 of their previous level. sadly can't find anything about it on BBC or t'internet. Can anyone else?

And by way of an apology, one of my favourite covers The Sundays - Wild Horses Even better than the Natasha Beddingfield version, if that's humanly possible ;)

Neiljohns, it looks very interesting. I'll definitely be up for the London to Brighton screening (with our very own Lol Hammond). Clare, happy to volunteer my place for an EDFC special. I can hold up to about 8 people if one or two are ok with cushions.

So the solution to our over consumption is to make our goods cheaper then geh? Something not computing with me on that one. Ultimately legislation and punitive measures are the only things that will actually work, we're just going to have to lump it, despite (or rather because) thinking we live in a society where we can have everything we want, almost as our very self-definition.

Jimmy Mac, nice Johnny Cash linking there. Can't do any clever next progression song, so instead I present this to you, there isn't even any music but I watched this on Family Guy last night and laughed so hard I think I actually went blind for a bit. not for the faint-hearted* *very juvenile but funny

I believe Mr & Mrs georgia Bullock bumped into some Dulites in Tunisia recently. 2 of my old schoolmates bumped into each other in a small grocers in a one stop town in the middle of nowhere in south Island New zealand just a couple of weeks ago, so it really is a small world. I'll be off to Italy in June where I think it's exceedingly highly I'll bump into a couple of Dulites, as at least two of them will be getting married to each other :)

I loved the crazy christmas stuff.

Oh yes, Camberwell beats East Dulwich hands down for photo opportunities, there are some really lovely buildings, but it can be a bit unsettling and nerve-wracking carrying a good camera around there without company. Talking of Arty vibe, I passed a trio of what must have been students from the art college returning camberwellwards from an ED visit on sunday. Made my day. Girl had flowery shirt, black tights and luminous yellow legwarmers 80s stylee. One chap wore slacks and salmon pink jacket while the other one dressed like a chap, had a pencil thin moustache (made of bumfluff of course) and was smoking a pipe. Lovely :D