Alex K

edcam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If Louisa and Dulwich Fox don't like something, > you can almost certainly guarantee it's worth > trying! **love**

Oh dear -- no offence intended; I learnt about this new availability through your posting! -- And again, oh dear -- Sundays no service? That's when I'm flying in... and rather late in the evening, to boot. -- This does not bode well.

Now we can pay for travel to Gatwick using an Oystercard! Good news, that. I have a 60+ Oystercard to which credit can't be added. When inbound from Gatwick, should I simply pay for a ticket to East Croydon and travel onward by 60+ Photocard from there? Or is a more clever option available?

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > yes, why on earth would you go into such a > profession if you did not wish to provide a full > service. Richard Rockefeller (fourth generation along from John D.; yes, THAT family), perhaps a decade gone now -- private-aeroplane crash -- was one year ahead of me at medical school. He, like most of us, wanted to provide a full service when he went into our profession. He, unlike most of us, could afford to do so without collecting a salary. Here's a thought: Maybe the alleged increase in evenings-and-weekend death rates has NOTHING to do with a purported dearth of physicians. Maybe it's that the physicians on duty evenings and weekends lack the wise guidance, available social-hours only, of the elite corps of managers, as thickly layered above the working doctors as is phyllo in spanakopita. Let's have a trial: Set the managers onto seven-day rotas without additional pay. Will outcomes improve?

intexasatthe moment Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I friends who live in Oakhurst who have remarked > on this .They've commented on the practice of > dumping small stuff next to the paladins rather > than in them . Hero of mythical virtue? Knightly companion of Charlemagne? ***puzzlement*** Then Google. Ah. A brand name gone generic, I suppose. -- Paladin vs "chamberlain", next vocabulary-builder. Now I have three ways to say "wheelie-bin". Viva the EDF! Viva intexasatthe moment!

sjw Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > American what!!! how very judgemental and sooooooo > wrong This is anecdotal only, mind you, but I have known Americans who are normocephalic and give every sign of being euploid. They may be exceptions to the general rule. -- Given that such Americans exist, Grok may have meant his / her comment as praise. We can't be sure.

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We fought against it, during the decision call-in > it was agree to consider exemptions for poor > families. > Before the service was free Southwark had lots of > fly tipping. And Southwark will have it again. -- James, a particular hot-spot for fly tipping is the car wash / car park area near Dulwich Hamlet Football Club. If it isn't a mattress it's a sofa. That sort of thing. -- Can you look into CCTV monitoring of the road leading toward the playing fields along the eastern wall of the grounds; of the car park / car wash; in short, kit and caboodle -- to nail the sons-of-guns who think they've found a safe spot to off-load? Thanks for whatever you can arrange.

Time to express a THANK YOU for 2015 (and before) and to ask you please to keep on keeping on. Good to have you in our corner, despite the squabbling within same.

rabbitears Wrote: > Going back to Seacow: I don't want to be a critic > unnecessarily but the place was usually empty > whenever I saw it and the fish and chips was no > better than any of the other chippies in the area > IMVHO Thanks for this. The idea of pick-your-fish-and-we'll-fry-it is charming, but only when the exhaust fans work. Long ago, on my first and last visit, I struggled to breathe through a fog of aerosolised grease... and resolved to stay true to Olley's.

Responding to ScabbyBadger -- "A couple of questions here. On a scale of one to ten, how much does 700-1500 people having a good time for a couple of hours once a week make you sulk? "Question two: Why on earth did you move near to a football ground if your intolerance of a bit of noise for a couple of hours a week makes it so unbearable you have 'sulky moments'?" 1) Not at all. Make that a zero on your scale. I wish those thousand-odd people only joy. Quiet, radiant, self-contained joy. Now, for them to demonstrate that they are having a good time by making noise... well, you didn't ask me about that. 2) Drop-of-water-hollows-stone. Fifteen years of waiting for football supporters to adopt the behaviour of "We'll demonstrate that we're having a good time by playing 'Quaker Meeting'" have eroded my love. As has my ageing: I'm grumpier about nearly everything than I used to be.

Bluerevolution writes: "As for residential, the local housing were built AFTER the stadium so any complaints aren't viable." I live on Abbotswood Road -- in one of those units of local housing -- and I try to be a good neighbour with respect to activities at the stadium and grounds. "It'll all be over in a few hours" has got me through many sulky moments. When one of the football club's officials expresses as his or her opinion, however, "We were here first so naff off", that strikes me as un-neighbourly. "We have our ways, ways that we cherish -- we recognise that they reflect in some respects the environment in which they were formed -- we recognise that that environment has changed -- we'll look into how our ways adversely affect you, our neighbours, and, when practicable, we'll try to change those ways to be better neighbours" would impress me more favourably than a version of "Nobody likes us, we don't care". Expand the stadium and activities there? Not for a group who don't care that nobody likes them.

alice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > child abuse is culture free. if not show me > evidence to disprove that. Oh, for Heaven's sake. The thread, before you contributed to it, was attempting to address the point that the definition of child abuse, the understanding of what constitutes child abuse, is highly culture-dependent. "Child abuse is culture free." This, or that, or the other thing is what Alice says it is and everyone else, with their opinions, can go hang. Oh, dear.

Noise with the door's closing. Yes, Ilyamah. That makes sense. -- I'd be a rubbish car-break-and-enter man, not thinking things through. School guidance counsellors leave out so much on Career Day.

All very odd. Eggs on Burrow, another door ajar on Abbotswood. Why not close the door all the way? Thieves have no manners these days.

Thanks for the heads-up. Comment submitted.

Ours? Not an Audi, a Citro?n biscuit-tin ten years old. Thank you for telling us about what happened to your car. I don't like thinking that electronic "skeleton keys" are in use!

Righty-ho, report filed. That's a dab of Brasso on my crown in Heaven, then. Thanks, all.

My car, kerb-parked on Abbotswood Road, was broken into some time over the past week when I was travelling. Nothing of value was in it but they checked all compartments and boot. A change purse with maybe ?4 in meter change in the pull out tray under the driver seat is gone. They also left the door open a crack so the seat was wet. My neighbour, Stefi, noticed the open door. Thankfully no windows were broken. They must have used something electronic to open it as I can't see any damage to the doors, etc. No intention of filing a police report. 1) What good would it do? 2) It could only lower house prices in this postal code. **grin** As always, be careful out there.

"Alex K you've obviously never been to Norwich." I've been. Obviously I chose not to stay there. For obvious reasons. Perhaps not so obvious, though; we are different, it seems, you and I, and perhaps I must work harder to understand your perspective. Perhaps before I judge the opinions of someone who prefers Norwich to Vienna I need to ask a preliminary question, one with an answer that will give me, at least in part, access to the perspective of that someone. Here goes. Louisa, is your metabolism carbon-based? **grin**

"Many on a par with Vienna". In Britain. Oh, dear. -- What a VERY good time you are about to have!

James, I've told you this before, but it bears repeating. You're a good man to have on our team. Thank you.

Battleships are "gunned". Perhaps the OP has Admiralty connections.

Croissants don't provide the chances to patronise that they used to. Thirty-five years ago, when croissants were still VERY novel, a friend and I went into a bakery where they were on offer -- sign above the basket -- "Croissants (kwah-SAWHN)". He turned to me and said, "See? They even tell you how to pronounce it in Korean."

Chris is a good man. He lives in my road and we worked in the same laboratory at King's. I like him. Although our politics don't coincide, I was pleased that he was my councillor. I met him by chance at the Sainsbury's superstore the morning after I learnt that he was stepping down -- we chatted. He hopes to continue to be active in politics, he told me, but he can't at the same time do justice to both councillor duties and his two girls, who are under ten. (Maybe his failing to respond to Mustard's e-mails is part of being too thinly stretched.) I suppose there's no knowing how much of your life being a councillor will devour till you are sworn in.

No. But, as someone who booked an appointment for a prescriptions MOT a month in advance, the DMC / Chadwick Road personnel were IMMENSELY helpful and IMMENSELY accommodating in every way. Daniellia (note the spelling) Scott is a very good point d'appui.