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Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That bit of roof in the bottom left corner is > enough to make me lose sleep. Well spotted!

I had a very unmemorable meal in Brasserie Zedel earlier this year, but admittedly it was the set lunch. Maybe their other stuff is better. Good service and nice surroundings though.

Scotland has a possible verdict of "Not proven". Why doesn't England?

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Good thing we're not all deciding on the Nobel prize winners, eh? :)

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I never answer my landline any more. > > > > The answering machine kicks in and if it's a > bona > > fide call the caller starts speaking and I can > > hear who it is and pick it up. > > That's a good way of confirming to the caller your > name and number.. > I don't have either my name nor number on the message, so I don't see how it could do that. In any case they generally ring off as soon as the answering machine cuts in. They certainly never leave a message. Anyway, obviously they know the number, because they have just dialled it :))

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > DulwichFox Wrote: > > -------------------------------------------- > > > > > > I took bottles of Peroni. ?1.10p from Tesco. > > Why > > > go to HB&B and pay ?3.50+ for a small bottle > of > > > beer. > > > > > > Because it's a lot nicer? > > Not if you prefer Peroni.. > Well, that's true. Each to their own. The other reason for buying at HBB of course would be that it's a small local independent shop with a great range of ales and craft beers, run by charming people, rather than a massive bloody great chain, But as I also buy lager from supermarkets on occasion, I suppose I am being hypocritical there. They must have been very tiny bottles for ?1.10, though, no wonder you ran out :))

Mine is wooden floorboards painted with white Johnston's Trade Flortred. It matches the floor in the rest of the house. I know people say you shouldn't have floorboards in a bathroom, but I have a bath mat and there haven't been any problems so far. Obviously I mop up any huge spills eg after grandkids' bathtime :))

Franklins do a great range of brunch dishes, plus their all day bar food like Welsh rarebit and Scotch woodcock. Very good value for money.

It seems like a very great deal of money was available to the defence. Including a large reward offered for evidence? I don't know all the details, but from what I have read I think a very dangerous precedent seems to have been set in allowing a victim's previous sexual activity to have a bearing on a case of alleged rape. I thought the law had been changed to prevent this? I hope that there were very good legal reasons for it in this case, because on the face of it it seems that someone who can afford it has paid shedloads of money to get himself off the hook. I hope I'm wrong and that the victim was not telling the truth, but I know what my gut feeling is at the moment. I haven't read the rest of this thread though. ETA:. Ooops just read a bit of it so apologies for jumping in if all this has already been discussed :(. I'll read the rest later.

Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I met my love, by the gas works wall... Were you singing in there, or are you referring to the after effects of the curry? :))

DulwichFox Wrote: -------------------------------------------- > > I took bottles of Peroni. ?1.10p from Tesco. Why > go to HB&B and pay ?3.50+ for a small bottle of > beer. Because it's a lot nicer?

I never answer my landline any more. The answering machine kicks in and if it's a bona fide call the caller starts speaking and I can hear who it is and pick it up.

Dogkennelhillbilly Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How good is this place? Is it two exclamation > marks good or just one??? Four or five, according to the OP!!!!!!!!!!

BrandNewGuy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Indeed. Lots of bookshops bemoan the fact that, > for many people, they're a three-dimensional > browsing space for Amazon. You'd have to be quite strong-willed if it was books, though, at least I would. Delayed gratification is hard if you have the actual book there in front of you and it isn't exorbitantly expensive.

:)) Won't be able to come again till December. We have a gig on the second Thursday of the month, apart from July, August and December.

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ah, I'd have to respectfully disagree there Sue - > my only gripe with Bob getting the prize is that > Laughing Len hasn't too many years left and they > probably won't now give it to another songwriter > for a decade or more. > > Now the courtroom is quiet, but who will confess. > Is it true you betrayed us? The answer is Yes. > Then read me the list of the crimes that are > mine, > I will ask for the mercy that you love to > decline. > And all the ladies go moist, and the judge has no > choice, > a singer must die for the lie in his voice. > And I thank you, I thank you for doing your duty, > you keepers of truth, you guardians of beauty. > Your vision is right, my vision is wrong, > I'm sorry for smudging the air with my song. Yeh, fair enough, I think I was thinking more of his actual poetry rather than song lyrics. I was bought a book of it one Christmas. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it.

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Cover up the fireworks prior to lighting them > > > > When I was a kid, someone else's rocket landed > in > > the firework box and we had an unexpectedly > brief > > (but splendid) display :) > > That was probably a real danger (setting off the > whole box near to people) > Indeed. Particularly because all the fireworks were in a large cardboard box. It was in a neighbour's garden and everybody had brought fireworks to contribute, so there were quite a lot of them in said box. And unfortunately the rocket landed rather near the beginning of them being set off .... (set off as planned, I mean of course) Another year, a rocket fell out of the sky and landed on my sister's head. Luckily she was wearing a woolly hat :)) I think it got a bit singed, can't really remember whether the rocket was still burning ....... But it was always great every year going to the local shops which sold fireworks and spending ages choosing them.

Blind Willie McTell Just blew me away when I first heard it, on a bootleg. Still gives me goosebumps. ETA: Ha ha. Just looked at the beginning of this thread, and it seems to have been my fave Dylan song in 2010 as well :))

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- It's perfectly > possible to describe Dylan as a poet performing > the poems he's written down, he just happens to > add a bitching guitar track to the performance. It's interesting, because I think Dylan's lyrics work in their own right without the music, whereas Leonard Cohen's "poetry" is in my opinion terrible, though I like many of his songs because the music and the performance add so much to the lyrics.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Run out of beer... Could not be bothered to go > out for more.. > Crikey, Hop Burns and Black is just a few doors away, isn't it?!

Bony Fido Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I often use an app called QuickMark to scan > barcodes on goods that interest me while going > around clothes shops etc. > The app uses the phone's camera to scan the tags - > seems to be a legitimate use of the camera's phone > and likely to benefit the shop in the long run, > assuming I subsequently purchase an item that I've > previously scanned. > > Thus a blanket ban on use of cameras in store > could be counter productive. Presumably a bit of > discretion when actually photographing/filming > would be best i.e. make sure staff are not > watching... But surely most (or at least many) would be photographing items in stores and/or their barcodes in order to then go off and try to get said item cheaper online or in another shop?

So what was the verdict? Any good?

Cover up the fireworks prior to lighting them When I was a kid, someone else's rocket landed in the firework box and we had an unexpectedly brief (but splendid) display :)

His lyrics are brilliant, and as songs they are even more brilliant. In my opinion the prize is well deserved. Great choice. ETA: And he has written a book, though not a "literature" one. He has written the first volume of his autobiography. Chronicles.