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TillieTrotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- some of us would like to grow old slightly less graciously. xxxxxx Hear hear! Not that being child-like has no grace :) Children are energetic and spontaneous, many of us could do with a bit more of those qualities rather than being uptight and "adult" and only undertaking activities we perceive as "suited to our age" :) :)-D

mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > All your examples Dj/sue are quite neatly > encapsulated by offline xxxx Just being pedantic (moi?) but what you actually said was "only originally intended for forumites to take a discussion off line." I don't think PMing somebody to ask if you can go and see an item for sale, for example, or PMing somebody with a query, is exactly taking a discussion off line, but hey as you say, who cares. Unfortunately I think there are likely to be a few frustrated forumites who haven't seen this thread and who can't understand why their/people they are trying to contact's mailboxes are full. Particularly those who knew their mailboxes were nowhere near full a couple of days ago :))

Surely PMs are also for people buying, selling and offering things who don't want to put their personal details online?

StraferJack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Given that when you go into the messages section > it tells you how many you have used and how many > you have available should we not take > responsibility ourselves? xxxxxx Yes. I always keep an eye on how much space I have left. I knew I had space left. Which was why I was somewhat surprised to find I suddenly had none, and even when I deleted loads still had none. ETA: I keep a lot of old PMs for future reference. I see I will now have to copy and paste them somewhere instead. But I'm really really busy at the moment and having to make time to sort them all out with no prior warning is an absolute pain. Please don't take this as meaning I don't really appreciate the forum and the work you do, admin, as I have said oft-times in the past :) But I do feel some warning about this would have been helpful, as at present I can only contact and be contacted by people I know personally off the forum who exchange emails off the forum.

I know someone who used to live in ED who emailed to all his friends saying he was looking to marry and settle down and did they know anyone who might be compatible and could they introduce him. He got one of the email addresses wrong and it went to somebody completely else living abroad (can't remember where now). She emailed him back. Long story short, they corresponded, met, lived together, got married, had a child and now teach English in China :)) This is completely true :)

Sorry that was meant to be a private message :-$ Done that twice today :-$

Crikey ianr, you're on the ball :) I didn't know that! In case you're wondering (which you probably weren't), I included the other two Watersons because of their (very different but both brilliant) songwriting, not because of their singing ......

That's a bit poor that nobody was told - couldn't we have had a thread on the forum somewhere, maybe a sticky for a while, if you didn't want to email us all, admin?

Has admin reduced the amount of permitted storage in an attempt to speed up the forum? If so, sadly it doesn't seem to have worked - slower than ever tonight :-S

JamesG Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BTW a sunday market may be a bad idea however it > is not a non-indigenous conspiracy xxxxxx :))

I tried to send a PM and got a message that my storage was 100% full. So I spent about ten minutes deleting stuff, and it's still telling me my storage is 100% full! Is something wrong with the system?

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Isn't a pub crawl a bit childish? xxxxx Isn't that a bit judgmental?

fredricketts Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Most of the indigenous people, who live in Dulwich > are of C of E religion, xxxxxx WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Prince Albert, MP? OK the name probably makes it worth a visit, but still .....

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Got it.. > > "Ox heart, bubble & squeak - 7.50" > > That's got to be at least 30p worth of core > ingredients. xxxxxxx Yeh I nearly ordered that instead of what I had, thank God I didn't, it was more expensive and I'd still have been pissed off at the lack of crispiness :))

Ridgley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue wrote > --------------- > Nick Cave > Leonard Cohen xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > You don?t have to pay ?450.00 to take a blood test > to know, when you are going to die just listen to > Leonard Cohen music that will do it for free. xxxxxxx Well I've been listening to Leonard Cohen since his first album, and I still seem to be here :))

jollybaby Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think you'll find that the rye cafe is guilty of > this culinary crime too. Should I present them > the recipe too? xxxxxx Well if they're calling it bubble and squeak and it isn't, up to you :) If you don't care, then not. I never go to the Rye Cafe.

Ridgley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As a child I wanted a black doll something that > related to me, after given my mum earache she took > me to the toy shop to buy one there were not many > black dolls growing up in the 70s there were a few > Golliywogs still around. But I did not like them > from a point of view as a child when you buy a > doll you want to comb there hair and dress them up > I could not do this with Golii doll as it was a > rag doll that is the way I saw it. xxxxx My sister in the fifties had a black walkie-talkie doll, which my parents bought from a toyshop in Streatham. I still find it quite strange that she did as there were not many black people in London at that time, plus going by some comments they made my parents (white) were quite racist :-$ ETA: Actually I think it just walked, not talked. It might have cried when you tipped it up :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

Oh OK, sorry if I missed your point. I know that the swastika originally represented something completely different before it was appropriated by the Nazis, and I have seen swastikas painted on walls in India which have nothing to do with Nazism, for example alongside pictures of Ganesh. But I'm not sure that a Golliwog is quite the same thing. Anyway, as you were, because I'm not quite sure what your point is so I'm clearly having one of my many brain-dead moments.

murphy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue, do you think it's a good idea to give the > highy qualified chef at Franklins a copy of > Jamie's Sizzlin Bubble & Squeak? > > You might find the outcome is "The Goose is > Stuffed" appearing on a Franklins menu rather > sharpish :)) xxxxxx Don't care how qualified he is, he clearly doesn't know how bubble should be cooked. Had his version been nice to eat, even though not what I was expecting, that would have been different, but it wasn't. I couldn't even eat it all, it was rubbish. It was very prettily piled up on the plate with a sprig of baby tomatoes on top of it, however. Don't really care what he thinks of me for suggesting he reads a Nigel Slater recipe (not Jamie!) either. Stuffed Goose - :)) - not the first time that joke has been made, and probably won't be the last :))

Well I'm not Jewish, nor am I a member of one of the other minority ethnic (and other) groups pursued by the Nazis, and I would be extremely horrified/offended if somebody was displaying swastikas in ED!

They did say they had done it in an oven - but there was no sign of any butter or oil, and no sign of any crispiness on any side whatsoever. Just a mound of mash. Not even slight browning of the mash. Apart from small brown bits inside the mash, which I assume were bits of old roast potatoes, however even those bits weren't crispy. Maybe it was a microwave oven :)) To be fair, they did offer to give me something else, but that wasn't the point really, anyway I was starving! Anyway, I shall be taking them round the recipes and see what the outcome is .....

ffs we're talking about birds :))

It has been very slow today, but not nearly as slow as it has sometimes been in the past. I agree - it's one of the slowest sites I regularly use, too.