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On the other hand .... we bought some sandwiches the other day, ate them on the bus, took the wrappers with us off the bus, and couldn't find a litter bin anywhere - had to carry the wrappers around with us for ages. So I could sort of understand why some people might have been tempted just to chuck them in the gutter.

My fat ball holder holds seven fat balls. I refilled it on Saturday, and by Monday morning there were none left. I'm amazed the sparrows manage to get off the ground, they must be full to bursting :))

louisiana Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >> This year I'm once again getting lots of Jersey > Tigers > > http://www.uksafari.com/jerseytigers.htm > xxxxxxxx Ah, maybe this is what mine are :-$

Lot of these about at the moment .... garden tiger moths

jamesb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- where/what is Inside 72?? xxxxxxx Sadly it doesn't exist any more and is now the Adventure Bar :-S

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'll never be composed upon Westminster Bridge > again: > > > http://mascosalvage.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/we > stminster-bridge.jpg xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ??!!??!!??!!??!! :-$:-$:-$

Easties EL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well. It was ruddy well raining a few days back > and the shelter was taped off, due to the seats > still being worked on. Which gave me the flu/cold > (it didn't really, but could of) > > :)-D xxxxxxx Yeh, it would be better if they never bothered trying to improve the station, it's so inconvenient - not to mention a risk to health - while they're doing it :))

Shift key stuck, KidK? :) Moths got in, perhaps?

There's a tram stop opposite East Croydon station I think, and I think trains go from ED to East Croydon? However sometimes coming back you have to change at Tulse Hill, which is a drag.

Where abouts?

giggirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >> I don't want to be too controversial here, but I'm > thinking the dog was asking for it. What do you > think? xxxxxxxx Definitely :))

EDKiwi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Those bottles are so wrong, but so funny. xxxxxxxx I think it's an excellent way to use dead animals :))

Brendan, you have no idea how much that article cheered me up :)) I have posted the link in the Dead Fox thread in the gossip section :))

There was an article in one of the Sunday colour supplements (Observer?) last week about a taxidermist/artist - maybe you could get in touch with her and she could use the foxes in one of her installations :) Would make a change from little feathery birds :) She sells stuffed quail chick heads on sticks for ?300 :)) Honestly ..... And here's another idea ...... Thanks to Brendan who posted the above link in the lounge ....

Yeh, maybe next time if I can identify where the noise is coming from I'll get the hose out and do a bit of late-night watering in that direction :)) Sometimes I think I'm becoming "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells" or Grumpy Old Woman :))

Elodie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > would love to see a music store on LL and also a > boots.... xxxxxxxx But if Boots opened, then not only would Lordship Lane start to resemble every other high street in the country (with Cafe Nero and White Stuff being the thin end of the wedge), but all the other pharmacists in ED would probably close. Personally I think that would detract from the individual feel of the area. And assuming you mean a shop selling vinyl, CDs etc rather than sheet music (there is already a music shop, on the way to the station), I can't imagine it would be able to make a profit when more and more people are buying their music via downloads. I know the Dream Machine was somewhat limited in its stock, but if more people had bought things from there then maybe we would still have a music shop in ED because it would have had money to buy a more extensive range of stuff.

Yes, Merrifields on the way to the station is an excellent cobbler. And the dry cleaners by the post office also mends shoes, albeit not so well as Merrifields. Merrifields also make bespoke shoes.

I like Dungeness, so that would suit me Steve :)) Apart of course from the nuclear power station at the end of the beach. But hey, of course London is more noisy than Dungeness - I'm talking about avoidable noise due to people apparently not realising, or not caring, that their neighbours might be trying to sleep or might like to be quiet in their own house after 11pm on a weeknight. This wasn't conversation at a normal level in the garden, or even slightly above normal, it was shouting and screaming. And I hope I'm not hypocritical - I have disturbed neighbours with late night noise, albeit from inside my house :-$ They let me know, and I apologised and am more careful now.

I'm all for people having fun in their garden. It was past eleven, not the weekend, and they were talking at the tops of their voices and screeching. I think that's anti-social. Maybe I'm just a kill-joy :-$ but I like to be able to sleep on a Summer night without having to close my windows because of avoidable noise.

Yeh it's coming up to the spider season isn't it. Go into the garden and get your hair full of spider web before you've even got there. Yuk.

OK I know some of them aren't serious, but if all the above suggestions came to pass, I think I'd move out :)) Lordship Lane would be like some kind of hideous shopping mall :-S

Well my watch is set by the speaking clock :))

They've stopped now. Thanks, screeching people. Seemed to go on forever. :-S:-$

It's ten past eleven, who are the bloody people screeching and screaming and talking at the tops of their voices in a garden in, apparently, Crystal Palace Road?

How do you know he's from round here?