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EvilLaugh Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's a big pub and unless it's full it feels like > drinking in a morgue. > >> xxxxx Hey come down to Hoopers on Friday night 30th Jan, we've got the wonderful Wizz Jones and Simeon Jones, it'll be brilliant, definitely not morgue-like!! :)

Musicals - Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music - still know all the words .... Kenneth McKellar (my dad was Scottish) Harry Belafonte Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley - can't remember who did it, but it had a purple label :)) Sparky and his Magic Piano (on 78s :)) )

Where did you hear that joey2? And do you know when it will be? Sooner the better as far as I am concerned!

So does that mean it will definitely be coming a Co-op then? Hurrah! :)-D

It's a very very small one, isn't it?

But what was the actual meal like? If they'd run out of burgers, at least that implies they didn't have a freezer full of them :)

Co-op is brilliant. At least, there's a great one in Oxford. Ethical, good value, good choice, fair trade wines, etc.. Though I've never been quite sure what that Co-op pharmacy in LL is all about .... strange place.

I would be happy if it became a Co-op :) Can't see it being a Lidl, there is one in Peckham, anyway.

This is from AOL news - anyone know what is happening to the Lordship Lane branch? The Co-op has been given the green light for its takeover of rival Somerfield after reaching an agreement with competition authorities to sell off more than 130 stores. The move comes after the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said it would not refer the takeover to the Competition Commission. Stores in areas across the country are to be sold as part of the acquisition, which is now set to go ahead at the beginning of March. Co-op said it had found buyers for a total of 90 stores, including 24 outlets that were sold to upfront buyers including Lidl, Spar and Morrisons, as part of the OFT agreement. It said it had entered into purchase agreements with major retailers for the other stores and has so far sold 13 to Waitrose, seven to Tesco, six to Spar and six to Musgraves. As previously announced, a further 34 stores are to be sold to Morrisons. A spokesman for the group said: "There is considerable interest in the stores that the OFT has required us to sell." But he added that more stores could go in the merger. "Inevitably there would be some stores we needed to sell because the OFT required us to and others we would need to sell because they did not fit our model," he said. Co-op and the OFT had indicated 133 areas where competition concerns could arise, including Aberystwyth in Wales, Whitby in North Yorkshire and Bath Road in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. The OFT said there would be no time limit on the sale of the remaining stores.

Sounds like a great idea to me, go for it, the Goose will be there :)-D Beer, music and the Sunday papers, yay!

Thought about that one, but decided it didn't quite convey the sense of extreme nausea I felt when thinking of a parsnip topping on a pizza :))

ClareC Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My mum sent me a cheque......... still waiting a > week later!!! Always seems to be the more > interesting looking mail that gets "lost" xxxx Why, did she write "cheque enclosed" on the outside in large letters to make it more interesting looking? :) If I'm sending a cheque I always make sure it isn't visible from outside, eg enclose it in plain paper if the envelope is thin ......

danrees Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > Also I am not sure about their pizza toppings? > Would much prefer something a bit less odd - i.e. > parsnip on a pizza anybody? xxxxx Where's the throwing-up smiley?

Aw shucks :-$

So have we saved the Dream Machine? Please say yes :)

If they won't leave information which you can look at in your own time and make your own comparisons with your existing and/or other providers (which they never do) don't touch them with a bargepole :-S

How did it go? Sorry we couldn't be there - in Oxford.

I think they have four rooms. The single room is ?40 plus ?4.40 (I think) for breakfast. We only looked at the single room as that was what we were booking, and it was absolutely fine and seemed good value for London. BUT We were disappointed on Saturday night, went there just after 11pm to check it out by actually having a drink there (and to see what beers they had), assuming it would be open to midnight, and it was already closed with the chairs stacked up on the tables. Ended up at the CPT - again .....

Blimey, I just popped into the Upland Tavern to confirm the room booking for Alasdair Roberts, and couldn't believe how much it has changed. It always seemed to totally lack atmosphere - not a place I would want to stay in for any length of time - and now it looks really cosy and inviting. Didn't notice what beer they had, but may well find myself pulled in this direction in future instead of towards the CPT (I live halfway between the two, hooray!) :)-D

elizlondon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The way I tend to favour to get into the West End > is by catching the 185 to Oval tube station for > the Northern line (to Leicester Sq or Goodge St or > what-have-you with a quick change across the > platform at Kennington), or continue on the bus > for Vauxhall tube station for the Victoria line > (to get to Oxford Circus). > xxxxxx The advantage of the 176 was that although it might have been a longer journey, you didn't have to change, just got on and looked out of the window or read the paper until you got off. The new arrangements could be improved if the driver told you when you had reached the end of the journey :-S I was on a 176 recently, it reached St Giles Circus but I had no idea that was the end of its route - I thought it had been diverted due to a demo in Trafalgar Square, as there seemed to be a lot of police vans and people about on the embankment.and there were diversion signs up. It stopped there for ages but there was a wheelchair getting off and the ramp going up and down, with appropriate announcements over the loudspeaker (wheelchair ramp up, etc) and we thought it was due to that, as the engine was still running. After about ten minutes the bus moved forward about - oh, a metre - and turned all the lights and engine off. There were fifteen or so people on the upper deck, including us, all of whom had patiently sat there throughout the wheelchair manoeuvring, with no idea that the bus was actually going no further. The driver claimed he'd told us - amazing then that not one of the people on the upper deck had heard him. Had to have a nice sit down in Foyle's Jazz Cafe to recover :))

Whoops I Did It Again - Richard Thompson (great version!)

Alone Again Or - Love

Somebody has kindly allowed their small (judging by the size of the turd heap components) dog to crap in the middle of my path by my gate. Thanks. I always look forward to cleaning dogshit from the soles of my shoes (and washing down the path in the dark and fog). :-S

The Goose will stump up a minimum of a tenner a month if that's any help? How do we get this month's dosh to you? Edited - sorry hadn't read the post properly :-$

Several of the shops on North Cross Road have been converted to residential use - there used to be a newsagent and a Greek grocer's there in the nineties - possibly others which I can't remember.