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What's the difference between "pretend" mosaic and real mosaic? Looks real to me - I like it :)

I wasn't going to post this till we'd found somewhere suitable to have one (have an idea but haven't asked!), but hey, all a bit chicken and egg if nobody would be interested anyway, so ..... The Goose evenings have been going great, every one a sellout so far, but Nyge and I would really love to do something (as well as, not instead of) where people can come and sing rather than sit and watch others sing. Not open mic singer songwriter stuff, there's already places in ED for that, we're thinking more unaccompanied traditional stuff. Bit of a niche thing maybe, but hey, there must be more people than us who'd be up for happy time in a pub having a singaround over a pint or two :) Maybe once a month? And/or (not the same night) a folk session with instruments? (Memo to self, must dust off my melodeon and get to grips with the John Kirkpatrick DVD tutor :)) ) If you're interested - and/or if you can suggest a suitable venue - please could you PM me? :)-D

Galliman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Then again I liked Le Chandelier > too, so what do I know! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Liked"? Has it closed? I once went to the Blue Mountain for lunch as a birthday treat, when I worked locally. I had to leave before the food came, because I wouldn't have had time to eat it :-S Had to get a salami and sundried tomato baguette from Le Petit Chou instead, also a treat but rather less of one as I used to get those quite often :)) and eating at my desk wasn't quite the same .....

OMG whilst sitting outside the Palmerston last night I noticed their sign for the first time ..... Is it supposed to be ironic in some way? Is it intended to relate to the style of the shoes? AAAARRRGGGGHHH !!!!! I never thought I'd wish for that "art" shop to come back ..... :-S

Spangles30 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Look at the places in Brighton which > are 'organic' etc and far more 'down to earth' > with character. Sorry too tired to expand upon > what I mean. xxxxxxxxxxxxxx The "organic" blah blah Infinity Foods shop in Brighton (separate company from the bulk buying one, I recently discovered) is mega expensive. I went in there a couple of weeks ago. Virtually everything they had I could get cheaper in somewhere like SMBS - which I had always thought was quite pricy :)

In my experience the service has been very slow ever since it opened. I used to still go, because it used to have a nice atmosphere with all the little quirky rooms. Now it's opened out into one big room downstairs, it just isn't the same. Shame. Edit: PS I'm the twins' aunt :))

OMG I've never had them before, and I use cedarwood blocks (which are supposed to be a moth deterrent) in my wardrobe, but the other day one flew out of a hamper where I'd stored some jumpers. Is this the start of an invasion ?????? :-S

Davina - mmmmm - didn't see any Birkenstocks or baseball boots on the website :)):)):)) Don't think I'm their target customer, then :))

That takes me back, when I was a kid (in Streatham) there was a guy who used to come to the house selling little tins of polish and stuff. But then we also had paraffin deliveries (of both pink and blue paraffin :)), a baker with a wicker basket to carry bread and cakes from his van to the house, a milkman delivering proper sour-tasting yoghurt in glass pots, a vegetable man and - YES! - a rag and bone man ringing his bell, with a horse and cart. My aunt used to rush out with a shovel to get the horse manure for her roses. AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHH :)) History, innit :))

M&S clothes have been at least a size bigger than everyone else's for as long as I can remember ( a long, long time :)) ) I've always thought it's to make you think you're a size 10 when actually you're nearer a size 14 :)):)):)) and you're so pleased you can fit into a 10 you buy whatever it is :)):)):))

I do like the stuff at Sugar, but can't afford to buy much of it :)

At least she wasn't selling tea towels. I'm gobsmacked that someone is hawking a book (just one book!) from door to door. Even more gobsmacked that people are buying it! Good luck to her :))

Some of us have taken to replacing the first letter of "White Stuff" with another (clue - it's a few places before the "W" in the alphabet). :))

First Direct are brilliant in just about every respect (no I don't work for them!) They're efficient, reliable, helpful and friendly, and if they need to call you back they always do, when they said they would. Don't know whether their credit card is currently competitive though if you need a low interest rate ..... I go from card to card, have had a FD card in the past but not at the moment ....

Well that certainly stopped all discussion on this thread :)):)):))

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's so part of LL :)

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Just in case any readers of this section don't look at the "What's On" section, tickets for these two gigs are now on sale. Please see the "What's on" thread for further details. Admin - sorry I know this shouldn't be in the gossip section, but tickets for these gigs will sell out very quickly, so I need to make sure everyone knows they are on sale now. :-$

When I voted I made the point that they shouldn't have anything which blocked visibility. Quite apart from other issues. I suggested large plants rather than a tree. A palm tree is really going to blend well with the surroundings, isn't it. Not. Oh well, at least we aren't getting some council person's idea of good art. Or a twee signpost (whose idea was that ffs). :-S

Please tell me you're joking :-S

Well, I have every sympathy with somebody being unhappy about the noise, but there's two points. First, the poster in the Palmerston window should have stated the 9pm closing time, then we would have got to the Herne earlier. The closing time was only on the leaflets - which we hadn't seen. Second, we were told we could get beer at the bar and bring it into the garden - so, I'm not too sure what the difference is between that and buying it from a tent in the garden in terms of noise?

Well we went down there last night about quarter to ten - to find the beer tent all closed up :'( Told because the garden closed at eleven, the beer tent had closed at nine !?!??!?! Not happy. Poster outside Palmerston just said dates, nothing about closing at nine ... Went to CPT to drown sorrows in a pint of Broadside ... Broadside was off ... Not a great Friday night :'( But hey, Dulwich Ukelele Orchestra were great at the Plough tonight :)-D

I'd been with AOL for years with no problems - until I signed up for another eighteen months because of their "free" laptop offer (obviously it's not really free, but hey, at least I got a laptop and can sit on my sofa in comfort in the evenings while perusing websites :))). I am supposed to be paying less than I was before for a faster service - I haven't noticed any difference in the speed, and like you I have started getting connection problems which I never had before. I have also had major problems with AOL's address book - for the massive inconvenience and time this caused me, they kindly refunded me a fiver :)):)):)) I had to also sign up to their phone deal in order to get the laptop. They told me it was "cheaper than BT" (not that I was with BT for calls anyway). A matter of weeks later, I had an email from AOL saying "Look! Great! Now we're making weekend calls free!" Hidden down the bottom was a paragraph saying they were massively increasing the cost of their weekday calls .... I keep meaning to complain, but life seems shorter and shorter these days :) I've just started using my mobile for calls instead .....

georgia Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's a great photo! I spotted our crowd.(Taken > from a flat window over the road Sue!) xxxxxx That's not nearly as much fun :)):)):))

Crikey, where was this taken from, up a tree?? :)) Or is she very very very tall? :))