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Great thread :)):)):)) :)-D

candj Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > John Lewis sells them in packs of 6 blocks. They > are kind of expensive for what they are. If the > lumber yard has cedar you could always have them > cut you some blocks - or line your whole wardrobe > with it! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx You have to sand them down every so often to keep the smell fresh - they are a bit expensive for what they are, but you can get them on hooks to hang on a rail, they are non-chemical and smell a whole lot better than camphor. I have awful memories of staying in a room in Rangoon which was full of mothballs for some reason - every night I put them in the corridor, and every day someone put them back in the room - and yes I know it's not very PC to visit Burma, but I didn't know that at the time .... :-$

Sounds great but not quite what I had in mind :)) But go for it :)) :)-D

Well at this rate, sounds like you'll be playing by yourself :))

Surely somebody on the forum must be a folkie who likes a sing??! Not one??? :-S

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