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Hello usedtobebritish, Dulwich hospital is still just about there offering routine blood tests and community support, no inpatients anymore though. Think it's been gradually wound down as a health service and may well turn into flats. Sounds like a trip to Britain for you may well be in order!

does anyone else think 'gravity' is over rated? i just can't take sandra bullock and clooney seriously as astronauts. they are not intelligent looking people.

is that the famously rude one where they ask you to move tables even on different floors mid-meal?

Hello Supernanny*, Dulwich Hamlet's gym by the big Sainsbury's runs spin classes and you don't have to be a member to take part in them. I did a few a while back and thought they were great, tough but likeable chap running them. Good luck.

sorry to see you go eddie, the warehouse was a cracking feature of ed and helped make it unique. good luck with any future ventures.

Meeting Midnight by Carol Ann Duffy I met Midnight Her eyes were sparkling pavements after frost. She wore a full length, dark-blue raincoat with a hood. She winked. She smoked a small cheroot. I followed her. Her walk was more a shuffle, more a dance. She took the path to the river, down she went. On Midnight?s scent, I heard the twelve cool syllables, her name, chime from the town. When those bells stopped, Midnight paused by the water?s edge. She waited there. I saw a girl in purple on the bridge. It was One o?Clock. Hurry, Midnight said. It?s late, it?s late. I saw them run together. Midnight wept. They kissed full on the lips And then I slept. The next day I bumped into Half-Past Four. He was a bore.

a lot of people who say the beatles are over rated have never properly listened to their back catalogue, understandably perhaps because it's vast. they made a lot of brilliant music that stands the test of time. 'she's leaving' is a paticularly fine track

Agree with Robert Poste's Child (brilliant if enigmatic name), try and sign him up to the forum.

i used to despise oliver when he first appeared on tv years back, it used to drive me up the wall when i saw him reading the 'racing post' as if he had clue about horse racing. now he's dropped the mockney act i appreciate him a bit more. he seems genuinely concerned about child health and his work with ex-offenders in his '15' restaurants deserves serious praise. good on him. edited to check the spelling of 'restaurants'

poor ol' irishman

i know i left it a bit late to buy a turkey but went to sainsbury' s yesterday and was staggered to find the ones on offer were priced at, wait for it, ?70 upwards. not organic or pre-stuffed even. turkeys are hardly prime birds like pheasants or partridges. why so expensive? your thoughts please and merry christmas to you all.

glad you' re all ok ontherun and that you had a good experience at KCH. i work there, not in A&E though, and am quite proud of the hospital. it 's a good place to work. Support the NHS. Say no to privitisation.

Superb shot Twirly! I was on my way to work this morning as usual and i saw a similar scene from the small park behind sainsbury's. A pocket of mist had lingered in the shade behind a hedge and sunbeams were streaming through them, it was an extraordinary sight. I'm not one to be particularly moved by things like this but I actually stopped for a while and stared and didn't think about anything. That image has been with me all day.

RIP Madiba. A fine man. I'd add Mikhail Gorbachev's name to the list of top leaders, instrumental in the break up of the USSR. Also JFK of course.

Light that touch paper..! Was a strange comment though.

'For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.' JFK 10/06/1963

on a serious note, a fascinating family indeed mick mac. JFK averted nuclear exchange during the cuban missile crisis and tomorrow people should well consider how different the world would be today without his influence. Nontheless, he was a notorious womaniser, rumoured also to have favoured his son over his daughter. despite his faults he is one of my personal heroes and i highly recommend robert dallek's autobiography 'kennedy; an unfinished life'. ask not what you can do...

this can only be a good thing, the more affordable homes, aimed at first time buyers, the better. although i resigned myself along time ago to not getting on the property ladder, plans such as this might give people with average incomes an actual chance.

Not. Going. To. Happen.

It was discussed in a church meeting you say..? Well that changes everything. I will alert Hollywood.

i remeber well the giddy excitement generated by the news of ED getting a cinema, call me cynical but i knew full well that there was more chance of me becoming the first man on mars than there was of that happening.

read an article yesterday about a brilliant new art exhibition about british history called 'all that is solid melts into air'. there are some terrific pictures of people who rebelled against what was supposedly expected of them and did they're own thing. the exhibition is by jeremy deller, apparently of east dulwich! nice touch.

kung fu lessons on zenoria street, just round the corner from john allen flowers.

why on earth is another supermarket needed at all? is sainsbury's not quite big enough?? head towards lordship lane and there's the co-op. surely something more interesting/useful could be set up... like a garden centre.

i' ve never really liked circuses, think they 're a bit cheesy. animals certainly do not belong in them. avoid.