Peckhamgatecrasher

Anyone who quotes the King James Bible gets a pint from me too - swoon. When my daughter was three we regularly went to the adventure playground at New Cross which was run by a wonderful Scandinvian woman. She expected my daughter to ride without stabilisers, so she did. She expected my daughter to take hot things out of an oven, so she did. I really had to bite my tongue and curb my maternal instincts, but lo and behold, my daughter was capable of so much more than I could have imagined. Maybe it is a continental thing?

I saw a workman playing on the tyre roundabout - can't wait to have a go!

Noddy Holder.

Coffee and cigarettes are pretty good bowel movers, if that doesn't appeal, try sugar in orange juice.

Kids that don't log out from the EDF on a shared computer. I've been posting all afternoon as someone else. Grr.

I swear it was Trevor Chappell testing out deodorants in Day Lewis Pharmacy.

I so read that as 'cat flaps'.

Maybe a garrote wire that could be raised and lowered parallel to the goal line might stop all that time-wasting off-side nonsense.

"granularise" - what's that then?

Geoff Boycott was cutting up curtain material in Linwood & Searle muttering something about 'line and length'.

I think it's probably more to do with the head not allowing them to leave the premises by themselves but insisting that an adult picks them up.

Shane Warne was in Favourite Fried Chicken on Saturday night.

Heavens to Betsy, I wouldn't want to be responsible for Ken's chest. Has he considered goosefat secured with brown paper under his string vest?

I agree with you about the cycling. I'm very anti bikes on pavements, if you are not old enough to negotiate traffic (and 8/5 is too young) then I think they should stick to walking. A mile is very doable on foot.

Have to disagree Hb. My brother and I took ourselves on the bus to infant and junior school - pretty normal where I grew up. My own child took the bus from Peckham to Bermondsey from Year 5. We did the routes, practised various scenarios and how she should react and taught her how to use public 'phone boxes and approach women for help if needed. In fact her school insisted that pupils from Year 6 walked to school on their own in preparation for when they went to big school.

A pickled egg with a soupcon of caviar would go down a treat right now.

The offside rule is easy - just think of it in these terms: You're in a shoe shop, second in the queue for the till. Behind the shop assistant on the till is a pair of shoes which you have seen and which you must have. The 'opposing' shopper in front of you has seen them also and she is eyeing them with desire. Both of you have forgotten your purses. It would be totally rude to push in front of the first woman if you had no money to pay for the shoes. The shop assistant remains at the till waiting. Your friend is trying on another pair of shoes at the back of the shop and sees your dilemma. She prepares to throw her purse to you. If she does so, you can catch the purse, then walk round the other shopper and buy the shoes. At a pinch she could throw the purse ahead of the other shopper and, *whilst it is in flight* you could nip around the other shopper, catch the purse and buy the shoes. Always remembering that until the purse had *actually been thrown* it would be plain wrong to be forward of the other shopper. There, much clearer!* *stolen from "Home is where the marmite is"

Very kind of you. I'll have a double Melchizedek of Krug please, with a Bombadier chaser.

I have never eaten a mango while pregnant.

Depraved. I put it to you, kidneypunch, that this immoral behaviour is sending our country to the dogs.

I'm not claiming it was a healthy thing to do, I am claiming that 'a low birth weight as a result of smoking throughout pregnancy' is a nonsense, in my experience.

But he's awfully good on using mustard concoctions to counteract rat poison in dogs! Glad to hear all is okay now.

That's a myth - mine was 8 14 and I smoked all the way through.

Can you put in ground? I've split mine and the ones in the ground are thriving, the ones in pots show mildew/lack of water and need a good soaking everyday - almost not worth the effort.

I hate it - it always reminds me of butterbeans which are worse than the evil aubergine.