Peckhamgatecrasher

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Is the tennis ball in a sock to hit your partner with for getting you into this sorry mess?

I grudgingly have to admit that it was good to have KP in the side. But I'm still not in favour of flying back mid-tour.

Have a 'John Terry' you're welcome too.* *Hasten to point out I have a teenager in the house, nothing to do with me, oh no no.

Oh for goodness' sake, Mick Mac, next you'll be saying Seven Dials doesn't have seven clocks!

Just don't visit Pratt's Bottom, Sean, you will be utterly disappointed.

I meant 'politically correct' in an ironic, political way; not in the perjorative sense it's generally used!

Mockney, I'm with you re elected upper house. Call me naive, but I always hope that noblesse oblige will out.

Actually, Brendan, as someone who grew up with Sinn Feinn/IRA being pretty synonymous, it is hard to stop using them as interchangeable words. Not politically correct, of course, but fairly understandable.

And a page on fripperies is joyous? Stewards please.

Southwark Council have a dog warden whom it may be worth contacting.

I checked on him yesterday - he was breathing so I left him! Think he may be the same chap I saw yesterday afternoon lying on his bag in Gowlett Road. He's quite young (mid 20s), very aggressive and doesn't want any help. Not a lot one can do in that situation.

And Oxford Circus isn't round ...

Have I gone mad? Did I imagine it? Are we being censored for digression in the lounge?

Just don't go to the loo if you work there.

I have a dilemma, *Bob* - are my 1930s square (with scalloped corner) tea plates naff?

siobhan, the best thing to do when a dog approaches you is to stand still and keep quiet. They can be excited by running and shrieks - some dogs do have a chase instinct, so though it is counter-intuitive, try and keep calm. Also, don't look at an aggressive dog straight in the eyes as that can be interpreted as a challenge. But please bear in mind that most dogs are just inquisitive (or greedy) and won't do you or your children any harm.

My dog has worked out that toddlers wave about food and frequently drop it from prams. He is very keen around prams but just for the potential goodies, not the children!

Hush, ruffers, Mr Terry is a bit of an idol in this household at the mo. Monday evening my daughter played at Stamford bridge in the Community Challenge Cup. Her friend had an injury so daughter accompanied her to medical room. John Terry popped in to see if she was ok and chatted to the girls. Rather impressive considering Chelsea's victory the day before - bet he was nursing a hangover.

Giggirl, of course farmers need to survive, just saying it's a shame that the beautiful patchwork countryside of my youth has gone. What was once grown occasionally for cattlefeed and rotation of soil is now predominant. I know I'm old Brendan, but Water Raleigh ain't in living memory. An estimated 600,000 hectares of land are covered in the bobbing yellow flower heads, which were practically unknown in Britain 30 years ago. Production last year grew by 17 per cent and is predicted to top two million tonnes next year by the Department for Rural Affairs. For farmers it turns a healthy profit with unlimited demand for the seed as a biofuel - much of the UK's production goes to Germany to make biodiesel - and to make "extra virgin rapeseed oil", an alternative to olive oil. Independent 2007 Did you know that the blue dye woad comes from yellow flowers?

Because it's not native, and as it can be harvested at least three times a year, it's v.v. attractive cash cow to farmers so basically it's changed the face of the English countryside.

Feel depressed, Brum, rape is the curse of the modern countryside.

No, it's Goose Green, Hugenot, not Rye.

Don't worry chaps, I'm sure Cameron will reinstate hunting animals.

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