Peckhamgatecrasher

Don't worry - they're only grey squirrels.

... and better looking than Tom Parker Bowles

From today's Telegraph re Oval ODI: The International Cricket Council has been handed evidence which suggests that bookmakers were given detailed information on how sections of the Pakistan innings might proceed, with two particular overs coming under suspicion. Cricket chiefs allegedly watched aghast as the targeted overs unfolded as predicted, although it is not thought the eventual result was rigged. It is also alleged that a figure within the team camp made sure the bookmakers? instructions were carried out. I do hope this is not true - surely they wouldn't be that stupid under such intense scrutiny? I was rather glad they had won, they need a little boost at the mo. AOB: if I was Freddie Flintoff, I'd be feeling slightly uncomfortable at the mo - it's been like reading his obituary the last couple of days!

Oh Mick, don't you know all the bluebells are blue?

Oh, I find blue a more fetching colour!

Don't tell me you're a Bolshevik!

S'alright, you can get the Sunday Post most places to record wins over Celtic.

Tesco's in the OKR have heaps of rosemary plants filling in the blank spaces - great for when one buys lamb!

Bugger! I'm sure you're right, Sean. Must stop eating pomegranates - sends a girl to sleep.

The Persian shop is called Persephone's - just along from Wilson's Bike Shop in Peckham High Street. Khan's in Rye Lane (opp. Blenheim Grove) is good for tinned/packet exotic foods, light bulbs, etc.

Don't knock the EonS, Woof, it has the best skeleton, cryptic crossword.

Oh, so you're the bastard who always gets the last one!

Tsk, tsk, kpc, I thought betting on any outcome in cricket was verboten at the moment!

Pistols at dawn - you choose the place. I baggsy Brendan as my second.

Right behind you Mick Mac, my sensibilities were shocked.

As a Maid of Kent, I have to bestow a bane on Yorkshire.

Too kind, gg - if I win the bath salts, I'll share them with you!

Steward's please - I thought I had nicked 23!

"Rangers are surprisingly hard to beat" - not for a good team!

Happy Birthday, Quids. x

Podding homegrown broad beans this evening (a smug joy in itself) - the insides are so soft, velvety and downy, makes me want to design a pod bed.

Surely the whole point of a rack is so the toast doesn't go soggy?

Martin Lewis does a rundown on cheap laptops: laptop deals

I saw what I think are Common Ink Cap fungi in P.Rye Park yesterday. They are blue/grey and start off as chunky ovoid heads emerging from the ground, then become very tall and delicate creatures. Apparently they are edible but have strange effects if taken with alcohol - don't think I'll be trying them anytime soon.

Hungover.