Peckhamgatecrasher

This sounds fun - good luck with your venture. If you need an old crone, I'll be up for it.

That is sad, he was a lovely chap.

You might find some inspiration here shedblog

Insurance depends on how big your car engine is, how old you are and how many years' no claims bonus you have, so it's a little hard to say what you should pay without further details. You need to factor in Road Tax, MOT, Breakdown Service, petrol, oil, annual service plus possibly a six month oil change depending on age of car, and an emergency fund to replace parts (eg, I've just had to replace my exhaust). Also if you will be driving in central London, there's the dreaded Congestion Charge. Don't buy a car approaching 80,000 miles, that's when everything starts to go. Either buy well before or well after when major things would already have been replaced.

Throwing a ball into improbably high baskets. Not as good as netball.

I blame it on all the pasta she eats.

I blame his mum for letting him cycle off at seven.

Perhaps try porridge for brekky.

I think you'll find Dazie's pretty good in the WC.

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.