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Mogs Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Where do you think we should hold our meetings for > serious EDF Therapy? Get down to Northcross Rd. Davina and Daniel will cure you. Space Station Sixty-Five

IbizaBG Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mark & Spencers wins - hands down... every time > !!!! check the rates: Post Office ?1 = ?1.37, M&S - ?1 = ?1.38 Thomas Exchange Global ?1 = ?1.40 not much in it today, but I've seen a bigger difference in the past. Obviously, if you don't go through Victoria Station regularly, M&S & the PO are more convenient.

?25 for the DTI 6300-16 fancy dual tuner box? Without paying for a subscription?

I bought a Thomson Freeview box for ?100 from Comet a couple of weeks ago,and it is great - no subscription to pay (though you can get Top Up TV whatever that is). Has two tuners to record two programmes while watching another, can pause live tv, and an electronic programme guide. Most useful gadget I've ever bought I think.

Keef, get season one on DVD, and watch a couple of episodes...

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thats exactly how i felt afterwards blinder. . Dec > 4th for series 4 on dvd it's cheap on the US Amazon site - will they not deliver here?

'xpress signs' have two or three big red vans near the CPT on Underhill Rd (though their website says they're based at Goose Green trading estate), and there's some 'green energy' supplier with two vans near there as well. These all seem to be parked outside flats or residential addresses - what's that about?

Bizarre that The Wire hardly gets any mention at the Emmy awards. After watching season three of The Wire, my old favourite The Sopranos (final season on E4) seems really dull in comparison.

according to www.moneysavingexpert.com, Thomas Exchange Global near Victoria Station is likely to be the cheapest - we used them a couple of weeks ago, was the best deal I could find.

Just finished Series 2 - feels like a blummin bereavement when the series finishes. I'm getting them all through Amazon DVD rental. Another fave character: Ziggy - Baltimore Docks' very own Tony Montana

Favourite characters: Bubbles and Johnny - the R2D2 and C3P0 of the Baltimore crack scene.

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > finished series 3 last month (best yet) blimey, their quality control is beyond belief

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > *coughs* > > The Wire oh yes - episodes 1-4 of Season 3 will be on my doormat very soon.

"perhaps if ?10 million hadn't been spent on the Homoeopathic hospital refurbishment you may have had a better experience at the clinic." I don't think it would make any difference to my experience whatsoever - mostly healthy males in full employment, who aren't addicted to drugs or alcohol will never be a focus for the NHS - we merely pay for it.

Having seen the programme last night, for the first time I felt I could see the positive side of all that quackery. I found myself comparing a relaxing hour with a kind, caring and well-meaning person who is entirely focused on listening to the patient's problems, with my recent experience at the Dulwich Medical Centre: As usual, I wasted an hour pressing redial at 9am in order to get an appointment for 4.30pm (a full working day down the pan there), then waited twenty minutes in their reception until finally getting approximately four minutes with a doctor who says I need some blood tests, for which I will have to come back the next week (the nurse does that???). So, another morning off work for blood tests; two weeks later (having heard nothing from them) I call them up and ask for the results. "Oh your results are normal - we only contact you if there's something wrong". So after a day and a half off work, and a typically demeaning experience with the NHS I'm back at square one with my mysterious ailment...

This in from Jon Snow: 'As we toil away on the anvil of fact and mix our metaphors with gay abandon, this is the way it's shaking down for tonight's outing of Channel 4 News. (Sorry, I've had a good lunch).'

"Margaret's current pupils are aged between 5 - 90 (yes, you're never too late to learn!)"

If that's the EDGE campaign website, how come the only stuff on there is negative about the new school? EDGE was set up to campaign for the creation of a new school wasn't it? Personally, I would prefer my kids to be educated in a modern school, not in a 'lovely Victorian building' as 'http://www.edge-campaign.co.uk' puts it. Looks like EDGE had been hijacked by a local residents' pressure group, that is less interested in 'East Dulwich Good Education' and more interested in minimising the potential effect of an operational school on their doorsteps. Couldn't you have called your campaign something else?

SimonM Wrote: > Just imagining that "class" rhymes with "arse" > clearly pigeonholes you as petit bourgeoisie you > know! Not in London it doesn't: Trap-Bath Split

haha my gas-fitter neighbour cashed in his ED terrace for a cool half million and ran off to Surrey recently - joining his friends who ran off years ago because they didn't like the way the neighbourhood was going.

another crash at the Barry Rd/Underhill Rd junction yesterday evening - no-one hurt I don't think...

just for the record, I went into Green & Blue and ED Deli for for the first time today, and in both places found the customer service to be unbelievably good - lovely friendly people. Having read recent posts on the two, it made me think this forum must have had a seriously positive impact on at least two local businesses.

controversial article in the Evening Standard re cyclists shooting red lights: Male cyclists who jump red lights 'are safer'"

haha it made me think of an old episode of Dr Who: http://www.remotecontrolmedia.co.uk/images/watcher.jpg

may also have been connected to the fact that I didn't get out much in those particular three years, as they were my son's first three years. The sign saying 'Tapas Bar' they taped to the opaque windows at the Oglander didn't convince me the place had come over all continental and baby-friendly - the Gowlett on the other hand successfully adapted to the modern world, so when we had the energy we went there instead :)).