PeckhamRose

Oooh you rebel! I smell gas from there every time I bomb past. I mean, "proceed at a sensible speed".

Come on kids, he just said don't believe the pharma hype. Leave it there. SO what if he is plugging his book. He said he had written a book about it and was up front. And he said he'd like to do a discussion for free if we can get a free room. Move on. But move on quickly so that we can exercise more.

I am also surprised that shops, and specially supermarkets of the size of Sainsbury's, do not do announcements, or training of its staff in basic first aid or common sense... They probably thought it was red wine... I am First Aid trained and I most definitely would have also told the staff to leave the evidence and moved people away.

I agree fully with your post Huguenot, I truly do. It's a well written piece and reflects how I feel. It's just that he did publish stuff that can be verified in other ways, and also there's a lot of politics and pharmaceutical money thrown at drug use, and whilst I was worrying that my grumpy consultant was unhappy I had gone down merely to 5.6, I now feel a bit more relaxed about it.

LostThePlot photos and writes about Classic Cars for a living, I think. A regular-ish on here.

You've made my day. I'm still going to eat more sensibly though!

I'm sure all the 'facts' will be in South London Press. yeah right. I agree, the woman who stepped in sounds amazing.

Likewise. I would not want anyone reading them. Writing them makes me acutely aware of being 'me'. It's hard to explain but having written one for such a long time, I now can't imagine life not doing so. It's like I am uploading my experiences and thoughts to the hard drive, but the memory stays because it was thought about enough to have been explained and written down. Just noted there's a TV show about diary writing on telly next week, but it's about famous people's diaries; I suppose about people who wrote with view to publishing. I write with no such view!

I don't use a battery powered shaver. Just a shaver. Right, other things that make me feel old, realising I like listening to Tony Bennett and Matt Monroe!

I see an endocrinologist at Kings College Hospital. He's a miserable so and so and when I got my cholestorol down from a massive 6.9 to 5.6 in 3 months with diet alone, he grumpily told me it was still too high. He (and, to be fair) my own GPs say that it should be below 5. But that 5 is better than 5.6. I am still continuing to get it lower. I do not want and will not go on statins. I can't afford all the prescriptions I take for when I am ill. Grumpy Endocrinologist indeed gave a heap of statistics about the American pharmaceutical company and how much they make each year from their statin drugs alone. Be that as it may (a phrase I never thought I would use), I would be happy to hear what you have to say, but will not pay for it. Sorry. Maybe I'll get your book out the library though.

Well others have done it. Pahhhh. Bet ya didn't tell THEM off! So where are we then?

Oh PLEASE don't imagine it will speed things up! On the contrary! But yes, the health issues are to be questioned.

My Melancholy Blues - Queen

James

So all this free stuff as you get older or are disabled, you're treated like kids in a classroom and told or expected to remember things and if you miss a date it's "tough sh!t"? How civilised a society!

Blimey! "i?m just worried to get requests for dates" When I was in my teens and 20s I would have LOVED to have got requests for dates. Never had that confidence and never got them. One can always turn them away/down if one gets such requests. But to get them when they're really wanted, never happened! MrPR came along just as I was heading for the atheist nunnery(!)

xray

There will be a scientific explanation and/or genetic code discovered for God. And it won't make any difference.

Ah thanks for that SteveT. That's where my diaries would be of SOME use then! No way will I put any diary entries in here. I finished writing 31 Dec then put the book in the cupboard with all the otherds and then start the new one. Even I never read them. You think I'm gonna let YOU read them? I broke your rules on how they should be written and you don't even write one. Ha! And even writing "Got up had breakfast had weetabix got the hump" etc is an entry! Indeed the discipline now needed (not so when little) to write every day is useful but when I was a teenager it helped me try to understand what I was going rhrough. I never did though. But I wrote everything down. Ooooh yes. All those boys are in there... All those who spurned me, all those boyfriends of later years who treated me bad. All in there. Names and everything. But then everything bad and stupid I did is in there too. Potash it is then SteveT!

Would be great if - when reinstated - the lights have a right turn filter light to go up Peckham Rye!

"The point of writing a diary is to record things as they happen" Oh christ I did not realise there were rules! I broke those day one. I record my thoughts and feelings and some days if little happens the page is filled with thoughts. When something big happens I often just write a sentence to say what happened as my memory will suffice. "to try to use a page just because it is there, is not interesting unless something did happen that was worth recording." According to who?! "I have never kept one, many that I have seen record only the details of that persons health," So what? "When a Diary is started there must be thought as to who would want to read it, if you have a certain person in mind then perhaps you might write it as that person would be interested in the content." I was a small child when I started so there was no thought as to who would read it. (where do you get all this stuff from computedshorty?!) I have NEVER written a single day's entry with thoughts that someone might read it. Every day is written honestly and openly to how I feel. I have no descendents either, and I am sure if I did they'd be the last folk I'd want to read them!

No, because the ashes would be carbon which is no use to flowers. I think. In my Will they're going to a friend of mine who promises never to split them up. I like the idea of them going into a secure fire proof time capsule. After I'd dead natch!

They'll be able to outline scars. So people who have had plastic surgery will be worried.

Check the Westminster Council Website. Remember, Camden's will have different rules, and Camden covers the north east section of Oxford Street.

Me. Today started my 41st. Started writing a diary every day when I was little. Reason: I was very sick as a kid and wanted to leave a record of my life in case I did not survive. Dramatic, emotional, but true. So thanks VERY much NHS but what the flip do I do with forty A5 size page a day diaries?!