PeckhamRose

I'll agree with that. But "general" comment on "general" motorcycle ownership is bollox. Generally most car drivers and most bikers are good. Or there'd be MANY more crashed all the time. Like most folks you only notice the idiots. Idiots are very good at getting noticed.

Ignore him. He's jealous except for the bit that tires of the badly trained ricerocketers who give the rest of us a bad name.

Woman's Hour section half an hour after the start Good discussion about universal benefits. Will be on iPlayer.

Annndddd onwards. Found it! Some useful links for Motorcyclists and Scooterists, called in the trade PTW Powered Two Wheelers, which is daft since some Piaggios make bikes with two wheels up front and they look DAFT!

Virago 535 and Suzuki 125 for rahnd tahn since it takes up less space in a bike park. I'll look up my thread I posted from when Boris allowed us to ride in TfL bus lanes. It may be of help. Oh - and yes I ain't a guy.

Just seen Pat Condell's latest video. I may have posted him on here before. But he has thought it through and he is very funny too. http://www.patcondell.net/index.html

It's lovely, and your local is The Clockhouse, and the park is two streets away. Come on over.

Once tried to pay garage rents at One Stop Shop in Peckham Library. They don't accept it. Traipsed up to Bournemouth Road. Not a long way to pay it, but One Stop Shop it is Not, if you can't pay garage rents!

I'm fifty.

So envious you saw Muse at O2 last night. I LOVE Muse but can't afford the sorts of prices venues charge these days and I don't/won't have a credit card to book over the phone and pay the sorts of booking fees which were the prices I was paying to see whole gigs at Hammersmith Odeon in the 80s and 90s!! So what rules are there? No smoking or taking photos obviously, but do they take your mobiles away from you at the door? Are you allowed to drink? Are you allowed to take your inhaler in with you? Are you allowed to enjoy yourself?

I don't often, I have so little to offer. Altogether now....

the vibrancy of Peckham...

I have been self employed for may many years and can offer the following advice and observations. In that time I found myself for about 1 year working on PAYE in an office part time as well as being self employed for all my other business. The Government do NOT want people to be self employed because they can't be sure of getting the money. I once had a contract to work in an office and the tax people came and immediately put me on PAYE. I walked out the door with them never to return because I did not want to be on PAYE but I lost about a month's (self employed) wages because that is how much the Inland Revenue decided I should have been paying in the time I was there, in taxes. The Pros: you are responsible for yourself, you can have a lay in, and if you work from home you can work all night if you want depending on your business! The Cons: you are responsible for yourself, you may have a lay in because there's no work! You can not claim any benefits except child benefit. I have probably lost a lot as a result (I earn very little) but I am 'appy. All depends on what you're doing. But I would always recommend trying, because I absolutely hate the PAYE system.

It would be remiss of me not to inform you all of what the vaccination opposition people are saying: and Ten Things You're Not Supposed to Know About the Swine Flu vaccination. I'm still going to have it.

This one? Oh, right yeah thanks!

But you may get it and not notice you got it, and pass it on to other vulnerable people like me. So, thanks!

Cameron wants to get rid of long term benefits for genuinely sick people, and transfer the decision as to their benefits to untrained paper pushers. To help him, GBrown has made a start.

Oi! Don't make useless comments like that till you know what happened. It may have been someone stepping out into the road on their mobile without warning to anyone. You Don't Know. Standard of pedestrians need a lot of thought too. Sandperson Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Not surpising with the standard of driving around. > I counted five cars going over a zebra crossing > this morning while some poor bloke waited > patiently for someone to let him cross. That and > the red/maber light jumpers and you've got a > recipe for disaster.

I 2nd or 3rd the fresh fish and chips. And oysters were in abundance in - I think - Gisborne. I had my first oyster there and have yet to be tempted to have a second! Saw some fabulous skies though, big skies. Do try and go gliding and see even more! Omarama and also at Wellington Gliding Club (near Paraparaumu).

But they've gone now. And Laurence and the staff there now (one of whom worked with the previous lot and must be up for some award as the longest serving barman in the same pub, ever) are great. Even tho it's a bit too corporate.

What happened to the ill child though?

I received a letter from Southwark Libraries yesterday with a new library card and a little card with some sort of a marking system on it, if I read three books I get... what? A headache? I dug out my old library card and it was similar but with a different number. The last time I went to the library was about 3 years ago when I was up for a Chekov play and the entire Southwark Library lending system had not one Chekov play in its shelves. I bought a copy for ?2 from Chener. Never got the job either.

I beg to differ about having to book. We went in the millennium and never had to book a thing. We even found somewhere on the nights of Xmas Day and New Year's even though we had to search a bit. Had we failed I guess we'd have slept out but we never had to do that.The only thing we had booked in our two months trip was the ferry north to south and south to north, and then our flight home!

Towers of London by my beloved XTC. They also did a wonderful song RIVER OF ORCHIDS where they talked of walking into London smelling like a Peckham Rose which is where I took my nickname from.

So, a River, a B&B, and a sex shop. Not a nasty cheap one, a nicer Agent Provocateur type one.