PeckhamRose

Reading about the deaths of two people, a loving married couple, has upset me more than most famous people. The composer and his wife taking the one way ticket to Dignitas has really done it for me. Specially the day after all the news about the fact we'll have to pay insurance or sell our homes to pay for our care in old age. I think I may do the equivalent of the Dignitas thing myself and maybe MrPR with me if he chooses. But I would like to have the choice to do it in this country where my body could be then taken to London Anatomy Office where it could be freshly played with* by NHS Medical students. That couple have really moved me with their bravery and dare I say it, common sense? That's how it came across to me. I can't stop thinking of them actually. They had control while they could and did not wither badly in some underfunded hospital. I was at home and read about it on BBC news online. *studied, of course!

Ohhh good question Huggers. And anyway, no-one's gonna tell ME where and when to walk!

I'll be honest - I did not vote because I did not think any of the titles really told me much about the fact that this was a group of East Dulwich Writers. They were clever and sometimes funny words, but not book titles. But best wishes with the book anyway!

No, Jill Dando had a greater impact than QMum. Sorry. Not a Monarchist!

Coping with Death What to do when Someone Dies Funerals Without God (Don't worry, I'm training to be a Celebrant!)

I had a reply from the SNT (Safer Neighbourhood Team Policeman*) and he said they had indeed had a report about this. So it must be true... *unPC PC term. Hohoho

Elvis I was a teenager visiting friends in MissHippy (is how folks from Mississippi say 'Mississippi') when Elvis died. It Was Incredible. He meant nothing to me (sorry), so talk about being in the wrong place. Every TV station and every Radio Station playing every record. BUT when I flew home, and landed at the Airport and my Mum and Dad met me there, we had a coffee and my Mum casually broke my heart by saying, 'Oh, who was that bloke who died that you liked?' I said I did not like Elvis, and she said no, that other one. Heart pounding, and this teenage girl's heart broke that day when my insensitive Mum casually finally remembered that MARK BOLAN died whilst I was in America. The trip home to Margate was worse that day than any other trip to Margate has ever been. And they're normally not that brilliant. Jill Dando - no, ok. Diana, I'd got up specially early to go shopping at Tescos when it opened at 11 on a Sunday morning and I remembered seeing the headlines on the News of the World and I just thought they were referring to some joke. It never sunk in they were being serious, as NOTW so rarely is! When I came home and heard the news, I put the telly on for the whole rest of the day. Shergar going missing? Was at a Laurie Anderson concert at Hammersmith Odeon when my mate told me Shergar had gone missing. When Tony Curtis dies I shall be inconsolable. But Marc Bolan - never got over that.

Is that the light from the sun very very low in the sky shining up on them? Or the lights from the City doing the same?

I suspect Spacey my cat read the article and laughed her feline laugh to herself this morning. She trained me years ago to get the food out a few minutes before she needs it, thus she'd never wake me up. She never dug tunnels behind the sofa till she saw Eddie Izzard's routine about it. Then she would sit behind me, purring and digging, purring and digging. However, in the last two months we have had scaffolding around our block and as we are on the 3rd of 4th floors, and as she normally never goes out because she is literally a scaredy-cat, she has learned she can go out safely, walk around the boards and come back. I am thinking of tying a webcam to her. A few nights ago I heard a very unfamiliar meowing, and got up realising she was not with me. I went out to the balcony and called her name and she came running back towards me. But she was upstairs. She had taught herself to climb the scaffolding ladder but claimed she was too nervous to try climbing down. Out I went, up the ladder I went, and rescued her and brought her down. Four in the morning. But that type of meowing was new to me, and I am quite impressed she did it, though I bet she can climb down ladders.

Agreed reetpetite. Should certainly be 'nipped' somewhere, if not in the bud...

I've already emailed the Peckham Rye and Nunhead Safer Neighbour hood Team as I mentioned on the last page, but they never reply to emails. It's infuriating!

This needs to be reported to the next Police Ward Panel. Sadly that won't be until 3rd September, but I shall email a link to this very thread right now to the Nunhead and Peckham Rye Safer Neighbourhood Team.

But cutting out biscuits at writers meetings because of costs? Didn't you find that amusing? A payment of ?90 odd for up to 3 days (often away from home) to attend the filming of one's work? And yes, whilst writing Doctors may sound an easy and cheap thing to you, the time can indeed be up to 6 months because the levels of management all want their say in how things are done and so it can take a long time to get back to the writer with instructions on cuts and edits and rewrites. I know most of you above appear to be very unsympathetic about it, which shocked me, but at least I was trying to show the unrealistic attitudes the managements have towards writers, when it is their own levels of management which should be cut and stars payments looked at! Anyway, sorry to have taken up broadbandwidth on this one...

You were right to report it. I wish more people who wrote on here reported the crimes they witnessed. And yes, Huggers is right. This was a crime.

This is an email sent to the Writers Guild of Great Britain and the WGGB's reply. Basically, the BBC has no respect for its writers without whom there would be no drama/comedy/radio shows. The reply is brilliant. Takes a little time but some of you may be interested.

He did, he took me through stuff. I think he was working for BT but on the make. I stopped when he asked me my account number. 'That's a new one', I thought. Anyway, it's all been reported.

I made a complaint to BT about this yesterday (Sat 11th July 09 if you're reading this next year!) and BT rang me back today confirming it was a hoax/phishing call. I am already on Telephone Preference Service. So be wary, guys.

I went to USA last year and booked the tickets in advance and thus paid full price because we needed to be there at a certain time and leave at a certain time. I believe our tickets were somehing like ?550 return. On the flight out we sat next to a woman who had booked the night before for ?100 return through LastMinute.Com She had a week's window so was willing to get the best price within that week. LM do not pay me to advertise for them. I would not use them for theatre tickets again though, since they advertised at one price and when you dug deeper the price was for kids, or was actually not that price at all, but twice as much.

It was a passport application form. What kind of passport do you need? You can look on line and find a form from uk government.

This topic is elsewhere and has been answered succesfully.

Do you lot all go to the monthly meetups together? Do you all get along and love each other there? Is your nastiness just reserved for this online forum? This topic has certainly shown me why I don't want to meet too many of you in a pub!

I think you're all spoilt whinging westerners. You're all used to having things done for you and not enough doing things for yourself. *Hides behind sofa*

I reckon I've got about - ohhhh - another 30 years of useful life left. Who cares what pesky mischevous people write. Did they incite racial hatred? Be nice if we could get along and remember this is a PUBLIC forum, so even though you're anonymous, people will still think you're c**ts. Oh well, back to looking after sick and dying people....

So I was at home and an Indian male rang asking if I was happy with BT. Since I have had a few problems with broadband recently I assumed it was a follow up call and said yes, all is good. He then said he was calling from a company called Global and said that (to cut a long phonecall story short) they were contracted by BT to do the following. This company have been given a list of customers' names by BT who have been long term customers who have always paid their bills on time (how can one not if there is enough money in the account serving direct debit account?!) Those customers were being contacted by this company to make an offer of a free BT mobile. The first month is free - but after that it is ?15 a month and ?6 line rental for the BT landline, and you make all your calls through it AND it can be used to receive landline calls when you are out the house, and also you get all the minutes and so on, and they had decided looking at my account that I would save a lot of money on my regular land line call charges. Fair enough, I thought. Send me everything and I'll have a shoofty. He then said that before sending me the package and all the information and so on, he would ask me to confirm my name and address and then asked for my account number. Why? I said, since you already know it, or if you don't you know I have one since you have confirmed I am a good custoemr who always pays on time. He insisted I give it. I said no. He said he would call me in 10 mins when I have thought about it (so he's on commission, right?!) He did ring and MrPR answered and said I was unavailable and to call in the evening. He called twice more and was told the same thing. I have done a search on BT.Com but there is no information about any such offer. Yet this man knew my name and address so I assumed it was genuine. Anyway, sorry to go on but you lot are very helpful and knowledgeable so thought I'd ask if anyone else has had a similar call or if it was genuine and I missed a deal, or what! Thanks folks.

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