PeckhamRose

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So if everyone jumps off a cliff will you do that > too? > As predicted, you missed the irony.

Thanks everyone for contributing to this post. I do not read daily newspapers and enjoy catching up on the opinions (and links to the relevant articles) and have learned who to trust, opinion wise. As I said, if I see all the lights go out on Gherkin, Tower 42, and surrounding tower blocks, and across at Canary Wharf all of which I can see from my flat, I'll turn mine off. Or maybe I won't.

What gets me is people who moan about people who moan on forums! But I do agree with you and try and point people in the "right" direction!

I was born in London but was a very ill child and so the doctors at the time suggested that I should move to the coast for the sake of my health. It might have worked. Moving anywhere for the sake of my health might have worked. But my parents came too. It was their constant smoking that made me ill! So spent childhood at boarding schools for sick children. So when I finally left home I came back to London though everyone thought I was mad as London was after all referred to as The Big Smoke. But I have never been healthier. And I love it here. I love having CHOICES, which includes the choice to not do anything. I love the choices of theatres restaurants cinemas, different walks, the history, the different types of people and the architecture, and I love exploring the whole lot of it on a motorcycle. I travel a bit and love coming back to London. I love the fact friends live in different parts of London and love the fact that it is surrounded also by diverse geology - for example Thanet Brighton Cotswolds etc are a great day out. I see London as my Home but also my holiday as on days off I will go and explore and do a touristy thing too. Anyone been to Dennis Severs House yet? It's great fun.

No, "it" didn't start with the Industrial Revolution, "it" started with the Enclosures Acts, that's when "it" all started going wrong for the common people. Anyway, if you see someone not only picking daffs but digging up the plants in the park, what do you do or say? I would approach people and let them know I have just posted a phone-photo of them to Crimewatch and even more scarily, the Park Wardens and the SNT. I remember going on a guided walk around the park a few years ago and the person giving the history of the park did tell us that typical park vandals are usually middle aged women from Dulwich nicking plants, and when they had been stopped, they said they believed as rate payers they had a right to some of the plants!

It's the "Don't be a prat" one rule thing, isn't it. It's all that's needed. As for everything starting from the Industrial Revolution, louisa, can we also therefore blame religious people in general and quakers in particular - since 90%* of the people who invented the things that started off the industrial revolution were quakers. Is that how your argument goes? * apparently.

From my flat I can see the whole of the City of London. When I see all those lights turned off then I will turn off mine two. Big business should lead the way.

I learned to ride at Dulwich Riding Stables years ago, but stopped when I couldn't afford it anymore. Apparently this is the stables that taught Jenny Agutter to ride for when she filmed Equus. I also thought it was rather a small stables to be honest but maybe the horses are allowed to ride around the park with the more experienced riders?

I have two brandy glasses. I did not buy them.

As Spring gets underway my eyes itch, my lungs tighten, I sneeze. But in the mornings specially when it is sunny and bright, the view across London and across the park from my flat fills me with delight and indeed the birds around my birdfeeder even seem happier. And it's great biking weather! Now to get some antihistamines and stock up on inhalers!

pablogrande - very good! "Unexpected item in bagging Area"

I have a problem with smacking kids. My problem is I don't have any so I would have to find someone else's kids and they probably wouldn't like it. If I was a qualified experienced teacher who was in charge of a heap of kids who were being rude, disrespectful, had crap home lives with parent/s who had NO idea how to bring them up and gave them crisps and coca cola for breakfast to eat on the bus and who knew nothing but anger and foul language at home, and they came to school to be in my class... I'd leave the profession as have two of my good friends, neither of whom coincidentally chose to have kids of their own!

Rail Ale was the weaker, Firkin was the middle, and Dogbolter was the strongest. Each of the Firkin pubs changed the name of the weaker pint to reflect the pub I think. And yes, I loved all three, but Dogbolter was the Dog'sBollox. I do rather like Youngs Double Chocolate Stout. And most Porters. And I have only found one pub in London that does Mackeson. A riverside pub called The Hope and Anchor in SE7. Does anyone know of any other pub that does Mackeson?

Oh don't pay any attention to me, everyone else thought Dancing at Lughnasa was fab. And so it was, if you like good actresses talking animatedly about stuff. The BDSM discussions in Mme de Sade were not even that very interesting! There's only one set, and only one of the actresses changes costume, to become a nun. The only prop is Frances Barber's whip, and she doesn't even use it on anyone! It's one and three quarter hours without a break. It is, in and of itself, a torture. And you pay for it. I tell ya, I'll stop now.

Dogbolter, the Firkin Brewery, c1980s. RIP

MADAME DE SADE OK so this is an incredibly wordy play where not much happens at all; they just talk a lot about the Marquis. Six female actors being "his" mum, wife, wife's sister, the maid and the wife's mate, and the other mate who's a whore. It was written by a Japanese male who, I would suggest, realised he had written such sh!te but not before it was published and so he killed himself. The fact that this play was all about women talking about what was happening, and not actually DOING anything, says a lot about what a lot of men think of a lot of women, and mirrors the drama series vs drama serial thing, but that's not for here. So it is very wordy. And four of the six actresses did not bother - once they had learned their lines - to think about really adding character. Only with Frances Barber and Deborah Findley did you really see the fun and the true characters the author was trying to create. Everyone else - including Dame Judi Dench's understudy (DJ had twisted her ankle tho I read a review saying she was basically being M in costume) were given characters to be - but I have attended rehearsed readings where more imaginative acting was witnessed. Got my tickets last June I did. :( I'm editing this because I just realised my review of Dancing at Lughnasa said the same thing. So I realise the theme. I need theatre that is more than people - even just women - talking about stuff and not DOING anything. But it was the (lack of) acting that really tired me. At least in Dancing at Lughnasa the acting was great.

I am off to see Madame de Sade tonight but I guess that's not the sort of CP you were discussing. Parenting skills leave a lot to be desired. I abhor violence and hitting kids does not teach them to be good, behave reasonably, or become good citizens. Good parenting, and the society around them, does teach them these things. They haven't got a hope really have they.

... had colonic irrigation (sorry if someone else put that on previous page).

When my Dad was ill in hospital, a nurse came to him and said "Are you ready for your enema sir?" Dad turned to the nurse and said "Is anyone ever ready for an enema?". Sadly she had had the sense of humour beaten out of her, but we all giggled. Turned out it was not him she should have asked, for so had he meekly said yes, he would have had one unnecessarily.... A friend had colonic irrigation done a while ago and he said he had flushed out corn from corn cobs he had eaten over 2 weeks prior. I would ask though that if you are considering it, go to a specialist, and if they don't give you a diarilyte type drink afterwards to replace the electrolytes and other of the good stuff you've just had flushed out along with the bad, then they ain't doing their job properly and you should go get some. But as many others have said, it's processed food and foodstuffs our bodies are just not evolved to deal with yet that can cause problems.

It's been good reading these! But Margate seafront featured twice and that's just weird. In fact I rode there yesterday, so beautiful. Best chat up line: was unspoken. The guy sat opposite me, put the forefinger of his left hand on the table, and put the finger of his right hand roughly 10 inches away from it. He looked at me and grinned as if to say "impressed"? And yes I did and yes it was. Best motorcycle road - Haast to Wanaka south Island New Zealand. Best prawn cocktail - one I made yesterday!

... seen Gone with The Wind ... read Dickens or any Brontes ... owned a car ... read or seen Harry Potter book or film ... won a penny from Premium Bonds

It's not popular but I love it. The top floor "pod" of Aura building, Peckham Rye SE15 side. I LOVE the views (which are only slightly better than the ones I have of the whole of London from a bit up the hill and I do not even live in those high rise blocks on Rye Hill Park! I love the look of it and the big plants the owners keep on the roof on the rear side of it. That's my favourite.

Hyde Park and Margate Seafront. Two one night stands, and we were standing. Can't choose between them. Best motorcycle I have ever had, my current one. Virago. Best chinese locally, (and I've tried them all) Moon Lam Hong on Cheltenham Road.

Didn't they also do "If you leave me can I come too"? I saw them in the 80s along with another Aussie band called Cold Chisel. I was going out with an Aussie at the time. He got homesick.

charlie what a great help you are! I shall take up your ideas!