PeckhamRose

I thought it was about headache type pain. Or the pain of stubbing your toe! I'm an actor, and I wouldn't go for this even if they DID pay me. Ha!

Several years ago when the petrol shortage was going on, people were fighting in the forecourts. Over petrol. I think we seem to be civil only when it suits us. I think it is easy to say most people are good, unless they have been brought up racist etc. My Mum would appear to most people to be lovely and kind and so on, but she is racist and also hates Germans. And Japanese people. She lost relatives in the war, and her parents were racists and they all read Sun and Mail. But we all have reasons for not being perfect, don't we? It all starts off with parents though. I was lucky I worked out that it is irrational to hate Germans and Japanese and black people etc. I just hate traffic wardens, but I don't care what colour their skin is! How can it be that people can walk past someone who is clearly suffering in the street, as evidenced by someone who posted on here a few weeks ago, saying they were in agony with a punctured lung. People just walk past those who are suffering. How can that be considered as most people being decent?

It is an interesting point though because I like how some women think like men but rarely vice versa, so I agree that I try and reply on the quality (or lack of) the post, rather than making assumptions, or forgiving them because maybe they're just a lady having a bad time of the month...

I am getting fit. I am trying to, anyway. So I dug out the lateral thigh trainer with optional upper body power cords and the DVD of my old friend who has not changed a bit in the last year since I last exercised with her, Brenda Dysart, encouraging me with a simple workout. After five mins into the workout, the optional upper body powercords bloody well snapped and I smashed myself in the chin. Question: WHY has this happened when I was trying to be good! Grrrr

PhoneSouthwark Environment dept 020 7525 2000 and ask them. They may say they can't recycle it, but if enough people phoned to ask, they would have to work something out!

I have a hard time trying to work out my spirituality because as an atheist I just can't explain or understand what it means. Edited to add: I had an out of body experience when I was a very very sick little girl and close to death. But I am sure I remember from a documentary somewhere that scientists can now induce the feeling and experience of the white light that some people who are close to death report seeing, the implication being, I think, that everything we experience may be able (if it has not been already) to be explained scientifically. Just as thunderstorms and rainbows have been. Have tried to read all the pages on this thread; there are some very interesting knowledgeable people out there on this here forum and I have learned a lot from you all by reading them. My answer to the OP though is still a "NO!"

I am posting the photo to save time. I hope she is found safe and sound.

I laffed, so did MrPR, and an hour later I've only just stood back up.

My DAB has not picked it up despite the rescan. Hmm. Mind you, it was a cheap DAB radio from Asda and refused to allow me Radio 4 for the first month. Oh well, will try again later. Planet Rock does it for me till then.

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Saw ` them all from Dawson Heights. Fabulous. Great atmosphere too.

Why can't a woman think more like a man?

Listen, I have seen parking attendant scum more than once put tickets on limousines waiting outside a funeral directors while people are getting in (too upset to be hurried), on their way to a funeral. I have seen a woman with her clearly disabled child who was having a fit, trying to rush to her car in view of the parking attendant, but having to calm down and wait with her sick child, while the scum put a ticket on her car which had a time limit on it but she had a disabled kid and they don't do timetables. I have witnessed seeing a woman taking her very elderly mother back to the car only to see the car being towed away (even with a disabled badge in its window) because the car was in the bay for a minute over the three hours or however long they are given, and the woman said her mother had had a bad turn in the store so had been looked after by staff till she was well again to leave the store. As long as money is involved and you are fining not educating or advising, they are scum. Meanwhile, the fact that along a red route or bus route which is supposed to be free of traffic you get little parking bays jutting out (the one outside Greyhound pub comes to mind, as well as the ones on the east bound bit at Vauxhall by the Oval) which are very much in the way, and there to make money, it is clear where the priorities are. Apart from this I have no opinions on the matter. ;)

It will be busy tonight. Lots of people congregate to see the views and fireworks across London. As long as you have a car/motorcycle and / or a good set of lungs to climb up and down the hill, you are going to have a great time. The views are so wonderful. Having said that maybe your own flat does not have a view! The north facing 'garden' does, though! And of course then you have Horniman Gardens also. A great place to live I would have thought. Just buy a BIG freezer to stock up on stuff when you are snowed in and can't walk or drive up and down the hills! Welcome to the area.

I have said it before and I shall say it again; parking attendants are the scum of the earth.

Well it made me laugh. Depends what 'it' is, of course.

Best wishes to you, but do write to the Primary Care Trust with a complaint and also to the Practice Secretary and then do a quick search on here to see just how many people have been complaining about that surgery. Then, if you are in the catchment, come over to Nunhead Surgery on Nunhead Grove.

Not my original idea but someone on an invention show on telly said this; that every chinese takeaway throughout the land used the same numbers in their menus for the same dish so a number 44 in East Dulwich would be the same meal if you ordered a number 44 in Hull, Cornwall, Ramsgate or Rhayader.

I got a really good one from a certain supermarket on Dog Kennel Hill. (wellllll they don't pay me to advertise them!)

I didn't get any presents though.

What website is that for cheap petrol in your area? Otherwise I shall check on here. I heard on Radio 4 a prog about whiskey that it costs about 40p to put the whiskey in the bottle, the rest is tax and reasonable profits for the company. The government taxes about 80% (I think?) for the petrol? Thanks for posting the cheaper places - don't forget that driving the extra miles to the cheaper petrol may not make economical sense!

It is an interesting skill to describe buildings, people, directions and so on. As someone who travels all across all of London, and does not use satnav, I find it incredibly frustrating that many businesses and fascias do not have the number of the street on them. Sometimes entire streets of businesses do not have the numbers on theie fascias or doors! But that's off topic. Being a motorcyclist, when stopped I often find I am asked directions; many people thinks all bikers are couriers. I am not a courier but I do my best when describing how to get somewhere to someone. Remembering pubs on corners is one way of course (and delightfully mentioned as such in Bill Bryson's Notes On A Small Island), but also shops and lamp-posts and bus stops and trees and so on are a good way to try and get someone on their way. Where I live I have come across people on about four occasions in their cars, stuck in a cul de sac where there's nothing but our garages, having been told by their sat navs that they are in the middle of the park. And they didn't have the commong sense to see that they were driving in the opposite direction from the park!

Very good!

Hugs to giggirl. I utterly agree with your postings. I have not bought any presents. Seriously. Neither am I expecting any. I buy things for people when I know they need it. Mr PR bought me a fabulous hat at the recent Ivy House craft fayre day a weekend ago. MrPR needs slippers. He ain't getting any now that's for damn sure. I never ever ever send Christmas cards either. Yet people still send them to me. Curious! I'm not grumpy, or miserable, indeed I am looking forward to doing The Meal, but as for all the stuff, not interested. Mind you, if we had kids - nahhhhh ! Midwinter Greetings everyone!

The Queen will die on the opening day of the Olympics. Oh wait, that's for the year after next. This year, it will emerge Katie Middleton will be expecting twins before she is married. Chelsea Registry Office are on alert....