PeckhamRose

Luckier.

I used to work for the architects of JD Wetherspoons (to give it its correct title!) and they did spend a LOT of money doing up buildings, preserving buildings, making them useable again, albeit as pubs. The theatre (Cornet?) in Forest Hill on London Road for example; you may not like that it is a pub but at least the building has at least been looked after, and is still a public building. The staff used to (I don't know about now) be very well trained and there was a sense of pride but the company got very very big and quickly. They tend to do well in recessions, and are a bit Tesco-ey with the way they approach small breweries at beer festival time, buying in bulk for less money sort of thing, but business is business. I have to admit having visited a LOT of Wetherspoon pubs around London and beyond (Often on their opening nights) they vary according - of course - to the local clientele. Personally, I would never want to go into the Peckham one again but the one in Old Street (Casque Marque?) and Farringdon Road (Sir John something?) are lovely. If the Vale becomes a Wetherspoon pub I would be 'appy though it's still too far for me to walk there!

Many of these signs say Please Drive [more] carefully, child in car, and many do not take the sticker off when driving without said infant in the car. Point is, why drive MORE carefully than one already is? Horsebox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > PeckhamRose Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > When we riding / driving behind a car that has > a > > sticker in it "Child In Car", does it make any > > difference to the way we drive or ride? See my > > point? > > I'm not sure I see your point, PR. The 'Child in > Car' / 'Baby on Board' signs are intended to alert > the emergency services of a potentially trapped > infant, in the event of a collision.

We leave ours on 24/7, a BT HomeHub attached to the telly for BT Vision also. We turned it off in the past only to find we could not always reliably reconnect in the morning. Also, overnight, sometimes without us knowing, the thing is upgraded. BT Vision too. They're sneaky like that.

There's a pub called the Actress? Never knew that!

When we riding / driving behind a car that has a sticker in it "Child In Car", does it make any difference to the way we drive or ride? See my point?

I would watch EastEnders if Rebecca Front was in it. She can do no wrong. I adore her.

Is that Sue being a tired lesbian?

ok dokey and ta!

RosieH what did you do for your week off. Didn't you want a bike ride with me? :( I'd have got up special! Now what IS that jellabear thing Egyptian thing and how is it spelled and where can I get one.

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Same situation this morning; simply can't get up. Except to make coffee of course. BUT, the difference is, apart from checking emails and EDF and BBC News, I am full of need to write and am now off to the other side of the bed to do so....! Yayy! Very productive AND in bed with a purring cat at my feet. Thinking of buying that coffee filter machine on offer in the For Sale section so I don't actually have to get up and go to the kitchen.

Writing is great. Even getting some done in between being on here. Was anyone up early enough to turn on telly and watch GMTV with the new exOneShow presenters?

BellendenBelle I adore you, you know that. And of course I have no resentment towards anyone. I just think it is daft that one group of road users are given space all to themselves on a narrow busy road (as is proposed) at the expense of the rest of the roadusers being unable to then use that bit of road, so we may be at greater risk.

"It's about creating a legitimate space for cyclists on the roads " We all have the right to legitimately use the roads, but it is up to all of us to drive and ride safely. Not easy when much of an already narrow and heavily used road is painted blue so the rest of us can't touch it. I do think it is great there are more cyclists on the roads, I honestly do. I just don't see why so much money is used on something that costs no money aside from the price of the bike) if you get what I mean.

What's the name of those fabulous Egyptian big nighty things. A word sounding like jellabears or something. Had one of them once, working for Professors of Egyptian studies. They'd be good, made out of fleece. Holes in all the right places. Damn I am being lazy today too, DJKQ!

Nice blue bit of paint on the road, makes all the difference though doesn't it. All this money being wasted on blue paint when cyclists know how to get to places anyway like everyone else does. Maps or Satnavs!

A clean bucket, though.

Or my last attempt at cooking tripe and onions.

But for money! Mind you, I never get up for less than Equity minimum myself!

I never discussed the work I want to discuss with you. Paid.

Any religion I think. But probably preferably Christian! I do know if you refuse to follow a religion you can't join.

And register with CastingCallPro. I gave an actor who had just left drama school his first role in my play a few years ago. He auditioned with everyone else through CastingCallPro (Look'emup) and he's not been out of work since! And join Player-Playwrights, a professional writer and actors group whose current Presidents are Marks and Gran (Birds of a Feather, the New Statements writers). Again, look them up. He can join that - we often have a paucity of younger males to read for us because they are more likely to get paid work and be unavailable! I may be the new casting director soon.

But you have to be religious to be allowed in to the cubs/scouts, don't you? And traditionally that often means more right than left wing, so might even out!

Done.