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weill/lenya Pirate Jenny?

Madame Butterfly? Dick Whittington? Ben Gunn?

ianr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Maigret over to you, ianr sorry for keeping everyone in suspense ETA I haven't read a lot of Hardy but what I've read is pretty good and cracks along - you're being rather unfair, EP and AM! Probably too many set books at school. I'd rather read a proper solid Victorian novel with ladies and ducks than many of today's lot, obesessing solipsistically about (usually failed) relationships and alcohol/cigs/other stuff.

done to death already - 10 pages no less see http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,559942,page=1

sorry, no (Tintin is Belgian!)

oh no... here goes Though very few know his full name, this Frenchman is much more famous than his Belgian originator

Ridgeley not your turn, but you must mean Gideon Osborne aka Jeffrey O, mustn't you?

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (but if that's right el P got it before me I think)

Bumblebees have been flying into the kitchen and then exhausting themselves flying into (closed) windows trying to get out, silly things. Luckily, sugar water, or even a squashed cherry, seems to get them back on their wings. I hear that they rarely sting, so just pick the little fat furry critter up and plonk it next to the sugar water.

Mrs TP Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I never got the hang of the combs with long hair - > I always seem to loose the carefully trapped eggs > partway down the long hair shaft. The important thing is to unstick the nits from the hair that mummy louse has glued them onto. The comb does this and they can then be washed out.

rspcalondonsoutheast, can you clarify, please? I see this advice on http://www.helpwildlife.co.uk/findinghelp.php which looks like a reputable and informative site "There is a common myth that vets are obliged to treat wildlife for free. In fact they are obliged only to relieve suffering. This may lead to casualties being euthanized unnecessarily. If you do contact a vet, you should either have a wildlife rescue on standby to take the casualty to after initial treatment or ensure that the vet has good links with a local rescue and will pass the casualty on to them." The same page has advice for people wondering what to do when they find a wild animal in need of help together with links to help find their nearest wildlife rescue. I do hope someone locates this poor fox and does whatever needs to be done to help it. I'll keep an eye out myself.

Yet another thumbs up for the nitty gritty comb It's having its second outing in two months - first time round, obsessive combing twice a day for over a week did for the little wrteches, but then DD insited on going to school with her hair down and sure enough she's picked up a second crop...

My daughter co-slept with us until she was 4 or so. Then we gave her her own room, with a normal-size single bed, and she was happy enough to sleep in it like 'a big girl'. She's been in her own room ever since. If she woke up and cried in the night, I'd get into bed with her rather than take her back into our bed or sit and soothe her back to sleep. I did enjoy co-sleeping, but appreciate that at some point, you just have to let go...

Gigi

Robert Mitchum playing someone in The Longest Day but what was the ocnviction and not eponymous... so must be wrong

jean valjean (les miserables)

the man with no name e.g clint eastwood

the birdman of alcatraz?

the count of monte cristo or the man in the iron mask?

my god it's the Ragged Trousered Philanthrophists, but can't remember who you mean didn't think anyone read it anymore

so a cryptically liberal early-morning gardener William Blake? but he was real, not in a book

Mr Collins (in Pride and Prejudice)?

erm, venus williams?

staggering home from the Great Exhibition tonight, what do I spot on the pavement but a toad! a big one too That's no place for a toad I thought, so I took it home and sneakily introduced it into next door's garden in the hope that it'll find a cool and shady home near their pond. But I hope it leaves the bumblebees alone!

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is there some criteria to this, oh no El P, your slip is showing...