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the harder they come - jimmy cliff

go west - village people

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teardrop - massive attack

It's a man's world - james brown

Another option is a Paperpod cardboard doll's house - we got one a couple of years ago and it's still standing and still in pretty good nick. http://www.paperpod.co.uk/collections/toys/products/paperpod-cardboard-dolls-house. They've also got sturdy cardboard sheds and castles, all for around ?30 or less

words(between the lines of age) - neil young

sweet caroline - neil diamond

here's a fascinating article I just saw about earlier fashions in breastfeeding - http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/11/bones-reveal-18th-and-19th-cen.html

We are delighted that you found room for your yoga classes at the Albrighton Centre, Koryn. My daughter (and her teddy bears) really enjoy the classes. I love the way that her teddy bear gets a yoga mat of its own! A shout out to parents of potential mini-yogis - Koryn's yoga classes are great fun, and all her profits go to charity. We would definitely recommend them for anyone aged 5-11.

nothing to do with the law if you're depending on someone else's generosity, then it helps to have a shared understanding about what's acceptable and when anyone knocking on our door with a 'trick or treat?' any day except 31st Oct will be received with an incredulous laugh and go away empty handed

jailhouse rock - elvis presley

Helena, you are right, most of the animal is being used. However, the problem is how it is used. The problem is the huge efforts that the market makes to re-process relatively unpopular foodstuffs such as offal to render them palatable to the mass market, for example producing meat slurry out of them to shape into cheap burgers and chicken nuggets. This doesn't actually appear on food industry labels, or if it does, it is labelled using euphemisms (not having a packet of cheap burgers to hand, I'm sorry I can't quote you any actual examples) Palatability, texture etc is also improved by adding ingredients such as salt and sugar, very few of which have any intrinsic food value, and which contribute to rising obesity levels. I'm afraid I don't have your trust in the market to act in its customers' best interests!

A further slice of history http://www.george-orwell.org/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier/0.html - this is where I first heard about British tripe :-S "Inside there was a slab upon which lay the great white folds of tripe, and the grey flocculent stuff known as 'black tripe', and the ghostly translucent feet of pigs, ready boiled. It was the ordinary 'tripe and pea' shop, and not much else was stocked except bread, cigarettes, and tinned stuff.

it's an oxygen-based food-safe bleaching process, which is standard for preparing tripe the tastiest tripe I've ever eaten - and I've tried it in Rome and other places - was in London's Chinatown, where it was the meat ingredient in a highly spiced soup noodle dish. The waiter felt obliged to double-check that I'd actually ordered the tripe dish...

Not having been brought up in Britain, I couldn't vouch for British eating habits myself, but check this out - it's a link to British Library materials about changes in British eating habits - http://www.bl.uk/learning/citizenship/foodstories/Accessible/eatinghabits/changesineatinghabits.html. It says "The British have long been notorious for having 'boring' food and conservative tastes. For many British families up until the last few decades, household eating patterns varied little from week to week. A Sunday roast would be followed by a few days of recycled leftovers - cold meat would be crafted into shepherd's pie or rissoles. Fish was traditionally served on Friday, at the point that the leftover meat had run out." BTW I agree with what a number of other posters have said, about over-reliance on factory farmed meat. I'm not a vegetarian, but I think of (properly sourced) meat as a treat rather than as a staple. And as peterstorm and other point out, where is all the offal? A lot of the slaughtered animal is wasted - when did anyone last see a chicken gizzard sold for human consumption in Britain?

I walk past there most days and tbh I've never noticed them. They certainly didn't grab my attention, but I'll notice them now that the Palmerston has thoughtfully pointed them out. They don't bother me though, unless they start displaying ladies (or lads) in states of undress, which seems to be mandatory these days to advertise anything from garden manure to solicitors' services. Then I'll join any picket going. Edited to add - The Palmerston can take its pick of other unlovely things than can be seen (or smelt) from inside it, such as - runoff water from the smelly fish van - the Iceland 'eyesore' - the smokers slowly pickling themselves outside the Palmerston itself

Amoeba had a very young child with her. Confrontation was not an option.

Garymax, it took us a couple of years to work out the code too! Our first year in ED, my daughter was too small to go trick or treating, but she was old enough to be excited at the thought of handing out sweets to other kids. But being unfamiliar with current Halloween customs, we didn't have a pumpkin outside and no one rang the bell. Cue one very disappointed child who wasn't mollified even by the thought that she could eat all the sweets herself!