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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

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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

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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!

Amoeba, they were trying to get a rise out of you, as presumably the playground is far from full at that time and they chose to play near you and your child. As Fliss says, these kids should have been at school, and I suspect that they may be already be receiving quite a lot of official attention from school, social services etc. Not a lot you could add to that at a personal level. IMO, you did exactly the right thing, hard though it may be to stomach.

my beef is the huge gap between the 9:04 and the 9:21 after getting the kid to school for 9, I have to loiter on the platform at ED for absolutely minutes! my dream train scenario is that the 8:45 would run 20 minutes late every day...

I know it's a very trivial point, but Willard's alleged Latin learning sits very ill with his (mis)use of English apostrophes. I quote: "I almost laughed when I read this, but again your poor Latin let's you down. Ultra is the Latin for beyond or more than. What is beyond upper class? The royal family? What is beyond white? I can't think of anything." i*rate is not incorrect in his use of the prefix ultra, which can also mean "extreme" rather than "beyond" - very often, words morph their meaning when borrowed by other languages

peterstorm1985 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'd like to see questions such as, > What places should you expect to queue? > Should you let your dog crap on the pavement and > not clean up after it? > Is it OK to spit on the ground? > What are litter bins for? > Is it good to open doors for old people and those > carrying heavy objects? > Not so fast! At that rate a worryingly high proportion of the ED population would find itself consigned to Sangatte as a result of spectacularly bad test scores!

We had them in, they had a look at our loft - which is boarded over - and diagnosed that the reason that our back bedroom is b**k-freezing in winter is because we haven't got any loft insulation over it. So we are having it insulated, and the Council pays half (I think) Let's hope that when it snows next week or whenever, we'll be a little warmer.

ahem - 15 - fail... Ian Jack today in Guardian on precisely this subject - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/14/ian-jack-what-is-britishness-citizenship-test Having done the test, I can't work out what its aim is. There is a clear bias in favour of people who are able to digest and spew out facts and dates on demand i.e. people with at least a secondary education. Questions such as "In which year did married women get the right to divorce ... a. 1837 b. 1857 c. 1875 d. 1882" - how do they prove true understanding? If you were really interested in asking people about their understanding of British culture, you'd want to ask it in a less nit-picky way e.g. : "When did married women get the right to divorce ... a. in the 17th century b. in the 18th century c. in the 19th century d. in the 20th century" - which is probably why native Brits fall down so badly.

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