civilservant

northlondoner, i think you are being very unfair to Marnie I've looked at her photos and she looks just like any other yorkie I've seen - very sweet and completely incapable of invoking bad karma on her detractors. Maybe she's the Foxy Knoxy of Yorkies... who knows!

all the pretty little horses - Anon (American traditional)

the jean genie - bowie

what Sue said but... if she's just an innocent cart-wheeling airhead, she's just spent four years of her life in jail if she's a lying manipulative murderer, she has spent four years in jail after all The real question for me is - will all of this lead to improvements in the way the Italian judicial system works? I for one am not holding my breath

holding out for a hero - bonnie tyler

I am trying to feel sorry for that cat, but it's not working. I've seen too many cats visiting our garden to attack and kill young squirrels. It was completely gratuitous killing - they didn't even eat them. Fortunately the wretched cats seem to have stopped coming and our squirrels and birds are back. Foxes I can live with, and they deter rats, as The Minkey helpfully points out. (Now if only my dog agreed with me!)

wannabe - spice girls

gimme that banana - black gorilla

oh? where? everyone seems to be in the business of shoe-horning tall buildings into any available five-square metres-worth of space!

I do take your point - to clarify, I understood from the dermo that steroids will dispel the local flare-up of eczema, but won't dispel the child's overall tendency to eczema. If the child is lucky, its tendency to eczema will reduce with age (very sorry to hear that you are still affected.) My experience with emollients is that they mostly have a palliative/preventive effect, and are rarely effective in making a flare-up go away But I also agree with you that each case is different and that one should try everything and just go with whatever works.

You get a good view of much of the building work including new track if you catch the train to Charing X from Platform 6. Having wandered around the immediate area on foot, must say that the project management of road and site traffic seems exemplary. The only negative is that Guy's Tower has started looking very shabby and overlooked...

I've noticed some people have gone to the bother of covering their bins with sticky-backed plastic (I think) printed with photos of leaves and flowers. Horses for courses - personally, I'd rather have a bright blue bin.

what KatsuQ said - our daughter had eczema from a baby and we did exactly the same following medical advice (including feeling guilty about original hangups re steroid use) by using steroids, you are treating the problem at source - Aveeno etc only deal with the symptoms BTW there are already a couple of extensive threads in this section about treating eczema in children.

but what happened to the OP? just four posts and never heard from again

There are two huge spider webs in our garden, with vigilant owners who arrive to check what's going on if you twang a corner of the web. One of them had a fly victim trussed up in the middle of the web. I don't mind spiders (I used to have a 'pet' spider who lived under my futon - now that's going back awhile!) but can't stand flies, so that's ok by me. Other local wildlife on Crystal Palace Road includes the fox who lives in the garden next door. It is very active at night and drives our dog mental. We live in fear of being shamed on the Forum as owners of a nuisance barking dog!

a heron on CP Road! fantastic! our neighbour has a fishpond - maybe that was the attraction - but it's netted so slim pickings unless its a slim heron and able to slip under the net! I saw a pair of parakeets yesterday dive squawking onto next-door's apple tree, which is absolutely laden with fruit. I have never seen such a harvest on that tree in any of the previous five years we've lived here.

is this the way to Amarillo? - Tony Christie

Inner city blues - marvin gaye

I've started to find hazelnuts in the flowerbed while weeding (we were away much of August and the garden's disappeared into a tangle of green stuff). No hazel trees near us, so I must have disturbed a squirrel's stash. Sorry, squirrel! And I promised sometime ago to find out what if anything we could do to help hedgehogs. Here is a link to a new initiative called Hedgehog Street http://www.hedgehogstreet.org/pages/welcome-to-hedgehog-st.html I think it's been set up by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society . Junior Civilservant has just signed up to get a pack to find out how to be a Hedgehog Champion!

Sunday morning coming down - kris kristofferson

>Masters of war - Bob Dylan renegade master - wildchild

> Cat Scratch Fever: Ted Nugent Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat - Eliot/Lloyd WEbber

Sainsbury's has to sign up to the contract as well. So we should add this clause - Sainsbury's must refrain from blocking use of M'n'B spaces by Organix tents and other obstructions

fever - madonna

Otto, thanks for that! There is some hope after all!