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Good luck, buddug! what i've been trying to find locally are cookery lessons during half-term for teenage daughter. there are none locally, and all those up in town are expensive/fancy stuff (Leith school type) i imagine that's a niche market as well, although it would involve quite a bit of prep and admin to organise!

Thank you for doing what you could. this is unfortunate, not just for that poor fox, but also for those dogs, that have been allowed to run out of control.

it's right that he's been hunted down, captured etc, zelig but agree that the double standards stink - and that's why a load of us joined the march the saturday after the US election

all credit to Hayes for having the courage to vote the way she did Bic Basher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Kate Hoey voted for Article 50 despite Vauxhall having the largest amount for remaining in the EU. That is not surprising at all. It's always been a mystery to me how Hoey keeps getting returned in Vauxhall - she's not just a Eurosceptic but also pro-hunting, pro-guns, pro-Unionist, pro-smoking, anti-immigration, ...

yes, cherrypicking, and the reference to Fullfact is mischievous because it doesn't legitimise the assertion the correct metric is lifetime earnings (or expected lifetime earnings) until quite recently, women earned less than men in every age group, but it looks like there's been a bit of recent play-field levelling (which was first reported in the Guardian?). what WOULD be interesting is to see whether this earnings advantage persists as the cohort ages

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > When I read banners like "the future is female", how am I meant to get on > board with such a divisive slogan, and also look my son in the eye and tell him that according to > these people (who claim to espouse equality) the future is not for him. many of us have a similar problem with regard to our daughters, TheCat how to look them in the eye and reassure them that they might have an equal future, just like you'd hope for your son, in spite of the divisive rhetoric spouted by generations of men, of whom Trump is just the latest the difference, though, which is that these girls actually live, here and now, in a world where they are worse off on every metric, and no sign of it getting better.

Abe_froeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Did anyone point out to the women's march that in > this country we are so progessive and egalitarian > that our prime minister is actually a woman? a distinction shared by Ceylon and India >50 years ago, and Israel, Pakistan and Bangladesh >40 years ago (of course mustn't forget us in 1979 for 11 years!) but unlike our current PM, all of these women were elected to the role by their putatively progressive and egalitarian countries

there were loads of men there as well, an inclusive and positive event with estimated attendance 100k many carried banners reading 'girls just want to have fundamental rights' - nothing wrong with that!

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So this protest is named after only one gender, > and all of the speakers and performers are > exclusively one gender.....but it's for > 'everyone'.... > > Hmmmmmmm..... hmmmm indeed it's quite possible that marches don't achieve anything - but at last they give people a reason to assemble visibly to support or protest. the right of public assembly is precious and people have suffered to protect it so no men are assembling - why don't you do something about that instead of hmmm-ing and hawing?

very sorry to hear this. I do hope your children have recovered. how old were these other kids?

hey that's no way to say goodbye... or maybe it was

Thanks so much for the photo updates, Anelia, they look like they're growing into lovely dogs. we already have a pup - I'm so very sorry we can't take them... good luck and do keep us posted

why so personal? because it was a referendum - each vote expressed a personal preference, unmediated by party political affiliation or parliamentary politics or any of the other baggage that distinguishes democracy from mob rule and because the vote came in as close to 50:50 as goshdarnit, the remainers feel hard done by, while brexiters get very shrill to drown out the inconvenient fact that their majority was not quite as resounding as they'd have liked it to be

some people's bottoms are other people's tops - maybe i'll leave that thought there for now... my thinking was that that's the north end, Sue, from where the wind blows bitter and cold down the road from Goose Green in winter whether bottom or top, "I live in Tribeca - no 'The Tribeca' - at the bottom of Crystal Palace Road" - its very snigger-worthy. only a developer could come up with that, while busily concreting over every square centimetre in sight.

thanks for the charming image, KK (no, i didn't click the link, the mental image was quite enough) in response to the OP - no especially not if it involves one of those grinding macerator things

Heseltine didn't restrict his attentions to squirrels http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37833381 he's in danger of rehabilitation as a cuddly tory grandad these days - do people really have such short memories?

Sue went into a shop Sue tried to buy goods as advertised in the shop Sue was fobbed off by the shop assistant who made a mistake and then refused to admit it end of its being a charity shop is neither here nor there

and that's what most people think Tribeca is so i'm bemused to see it being used to big up a patch of ground that used to house a HAir PROducts WArehouse NExt to Goose Green, ED's favourite dog toilet. something like HaProWaNeGG would surely be a more appropriate name than 'The Tribeca'

in ED! at the top of Crystal Palace Road, next to the leisure centre... Will Robert de Niro be spotted in Sainsbury's, or even M&S, soon?

thanks, penguin, i appreciate that there are many different species of rat, and not all of them elicit an awww response. you also don't need to remind me of the disease risks etc. i'm suggesting that that's no reason to use (or to countenance the use of) inhumane methods to kill them - just because they may be pests in certain environments. my own dog is curled up on my lap as i type and i feel great sympathy for the family that have lost their poor dog in such a horrible way my basic point is that we use dreadful methods to get rid of some 'undeserving' animals and put many of the rest at this kind of lethal risk. that is wrong, full stop. i don't want to hijack this thread, so that's me done, no more on this subject

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Because they are unwelcome, disease carrying > vermin? Just a thought. some people rate rats quite highly as pets. are you suggesting that these rats are different from the vulgar rats down the park that you'd happily allow to die horribly? just a thought.

------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/council-quells-fears-dog-may-fatally-poisoned-walk-peckham-rye/ ?Rats take some time to die from ingesting it (normally dying from internal haemorrhage). That suggests that it may have been a far quicker acting toxin, or a mixture of toxins.? if we agree it's not acceptable for dogs or cats to die like that, why is it ok for rats?

yes, 68 or 168 or 188 are better than 176 - they avoid the Strand/Charing X Road, so they are quicker to the BM all can be got from the Elephant if not Camberwell

i sit in the window gazing out, munching my bao bun and wondering why it attracted rave reviews in Time Out needless to say, i've got there long after Seabag's locusts have stopped, devoured, moved on searching, searching for the shock of the new, but only grumbling resentment at the size of the bill