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Thanks Ken for being a supporter of Gay Rights, setting up the Register of Partnerships before the Labour Government introduced Civil Partnerships. As well as turning up to meetings and Gay Pride events for so many years in support. Thanks for standing up against the opportunism of the Evening Standard. Thank you for getting on Margaret Thatcher's nerves.

Regrets: 1. Going to Coldplay's website 2. Downloading Coldplay song 3. Listening to above song

London needs a dynamic leader like Boris. Well, not exactly. We just want to give Gordon a bruising for not being able to control the US economy. Jeez, it's only been 11 years. Have we forgotten so quickly?

Yay. 18 or 20 minutes (depending which clock I look at ) to go. Am working tomorrow, but next week it's the last three days of this year's holiday allocation. Sadly, I'm piss poor and not getting paid 'til the day I get back to work. Friends are abroad, well those I want to see, so will spend the weekend on my tod. A bit of Pilates, music, tv, cooking, 'puter and a couple/few bottles of wine.

The Black Marlin Fish Restaurant down the coast from Cape Town. A beautiful setting and the food was delicious.

I hope that woman who fell in Sainsbury's a while ago isn't in the vicinity. I wouldn't want her to have a setback with her recovery by falling again. Shudders.

Have you thought about Ivydale Road? They've got armed guards, I hear.

The only problem I've really had walking round Peckham over the years has been the very occassional 'battyman' insult. I don't feel very safe, but that's more my own percieved worry, rather than anything tangible.

Manchester in general. Love the place, was a student there, but they could certainly talk up the town. It was a bit of a shit hole in the late 80s. The Hacienda was a big dump masquerading as a club, full of drunks pretending to be e'd off their heads.

Are the foxes around here getting louder? On Saturday evening, they were giving it the full orgasmic treatment. That and my neighbours going at it hammer and tong, it made for a noisy evening.

So you get a consultation without having to leave the house? Sounds alright to me. One thing that always gets me is receptionists asking you what is wrong. Firstly it's confidential and as far as I'm aware working in a surgery does not give you powers to make medical judgements.

I don't understand. You want priority access to Sainsbury's above those who are using public transport?

A "second best friend's mum's friend's daughter". I'm afraid my concern would probably pettered out at the second best friend's Mum.

James Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think it's laughable that Haberdashers' calls > itself an Academy (i.e. a comprehensive). A > percentage of the kids are getting in on music > scholarships (how fair is this to the > disadvantaged?) and rather than serving the > immediate community, kids from a wider area are > allowed in by the complex oversubscription rules > (presumably designed to limit the number of > genuinely poor kids from the immediate area > surrounding the school who might drag down the > results). Those who know how to work the system > are more likely to be middle-class, while the > banding system discriminates against brighter, > poorer kids. What an absolute mess. There was a big hoo-ha about the status of the school around the time I left. The School was very keen to maintain its Six form, which was under threat by the ILEA.

A few years ago, we were told the country was heading for disaster, as we weren't producing enough babies and the population was too old. Voila, we get loads of young people, more children and suddenly we're in shit creak. Not sure why, except we don't like the way they look or the way they speak.

James Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So did you go to Haberdashers' in the end > cdonline? That was our first choice - our son was > in the top band but we received a letter to say he > was 84th on the waiting list. We decided not to > bother appealing! They don't seem to give a hoot > if your kid is bright, hard-working and motivated, > he'd be much better off if he had a statement. > Which seems a little unfair. I did. I got in after the term had started, about six weeks. Mum phoned or went to the school every day, got the headmaster from my primary school to do everything he could and just kept trying.

Poo Bum. Just logged on to their site, their new course is completely full.

I've never understand the lack of support State Schools give to bright kids. There is seemingly no incentive for kids to be in the upper band, unless as a way of lowering your odds against getting into your choice of school. My Mum decided I was going to go to Haberdashers' whatever happened, although I was turned down initially. You can't help being peeved when several kids from your school got in, with less academic merit. Seems that not much has changed in the 20 or so years since I was at school.

I would be interested in finding out if there is a running group for beginners. I mean just about as beginners as you can get.

trinity Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wonder why - is it because the residents of East > Dulwich can not afford it, are the local state > schools as good, is it a decision based on active > dislike of private education? > > I would appreciate your views. It's an active dislike. A Residents' Committee was convened many years ago on this very subject and the motion almost unanimously agreed.

Scratch cards?

The programme showed up the lack of any vision from Paddick and Johnson. Simply saying you are going to sort out London's problems, with little of idea of how to do it, is pathetic. I think Paddick's rather cute in a sort of ex-copper way and none other the candidates would be seen with their tops off in a nightclub. I just think there is some other role for him outside of party politics. He seems straightkjacketed by having to toe the party line and comes across as wooden. Boris a buffoon. No matter how much the papers try to big him up. He would be a disaster. I thought this was Paxman at his best.

Are they in to the Pistols?

I use the term 'homo' all the time. I call my friends it, I call myself it, I am a homo.