MrBen

Alas - red ink was too blurry to read. I've just spoken to a man with a beard. He reckons that foxes value eggs for a protein hit and so cache them for lean times.

Good point, Gidget. Foxes are smart (do we all know that now?) but I've yet to see one in a stripey jumper break into a standing wheelie bin. The eggs were date stamped which means shop bought. And who chucks whole eggs into the bin on a regular basis? One wildlife forum suggests that urban fox lovers actually leave chicken eggs out to feed the foxes.

A squirrel has been suggested and we have a few on our street. But I've yet to see one carrying around large chicken egg. Foxes are looking like the most likely and if so I'm impressed. "So they can climb fences!" gasped one poster? Well thats nothing to perfectly burying a perfect, whole, date stamped chicken egg 5 inches down without disturbing the soil surface.

This is really odd. Whilst repotting some trees at the weekend I found several whole chicken eggs buried in each about 4-5 inches down in the large plant pots. They certainly weren't there last September and we don't have kids messing about on either side of us either. Can anyone tell me if this is: - A sign of white witchcraft - An animal of some kind (fox?) - A cuckoo - Or perhaps it's that pheasant? I'll take any but the first please. I considered trick or treaters but then we found one in the back garden too. Help!

Quids = decent player Top night. :)-D

Atticus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Not at all, I just find the (perceived) perpetual > 'northerness' somewhat patronising, 'I know what > I'm talking about as I'm a Norvenor'. Muso > snobbery, almost. Because clearly northerners couldn't possibly know anything about anything could they? My picks: Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show on Saturday night. Huey's brilliant show on a Sunday arvo. I have to say I find Lauren Laverne annoying but haven't worked out why. I'm pretty certain it's not her accent however. 10 years old this weekend,

Next time Mick and good luck with the men only pilates session at Push.

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I once unknowingly shagged Aled Jones' then > girlfriend, and he got really cross. You do know that he bats for the other team?

Right on!

Ok, so what about Huey Lewis and the News? Sports anyone?

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Huguenot Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Going to see Duran Duran on Saturday. > > Singapore gets all the hottest new bands! I can almost almost beat this. As part of my sister in laws post Canadian wedding activities, we've just been invited to see Iron Maiden in Edmonton, Canada.

Just don't mention Office for Mac 2011 - better than 08 but still gives me too many niggles to be smooth.

ibilly99 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I predict this thread is going to run and run - > don't wish to comment on the ins and outs of this ...but you will anyway and have done a pretty good job so far at keeping this thread going. These things are surely always better sorted out in person rather than a one sided presentation/vilification on a public forum?

Level 42 would have been fashionable if Mark King had just lowered his bass guitar a bit.

Did you know that the Quo have had more hit albums (32 in total) in the UK charts than any other band apart from the Rolling Stones? Also 64 hit singles and 118 million total units shifted. If by "decent" you are referring to quantity not quality they take some beating pop pickers

The Quo

I've always been a massive ELO fan and now thanks to this thread I can admit it.

The last time I looked, Dulwich Park and woods were being used by everyone as a genuine local amenity. If you want to debate the existence of private education..... that's another whole debate and it goes way beyond Dulwich. Like it or not, the schools come with the Dulwich estate package/legacy and I would argue their wider impact on the area is more beneficial than detrimental.

grabot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Perhaps I could do more. Money's tight though. > Now if Dulwich Estate were to give me ?1,458,000, > I would certainly dig deep. Give and take and all > that... If Dulwich estate were to give you ?1.5 mil and said go run a school with minimal public fund support then I think you'd find it would go pretty quickly, even with fee income. And when it comes to "community", giving time and your day to day interactions in the space around you can have more impact than money...but let's moan about a non existing parking problem, and rich kids instead. I'm not defending Alleyns or the Dulwich Estate (which has many non-progressive policies that don't stack up) but without this legacy (quality schools, green parks /space, managed woods, sympathetic planning etc) Dulwich would just be another average part of SE London.

The only vaguely valid point I can pull out of the OP's rambling chip-on-shoulder rant is "Alleyns could do more for the community" which perhaps they could, but then couldn't we all? Parking? Perhaps it's a minor problem for about 30 minutes twice a day. For the rest of the time this is one of the quietest streets parking wise in East Dulwich. The OP sounds like the kind of person who'd shake a fist at the postman for leaving the front gate open or yell at their neighbours for leaving their bins out. I find their self-righteous NIMBY attitude more annoying than any school.

The question "How are you" by text is in itself deeply annoying unless it is qualified with something else. Even "How are you? Fancy a beer mould be fine. Alone it's so open and general and vague and yet quite personal. And when it's personal a beer is better.

You'd think but I reckon some out of towners actually do this. i.e. a novelty night in London.

Good to see though that with this crowd no guns were pulled in the Hamlets car park (for once).

It's quite a folkie thing though isn't it? In folk, jazz and acoustic blues clubs it's normal etiquette to not talk during quiet performances as you would in a play or theatre. This is basic respect to the performer. Different if its rock, Cajun, Zydeco, anything that you could dance to or on as mainly optional background music to a good night out.

I used to wake up regularly at 6am with the first flights but in the past 2 weeks it's definitely gotten earlier and is now starting at 4.30am. I've worked out it's Korean Air. The Feckers!