MrBen

I've kind of switched off the telly and have become a bit of a radio geek, especially DAB stuff (6 Music etc) and weird online stations from far flung corners. The amateurish but eclectic WWOZ Jazz, local to New Orleans, tops my current list along with strange preacher, gospel stuff from the deep south. I've always had a particular soft spot for those old looking radios like the vintage Roberts series and secretly wish they could recreate a comforting hiss with DAB. Anyways...my current DAB set is great for most things but for the online stuff I don't love streaming radio through any kind of mac or PC. It's somehow not the same. So has any one got any experience with wifi radios and if so, tips on a decent one? I thought my dream set would be this one, a combined DAB/Wifi from Roberts in retro styling but it's had mixed reviews for usability? I'd like presets and a line in and ideally, something that doesn't look like the dashboard of a Boeing 747. A second option is to stream my Ipod touch (using TuneIn radio) into a standard Roberts DAB which is kind of cheating but might give me the same effect....! Any pointers much appreciated.

It's really weird how one person can get savaged and someone lying next to you emerges unscathed? My lady clearly has something in her blood - she never gets bitten. Whereas they dine out on me on a regular basis. Up in the highlands, the burliest locals swear by Avons Skin so soft and it's sold at petrol stations solely for this reason. It works with regular application but downside is that you'l smell a bit like an old lady.

The Plough is so much better than it's old carnation lest not forget....

It's true that the perception of crime amongst victims is very different from those who have been lucky enough to avoid it. I've had a knife pulled on me twice (Stirling and.... bit of a switch... New Orleans). Two ribs fractured, wallet and phone nicked and beaten up in a mugging (Whateley Road eight months back). And burgled (Landells Road last year). Four shootings less than 100 yards from my old flat since 2004 (Barry Road / Underhill, Crystal Palace Rd Post office. Barry Road again (murder). I was in the Actress by Lacon Road when that one happened. So forgive me but it does give you a heightened awareness...a sixth sense. Tonight being no exception when watching 4 kids walk past Franklins...body language...attitude and 20 mins later 6 police cars and a taped off road. It's always been here. But my perception is that it is getting worse.

So the end is nigh. The endless loops on Sky News are like watching a car crash in slow mo. "Supporters" revealing their true colours, the denial that all dictators seem to take to the bitter end. A needlessly defiant last stand from a deluded home guard. Is there any way out alive for Muammar? I can't see a physical route to exile in Angola or elsewhere, so its surely death or The Hague. He's clearly bonkers so based on past form what's most likely?

I did, right on the SE21 border....and after entering sealed bids with seven others and falling 120k short to a man with an expensive car, I realised the error of my ways. Does anyone else love North Dulwich railway station? It feels like an old Enid Blyton village station with all those birds singing, the urban roar muffled by ancient oaks and the gentle pop of a ball on grass at Dulwich tennis club. If waiting for a slow train on a sunny summers day could ever be relaxing then it doesn't get much better. I reckon they need a man in whites pouring cold G&T's and it would be about perfect.

And I'll stick my neck out and say what any reasonable person reading this thread is thinking. Fazer71 = knobhead

Senor Chevalier Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I would also comment that the light fittings were > rather unattractive - they cast a good focussed > light and seemed to be very flexible in terms of > adjustments, don't get me wrong, but the fittings > themselves were rather vulgar and distracted from > the overall ambience. > > Function over form it seems which is not what I > necessarily would have expected from Italians... I'd happily take a well focussed light over a vulgar fitting anyday rather than the other way round. I'd also put a new place opening in a recession that many people enjoy ahead of an empty premises. This thread is getting really tiresome now. Opening a new business is hard enough as is it at the moment without all this tosh.

I guess that ( if any of it actually matters a jot) it comes down to whether you wish to draw your boundaries by the Royal Mail, electoral ward, Freeholder or the Church. As an atheist Green Party voter, I'll go by postcode and suggest that Dovercourt/Woodwarde Roads are both SE22 and so are East Dulwich. Some residents think of this area as Dulwich Village but only in the same way those on streets like Oglander, Peckham Rye might say they live in ED. ie. it's a more logical descriptor (for various catchment reasons like Schools etc). Other times it's probably Hyacinth Bucket stuff. Nice enough houses......leafy, big gardens, 5 mins from the Mag / Butchers, ditto the park, 10 mins walk from North Dulwich station or a few mins to LL buses. If pushed, I could probably live there.

Explanation - I've been stuck on a train with two copies of last weeks Metro. It's gone to my head and I'm shortly about to gnaw my left fist off.

PGC - to the right of the curve, yes, but your opinions are always most welcome here. We appreciate the wisdom and "life experience" of the senior generation. You are also generally happier and more likely to be satisfied in the bedroom department. Welcome!

You're an outrider Brendan. To the left of the bell curve. The more posts you have the closer the correlation. I've checked and just fired it through a three dimensional cube and applied a standard mean deviation. I've even included those who have experienced online "rebirth" and added their old totals to the new ones. I plan to add two further parameters around level of anger and early 40 something sexual frustration shortly.

It was the hoodie Jezza. I got asked to leave there once and haven't been back since.... but that should not stop you from having an enjoyable birthday there. Most people on here are 38-42 years old and so we're probably all just a bit grizzled and jealous. Have fun and happy bithday.

I always admire your uplifting deconstruction of the middle class dream Ted.

For clarification, this involved a car journey from East Dulwich to Glasgow and a night at the Premier Inn. The ticket was "on the house".

A friend of mine once asked if I'd like to travel up to Glasgow with him and his missus to see them play the SECC. I recall disbelief followed by unexpected nausea. Actually... I feel sick now just writing this.

EDF in predictable hackles up to possible rival forum shocker. Whilst I have my doubts as to why this would succeed, is competition not the lifeblood of progress? Nette - I think you'll find it is F&B Cooking Apple Green or Vert de Terre. Which incidentally is almost the same colour as the founders rather smart front door in central ED. I'm rather relieved that the Streetview car seemed to miss my house completely.....

Don't worry Mick. At Christmas my Dad told me how much my stepmum was getting into her Kimball. I was amazed at her interest in the godfather of data warehouse design (and the third normal form) until she pulled out the eponymous ebook reader. Also, my Dad also once asked me who played GARTH Vader in Star Wars.

I now visit my rather lame Facebook page about three times a year and it's going to die very soon. Strangely, I found I started actively disliking lots of people whom I actually like and respect in real life. You can be too connected. It's days are numbered. And if you are an EDF hipster you really have no excuses. It's evil.

Trains ARE running to Lon Bridge from Peckham Rye and Queens Road. No probs as at 7.10am

Trains are running fine through North and East Dulwich. They're currently on time too.

There something of the EDF hipster > mass market > not hip anymore happening here? Like those certain beaches of Thailand, Glastonbury and probably parts of Hoxton in 1989, it was all great until it was somehow decided that lesser sophisticates had got in on the act. Instead, I'd like to write something sensible and intelligent about once good businesses losing their way when confronted with ?? signs but I'm on holiday (staycation in rainy Lochinver hipsters).

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yep, an extra half hour of sleep is a pretty good > reason for not going into work early... True Jezza. You need the nine to fivers, happy with their lot, not pushing it... to keep the evil capitalists humming along. Perhaps the thing to be is a lazy capitalist?

You got me wrong. Murdoch deserves to lose BSkyB and no mistake.

But back to Murdoch... He has enough enemies who have waited in the shadows long enough that he'll be shafted in his efforts for control of BSkyB. Whatever he does now he's lost it.