MrBen

Dulwich Mum.... She speaks the truth.

The iphone has a lovely user interface. I only know this because I have just splashed on the new iPod Touch which is a slimmer iphone 4, without the actual phone. So yes, I'm thawing. Two months ago I would have sworn by my Blackberry Bold 9700 - especially if you're a serious business user, for it's an awesome pocket emailing machine with a proper keyboard and battery life. That said I'm now on my third, and its dropping calls like a mother on newly congested London networks struggling to keep up with chaps like Sean playing Mockney Piers at scrabble on the 40 bus in. I think my next would be a new model HTC Android. I also still have a love for Nokia's which many still hold to have the best voice quality and most intuitive menu naviagtion. Go back to one now and marvel at a voice that does not sound like a dying dalek.

A large empty Stork Margarine tub used as tupperware. Inside you'll find a mixture of Jacobs club biscuits (with orange a particular favourite),Breakaways and 54321 bars (in 80's digital font). Casio calculator watches. Linda Lusardi.

Access the BBC website from within the US today you'll find huge adverts for Virginia Beach and the Columbia Business School.I guess a global presence doesn't pay for itself. New York City........:)-D

Spot the frustated words of a man who has spent the morning being dragged around to look at a series subsiding hen huts in Forest Hill for 500k.... On the plus side we found the best value lunch in SE22 - two courses for ?4.95 each at the excellent Si Mangia which was busy = value. :)-D

Mick's right. Save for a brief window post Lehman's to around summer 2009 a 3 bedder round here is only 5-10% down from peak prices. To get one you'll need a min 60K deposit + transactional costs + a combined household income of 180K = really bad value to live in a middling part of London. I keep wondering how many people in ED actually have this level of income? And I'm guessing many of those without the big cash deposit need to shift their flat first to get the equity (and flats are frozen at the moment). With the FTB market drying up as quids says then it's got to stick.....or fall gently (assuming stable low base rates). Yet still, in 2010, these Victorian 3 beds off the lane are being sold quickly with loft conversions in full flow. Who are these people? And where are they coming from because Clapham flats aren't shifting either....and I've yet to spot the deck shoes and chino's brigade.

I have the answer... Phil Collins.

....I was a catfish. Swimming in the deep blue sea, having all you pretty women fishin' after me.....

Anyone else annoyed with this Americanism infecting the British workplace? I'm doing some work for a London based customer of ours at the moment and constantly being asked to "reach out" to Briana in New York etc. It just sounds wrong with a British accent and its doing my head in. Where does it come from? What does it all mean? Please Stop!

I like my 90 year old Grandad. He still makes everyone laugh and has put up with my grandmother for 50 years without complaint. You'll forgive him for not exactly loving the Germans. What a trooper.

Aye - you have to be "up the crack of dawn" to get one. There's a certain type of customer at the paper shop between 8 and 9.30am Men with neatly clipped grey hair and golf sweaters, all about to wash their Vauxhall with a leather shammy.

I think I bumped into you once Quidsy once when we were both buying our Saturday Telegraphs...tripping over piles of the Guardian

I still remember the second one. Her name was Miranda and she had wonky big toes you could hold onto when required.

I once got dumped for being "too nice" and another time for having sex with two other girls in one day. You can't win.

It's so dimly lit in there, there could be anything lurking in those glass cases. I dare anyone to spend the night in there. On their tod.

"Soss" a tangy blend of brown sauce and vinegar is "the best" but is an East coast and central belt staple. This being the west highlands your basic salt and vinegar rules. As does a full written explanation of what haggis is for aged English tourists. Oban is like day of the living dead at the moment. And that's before the King Rib.

Good to have nearby but the Victorian glass cases of stuffed animals now look like some kind of freak show. Does anyone else find these exhibits freaky? Dead cats pickled in brine anyone? The ghostly eyes of a dead monkey forever staring in silent anguish? Cases of dusty lifeless butterflies? Its time has passed surely. Nice gardens though....

As Im currently in Scotland, deep fried capital of the world can I recommend a King Rib supper. Flavoured, mechanically recovered pork, shaped into a rib rack shape, deep fried in batter and covered in salt. With chips and washed down with Irn Bru, legs dangling off Oban pier watching the boats coming in with fresh cod, all bound for England.

He was unusual. A man with standards. And the formalities of a bygone generation. I had a good chat with him once about macro economics and modern capitalist greed. Swiftly followed by one about the potential effect of my wet umbrella on 320 gram card stock. He shall be missed.

The Gowlett sells Frazzles but expect to find Beef Monster Munch alongside - a predictably post modern choice but a good one. As for The Plough - all hail the Wasabi peanut - a true modern classic in the making no?

I'll see you down there Quidsy. For I'm going fly fishing and for that the west country is superb.....and if you know where to go, not a hooray or Jamie Oliver diffusion in sight. Just me, a burbling river, the wildlife and hopefully a nice meal and a birthday pint with at the Arundell Arms after....:)-D

I'm glad that you have brought this to attention *Bob*. Long thin rounded feckers that look more like capsules than proper seed shaped nuts we're all used to sprinkling on our salads. I would wager that a developing nation has discovered a new variety that they can get picked by slaves, export and sell more cheaply than normal "proper" pine nuts but ONLY IF they can get western european consumers to accept the new shape. What next? Square eggs?

Marie Claire Man of the Month, September 2002.:-$

Annasfield Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Crisps > > (Floral gums however are bloody lovely. I > currently have a 1/4 soaking in to a bottle of > absloute.(tu) We asked for your favourite chocolate or sweet and Anna said........."Crisps" *family fortunes style noise in the negative*

An ex work colleague of mine's brother met Jake Shears from the Scissor Sisters at the gym recently. He said he's a really nice guy but a bit shorter than expected. Also I once got mistaken for David Tennant by two old ladies having a cup of tea in the Oxo tower.