Earl Aelfheah

I'm pretty sure the Sunday Times mention Iceland and Speedo Pizza.

Ha, I wondered how long it would take you Louisa.

Quite right too.

I'm in favour of 'interference' (???s term not mine) by the way.

I don't think it would be considered regulation, but certainly interference, yes.

An unregulated free market is an oxymoron. Markets left to their own devices will always move towards monopoly / oligopoly.

Yes, something crazy like a maximum loan to value (gasp). But instead we have 90% mortgages underwritten by the taxpayer. StraferJack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > it's almost as if some sort of regulation were > needed > > imagine the outcry tho'

Big up da Barber

Years from now, as alien explorers pick through the wreckage of planet earth, someone will look back at the lost civilisation of Humans and rue the apparently innocuous trigger point for all the terrible horrors that were to follow... the Picturehouse Dulwich.

My car broke down this morning. Apparently all the parking stress finally got to it. Inconsolable.

I did say a likeable one. Maybe troll's the wrong word. Certainly mischievous... ???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A troll is far too miserable and malovent(sp) a > term for Louisa - I think she is an excelent wind > up merchant though....

Louisa is a troll, but not a dangerous one, quite a likeable one.... like this perhaps:

EDBangers?

Edsters

Pizzahut advertise the above product with the tag line "now add bacon". Well indeed, why not?

I thought that the escalating arms race in pizza crusts had reached its zenith with the hotdog stuffed crust, but no. I give you the cheeseburger stuffed crust pizza: Bam!

Lyndhurst Grove: I love this song, but Jarvis doesn't mention the pot holes.

I am a sucker for a good map. Thanks for the links.

Don't buy anything on the door step.

Fundamentally, they have taken on far too many patients (and continue to do so).

... and actually in most parts of London prices are already above what they were then.

I keep hearing how (in some areas) prices still haven't returned to 07 prices. But surely that's a good thing? 2007 was the last time that the market was dangerously overheated. DaveR Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In particular, in much of the UK (and in > many parts of Greater London) prices remain flat > and have not returned to 07 prices

Any news on Waitrose? ☺

Banks are right to want a 20% deposit.

But the point is government policy aimed at pumping up prices is (IMO) a bad idea. The fact that the policy is only just starting to take effect in the north where they have not *yet* seen a bubble doesn't make things any better. We were told that there was going to be a different type of economy. Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > rahrahrah Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > the government has actively > > cajoled banks to relax their lending criteria > > Yeah but you have to remember that there's more to > the UK than just London. In particular, there's > this place called "The North" where housing has > been much slower to pick up since the recession.