dulwichmum

Annita Roddick's daughter has recently lost her mother. So she went off on a tangent a little more publicly than many have the opportunity to. She is probably highly embarassed now. A little compassion is a wonderful thing.

Oh Kalam darling, can I offer you a hot toddy? You sound exhausted...

Pass your glass darling, I am already on the sauce!

I love the idea of the Kindle, because I read newspapers and magazines all the time and I hate getting off the bus looking like a coal miner because of the black ink coming off everywhere. Teenagers are so accustomed to using things like MSN and texts and downloading music, I can see E books really catching on with them. I like the idea of keeping a Kindle for ages and not having to pop my old newspapers and magazines in the recycling every morning. Also not having to miss the bus because I am in the shop buying my paper in the morning. I think reading books would be a bit of a hardship on a Kindle thingy, I love to read a certain number of chapters at each sitting. E books should be great for kids who have to carry lots of books to school. Imagine not having to lug great text books everywhere. I read that it will be difficult to search withing the book for particular quotes or characters - but it is only a matter of time, as with all technology. I love Ants suggestion of putting the pages on shuffle!

OHMYGOD! I drank that last bottle of Krug too quickly, I have one of my heads... Interesting er... tassles you are wearing there Peckhamgatecrasher, but would they not be better worn under your kaftan?

Why darling Moos - you look like a welder in those glasses! This is my favourite kind of glass. Anyone for Krug? http://epicurious.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/30/champagne_glass_on_black.jpg

Passes large bottle of rum to Kalam from behind screen. "The kids have gone back to school - lets party!"

Darling Huguenot, It is impossible to deliver "clinical excellence" without listening to the patient. Everything that a clinician does, from assessment, diagnosis to treatment depends on their ability to listen. People are not machines. Sometimes - particularly vulnerable or elderly patients require a little time to "warm up", to establish a rapport, before they wade in and tell you about an embarassing condition or symptom. No clinician can claim to deliver "clinical excellence" without the ability to take a history and communication skills are a large part of medical training.

OHMYGOD! My mascarra is all over my cheeks. Now I must go back upstairs to prepare for my day all over again (sigh). Do you think that they still sell them in Harrods? NOTE TO SELF: Have PA telephone Harrods first things this morning.

Oh Beazo darling, how frightful. And a Lidl bag - OHMYGOD. A good beating with the stick for even smiling in your direction, but the idea of touching you with his vile sticky foot! How VERY dare he? You must be shaking like a leaf. Was there no-one else on the carriage to give him a severe beating? Please call the police and tell them that he followed you. He cannot be permitted to continue with this antisocial behaviour. He must be apprehended.

Help yourself darling!

Here, have a bottle. I am stinking rich afterall...(hic)

Why no, dear Macroban. Please do tell all...

Dulwich is paradise, how dare anyone say anything else at all ever. Have these people ever been to Lambeth? OHMYGOD!!!

Wouldn't it be far better if we had The Peoples Republic of Dulwich? I mean, we are such a super perfect and divine oasis of green loveliness here in SE21/22 - nothing at all like our neighbouring Southwark areas of Peckham (OHMYGOD) Forest Hill (yawn) Camberwell (yikes), Herne Hill (snore) or Norwood (inhales sharply...) which is only Lambeth and should not be permitted to be our neighbour at all. Why don't we campaign to have Dulwich turned into a gated community? We could build an enormous wall (I believe that they once had similar in Berlin and Belfast) sigh. I feel sure it could work. We could pay some small extra tax to for beefy men to patrol the perimeter with big dogs - darling Chavlet avec a law degree is sure to be able to suggest some burley boys(swoon)! Does anyone fancy a G&T?

I will have you know that I look completely stunning - indeed, I have put on a pound or two from trying to eat my body weight in Superquinn sausages but my personal hygiene has never been lacking (GASP). Lets get to the bubbles, I have been dying for a drink! Pass me your glass CitizenED...

Wafts into Quiet Room in new Allegra Hicks Kaftan, looking fabulous and rested from super holiday. Cracks open bottle of Krug, and looks around for chums...

Mr MacGabhan! OHMYGOD!!! You have been sexually assaulted, and in typical Irish fashion, you are hiding your self blame and disgust behind a tissue of bravado. These two women (if indeed they were female) should be ashamed of themselves, you an Irish Roman Catholic boy with a devoted girl friend and everything. I myself was not even in the country at the time, and myself and the au pair were no-where at all near Lordship Lane... It sounds to me that East Dulwich is turning into a depraved version of Faliraki (gasp).

No conversation on Wales would be complete without this slide show. A complete MUST see...

And you would know exactly what that looks like, would you Macroban?

Oh I see! Thanks Kalam. I think I need some coffee...

Would anyone like to join me for gin on their cornflakes?

OHMYGOD - I am quite the air head. I don't understand... I may be forced to open a bottle of Chablis - I am trembling, please explain (sob).

*Swoon*

Shame on the lot of you. There you are on Saturdays, lining up outside William Rose, claiming to love animals. "Oh it simply must be free range, it tastes so much happier." I shall inform Father O'Connor on the lot of you. I cant say that I am shocked about New Zealanders with their special gloves. I once had a flat mate from Christchurch whose favourite dish was home cooked "tongue roll." She and her friends never bought a toilet roll between the lot of them. They are a nation of unkempt barbarians in check shirts and that is just the women (sigh).