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I understand that Herne Hill Farmers Market now has organic buffalo butter, they keep the animials in a paddock in Brockwell park and you are allowed to hand milk them and churn your own product. Absolute delish. There are plans to introduce alpacas next.

Funny world, I almost admired Arlene Foster today for sticking to her principles, and caught one Tory backbencher saying he was supporting a softer Brexit as his constituents voted to leave political union, not the common market.

Indeed. Most upset. Saw them many times in the late 70s onwards, from their early days and in the Compton Arms in Lozells. And the school band supported them too.

I'm back. This is doing my head in. Emotions all over the place. From the 'how exciting, we are writing history' to the WTF and how did we get here. I've got to stop watching the BBC news and switch to Channel 4. Newsnight is fine. QT can just make me angry - although the one in Northern Ireland was much more rational/measured. I've got a job that is, well very much affected by Brexit. And colleagues are the same, every time there is a staff meeting and they turn to us and ask whether we have any questions, silence - (a) fatigue (b) bosses know no more than us. And then in the tea rooms off we go again, and we are all monitoring the situation out of the corner of our eyes. And at home passionate debates and arguments, even if we are all on the same side. Anyway, in a moment trying to rationalise all of this at work having an informed conversation with someone who appeared to be very balanced, and not emotive like me, the person says "Rees Mogg" bare-faced liar, Gove - ditto. I'll get a t-shirt printed. Now RM has taken all that a stage further. I've not spoken to the rabid in-laws in Tamworth about my emotions. So I may be accused of being boring, but perhaps many of us feel similar.

Oh sorry, my message seem to have been truncated. I resort to the BBC from time to time as you get a wonderful/frightening polarisation of views. Mostly throwing insults at each other. This one tickled me/was one of the more extreme. I loved the conjecture that those wishing to remain had no value (or worse still actually preyed on the rest of society). It's been a long day.

REMOANERS are self serving, arrogant parasites who make no meaningful contribution to life in the UK

And your view Mr/Ms/BTQ Teddy? Pray tell, I'd be most interested. How do you think this will all pan out? Are you throbbing hard, flaccid soft, or simply impotent (that the original definition - unable to take effective action; helpless or powerless.

I can't remember when I have had more fun, probably watching the score on teletext of a relegation battle in the 00s. It's 0-0. It's still 0-0. Or that coverage of the blinking competition on that satirical cartoon series again in the 00s. Anyway to be serious this is exciting and some light relief, it was 500 under a million a minute ago and is taking yonks to reboot. Damn, missed it, now 1,000,250, BTW.

A few poor showings though such as Lincolnshire and surprisingly Northern Ireland - many may be simply averse to doing online petitions, rather than supporters of a hard Brexit (although that will be the case for the former)

Oh and back to Farage - I was interviewed for work years ago on LBC. To do with consumer protection. I wanted to start off with a comment that "I didn't know that they still existed". It was a station that my relatives listened to in the 70s, and I thought it had gone off air when they made a poor joke about Pope John Paul 1 died in 1978 after only days in office. Is it transmitted just in the outer Boroughs and home counties?

Your in-laws seem simpler to work out than mine (sister's hubby) . The Head Brexiter is also a big fan of Corbyn which confuses me, as the in-law's politics seem more akin to UKIP (and certainly not Lexit). Confused or what. Doubt if he's on the march though (Brexit discussions have to avoided for the sake of some sort of family peace). I think he just likes stirring things up without caring of the outcome. Maybe there are many out there like that.

Thanks all, Carpetright the OKR stocks a reasonable selection and we are going for that - cheers for the offers of rolls of lino. Then the question is to glue (spray adhesive) or to double side tape.... I hope that this thread is a bit of light relief following everything else going on.... Although not exactly getting a lot of interest.

Probably because she will keep coming back using long extension (or if EU don't allow an extension, therefore alternative is no deal) as leverage. Is this too simplistic? It may all be interesting as an academic study/making history/uncharted territory but boy does this depress me and it is real people's lives that will be for the worse. Anyway don't answer the second point.

Civil not criminal law. Google your problem and plenty of advice about how to proceed. Only ring 101 when I am desperate and they take yonks to answer so I wouldn't waste their time. Write a letter, letters are great in this situation and tend to get more of a response than texts and e-mails. Trading Standards probably wont have resources to help (or even respond) and will generally refer you to the CAB. Ultimately Small Claims Court. Not a police matter unless there is harassment, threats, physical harm. But thanks for the distraction from Brexit.

Warning - Remoaner alert. I saw some MP from Essex urging MPs to vote against the no no vote. This would be a betrayal of democracy following the public's decision to leave the EU. Which got me thinking about the 48% who have had no proper representation by those who want to 'respect' democracy. Plenty to think about on the cycle home. So firstly the PM is not acting as a democrat but an autocrat. Not my original thought. But what other government would not care about a sizeable percentage of the population, with a high proportion of professionals, intellectuals artisans and the type (pomposity alert I also warn you). A crass comparison (and I am sure that you can also draw from Stalin), Pol Pot. The Khmer Rouge wanted to eliminate the professional classes, the current UK one wants to alienate many of them. KR wanted to take the country back to year zero. This government back to the 1950s. KR wanted to move to an agrarian economy. This one both secondary and primary production. OK all in bad taste, and probably replace 'the government' by some hard line Brexiteers. Anyway back to democracy - great statement by Benn about parliament asserted democracy. And dare I say Corbo came over decent. So back to my issue - government has not worked with pragmatic remainers (unless May is one) to come to a solution. Sadly my money is on her getting the third vote through.

Good stuff. Meanwhile VW have an ad with a large SUV and a dad driving a kid to school. The roads are empty (selling the lifestyle) and all the other kids are walking. Got a lot to do to win the masses over.

I worked for M&B once, the mild was great but Brew XI sucked. https://www.beer-coasters.eu/en/beer-coasters-collection/mitchell-butlers-5-oboje-small.html

Camels and goats will come in great following Brexit to trade with our new partners. I'm stocking up on fags which I expect will be a pretty stable currency. To return to the subject, I do look at my statements and they have a long list of small payments. I therefore try to continue to use cash just because this is an annoyance. 9/10 bar staff just offer me the card machine. There's a bigger issue in that 9/10 bar staff can neither add up and many don't necessarily key in the right prices. With cash at least I can know how much - as often I'm not told. But when I know it is an expensive place I just go with the card in any case as it doesn't seem to hurt as much. I'm wondering, seriously, whether pubs and bars have been able to put prices up simply as so few people seem to know the cost of a round or perhaps don't care, some colleagues of the younger persuasion are shocked that I question the price, and from time to time I am right. I go on holiday abroad with heaps of cash as generally the rates up in Victoria Street are so much better than any other way of changing money - we all of course got Flex accounts a few years ago when this gave you small commission on holes in the wall, which was suddenly dropped after we had all switched. The Flex plus or whatever it is called just abouts makes sense with the free breakdown and travel insurance, and gives this benefit. Apols for meandering.

Got hailstones sliding down my windows and flashes of thunder. Look I am really sorry if I have upset someone. The hailstones are truly of biblical proportion. Talk about the end of the world......

Now I've got my Brexit rant out of the way onto more mundane things. I'm on my hands and knees removing some marmoleum. It was a great idea when we had it professionally laid but now long past its sell by date. The ply I put down will come up a treat once I have scraped off the glue and made good. Planning to put down some old school vinyl which will be cheap and functional and can be easily replaced if we want to upgrade to something more trendy and contemporary. Found out that it is so out of fashion that it is not stocked widely any more. I've used LVT which is great, but not going to do that here. Anyone views or recommendations and experience they want to share? I expect that I'm looking to small cheaper carpet shops as this is too low taste for the upmarket places. Place in Catford does the stuff for clinics and places where sanitation is important but don't need industrial scale. Mot doing Kardean or similar, or doing wood effect.

So it may be dumb to paint out all people who voted leave as racist. But a proportion are. And I'm not going to start hugging a racist now and tell them I understand. Fine that we are in our metropolitan bubble. But when I visit some of my family and they start offering their views up unsolicited (I'm talking before referendum now) about Muslims and eastern Europeans (they've moved onto being equal opportunity racists now and its not just Jamaicans). We are a polarised nation - and 8 years of austerity have simply made things worse. Underlying causes etc etc not simply leave the EU. Tom Robinson not Tommy Robinson.

I assume that you had a vote about whether to have the tooth removed or not John, even though it was reasonably healthy. Even though you were advised by someone who knew more about dentistry than you to keep it as it was, you considered that it would be better to go back to the 1950s when teeth were worse but we were all happier, so you voted to do yourself a massive bit of self harm. Your dentist tried to come up with a deal where the tooth was saved but painted black, not as good as before but would give some semblance of life after after the end of rationing, but you thought that your dentist was just trying to save face and more interested in their own career so on the advice of a traditionalist old Etonian you yanked it out yourself. The amount of self harm is difficult to judge. There are those oral health moaners who says you will also lose a lot of blood and possibly never function properly again. But the traditionalist believe it is a price worth paying for giving the experts, and particularly the do-gooders, one in the eye. And you delivered the result of your own vote.

Apols - the hard work had been done before we moved in, ie a slight extension of the room (meter boxes etc were not in the way) and more importantly the waste pipe, which had been dug under the house into the back yard - but at a time the side extension was built. Size wise it works and the combined toilet and sink helps. https://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/seattle-combined-two-in-one-wash-basin-toilet?campaign=googlebase&gclid=Cj0KCQiAn4PkBRCDARIsAGHmH3cFhSWWdn9nH-5u-Y8RlqOIPqxO7An_7zJsfoDH9Pij2o7NF4x5ulMaAg0wEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Yes, combined toilet and sink (B&Q do one) to save space. Good. DIY all in less than a grand. spose you could x this by 2 - 5 for professional job. I'll see if I can share a photo without giving my id away!

My apologies I should have used the description of recent postings as superficial, rather than boring. I am in deed boring as I am rather repetitive. But pleased to see that I did not cause offence. And yes, I am an absolute riot at parties. Please feel free to invite me. Worried that there is some sort of virus though, or botnet, as my posts appear to get an instant but irrelevant response.