malumbu

Sand along the grain staring course (maybe 80 grit) going down to much finer abrasive paper (say 400). Stain my hide some of the marks, ultimately you can bleach the whole thing and then start again with a colour. Rubbing hard generates heat which can also help remove the marks. Fine wood will be French Polished which is great fun to do, but a bit of a labour of love. Your wood looks courser. Modern polyurathane is good and water based, sand down very slightly with some 'flour paper' (very fine abrasive) then it will take wax well. Or use the professional spary on laqueur. http://www.wood-finishes-direct.com/blog/types-of-wood-finishes-making-wood-beautiful/ I've had no issues with polyeurathane on a 1930 solid oak table The difficulty is since we joined the EU no one learns anything practical any more at school due to health and safety. I am being facetious but it is a shame there isn't more hands on stuff for kids. Perhaps do yourself a favour and enrol on a relevant night school class. But ... (a) whilst it is good getting recommendations from social media nothing beats a good book (or in modern days a good Google) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Guide-Repairing-Restoring-Furniture/dp/1780191448 (b) Go to one of the few shops around that can still advise - maybe Whitten Timber (sometimes) but Myalands in West Norwood is the bees knees http://www.mylands.co.uk/

Odd question. ?70 quote. Collectively if we costed our time at ?25 an hour the loss of productivity as the thread is considered and replied to costs more than the quote. I am multitasking watching Pointless so my great views come free. Did work in a paint factory once and opacity (ie coverage) varies greatly by colour and by make. High quality whites with titanium dioxide as the pigment cover very well. But why not have a ditch auction, force the cost down to a few quid, cash in hand, that someone working illegally living in a squat does, and then have a thread complaining when it all goes wrong.

Slightly off topic but would be interesting to know... We have, and will continue to have, a brain drain in some professions (NHS the prime example) We therefore attract talent from overseas. What does Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Latvia, The Philippians etc do to address there brain drain. Not really an in or our issue, but for example would immigration be reversed if there were incentives from original countries? Love India's approach which is to train up enough brains for domestic and overseas demand!

Speaking in the abstract here. I was tempted to say that Hitler was misunderstood! Never even looked at their manifestation; just aware that even the most nastiest of political parties think that they are the party of the people. So much of what has been raised in the debate has nowt to do with the EU and is dependent on domestic politics. The main reason the last lot delivered anything on the environment was due to the Lib Dems, now they have gone..... root Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > malumbu Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > UKIP has some nice policies - so they can cover > > all the bases. They will never get in so it is > > irrelevant but it makes the seem nicer. > > such as their environmental pillage policies?

Hadn't realised that EDT was Antic. My last memories were when the cabaret departed and when it was paint bombed. Worth looking at all the reviews as they are very polarised and some of them highly amusing if not PC: http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/comments.shtml/2877/

I missed a flight getting the 5am train from Liverpool Street. It was cancelled with no announcements (I would have jumped in a cab otherwise), the 5.30 was packed, it did a SPAD (look it up), it is not an Express service etc etc. The then operator were in total deniel. I'd rather go on the cheap nasty coach services. Just a personal view I hasten to add. And I work in transport! Good luck.

UKIP has some nice policies - so they can cover all the bases. They will never get in so it is irrelevant but it makes the seem nicer. Not sure I ever saw the nice side of Thatch. Actually I am sure that I never saw a nice side.

Thanks for bringing him to the Goose Sue. Guardian has some nice articles for those who were unaware of this genius folk fiddle player. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/03/dave-swarbrick-dies-at-75-fiddler-fairport-convention

Get a cab or early train to Stratford and jump on the bus. It is a bit scuzzy but will be fairly quick at that time.

Sorry wasn't meaning to sound disrespectful. He shoujld be as much remembered for his equal rights campaigning as his sporting ability. Media coverage is already suggesting this, and hope that everyone under 30 will now understand the importance in this respect.

Has he? Didn't notice. Please be a little more imaginative with the title eg - sad news or celbrating the life of a great man

Ivy is a relatively unspoiled mid 20th century pub with a stage. It's lost it's billiad tables, and needs the fourth bar reinstating. Most of the interior is still the same, and most importantly it has full height urinals. It has been rebuilt and remodelled many times no doubt. It's even lost its original name. It is not a Dickensian coaching inn, early Vicotorian, high Victorian, Gin Palace, Edwardian, back room with a hatch, etc etc boozer. But what is not traditional? Oh it isn't frequented by middle aged men desparate to get away from the missis, it has too many beers, it certainly has too many fancy beers, it doesn't do pickled eggs etc etc. But my view of an earlier 70s pub clientele wouldn't be very successful today. You are welcome to your SE22 pubs. Good luck.

Three pubs that did good business and were in prime locations - the Rye Hotel, the Dulwich Woodhouse, The Greyhound. But the powers that be decided they could do even more business by becoming restaurants/hotels. And two of them changing names. There is sweet FA to include value to the community. Too late in ED. Thank fac the last lot came up with ACVs. The Big Society thing is a sham (either it was happening already or it woudl never happen). But let's recognise some good things that came out of it. Irony that the Ivy was asved by a mainly group of middle aged people who recognised its value but in part no doubt to keep afloat it attracts hipsters from miles around. Good timing though looking at the rate of gentrification. My fave pub in central London, the Speaker, has a sign up saying if you are on your phone you wont get served. Nice one. http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/18/1898/Speaker/Westminster

We've reflected on 66 and 70 and there is plenty of stuff on 96 at the moment. Spare a thought for 73-74 where sadly it was two famous stalwarts - Bobby Moore and Peter Shilton, who got us kicked out (although some would argue it was the 0-0 against Wales). Good footage here on the two Poland matches (one follows on automatically) England being kicked out was unbelievable to me as a 12 year old.

As I regularly point out you have to go elsewhere for a trad boozer - Blythe or Ivy. In this respect East Dulwich is a desert. You can also try the Chandos in Honor Oak if you want an old school pub with TV, lager and stares. The General Napier could be like the Chandos, but could be like the Blythe, and doesn't know which way to go. The Foresters aka All in One is reasonable as well and has some lovely architecture being a 1940s pub bolted onto a Victorian one. Chandos definitely ticks the boxes for edgy.

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > SE23 exile makes a good point. But he also, > inadvertently, demonstrates the weakness of this > site. > > To start with the subject matter. I similarly used > to post on SE23 but gave up due to the draconian > controls. Posts being delayed, amended, or just > not put on at all. Threads being moved to the 4 > O'clock in the morning slot, where no one will > ever read them. New threads being started from an > existing discussion by the webmaster, and killing > a conversation dead. The forum appears to be run > as a personal Fiefdom by someone who does not > understand (or have any) sense of humour or fun. > And is not open to any challenge either via the > site or by personal communication. This is > therefore not a community thread > > The has led to a turgid and unimaginative site, > obsessed by train times and house prices, and > dominated by a few individuals with too much time > on their hands. Most of the creativity of a few > years ago appears to have gone. I guess from my > knowledge exile you may be Baboonery, Bigbadwoolf > or Toffee Jim. > > Now this forum is in deed much more exciting. But > too often you go off track into banal and/or > juvenille discussions totally off thread. Witness > this above as you go quickly off thread. > Censorship (as with SE23.com) is out of order, but > I don't know why you lot act so childish at times > (queue a new thread). And from the disrespect to > women there seem to be a lot of Liam Gallagher > disciples out there. > > Perhaps the Sydehham Town Forum has got the right > balacne between moderation and free speach. I was really impressed with the above posting and even more surprised that it was from me. Sadly six years later you lot still go off thread so quickly, as I am doing here. Good post though Malumbu

Best Guinness is of course in the Blythe. I used to prefer Murphys but aint seen that for years. But neither are proper ales and there were plenty of porters and proper stouts around before everything was rebranded as craft ale bollox. So back to my history Snake bite was generally drunk when the ale was bad. Funny how horrid larger and horrid cider could taste ok together. Ditto for poor man's black velvet - Guinness and cider aka diesel. Horrified when I first came to London and they tried to put blackcurrant into my snake bite (even worse, pernod - 'purple nasty'). They also used to serve larger and blackcurrant when I was a kid (as well as larger and lime) so sod anyone who thinks alcopopos are a recent thing. Most pubs wouldn't do the latter as it discoloured the slops that went back into the dark mild cask. We used to serve 'mixed' (bitter and dark mild), Micky Mouse (larger and bitter) and Donald Duck (larger and mild). Not heard of those for ages. when I was more of a boozer and tried to max out on free drinks when they were then provided on short haul flights I used to ask for Baileys ane brandy (and perhaps Tia Maria?). Briefly also tried Special Brew and barley wine. Good heavens. Not exactly the world/league of Ollie Reed and Richard Harris though.

All this reminds me of a motorbike accident in Jersey in 1982. A Riley Elf turned right across me and over the handlebars I went. What's a Riley Elf I hear many of you say. Well there was also a Wolsley Hornet. http://www.classicandsportscar.ltd.uk/Wolseley-in-our-showroom Great days when BL kept some of their old brands for more exotic versiiion of their range - in this case a couuple of odd looking minis. Shame BMW couldn't do anything more exotic with the new mini. Second car was a Dodge Avenger. A Hilman Avenger with a Dodge badge on it. Never found out why it had a Dodge badge on it (Dodge and Hillman then being in the Chrysler empire - it wasn't a South African model as they were made out there)

Caroline is great. She has a similar name to my sister (Carolyn vs Caroline). Not a fan of Mike at Ryanair, but at last he has realised that customer satisfaction is a good thing.

I've been watching footy for almost 45 years. Leicester fans were always a bit dodgy, but not sure about their relationship with Sunderland. I expect by the finishes of both teams at the top and bottom of the Prem they's just have a celebration rather than any punch up

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The best song about football ever. > > Good local boys who support the Palace. Let that be a lesson to you all glory hunters. (I Ludicrous, who I sort of know through a couple of degrees of separation)

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > [Monkeys] Wow! There was a nice surprise

Wolseley - now we are talking (although in my dad had one of those) So onto dad - First car I remember was a Khaki Morris 1800 (aka land crab) - there was an Morris Oxford before that but I only recall that in photos Followed by a Wolseley 16/60 - auto gearbox always going wrong and car flooding on starting Then another 1800 - green Austin Followed by ..... a flame Austin Allegro. All down hill for Leyland then. I quite liked its quirkyness but of course it was rubbish - failed clutches, failed engine, overheating, soft suspension and body rot. But great square steering wheel

Salsaboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh bloody hell - I had a Morris Marina as a first > car when I was 18. *Hangs head in shame* Totally underated car. Very simple if sligtly agriculutral. If it could have broken the Cortina's monopoly on the company car who knows how successful it could have been. So it is 1987. My mate has an 1800 green metalic coupe. Some one pulls out of a side road into him. Mate says insurance details please. Scally says 'no insurance wack' (It was genuinely Liverpool). Mate says either we call the police or you pay me the value of the car (maybe ?500 on a good day). Scally says OK I'll pay. ?1000? No ?950. Deal. And mate gets the cash a few days later, expecting a cosh over the head not cash in his hand. Malumbu gets the car for ?50. A few trips to the scrap yard, some paint from Halfords and bobs your uncle. Sadly three years later another mate ploughs it into the back of a pile up on the M1. 8 other cars drive away, one dead Marina. Fine car.

Wowsy - any of us brave enough to try this? I've now started to use Skycanner and there are some alternatives during busy times which work if you are prepared to add a few hours onto your journey. Also like this one Use the Easyjet refund trick to get the difference if the price drops after you've booked.If you've booked a flight with Easyjet, check the price afterwards to see if it drops. The airline's little-known price promise guarantees that if you do find the same flight for less after booking, you'll get the difference back as a credit voucher. You'll need to have booked direct though and you won?t get the difference back if the lower price you?ve found is a sale price.