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Thanks to the one PM I received. It a housing issue I hasten to add. More interest would be nice, although pleased that no one has yet called me a nimby or had other digs at me.

I neeed to move into the mid 2010s but don't want to increase my very low monthly charge. Views on entry level smart phones please. I was a very early adopter funnily enough of mobile telephony but unlike my kids still see it as the means to speak to people on the odd occasion.

Just to add some personal balance I did enjoy Chic last night and was pleased most of the audience they got on stage were fat and middle aged (ie that this appealed to the righ people rather than kids raiding their parents' music collection). Funnily enough as a punk I hated that late 70s disco at the time. Ah the wisdom of age. But then a reality check with a dreadful interview on BBC news this morning with a festival goer who did not fit any stereotypes with words being put into her mouth about the bands and how wonderful the Stones will be.

I think my views have been well represented. Its a young people's festival, have young people's music. Plenty of space to accommodate old f'ckers like me in the other stages. Phoned the beeb up once to tell them to get that old f'cker Macka off the the telly when he was doing the headline a few years ago. Chris Evans is only slightly younger than me but has never been before until they accommodated his radio programme and One Show on it today. He thought it was a bi-enniel festival, really well informed eh? To his credit at least he didn't call it 'Glasto' as I stick my fingers down my throat. I'm trying Greenbelt this year. I may have been interested in the Big Chill but it was cancelled again. Got a shed load of NME's in the loft, if you look on e-bay you can frame the pictures and sell them for a reasonable amount. I could never complete the crossword, and found many of the articles too long (and bloody difficult to comprehend). But it was the thing to buy each Thursday.

Cyled through Peckham for ten years. Incidents = someone through a ball at me once The obvious looting/riots of 2011 Two guys wanting to have a fight, and shop keepers breaking it up (very positive multi-ethnic stuff) Shoplifters being stopped by the middle aged guard at a luggage shop and threatening to smash the place up with a breeze block. It was at a time when the pedestrianised area was being dug up so the whole place was crowded with shoppers. Generally nowt much happening.

What's CBT please? Yes I know I can Google it. I've had lots of contact with people over the years suffering depression, bipolar etc, and medication has often been lithium to 'restore balance' - I see this has already been discussed on the thread. They used to use ECT when I was briefly doing a summer job in a pyschiactric hospital which appeared inhumane but apparently does some good,

A local authority that is not Southwark appeared to have made a complete hash of a planning matter. I wont go into details but it would be nice to get some legal advice, or informed opinion. This goes back a number of years and I have been fleeced by lawyers and have also looked to other avenues including the organisations who advise on such matters and some help from civic societies. Some recent correspondence has shocked me in what appears to be total incompetence and a reversal of what looked to be a legally sound decision. This may be one for the Local Authority Omubudsman and I have also alerterted the solicitors who acted for me before (although no more money). The term fleeced is rather stronge but it was rather costly. Happy to share more by PM. I did try to involve local press, broadsheets, and also Private Eye (Rotten Boroughs) but perhaps it was not newsworthy enough. Not sure how else to 'whistle blow'. The correspondence is short, at times beligerent, and most importantly on the public record, and speaks for itself. There has been plenty of correspondence with the planning autority, legal department, complaints procedures etc but the correspondence that has now come to light adds a new dimension on all of this. I hope that I am not coming over as obsessed. Don't answer that.

Used the takeaway once, it was rubbish. The restaurant is of course a different kettle of fish.

I did silly amounts of research at Xmas and found problems with every bally tablet - particularly as they want to snare you into their traps. I consider Apple as virtually a closed market, both in terms of competition and the controls on the retail price. Post above echoes some of this. Selling at a higher cost (and Kindle as well) to the Eurpean market smacks of hypocracy from the land of free trade (Harley Davison are only in business due to the money the State pumped into them and punative taxation on large imported motorbikes back in the day). Something good to be said about the EU in a level playing field. Some of the more informative reviews on Amazon were helpful. I ended up buying the family an Ipad and managed to squeeze a few quid out of the Apple store in convincing them that I could get a discount (bally hard work). Mind you the ipod thingy does all the stuff the iphone seems to do apart from calls and texts at a third of the cost. People cross the road when they see my three year old non smart mobile phone to avoid the embarassment.

Oh Brother Where Art Thou Big Good call on Gregory's Girl

Thanks to all in particular Woodrot. Going to the PC doctors as they only charge a score, and I will report back. Note comments on AV and will probably follow advice. BW

Well I had Brockley beer out of a cask. Is that craft ale? I am not particularly fond on the term real ale but that is convenient as a loose description. If Brockley describe it as craft ale to get more ED Yuppies to drink it good on them. My view of craft ale was that is was keg, or bottled after being killed first. OK in small quantitities (sic) but not as a regular tipple. People are talking out of their arses about how wonderful Punk IPA is hence my knee jerk reaction. Not sure how anyone can talk about John Smiths in any sensible thread. Greene King, Bombadier and others have gone or are going that way. Doom bar....... ugh. Annette dear, you are still flirting with me. I am truly flattered. I was trying to talk to my friends in Lordship Lane Carpets last weekend about our conversations but couldn't find any sales people. Sadly the latter was true. Oh and I have just had a couple of pints of Wherry in a cental London pub. That was wherry wherry nice. Now flowery beer. Fine first or second time then yuk. And as for beer festivals never enjoyed the GBBF in Earls Court/Olympia but the Dulwich one last month was most excellent.

As a share owner I hope we follow the lead of the communty run pub in Cowden Pound in Kent. One ale. Nothing else on draft. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSEYubs-_9M Clearly I don't expect it to be so limited but hope you can check out the link particularly the proud sign that they only sell proper English beer. Mr Farage would be proud (not that I want to be assoicated with him).

Oh no, have Kraft taken over beer as well as Cadbury's. So beer will be all cheesy now, or worse still taste of baby sick (ie Hershey bars). Craft beer, Emperor's new clothes me thinks. And being a card carrying old fart I know. If you are in the Palace there are some luverly pubs selling proper beer. Or try the best pub in the world, the Blythe in Forest Hill, which sells draft beer from the Brockley brewery.

Had a Yahooo account for over ten years, the first decade without a problem. Now it has been hacked, e-mails seem to disappear, and the latest update (last weekend) is now almost unuable as the functionality has been drastically reduced with regards to sorting stuff and finding e-mails. A lovely touch is if I try and sort by sender if it is a commercial organisation they also bang an advert in. The functionality on my work machine is even worse, maybe due to bandwidth, firewall or just out of date browser. Still has excellent spam filter though, so I always get a fun surprise where I see all those medical products that I can purchase when I check the Spam filter. Yahoo were good when I phoned through (eventually answered) and I got them to change the password. It also asked me to change the password a few times in the weeks after due to suspected attack. The hack attack simply e-mailed everyone in my address book with the dodgy link. Not sure of any other purpose. I have free Advast antivirus software, which did not warn me of a dodgy attachment. It was the sort of Daily Mail article that the supposed sender would send, if it had been from most other people I would have realised. So (a) views on Yahoo mail (b) on being hacked © on other better? web based e mail Google wasn't that helpful when I tried doing my own research. PC is going to the doctors this weekend for a flush out, as I am paranoid that I am now a botnet PS now made me delete 1000s of e mails, unsubscribe to commercial sites and clear up my address book.

Haven't posted for a month or so due to family bereavement and my obsession with SE22 rewriting history about Lady Thatcher, but compelled to post today. UP YOUR RRRSSSS FERGIE, THE BBC, SKY, LONDON REDS AND ON AND ON.

A close member of my family died on Saturday. This brought it home to me all the sycophantic nonsense that has gone on since MT's death and worse still the obsenity of a (in all but name) state funeral. Now I can't say a good thing about the ex PM but just wish we had had a day or two of debate, and then had a private and quiet funeral. I will be bearing my arse cycling into work tomorrow. After which I will be thinking about my own mother's funeral a week on Friday. I'll not be looking at this thread again. RIP my kind, loving and compassionate mother.

Lived in the Pool in the mid 80s, when Thatcher had stuck the knife in (another case of corporate manslaughter?). Saw a couple of real Wild West brawls in late night bars with fists and glasses being thrown. More like a film set than a boxing match. That was about it really. Someone asked me the time outside a pub once. He wanted to know the time, rather than check out my accent and punch me. My mate answered in a dreadful attempt at a scouse accent - bit like George Osbourne really, and he was from just up the road in a posh bit bit of Merseyside. Clearly sad news, but don't tar scousers all with the same brush (my sterotypical scousers stories, including nasty nasty touts, will wait for another time). Went to a wedding at Birkinhead registry office. Seemed surprisingly nice. And mates live in Wallassey which is rather nice, and tolerent (can be a bit homophobic on the other side of the Mersey). And anywhwere assoicated with Half Man Half Biscuit must be half OK.

Quids as I believe you are to friends, my point was that there was a vacancy in Kent. Vicanna, I am totally lost. Please explain your hostile response. Now I have had a good think. 30 odd thousand there, more than twice the core suport, and a 5.30 start. Oh what a surprise. But to put it into perspective this was nowt like the scrapping that went on in the terraces we saw when the London clubs came up the midlands from the mid 70s onwards - most of it for pose value rather than the more nasty stuff. My first recollection of big trouble was the red army in 75 when there was 100 odd arrests outside the ground and a similar number when 20,000 Geordies (now there was an away support) turned up. More bother in Streatham, or Bromley on a Friday night that at Wembley on Sat. I could have saved myself two mins by simply agreeing with Aquarius. I blame the ghost of Thatcher for all this over-reaction. I doubt whether it was well stewarded or policed. Most grounds try to do without cops due to the expense (they came free in the old days). Hence stewards (my faves for paramilitary are at Spurs) are well ready for a bit of aggro. Not Wembley by the sound of things. PS I hate the new Wembley even more than the old. It is shte for semis, although the Manc C vs Chels sort of proved me wrong on that.

Calm down calm down. Thanks for the link - they don't stock simple ones there (all too fancy pants for my modest abode). I found a place that stock something similar but only do 30m at a time. I'll try Whitton's again, as sometimes you find some non-standard stock hiding away.

I seem to be being stalked. Such fun. (e) Got a quote and fitting at a carpet shop in Hayes, which was good and I have been back to it since. Seemed to know something about keeping customers happy. (f) I'll never know, as Hamptons International clearly didn't want me to move to the Dulwich Triangle. Mr Scotchbrooks was very helpful though and did sort me out. (g) Well SE23.com was also created, which is a good demonstration of social networking gone wrong. The thought police wouldn't allow me to be stalked on that site. I imagined that with all the debate going on about Thatch someone would have ventured a view on how the country may have shaped out. I'm sure that we would have had the internet somehow.

Not sure if the Pikeys comment was a wind-up ???? If not perhaps you should apply for the Youth Police and Crime Commissioner in Kent. I believe that language goes down well there.

Any suggestions? Fuller thread on the wanted site. I've tried all the local timber merchants, they only do fancy stuff

The Thatcher stuff has probably run its course. But I am amused about how many younger people have viewed her impact/legacy. I thought the world was fine in 1979. I was interested in girls, alcohol, football and music. I don't recall rotting rubbish and corpses in the street as all the newscasts seem to suggest. Maybe a selective memory as I was more interested in trying to get my leg over, and upset by the injustice of what a cold winter had done to the first division. So, I'd love to hear views on what the world had looked like if (a) Callaghan had called a 1978 election which he would have won, or got his vote of confidence from the TUC on wage constraint in 79, and again he would have won (b) The Falklands had never happened and SDP had got into power in 83. © Kinnock hadn't frightened Basildon man, or the Sun hadn't intervened, and labour got in in 1992 (d) John Smith was still alive. I really don't believe all this tosh about Britain being a dreadful place in the late 70s. To a kid growing up in the 70s they were much more fun than the 60s. And those ten years older thought the same about the 60s vs the 50s. Similarly that all nationalised industry was bad. I recall the electricity generation and telecoms being world leaders. Although no doubt someone will tell me that was because too much state money was put into them.

The exam question is what on earth is this thread about. Can someone summarise it in the way the Sun would (Sun journos are very good at geting their message across clearly). Agree wholeheartedly with coments on Mrs T and footy though.