WorkingMummy

Ps we used a car finding service, recommended by Which, called Palmdale. They found us exactly the car we needed (in Milton Keynes), negotiated the price, had it checked over and delivered it to us. They will also advise you on which car suits your needs, although I think the Which comparison tool is all you need for that.

Well I've been out for the first time in the s-max today and loved it. Plenty of room for the three car seats in the middle row. It felt quite roomy and there was no bother getting the kids in and out. Boot is very big with back seats down. Even with 7 seats up there is a bit of a boot, but not much. You need to get the 2.0 engine though as (I'm told) less than that and it's sluggish. Are you a member if Which? It is worth paying the subscription to use their website for a big purchase like this.

Sunrise Serenade - Glen Miller and his Orchestra

Great. Ta

Prettiest Eyes - Beautiful South

Is This What You Wanted - Leonard Cohen

The discipline of self care, knowing what is right for you and pursuing that path, looking after yourself, when you have depression, is incredibly hard. It takes a lot of courage and grit. It's also, in my experience, potentially part of finding/choosing (however you look at it) your way through the illness. MrsS has shown heaps of this courage and grit, and so have you, Cessj.

I've got the use of an S-Max this weekend. Not the new model with the sliding doors: a 2009, 7 seater. I have two forward facing maxi-cosi bucket things for a 4 year old and a 2 year old and a backward facing number for my 8 month old. Could anyone save me about an hour with my bottom in the air and the children running wild in the street tomorrow morning by tipping me off as to the best way to configure these? The two big buckets on the middle row and the baby in the third row? Or will they all squeeze into the middle row? Either way, feels like I'll have to take one of the larger child seats completely out in order to put the baby in and out (which seems like a bit of a pain). All know-how gratefully received.

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ah.. the unmistakeable hollow parp of an anus - > shortly before being silenced by the insertion of > a Greek measuring stick. I actually snorted coffee out of my nose when I read this.

Gigantic (Big Big Love) - Pixies

Tillie, I'm going to try that recipe soon.

MrBen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You mean....gasp....you cant buy radiccio in East > Dulwich? Never looked, to be honest. I've had trouble sourcing it in the past, in other places. It has very recently become available from Ocado. Lots of shops will try to fob you off with red chicory (as Ocado shockingly used to do if you asked for radiccio, and still might as a substitute) which is just wrong.

Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits

My recipe for radicchio spaghetti (it's actually Nadine Abensur's) takes less than 30 minutes. It's also an absolute paradigm of non-toxic comfort food. The bitterness of the radicchio, the sweetness of the cheese and basil, the slight stodge of the pasta, the earthiness of the nuts. Radicchio is a super food too, much more nutritious even than spinach. So, virtuous and pleasurable. You do need to go easy on the cheese, though. 45 g per portion is plenty. And you do potentially need to come over to Camberwell to buy your round headed radicchio. But it keeps for ages in the fridge.

I've got no idea about Latin, but I do know that english words are not restricted in meaning to their latin root. In any event, whatever your knowledge of Latin, you know little of my kitchen. You assumed I was talking about a culinary "portfolio". I was talking about (or rather mentioning, in passing) my culinary bible. I'm also unsure of your ecleseastical history. The criteria for biblical canonicity, as all good Sunday school pupils will tell you, has nothing to do with sticks. The books of the canon are not devices against which to measure other texts for perfection! Canonicity has, instead, everything to do with origin, acceptance, substance and liturgical use. This is precisely what my canon is. And my canon: it is an OPEN canon. It gets supplemented by a process of continual revelation. I am lousy speller. (In this thread alone, meet = meat, cannon = canon.) But I am not, dear H, myself a person with a problem admitting when they are wrong. Winky face, no offence. WMx

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > BTW, WorkingMummy, you were simply wrong. Get over > it. I doubt you will ;-) ?????????? Er, Hugenot, what are you on and why are you getting so het up and unpleasant? I didn't even disagree with your definition. And I am not sure why you have any reason to doubt my willingness to admit a mistake when I have made one. Just because something is used regularly does not mean it is not canonical. The bibical canon is used every week in church. My culniary canon is used year round by me. Elements are used every Friday, in a weekly family meal. There are other recipes which I use only once a year, such as the muffins the kids and I make each Xmas morning, for breakfast, and at no other time. Some have no set date or day to be used, but perfectly fit or encapsulate a particular mood or event, and will be wheeled out like a ritual on those occasions. Each of them is canonical because it is so completely perfect for the role it plays in my kitchen and in my family's life. So, sorry to have DARED to tell you this, but like I said: I know what a canon is and I meant it! The topic of the thread is actually what you're cooking this week, rather than your prescribed use of the english language. It was a thread I was rather enjoying until it descended to this. So, what recipe are you sharing?

She - Charles Aznavour

Comparing "your hospitals" with N Staff is not an argument. And N Staff, however awful, is not an argument for the privatisation of the NHS. You do not have to look far into the private sector, in any industry, to find incompetence and corruption. The ultimate private system of all time (barring its recent immunity agsinst failure) is the modern banking sector and its not exactly a paradigm of efficiency and virtue is it. You privatise a system, you introduce the interests of corporate business and you remove money from the system in the form of profit. How many industries do we need to privatise in this country in order to learn that lesson? Only this week, when gas prices are at an all time high for consumers, what does British Gas announce: a huge fat corporate profit. And the extraction of profit is not the only reason why, although the theory of competition leading to increased efficiency is dandy on paper, its bollocks in practice. Competition for consumer choice works ok when you are dealing with sales of hamburgers or cola or toothpaste. It does not work well when the goods and services in question are essential to human health (water, gas, etc) and/or when - objectively speaking, whatever it feels like when you are the consumer- consumer choice should NOT be the determinate of what is on offer or when. Healthcare is an unsuitable candidate for privatisation on both grounds. My big area of concern (and knowledge) is women and children's health. And my comparators are the UK and the US. In the UK, we have NICE - until recently, wholly independent commissioner of evidenced based research for the development of national standards for effective, affordable treatment. We have a National coordination centre which facilitates collaboration between different stakeholders (RCOG, the midwifery council, mumsnet, etc etc) for the provision of guidelines. Result: gold standard, world respected standards for the treatment of pregnant women and new mothers, in which doctors, surgeons, midwives and most mothers are fully invested, with procedure and protocol based on what has proven to be best for mother and child. In the States, what d'ya got? You've got obstetricians and midwives COMPETING for pregnant customers, using tactics of advertising, negative campaigning and outright scare propaganda to convince individual pregnant women that they are better off in xyz unit/with midwife led care, whatever. It's crazy. It makes no sense. Would I feel different I was a pregnant mother who wanted to demand right to a non-indicated elective caesarean? Maybe. But I am glad that it is not up to me as an individual to decide what the evidence and economics indicate should be my options. Yes the NHS is complex and yes it could be improved. But turning it into a competitive, for profit business is not the answer. Restoring NICE independence and letting it continue to get on with standardisation is part of the answer. The NHS is the last good reason to pay taxes in the country.

Thank you. Bleach not working so will try the Dettol.

Elizabeth Lang, Bird and Bird. Have referred a lot of people to her, inc family members. She is excellent. She is a senior partner so expensive but she has a team of people she supervises some of whom will be more affordable. Pm me if you want details of the friends/family I've sent her way. WM

The Belle and the Bad Boy - MC Solaar

You can quite literally feel industry closing in around the NHS. The independence of NICE is also under threat. I agree with you that once made, the changes will be permanent. The government will need to be brought down to stop it, though.

Da Vinci Claude - MC Solaar

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Canon rather than cannon. > > But even so I'm not sure the usage is quite right > - canon means 'measuring stick', and is typically > used when making comparisons. > > So it can mean 'standard' but not in the sense of > 'a standard (normal) repertoire', more in the > sense of 'a standard (lofty values) I measure > myself against'. I know what it means. I meant it.

Careless Whisper - Wham