LadyDeliah

I am in the middle of buying my 3 bedroom council house near the top of Barry Road and will be selling as soon as I own it because I want to buy land and go the self-sufficiency route. If anyone is interested, I'm hoping to get ?495,000 or more for it and it should be ready to sell by about July 2014. Details here: http://edhousesale.site90.com/Home/ Not very socialist I know, but the changes proposed for council tenancies will undermine my security of tenure anyway and this is only ony way I will ever get enough capital to buy land, so there it is. Morally ambiguous, but a no-brainer really.

There was a woman who used to come to my fitness classes years ago named Happy Pratt.

Lol, I find the hysteria on here incredible sometimes, so I admit, this thread made me chuckle, especially Jeremy's comment.

It's local to her. I hate Tesco at the best of times, so even if it didn't stink I wouldn't use a Tesco regularly. Hasn't anyone else smelled the same stink I smelled last night?

I asked a friend who regularly shops there and she said it always stinks. It was gaggingly bad last night though.

Just stopped off at the Tesco on Old Kent Road and couldn't believe how rank it smelled. Not just by the entrance where the toilets are, but right through the shop. Not sure how a food shop can stay open stinking like that. Thought the ED Massive would be well into this bit of news because I know how much they like to discuss the aroma of food establishments.

Not what I was expecting. I was hoping is was Gove wrapped in a plastic bag.

Maybe someone could help her with an online Irish shop. I don't think any retailers can compete without online purchasing options.

I'd love to hunt with a bow and arrow. None of you see Hunger Games? Might have up sign up to an archery club :-)

I found it funny. You lot are just miserable tw@ts.

Burbage is on fire though, so said 'element' should be applauded for giving him/her such first class ammunition!

Nice idea. I would be interested once you set it up.

You're both just jealous because your bums aren't as pert as the Polish receptionist's.

Cheered me up anyway.

Better than it used to be and they've got a tall Polish guy on reception with a pretty nice arse, so something to occupy your mind whilst waiting to see the doctor/nurse/pharmacist. Vast improvement.

As a cyclist, I welcome any road improvements. Pot holes are really dangerous for cyclists. I hit one hard on Peckham Rye a while back and nearly ended up under a bus.

One side of my front garden is left wild for bees, butterflys and other wildlife, so fcuk anyone who doesn't like it. The other side is a veg bed. Garage door is tatty but secure (full of tatty but fully functioning bicycles) and outside hasn't been painted in donkey's years. Not lazy, just have more important things to spend my time and money on plus I think consuming our planet to show off to neighbours/passers by shows an underlying insecurity and sheep-likeness.

Burbage Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's not always money or spare time... > > The point of prettifying a house in this are has, > for the last two or three decades, being so you > can flog it as quickly as possible at a decent > profit, and move on to the next house you fancy > painting. To an extent, the graspery of estate > agents and the credulous compliance of their > victims has conspired to put the cost of > second-hand house-paint up by a thousand percent, > and force the occupants to apply it. > > But the market is stagnating a little now. There > are sales, of course, but they're mostly sales of > convenience and the tax-efficient shuffling of > portfolios. So there's much less need to paint > things. > > This is as it should be. All painting ever does is > bring closer the time it'll need painting next. > The same goes for dusting or cutting back > rosemary. It'll grow again, and you'll have to cut > it again, and eventually you'll get bored, or > dead, and then it'll be as if you never bothered > at all. So what, unless you've got the avarice of > a moonstruck puppet in a nasty suit to pleasure, > is the point? > > Go to France, and you'll see people living without > any of the pretentious fantasies of whatever ICI > has become. They paint their shutters to celebrate > the end of every world war, and even more rarely > bother with the walls. Yet, despite their > reputation for shruggish misery, they're happier > than Britons, who have to put up not just with the > assumed snobbery of pretentious neighbours on the > make but also, it seems, the snottiness of the > leaflet-stuffing familiars of our lowest political > pawns. > > So, Alex K, if you don't like it, do yourself a > favour and keep off other people's land. Post of the month! Love 'graspery' :-D

You should read the man on push bike thread. It's about the worst I think I've read on here.

numbers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- .... > > haha that made me laugh out loud LadyD, good one. > well, perhaps I do need to recalibrate my acts of > aggression scale! > > You didn't grow up in the 1980s South Bronx by any > chance? 1980's Birkenhead, so not far off, lol.

Flipping your middle ginger is aggressive? Where the hell have you guys lived? Trumpton? On a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is hacking someone up with a machete and 1 is giving a hard frown, I'd put flipping a finger at 0.5.

If by getting on the racism bandwagon you mean his speech to BAFTA on diversity, he has been pushing for more reflective diversity in television for a long time.

Where was the car in relation to the pavement?

Did he go onto the road because the car dropping off the sprogs was on the pavement?

Failing to do anything about the hair and other rubbish might benefit any councillors who are pushing for change on behalf of the development companies, because they are more likely to get public opinion on their side. Oldest trick in the book, let something get run down or grubby, offer a poisoned chalice solution and hey presto, we are thankful for being bum rushed by the saviours in power.