StraferJack

heh!

you started the thread AM and you started it with quit a sensational opening post. Maybe you had your tongue in your cheek, I dunno. But the answer to all of your questions would have been blindingly obvious if yougave it a moment's thought

your entire post was "so you deleted it"? What relevance does that have to your supposed "scandal"?

"So you deleted it?" Not me - I have no moderator privileges at all these days as I've said before But you asked why it was deleted and I gave you several reasons - and your respnse is to point a finger?

oh FFS - his original post is STILL in the business section. All of the others are duplicates which isn't allowed on the forum, so they get deleted - along with all of the other duplicates. Scandal? Lord save us and help us... I was the one who posted about buying a guitar from him because (gasp!!) I googled his user name Whatever problems he has with the gardner, he now comes across as a bit of a self-entitled, over complaining, needy sort. If he treated the gardners with this sort of attitude I'm less surprised they didn't spend too much effort on him

If anyone doesn't know what Louisa looks like, there is a picture in the Plough - left hand wall as you go in

now this like the old days - two of us niggling over a detail we largely agree on ;-)

It's also a VERy detailed complaint isn't it - anal in it's level of detail would you buy a guitar from this man?

whoever owns it, the ddecision ed (re Mike Loach) remains poor

yeah the OP seems too designed to antagonise the usual On the other hand, fatcats makes some cracking points

again, maybe. In any takeover promises are made about retaining the ethos and so on of the junior partner. It rarely happens

This is all rather petty and unfortunate http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Ken-Loach-s-sadness-Bath-s-Little-Theatre-owners/story-21115486-detail/story.html the telling line is where the local manager says it was a decision taken at head office and out of his hands. Hopefully Jon and co will have more autonomy. It's hard to imagine Picture House behaving this way before the takeover

The idea that the best way to inject a bit more interest into the forum is trolling doesn't work for me

End of the road festival with 7 month and 19 month went very well Taking 3 and a half year old hopefully this year. It's just the best fun

noise does get mentioned, but they seem more bothered by people having fun - hence the "ho ho" title and endless "smug" comments If someone was annoying me with noise I wouldn't be calling them smug

OP was complaining about smugness, not noise ianr: "Why have you posted this? What do you actually want to say?" What they want to say as that Louisa has once again tried to stir things up and they are just commending her on her work.

Louisa is trying too hard on this one "Outrageous". Heh

gaming sessions of any length went with kid #2 - but as el Pipe says, that should change as they evolve/compete with me

no no that bit is fine... the suggestion that those still playing however.....

oh dear

"...and that first soul caliber on my old dreamcast, gawd rest 'er soul.... " not me - still working. vga to hd screen

oops my second post missed yours

I'm not saying don't worry at all btw - just a "don't worry if it's a vague notion about busy-ness" There may be specifics around the nursery itself or whatever - I'm not trying to dismiss concern, just allay any fears

what we had back then was TIME to play and invest in all these things Honestly, gaming is much better these days. I sometimes pick up speedball 2, or kick off or any number of old games and the proustian rush is immense. But play them for any amount of time? Nah My favourite arcade games from back in the day: Missile Command, Bombjack, Ghost n Goblins Speccy/Amstrad: all of the ultimate games, rtype Amiga: too many to mention. Playing proper 3d games for first time felt cool tho

I would ask what your primary concern is if the nursery is changing? Before we left our Dulwich Nursery, the ratio had changed enormously. When daughter first started it was a new place and was easy to get into - ratio seemed about 1:4 By the time she left I would say it might have been close to 1:13 on occassion. I could be wrong, but it was night and day in terms of difference I didn't inherently see that as a bad thing. I knew the nursery was good and would become popular and it did. Had our daughter shown any concern about the changes I might have felt differently but basically the place seemed like one big happy, noisy place when I went to pick her up Indeed, now that she is a smaller nursery again, with a ratio of about 1:4 she pines a little for the bustle of the old place. I think the old nursery might be same as the one jennyh describes as her old one. Just shows that people look for different things. It was a big room and yes I would sometimes see daughter playing on her own or with some friends but she would spend journey home telling me what they had done at nursery and she was fiercely keen on not just her key worker but all of the staff It certainly never occurred to us to move her because of the changes.