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wholeheartedly agree with you molly

Ordinarily I;d be of the leave it to nature brigade too, but Calpol works...

should that be "for" rather than "of"? I'm not being entirely rude; there's a demi-shred of curiosity too.

set menu - enhance the pleasure by removing choice!

Bread of life cafe is great and brilliant value. I don't think that the new place will take away ther business. The opening hours of both mean they're missing a desperado coffee breakfast trick ...

wish they'd open before 9 and wish they'd do a pasta dish - then my life would be complete

Please go and vote. I cannot see how not voting will help. The thing I hate most about this whole business is the sinking feeling we're dancing into a more hideous future where we're ruled by celebrities and / or the independently wealthy.

They were Aplacas from the Andes, they have hooves instead of handies.

Its extraordinarily good I think but utterly heartbreaking.

Ah - I can see where you're coming from Sue. i think I'd have been dissapointed with that. The thing I loved was the variety and tasty freshness of it. Fingers crossed for teething problems...

Quids, I don't mean that people are wrong to be angry about the treating of the public purse as a personal John Lewis account, rather that some of the lists of "shocking" things people have claimed for don't feel that shocking. For example, I came across a mild sputtering fury at some MP having claimed to have a boiler fixed or buying fixtures and fittings for a home. This seems perfectly reasonable to me in the context of maintaining a second home when its a necessary requirement of the job. In other cases, of course, its much clearer that there's trough snaffling and slippy greed. Everything seems to be being lumped together though as if the very fact of claimig expenses were wrong. I think it is right that people who don't have private wealth sufficient to facilitate their being an MP should be facilitated to serve as an MP. There's a general fury abroad, some of which is justified, but I find it interesting too. I just don't think that everyone is on the make and that goes for MPs, though I think its inevitable that the kind of person who puts themselves up for election must be a little odd. I suppose I always imagined that this kind of thing happened and I took it as part and parcel of that world: where money, ambition, strategy and passion collide with sometimes messy consequences. I think expenses are pretty small beer when you consider the influence MPs hold, what Ministers go on to do (sit on executive boards of pharmaceutical companies, etc etc etc). There's also been a switch in focus of anger from the private sector "fat-cats" to the public sector. It comes, in part, I think from anxieties borne of the recession, envy about pensions and perceived job-security in the public sector as well as an almost viral-like infection of the public with this idea of public power. Voting, recently, has been more to do with the emotional triumph of an underdog amateur singer / dancer / performer (a sense of acheivement and power shared by the voters as much as the winner) than politics and in this whole expenses story I sometimes get the sense of a frantic desire to "vote them off". (Horse-box - you're frothing too much at the mouth to make sense, dab away at those flecks and have a sit down)

What did you expect? I mean, really, did you think that all MPs were in it for the common good? I find it difficult to get angry. Its no more that I expected and its not unlike everyone else. Its not all MPs who have been dishonest or greedy. Some have been, of course, but its hardly surprising. Its good that they've been exposed but some of the reactions are far too extreme. If you look at the lists of people who've claimed nothing they're mostly just stinking rich. Is that what we need or want: the independently wealthy only to have access to power? It seems perfectly reasonable to me that people who are required to maintain two homes should be subsidised to do so. It seems perfectly reasonable that maintenance and furnishing of said homes should be allowed. Probably this should be rental only or funded such that big profits aren't allowed. Much of the anger seems to be directed beyond moral failings and towards the idea that "these people" should be subsidised at all.

I loved the food I had there last week. Just gorgeous fresh, tasty, unusual (different kinds of leaves and tomatoes etc etc ). The crab was spectacularly fresh too. Kids plate of loads of fruit and cheese and yoghurt was utterly splendid. A little unusual, I grant you, but, for me, wonderful. Great cheese, great bread. It felt like a stroll down northcross road. There wasn't any dressing on the salad, but thats the way I like it. The service was slow and a bit haphazard, but it felt like they were feeling their way , which is ok as far as I'm concernefd. I kind of approached it as a sit-down greengrocers. It would be marvellous if you could place a veg order at the same time as your meal order and pick it up after you've eaten your lunch.

I liked it a bit quieter. LOVED the sheepdogs n ducks, laughed at the kung fu people (then moved swiftly on, thinking laughing at kung fu people was not a good idea), Dulwich Hamlet Steel Band were amazing (who is the very sexy teacher????), still terrified by the big wheel, yum to the (no longer) giggly pig, thank you to the wildlife gardening centre and my lovely plants I've been searching for for ages. (edited for usual terrible typos)

I noticed that on the bus the other day and it mad eme laugh like a loon. Libra Carr - the OP's talking about the way the signage looks .. click through to the pic ...

or just shut the road with peopole and bunting and see what southwark does

Lovely, lovely day at Nunhead Cemetery. Enormous thanks to the bug-man and his bug-ways which included knowing every bug presented to him and the top trick of sucking a "strawberry snail". You are a god. (edited for terrible typos)

I have read the posts. Mostly people are concerned, quite rightly as it turned out, about whether or not they will get a local school place. Some children have been offered places in schools 2 1/2 miles and several bus journeys away. The local authority were aware of the likely pressure on places and didn't plan for it. This seems a completely reasonable and relevant area of concern.

I made harry enfield explain who he was before I let him into a party. This wasn't before he was famous.

robbouk, are the WHO part of the global conspiracy too? You seem very well informed. I think we should know. Prince Philip too?

re protests - you've missed it - there was a load of stuff about them in that esteemed journal, Metro

Well, I base that on the way the alleyns situation has been handled: school closed, all staff and pupils given precautionary tamiflu. Given this, it would make sense to me that the same would apply to the schools where thecinfected siblings attend. I just don't think applying conspiracy theories makes any kind of sense in this instance. I'm pretty happy with the way it's been handled. I don't mean that I think we are told everything about everything on a truthful way all the time but in this instance I think that were there an immediate risk, ie one of the children with a confirmed case of swine flu attended my daughter's school, I imagine that there would be some information passed to parents - as has been in the case of alleyns.

Well, the HPA say that 2 of the siblings of the Alleyns cases have tested positively. They also say that these chidlren don't go to that school; but aren't showing symptoms. My daughter has at least one child in her class with siblings at Alleyns. The episode seems to have been pretty well and promptly managed and, call me David Aaronovic if you feel like it but, I imagine if there were a risk we'd be being warned about it.

I find there's usually something interesting to be found in discussing most things - really.

mmm nice Key Points ?Health impacts of an influenza pandemic in the UK ? All age groups are likely to be affected, but children and otherwise fit adults could be at relatively greater risk. ? Clinical attack rates may be of the order of 25% to 35%, but up to 50% is possible. ? Between 55,000 and 750,000 deaths are possible, across the UK. mmmm and just for London: 3.12 An influenza pandemic (as detailed in WHO Pandemic Flu Phase 6) will result in a large number of deaths throughout London. The above planning assumptions predict a range of permutations of case fatality and clinical attack rates in London. It is possible that the pandemic influenza virus will have a 50% clinical attack rate and a 2.5% case fatality rate. For London, this means planning for approximately 94,0001 possible excess deaths.