Michael Palaeologus

I never went to no Public Skool innit. I was adorned with the fruits of comprehensive education. It was, in hindsight, shite. DM likes me to dress-up as a Public School boy. She scrubs my grubby knees and searches for conkers in my pockets. This I do not object to. The scrubbing my face with a spittle soaked hankie, I do. The lacy trifle smells of chewing tobacco and rough spirits.

There were two of them. One would hold the curries, the other would deal with criminal. Easy.

Quorn = Famous and historic Fox Hunt. A few of the roads have similar links. Bus burning, not clever really. Its a crime, come on.

Some people seem to have an unhealthy obsession with uniforms. Obviously uniformed officers who are not marching up and down barking at people all the time should be flogged and publically have their sidearms, buttons, badges and insignia of rank ripped off IN PUBLIC before being thrown out of the Fort to be the tender mercies of the Indians. Who, with any luck, will give them a curry and a pint of Cobra to help them get over the trauma. I believe that in the Met Police, PCSO are known as "Traffic Wardens". Leave them alone, they arent proper Coppers being too fat or short (I am both so know these things). They get paid sod all, get given few powers (not even X-ray vision), no truncheon and a daft unform. To be fair, over time the proper uniformed police have been guilty of no-end of dodgy activities - corruption, institutional racism, homophobia, shooting Brazilians and Lawyers, etc. Anybody who WANTS to be in a job with Uniform, shouldnt be allowed to to, because they WANT to wear a uniform. Apart from Paramedics, Nurses and Zoo Keepers. A PCSO's crafty curry and a chat to some friendly restaurant staff seems a reasonable perk.

Does anybody have a Babel Fish I could borrow?

I see Moos regularly at ED station. She hides.

"Hello Darlin'" *Do you people do nothing but drink in here now? There was a time when we had a swimming pool, herds of wild animals and the slaying of lactating donkeys in the Quiet Room* *Harrumph*

I may also become Mistress-free in the very near future.

I had a rabbit once.

"How do we suffer? We have to listen to the speakers on Radio 4's Thought for the Day stating that if only we had listened to Jesus then everything would be ok" Well yes, although if it is Lionel Blue then you can replace "listened to Jesus" with "eaten chicken soup". I agree with Lionel.

I am not childless, I am child-free as in fat-free, disease-free and germ-free

A bit of communication from the Council beforehand would have avoided the concern and annoyance.

Should keep CWALD occupied for a while.

I often walk there in my dressing down just to feel the cold Siberian breeze gusting past my nethers.

Soooooooo serious Seany .......

Sean can be found standing on Goose Green roundabout waving his fist at passing cars: "Down with this sort of thing"

I walked through The Magnolia this afternoon. The Landlady was very friendly and encouraged me to have a look around. She mentioned that the "football had gone" - not a problem for me, if I want to watch TV, I stay at home. My thoughts - generally a nice refurb, not sure about the wallpaper on the bar. Having had Sunday lunch at the Bishop with three Forumites of this Parish at ?11 for a roast, I couldnt help noticing that The Mags was charging ?12.95 - odd given its out-of-central ED location, you would have thought that a more competitative pricing structure would have been sensible. Shame about the lack of the famous pies and Sunday quiz - the baby wet out with the bath water there.

Not sure about the curry thing -we have alot of curry restaurants in the area as it is. Perhaps Thai food or something else with a particular theme? Lots of pubs in the area to generic pub gastropub food and do it well (to various degrees). So the food thing might need to have a particular spin to help it stand out and draw people in from a wider area. I know thatpubs serving Thai food has been done before elsewhere ao the idea is just a starting point. Tex-mex is lacking in the area at the moment.

The Tivoli did give the great unwashed a glimpse into the wonders of Las Vegas. Peeping into Tivoli was much like peeping into Caesar's Palace; tad smaller though.

Didnt the Venetians invent underwater cities?

OK, you are not getting this one. Christmas IS named after the well known Canadien photographer, Chris Thomas. See Its Chrimbo

Did you know that "Bank Holidays" are named after a now long extinct set of organisations that lent lots of money to poor people who could never pay it back?

DECember = 10th month of the year. Madness.

Bloody Romans ...

Surely you jog to the gym?