Michael Palaeologus

.. and they have excellent staff.

I do so feel for the Dulwichmum-Mother, knowing that her offspring will dance in the fires of hell for eternity. Happy New Year.

Just found a "you weren't in" card in my letter box timed at 10.30. I was in and my buzzer works. Tossers.

Head ache pills I think, somethin kept behind the counter. He had a plastic bag with cuddly toys in it .... ahhhhhhhhhhhhh..

When I went to see The Mousetrap last year I knew the one wot done it after about 5 minutes.... The time before that, it took me soooooooooooooo much longer.

Keef is a God - this was established some months ago. The CPT is the Temple of Keef. So Mote It Be - ;-)

He's a God, e cannot be defined by mear spelling. Yarweh, Jehovah - Jah :-S

Actually Peckham Rose, a good friend of mine lives in a rural village near Wolverhampton (a bizzare juxstaposition I grant you). Near this village is the home of one Robert Plant. I have seem him in and around the village a number of times and have twice been sat in a curry house with the great Percy. Anybody know where John Bonham is buried?

Yeah, leave the weight loss to us real fatties.

HNY EDF.

Today, in the big Boots by Bond St tube I was standing behind: Jimmy Paige Had to tell somebody. I am cursing myself because there was a stray strand of hair stuck to the back of his coat, I could have plucked it off SO easily. How much would a hair of Jimmy Paige go for on Ebay I wonder? Am now soaking in Led Zep memories; squeezing my lemon as I type.

I think that 2008 will see the putting to rest of "Sean hates cars japery". Time to move on. ;-)

On the Today programme this morning somebody noted that she has promised the USA that, if she became Head of State, she would send the military into the Tribal Areas, the border area with Afghanistan without Government control, to chase the Taliban out. Pak Army dont want that because they are more interested in their historic quarrel with India and see such anti-terrorist warfare as very costly and there are also strong anti-american elements within the armed forces. The Taliban obviously dont want to fight the Pak Army. In the current situation, I think that her murder was almost inevitable.

If you HAVE to go to Sainsurys....... Walk.

Is it worth watching then? :))

I have done "the stroke of midnight" in Parliament Square - you get to hear big Ben strike 12 and its not as manic as Trafalgar Square.

I saw it as a headline in the Standard on the train. Shocked? Yes. Surprised? No. She was too popular and too much of a threat to the military status quo - they did after all kill her Father. It will no doubt be blamed on Islamic fundamentalists, but I suspect that others sit behind this act.

OK - me too - I'm in.

I have sympathy and empathy, but cant help asking: What would her side of the story be?

Look, see - I held out until Boxing Day. I am not addicted to this Forum, no. I can give up whenever I want. This time it was for at least a whole 3 days.

My rapier in mine own and will not be brandished in Nunhead. Are you not being just a tad paranoid?

Nunhead badlands, no go area. Alfornun you prove the point. Many thanks for warning us.

Am liking it. How about over 30s singles? Includes a bigger but equally mature (?) constituency. Drinkies at a local hostelry. The Plough are terribly accomodating.

Inside the hostelry the three ladies are gathered around a large bubbling pot. Each is clutching an unfortunate creature - Prada the Toad, Zara the Bat and Primark the Newt. "So" quoth Dulwichmum, her nose mole wobbling alarmingly, "who brought the sharp knife for the removal of eye, tongue and tail respectively? Hmmmm?". "Not me" ejaculated Louisa, "but I do have a sharp tongue which will do the job nicely, and there's no mistakin'" "Thith pot, how come its bubblng? There'th no water in these partth" slurred Asset through her raggle-taggle dentistry, she was wearing in a new top set for a friend. "We improvised, we dont like water do we, just think of what happened to our sister in the West" said Dulwichmum, "Too right" said Louise "their Forum is crap - no sense of humour". Dulwichmum looked a little shifty. Outside the pub a by-now 11 month pregnant Lithuanian (or Latvian?) au pair stands shivering in the frosty shadows, the dim light creeps through the EDT windows. Overwhelmed by hunger and the need to play table-football she creeps closer, peers through door, sees the aged crones gathered around the bubbling pot and wonders what ever happened to he ED WI?. This having fought her way through the dozen smokers polluting the atmosphere outside the pub and tripping over numerous scabby pine sapplings that have mysteriously sprouted around the Tavern. Dulwichmum spies the Unfortunate and beckons to her, using a beautifully manicured talon, "Come here my sweet, we would like to invite you for supper, quite literally". Poor Ana flees into the dark and polar night. Meanwhile .....

I'd write a strongly worded letter to .. someone Is Ayres still trading? I thought that they had gone under, being in Nunhead