Michael Palaeologus

Hurrah!

"DULWICHMUM IN AU-PAIR NIPPLE CLAMPING HORROR" "I was trying to lubricate her moving parts" said the 50 something Mother of 12 as the Social took her kids into care. Have you tried the nipple clamps that also give an electic charge? Get the under carriage moving they do.

"Do you post?" "Only to the East" Easy - easy way of feeling a complete 'nana infront of a baffled stranger

I will be there, in a wheel chair, with a large oxygen bottle and drip attached. ;-)

"The boys were so rough and used to whack my conkers so hard" - this cheered my morning SO much this morning (not your pain Heidi - just the words) I am always saddened by the enormous quantities of perfectly good conkers left on the ground - it does seem to be a dying art. The Estonian's have conker trees in Tallinn, they looked very puzzled when I tried explaining the game to them - it must be a democracy thing. My Dad was a teacher in a particularly industrial and under-priveliged area of the Midlands - with little greenery. We lived near a wood and my Dad used to collect buckets of conckers and distribute them to his school-kids by throwing handfulls of them over the school field. Kids loved it, nowadays he would probably get done under health and safety legislation. Did you know that the horse-chestnut is not an indigenous species but is actually from Turkey and the Middle East? It was introduced as a decorative tree by ... somebody.

*Deftly passes Keef a tomato to counterbalance the evil-chips* *BUT WAIT .... look at that chip, the big one on the left. Is that not a picture of the blessed virgin on its upper side? Is she not weeping vinegar???????????* *Falls to knees, crossing self manically*

I have a car - which spends most of its time parked up. I am very lucky in having an Oystercard that work pays for and generally find public transport acceptable. Having said that, buses are a lower form of the species. I shall walk to the George Canning tonight - its not that far and the exercise can then compensate for the odd drinkie.

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Sunday sounds good and I will try not be a light-weight wuss this time. Its my medication you know ... Mother, Mother is that you? The light is fading ......... Laters.

After all that I think I am going to be a no show as well! Just staggered in from a shite day at work. See you tomorow!

*Keef - isnt that a toe-nail? - that thing that looks like a batter-bit*

First time I have read this thread. Your are all barking. Did you know that the first Star Wars blaster was based on the Sterling sub-machine gun minus its magazine? Found that out on Wikipedia yesterday.

The rota is: Sunday - Magdala Tuesday - George Canning Thursday - Plough and Hoopers Is tonights quiz at The Hobgoblin a one-off does anyone know?

So, she's an EDF member? How's your General Knowldge Ms Jowell - fancy joining the EDF Pub Quiz Team?

Should we have an EDF pub quiz team? It could be flexible and people could come along to the pub quizs' of their choice.

Thankfully its only his feet .. today... and him betrothed to a good Irish-woman. D-M, we must pray for him, rope your Mother in as well - its a big ask of the man upstairs.

I fear you may be - these new local Reporters will be looking to cut their teeth on something. Nipple clamps are used to tighten the things that distribute grease in the moving parts of mechanical things - thats all. Still, some new ideas for you and James to explore once the kids are in bed and Ana is locked in her hutch for the night. I have a new camera ....

All of these are jam tomorrow. We now have cross-rail and the Olympics to pay for before ELLE phase 2 is due - so you can forget that then. The tram had a very glossy consultation exercise, but I cant see it happening before 2012 and I fear that an awful lot of future investment will get quietly dropped to pay for the redevelopment of Stratford and all points noth of the Thames in the name of something which will have sod-all benefit to us. The only hope is that Harriet Harpie is a Brownie and she might be able to get something for Peckham and so to the benefit of ED. Tessa of North London isnt going to put her constituency before the Olympics as that is the only power-base that she has left.

*DM - are you really Belle de Jour?*

I think I shall patronise the CPT.

This is my first firework season in ED. Over the border in the badlands of Camberwell it was like Baghdad on a Saturday night for weeks before and after. I did see some kids turn a wheelie-bin into a kind of mortar - rubbish blasted everywhere and very dangerous BUT very funny and really rather inventive. I say no to banning fireworks! Society is too "safe" as it is. Besides giving kids an opportunity to handle explosives prepares them well for their future cannon-fodder careers in the Army. The Dutch love a good firework. They have long chinese crackers that roll out to about 1 meter length. You light one end and they go off like a machine gun spewing sparks and red crepe paper all over the place. Stand close and you can feel the concussion in your chest and go deaf. Now thats fun.

Photo-walks sound good. As does denial. I am still that 18 year old ginger love-muffin, oh yes. Albeit on pills and in need of a rest when half way through vigorous exercise.

Should you feel like travelling further afield the towns of Sussex make quite a thing of Bonfire night, Lewes has the biggest with a number of Bonfires, torchlight procession, great firework display and various celebs burnt in effigy. There is a health warning though. I dates back to a group of Protestant martyrs who were burnt to death in the 17th Century-ish, so it does have a whiff of (pantomime) anti-catholicism about it.

I am feeling my age - anno is definately Dominae. I have been diagnosed as type 2 diabetic. Not a huge surprise as my Father and paternal Grandmother both had it. Nontheless a complete arse. I have the sense and most of the will power to change diet and exercise. The real issue is that it feels like the bell has started to toll. What is as worrying is that attractive young women now come and chat to me voluntarily and without inducemet. This would seem to be a good thing BUT they are doing it because they dont see me as a "threat". Not in the danger sense, but in the "not likely to try and chat me up because he is passed it" sense. Is this just me?

Strewth Keef - "Trustworthy"? Stead with that kind of accusation!