shoshntosh

ok, i know grazia is fairly rubbish, even in it's category (a category i know well). but why is it that tosh thinks it's honorable to read the Business section of multiple newspapers and the Economist (and sometimes the New Statesman) every week BUT looks down on me disapprovingly every time I open a women's mag, a weekend magasine, or a show biz gossip mag? Why is spending hours reading about the economy considered fine whilst reading about people/pop culture isn't fine??? or is tosh just an elitist bully?

um... piers morgan? is that embarrassing (i'm not au fait enough with british culture to know)? but i'm pretty sure this one is embarrassing: peter hain because my friend who works in parliament had to breathe into a brown bag when i told her. p.s. hona, please... let's not mention "cigar, thigh and mistress" in the same sentence as it just reminds me of that whole bill/monica thing. p.p.s. BBW "gut stick"?? eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww p.p.p.s. dulwich mum, ray winstone????? honey, we need to meet for a latte.

and here i thought the deals were on only my street (being "practically peckham" and all). sh*ite. there goes one of my last remaining claims to exclusivity or legitimacy,depending on my mood...

what moos said.

sorry, i suppose a bit off [the apparently new] topic of this thread and back to the original one... i am so sorry for you that you had this experience. i have been threatened and followed by a group of youths in east dulwich (younger than those described) and it was quite intimidating. so i am really nervous of young-ish boys, especially those in hoodies. but just a couple of weeks ago i was walking with my two small children when we happened upon a group of lads much the same as the first (above) when one of them suddenly turned to me, as we passed them, and said "oh, sorry." i said "for what?" and he said "For using that bad language in front of your children". I laughed and said "I didn't hear what you said but doubt it's any worse than what they hear at home." So, yeah, like someone else said, groups of youths in hoodies are not all criminals. i'm not quite sure how to acheive that balance between being vigilant and treating people as innocent until proven guilty. does city life just make cynics of us all?

muchas gracias pablogrande!

hi i did a search and nothing popped up, so am just wondering whether anyone has had these installed and what they reckon? or advice on where to get them done?

hi i did a search and nothing popped up, so am just wondering whether anyone has had these installed and what they reckon? or advice on where to get them done?

i'm not going to get into all this because, well, i'm totally biased (one kid there and one starting next year) however i will say, because it's a fact rather than an opinion, that in my daughter's class out of 18 children only two do not live locally (one in clapham and one in beckenham). most of us live in east dulwich or dulwich village. do we really care about fireworks? seriously? wow.

i have it one virgin plus if you want. will happily trade for an expensive pair of specs which do little for my eyesight but make me appear a darn bit more clever than i am. quite apart from the having lost them part.

holding my mother's hand as she took her last breath.

i have mislaid my reading glasses. any thoughts on where they might be? last saw them approx 10 days ago tho can't be quite sure where (obviously)

quite agree with seanmac. and also, rudy guiliani "cleaned up" new york by starting with its appearance, citing that people are influenced by their environment. it does matter. if the place looks like a tip people are more likely to behave disrespectfully. i am wildly anti-littering.

dearest DM i was there this morning, caked in mud (and possibly in cockapoo poo) so tenacious that not even the rain would wash it away, trying my derndest to impress neil of the tight bum. i did plenty of sweating and groaning, i did. (etc etc) and my only question is: where the H were YOU?? xxxxx shosh

apparently six is no good for a dinner party. too small. so they say...

anyone know anything? was there for quite awhile

what the hoo-ha? i am completely lost on this thread, which is maybe a good thing. can tell you what, though, i will be taking tosh with me on ALL future trips to lordship lane. oh, but one thing i DO know: "it" can't be quids or sean mac because both are very good-looking and neither are LL shopkeepers nor "exotic". ;-)

p.s. anyone ever used smarthospitality tickets website? how does one know if these ticketing agents websites are a scam?

poor me! i tried doing that texting thing that someone suggested on here earlier this week in order to get a code in order to get "priority" tickets but i got nothing (except perhaps a big bill on my mobile) and so this morning i have been trying on-line to get tickets, which apparently went on sale at 9am this morning, and guess what??!! SOLD OUT. help... any ideas gratefully received...

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perhaps we could set up a covert ops citizens sting?

shosh= person who puts up shelves, changing car tyres, rewires plugs tosh= person who "potters" around kitchen all weekend, baking, cooking, washing up we are in extreme role reversal, apart from he works and i'm just a mum. which would really work much better the other way as well it's just that he earns more than i did. typical.

okay, maybe we could try it this way... which would be least likely to get stolen when i no doubt leave it in the car on the first day i use it? DM, yes coffee sounds splendid! should we see if di is around?

if you are blonde, dye your hair.

Steve T -- couldn't agree more! well said. (p.s. i once dated an american republican, which is really far worse than a tory, and he... ummm... shall we say "fell at the first hurdle")