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I tell cold callers I do all my research of companies, comparing them and choosing deals on the internet and if they are not there then they should be. Why on earth would I want to buy something without having initiated research or indeed actually formulated the idea in my head that I want this service. If I wanted this service I would have looked for it. Today I got a cold phone call about 'compensation'. Besides being on the telephone preference service I told her I didn't believe in the compensation society. You know it didn't shut her up.

wow Lozzyloz what a lot of gorgeous stuff!

Papa Bear on Nunhead land sell lots of lovely Danish wooden stuff of a similar ilk if you are still feeling bereft.

The children play in the alleyway that accesses the station- the problem is getting through the entrance of the alley which has bollards and the children. They are very little children, I think they are the children of people having their hair done or of the people doing the hair, so I don't think it's after school play out. You do get scooters charging up and down, footballs and boisterousness in what is a tiny narrow and extremely busy space. Personally it doesn't really bother me, except when I am rushing late for a train, but they are unsupervised children who look under 5 which is a bit odd.

Rape and putting your hand in young girls pants wasn't endemic. Neither defendant used the 'seventies culture' as a defence. Sexism, patronising women and being over familiar was endemic, and they could mask other activity.

Plumpstead has all the potential to be a great place to live. Lovely old pubs, the clubhouse on the green, a village green, plenty of green space, excellent transport and good housing stock. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40251280.html?premiumA=true http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-42607415.html

Local park could be the small nearby Warwick Gardens, or a further walk to Peckham Rye Park, a bus ride to Dulwich Park.

Re what Louisa was suggesting about Planners deliberately clearing communities, if you watched the amazing 6 part documentary The Secret History of Our Streets on telly last year, that is exactly what happened in Deptford. Whole viable old communities were cleared after being 'condemned' by a council that had development interests. http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/qyj4r/the-secret-history-of-our-streets--series-1---1-deptford-high-street As comedian Hattie Hayridge used to say, architects who's drawings were rejected as cold clinical landscapes devoid of human warmth just resubmitted the drawings, but this time with some stick people and plant pots superimposed on the original.

I've had VW's my last three cars- all bought second (or 4th) hand with at least 60,000 miles on clock, two Passat estates and the latest a Polo Estate which I got on ebay nearly ten years ago, intending to just keep it a couple of years. They go on and on and on, and if you service them at a non-VW garage they are economical. Strangely my Passat's were much better on petrol than my Polo. My Polo is as scruffy as they come and I keep looking to upgrade but it is 18 years old, 110,000 on the (petrol) clock and has only ever let me down once, and that was when the radiator thermometer got stuck and told it it was overheating.

Debenhams is usually an umbrella for lots of other outlets, see Bromley Debenhams. Arding and Hobbs was brilliant.

Clapham is all smart but even Clapham has lost Arding and Hobbs - it is now an umbrella building for smaller franchises. Barkers, Derry and Toms and Pontings have also disappeared from Kensington High Street. Instead the old Barkers houses many different shops. Perhaps the Department Store as a concept, except for Selfridges, Liberties and Harrods, is no longer a viable enterprise. Not just Peckham.

one day it will fall on a waiting pedestrian.

Ivy HOuse quote:Monday 10th February. Woolly Mondays - 7.30pm. Last week's first session was a great success with about ten people sitting near the fire, supping ales...and knitting.

dogs are allowed off the lead in Dulwich park too, except in designated areas...

where exactly is that?

I hope so!

She analyses the data and reaches a logical conclusion- that makes her a good detective. She analyses human relations in exactly the same way, but human relations are not necessarily logical.

delicious takeaway tonight!

yesterday I was stuck behind this for so long that I assumed the right hand turn light was out of order. After about 10 mins wait everyone went for it. It was only as I went across that I saw filter was still red and I had shot a red light. Didn't see a flash of camera but was making a judgement that it was out of order. Is that a defence?

adonirum I didn't hear the sirens. I watched it unfold, the rain fell heavily, one man refused to move his car at all, so it blocked all traffic both ways down Bellenden Road, while the other man had pulled aside so they could shout some more. The whole thing had arisen cos there was only room for one and they both decided to go for it and got stuck and were scratching each others mirrors. Two jaguars, two stag-uars, at bay. At this point I made a dash out of the rain and headed for home, but had a feeling it would not all end there!

National Rail timetables tell me everything is working but last time it said that on a Sunday, nothing was. Anyone know? thanks

was it a jag-type car? There was a hell of a near-road rage incident in Bellenden Road yesterday late afternoon, with car abandoned in road and creating jam as two men in two jags who had stupidly refused to give way to each other shouted and screamed and looked like they might be 'phoning a friend'.

I could take ten, but they would be for my mainly middle class consumption, so only if no other takers.

Bellenden Road- the supermarket has really improved its stock, specially choice of veg. I use it more and therefore Sainsbury's less. as for the lost shops of Bellenden- when we first moved here there was a dodgy second hand junk shop and now there are two better ones. There is the kebab chippy Sams on corner of Bellenden and Maxted that's been there as long as I have- fifteen years. Except for the plumbers which have now gone, all those 'missing' shops are represented, if under different names. The deli- if that was the Turkish one- was awful with terrible stale bread capitalising on its idea of a new middle class clientele. It didn't last long. ''Ossie the plumber, Dackecome car spares/ The > turkish deli, Bakery, Chaz, Many small grocers.The > Prince Albert. Mr Patel the papershop. The dry > Cleaner, The very good cafe. Chinese takeaway. > Takeaway foodshops. ''

the hippies have the best idea for dramatic and fundamental style change- add fairy lights to everything.