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Ok, she slipped up. It was fun. Now let's leave her alone. She's probably hurting and she probably didn't really mean all the things she said, exagerrating for effect. She might just like the sound of her own voice and think she's witty and zeitgesity. Like we all do. I get the irony, I get the joke, it made me smile, but it's over now and we shouldn't revel in her chagrin and shame. Nero

I wish the yellow and blue place next to the barber's shop would reopen as something nice. It's a tip! I have a bit of a block with Forest Hill Road. I see it as a place to do a bit of grocery shopping, get my hair cut, get the duvet cleaned. I don't see it as a place to eat and drink, mainly because I have never been out there. Nero

Divine? A camp, flamboyant estate agent! How original. Nero

And support is so strong

Seconded re Cafe Rouge. Dulwich Village is very pretty, CR and Pizza Expresss are so pedestrian. I want to cringe when I have to walk past there it is that conservative and corporate. I used to think CR was great when I was about 25 and such places were few and far between oop North, but I hate that ersatz, corporate nonsense. Pizza Express is a little better, but I would love to see two, good independent places. (The place opposite, the 'French' place is OK, but I suppose that is why it is SE21 and not SE15 or 22. Nero

I think if you told them and offered to polish up the English, explaining that bad English leaves a bad impression, then they might willingly accept the offer. Nero

Drinking a g and t (how topical, eh?), surfing the BBC website, and wondering why Last of the Summer Wine is in HD, if it really is. Nero

I asked about battery recycling a few months back, but noone seems to know. Shame. Nero

G and T is what I drink at home or in swish bars on hols. (Tanqueray, Bombay Sapphire, Gordon's export are all good.) Nero

They have stopped me from smoking in pubs and fine me for flicking my stubbs I now inhale outdoors

The old 176 used to be the bain of my life. It was so rickety and somehow looked like it was made of old tin-roofing and had really stripped-down, basic wooden floors. It just seemed really unsafe. Nero

Floating, was it the 40?! WE MUSS NOE!!!! Nero

Anyone know what happened in Elephant last night? It was all taped up on the shopping centre side and was still taped up this morning. Nero

With her big, spotty knickers

It's reusing, not recycling, but it's a nice gesture. Nero

Turtle (hero)

A woman slipped up on the 40

Sean, I don't drink tea (it comes in on planes, you know) and I don't take sugar (cane won over beet a long time ago, and the Caribbean is many airmiles away). Nero ;-)

In the meantime, I really do think that climate change/global warming is this year's thing. It has been bubbling under for a good while, I grant you, but it's definitely flavour of the year. Last year it was immigration. The year before that it was terror. The year before that it was Iraq. Sure, it'll always be around, but next year it won't have the same prominence, I bet you. Goodness knows what it will be. Perhaps bird flu will finally kick in? Or maybe it'll be the US elections. Or maybe Scottish independence and what Britain is/isn/t will make a welcome return. I just know how these things work, as do most of you I'm sure. Nero

I don't know whether CWALD is or isn't a single-issue person. My rant was not at her. Having read her posts, she seems sensible enough to understand there is a bigger picture. The reason the media likes this story is because it involves big, romantic (well, at a pinch) ideas like jet engines, faraway places, the stratosphere, big business, mass action. Much more sexy than badgering Aunty Beryl to use that hemp bag you bought her when she goes shopping for her ready meals. Nero

Which are insured for ten grand

My point exactly. We should all do as much as we can. There is room for a reduction in air travel, or incentivisation to travel across Europe, say, or the continental US on trains, but to focus on air travel at the expense of other, daily eco-crimes is wrong. Nero

Please, people, give me a break. Stop banging on about bloody aeroplanes. For every person who mentions air travel in the same breath as global warming (gosh, that is getting as tiring to the ear as 'Spice Girls' was in 1997 or 'Millennium' in 1999/2000) there are scores of other un-green practises. If we all stopped buying stuff we really don't need, stopped nipping out to the corner shop in our car, stopped whacking up the heating when temps plunge to the frozen depths of 65F, stopped wasting food, stopped washing half-loads, stopped filling kettles too full when we only need a little bit of boiled water, stopped leaving our tellies and videos/DVDs on standby, stopped using throwaway bulbs and so on, then the world might be a little bit less warm. Car use, overheated, underinsulated homes, unnecessary purchases, excessive packaging, are bigger eco-demons than air transport. We are using too much energy to produce, package, transport and trash stuff we simply don't need. It is really that simple. Nero

Anntwacky, which is a Lancashire/Cheshire bastardisation of 'antique', used to denote something old-fashioned, out-of-date. Nero (I've never heard anyone say it apart from my nana and her friends.) Nero

Tinagwee. I read it many times as tingawee, which I thought was strange but fun! Nero