SeanMacGabhann

I really really did start this thread to see if anyone had checked out Karavan - me own bleedin fault for being clever-clever with the headline

Another reason to avoid flights is the complete nightmare that is the 3 hours kicking about in the shopping mall-cum-airport with your shoes in one hand, your belt in the other and your dignity somehere in the cab drivers back seat which is currently winging it's way back to ED But all that said, there does seem to be an intellectual acceptance of the need to not fly which when faced with the day-to-day reality means that most of us fly on our moral credit card and hope someone else picks up the tab later. I try and not fly but when faced with a trip back to my family in Ireland the car/ferry option really doesn't wash (14 hours each way being just part of the equation) I don't drive in London, always take a train where possible when travelling and walk as much as I can - and this is a change of behaviour for me compared to other stages in my life. And yet from time to time I do fly. Much less than I used to maybe but still... But I still understand Paul's outrage just as much as I understand the more ususal pragmatic approach. So that's my cake-and-eat-it take on this

Keef - you've rumbled my true rationale Seriously tho it sounds like a few people are up for it but some of us could do with hitting a driving range for an evening first before we make fools of ourselves on a public course - So shall we pick a night for driving range practice, have a few cold drinks and then decide where and when to play properly

Nero - oops - you are so right. How lazy of me

Who is up for a round of golf. I have no car so it has to be cab-able or someone willing to pick me up And I used to be ok at the game but have played about 4 times in 7 years so don't fancy my chances but still

... join the Karavan of love... I see it has reopened this weekend. I haven't been in but noticed some eco-friendly paint in the window display so am guessing it has evolved somewhat from it's previous incarnation

What was I saying about the Wire Half way through series 2 tonight - it's 11 PM and winding down after a very lovely weekend - and JUST before the end of the episode one of the few truly decent human beings goes and gets deaded I am now ending the weekend on a major bummer (whilst still thinking I've just watched 2 hours of the best drama ever)

I felt the need to vent some spleen

Life resumes in the Quiet Room albeit the kind of life which leads one to bad habits - Whiskey and tobacco chewing are fine pursuits but not conducive to a full weeks work (5 whole days? I ask you....)

I met them at the goose Green fair I think - good luck to them But A local business not putting EDF on their links page? Cha

the road between Goose Green and Dulwich Library? Now what's that called again... To be fair the roads will still be PLENTY wide for buses and ambulances-stroke-other emergency vehicles it's those pesky lazy-arses who have to drive from The Corrib to Camberwell Green that cause the problem ;-)

and used it as a barrier

* enters and notices the following: * beer cans stacked in pyramid formation champagne glasses chucked in a corner, all broken (both types - the flute ones and the breast-modelled ones) 2 slivers of "meat substance" - probably from a keeebab by the bit of carpet near the door the absence of ANY people some tumbleweed * thinks to self; "when I were younger this place were right busy. I didn't used to come in much meself like, just put nose up against window but still an all..." *

I noticed it began to sag

ah - thanks ever so much ADB

;-) But you got the reference - fair enough. Oddly enough the song in question featuring the line came on the shuffle yesterday

Resurrecting this ole thread as Mrs Mac and I went there last night to check out the bistro menu. I don't want to come over all Living South about it ("dish after dish was just lovely.. etc) but we did have 4 dishes and they were all totally gorgeous. Nothing was overly fancy (the black pudding, lardon and spiced apple compote was the closest to fancy and was well lush) but everything was top notch. And the Peroni was on, which made a nice change ;-) Recommended (as were the glasses of red we had at G&B afterwards)

I usually find the Liqourice bouncers to be some of the better ones. But like Nero I tend to avoid the LL hotspots on Fri and Sat nights. Because I is getting old

DM - looks like the damage was minimal. No postings of a totally outrageous nature. More's the pity Spadetownboy - all ecological questions aside, is the title of this thread Kirk Brandon related?

Boy do I feel left out - but next time my pop-in-law is up I gotta introduce you - he wanted me to tape Discovery Wings about 10 years ago But he will think you are a commie. Even if you are Senator Gonzales

Good shout Incatatus - will give it a try Ant - yep, you are correct she was a lates(ish) evening "minx" - she is much more cutesy on a Sunday morning now tho but the music is still good

Lady DM! Nowt disco about the Sticks. Or me for that matter. I "cut a rug" about once every 7 years

The irony is young Steph me lass that I'm not a "cop-show" fan generally - no CSI, no Miami Vice back in the day, no... well any of them really. But these are special. Trust me. And as you now know, it's not just my opinion... Plus anyone who knows me knows I wouldn't hurt a fly Sky+? Other hard-disc recording devices ARE available ( ;-) )but don't I know JUST what you mean.

Stuart Staples from Nottingham band The Tindersticks must live around here because I've seen him twice in the last year - once on a weekday afternoon in a bar in Forest Hill (not on his own, with some "Scene" type people) For those going "Tinder-who?" they are most likely known as the band that Tony Soprano comes out of his daze to near the end of Series 1 (track called "Tiny Tears". They make up an ocean you know)

I'm busy washing me 'air that night I think before this gets lounged for being off topic (oh wait, hang on...) I'll bring it back on topic by mentioning Natasha on Sunday mornings 6music (7-10 I think) is a great weekend show.... I was on my own one morning months ago and she was asking suggestions for The Quiet Zone (like a really mellow track) and I sent one in and forgot all about it. 2 weeks ago she said this next song comes from Sean in East Dulwich and then it came on and was...blissful (Until The Morning Comes by The Tindersticks since you didn't ask) Actually that reminds me... update to Famous people in ED coming up