Jeremy

A nice little duet for Peter Andre and Kerry Katona to sing on the 2015 Iceland Christmas advert should do the job.

She's moved production to Maltby Street and is now supplying Selfridges (and maybe others). They were planning to keep the Peckham shop running, they'd just done a refurb to remove the k!tchen and provide extra seating... not sure what happened. Shame.

Elliots in Borough Market is really good (probably booked up at this short notice, but worth a try!)

From the same era - Pulp Fiction. Pierce Brosnan becoming Bond. Richey Edwards going missing. Tim Henman. Playstation. Any number of bands/albums (I'm stuck in the 90s musically).

BrandNewGuy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > When our lads were smaller, they hung England > flags in our windows during the World Cup and the Euros It's not really the same thing, is it?

Was a monunmentally stupid thing to do. But if I walked past a house draped in England flags (outside of a major international sporting event), I know what I'd think...

Good luck, hope it all gets sorted.

steveo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The two I had in Belfast the other day had sherry in them. Yeah, apparently that's a "thing". A glug of red wine is not unheard of either...

Not sure about the financial analogy, it's not just a return on an asset - if you take a 90% mortgage, you are 10x leveraged..

Yep, I'd do the same... if you are confident there's still life in the old dog, just get it fixed as cheaply as you can out of your own pocket. Your renewal premium rockets up after making a claim... in fact, I probably wouldn't have even told the insurer in the first place.

Good luck Sue, but honestly - ?1100 for a '98 Micra is far, far too high. I'd be amazed if you got anywhere near that. If you DO accept their write-off payment, the car becomes property of the insurer - if you want to keep it, they will deduct the scrap/salvage value from the payout: http://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/publications/technical_notes/motor-valuation.html#16

miga - apology not necessary... I guess I agree with bits of what both you and DaveR say. Most of us have to compromise when buying somewhere, it was the case 10-15 years ago and it's still the case now. But the compromises you might have to make these days might be a little less palatable, and the level of earnings you need to buy anything at all is dangerously high. SJ - I'd suggest the move from the one bed flat in Catford to a family home would probbaly have to be something along the lines a move out to Essex or North Kent... and I'm not saying that's all fine and dandy... but people on a reasonable household income should still be able find a way..

Can't see myself going on a 10+ pub crawl, but would love to join in for a few of the ED/Peckham ones!

TBH I can take or leave back bacon, I find the texture too leathery. But streaky bacon, cooked to a crisp... hmmm.

Of course everything's got harder, but it's a similar principle, surely? I appreciate a one bedroom flat in Catford isn't what most people dream of, but the same time, probably attainable for most young professionals living as a couple.

Well... yes and no. I'm sure lots of people could probably stretch to a flat in an unloved area a bit further out of London if they were willing to, but there are also lots of people that couldn't...

Siduhe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Someone did Bacon Baklava for a recent Band of > Bakers event - I had never heard of such a thing > before - it looked fab in the photos. Has anyone > ever tried it in real life? Yep - the baker in question is a friend, and I sampled some... it was interesting.

Bic Basher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > DMC is the second worst surgery in the borough Does not suprise me whatsoever. Although I've been wondering recently whether the surgery is intrinsically bad, or do they just have far too many patients? They've had an influx of new patients over the last few years (I suspect as a result of many recommendations on here circa 2009, as well as access to the popular Lanes midwife service) and have clearly struggled to keep up...

Bacon baklava

If the weather's dry, a can of Red Stripe outside the Costcutter is possibly a better option.

I don't see a huge difference in terms of ease of use, I just think Android devices tend to be a bit more glitchy and suffer more crashing/freezing type behaviour.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does innocent until proven guilty apply in the US > or is it just a British principle? Are we really any better? Rolf Harris, for example. As soon as the allegations become public, almost everyone will assume that when there's smoke there's fire. How can you keep something like this under wraps?

Yeah... do what almost everyone else does, and find an area you can afford! That's how I ended up in ED back when I was your age. Nobody else my age wanted to live here at the time, but it worked out OK.

Loz... I find crashes (of both apps and the whole OS) far more common on Android. Also annoying things like screen orientation refusing to right itself, camera freezing, etc.