Jeremy

Good thread...

Think of the environment.

The quotes were supposed to denote irony.

Oh right, see what you mean. Just a matter of indicating and pulling out slowly I guess, so any oncoming traffic has a chance to stop. It's not ideal, but can be hard to find parking spaces on some roads.

Turns out the tip DO accept cement! I was fully expecting them to suck their teeth and shake their heads. Thanks anyway KK.

Not sure what you mean, ruffers. Agree that parking on the correct side is preferable of course, but not sure why parking on the right hand side involves pulling out blind into the road?

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > but it's not cheese on toast I know that! It's a "dish" which contains cheese on toast as an ingredient/component. Cheese on toast also makes a good substitute for a burger bun. But plain old cheese on toast - with a dash of worcester sauce - is good too!

Two slices of sliced white bread and cheddar. Then make a sandwich with them, with four fish fingers in the middle. Tartare sauce and sliced gherkins.

Countrlass22... you know, your posts would be a lot easier to read if you didn't miss out so many words!

Queuing is the thing I hate most about eating in London now. So many places where you can get really great food for a very reasonable price. But there's no way I'm going to fritter away what little free time I have by standing in a bloody queue for an hour to eat pizza/burger/ribs/ramen, or even lobster.

Looks pretty good to me. I think the decision to lay out the main house as flats is sensible. And I'm glad the houses are a modern design rather than tacky mock-period.

I thought the tip wouldn't take cement? Maybe I'll take it over there anyway and see what they say!

How do I get rid of an old bag of cement (no longer useable)? Any ideas?

I'd suggest that this friend of a friend owes you one expensive coat...

I prefer to look at holes in the "transport network" rather than purely the "tube network". A once-a-ten minute train service to London Bridge - with easy interchange to Charing Cross - would be a perfectly respsectable service. If it worked. Without engineering works every. single. weekend. since. ever.

The local Tory candidate was never going to be anything other than a sacrificial lamb, but coming onto the EDF is pure madness. Still, at least nobody has blamed the poor woman for "the bankers" yet.

Not always! http://groceries.iceland.co.uk/snacksters-sliced-doner-kebab-meat-600g/p/52520

Good on you for confessing to your mistake, and to warn others. Rather annoyingly, the wing mirrors of my car cannot fold in after turning the ignition off, so I sometimes have to open the door into the road without the benefit of wing mirrors. A daft design if ever there was one!

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > An entire quarter of London is reliant almost exclusively on > trains and buses and as a result, when things go > wrong on the former, there is carnage on the > latter, leaving people with few options. So you think every area of London should be served by at least three forms of transport, as a contingency measure? Don't get me wrong, I'd prefer a tube too... but I don't get the argument that carrying on without it is some sort of great burden. The current situation, while painful, is not permanent.

Thanks for the explanation TCL, I understand now. Best of luck with the project!

copleston_charlie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > not sure if this qualifies under the catch-all title of 'craft' though. It's as good a description as anyway, some of their beers are clearly influenced by that whole scene. The brewery itself was more of a "destination" back in the summer though - sun shining, pop-up food in the front yard, etc. Not sure I fancy it so much in the winter.

I can't really agree with this "I demand we have a tube line" stance, but I can agree that the current situation is unacceptable, and at times, dangerous. The trains are now so tightly scheduled that if one train is delayed, the whole network goes bang and they start having to cancel trains or miss out stops. Half hour waits are commonplace, as are 25 minute journeys. There is a lack of useful departure information at London Bridge. And at the end of all this... we'll have one less platform than we did to start with.

Monkey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I left Moorgate at 1645 and did not get to East > Dulwich until 1748. Was late for picking up child. Do you live anywhere near Denmark Hill or Peckham Rye? If so, there are a few other options... Overground via Whitechapel, train from City Thameslink, Northern line down to Elephant (then a train or bus), etc. If you have to travel in peak time and absolutely need to be somewhere on time, probably best to look into other options.

If you think things are going to get better in Jan/Feb, you've got another thing coming...

I'd question the need for another bakery. But saying that, their bread is really, really nice...