SimonM

>>If the bus terminated at Honour Oak Station where would it be able to turn around.?<< Go round the one-way system at the lights at the bottom of the road?

Perhaps someone with a longer memory can remind me what the Yanks' attitude was to the freeing of all the (non-cancer suffering) Irish "terrorists" under the Good Friday agreement? Scotland has some great writers - shame about the politicians their public schools turn out....

Used to get it delivered regularly but seem not to have had one for a few months now. We are on Underhill.

But "But me no buts" does not begin with a conjunction, as "But" in that sense is a verb. And it was a favourite put-down of my Latin teacher, who for some reason thought he was being tremendously witty when he said it. So this is now wildly off-topic...

As far as finding out who the cat's real "owner" is, you're a bit limited unless you can get hold of it and attach a note to its collar. We did this successfully once with an over-friendly and sleek ginger cat who seemed to be on his way to adopting us, but turned out to have an owner who lived in a nearby house who worked odd shifts and had a lodger who was not terribly reliable at feeding the cat in her absences. She left us a very slightly miffed message on our answerphone to say Puss lived there and was lying happily on her bed whilst she left the message. Only when my wife listened to the message later on her return from work the same cat was happily having a snack from our cats' bowls... I am assuming you have done the obvious stuff like asked the neighbours? If you want to discourage it coming in then you're caught between a rock and a hard place if at the same time you don't want to curtail your own cats' freedom of movement. If it's food that's the main attraction could you feed your cats earlier then remove the dish later in the evening? Maybe your cats will in time get used to the intruder? We have had a succession of feline freeloaders over the years through the ever-open catflap, some more brazen than others. (Our own cats are not territorial and so laid back and pacifist even the squirrels laugh at them.) A couple of these characters clearly come and spend the night in the winter sometimes. But even though two of these visitors have been regulars there do seem to be long phases when, for whatever reason, they suspend the visits. Your troublesome visitor may do likewise eventually.

On the one and only occasion I had afternoon tea in Grantchester the honey was served in a tiny plastic pot emblazened with the word "Kraft"....so I have to agree with you, even if "and is there jam still for tea?" would be less evocative as well as metrically compromised. But I still say it's ok to begin a sentence with a conjunction.B)

>>It's them bleeding long-haired poets wot started the rot, I reckon.<< Well what do you expect from a geezer from Peckham who not only covered house walls in graffiti but could not even spell "tiger"?! Rupert Brooke had exquisitely-barbered short hair though... "And I shall find some girl perhaps and a better one than you..." B)

Well for some reason yesterday the carp - two pairs in different parts of the lake - were lingering close to what I think of as "the shore", so were easily visible. Now if only I could spot the kingfisher again....

Yeah....who on earth can care about the 20/20 now?!:))

Ohhh I got the Spurs score bang on again! B) Burnley again win 1-0: they have done that a few times this year against better teams....:(

Wow at this rate she'll be ready for the offside rule by - oh - Thursday teatime!B)

But there is nothing wrong with beginning a sentence with "And"... "And did those feet...." :))

Speaking of Peckham Rye Common, I was somewhat taken aback to see it had been invaded by what looked like various McDonalds bouncy castles today, but which apparently was a big football coaching arena...coaching moms to become coaches as well as the obese, burger-stuffed brats to hoof the bladder around....Such incontrovertible evidence of the selfless charitable instincts of the hardened multinational almost brought a tear to my eye....B)

I saw Yorkshire's very last game at Bramall Lane, Sheffield. It got rained off: no standing ovations....:(

I'm surmising every football ground looks "little" to the guy who plays Smithy.....B)

Saw four carp in the lake today, all at least a foot long. Have these always been there? I have never seen them before and wonder how they survived the heron and the fish-poachers... Still no sign of the Japanese garden bridge being fixed despite being told previously they were hoping to do it last month...

Looks like they are going to landscape the front garden perhaps?

Arsenal 4 Portsmouth 0 Birmingham 1 Stoke 1 Hull 0 Bolton 3 Man City 4 Wolverhampton 0 Sunderland 2 Blackburn 0 Wigan 0 Man Utd 2 Burnley 0 Everton 2 Fulham 0 Chelsea 2 West Ham 1 Tottenham 2

>>and they didn't even put in a convincing love story subplot like in Titanic << *mops coffee up frantically from keyboard*

Interesting clip. Please tell me you did not find it by a search of "pearl necklace" on YouTube?!

But, as has often been noted, Fawkes & his buddies are the only chaps to have entered Parliament with honourable intentions... I pass his birthplace every time I stay in York (it's now a pub!)

The Championship is never easy to call but already this season is looking even closer - so many draws, still quite a few undefeated after 3 games. Barnsley have started badly though, and so have Ipswich - which is a bit of a surprise. Sheffield United's opening day point at Middlesbrough is looking increasingly valuable!

It wasn't a labrador with Thorpe it was a Great Dane IIRC The ultimate dirty politician was JFK

She looks gorgeous, but can I ask how you go about estimating her age?

Well the Spurs-Liverpool result was the only one I got exactly right....:))