SimonM

>>Try to read this part of their website without throwing up<< Oh my God an impossible task! How utterly vile....

Ridiculous moustache or not, I thought "Murphy's Law" was excellent this week.

>>"We the undersigned believe in equality of the sexes and want a cheap man-brothel to cater for our womenly lusts that is open from 11am till midnight, << Maybe DMC will be interested if their plans for the pharmacy fall through? B)

>>Nesbitt's alright fish, he's just a forum leitmotif really. Almost a mascot.<< There's a persistent rumour he's the Beeb's choice for the next Dr Who....

>>Isn't Simon a Blades man?<< Of course I am! But hating Chelski is a national sport, especially after Abramovich's recent Tsar-like excesses... And I need cheering up the way our defence is playing just now....

>>Blimey - I lived in Norfolk for a while and knew people that did both!!<< But not simultaneously one trusts?? :-$

Would it be terribly bad form to cheer loudly and roll on the floor laughing when Valencia win tonight? >:D

>>it's chickpeas, garlic, lemon, olive oil and a bit of what you fancy << You forgot the Tahini - essential!. I made a huge batch of the stuff once in a blender and...well...you do end up with rather a lot! M & S do a lovely creamy houmous, but am more of a Tzatziki (spelling?) man myself....

Well...I remember some years ago the police raided/shut down a brothel on East Dulwich Grove....

>>As well as who.......?<< Ohh choice bit of pedantry...:))

>>ritual humiliation:D< Having said that, United's defence is currently one of the worst in the Championship so even if Wenger plays his "kids" as usual it could indeed turn out to be something of a thrashing....but either way I cannot face the EDT thanks all the same!

Carling Cup 4th Round, Sheffield United v Arsenal, will be shown live on Sky on Wednesday 31st October >:D

>>Can whoever has borrowed the First Wire series off the generous SeanMG, please give it back, << I don't have that copy - the one out on "loan" - but I have my own which I am happy to hand over in a plain brown envelope in Peckham Rye Park or wherever...

If this is the terrible leak on/near Piermont Green - which has been there a few weeks now and shows no signs of being fixed - I wonder if the guys building the new flats are responsible?

>>Madeira, rock in middle of Atlantic with not much going on except cake.<< And fortified wine of course. Not been myself but know someone who adores it and has been going annually for 30 years or so.

Carling Cup draw.... ...Sheffield United v Arsenal. Tasty! At least Arsenal will still be able to concentrate on the League affterwards.....>:D<

>>I some how think there was also a cobblers near there<< Was that a bit further along Crawthew? When I lived around there this shop was a BMW parts place, but I think has now rverted to residential. The Hyde Hyde Housing Association owned all/most of nos 1-13 and had renovated most/all of the houses into flats.

On the vexed subject of estate agents' cars, I have to be fair to Foxtons and note that, the other day when I was down in that part of the world, there were two Haart cars parked on Crawthew by the side of Foxtons, and the usual threesome of Ludlow & Thompson ugly blue and yellow beetles in and around North Cross Road, but no sign of any Foxtons' Mini Coopers anywhere. So possibly they are keeping them garaged off-site somewhere?

Falls off chair laughing at all three....:))

Birmingham v ManUre Chavski v Fulham 2-0 Derby v Bolton 1-0 Man City v Newcastle 2-1 Pompey v Reading 2-0 Sunderland v Blackburn 1-1 West Ham v Arsenal 1-2 Wigan v Liverpool 0-2 Everton v Middlesbrough 2-0 Tottenham v Aston Villa 1-2

>>Can Sharon Stone please come to Customer Services"!<< Probably in-store code for "the knickers shelf needs restocking"? :))

------------------------------------------------------- > It's rather more than a "few doors" to the Iceland > one >What 5, 6? I can think of 2 banks, Inside 72, the post office and the little trophy / shoe repair shop.< But if you are comparing crossing LL just there with a new zebra crossing, to reaching the same spot by passing (5 or 6) doors, crossing on the pelican crossing, passing estate agents and the corner supermarket, crossing the bottom of Northcross Road junction, passing the Palmerston and then several more doors then the advantages of a new crossing become clearer. :))

>> grew up in Spurling Road (which was designated slum clearance twice) << I lived in Spurling Road for a number of years - was it Hyde Housing taking over one side that saved it from slum clearance? And can you throw any light on the "Edenburg" (or however it was spelt) on the corner? Do you recall the corner shop at the junction with Crawthew that was run by two old ladies (well they were old when I lived there!) who were open 365 days a year, whether you wanted a carton of milk on Christmas Day or an Ena Sharples hairnet? :))

Well I got the W*dn*sd*y result spot-on at least. Looking forward to the draw for the next round now - Shefield United v West Ham will do very nicely >:D

It's rather more than a "few doors" to the Iceland one and the fact 2 minor roads join LL close to Somerfield makes crossing the road here especially hazardous, which is why a pedestrian or Pelican crossing is long overdue. But I don't see why there cannot be one close to the Bishop too (even though there's one by the Goose Green roundabout), or indeed another across East Dulwich Grove where it meeets LL, as crossing EDG here can also be a bit problematic. SimonM