SimonM

I remember Free Range - which was indeed very good for a while - but then went downhill for some reason. Any idea why it closed?

>>However I won't be returning to driving in my automobile,<< Another "americanism" - not even with your baby beside you at the wheel? :)) In the UK we always drove "motor cars"....:)

>>Are you actually serious?:D< 'Train Station' sounds awful? Or is it because it's an Americanism that it's inexcusable? The former(ish). I am not actually sure it is an americanism

Since April 1975....it was all green fields back then....:))

>>But to echo downsouth, language does move on.> For instance no one seems too bothered that we no longer use 'ye' as second person plural (ye irish types excepted of course) though I think it's a bit sad we lost it.>Come on, railway's a bit archaic isn't it>....and we have bus stations not turnpike stations<< Not the same thing at all, For one thing "railway station" has worked perfectly adequately for almost 200 years: the railway is always in the station, the trains are not. Bus (or Coach) stations needed to be termed thus because roads are used by other vehicles so the discrimination was necessary for clarity. "Train station" is just an ugly and redundant construction. All just IMHO of course B)

Two perfect (including the Arsenal game :)) )and three results... Aston Villa 3 Leicester 0 Blackburn 2 Birmingham 1 Fulham 1 Bolton 0 Hull 1 Chelsea 0 Man Utd 3 Coventry 0 Sheff Wed 0 Everton 3 Tottenham 2 Middlesbrough 1 West Ham 3 Plymouth 0

>>BTW, it's 'railway station'. 'Train station' is an Americanism and it sounds awful. I even see it on BBC websites, but there you go. Nero<< I agree emphatically - but just the other week the Guardian confirmed "train station" was now in its style book: deplorable. And "train station" would not have worked in the opening line of "Homeward Bound" either....:))

>>SimonM - no drawers allowed - unless you put amount of pens after:D< Sorry I was forecasting 90 minutes scores but will amend the forecast...

Arsenal 2 Newcastle 0 Reading 1 Liverpool 2 Man City 3 Norwich 1 Blackpool 2 Southend 1 Burnley 2 Portsmouth 1 Luton 0 Charlton 1 Sheff Utd 3 Morecambe 0 West Brom 2 Cardiff 0

See http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1956600,00.html#article_continue and other sites. But there is no evidence Foxtons are still doing this...

Never too late! I was bottom the first couple of weeks and am now a heady 17th....

I have not been for a few years but remember the bread always was a disgrace for a "French" place. Do they still offer up those awful anaemic part-baked rolls?

I wasn't there cos I am a curmudgeonly misanthrope

Heaven knows I am no Chelski fan - and I confidently expect them to sink slowly down the table with their new "manager" - but that referee today was outrageous....talk about home team decisions! One duff sending off, one penalty award no visiting side would ever have beeen given,,,,etc etc

>>Get down to Northcross Rd. Davina and Daniel will cure you. >>Space Station Sixty-Five<< Were you the bloke who left his trousers in the hairdressers? too busy composing a witty riposte to one of the vital EDF threads to notice how cool your legs were? Sure sign of an addict.....

>>>(btw, imho DDA legislation dos not just apply to the ambulantly disabled!)<<< And noone has suggested anywhere that it does.

Isn't "wunch" for bankers? :)) For "estate agents" how about a suppuration?

Upland

Walked along Underhill today - three Foxton's signs up, including one on a house that has been on the market a while: then saw 2 more signs on Overhill. So if this is typical there must be hundreds of properties in ED hoping to qualify in the Top 200.. Also had a look at the new office which is all but ready to open. I am totally appalled at the cynical and blatant way this company and/or its architects has ignored the provisions of the Disability Discrimiantion Act and installed an 8cms high step in the somewhat narrow doorway even though a flat or ramped entrance would have been simple to incorporate in the new building. If their atttitude to the law of the land can be so cavalier in this respect, then perhaps they may sail close to the wind in other ways also...

The Oracle pronounces....:)) http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2002390000-2007440013,00.html

I wish they'd repeat both series of "Chance In A Million"....starring another lcoal thesp of course! >:D

>>carried out by a couple of women in their late 20's/early 30's with three-wheeled pushchairs to carry off the loot - << Does not compute: the HaveSomeBloodyCash is the least acessible bank in LL, so no pushchair wielding blaggers could hae bveen involved..

See http://tinyurl.com/38fr63

>>Warnock to Hearts would be hugely entertaining. And he'd last about five minutes.<< Well 5 minutes is about par for the course with Hearts managers these days.... What would be entertaining in a throughly gruesome way would be Denis Wise getting the sack at Leeds and then Bates offering Colin the Elland Road job (Bates did offer Warnock the Chelsea manager's job many years ago so it's not that outlandish an idea...) :))

>> sorry again:D< We now go to away games playing 2 or even 3 men up front under Bryan Robson.....so far with limited success but it is making life (and games!) interesting. Defence is still crap though....