SimonM

>>Used to like Warnock, but really disappointed with the way he slagged of Rafa, and is still holding a grudge>You should try supporting Liverpool for a couple of seasons, and you'll soon learn not to expect too much however promising things look!<< (Need an emoticon for a grim, hollow laugh here...). Sheffield United supporters have invented and now tip their flat 'ats to an entity known as "Perversegod", an evil, malicious being who delights in wrecking things for the team and its long-suffering but admirably stoical supporters at the last minute in most original and unexpected ways. The final-day relegation last season was child's play to her...Clearly she has a sibling at Liverpool. James Beatty, who used to play for someone-or-other and scored about 2 goals in 80-odd games for them, has now scored 6 in six league games for us. Perversegod will no doubt ensure some Premier outfit will now snaffle him in January...

Is there an echo in here?? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :))

"Real estate" is the american term. In this country there are basically two types of "property" - Real & Personal. "Real" is anything to do with land and is what estate agents sell/rent/lease/manage, but as you say we usually just call houses/flats etc "properties". I still have nightmares struggling through Megarry & Wade's "The Law of Real Property" in my long-gone college days....:(

The trouble with emoticons is that unless you use them many people these days will fail to recognise you are being ironic or droll or whatever...

>>Much nicer than the new-build monstrosity on (I think) Underhill Road.<< That one (at the junction of Overhill & Underhill) is truly horrid isn't it? It has already had three windows broken by local...umm...architectural critics. They have crammed far too much into a narrow site - and given the costs of demolishing the previous wreck of a house there before even starting the build I don't see where any serious profit will come from.

Yes...yesterday I saw 3 of these multi-coloured eyesores sparked on North Cross Road. Were I a resident/driver of a road especially targetted by these eyesores I'd be very tempted to get together with a like-minded neighbour and park our respective vehicles either side of the culprit, bumper-to-bumper, and then take off (on foot) to the pub for the day/Brighton for a week or at least ignore the doorbell for several hours...

I still think if the "Babur" (Brockley) opened up in LL they'd leave all the nearby opposition for dead...

Tilts used to donate a raffle prize in the annual garden fete that was held in the Village - the field by the old school. The prize was a week in a holiday apartment in a building they rented out (and perhaps owned too?) right on the river in Marlow. The only time I ever won a decent raffle prize was the summer I won this - and the Tilts people instantly gave me a free upgrade to the 3 bedroom apartment in the same building that actually overlooked the river, complete with shaded balcony where you could breakfast and feed the swans and watch the boats and anglers... So I am sorry to see them go...:))

>>"A real estate agent" he replied<< I knew it....the rest are all figments of our imaginations...:))

>>The bloody Village branch doesnt even have a cash machine! God I hate Barclays<< They have recently applied for planning permision to instal one though (according to the latest Dulwich Society mag.), and are expected to receive it.

Are you aware of the Farmers' Market held on the 4th Sunday of (almost) every month in the forecourt of Dulwich College? 9-ipm I think

Then catch the highlights later! (sawwwwwwwwwrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! :)-D)

Howards' Way was I think the Beeb's (feeble) riposte to "Dallasty" - even to including Kate O'Mara. But yes most of the acting was incredibly wooden...and no, I don't think I ever missed an episode either :)) Bergerac was great in its prime - gorgeous locations and that car! Jim had one or two really hot girlfriends too - but they truly flogged the cheval mort when they tried to relocate him as an ex-plod in Provence...

I have just enjoyed watching England thump the Argies 6-1 in the World Cup- thanks in part to 2 penalties, an own goal,a dreadful goalkeeping error and the other lot being down to 10 "men" :-$ - but the score did nonetheless reflect Ingerland's all-round superiority. The quarter final is on Saturday against the USA so no excuses for not draping yourselves in the Flag of St George in front of a TV....

>>and of course the Bonzos Dog Band with the immortal Vivian Stanshall.:D

Watching the old Dynasty opening titles made me realise that the "Jack Coleman" in "Heroes" is one and the same, only less blonde these days

The Outer Limits 1 The Outer Limits

Yes well done Leeds! keep it up Ian Porterfield managed Sheffield United for a couple of seasons, tkaing them up 2 divisions. Then when it did not look like he was going to get them promoted instantly to the top level in one season the Board sacked him....Who'd be a manager?!

They owned but swapped it for the right to build their supermarket on what was then Kings College Hospital Medical School playing fields. The Sainsbury's playing field used to host a massive annual fete for all Sainsburys employees - and on the Sunday you'd have lots of coachloads rolling up for it.

>>but to take Ultraconsultancy's point, let's shift the meat/fish debate to a thread already open >>here for example: >>Butchers >>and save this thread for it's original intention<<< Excellent suggestion - and I have tried to start the ball rolling there again. But it looks as if the Louggernaut has become unstoppable here...

...And I see the ongoing dispute between West Ham United & Sheffield United today opened up a whole new front on the plane from Iceland... >:D

I think it is going to prove a very long haul back for both Beckham and t'other Neville, given how well their replacements have played, and given that Lennon is still waiting in the wings. As for Lampard, anyone else remember the story of the bet Terry supposedly had with him just before the World Cup? ?90K that he scores no goals...and it was the heavy burden of said bet that caused Frank to miss 20+ chances at goal...

>>And I'm sorry you felt the need to be sarcastic<< You asked for a suggestion, and I gave you one in all seriousness: the previous set-up worked. There's nothing illegal or even dangerous about drivers not choosing to give way to people merely waiting to cross a zebra crossing. In my own experience most drivers at this particular crossing seemed to be pretty generously-spirited, although obviously there were always exceptions. And "Chancing it at a zebra crossing"? isn't this a little bit alarmist? Isn't it also the case that children will learn to cross roads much more safely if they realise there is always going to be some risk, even at zebra crossings, even, I daresay, at junctions with traffic lights and little green men and all kinds of bells and whistles: that they should rely primarily on their own eyes and ears and common sense?

This would have been a fine old rant had you simply defended the woman's right not to let out her commercial premises if she so wishes. I too would defend anyone's right to behave irrationally as long as noone else is harmed. But "ripoff Wliiam Rose" - which is cheaper than Sainsbury's but has meat of better quality? The queues always seem very civilised and jolly to me...and it's a communal pavement in a busy shopping strip, so there's bound to be a bit of noisy coming and going. As for "hooky organic meat", I do hope William Rose have a sense of humour and are not too litigiosuly-minded... :))

>>And what alternatives do you suggest for those people who do have children, or are considering letting older children >>go to the park on their own? Errr....how about a zebra crossing with an island in the middle? Seemed to work fine before... And I have used this junction for years and years both as a driver and as a pedestrian