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Lady DM, I fear that the peasants are revolting. And making her walk to Battersea (Oh My GOD, where is that?!) will only walk off the calories that your forced pancake-eating plan will so cleverly put on. You must be consistent with the staff, it's only fair to them.

Quite possibly, I'm no expert. I did consider giving up being short-tempered and snappish - or to put it 'pro-actively' to say nothing at all if I had nothing nice to say - but decided that would be just too, too hard. Really not covering myself in glory here..

I think she was getting her revenge for the knicker-boil-washing incident. You know the one I mean, don't play innocent.

Thanks to the ill-timed interference of a certain Forumite, (6), Mr. Moos has persuaded me that it would be a good idea to give up all sweets, biscuits and chocolate for Lent. So here I am on Shrove Tuesday stuffing fudge into my face at a rapid rate and full of grr. Now, I have to say that the seams of my trousers will be glad of the respite, as they've had to work slightly harder than usual recently, ahem, possibly due to the presence of Millie's Cookies at London Bridge - so hard to resist at the end of the working day when the blood sugar is low. Anyone else planning to suffer through 6 weeks - count 'em! - of what our vicar calls 'Our Lenten discipline'?

Candj, I think the thing is that Admin has to look at and act on complaints received - if you see aggressive posts you don't like, complain.

Oh boo, that would have been the first one I'd have been anywhere near getting! *waits expectantly for the next*

You and Sean?! The good doctor was joshing with you, surely. As for the puppies... if not the same person then certainly house mates. But I'm voting with Left Hand and Right Hand. And didn't you once say that BBW was your son? So presumably you know all about it.... :))

Hi flowermum My take on it would be that if you want to make a specific recommendation, you put it in WO&R, and if you want to start a general discussion (or have a moan!) you put it in the General section. But yes I agree, it does get a bit confusing. By the way, you got a bit of a cold reply to your first post, which was a shame. However, just to give you the context, there have been lots of instances in the past where businesses have registered as 'happy customers' to give themselves a boost. Considering that they are more than welcome to post to advertise their services for nothing - and usually honest posts along the lines of "Hey, come and try my new coffee business" are warmly welcomed, it's considered out of order. Not suggesting for a second that yours wasn't bona fide, of course - but that's the background to the somewhat harsh response you got. Try the Search facility which works across all the sections if you want to find out about a specific business.

And to take up Lord Mac's point, when Honaloochie thinks we're through the Looking Glass... (I too don't believe that Woof and BBW are different people)

Pooey, no Strawbs and no Lord and Lady Mac? Well, I'll be there and hope to be bringing with me a sparkling new resident who has moved to ED in spite of having known me for years.

CoD Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We are scared of violent crime - we want to be > safe and not caught up in gang warfare - we want > Jacqui Smith do actually live in her main > residence in Nunhead and pull her finger out. And > we are sorry that a man was murdered. And we > don't want anymore. Excellent post, CoD - thanks for expressing the situation succinctly and calmly but without denying the emotion that this situation does engender. The EDF is a light-hearted place but this is the death of one of our neighbours and it's terribly sad. For those of you trying to make political capital out of it - please stop.

Ooh goody, is Flickery back? Shall we all give you lots of lovely attention? ????, your description of the EDF is spot on - I've often thought of it as a pub, and you brilliantly describe the shift from tiny cosy local to a bigger crowd.

Ha! Spotted you, you fraud. The correct colour for an ED front door is a pale shade of olive. (It's like that bit in the Bond movie when he rumbles the Russian spy because he ordered red wine with fish, quelle horreur)

> Moos Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > > Pagey, what is the omnipresent Clapham literary > > gene? > > > Moos it's the ability to come up with expressions > such as that Pagey, I gark and gawgle in the face of your explanation. What is Claphamesque about literature? Yours Moos Riding the Clappedout Omnibus (of Confusion)

Ah, Beau bras... sigh. I remember when I used to wear those.

Pagey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- b) It's a manifestation of the omnipresent Clapham > literary gene which ED residents possess Pagey, what is the omnipresent Clapham literary gene?

Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Now have a redundant wormery and a baby compost heap. I know not everyone round here likes children, but that strikes me as a touch cold, MM.

To: Peckhamgatecrasher Question: Where's my fucking cat? Don't even get me started on the duck.

RosieH Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- "oh for a life of sensations rather than > of thoughts" above my bed. I THINK I've grown out > of that now "but I think the English language is a rich and glorious and wonderful thing, and it pains me to see it abused." doesn't sound like the work of a woman who doesn't prize thinking... although I have sneaking sympathy with Teen Rosie too.

Ooh, Keef, you great big fisher you. You know I love you dearly. I have to admit I have a crush on a forumite I haven't met, to the extent that my heart gives a little Eek! whenever I see he's posted.

I never went out with any boys at school - boo hoo - but I've always liked the nice boys more than the bad boys.

Happy birthday chuff - hope you can drown the nerves in something sparkly soon.

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh, I thought that was why they put a sharp bit on > pencils. That's for stabbing people in the eye when they criticise your spelling.

The weird thing about going back when you're overcharged is that sometimes the person you're talking to looks really pissed off, as though you were criticising them - or at least completely bemused as though you were a nutcase for doing it. Maybe it's my manner :-$ although I do try to do it nicely...

Tony.London Suburbs Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > B)tls meanders in singing a happy tune.... > > I'm in with the EDF in crowd, I go where the in > crowd goes > I'm in with the in crowd and I know what the in > crowd knows....B) > > Alas and alac its as close as some of us will ever > get to be part where its really at, and it is our > loss:-S Wow, Tony, that was actually quite spiteful. Are you having a bad day? Would you have preferred it if I had not said I liked David? I am sorry if I offended you by doing so, I have no bone to pick with you here.