Moos

Hot toddies, maybe? It just shows there are an awful lot of grannies out there.

Bob, that's awful!

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "You know you don't want to make bread, milk cows, > grow wheat, build houses, make carpets EVERY > SINGLE TIME?? Well, let us do it for you and we > can then let you have them - for a mutually > convenient fee*" *we regret that we cannot accept chickens or American Express as payment

...and he bit. *pats self on back* [insert neh heh heh smiley]

I saw it too. The closing thumps of 'Stenders is apparently a moment of great energy drain.

Fattest and Thinnest Places in the UK Big (forgive me) news from Sky where someone has identified 'obesity hotspots', none of which are a great (sorry again) surprise. For those of reluctant to click, here are the highlights - comments are mine:- Top 20 Fattest 1. Shetland 2. Torfaen 3. Blaenau Gwent 4. Neath 5. Caerphilly 6. Rhondda 7. Barnsley 8. Wrexham 9. North Lincolnshire 10. Merthyr Tydfil 11. Denbighshire 12. Doncaster 13. Carmarthenshire 14. Stoke-On-Trent 15. Wolverhampton City 16. Anglesey 17. Blackpool 18. Knowsley 19. Newport 20. Northumberland Care Trust Top 10 Thinnest 1. Camden (smack keeps you slender) 2. Richmond & Twickenham (cash ditto) 3. Wandsworth 4. Kensington & Chelsea (see R&T) 5. Westminster (see K&C) 6. Hammersmith & Fulham 7. Brighton & Hove 8. Surrey 9. Kingston 10. Tower Hamlets 11. Lambeth 12. Bristol 13. Bath & North East Somerset 14. Lothian 15. Buckinghamshire 16. Barnet 17. Islington 18. West Hertfordshire 19. Bromley 20. West Sussex A very clear correlation between poverty and obesity - no surprise there - but not a universal one: Tower Hamlets, anyone? Lambeth?

Most of them probably said it to one another. We are a peculiarly self-oppressing sex. Like you lot need our help..

Bibbetty bobbetty boo

Nah, would have to be longer than that. I'm basically a fairly peaceful human being.

Or the old Chinese saying 'May nothing new arise'

Oh, I thought it might be one of those new white ones...

Mm, scrummy

Yes, but it's all about Meeeeeeee, don't you realise? *remembers it isn't, and sulks*

Keeping your options open there, Simon? (Insert cheeky winky-wonky smiley here) My least favourite forumite is anyone who quotes great swathes of someone else's post when only one sentence would do. How I grrrr as I scroll away.

*Still red-eyed, back at work* Kalamity, anyone... Have pity.

*red-eyed, arrives in QR straight from work* ....Help...please... Someone! Need red wine!

I ummed and erred about responding, hence the . above, because I was trying to be too nice and quite direct at the same time. Bad combination. So here it is without trying to be nice. I think LibraCarr has a point, although I wouldn't have put it quite as he did. This thread has been overwhelmingly positive, and yes Richard Balfe I think responded admirably to charlie's criticism. But I can think of lots of threads where people couldn't wait to leap on a new business and give it a hard time - BlackBird Bakery and Locale to name two - or to make negative comments about one that's just shut down. Of course you can argue that that's what forums and free speech are for, but I agree with LC that it's a shame to do it, especially if (as many people on here have said) you also believe that small independent businesses are a Good Thing in ED.

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Keef, I meant to say, can I lend you a series of the West Wing in exchange? If by some remote chance you haven't seen 1, 3 or 4 they're fab!

Oh Keef you're an angel, thanks!

Don't think anyone was intending to have a pop, Asset - apologies if my post seemed that way, intended quite the opposite. And yes, I agree - a good topic for discussion. Just sneaking this one in before the portcullis descends... edited for poor English

Don't think Asset was making quite such a strong statement as that, d_c? and I'm sure Admin is man enough to face a question or two. My view is that threads - especially the more contentious ones - and often run for a while with lots of people pitching in and good discussion, and then end up with one or two pages of a few people angrily saying the same thing round and round, again and again, with the discussion dying painfully by inches. At this point I think it helps the admin if the original poster says "I think we're done here" rather than having to make the call without help. I agree that the OP doesn't own the thread, but he or she probably has the greatest say. I've never seen anyone come back and say Oi! we weren't done, but I think they would be free to if they wished and then perhaps the thread could be unlocked, in the same way that threads get lounged and then de-lounged. Or else people could start a new thread, to discuss whatever it was that the old thread had turned into.

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There is no way I would ever go to a place like > that and order anything without checking the menu > for prices first - it surely isn't asking too much > for people to take responsibility for that is it? > Of course ?21 is a ridiculous amount to pay for > some ice cream and tea - but that is entirely the > perogative of any business to charge what they > will. It's up to us to make the informed choice > thereafter Think this one is a bit of a red herring that a couple of people have picked up on. I think we can agree that it's common sense to check the menu before you buy - and if you don't, any pained yelping that you emit when you get the bill is your own fault. Of course it's the business's prerogative to charge what they will, and the customer's privilege to vote with his feet. So then it comes down to - do we like the caf? as is, or would we be happier if it was more affordable? I would hate it if all caf?s felt obliged to be caffs with 60p cups of tea, and only orange Tetley's available. The elegance of the place is something special. The service... well, that ought to match. I can't remember much about it. Perhaps it would be nice if one could perhaps have a takeaway sit-in-the-garden option, probably with a limited menu, so that one could go to an exhibit and come out for refreshment without having sold Granny's virtue to pay for it.

I fear we may be getting off topic, and I have already been spanked by the administrator too many times for that crime. Doesn't anyone else have a view on the park caf?? (Marilyn herself I feel may have enjoyed the occasional second helping)

Arkk. Agog with curiosity to take in the Wire, with great feedback from such diverse sources as my mum, and you lot, I bought and gave away Series 1 to friends who've just had a baby without so much as taking off the plastic cover. Selfless or stoopid? you decide. I'm 3rd in SeanMac's list of 3... so if anyone with a kind heart and a spare copy of Series 1 wishes to get me off the waiting lists, I'd be supersupergrateful.