Alec John Moore

I'm sure it would be possible for someone with enough time to measure the posting centimetres on the quality/brand of supermarkets in ED and the posting centimetres on growing your own on this forum. I won't put money on it but I reckon it might level out. Personally, I'd rather have a better co-op with their corporate commitment to fairtrade alsongside the independent food retailers rather than M&S or Waitrose.

I was thinking of US cultural imperialism but then what about The Simpsons?

Too much time to offer their opinions, share references to official information and stand up for what they believe in? I can think of a few posters on EDF who would fit that description.

I'd like to see the portrait of him in the attic.

Oooh! That is impossible to say. It seems to me we can only be anthropomorphic in relation to that question. So, we can only understand animals from a human perspective and, in effect, atribute human characteristics to them. I suppose we could accept the straightforward definitions of consciousness and memory and say that animals do have those characteristics but self awareness is another matter. But, then again, maybe not. Help!

Perhaps he feels some responsibility towards the people who live near the venue he manages. Perhaps he might see the forum as an opportunity to communicate with them and demonstrate that he is in fact a law abiding, upstanding member of his community.

We thought hard about the names for our kids and considered how they could/would be shortened (impossible, I know) by others. So, would Croydon become known as Don or Croy? Brom is interesting as a short version of Bromley, but not that interesting. I wonder if Wim Wenders is actually Wimbledon Wenders!

A sandwich went in to a pub and ordered a pint. The barkeeper said, Sorry, we don't serve food.

Yes, but did they swim behind the cruise ship on their honeymoon?

Your money saving credentials are slipping. If a party of you had jogged behind a stretch limo then you could have saved even more.

I'm a bit of a relativist so I'd like the terms to be defined in more detail before I could fully address the question. It is also difficult to answer the question from the general average life expectancy statistic and the apparent assumption that lives are lead consistently and more or less uniformly. And, just to contradict myself, by engaging in this forum I am living life more fully if somewhat vicariously.

They peel them with their funny/silly knives. For mash get Smash.

Now that I think about it, I went to a NFT Guardian lecture many years ago where Michael Powell was being interviewed. I spotted Martin Scorsese in the audience a few rows in front of me. Other sightings of directors include Ken Russell when he was giving a lecture at Nottingham Film Theatre. I was charged with photographing the event. When I stopped to change the film in my camera he decided to prance across the stage in a humorous way. I missed it, of course. I also spotted Lindsay Anderson on my way to the Riverside Arts Centre in Hammersmith. Tenuouser and more and more obscure.

Glad to hear about that. Did you have to haggle over the barter? I wonder if they would take blackberries for coffee and a croissant?

Jenny Agutter lives down the road from my kid's school in Camberwell so I sometimes see her after I've dropped the kids off. A few doors away lives Justin Webb of Radio 4's The Today Programme. Is this the closest thing our 'hood has to Stella Street? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIot-vgqJBA Incidentally, I shared a bus with John Sessions going up Dog Kennel Hill a couple of years ago.

To be honest, I am, or was, quite intimidated by celebrity. So much so that I passed up a chance to chat to Pete Townsend at an event organised by the same gallery. Mind you, I did say hello to Dennis Healey once as we passed in the doorway to the gallery and he gave me a cheery hello in response.

I used to work in a popular gallery in the West End. I once directed Alan Rickman to the gallery's bookshop. On another occasion, I was in the foyer when a lady who collected prints was talking to the receptionist. She turned out to be Gene Hackman's wife. He was lurking in the background trying to remain inconspicuous.

We're thinking of doing that as part of our kitchen remodelling project. I looked on the interweb a bit to find an expensive solution (forgive the pun) that involved salt. I'll let you know what we come up with. Great to hear about your son. Being Scottish I appreciate water without "additives".

I went to school with the guy who runs the company that produces the Tweenies. He was a couple of years ahead of me - did some stuff on Jackanory before he invented the Tweenies. I think he was in the same year as John Bell who you sometimes hear on Thought for the day on R4. Incidentally, the same school that Alexander Fleming attended many decades before.

Do you assume it will be any different and are you interested in the social etiquette of other groups categorised by cultural identity?

These responses to a Notes & Queries question in the Guardian suggests strongly they have been around for decades, although they may have migrated to SE London more recently. http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-26170,00.html

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