*Bob*

So Fazer, what you?re saying is that Nimbies who don?t agree with planning decisions should stop wasting their time, driving themselves crazy with mental anguish - and boring everyone else silly - sell up, move to the Isle of Skye and be happy? Will this most excellent logic - and your obsessional and increasingly deranged contributions to the Heathrow expansion thread - in mind, I attach a link to property currently available on Skye for your perusal. http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/property/isle-of-skye/?include_retirement_homes=true&include_shared_ownership=true&new_homes=include&q=skye&results_sort=newest_listings&search_source=home

Obvs the case above is different, but you're right to be wary of rushing to call your insurance company over a crack which might only be seasonal movement and only in need of cosmetic repair (or possibly just leaving to see if it closes up again). Find a friendly structural engineer and get your own opinion. Insurance companies can often be all too keen to register your call as a claim (even if it only turns out to be a minor issue) and then BOSH you're saddled with the excess premiums and subsidence history. The cost of calling the structural engineer out for an opinion will probably be less than your first year's hike in premiums by going down the insurance route. If it's only light repairs required, the cost of repair + redecoration won't be much more than the excess anyway.

Agree on the Labour Brand. A sack of spuds at the despatch the box would still get 30% though. The Cons should be on the ropes right now.. it's woeful. It's been different for a while which has at least been interesting. But enough is enough, Corby should go back to geography teaching and they should look for someone who knows how to play the game. His supporters may shout four times as loud as his detractors but they still only get one vote each come The Crunch. They exhibit a woeful lack of understanding about what you need to get past the winning post (votes) and what you have to sacrifice along the way (principles) in order to get there. When Labour lose again they will have no-one to blame but themselves.

*queasy*

Like a moth to the flame

This all sounds super-annoying.

Maybe so. But we lost the Harvester. And that - is a a tragedy.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Just because something closed and opened as something > new doesn't mean pubs aren't closing! Good point. Don't forget that all pubs 'close' every night as well (despite opening the next morning). So - unfortunately - all pubs are closing. Fact.

How about one of those 'curry houses'? All you need is eighteen bags of onions, a dozen seats with red upholstery and a Hindi chillout CD.

You should do it! The restaurant game is a breeze! Just dish it up and wait for the cash to roll in. Can't go wrong.

I DO NOT WANT CURRY

But if you don't want to eat one thing whereas you do want to eat another thing and it's your money then none of what you are saying actually makes the blindest bit of difference

You don't just live in Penge or ED though, do you. You live in a place which is conveniently connected to hundreds of other places all of which have stuff happening in - which you also enjoy get to the benefit of, if you can be arsed. That's what London is. There is no comparison anywhere else in the country. If you can't be arsed and you're not taking advantage of it then you're in the wrong place.

It's fine with me if you want to go out for a curry once or twice a week, but wouldn't pay for scrambled eggs. Is it fine with you if others want to go out for scrambled eggs once or twice a week, but wouldn't pay for curry? Do you see how neither action is somehow more valid than the other; only that different people have different ideas of what is worth paying for and what isn't?

Pretending to miss the obvious point is an Olympic sport for you, Louisa. On you go.. I have people to see, places to go and eggs to scramble.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- The number of ingredients and variation > of base meat/fish within each batch are quite > costly. lol! dream on..

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > *Bob* come over mine and I'll knock you up > scrambled eggs on toast and I won't charge ?7, in > fact I won't charge a penny! Because three free > range eggs mixed with butter/milk and served on > two slices of fancy toasted bread (even the > poshest bread in the world) doesn't take seven > smackers out of my bank account to make! Quite > simple. Any idea how much those ?12 curries cost to make, Louisa?

Call the police, Jeremy. CALL THE POLICE. I should say this is not actually aimed at Foxy, despite his coincidental fondness for the places. My disinterest in our local curry house offerings is longstanding. But then I like cooking curry. A lot. One man's scrambled egg is another man's curry.

So what you're saying is that - despite being able to cook something at home that could possibly be better - and is almost certainly a lot cheaper - sometimes having someone cook it for you is the preferred option? I think I'm saying that as well.

I can't understand why anyone would pay ?12 for a bog-standard 'curry' on Lordship Lane - when you can cook something much more interesting and nicer at home for a quarter of the price, but people do. Beats me. Seriously! Ultimately though, I guess it's up to others how they spend both their time in the kitchen and their money out in restaurants and cafes, so I try not to make-out that my choices are somehow more justifiable than others.

Permission to get notable areas of the city closed down is usually tied to alleged benefit to UK PLC, hence Top Gear - with its massive overseas audience - has some clout. That's why Bond films always scoop top city locations. That said, I'm sad to say that even Top Gear beats the utterly dire 'Spectre'.

My understanding was that disrespecting the war dead (France, Argentina, Germany etc) has always been an integral part of the show, so surely donuts around the cenotaph was only a matter of time?

Great stuff! Another one in the eye for miserable gits who wish their own abject misery on others.

Is there any other Uber vehicle available other than a Toyota Prius? I have wondered.

Remember the days when a minicab meant being kept waiting for half an hour 'they're on their way'; rubbish cars; someone moaning for ?1 extra because you live at one end of a street rather than the other. All that crap I do not miss.. Isn't the Uber tax situation toxic in the current climate - that being the main reason for the political naysayers?