*Bob*

PeckhamRose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Don't be naive. I don't think naivety comes into it. I just wondered. I've never seen them, and seeing as the main bits of Peckham and Camberwell are full of litter, literally rolling past you like tumbleweed, it ought to be rich pickings. You'd think they'd blitz the place, seeing as it's such an important issue to Southwark. I can just imagine the wardens deciding who to approach and dish-out a fine to. And who to pretend they never saw.

I've never heard of the 'Darkness Forum', so I just had a look. It seems to be something to do with listening to The Cure, not being understood and (I'm guessing here) drinking a lot of cider.

Does anyone know if they're sending teams of RedJackets into Peckham and Camberwell to clamp down on littering?

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Other than borrowing from Italy, what better > suggestion do you have for those of the female > gender who decide of their own free will to remain > single but may occasionally shag some bloke if > they've drunk enough Lambrini on a night out! ;-) I think the term you're looking for is a goer.

Get your coat, Jah. You've pulled. Don't forget to let the lads know how you get on when you're dahn the boozah.

Indeedy. There's a big market these days for so-called eco-holidays. Essentially are lot of them are cheap holidays, massively marked-up with an eco-cherry on top. I mean, if you really want to spend ten days in the former Yugoslavia in a three star hotel doing a bit of whitewater rafting etc, it shouldn't really cost nearly ?5000 for a family of four.

He's definitely a Marmite politician, I'll give you that, Keefie. I can't stand Marmite. But I do like Ken.

He's accountable to the whole of London. They call it 'an election', I believe.

There are never going to be more spaces than there are now, but there are always going to be more and more cars. So you lose 10% or spaces after a CPZ comes in? If there are going to be 20% more cars in a years time anyway then it hardly matters really, I don't think.

That's impressive. I couldn't do without internerd shopping. 'Everything you want' cannot be found locally. Or even within a few hundred miles, sometimes.

Aren't you.. er.. on the internet now? Strictly speaking, Cassius? I have bought a couple of items from the cookwank shop, simply out of being too lazy to shop around. But now I've got them and they'll last me twenty years.. there isn't too much of a reason to go back. I don't think it's anything to do with stuff in there being expensive.. it's just not a very interesting shop to be in. I like shops which are bursting with stock.. stuff you didn't notice before tucked away here and there. Once you've been in.. you've been in. It's a bit stark and clinical in there.

Good point, kford. The thorny CPZ issue is something of a no-brainer. When the number of people who can never find anywhere to park near their homes finally outnumbers the number of people who can usually manage to do so.. bingo.. CPZ. I suspect the issue of trade in ED taking a significant plunge after CPZedding is largely bollocks. And as for those who live in CPZeddable territory.. well you can't have it all, can you? An arms length from all those super shops, a quick jaunt from the pub, two minutes from the station and a shiny parking spot whenever you want it? I don't think so. I hear there's ample parking at Bluewater if you simply have to drive to the shops.

kford Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There's one behind Iceland. Is it for Iceland customers only? Do you have to show at least one bag of frozen sausage rolls on the way out - or pay a penalty?

Cassius Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I like looking in there even if it is a bit expensive - you can get ideas. And then you buy those ideas on the internet?

SteveT Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My car is 16 years old ... I have never put oil in the engine from new, it has done 170,000 miles. > What to do? I'd say change it's time for an oil change, Steve.

annaj Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Love it *Bob*. > Can you set it to music for me? I can - but it'll cost you. However, if you pay me an exorbitant amount of money I promise to recycle now and again and not put batteries in the bin etc - thus saving the planet for our children.. and our children's children's children and all that jazz.

Hmm. I think they could do with a snappy slogan, Anna. How about: responsibletravel.com - fleecing well-meaning, well-off folks who are prepared to pay through the nose to ease their consciences

No-one seriously dusts their home-made loaves with flour. It's a ringer. Lozzy - you're BUSTED, son.

It was more the disappointing choice of motorcycle that was concerning me. However, I salute your most latest and most commendable effort.

Lozzy, I'm terribly disappointed in your common or garden offering. And I don't like the look of the loaf either.

lozzyloz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why Alan *Bob*? How often does he Master Bake? Alan's much-trumpeted work on a YTS placement in the bakery of Sainsbury's (Cleethorpes) speaks for itself.

Well excuse me, but this bake-off is being judged by Alan Dale, master baker extraordinaire - not the hoi polloi. No doubt he has noted the sunken, wrinkly appearance of Asset's brick and compared and contrasted with my 'small footprint, high-rise' light and fluffy number. Indeed, it rose so high it almost popped the lid of the bread machine. No doubt the competition will hot-up over the weekend. Maybe.

In the spirit of fair play - and not wishing to influence the judge in any way - I shall refrain from commenting on that sorry excuse for a loaf.

My brother once worked in an office block in which the floor below his was taken-up by a financial trading-type firm. When the Mayday anti-capitalist march came around, the traders noticed that the march was to pass directly by their building - and that they could watch it go by from a balcony a few floors up. A fair number of them popped-out during the lunch break. They nipped to the cashpoint and withdrew their daily limit, then stopped by the offie to buy bottles of champagne. And so there they sat on the balcony as the march went past.. chinking champagne flutes and waving their wads at the marchers.

Saucer of Misery for Mr Folly