*Bob*

Looks like he'll get 'The Nutcracker' once she gets 'im inside arf arf, themissus oooh my mother in law! etc

I think they missed a trick. This is what it should have been..

I don't know where to start. I really don't.

dulwichmum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Gosh you are a morbid lot! Cheer up, it is almost > Christmas! I'd like to be nailed up on a cross, suffer immeasurably pain unto death - and then rise on the third day, please.

Now I've got "Sundays round at Grandads" in my head. Two bars on the heater, Park Drive ciggie smoke and a mashed-up tin of Salmon (with a bit of vinegar in it). Thats, Beatnic.

This is truly heartwarming! Like an episode of 'Suprise Suprise' - only without the singing and incurable diseases.

Thanks, folks.. I do like to be in the know in these matters. As I thought, I pay mine an absolute pittance (though deservedly, I would argue). I get uppity about the earn more / pay more fees thing, but it seems a lot of accountants seem to want it (Though as I keep telling *Bob* Junior, "I want doesn't get") Perhaps if your business is complicated and you employ staff etc - but in my case it's just different figures in the same boxes.

How much work do you do yourself regarding the accounting?

Lozzy, Why the variation in fees? Do their charges change according to your income or something like that?

To the self-employed in our midst: How much do you pay your accountant.. and for what level of service? (ie how much work do they do on your behalf)

I look forward to the release of 'Blade Runner - The Final Cut (Revised)' (due out in 2009) followed swiftly be the re-release of the original '82 print, now rebranded as 'Blade Runner - The Classic Cut'. I love this film. But this is bollocks of the highest order.

The 'cut' in question must surely mean yet another wedge of cash for the director (and studio). Let's hope this one is truly the final one.

It's amazing.. just as the last Foxtons-slagfest thread dips out of view, along comes another first time poster to start another one off. Right on time, wheeling out all the same old stuff from the previous threads. Thanks for that, Waste Warrior. Now that you're off the mark, I look forward to reading the numerous contributions to non-Foxtons threads you will surely be making in the months and years to come.

In my opinion, the higher a song aims, the lower it ought to fall if it's rubbish. And with this in mind, I nominate 'Imagine' - whoever wrote that ought to be.. er... oh yeah.

There's nothing wrong with Dolly. She has the voice of an angel. And really, really big tits.

Fair enough, David. But I warn you.. I warn you all.. if anyone else dares to submit any of their so-called 'favourite songs' which don't pass the cool test, I will be back!

Proppa. Or cool. Or Real. Or critically acclaimed. Call it what you will. That's what these kinds of threads are about, aren't they? There's probably someone sitting somewhere right now thinking "well, I really like 'Keep On Movin' by S-Club but I don't know that much about Jeff Buckley's back catalogue so I think I'll just let the boys talk. And yes, Bob Dylan was quite poetic, wasn't he? Which explains why most of his songs were so shite.

Ooh! Forgot to add my random cool list so you all know I'm very serious about my music as well as liking "If You're Not The One" i dunno. er.. Thin Lizzy / Little Girl in Bloom Tom Waits / Gun Street Girl Neil Young / Helpless Stevie Wonder / He's Misstra Know-It-All The Band / Up On Cripple Creek Will that do?

Ha Ha Alas, I'm far too self-conscious to write lyrics. I did try once but the result was so arse-clenchingly poor that I had to screw up the piece of paper, set it on fire and bury the ashes at the bottom of the garden. So someone else does the lyrics, and I do the melody and production blah blah. That way, if it's awful, at least 50% isn't my fault. Pop music shouldn't be compared to proppa music, because the two are not comparable. Good pop music should be like a good joke that you quite like hearing again when the time is right, which isn't quite the same as turning all the lights out, putting 'Hallelujah' on and rocking gently in a darkened room as you lament your long lost love. And lyrics are not to be confused with poetry, because they aren't. Even if you dress all in black and read them from a leather-bound book, pausing poignantly after each line.

It's Windsor Davies for me - every time.

I wouldn't get too carried away with the 'ability' part, David. Of course, opinions on music are entirely subjective, but that still doesn't stop me from being right.

If I can write something as good 'If You're Not The One' at some point, I'll be happy. It's a great pop single.

Didn't someone say it was going to be 'an estate agent with a difference'? I don't know what this can be. Perhaps it means all the staff will be cross-dressers. Or every time they sell a house the chimney pots flash red and blue and the roof lifts up and spins round. Either way, I can't wait, because if there's one thing we're short of in ED, it's estate agents.

We browsed in Kennington before plumping for ED. It wasn't the wrong decision. Kennington has some 'great stock' as you say - Georgian squares and the like - and affordable (for you). But the reason they're affordable is because they're in Kennington. In your case it might be out of the frying pan into the fire. We found it a little desolate (and suffering from all the usual problems that you have in Camberwell) with pleasant pockets - but, despite really wanting that flat-fronted Georgian dreamboat, pleasant pockets weren't enough.

Barred from The Sewers.. that's brilliant, Rolo. How low does one have to stoop?! Actually.. don't answer that.