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You couldn't do better this week than listening to the great Hotel Shampoo by Gruff Rhys. My vinyl arrived on saturday and made for a great weekend, heres a link for a free listen courtesy of the man himself;Hotel Shampoo!

I often find that on opening packs of ready cooked meat from sainsburys that there is an instant acrid and unpleasant smell usually associated with rotten eggs. Fortunately I am aware that this odour is actually the protective atmosphere that the meat is packed in, as stated on the packet, and the 'rotten egg' smell is in fact the preservative sulphur which has been keeping the product safe and fresh. This smell is quick to disappear and seems to have no effect on the taste of the meat. I have never been ill or suffered from an upset stomach from eating this meat wether in date or even up to a week out of date! Here's the perfect song for which to eat your steak;Eat Steak!

It could have been worse, Help, my snowmans missing! at least you were sensible enough to call the edf and not 999!

Hi Bishberro, I too suffer from eczema, tho not as severely as your poor hubby. From your post You say you use a washing powder, I found that the powder was a large cause of my problem and have had significant relief when I switched to a bleach free gel and liquid. I also only wear cotton as woolen fibers exacerbate my eczema. Also check bedding and bed sheets too, a feather duvet or pillow can leave me in agony for weeks! Good luck and I hope his condition improves soon.

DICKENSMAN Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I love the silence of the snow.

The John Lennon reissues Shudder to Think's New Pony Express Ash,A-Z Volumes one and two And finally White Noise Sound!

Just caught the years 1st t.v. christmas ad! Tescos, of course.

Try Burgess Park, the no.63 bus passes there. There's a long strip of tarmac and skaters are often up and down there. Hyde Park is not bad either if you want to travel a little further afield.

I'm an urban spaceman thru and thru, but maybe this man could convice me to make that move...

I was there today with my kids and noticed that the new orange tunnels had already been scrawled with graffiti, fortunately it wasn't offensive but I'm sure that will come soon enough.

Anyone know what happened on Peckham Rye Common? Police cordon at ED Road and big part of the common; several police cars; lots of forensics combing the area etc....

For anyone still perturbed about Job's attitude towards Flash; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7709473/Disastrous-Flash-demo-heaps-further-embarrassment-on-Adobe.html with Adobe;

The samsung is a great little machine, but be warned, there is no optical drive for cd/dvd, as is the case with most netbooks.

http://no2eu.com/ I would paste links to the other party's sites for the sake of impartiality, but this is the only one one needs to visit.

Anyone really interested in the why's and wherefore's should check out David Aaronovitch's book on this very subject. http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h__3_9?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=david+aaronovitch+conspiracy&sprefix=david++aa

This weeks aural delights have been Chain and the Gang's 'Down with liberty.....Up with chains', Iain Sevonious returns to K records with Calvin Johnson at the controls, and Titan's 'Pillzmarmalade', a 45 minute improv jam spacerock on eggy vinyl. And Dr P, Hey venus was brilliant! Choc full of tunes and good fun. This week I also had a dream where I listened to Go Kart Mozart's 'Storming up the album charts'. Fantastic.

dr proctor wrote "and 'Big 'ol bug is the new baby now' by the Flaming Lips, on the 'Colours are brighter" Is this a compilation ? the track was originally on Zaireeka. Yes, it's a comp. I've only listened to Zaireeka once, with the four cd players lined up and so on, tho' i believe you can get the songs as b sides from the Soft Bulletin singles. Love the Condor Fncks album Fnckbook too, it's yo la tengo playing covers, lound and noisy, fast and punky, recorded live in a single burst.

No probs, I like to follow 'The breeze/my baby cries' (the Bill/Kath song) with 'Our dog is getting older now' by Jonathan Richman' and 'Big 'ol bug is the new baby now' by the Flaming Lips on the 'Colours are brighter' lp to create a lovely doggie themed trilogy. Talking of Jonathan Richman, his newie 'a que venimos sino a caer' is quite brilliant, also enjoying the Chatham Singers 'Ju Ju Claudias' as well as the blindingly brilliant Super Furry Animal's 'Dark days/Light years'.

11:11 GMT, 21.12.2012 is the precise time of this ponzi scheme's collapse. 3 years, 7 months, 14 days, 14 hours, 56 minutes and 30 seconds to go!

Mockney, if you loved the new Bill Callahan album (and who wouldn't), download his contribution on the Kath Bloom tribute album too, very lovely. The new Rapheal Saadiq record is good as well, his performance on Jools last week was a breath of fresh air, tho' the Jay Z rap is rather clumsy. Still waiting for the new Spectrum Ep to arrive from 'merica.

No, wouldn't be doing anyone any favours but the site has been failing for many years as a pub, a deli was my first thought as an alternative due to the large space provided and chance to keep all the original fittings. I would hate to see it turned into residential property as the place would be gutted.

The duke, and all it's previous incarnations have failed because it doesn't work as a social space. Someone needs to turn into into a nice deli, like the frog place nearby.

Hornimans Museum for the oldies, picnic with views across london (including the wembley arch), then the newly refurished playground opposite for the newies, rounded off with a game of hide'n'seek in the Sydenham Hill Woods. Perfect, no?

Watching it again now with the kids as I type. Would love to watch it in HD, but even without that it is absolutely stunning, hope it comes out on blue ray (so I can convince the mrs to tech up). Only gripe is the dull dull dull voice over. And the bears were ace, love how stupid they are (climb to the top of a mountain just to eat some tasty grubs! nutters!):))

Charlie Brooker's Newswipe tonight, BBC4, 10.30, for an interesting, funny and thought provoking half hour. Bawdy nan. I too have loved Stewart, but this series seems more like I've met up with him through Friends reunited after years apart, had one bad shag, gone back for another just to find that he was a bad shag first time. Still, he's a thousand million miles better than Horne and Corden.