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JoJo Maman Bebe: A natural linen white with just a hint of yak underbelly cashmere.

You can do it yourself - it isn't difficult though some choose to use an immigration agent or solicitor and not usually a barrister unless there is a complication or point of immigration law. If it's a straightforward application and you have all the right documentation and tick all the right boxes, and are competent, then do it yourself. It seems that your first hurdle is getting your passport. Getting through to the US Embassy here (if that's where your passport application renewal has been submitted) would be the first step. Did you use their expedited service? Ideally, you should apply 28 days before the expiry date of your current permission. And apply in person ie make an appointment, not by post/courier. Oh, and the processing time has been 3-6 months on average, but of course it can take longer or shorter.

So not George Sands or Tom McNair (Being Human). Failing that, my dodgy 'uncle' Norm.

On the phone to Virgin now. Worth calling them just to hear the Scouse woman's message telling you that the whole of the Portsmouth network is pretty much fudged. The update for us is yet another technician coming out tomorrow morning. Grrr.

Werewolf

Cinema organists, rising from the pit. Kennedy's Sausages

DaveR, there is an accepted fallacy that the demand is not there. There is the demand - really, there is. But if you're repeatedly disappointed and as oimissus attests to, you simply give up. Moreover, as a non veg, sometimes you just fancy a non meat/poultry/fish alternative that has had the same thought and skill and is as delicious as the kobe beef, fillet mignon, cornish game hen/posh kiev or dover sole/monkfish. Just saying that it would be nice for non meat eaters to come away not feeling like they've drawn the short straw - again.

The Big Bad Wolf. As in L'il Red Riding Hood.

There's been an intermittent problem for 3 weeks now. The engineer came out to us again end of last week. What we've been told is that there's a problem with the area signal and with the external boxes. None of our '4' channels work. Internet came and went but is ok now.

tracymcdavis, you may think it old-fashioned but it is valid from my experience. You'll agree that generally, what's on offer is simply not good enough. My sister, her husband, his brother and wife have been vegetarian since their school days so over 30 years (I was myself but that's another story). We often go out together. Of course it is also down to the skill of the chef. The French vegetable dishes that are made properly (examples below) are delicious and far from tasteless. Some restaurants don't even offer vegetarian options for anyone, veg or not, wanting that choice. Jeremy, point taken, but my point is that there is a demand (Indian Mischief seems to do well) and if vegetarians were better catered for, their custom would increase and benefit our local eateries. Win win. When we have gone out for dinner, at least half of our party ie 2 out of 4 or 6 out of 8 are vegetarian. Seeing their eyes roll at yet another goats cheese tart or stuffed squash is really disheartening. The option is to go further afield and out of our local area to restaurants with interesting and varied choices who are savvy enough to put more consideration into their menus and their clientele. In any event, why should you have to ask a restaurant? Noone wants to feel the 'nuisance'. (Btw, you may recall that I did ask the 'new restaurant'). Penguin68 and KK: Just an example of some dishes that I have selected as a non vegetarian simply because I fancied it: stuffed zucchini flowers, tart a l'onion, ratatoullie, wild mushroom & truffle risotto (made with vegetable stock), baked fennel, chicory au gratin (both of which I have regularly found in France), a range of well prepared antipasti, cheese filled arancini, and on and on. And if you're not going for the European theme, other cuisines apart from Indian such as Middle Eastern restaurants offer impressive selections, too numerous to list here. So I don't know why this is a 'significant ask'. Perhaps the chefs simply don't have the skill or just can't be arsed. KK, I understand about religious observances and logistics but if you read my post, I wasn't comparing India with the UK but simply using that cuisine - and others - as an example of a nation full of inspiring and delicious 'vegetarian' dishes that can be replicated or adapted.

The noise & nuisance team at Southwark used to be a 24 hour service but has reduced its hours and it can take them ages, like over an hour, to get to you (though they say their response time is within the hour). Here's their number in case: 0207 525 2000 option 1.

I'm not a vegetarian but a significant number of my family and our friends are. 3 out of 4 of my neighbours are as well. The number of people choosing to eat less meat or give it up all together is growing. These days people who choose to eat meat-free or reduced meat diets could be anyone from your local GP to your lawyer, dietician, web designer - and yes, the occasional hippy activist. Many like to eat out at high-end restaurants because they are not, as some may believe, pouring all of their funds into PETA and hemp clothing. They are not attention seekers but have chosen not to eat meat for a variety of reasons. We often go out, four, 6 or 8 of us, and it's very disappointing to go to a local eatery to find such a lack of choice. The idea that they should be corralled into segregated "vegetarian restaurants" is just plain silly and falls apart when you consider most people dine in company and most vegetarians aren't so stuck up their own rear ends that they don't have meat eating friends. It's disappointing to read that the soft opening of the 'new restaurant' didn't have a vege option. Some restaurants already get it - like Carluccio's, offering as many meat-free dishes as they do seafood, beef or poultry or friendly staff willing to talk to chef about a suitable alternative dish. I recall way back in the day, Free Range was very accommodating. But plenty still prefer to live in the dark ages, treating vegetarians as more a nuisance than paying customer and refuse to go beyond a Greek salad or the much-hated veggie stack or the clich?d goat's cheese tart. The 'it isn't cost effective' excuse is just nonsense. The cuisines of Italy, France, Spain, South East Asia, India and so on have many dishes that aren't purposely 'vegetarian' but rather simply standard dishes that are part of their regular diets that can easily be replicated here. So why don't the pubs and niche restaurants in ED do more? I'd especially like feedback from local vegetarians.

Dopamine1979 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mick Mac Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > If I had a company doing this I'd call it > > www.paellaparties.com :) > > I don't get it. Mick Mac's joke - there's already a mob called that. :) Or maybe you really do get it and it's another one of those *whooshes*. Who knows.

Pugwash Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is the tabernacle the one near Underhill Road? If > that is the one - they are very strict Baptist and > I have never been to a 'happy clappy' service > there. Admittedly only went once - it was very > dull, long and miserable hymns. > > If it is the one in Upland Road - that was a noisy > one I believe it's the former.

Not ED. But when speaking to the police, they said it isn't the first time this scam was reported and not only in London. Scammers quickly move and change the geographical areas they operate in. Just to add - be vigilant about this type of liquid spilling scam.

After visiting a cashpoint recently and after he had finished putting the money into his wallet and pocket, my elderly father had a whole cup of coffee spilt over him by one 'very nice young woman' who apologised profusely and started wiping it off him while her accomplice took the wallet. Upset and soaked in coffee, he made his way home and only then realised the wallet and the substantial withdrawal was gone. He notified the bank straight away, cancelled the cards that had already been used miles away and on internet purchases. The bank did not reimburse the cash he withdrew - as this was not 'cash machine fraud' (under the 2009 Payment Services Regulations), only the money withdrawn by the scammers subsequently and on the internet. They wouldn't even check the cameras at the cashpoint and no investigation was made.

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Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > * woooshh * Not at all. Just don't subscribe to Ted Max's sort of 'humour'.

Ted Max Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Pasta is just bread with no air in it and raw eggs > instead. All that good work by British bakers to > make proper bread and people want to put their > cheese on something flat and slimy that tastes of > nothing because they want to feel superior to the > people they have pushed out of their > neighbourhoods. > > Homemade pasta also carries all the filth and > disease from your hands and work surfaces, Obviously personal hygiene and Dettox (and any other anti-bacterial surface cleanser that kill 99.9% of bacteria and viruses - don't want to be seen to have a partiality to Dettox now) have passed you by. > on with your home-made Ravioli al Rat for ?6-12 serving Sweet jesus, not talking about spun gold encrusted with blood diamonds. Flour, eggs, bit of filling (optional). Cheap as chips. Btw, surprisingly my kitchen is devoid of rat droppings. >if it makes you feel better about > yourselves. Not necessarily, but it paints a dire picture of the state of your kitchen.

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > There are nice people with buggies and selfish > ones. > There are nice people with cycles and selfish > ones. > There are nice people with cars and selfish ones. > There are nice people with jellied eels and > selfish ones. Abso-flippin-lutely. You come across all sorts every day, be it on Goose Green, Clapham, West End and so on. Try walking 2 paces down Rye Lane without being frustrated by people stopping & chatting, knocking into you with huge bags of shopping without a modicum of an apology or stepping into a huge gob of spit. Just deal with it and move on. It's not utopia it's South London, innit. God knows why some will insist on putting the more conspicuous residents of the SE21/22 postcode, like these 2 women, to a higher standard of expectations.

We still enjoy our trips to Columbia Rd. and always come back with some weird & wonderful plants & bits 'n' bobs.

Agree with Applesider. It is a bother but one I enjoy - but only very occasionally. It's great to get the kids involved. Home made pumpkin & ricotta filled ravioli or wild mushroom tortelloni are sublime and consumed in a fraction of the time it takes to make them, but imho, worth it. I got one as a wedding gift many years ago and though it's not used often, I wouldn't part with it.

In N'Orleans we call 'em beignets. And I bet y'all can't stop at one, f'sure.

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can we have live feeds please? > I have multiple screens at work, do you work at the Peckham Multiplex? :) I reckon I can > squeeze in at least 20 forumites' lives per screen > in an insectoid-compound-eye-truman-show stylee. bet you had an ant farm as a wee lad EP

> I'd be happy to fly in one. About half of all > plane crashes are down to pilot error, the single > biggest cause. So about half are down to mechanical. Let's just say that's right. The US Navy just launched an UA fighter jet. And if you look at their track record relating to the most common UA - the drones, it sure doesn't do anything for my confidence in unmanned aircraft. Take the drone attacks in Pakistan as an example, less than 2% hit their targets. Hence either the human remote programming and control is out of whack or there's a mechanical problem. In any event I'm glad I wont be on any US aircraft carrier when one of these jets misses it's target and goes careering.