RosieH

I need your excellent creative brains please my boss is a witch. never worked with a worse bully - I regularly have to console weeping / ranting junior staff. she's leaving (jumped before she was pushed on account of witchiness) but is on three months' notice. I have to work with her for three more months and she has started spreading scurrilous (and false) rumours about my having an affair with a colleague (who is in a long term relationship) - questioning our integrity and professionalism. short of punching her repeatedly in her badly-made-up face, I'm wondering whether to tackle head on, rise above it, or wreak a terrible revenge. anyone any suggestions..?

you'd think Mr Green and Black would be too (if he were dead, but he isn't), but he still makes a pretty penny out of Cadbury's filthy lucre (I think the word's "consultant")

No bugger ever scams me. I feel quite left out. although hoipolloi, I did once fall for something similar a few years ago when I lived elsewhere so you have my sympathy (this was a pregnant woman late for hospital appointment) - I don't think it's naivete so much as being caught on the hop and wanting to think the best of people. these days i think everyone's a w*nker and seem not to be parted from my money. I do think I've lost a little bit of my soul though...

used to read Grauniad, now Times (I think I'm obsessed with the newspaper habits of my neighbours)

Odd lesson - don't think I (or anyone else) slagged off the Codfather. Believe me, I would love the Codfather to be better - is my local chippy and the schlepp to the Sea Cow is most inconvenient. However, a very expensive children's boutique sitting alongside a grocers, a chippy and a greasy spoon is not the most natural fit. And any negative comments were backed up by experience. And the shop had already closed down, so we didn't bring about their ruination. This may be a community forum, but it's not free advertising. If something's rubbish, then people will say so. And other people will disagree, often vigorously. Personally I really liked the shop - just thought the owner was hostile and the location ill-conceived.

hilarious

like I say, you really don't need to splash the cash to make a fuss - what about a little heart shaped topiary..?

gerry Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What a miserable bunch!!!!! Rosie, yours sounds > wonderful.... God, that's not mine. Mine will be sitting embittered on the sofa with my brother who won't move out of my very small flat 5 months after coming to stay for a couple of weeks (the bitterness is directed at him, not my single status, I won't be weeping into an australian chardonnay and singing All By Myself, well not unless there's really nothing on telly) but I do think this whole "oh I don't do Valentine's Day" thing is a cop out. you don't have to go out for an expensive meal and buy shit chocolates from thorntons - an extra reason to show someone you love / fancy / lust after them is always quite nice really. of course you should do it each and every day, but new nipple tassles every day would get prohibitively expensive

there's the romantic spirit. stay in instead and: a) cook an amazing dinner b) indulge in a bubble bath a deux c) treat yourselves to a nice bottle of bubbly and celebrate the fact that you haven't killed each other yet

where that? when I've been to the all night shop on ED Road after hours, they charge a special after hours supplement (seems they make it up, but about 50%) like Rob says, buying where and when I want (well maybe not where but the only place open) means I'm willing to pay a bit more, but if there's a cheaper offering I always think Pretty Traditional is a bargain

Johnny used to work on the docks, union men on strike, he's down on his luck, it's tough. Sorry for the first few episodes of Season 2 I couldn't get the Bon Jovi song out of my head. Loved series 2 - more, by the end, than series one. I can't wait for March - weekend of the 15th, some friends and I are going to sit down with a lot of chicken, some beers and the new boxset (my plans to stretch it out week by week are out the window)

if you're going to open a sex shop in east dulwich, it should at the very least be of the calibre of Sh! if not Coco de Mer...

Ganapati Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I think their clothes were just not > right for this area--aside from being expensive. Oranges and Lemons on Northcross are selling very similar stuff - unless you meant "this area" to mean literally that strip of road rather than ED generally. I did mean the American owner - maybe it's because I'm obviously not a mummy myself and perhaps I was asking what she thought were stupid questions (clothes from all over the world, each with different sizing systems, things like 35, 64 rather than age 1, age 2 - two nieces aged 2, one enormous and the other tiny, and me no idea what's going to fit). Sorry, it just made me really mad - i would have spent a lot of money in there - but was always made to feel I was interrupting their day. Maybe I just caught them on bad days...

nah, it shut before they opened I think (or was already on its way out with a closing down sale) they had lovely things, but the location was wrong - too expensive to sit next to the Codfather. also the hostile owner didn't help, when you wanted to understand the frankly bonkers sizing.

what was that rnb song about a year and a half ago with chipmunks in it - I loved that

back in the 80s someone said Carole Decker (from T'Pau in case you'd forgotten) a couple of years ago, someone came up to me in the street shouting "madonna, madonna". he had just walked out of the gates of the Maudlsey to put it in context

yes, it was horrible. not the kind of thing you expect these days really - seems more suited to Dickens's day

mmm, only once a year or so, or it makes you feel dirty, but by god their quarter pounder with cheese is a tasty treat

Xanadu by Olivia Newton John.

yes, my Staffie was gorgeous, sweet natured, incredibly friendly and never seemed to scare anyone. sadly he was stolen, we're pretty sure for dog fighting. he wouldn't have stood a chance

completely missed it - do you know if they repeat the show at all (or is it available on watch again, do ITV do that?)

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There is not such breed as a Staffordshire Bull > Terrier, Staffordshire Pit Bull Terrier or any > other weird mix of the names people come up with > unless they are referring to how the dog has been > cross bred. yes there is - i used to have one - Staffordshire Bull Terrier (http://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/item/87) Lovely dogs

I've only been to Dulwich library once - it looked like all they had was Danielle Steel (and Westlife CDs!) am I wrong? is it worth a revisit?

Ahh, KK, you're probably not a reader of the lovely Daily Mail and Express then? Gypsies ate my baby, immigrants raped our women, it's a PC world gone mad - that kind of thing (sorry that was a bit bathetic, where I'd actually wanted to work to a crescendo of rage. My moral fibre probably deserted me) Lies, damned lies, and statistics...

mais oui, I was queuing outside William Rose on Saturday and he came up to me and asked, "would you like to try my sweet pink onions?" what red blooded female could refuse? he gave me three and I am going to cook them this evening - apparently they caramelise nicely