RosieH

Bring it on: they'll be too blighted with scurvy from a lack of good citrus to put up much of a fight

Yes definitely not Mr T - if rumour is to be believed, it's not just his BA persona - he is in fact afraid of flying

fake cream; synthetic chocolate; faux lemons; spinning room: you know they're bad Overhill, you just haven't come to terms with it yet

I LOVE that someone on this site makes demi-glace. having recently spent over 24 hours making the Heston Blumenthal oxtail stew from the Guardian Weekend mag, I feel I have come home. I should perhaps clarify that some of that time the stew was in the oven and I was in the bath, but you know... (incidentally very good oxtail from William Rose - cheap cut, takes ages to cook, but gorgeously yielding and savoury and gelatinous and gooey and the sweetest meat in town)

Such pathos - "we're leaving together, but still it's farewell" sigh... I miss hair metal in a similar vein, although no good for running to, what about "Clouds Across the Moon" for another brilliant 80s sad tune in space?

the cakes at Barcelona are just horrible top tapas to be found at: 1) Brindisa 2) Salt Yard (although Spanish / Italian so arguably not bona fide espanol, but pretty bloody brilliant - courgette flowers with goats cheese and honey in particular) 3) Barrafina

I'm new (well ish - in terms of posting anyway - been watching you all for a while, but not with a helmet on) actually that sounds sinister and wasn't meant to - just been ruminating on a suitable comment. it's been a slow year

yes yes yes - I love Eye of the Tiger. People mock me, but it's an excellent work out tune. it's also good for shadow-boxing alone in front of the mirror with 80s hair and make up...

the geeky one who the mean girls laughed at in the cafe? I find the new Yakult adverts vaguely sinister - like the experiment nonsense on Lost I once cried at a Tesco advert - when Jane Horrocks ran up the town hall steps a la Rocky. In my defence, I was desperately hungover

Nero wrote: I love that record. Where do you get the 12" version? Never heard it. Ashamed to say it was on one of those crappy CDs that came free with a women's mag - something like "all women like disco and songs they can cry to" - but it's true and I'm not above a bit of cynical exploitation

It's a cheesy disco number, but I find the 12" of Donna Summer's She Works Hard for the Money works a treat - 7 minutes of uptempo bliss. Possibly wouldn't work as well for the majority of the menfolk though

I'm straight off down to Ed. All the hot guys in ED seem to come en famille, complete with matching (ugly) Crocs

Keef - where do you stand on the use of the possessive with the gerund? (I don't do punctuation faces, but if I did there'd be a smiley one here)

what would you recommend? having a Friday night in and will sample their wares

what is this church of hard prayer? sounds brilliant

Hell I like a nice shop as much, if not more than, the next person. I'll fritter away my money on expensive cheese and fancy bubble bath, and personally am unlikely ever to set foot in Iceland. but I know people who do, and who value it for its low prices and worry that if M&S does move in then they're going to have to make the longer trip to Peckham to feed the family. By the by, re frozen food and obesity - frozen food isn't inherently unhealthy (Giles Coren in the Birds Eye adverts is right) - and a ready meal's a ready meal, whether it's from M&S or Iceland. I'm not advocating scruffy shops, but Iceland and Somerfield have their place,and I really don't want to go the way of Clapham (and to some extent Brixton) where the trendification of an area pushes up prices and forces out people who've lived there all their lives. It sounds like we agree on that, I love East Dulwich precisely because it isn't Clapham (and we don't have White Stuff and M&S).

did anyone ever go to Wordsworth in Camberwell? that was a great bookshop, staffed by friendly, helpful, well-read people: good books, nicely presented. but it went out of business because people didn't buy. do we really think that Chener would be rammed every Saturday if it had a lick of paint, or is it more that we want it to live up to the decorative standards we've come to expect from ED? I've only been in a couple of times and found it not altogether hospitable - at least you'd want to get it on with Bernard Black (just me?) - I couldn't get out of there fast enough.

Gold Lee have really speedy delivery - their food can be a bit hit and miss though - starters are always good but I find their mains a bit gloopy. Chopsticks is better food i think, their chilli salt and pepper squid is also excellent, although sometimes when i've phoned in an order it's been an hour and a half wait for delivery, which is less than ideal. very excited though that the Thai Corner Cafe has started delivering - this may have happened a while ago and I've only just cottoned on, but I think their food's the nuts. they would get my vote.

can it be that we all really want to live in Clapham with no poor people?