RosieH

I can lend you a crossbow...

Do you have a birthday coming up? You can "donate" your birthday and ask friends to sponsor you whatever they would have spent on a present / drinks for you in the pub.

Thanks all. LadyD, yes, hideous. And possibly a little tactless on this particular thread.

I wonder if anyone can help. A very dear friend of mine is suffering from a rare and incurable form of cancer and is unable to work. She has put in a claim for benefits, but has had it rejected on the grounds that four years ago she took a gap year to travel and work in Australia so didn't pay NI for that year (out of an 11 year working career). Obviously she has the opportunity to appeal, but I wondered if anyone has had experience of the appeals process and can offer any advice?

New evidence. Evidence compelling enough that it was enough to overturn the double jeopardy law. But I figure you know that already.

But donohoe, they've been found not guilty before - were those trials unfair too?

DulwichDeviant, are you a retard? Do YOU have ANY grasp OF irony? No? THEN fuck off WITH your capital letters.

Why Otta? I agree they're despicable c*nts, but there are many despicable murdering c*nts who avoid prosecution for many years and don't subsequently incur greater sentences as a result. I'm with trizza on this. Their crime was disgusting, and I think we'd all like to see them put away for a long time, but ultimately it's no more disgusting than many another murder and I don't think deserves to be treated as a special case (in the same way that I don't think the Bulger case did).

Well derrr DD - there's an Asda and a Morrison's in Peckham. We don't need the crumbier supermarkets here...

My prediction: Plus ?a change, plus c'est la m?me chose.

Elderflower with lime and cucumber = yum. As is cranberry juice with ginger beer and fresh lime. And frankly, what DC said - bloody love Irn Bru.

Fentimans of all persuasions - ginger beer is gooood, curiosity cola is fiiiiine, orange jigger makes me jiggy. Ossom.

Done. I heart Staffs.

There ARE some fab butts around on a Lordship Lane morning - ED daddies do very well with the help of a little personal training - and some even without.

Alan knows... GANG ACTIVITY

the e-dealer, are you Morrissey in disguise?

You can get them in the outdoor shops - Snow & Rock, North Face, Ellis Brigham (got mine in Ellis Brigham). If you hit Covent Garden, there are about 5 shops in a concentrated area that might yield results.

No harm, no foul - I know Hughie would never suggest that I'm in any way spineless, out of the highest respect in which he holds me (or the fear of my kicking his poncey ass all over Singapore). To be fair, these veggies have requested nothing of the kind, and they're certainly not evangelical. As far as I understand. First meeting you see - just trying to be nice. And while being nice, want to make something that I might actually want to eat!

Hey, Yak Trax ain't just for oldies. They stop you falling on your arse and mean you can wear your normal shoes and not have to resort to some kind of ugly moon boot just because it's snowing. I love them, wouldn't be without them in winter. And I'd recommend getting them while it's not icy / snowy, because everywhere sells out the second it snows.

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die

peterstorm, HP is delicious. The only thing to eat with bacon. But it had spices in it, you see... My nan should have gone out with Tarot.

How much time do you have?

My nan thought HP sauce was dirty foreign muck. She was quite racist though.

Ahh, it just warms the cockles to hear all these tales of middle class crime and lack of punishment. If Dostoevsky were alive today, I think Raskolnikov would be a serial misparker, who constantly retraced the steps of his misdemeanours, while smearing a little mud on his number plate to make his Y look like an X. Or whatever the Russian equivalent is. "Happy days," he might murmur, in a Russian accent and with a faint trace of existential angst, as the beleaguered parkie scratched his head in dismay. Merry Christmas to all and God bless us, everyone.

I know who else is bonkers...