RosieH

woofmarkthedog Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Fret not, Mr Fox is very clever. Mr Fox is a murdering b@stard and caused me nightmares throughout my childhood. 1,000 pieces way too good for him.

Narnia, this kind of thing is rife. It is the way of things at university - Christ it's the way of things in shared adult houses. Ultimately people are thieving scum. It could be the other b@stards, or it could be that your boy should stop shopping at Waitrose. There are two ways round this: felt-tip's fridge is a sure-fire winner, or failing that, he could take to eating quorn and fake-n (sp?) and no fecker will ever nick his food again.

Oh hush Huguenot - my handcuffs are velvet-lined leather - no scuffing there... And Karter, when you say "clean up", I would just like to stress that this isn't dirt. I'm not that grubby.

Zut alors. Unusually for me, I have been away working. Ha, sorry Quids, I did say it was boring. To clarify, the flat was newly painted when I moved in. Inevitably, bringing in furniture, knocking pictures or lamps over (... ahem Quids!) and quite possibly falling over myself, has resulted in some scuff marks. There are also a couple of other places, where the paint has flaked on the woodwork, not due to anything I've done to it, so I guess that would be down to wear and tear. It's not the end of the world, but I'd like to smarten it up. No doubt the landlord would have done it himself had I moved out, as this is a high tenancy turnover property and they do tend to refresh quite a lot from what I've seen of the flat underneath mine. So probably, I'm going to have to cough up, but would rather see if I can sort it myself, than have to pay for the landlord to get a man in. Or a woman.

Yeah, to be fair, while some of it could be deemed wear and tear, there are marks where my metal lamp has rubbed against the wall, and where a picture fell off and slid down the wall, so it's probably not mostly the landlord's responsibility. Lots of good ideas here though, so will try them first before I go begging.

Guardian reading? GUARDIAN READING??? I'm hellbent on world domination Quids - I think that pisses all over your poxy boutique hotels (where they probably serve pea shoots and provide Jo Malone toiletries). I'm sending the boys in from Kamchatka to kick your ass.

Ooh no, I don't do that. I like to think of myself as bold. But I do like a base I can still defend when my bold moves leave me decimated.

That's phase 1...

Indeed Keef, I take my lessons in war where I can get them: if not The Prince, then Izzard will do.

And I have no problem with that - better that than perfectly edible food going in the bin because prissy shoppers won't buy it.

Only with you Michael.

Zut alors, non non non: Port Salut is the Margot Leadbetter of the cheeseboard

jamesb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > RosieH Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Then violence it is... > > > Ditto that! james, you know I was joshing, right?

My favourite class cheese would have to be Port Salut - gratifyingly aspirational

It takes place in Bethlehem??? And Moos my dear, you're on. (I have been known to consolidate in Australasia too though...)

Ooh, cunning both - I shall try those. DJKQ, previously had tried a proprietary cleaner, which clearly doesn't have the requisite paint-softening properties, thanks.

This is very dull, and for that, I apologise in advance. But does anyone know if there are any cunning ways to cover scuffed white paint on your walls without repainting the whole wall? I've been in my flat a while and have scuff marks aplenty. But because it's rented, I don't even know what the paint is, and I don't really want to ask the landlord and have him charge me for doing it. And as every wall and ceiling is painted white, I don't want to get a slightly different colour white, start with one scuff and end up having to paint every room. Any clever ideas?

I prefer to think of you as Butch and Sundance

Jah and steveo - the new A Team. Can I be Tania?

Ah yes, you make a valid point Sean, maybe not violence then.

Then violence it is...

I can't get any of my friends to play Risk with me anymore, so if anyone ever has a couple of days of their life they'd like to lose to waging war on Kamchatka, do let me know.

Priceless. That's absolutely beautiful. People I like = Tom Ford and Huguenot

Ah Huge, you got me! Sure I'm aware of the fine line, but I don't think the EDF is bang-on target for Tom Ford. What I meant about the blog giving access to the info, is that it's the blog that the Fordians are interested in targeting (and twitter too doubtless), which is why they will have invited DM to a swanky-pants do. A community forum where people complain about the price of a sausage roll isn't going to yield massive sales of a ?35 lipstick. And that's why I think DM was just enjoying sharing her new-found info on gorgeous ladies' fripperies with like-minded flibbertigibbets, rather than ruthlessly pursuing her dreams of stockpiling nail varnish. Anyway, these days, we PR folks have yielded our superiority in targeting bloggers to the big balls advertising folks, and general marketing folks, and "digital" folks, so it's just as likely it was one of your marvellous industry who extended the invitation. ;-)

Exterminate.