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Yes, good service Jeremy. I've been going to Le Chardon for years and they've always looked after me very well in there.

I've had a copy of Parade's End for a number of years now and still haven't got around to reading it, maybe I'll give it a whirl soon. Just started Paul Theroux's Picture Palace this morning and I think I'm going to enjoy it very much.

Personally I'd take her to Le Chardon. You can't go wrong in there. Lovely grub and good service.

If you want something quick and easy to read in your lunchbreak I'd like to recommend to anyone who's interested Joseph Roth's "The Legend Of the Holy Drinker.":)-D

I sense the start of a book club here. Nice one Polly.

You need to read some Milan Kundera then Keef, who often starts in the middle and goes off into other tangents back and forth betwixt the beginning and end. Try "The Unbearable Likeness of Being." It's absolutely brilliant.

He did indeed Hugenot with illustrations too and the worse case of that was in his first one, The Pickwick Papers. Apropos of nothing I grew up in Pickwick Road in the Village.

This is true Keef. I can barely move in my flat for books, records, CDS and tapes, the place is overflowing and I need to move to bigger premises as to throw any of them out would be like losing a limb.

A home is not a home without bookshelves loaded with good books Keef.

Well, basically I had a lousy education and came to them later on in life and perhaps that's why I have enjoyed them so much rather than have had them ramned down my throat at school. And, no I haven't or is there a punchline coming there Hugenot?

Camp as a row of tents he may be but it doesn't make him funny either.

I stopped reading Iain Banks's stuff after the The Crow Road or was it Espedair Street and I've never been into his science fiction stuff as most sci-fi bores me to tears, besides I prefer to read the classics from the 19th century whether it be English, French or Russian, for example, Dickens, Hardy, Baudelaire, Zola, Du Maupassant and De Balzac, Dostoyevsky, Gogol and Tolstoy. I read voraciously and obviously I enjoy a lot of more contempory stuff too and there is a lot to recommend but maybe I'll get back to you on that at another time.

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend, inside of a dog it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx.

Have you Tillie? That's great. What do you mean by whether Steve can hold his head up? Have you got a copy yet? I've just finished reading it again. Have you checked out the website? Sorry, this must seem like the Spanish inquisition.

Alan Carr is about as funny as cancer.(td)

Cheers Keith, point taken but check out Dylan, I didn't get into him until I was 32 and, I just love the Stones even if they have turned into parodies of their former selves but they still cut it live.

I think Keef, if we were to write all the lyrics out to our favourite top ten tunes it would take all day to read them. But I would suggest perhaps is to maybe just list the songs. Also, I can't believe theres no lyrics on here by the likes of Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Jagger & Richards, Lennon & McCartney all great lyricists but then I guess your demographic is for a younger generation than an old git like me. Cheers :)-D

Terribly sorry I missed your soiree at the CPT last Friday but I was otherwise engaged in a drinking marathon elsewhere. It would appear you all had a marvellous time so I must try and get myself along to your next jolly-up. The Clockhouse sounds a very good idea indeed especially with this lovely weather we seem to be having at the moment and I haven't been there in a while and it's always good in the summer to sit outside and watch the world go by. Also, I like Dulwich Mum's idea of backgammon as I am getting a bit too long in the tooth these days to be chasing a ball round the park like a young puppy dog, unless of course I'm allowed to smoke and drink at the same time that is.:)-D

My pink half of the drainpipe I may paint it blue My pink half of the drainpipe keeps me safe from you. The Bonzos

I hate to piss on your parade but I thought This Life was a pile of poo.(td)

A guilty pleasure surely Mockney? Get it out of the attic and onto your decks. Long overdue for a remix I reckon. Maybe get Aphex Twin to do it.

Max Bygraves - Singalongamax - in dub.

Probably, but oh! she was damned gorgeous. A paragon of loveliness.

Well, I was thinking along the lines of a young Lesley Ann-Down...hmm scrumptious.

Pardon me but I was only thinking of the character in the books. I'm sure DM is far more glamourous than Ms Zellweger.