Robert Poste's Child

I'm guessing The Young Ones was a formative influence...

Have you tried doing the swap at a behavioural rather than substance level, so changing the order you do things in when you get home, or swapping TV for cooking a nice meal for your wife, or going for walk, or whatever you normally feel you don't have time for? I'm not a drinker but if I'm trying to lose weight going for a walk or swim in the evening does stop the snacking.

'Bored by' makes more sense to me than 'with', though arguably people may use them to mean slightly different things. Whichever one you use it can feel a clunky construction, as passives tend to.

Foxy121 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The large african woman who lives on silvester > road is responsible for a lot of fly tipping she > also steals wheelie bins to transport the items > she tips I belive her name is Nanna she lives down > the Barry rd end of silvester I know because I've > seen her I've no idea if you're right or wrong, but I hope you have proof of a crime before you identify someone in a way they might well see as libellous. And if you do, why not take it to the police instead?

I think it's reasonable to use this forum to raise awareness, and if it avoids personal confrontations in the street with children present, that can only be a good thing! I live near another school and my entire road is a car park and rat run at both ends of the day. I've spoken to the school involved but they don't seem to do anything about it.

Good ginger ale or beer, or proper old-fashioned lemonade. A mix of apple juice and ginger ale is nice. Or you could get one of those nice cordials and top it up with sparkling water, or get a selection of adventurous herbal teas perhaps?

I sound taller, apparently.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It doesn't get much more random than this post in > the property section. > > http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?2 > 2,1401915 Come on, we need a hippy commune. I'm in.

Urgh, can't bear her. Think she would consider herself a 'man's woman'.

Ballyturk. No idea what it all meant but he can certainly do theatre as well as TV and film.

Got the lovely Cillian Murphy in, hasn't it? I'm still experiencing afterglow from seeing him at the theatre on Tuesday.

The shop and post office at the top of Lordship Lane, next to (and presumably slowly stifled by) Sainsbury's Local is now emptying and will close soon. Does anyone know what will be there next? One of my pet peeves with all the Local/Metro/M&S Food Halls etc is how freezing cold they are; can't be environmentally friendly, can it. I think Cook does a great job of good quality, family friendly food and I believe they've been delivering for ages; you can also order online. The idea is supposed to be that it's like good home-made as it's flash frozen as soon as it's cooked, so low on additives/preservatives and a lot more nutrients than cook-chill ready meals in supermarkets, which are pretty dead nutritionally (here she goes again). My favourite is the small smoked salmon and pesto quiches, which are lovely. The cake cabinet is also worth investigating.

I don't think it is something he puts on for PR reasons, I reckon it goes deeper into his personality than that, but I tend to agree with you that if he became PM he'd have to thin it out a bit or reposition it as some kind of charming British eccentricity. He has a lot of the showman in him (in a good way, unlike Blair for example) and I think he could pull it off, assuming his tendency to self-sabotage doesn't get in the way.

As a get-out-of-jail-free card it seems to work pretty well for Boris, though, and (given his reputation for extra curricular activities) from a female point of view it's a lot more likely to be successful than the smug boyishness of Dave or Ed. Not that I can imagine either of them is that interested in sex, which may be the problem. I'm coming round to the French way of thinking: I don't care any more what politicians get up to privately (as long as it's legal, between consenting adults and they're not coercing anyone). I just want them to be an effective, bold and credible leader. I can never look at Dave without thinking that's a school prefect's tie he's wearing.

I think Boris's idiot persona is just a veneer that he finds lets him get away with stuff and encourages other people to do things he doesn't want to do himself. It also taps into the British love of the underdog. I bet his PA loves him like nanny did.

As I washed up after roasting chicken, my neighbour's cat came into the kitchen and sat alternately on the sink and the drain outside, apparently convinced there was a chicken in there that had to come out some time.

Hope you find some peace too.

Hi Shirley1979. Just wanted to say that I thought your post shows that there's plenty of neighbourliness going on on your estate. It's completely understandable that Karen wouldn't immediately realise exactly where the maggots were coming from - it's easy for someone reading a newspaper or watching a film, which has been edited to tell the story, to think that she should have known, but when you're actually in a situation that's developing around you it doesn't always happen like that. Recently I was in a shop and a woman nearby started stamping around complaining. When I looked up she glared at me so I turned away to avoid making things worse. A moment later she fell down and hit her head quite badly, and I've been feeling bad ever since because if I'd realised those were her symptoms of an epileptic seizure coming on I could have helped her. I know it wasn't my fault but I feel like I let her down.

Are the blinds completely transparent or can you just see silhouettes when they have the lights on? If it's the latter they might like to work up a shadow routine like the one that dance group did on Britain's Got Talent.

You not a morning person either?

steveo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My daughter lost her toenails Goodness, how did she do that?

Boris's crest is probably a sausage rampant.

Balls, in my view. None of the others has any.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think Ed Miliband is a decent man and I think he > has some good ideas, I just think he's a media > disaster, and unfortunately he lives in a time > where substance means @#$%& all, and playing well > to the cameras / microphone means everything. I don't disagree with that, but I think Labour chose him because they thought he did look good on screen, and when you take that away there's not enough substance to carry him through either (compared say with Gordon Brown during the referendum; he was never that great visually but that speech was more powerful than anything the current leaders did). I don't have a TV so my impression of Miliband in action is based on radio, where he has always sounded less substantial than Cameron et al. Looks like a nice guy, though.

I'm going on Fri. Wonder if she'll have got more into the swing of it by then (I appreciate it can take a couple of weeks to really gel), though I'm wondering if her voice will reach the cheap seats where I'll be sitting. When I saw Sheridan Smith as Hedda Gabler, her voice was the least audible despite having done loads of musical theatre. In Map to the Stars earlier this week, I thought Julianne Moore's character looked very much like Lindsay Lohan will in about 5 years if she's not careful.