Robert Poste's Child

How frightening. I hope your son wasn't hurt? That triangle of roads does seem to be a hotspot for this kind of thing.

Me too. Hope lots more people sign up.

Finish a sentence? Do capital letters? What?

Pace yourself, the night is young.

The BBC weather page just says: After a dry start, thundery showers will develop during the evening, these continuing on and off overnight with some localised torrential downpours and hail possible. Feeling warm and muggy overnight. So looks like it's not going to be one quick storm and then over.

What don't you like about it, Reggie?

That's quite a theme tune.

The light in the sky is starting to look interesting for this time of the evening.

Have to say I didn't mind about the sports day music. Later that day I cycled past and they were all having a whale of a time, whereas usually when you pass them doing sports there's not much enthusiasm in evidence. Daytime on a weekday is kind of OK from my point of view.

Lambeth Show, and a summer fair in Belair Park and open air cinema in Dulwich Park. If the weather stays like this there will also be a lot of parties the park will be wall-to-wall people and barbecues followed by a tidal wave of litter. I'm packing already...

Car or public transport?

Waiting in all morning yesterday for a courier who turns up only when you've finally given up and gone out, won't leave it in a safe place and says they'll try again tomorrow without indicating a time or telling you where you can collect it. Like being under house arrest.

Triple-bag it and put in the green bin. Move quickly as in this weather it's not going to get any easier.

Buses in hot weather. Men of London, the haircut may be sharp, the clothes hip, the body pumped and luscious, but it's all a waste of time if you don't WEAR DEODORANT (key words in caps for the skimreaders).

You have to admire the tenacity that makes someone register and then wait almost a year before trolling in earnest. I'm no good at delayed gratification. If this has been gratifying for them.

Rye Lane.

Mars and Venus, eh?

Roughly speaking, a Hollywood plus two weeks. Or do I mean Brazilian?

High-speed blood test at Dulwich Hospital today instead of the usual hour-plus wait - they called my number before I had a chance to pull it out of the machine and I barely had time to tell the technician where I'm going on holiday.

Except Gail's wasn't there then. sydenhamcentral Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have it on good authority that an invisible > force field was erected around 'The Village' to > protect Gails from the looters who were after > their carrot cake. Luckily this important local > treasure was saved for the masses who save up for > weeks to indulge in such delicious treats once in > a blue moon, savouring every crumb and feasting on > the memory of every morsel rather than gorging on > inferior goods more often in joyless consumerism.

That's how Orange kept me for so long.

I'd like the changes more if they weren't such an obvious PR kneejerk response to the recent criticisms re lack of women on the front bench. Give it six months and they'll slide back to how they were.

I changed to Tesco 15 months ago after 11+ years with Orange/EE and they're way better. Customer service is excellent (EE was appalling) and when you call you get through to a real person fairly quickly, not an offshore call centre either, and they seem genuinely keen to help and straightforward to deal with. When my initial contract ran out in April I assumed it would revert to a standard tariff unless I found another deal in time but they told me it was fine and I could stay on the same rate until I want to change. The network coverage is also better - you can spot the EE customers in my road as they're the ones making calls shivering in the street at night or hanging out of upstairs windows. Wish I'd switched years ago. Have to admit I was biased against Tesco before but this made me see them in a different light.

When the 2011 riots happened I got the impression there was nothing around here that those involved would be tempted to loot so they had to go to Peckham, Clapham or Croydon instead.

This isn't meant in a critical way, but given that you've just posted it as a new topic on a public forum, I wonder if you really are 'over it'? That would have been a wounding experience for many children.