Robert Poste's Child

Just to satisfy Zeb's expectations, I said in an earlier post that I understand this will give LL full high street status and push up business rates, thus forcing out some of the last remaining independents. Does anybody know the position on this? Thanks.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Will the builders get minimum wage ? London Living Wage, you mean?

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Inadequate use of question mark - just because > somewhere in the sentence was a question. Assume this means me so apologise.

Bit harsh? To put this in context, am enjoying a pork pie as we speak. It's mopping up a bottle of wine so quote healthy. On balance. Not cycling home tho, wheeling.

What are you stressed about, apart from being awake at 5.29am, which would be enough to set me off, frankly?

Zealot. No 'u'. Sorry I'm late with that but worth clearing up, I think?

Even I think that looks like fun and I'm someone who thinks the world cup is a good time to go to Sainsbury's because it'll be empty.

But the real reason for tonight's visit is to say how irritating it is when fashion writers and shops describe a piece of clothing, or indeed anything at all, as 'luxe', eg 'a luxe sweater'. Makes my stomach positively heave.

I have a similar problem with customer services people who listen to your complaint and say, 'OK'. NO, I'VE JUST TOLD YOU IT'S EFFING NOT OK. Can't bear it.

Ice creams in the Parlour at Fortnum & Mason.

Simon Lederman (sp?) on Radio London late evenings. Pure Partridge.

Third gluten-free thread recently. Still betting they're related...

Hi Annasfield. I'm in a similar position in that I cycle happily around this area and into London at weekends if the weather's ok, but the thought of cycling to work in the city in rush hour is very daunting and I've never done it yet. I rarely make it as far as my local station on a weekday morning without feeling like I'm dicing with death due to the aggression of other road users (men on bikes are the cause more often than other vehicles). In case it helps you, I've been told by colleagues to aim for Southwark Bridge as the cycle lane is properly segregated, unlike other bridges.

Maybe I should give them a call and ask them to pop a couple behind the counter till Sat in case there's a rush on now you've given them a recommendation. Do sausage rolls count as charcuterie, I wonder? Maybe more patisserie. If a labradoodle's anything to go by, I suppose it would be patuterie.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They do sausage rolls and always have, no gap - > unless the ones I've been buying regularly for > years are really salads masquerading as pink meat > in a flaky pastry. > Perhaps they'd sold out on the occasion you tried. And I thought I'd mapped all processes pork products in the area. That's my Saturday morning sorted.

Not sure whether to laugh or cry. A poor woodpecker's raison d'etre is compromising their sleep for a few days in spring and they want it stopped? Send it my way, I love the noise they make, reminds me of living in the country. Ditto curlews in early spring, skylarks in summer, geese in autumn and a robin singing on a cold, clear winter day.

Wm Rose does a very nice pork pie but no sausage rolls. A gap in their product range I feel. Though my opinion re the pork pies was dented recently when I went to my sister's local (non-organic) butcher in Finsbury Park and they had exactly the same ones.

Grumpy and unhelpful, yes - but intimidating?

The Herne Hill Sunday market often has a sausage roll stall that does some nice flavours.

Use of 'super' as a general intensifier.

Ginger Pig ones are too lardy for me. They give me that urge to rub my face on the carpet like dogs do. Blackbird on the whole I avoid after a bad stomach upset a few years back but the sausage rolls are about the right balance for me and they have apricots in which are a nice touch.

It'll go green and slimy first. If you have a decent compost heap it will eat a squirrel or magpie in a few days (according to my grandfather, who took no prisoners where his garden was concerned). Brown bin seems wrong (unless someone else's, obviously). Perhaps wait for dark and put it somewhere where it can re-enter the food chain. Then pour the water on the garden.

No, but If you haven't tried them the ones from the Blackbird bakery are even better.

Ridiculously fanciable as Lord Flashheart.

I know someone with a bigger schnauzer and a cat and they were fine even when shut up in a confined space together. Again, the cat was already established when the dog arrived as a puppy so she trained him.