Robert Poste's Child

Nice attempt at topic-fusion. However, the answer is that they are out of season but about a week after August 12 you'll find them in Wm Rose.

The obsession with the middle class (probably with class generally) is a predominantly middle-class thing as the middle is necessarily full of people whose status is open to question. I find it rather touching.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I miss > the old days when ... the faint smell of > urine lingered around the less than salubrious > toilet facilities. Why the past tense? It's still good for that one at least. I'm also struggling to think of anywhere more middle class. Except all of Surrey, obviously.

One day as I cycled down the off-road route from Peckham Library to Burgess Park I heard a horse neighing. I stopped and looked, and there was a house beside it with a couple of stables with horses in them. It was one of those magically surreal moments when you feel the universe might be trying to tell you something but you're too brainwashed by modern life to understand it.

People using the Lounge to promote their business/book/magazine/children's parties. Especially the ones done in the form of teasers. Wish they'd put them in the business section.

To link back to the OP, if you were eating your prawn sandwich, Krispy Kreme doughnut (plain or custard? It may make a difference) or fried chicken on the train after a very long day, and you looked up to see a stranger photographing you mid-mouthful, and when you got home a friend texted you to say they'd seen it online, how would you feel?

...yet.

Probably not close enough but it would be possible to road-test the idea using the empty space on the ED side of the Dulwich Hospital site perhaps?

Yep, don't like dairy close up. My sister's the same. I believe it's more common for Asian people but a cultural thing for them.

As far as I can see they weren't giving an opinion on the topic, just ridiculing me for mine!

Maybe we're being honest. Why should everyone like what you like? Especially when it's muck. Your punctuation is cr*p, by the way. Have a nice day.

Agree. Peeing probably on a par with throwing up said burger after you've eaten it.

Brian can be entertaining but his manner is too inflammatory to listen to calmly for long. Another one: people, generally women, pronouncing an E as an A, usually with a slight drawl, presumably to sound posher. 'Can I gat the bast and of nack of laaamb?' as someone is probably saying right now in William Rose. Irritating.

I imagine you need to hear that with an American accent to get the full impact...

Crisps, it turns out, are not a good idea, unless your idea of eating crisps is to wipe the salt off and suck them till they dissolve.

I agree that hot food can be quite offensive though I suppose it doesn't usually last long. The smell of Mcdonalds makes me retch slightly, so I generally have to flounce off when it wafts its noxious way onto the top deck of the bus. I can't bear the smell of milk either (butter is worse and cheese totally impossible), so I can't sit next to anyone with a cooling latte as the stench gets worse as the heat goes out of it. Is this more of a problem than it used to be? It seems like everything is now an opportunity to eat. Recently I got an overcrowded train to Cambridge, a journey time of about 40 minutes, and it looked like everyone had a latte and some kind of breakfast which they stuffed into their mouths while slumped staring at their phones. Probably tweeting about the mad 40-something woman with only a bike and a book for entertainment (Made of, like, paper! Man, that is SO freaking retro?), who kept tutting and sniffing.

And Vicky.

And Jim. But that's it.

Ok, and Lilian and Matt. And sometimes Kenton. But the rest I can take or leave.

Both whiney. If they kill Linda Snell, I'm off, frankly. Jazzer and intermittently Leonie are good too, but all of them more for the acting than the writing.

Personally I'd find it a bit chilling to live somewhere where a major accident happens and everyone just carries on as normal without comment. In a way the threshold for concern tells you what kind of community you live in. I think a lot of people genuinely do care.

Come to that, all scriptwriting for the Archers PN (post Nigel). It's O-level coursework standard. The recent miscarriage storyline was so trite I was glad she lost the baby by the seventh week.

Middle class, middle aged professional men saying 'Oh man!' with an upward inflection every time something goes wrong at work. Grow up.

Is there such a thing as an e-cigar? I'm thinking of staging a protest. Maybe I'll grow a moustache and start smoking a pipe.

Louisa, you poor thing, you must be exhausted. Wish I could think of something to suggest that you haven't tried already but until you get a diagnosis I'm sure you don't want to risk trying something else that might make things worse again. Sending you healthy thoughts - they can't do any harm at least.