Robert Poste's Child

Sue can speak for herself but she obviously feels she needs a formal response. Not like it costs anything.

Don't know that I agree with you on that one, RH. You're right that you take a risk posting personal matters on a public forum but Admin definitely crossed a line that time - calling the business involved about the problem. I'm sure they were trying to help but still not OK and Sue deserves a written response and apology.

The Crown & Greyhound has rooms. I can't imagine the service is all that great if it's anything like the pub but it has the advantage of being right in the village so everything's walkable.

The long training lead Rosetta mentioned is a really useful thing. I believe Battersea and the Mayhew use them.

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I'm not- he was a decent comedian but a total > lefty and terrorist apologist What a horrible thing to say about someone well-loved who's just died of cancer - and who lived just down the road so his family and friends might see this.

It's not about the products she sells though, is it - no one mentioned a ban, so no need to stir it up. Grounds for deleting were clearly stated by Admin. Seems fair enough to me and forumites would complain to Admin soon enough if they were harmed or ripped off by a bogus trader.

So sad. Occasionally the death of someone famous who you never met feels like losing a friend, a genuine pang of loss. I saw him at a number of News Quiz recordings where some of his more outrageous and biting flights ended up on the cutting room floor. A great privilege to be there for that.

That's just a silly attempt to score points. I agree with Admin on this one. This forum is a valuable source of business for sole traders and small businesses - there was a thread a while back about people a long way away using it like eBay - and it's unreasonable to expect to be able to exploit that completely on your own terms. I expect Admin has to have rules like that to protect locals from scams and rogue traders posting under multiple identities.

Re the Dog, try the chips and all is forgiven. Mind you, spent a couple of evenings with a friend there just having a bite to eat and a few glasses of wine, nothing special and not even a proper meal - no change from ?100.

Casual in that you weren't involved or present, you don't know the person you're describing and yet based on very little iinformation you're making a judgement on a local online forum. Mental illness wasn't the topic under discussion. You introduced it as some kind of judgement. Having relatives with mental health problems doesn't make you an expert it seems.

When they say home-opathy...

I generally manage to get tickets once a season. I thought it would go downhill after Sandi Toksvig left, back to the boring days of Simon Hoggart or whoever it was came before her, but Miles Jupp is brilliant.

And looking back, the forumites realised that that was the day the Great Nunhead Hairdresser War started.

Rendel, how about a home healing session? http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?30,2001905,2001905#msg-2001905

Try harder, Rendel, I've got tickets for the recording in two weeks' time.

It was this one. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?30,2001411,2001411#msg-2001411

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Robert Poste's Child Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Sue Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > > > > This person must surely have been mentally > ill? > > > > Why do you feel the need to say this? It's a > > horrible thing to have happened to Jamie > whatever > > was going on with the perpetrator. > > > Yes, of course it was a horrible thing to have > happened. > > What in my post made you think I have anything but > sympathy for the victim? > > ETA: A post above says the hammer attack "was the > culmination of a period of harrassment by the > perpetrator whose hair Jamie had cut but wasn't > happy with it". > > My point was that that was not normal behaviour > and therefore there may have been a reason for the > attack other than pure malice and aggression. I'm > sorry if I didn't express it very well, but I > don't think it is irrelevant to the thread. I really dislike the casual labelling of mental illness many people still go in for whenever someone does something they don't consider acceptable behaviour - it doesn't help the situation and just makes anyone who does have mental health problems feel even more stigmatised. I'm sure we've had this conversation before, though, and I saw someone else made a similar point on a different thread the same day.

Mm, but if you try it in Lidl I bet they'd wrestle you to the ground.

I'm not really sure if beliefs come into it for me. I tried homeopathy for some long-standing issues (I've tried a lot of things) and one or two things seemed to help but then didn't, and some never worked at all, but RR does. When I'm feeling stressed I just add a few drops to a water bottle. In a similar way, I first tried craniosacral therapy in desperation when my shoulder and neck had completely frozen as the result of overcompensating after an accident. Literally couldn't move without pain. After an hour of someone holding my feet and breathing heavily, then moving my arms, legs and head very slightly I could put my head on my shoulder. Amazing. (Never as good again since though.)

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > This person must surely have been mentally ill? Why do you feel the need to say this? It's a horrible thing to have happened to Jamie whatever was going on with the perpetrator.

And yet... I use RR myself and I find it works better in water. Maybe the action of sipping water is calming as well.

No offence taken (my focus for offence was the Picture House).

So does the barber in the village. Funny, really, to think you can get a good cup of coffee served promptly at the barber but over the road in the Crown & Greyhound you wait ages for something not very hor or tasty.

Or how about dim sum? Dumplings Legend make their own and they're huge and delicious. Not sure about anything else on the menu though.

Amazon. Depends on what kind of walking you want to do. I do Nordic and the rubber 'paws' on the end are a different shape from regular trekking poles as you use them slightly differently and for propulsion rather than stability. Mine are Leki ones and they're adjustable.