Robert Poste's Child

Salsaboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't feel well. Christmas socialising or man-flu?

Wow, that's harsh, Dadof4. Personally I find James Barber comes across as open and genuinely trying to improve things for people in ED and understand what affects them. I live in Village ward and I rarely see or hear from my local councillors unless there's an election in the offing. Worth remembering that the results of a consultation or any other opinion-gathering exercise are rarely simple - not everyone wants the same thing!

Poor you, Foxglove; people who haven't been through that kind of thing probably don't realise how you can find yourself behaving in ways you mightn't usually, and how angry and helpless you can feel later. In this case I think using the forum to vent is a good idea, and I hope it helps. Not sure the driver would be much help. From her post, it sounds like the guy was on the outside so she would have had to endure the humiliation of climbing over him. The last time I asked a bus driver for help he sent me upstairs and let the guy stay where he was.

My ticket was for a party a week later (it never did happen). The survivors' stories were the stuff of nightmares.

That's a brave name to choose. I still have a ticket somewhere for the Marchionness, which I'm sure was sunk by a dredger by the same name.

What a pathetic bunch of idiots you can be sometimes. I get it, the Lounge is a boys' club.

I don't use Tesco enough to be able to judge; I just thought it was good they were doing it in an open and straightforward way, including putting the notices just before the till so that you actually focus on the service they give you rather than a general impression of the store. JL's processes are great, especially refunds, but service on the shop floor can be a bit hit and miss - my experience anyway. I've been to the Oxford St one several times recently and I'm fed up of shop assistants bitching about their colleagues. Also had this in Palmers in Brixton, where I needed some help and caught the eye of an assistant who was mid-character assassination, and she turned her back on me and carried on. Interestingly, all the above were in haberdashery departments - must be something about soft furnishings.

As I've said before, replace the word 'woman' in your post with 'black' or 'disabled' to see if that was likely to be offensive.

At least they're trying, and good for them for encouraging customers to give feedback. While I love John Lewis, I don't understand how they got their reputation for service. They could take a few tips from Tesco.

My current knitting project ran out of silk five rows from the end.

I cried. http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/6203848

To the St James, one of my favourite theatres at the moment, to see Accolade. Definitely worth seeing, though I was distracted during the first act by my neighbour's appalling wind problem. I enjoyed the way the scenery moved (I think this was deliberate rather than due to my previous point).

I'm hoping this refers to the distant past, not this evening...

Incognito? Understandable, but not much of a disguise, is it?

It'll be the fifth set of pads since I bought the glasses a year and a half ago. Last time I buy the budget ones.

The left-hand nose cushion has come off my glasses. Blutac worked for a while but now showing a tendency to melt and stick to my face when I take the glasses off. About to order some sheepskin boots. Looking forward to warm toes.

Britpop!

...and, to be honest, email, the internet, everyone having a mobile and text messages. Maybe anything that happens after your early twenties stays new because you have adult memories of what life was like before them? (ETA: crossed with above but I'm leaving it in a spirit of solidarity.)

The lottery, the DLR, the disappearance of British Rail.

Lowlander Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Robert Poste's Child Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Like all food* to come out of the New World, > > turkey is wrong and has no place in a > > right-thinking person's festive menu, but I can > > see the deep fryer would add the fat that it > lacks > > if you cook it normally. > > > > > > *except potatoes. > > > And tomatoes, chillies, corn, avocadoes, peppers, > strawberries, peanuts, pineapples, vanilla... OK, avocados, tomatoes and corn, I grant you. And peppers and strawberries, yes. And maybe vanilla. But what else has America ever done for us food-wise?

I should be chasing work and/or doing exercise. What I'm actually doing is listening to the radio and adding flowers to the hat I'm knitting for one of my nieces. Feeling a bit pleased with myself; photo attached. (ETA pic of hat)

OK, and chocolate, though if they'd left that well alone I'd be a size smaller. To return to the topic, does gammon count? I suppose it straddles the porky border between bacon and ham.

Like all food* to come out of the New World, turkey is wrong and has no place in a right-thinking person's festive menu, but I can see the deep fryer would add the fat that it lacks if you cook it normally. *except potatoes.

I had no idea there was such a thing as a bacon iron. Wonder of wonders.

Lack of daylight. I keep telling myself it's only four weeks till the days start getting longer... This is the time of year when you need a long weekend somewhere sunny to perk you up.