Robert Poste's Child

Not sure about overdoing it, but alcohol may kill the germs in your throat and help you get to sleep. That's why I gargle with brandy when I have a cold.

You could contact Southwark: [email protected]

I liked 'Muslamics'. I can imagine people actually saying that somewhere. Eltham, probably. I once had a facial by a beautician who kept talking about taking off the cleanser with a 'muslim'.

Earlier this week I found a bracelet so I put a message on this forum and also on a tree near where I found it. It made me realise that, now we don't have a local police station, I don't know what to do with it if no one claims it. It doesn't appear to be valuable. What should I do? Donate it to a charity shop?

Doesn't neutering normally sort that out?

You don't mean ... you'll count to three?

Now thinking I got off lightly with mine... I was talked into doing an interview while I had it. With hindsight that was never going to go well. An ex-boyfriend used to dose himself with 'garlic soup' - you crush into a mug as many garlic cloves as you can bear, add boiling water and let it steep like herbal tea before drinking it. He swore by it. (I had to sleep in a separate room, but it's not as bad if you're the one with the cold as you can't smell it.)

Or what?

Just saying.

Might it also be due to the tradesman's bank? If he's on a package that charges per transaction perhaps it's easier to get cash occasionally. At retail level you often pay less for cash or debit cards than credit cards.

Mind you, I find many things annoying. If I were shut in a room with only a TV showing this week's Strictly I wouldn't like to be held accountable for my actions.

I had a horrible cold recently, first one in a year and it took about three weeks to clear rather than my usual three days. Sometimes I find I can shake off a cold completely if I hit it at the start with 500mg vitamin C every hour, liquid vitamin D and a good gargle with brandy, but sometimes you're just in for it, I'm afraid. My top tip is not going outside after dark. I've noticed that every time you do that with a cold it puts your recovery back by another day or so. No idea why - ozone maybe. And drink lots of lemon, honey and ginger. Ginger's magic.

Tradesman32 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In my opinion It is important to leave a review > based on your specific experience and not based on > the tradesman's previous reviews as the previous > post suggests. > I can't see how you got that from my post - I was making a point about giving a fair and balanced picture! - but I appreciate that as a tradesman you may be reading more into it than I intended.

Is this one of those unanswerable baboon vs badger questions? Yodelling is insane and I couldn't bear more than a few seconds of it, whereas I find bagpipes strangely stirring.

Personally I think it's fine to do that, particularly if there are already positive reviews as people appreciate a balanced picture. Given your post asking about it, I'm sure you'd make an effort to word it as fairly as possible!

If you can't get an appointment there's the additional option of the walk-in Lister centre in Peckham, which is open to all comers from 8am to 8pm every day including weekends and bank holidays. You can book appointments over the phone if you don't want to wait, and I've heard they're good about putting children at the front of the queue. http://peckhamgpwalkin.co.uk/ I see the website also has a form you can use to get advice within an hour from the 111 helpline doctors.

My GP's surgery has on-the-day appointments available every day and I've just been online to book, where there were still a handful available for this week, including for tomorrow. I swapped from DMC three or so years ago because even then it was always stressful getting an appointment. To me it felt an uneasy mixture of commercial and chaotic - their business model is basically that of a triage centre. While several of the doctors I saw seemed fine (in five years I never saw the same one twice) I will never forgive the receptionist who read out some sensitive test results to a waiting room of people, or the nurse who performed one of the most brutal smear tests I've ever had. Happy to pass on the name of my surgery via PM but not going to mention it here for fear of a landslide!

You could contact the Scout Association. It's supposed to be inclusive.

I think you should refer this to James Barber given the expense that you have gone to already.

Are you on commission then?

I'm sure there'll be other people who know more about qualifications than I do, but if it's just to earn money while travelling there are sometimes very heavily discounted online courses available on Groupon and other voucher sites. I nearly did one that way.

My own middle class moment was when someone in Waitrose (OK, me) demanded to know if there was a world noodle shortage.

Crikey! Do you think they have customers who actually buy 36 bananas at the same time?

clockworkorange Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > @james barber - has somebody hacked your account > and written the most moronic thing they could > think of? Has a troll hacked yours?

I know what you mean, and if the trains weren't such a nightmare I wouldn't suggest it, but perhaps useful as a back-up, especially on those days when you get to work OK and the problems come later. The 42 goes over Tower Bridge so at least you'd be able to walk from there. If you're OK with cycling locally, I sometimes cycle to D Hill or P Rye and cut out the LB line altogether. P Rye now has a free bike park.