indiepanda

Morning all, finally made it to another forum drinks night & lovely to see people again / meet new people. The evening positively whizzed by, I headed home at what felt like around midnight only to discover it was nearly 2.

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Not sure if angela was a troll or not. Agree that > the original title to the thread wasn't exactly > going to make her a friend of the mums, but still > have to say I read threads like this, and can't > help but get a bit annoyed at the reactions of > some mums and dads. Amen. I had to suffer a taxi driver preaching at me all the way from Blackfriars to East Dulwich last week for not accepting it's my purpose in life to be a mother and provide my mother with grandchildren. I did try to point out that being single it was hardly an issue for me, but apparantly that's down to me having too high expectations / not wanting to be at home looking after my man. And I think I still tipped him. I'm such a wimp. :-$

Yes, knowing I am out of the housing market, people keep telling me now is a good time to snap up a bargain. I am ignoring their "wisdom" - with a recession only just starting, I think the market has a long way to go yet. I don't fancy tying myself into a mortgage when I could find myself made redundant either - would rather have my deposit as a safety net to cover living costs in the event of redundancy than put it down on a house and watch it get eroded away from a nice capital sum towards negative equity.

angela2711 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But, I don't have a 9-5 job I thought we were talking about "career" women. If anyone has managed to find a "career" that involves working just 9-5 on a regular basis they are doing damn well. I often work 9 hour days, and have been known to be still in the office at gone midnight. I wish I could work less, but in a climate where redundancies could be round the corner, being the one to say I am not working late when the rest of the team are doesn't seem like a great career move. Frankly I quite like the fact that East Dulwich is relatively family orientated - means when I get home from work dead beat it's not so noisy that I can't get to sleep! And at least with people around in the area during the day I somehow feel my home is a little safer - less likely to come home to a burgled flat if people are going to get seen breaking in.

Russell T Davies has previously said he would like Russell Tovey from the History Boys should be the next Doctor. He's quite young though, not sure if he would carry the right gravitas. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7618537.stm Much as I love James Nesbitt, I am not sure I could see him in the role. He is always going to be Adam Williams from Cold Feet to me.

The ending of Breakfast at Tiffany's reduces me to happy tears every time, even watching the clip on You Tube without the rest of the film does it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTJu9VY1d6M

Colin Farrell... ewww, no thanks.

RosieH Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Definitely not their marital status - just the > fact that they haven't met you yet, eh? lol, they just don't know what they are missing... (and more to the point, if they did they probably wouldn't care!). I was just laughing at the silliness of worrying about whether a celeb crush is married or not - it's so academic given I'd never meet them, and if I did would probably find they were different in person than I imagined, or if not, the chances of them giving me the time of the day are seriously remote...

Yes but we're at work during the day, so you won't see us in the coffee shops.

RosieH Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > excellent list indiepanda > > I'd like to add, in the intelligent, humorous, > sensitive vein, John Stewart. I'd marry him right > this second, or date him, or whatever. A lot. Thanks :-) What/where should I know John Stewart from? The name isn't ringing any bells for me. Oh, I will add few more to my list - both Danny Wallace and Richard Hammond have that certain something. Not drop dead gorgeous but very funny and I love their enthuisiasm. And Ben Shepherd on GMTV is also rather cute. And thinking about current series of Strictly Come Dancing (which I get very addicted to), Tom Chambers is lovely - so was so sweet the way he was so excited about his wedding. And Mark Foster is such a nice chap - wouldn't expect an Olympic athlete with the body of a god to be so shy - would imagine he could be rather arrogant. Come to that Tess Daly's husband Vernon Kay is lovely too. Oh and returning to Hollywood, Harry Connick Jr (singer and played Grace's doctor husband in Will and Grace) also appeals. And for a bit of cradle snatching, Joshua Jackson (Pacey in Dawson's Creek) is attractive when he avoids doing the beard or dyed hair thing. Expect that's mainly the character I liked - the bit of a bad boy but good deep down. Hmmm, I should stop before I get carried away here. Shame pretty much all of them are already taken. Still, I don't suppose it's their marital status that is the primary explanation of why they aren't queuing up to date me eh!!!!

Well, if we are ignoring the list and coming up with our own, I would pick David Tennant (still) Ben Chaplin (was in the first series of Game On and my favourite chick flick, The Truth about Cats and Dogs) John Cusack David Duchovney Dermot Mulroney (esp in The Wedding Date) Adam Garcia (as in Coyote Ugly) Jack Davenport (more in Coupling than in This Life) tall, dark and handsome seems to cover it.... did I hear someone say stereotype?? :-$ If I were to break the mold slightly and go for someone fair, would pick Paul Bettany as in Wimbledon (seriously nice body) and George Peppard as he was in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

I like indie music and I like pandas... I don't know why I put the two together...

David Tennant as Doctor Who is the only one of those I could even contemplate dating if we are talking about the kind of date that might end in a kiss. If we're talking about the kind of date which is only kissing then I could take James Bond in the form of Daniel Craig - as a person I am sure Craig is a nice chap, but Bond himself isn't an appealing character to me - too macho. Rest of them sound more like dates for the over 50s, not over 30s to me (but I do tend to go for younger men...)

glad to hear this is getting going - I am looking forward to joining in just as soon as I recover from this knee injury. (*crosses fingers for good news at the hospital this morning*)

Depends what the rules are of the restaurant on tips. I used to work in a small cafe, owner did all the cooking, paid us pretty low wages but let us all keep our own tips. If staff were all equally good we'd end up earning same as each other in the long run, but if some gave better service, those generally earned more - which seemed fair enough to me. We didn't add service charges to the bill either.

That is dreadful, I assumed the service charge went to the waitress so don't leave a separate tip. I don't like restaurants adding them anyway - strikes me it relies on one being too polite to ask for it to be removed when service has been poor. I worked as a waitress as a student, and know it can be hard work, and will always leave a decent tip if service is up to scratch, but I do resent being expected to pay a charge for sloppy service.

how much do they charge for the sunday roast? I've taken my parents to a couple of places in ED for Sunday lunch, but they have been a bit pricey by their standards, and whilst I am happy to pay, my dad doesn't like it if I do it all the time, so would be nice to find somewhere more reasonably priced.

My parents came up to see me (looking after the invalid!) and did roast chicken, jacket spud and veggies. Nothing exciting, but nice to get waited on for a change. They've gone out to get me my supermarket shopping too now :-)

buggie Wrote: > ... if only the 4hrs target was time to cubicle - > don't think anyone has had to wait 5hrs to be seen > by a dr in A&E @ Kings in a very long time, if you > have I dare say everyone was rushed off their feet > - thus communication might have been poor. > The receptionist's can only look to see how long > the longest wait a pt has had at your time of > booking in - if you've been at the end of a long > queue to book in then yes, it might be longer for > you. > > Ask any of the staff in A&E and they'll explain > that they don't want anyone to have a long wait - > if it happens its likely that there are more > seriously ill pts (you know, the ones that really > annoyingly stop breathing and things like > that!)who the dr's have to see first off - this > is why you'll very, very rarely hear any clincal > staff giving you a "time" you'll be seen Don't get me wrong, I totally understand other people's needs were greater (though it would have been nice to have been offered some painkillers while I was waiting to be seen). But if people can't give even a vague idea of how long it will be before you get seen with any confidence, then I just think they should be honest and say so. I wasn't exactly twisting people's arms to force times out of them. I know it must be tough working in a hospital, but when one is exhausted and in pain & shock, getting one's hopes up unrealistically doesn't make things easier to bear. I guess I could complain, but I don't know if they would listen. I did say it was a petty annoyance after all. The doctor who saw me eventually was quite a sweetie and took good care of me.

I get the number 12 to Peckham Rye from Underhill Road / Barry Road in the morning and I have never had to stand, you can get the 197 too. The good thing about Peckham Rye is that it has lines into Blackfriars, Victoria and London Bridge, so if there are major problems on one line you can always switch onto a different line and get a tube back into the city. Some of the London Bridge trains are non stop to London Bridge too. I've been using Peckham Rye for 3 months now and have only had one day my line got cancelled due to problems at Nunhead I think it was, and find most days the trains pretty much run to time. Mornings like today where my train was 6 minutes late are the exception not the norm.

Receptionists at A&E who get your hopes up by telling you that you can expect to be seeing a doctor in just over an hour, when it's actually nearly 5 hours. Giving false hope of being seen quickly to the injured is silly - better to say it's going to be a long wait and let people be pleasantly surprised if it turns out to be shorter. Also, when you query the length of wait, telling you that you will be called through to cubicles soon, and not mentioning you'll then be left in cubicles without being seen for over an hour. (I'm sure that's a statistics dodge - get you into cubicles in under 4 hours means targets met, but no measurement made of wait time in cubicle...) No prizes for guessing what I was doing last weekend! But seriously, I would get fired if I treated my clients the way they treated me. It's not the length of wait - it's the poor communication. I know Friday night is a bad time to have a minor injury in A&E, but honesty is more appreciated than false hope.

Amen to that Tillie. I was meant to be seeing the Charlatans at the Astoria last night. Fell downstairs and ended up bruised all over and with stitches in my knee on Friday so not up to bouncing about at a lively gig.

Hi everyone, hope you have a good game. I am still interested in joining in at some point, but I won't be able to in the near future - I fell downstairs on Friday night and ended up slicing my leg open just below the knee and had 8 stitches so I am hobbling about and finding walking a bit challenging at the moment. I'll keep my eyes open when I am fit enough to cope again.

I know. I shouldn't indulge. :-( Should stick to the strictly come dancing and go for one of my more beneign pleasures like fancy scented candles and a large bowl of raspberries

Well, having been raised a Catholic I feel guilty about most things ;-) I guess mine would include:- - Strictly Come Dancing - and now I can watch on iplayer I am watching the weekday show as well as the weekend ones. I know it's cheesy and Bruce is awful (they should swap him for Tess Daly's husband) but I love the dancing and the glitzy frocks and seeing how the various celebs get on. - Toiletries - I always have a stash of things such that I could go ages without buying anything new but still love buying new ones. Got some divine rose body cream from Tamu in the ED Wareouse the other week - highly recommended. - Amazon - lots of books, CDs and shoes. Three joys in one go. - Pringles - especially the sour cream ones. - Jelly sweets like Bassetts sports mixture If I were to pick a musical guilty pleasure I would have to admit to having the Girls Aloud best of CD which I listen to when I am getting ready to go out. I know it's cheesy pop, but as cheesy pop goes, it's great.