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It's Raining Men - Weather Girls

Oh that's excellent news. It's been an eyesore for too long.

I haven't had a polling card either Izodia.

Bobbaz, while I completely sympathise with your complaints, with shopping you do largely get what you pay for. The big supermarkets are in a war with each other, and they're not going to do anything like improving training (incorrect scanning, attitude) if they can help it, if it cannot be demonstrated that that's affecting bottom line, market share etc. It's an oligopoly and they all largely behave the same, treating customers like cattle and making money from high throughput and squeezed costs and squeezed suppliers. It's really not good for anyone except the top brass and their egos and bonuses. As a nation, we are spending a smaller and smaller proportion of our income on food; we somehow expect more for less. In this model, something has to give (suppliers folding, misery wages for staff, no training, no service). Personally, I'd rather spend the majority of my money with smaller outfits - around East Dulwich and elsewhere - or with firms that are demonstrably more considerate towards customers and suppliers (though I think the larger a firm gets the more difficult it becomes to retain that approach in practice). I fully realise this is not an option for those on low incomes such as state benefits or pensions.

Personally, I'd love something to be done about the empty shop next door. Whoever is the freeholder should be ashamed of themselves.

I have heard on another forum that she has a broken hip, but no idea of seriousness beyond that.

Dogger, Fisher, German Bight... It took me some years to figure out that North Utsire and South Utsire referred to North and South Uist respectively. Did you mourn the passing of Finisterre? The end of the world.

Or for the 'policing required' :-S

Oh yes, when I said I did listen sometimes, I had been listening to that. (I've been learning how to keep bees myself over the last year (with London Beekeepers) and have been planning to get some hives of my own.) The shipping forecast I've been listening to for many years.

HeidiHi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have seen many people with their dogs, climb > over the fence , doggy under the arm of an early > morning in Dulwich park! They always find a way to > get in! I wonder what the wardens say when they > seem them walking their doors in the park after > they have opened up?!That is the Dulwich Library > end! It's fairly simple to get through via Fireman's Alley. Benjamin Zephaniah once said he aimed to break at least one law every day...

matthew123 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Before we can answer that, what kind of Home > Secretary do we deserve? Well as a nation we don't on the whole seem much concerned with civil liberties, and we seem to have had a procession of home secretaries who eroded liberties, locked up an increasing number of people (with little rehabilitation), and pushed through an extraordinary number of laws that perhaps suggest institutional paranoia.

jctg, there was a piece in The Observer by Catherine Bennett about celebrity candidates.

Jacqui to spend more time with her sister/second home/porn movies/gardener Looks like Gordon's cabinet is spontaneously combusting. Do we get the Home Secretaries we deserve?

Quince jelly is the biz, thebeard. My mum makes it for me and sends it over from the old country. The food hall's in the basement, by the way, next to the kitchen/dining stuff. The focus is high-end.

While I don't believe in God, I do bless the lord for Radio 4. Some bits I can take or leave, such as the farming programme (though I do listen to that on occasion), but there's so much good stuff on there. There is some good public service radio elsewhere in the world, but unusual to find so much good, meaty stuff on a advert-free national channel.

Around '90/'91 I remember some club under the arches in Vauxhall (long before all the arches turned into clubs), and another in that strange tower block next to the Nine Elms market. But can't for the life of me remember anything about either, except having a good time...

I too cannot tolerate adverts Asset. I couldn't listen to commercial radio at all. I#d rather listen to a pneumatic drill.

thebear, have you been to the John Lewis food hall in Oxford Street? A cheese room. A room full of cheese. My legs turn to jelly just thinking about it.

I hope that's not a case of the pox you're referring to there...

BBC 4 is a nice place to hang out.

I see that 'buggers' is not among the expletives banned on this site. Such strong language...

Loz, I had the 'canned tuna' problem too. I spent ten minutes trying to find it once, and then finally found it last time I was there. I'm not a regular visit to Sainsbury's so couldn't say when all was moved around. But the tinned fish is now at the far end, near the frozen stuff, between the bread area and the tills. And far away from many other tinned goods.

That would be great. I love my pies, and Mr Louisiana more so.

Or indeed another forum which is supposedly about music but which is made difficult by two crazed racist trolls and a born-again Trotskyist... Or the Lantra-L discussion list which is for professional translators but invariably breaks out into screaming over Arabs/Palestinians/occupied territories/born-again American Jews and all that jazz.

It's bad, and worse in summer, to be sure Morag. But in many other countries it's even worse. Italy? Spain? Three hour contest-style shows every bloomin night. No documentaries. Every film dubbed. Programme after programme modelled on Page 3 and Hello. And have you ever watched Venezuelan soap operas? And there's always the option of opting out completely: you don't have to pay if you don't have equipment that receives broadcast TV. An option I'm seriously considering myself. Though I find a Tivo box goes a long way to finding and recording what I want, meaning I never tune in to live TV.