louisiana

bigbadwolf Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's not just the fact that the bread isn't baked > properly it's the fact that the manager thought > otherwise and tried to get out of replacing them. > I then took a fistfull of 'dough' and asked her to > eat it. Good stuff. Wish I had been a fly on the wall. Then I could have laid some eggs in the dough :-S Sainsburys FH feels like a mausoleum, in any case. Can't stand the place.

dannevirke I hate to say it, but these days I almost take it as given that a politician will attempt to line his or her own pockets (no doubt keeping within the letter of the law, but perhaps not the spirit). Looking back, I certainly didn't feel that way 15 years ago... Perhaps I was naive. A couple of years ago, I asked a friend of mine who has spent a fair amount of time with many MPs over the years, which MPs he would trust (following the departure of an MP we both felt was one of the good guys). He gave me one name.

andymat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Statistically you're more likely to be hit by a > bus. As I understand it, around 5 people are injured by bendy buses each month, and around 2 people by non-bendy buses. Making perhaps 7-8 total per month, or 84-96 per year. (Those are the last figures I have, from 2007, from TfL via the LibDems). Around 155 people are murdered each year in London (according to the Met website). andymat, where do you get your data from?

Crikey, on the Brockley one, I nearly went down Brockill Crescent late yesterday afternoon - knifing happened at 5-ish yesterday - as I'd been to Sid's Plumbing to buy some radiator valves. But I looked at the map and couldn't be arsed to walk up to Brockley BR and then down the other side, and there's no other way to cross the railway, so I went south instead. And now this one today, two streets away from me. In each case, it looks like an individual was targeted.

PR, so the NHS/PCT use a commercial Web survey (Snap Surveys) to collate complaints? Not something on their many own websites? Or was that a - double - slip on your keyboard? I'd advise anyone not to input any personal health info on a third party site that has no clear relationship to the helth service/PCT/PALS.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Get real people, she's a journalist, they tend to > be lazy and write crap...albeit sometimes > eloquently. I can't help giggling at the outrage > at this piece, just because it's saying SE22 is > SE15 No, because she doesn't get off her actual arse to do any actual journalism. That was my point. The SE15/SE22 thing was merely a by-product of her general laziness. compared to lack of comment on the acres of > newsprint everyday that are wrong, bad and often > dangerous...... Oh, don't get me going. I've done pieces myself that were slaughtered by the so-called night editor (Mr Clueless) that still (years later) have not been corrected online by the relevant - self-same - publication.

TonyQuinn Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Armed policemen, sniffer dogs, road blocked off. > Just spoke to a policeman and he told me there had > been a shooting. There was a shooting. It's even been on Radio 4.

matthew, mice can get anywhere. They scampered around the 3rd floor of Sapient (design agency, former bank building in the City) at all hours. They were like the elephant in the room. You'd be in the middle of a meeting in the middle of the afternoon, and hey presto: mice! They just love old buildings too. The men from the council have told me that the best thing for mice is to stop up every possible hole (anything larger than a pencil!) with wire wool. It's cheap, from the DIY or hardware shop. And effective: mice don't get through it.

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What snotty comments from Carole Cadwalladr > indeed. > > I can't think of two neighbours who are nearly as > geographically, economically, culturally and > postally as different as ED and Peckham. > Historically, apart from proximity there's little > that links the two towns. > > I'm sure than many Peckham residents will be > disturbed to be associated with such a den of > iniquity. There is a tongue so firmly in its cheek here, huge-nut

The Guardian pays such crap rates for 'journalism' that who would get out of bed for it? Certainly not Marina Hyde (guilty in the past of snaffling stuff from blogs without acknowledgement; she could be good but she can be lazy) or Carole Cadwalladr.

As a Forest Hill Road patient, I have added my name to the petition and have also written to Daniel Marshell. However, as someone repeatedly affected by this (I'm currently in recurring 'hospital-can-nver-get-my-address-or-GP-right' hell) I would like to take more direct action to embarrass the practice, as they clearly take no notice of anything else. Any other FHR practice patients who would like to join me?

That'll be the 'HH for PM' tour

Yes, apparently, according to the tedious and predictable Carole Cadwalladr, East Dulwich (SE22) is in Peckham (SE15). She has to use this argument as she never bothered to get out of bed and doorstep those shabby neighbours of Jacqui's on Ivydale Rd. She consequently needed some way of using EDF comments to represent what 'the neighbours' might say, as it were. Ha ha. Since when has quoting ED Forum anon. comments been a legitimate placeholder for actually talking to anybody? This is vaguely acceptable on a local rag with few resources (South London Stress...), but not on a national newspaper. Unless you're The Sun. And then they, 'journalists', and the mainstream press, go on about how bloggers 'don't do research' etc. etc., and are so unreliable. I do wish so-called journalists would get off their fat arses and get back to actually finding out something most people don't already know; from primary sources. In contrast, I was quite impressed by the amount of actual local leg-work that went into the first edition of Southwark News - Dulwich & Herne Hill Edition.

I vote we all go to F*xt*ns, get some drinks out of the fridges, and party. There's so much space in there these days: last Sat there were three members of staff and two prospective customers (together). Or perhaps we could hold a mock Dutch auction for... F*xt*ns!

Haven't lost mine, despite trying many times. It might provide a good excuse of the 'dog ate my homework' variety.

What about our esteemed local MP and her wayward 'estranged' hubby? Ah, I was forgetting: she doesn't live here.

So the mortgage was in her name. Did she hand the money back? Or give it to charity? It's he least I would expect. After all, it's the proceeds of corruption.

Is Iran the new Godwin's? :) It sounds like you've got a bee in your bonnet... And if you re-read what I said, I did not suggest she was responsible for everything. I said it seemed like her mission to achieve this. There are many other ministers and ministries equally culpable. Just take a look at yesterday's angry response by the normally extremely staid British Computer Society to the Coroners and Justice Bill ('risible', 'draconian', 'potentially dangerous'). Or indeed the BMA's response to same. Or the demo by professional photographers this morning outside New Scotland Yard...

Massively snitchy, but JS deserves all she gets. This is the woman whose aim in life seems to be to pass dozens of laws to turn Britain into spy-on-your-private-life HQ. Touche.

miffy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Okay I am a huge supporter of East Dulwich, > because after all it is the centre of the > universe, but even I am struggling as a single > approaching 40 female, If you think it's bad, wait until you are approaching 50s :)

There was water gushing out again on LL this morning 7.45am (S of Barry Road junction). Bit of a major brook coming out from various points under pavement. You could almost imagine you were in the middle of Wales somewhere if not for the trucks thundering by. May be connected, may not. The bus stop continues shut with all the rest of the water works along this stretch. East Dulwich: A River Runs Through It.

TJMP Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BARA Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > The 12's and 40 normally terminate at Etherow > Street. This street and Friern Road is not being > used > > as still thick sheet of ice and traffic is > avoiding the area. Hence 40s terminating at Goose > Green > > Tessa has raised this with Southwark as not > gritting a 'minor' road has, in this case, had a > wider impact and meant that bus passengers are > having to walk from Goose Green to the Plough. > And beyond. Some of us get the 12 or 40 and then walk the 'last stretch' up the hill (from the Plough/library)....

Nothing on Mount Adon Park since last week.

Same here, the safest bits are where there are still 8 inches of snow, uncompacted, uncleared. The treacherous bits are the expanses of ice and/or compacted snow. The ice is often just where there was nothing but a bit of water on the surface when the temparature fell last night. This morning I went down my hill by clutching fences, walls etc, really slowly, skidding all over the place where people had tried to clear. Now I've just watched someone in the next road (which I look down on) practically on all fours trying to get out into the road without falling over on compacted and 'cleared' snow/ice. The snow is much easier.

Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > zephyr Wrote: > > Sometimes > > however Ocado has been up to ?8 more expensive > (on > > a ?120 shop) > > > My wife did a shop tonight online and checked it > on MYSUPERMARKET which pricechecks the same items > across Ocado/Tesco/Sainsbury/asda. The total price > was as follows: > Ocado ?126 > Tesco ?109 > Asda ?108 > Sainsbury ?100 > > I have always believed Ocado were significantly > more expensive so it might be worth doing this > check on your weekly shop and seeing if these > results are borne out. > Its only some items that are tesco price checked - > probably a merketing ploy as they know they are > more expensive and want to divert criticism on > price. > Having said that their product quality and > customer service is second to none and some would > think worth paying the extra for. They have a cheery crew of delivery people who are always well informed etc. They always call my mobile to say when they are arriving They never muck me around over delivery times They hardly ever substitute They stock stuff that I love and that other people don't have (e.g. Waitrose luxury lemon curd - the best!) They never quibble about any - very rare - returns (twice in three years?) They have always - since day one - been improving their service And finally, I never have to *worry* about the delivery (and I have far too many other things too worry about). It's like wash n' go, but for food. If I have to pay a few quid extra for that, I really don't mind. Paying five or ten quid less to get a whole bag of hassle and grief that will make me run around in circles for hours (I don't have the time!) is really not worth it. Sometimes a bargain is really not a bargain: it's another way of saying 'you do our work for us'.