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Oh ye of little imagination ;-)

Bah! We shouldn't be outdone by SE5, the pretentious buggers. Can we see that one where Catherine Deneuve plays a bored housewife (read ED yummy mummy) who goes on the game to see how the other half lives? Belle de Jour I think it was...

Well this being my business an' all... The biggest challenge with ED wouldn't be the right brand, but how many people would get to see the message. If you just wanted to get a message to the residents, you could probably put up some temporary bunting for not much more than a couple of grand. At that price Foxton's would probably take it. The killer execution would have to generate media coverage - maybe a couple of dailies and London tonight. Remember the village in dorset that banned plastic bags?? For that you'd need someone for whom the local community embodied the aspirational character of the community as perceived by outsiders - it wouldn't need to be an accurate relection. So Audi wouldn't work on it's own, but I'd pitch for a three week period for a hydrogen powered Audi A3. Audi would bid for residents within the SE22 area to give up their cars for a week, and replace them instead with free use of a mini fleet of say 10 eco friendly sample vehicles. They'd pay 150k for the poster coverage across the 3 weeks, with the central week having the sponsored no-drive. They'd also offer 500 quid for each household that gave up car use for the week to be paid to an environmental charity of our choice. The 150k would go to the removal of all parking spaces on upper LL, and additional disabled spaces outside Somerfield ;-)

Chortle! An execeptional contribution from Louisa! I can imagine you letting the wheelchair tyres down when they're at the cashpoint because they take up too much of the pavement...! I did hear rumours about naughty things afoot with disabled badges, and more than once I've asked people what exactly is wrong with them as they dance out of their permit-carrying car in the disabled slots.

Rabbits get stolen for dog bait? I'm flabberghasted... I had a pet rabbit imaginatively called 'hoppy', which disappeared despite substantial work on a roof to his run. I've convinced myself that a fox got him, and that it was mercifully quick. The idea that some some baboon with a dog called 'killer' paid him a visit is heartbreaking. Dogs, what can I say....? ;-) Heh heh heh...

Good God, passive snuffing is now an issue?

Interesting reading... East Dulwich Crime Rates vs. London

Wow Ant, that's a lovely pic!

Ha ha, spot on - can I quote you? ;-)

Golly, that's four plugs for beer in the evening in less than 10 minutes. What gives? It's not polite to just spam you know ;-)

Did the build cost include the land cost?

This is bound for the lounge. What, I wonder, would be the advantage to our hirsute friend of coaxing the rabbit into the light? Where, for that matter, did the light come from? How, also, did your pugnacious daughter manager to get the gonad shot in? Having recreated the scene of the crime (with parsnip instead of carrot and ashtray instead of lop eared bunny), I note that the 'coaxing' invoked a stoop that left my privates well protected. You should pursue little jenny further on this: ask for a general description and then press on detail. Was it the left or the right foot? Was it a roundhouse spang, or a toepoke? What was the criminal's demeanour? His response? We're looking for inconsistencies and inaccuracies that may reveal the entire story to be a house of cards. It may be that this story has been fabricated for attention, a sort of lapine Munchausens. My suspicion is that under cross examination she will crumble and reveal, apologetically, that there were two attackers.

Lol Nope, quite happy baiting the Japanese, and don't even get me started on the French. ;-) It's a playground thing. I'm not picking on the little guy, I'm picking on the bully.

Well, quite JC, and I agree with the ban. However that's my point: it just 'seems obvious'. There isn't any research that proves that passive smoking is any more lethal than farts or red cushions. The research covers children growing up in closed households in the fifties and sixties with parents who enjoyed eighty a day habits on capstan full strength. That's like saying you shouldn't drink water because people drown in oceans. It's not safe to assume that small doses are a slow death alternative to the big brother. The pick-me-up in tonic water is (after all) a low dose of the lethal poison quinine. Experience tells me that people who don't like the smell of smoke are perfectly prepared to believe that smoke is a murderous posion chewing away at their very existence. Once one believes that, the emoptional response can drive behaviour quite out of proportion with the threat, making pubs quite intolerable at smoke levels that are negligible. It's like the monster in the closet - it doesn't need to be real to be terrifying. For me though, they're currently in the same cabinet as those who believe that mobile phones boil your brain and wifi stunts your growth. Plausible but unproven. I support the ban because it'll stop me smoking ;-)

No, JC, I've no doubt that smoke is bad all round, although I can't speak for others. It's always been a question of proportionality for me, I find the righteous rage of the anti smoking brigade to be quite out of proportion with any documented threat. I've had people walk up to me in pubs when I'd sparked up and launch such verbal and emotional assaults that you'd think I punched them in the face. As I've said I believe the anti-smoking legislation targets the health of smokers, but lacks traction from a direct attack. The ideas of passive smoking and workers rights are much more emotive concepts that engage social pressure and talk about 'giving' rights to non-smokers rather than 'taking' them from smokers. The case for the danger of passive smoking in a public environment has never been made because it didn't need to be, the underlying belief was there and it only needed a little push. I'm not impressed by politicians that win such easy battles. My conviction is that there are much larger issues that need to be addressed which will have a considerably better impact on the health of the nation: private vehicles, energy policy, resource management. Nobody's tackling these issues...

'Happiness is a rectilinear kitten' I'll buy a pint this evening to anyone for can correctly source the quote ;-)

That's extraordinary. I did hear say, but can no longer trace the source, that 90% of americans with a school leaving age over 16 (16 that is) vote democrat. This means that Republicans not only rule the planet, they also struggle to spell. I can imagine post-it notes littering their houses saying 'now breathe' On the subject of baiting yanks, it was explained to me in SA that the government ministers celebrating lemons and stinging nettles as a cure for AIDS didn't believe it themselves, but needed to steer the public away from a clamour for highly priced foreign pharmaceuticals. The alternative consequences would be that their grandchildern's granchildren would still be begging at the knee for debt relief from deranged southern big-pharma neo cons who attached a return to slavery as a condition on a waiver. The clear point is that at least 40m people would rather be dead than american. A better way to bait a yank has yet to be found.

The pope told me

...still believe that the sun goes around the earth. Just to wind Sean M up of course... ;-) Reminds of the fat sweating thirteen year old american prat who disturbed me by braying loudly in a Cape Town museum (just the other day). He opined loudly that amercians needed to teach the world a lesson because they were stoopid enough to describe fossils as a million years old when the world was only created 6,000 years ago. Probably by an american. Does anyone else play that fun game where you ask someone from over the pond to name an american invention?

Most of the houses in ED were built between 1875 and 1885 although there are Georgian exceptions near LL. I think the first census reports of residents in the Gardens were 1881, so that would put you at the ealy end of that phase. 1870-1880 would be a pretty good decade to choose.

Pah! 'Tis cheap to slag off the incumbent with 'hopefully their last days', but I don't see anyone coming up with a bright alternative. MP can you even name the representatives of the erstwhile opposition, and do you intend to vote for them? No checking on t'interweb...

Hmmm... F. turn all your appliances off at the plug when leaving for work time and then check once more when you get home. That means telly et al. You'd be surprised how much energy stand-by mode absorbs. If you've still got high scores let us know?

Are you sure she didn't last stay in 1928?

Hmph. Pudding. My recall of passive smoking arguments were that they relied unreasonably on twenty year histories of children living within closed door environments. The consequences were extrapolated pro-rata to establish a threat to all individuals (mainly adult) in open door occasional encounters. The legislation is based on health and safety at work. There are plenty of adult employment environments where the risks exceed those created by smoke that haven't been targeted by simlar legislation. Mining etc. Despite my casual commitment to a tab, I support such tendentious weapons to prevent me engaging in such a self destructive habit. If they said they were doing it for me I'd have cried self-determination, and in twenty years I'd be choking on emphysema. So damn you all, and cheers! :))

I get this with crossword puzzles, I may be thunking too deep. Heinz canned vegetables - is that all?