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Well I like cakes, arts and crafts and shopping. I'm not renowned for my taste in fashion. Can boys come too?

11th is considerable magic. Mockney - what date's the FA Trophy? Do we have a clash? :'(

Now that sounds like an excellent idea! Can we talk to some business angels?

:)) Don't fancy them much then Snorks?

Hi Kat, you may have trouble with the planners if it's an additional restaurant. There's a fixed split on types of outlets on LL, so if you're replacing a previous food outlet you may be okay. You should probably check on this before advancing your plans too far! BTW I love Vietnamese cooking, it's by far the best APac fod for me!

Great idea Andrew! Isn't Sean the next man with the mission?

It all becomes clear here

Hurrah! Welcome in Emma!

What were they lying about? ::o

Someone should propose to run this as a spin off from the Barry Road car sales house so you don't have to hire shop space. It'd be a pretty effective saturday only service I reckon?

Hi King Tubby - were you there? Myself, mockney and Mark came in a roaring third place after a disastrous start!

I hold Bumbalina's hand all the time 'cos it keeps me upright :))

No Bobby P, it's not the case - although it would support an anti-cpz campaign if it were (and I'd support it too). I live on Crawthew Grove, and 80% of the cars parked in the immediate vicinity are not resident's cars - and a lot of the houses are converted to flats. Even in the evening between 7pm and 8pm there's a roar of vehicles as the daily commuters are replaced by the idle boogers who drive down the pub and then leave the car there for three days before picking it up ;-) If as you say it's not out of areas shoppers during the day then it's simply people driving twenty yards to the shops. Regulars will know that I don't own a car, so I'm not pro CPZ for my own benefit - I'm pro anything that makes people aware of how selfish behaviour impacts in the medium and long term on both our environment (immediate vicinity) and environment (kid's inheritance). BTW did you know that the bloke who runs the dry cleaners at the norht end of LL runs an ?80k car? ;-)

*wow!* *wonders who's going to get the dustpan and brush out*

Paul Theroux! My dreamboat....:))

Ah, bad luck. We had our tomatoes and mange-tout out two weeks ago, and they've gone mental. We've moved them into containers this year because of the blasted snails, and the coup de gras is intended to be copper tape around the base - although I'm not convinced anyone's invented this yet. I'm sure the cat poo is nutricious, it's just a bitch to get out from your finger nails.

That's dedication Polly D - one for each eye!

Jah Lush, no punch line on Dickens vs. Eastenders! I was once told that he wrote his books as episodes for weekly magazines, for young Victorian mums to vicariously live their lives through.. in much the same way that the role is filled by Eastenders now. Apparently it accounts for the slightly formulaic feel to his narrative, and those endless decriptions about the weather reflecting the emotional state of the protagonists.

I'm currently in Kentish Town, which is suprising swift by Thameslink (Tulse Hill, Herne Hill). Fastest journey yet was a Mockney recommendation: 5.41 left office, 5.46 Kentish Town, 18.00 Blackfriars, 18.12 Denmark Hill, 18.17 LL. Total journey 36 mins Speedy eh?

It sounds more like your friend is trying to create a list (e.g. shop contents) or something and wants people to be able to look up what she's put in the database? Is that right?

Ineed, all good worthy stuff. I remember the dark corner of my education that they populated! :)) Did you ever consider the relationship between Dickens and Eastenders?

The white snazzer was designed by / belongs to Richard Dudzicki of architects RDA Associates. His offices are behind the house. Apart from being a bundle of warm biking ginger love, he also did our house for us on Crawthew Grove (soon to go on t'market if your interested). I did take the p1$s though, as he explained that he came back from his partnership doing tower blocks in Hong Kong because he was fed up with designing one box to go ont top of another... ;-)

Hmmm, and does our favourite horse speak from insider knowledge, conviction or motivation? ::o

I do reckon the 'quote message' option is at best redundant and at worst abused. It's not great to look at, and tends to hold-up the flow of a thread. At worst it tends to be used by people methodically, pedantically (and occassionally personally) attacking a particular post, rather than the spirit of the debate. When posting is thriving, it's easy to start your post with .. 'Good point, xxx' or 'XXX, on mentioning...' which achieves the same thing without making the unappealing stuff so easy to execute. What do peeps think?

Just finished that Iain Banks. The ending was a little wet. Bloody updated Greek tragedies.