Ted Max

Modern extractor fans and they change the cooking oil/ fat occasionally. Or is it all the new money inside you can smell?

the guy can charge triple the price for the same product you can get down the road for half the price! I'm trying to work this one out, but it keeps beating me. Perhaps you can do the maths for me in diagram form. Seacow has had fresh fish for sale from its counter since it opened . When it first opened the equipment was brand new, the oil very very hot and the quality was superb. I think some of the attention to detail has gone and would agree with a general lessening of quality - cardboard chips especially. The premium price is by and large because you are buying fish that is as fresh as you can buy (in central London) - not fish that has either been long term frozen or vaccuum packed.

Preferably four at lunch when you're "nipping out for supplies". And four more after knocking off at 3:30 on your way to the evening job you're squeezing in cash in hand when the contractor's not looking.

This thread has been man-bagged.

Aye, but we're talking about shacking it up on Peckham Rye, not ED. The ticket hall's not a bad location - just needs someone who will serve coffee that doesn't taste like its been made from the grounds filtered out of my washing up bowl.

Sips in PRS (=Peckham Rye Station TLA) Spits, more like. I'd rather have a cup of instant and leery smile from the lasses in Jenny's Cafe.

Kate Fox in "Watching the English" says that estate agents are so hated because they break several taboos in our culture, the chief ones being around breaking our privacy rules (they come into your house and snoop around, judging your taste and lifestyle) and money (they tend to know exactly how much you're worth). This helps to explain, she says, the almost univeral disregard for the people that do the job.

Quiet right Officer. Murmuring nicely now, aren't we Bob?

Yes it does. Perhaps better to object then on the grounds of the educational value to the students, and working environment of the teachers, than on the usual pres-the-button parking/ traffic/ naughty schoolkids angles. (and to be fair you have done the former, too, I'm not unaware) (EDIT. "Not unaware = "aware". Sorry, forgot I'm not being paid by the word!)

Whipping up quite a scare story, aren't you Bob? School run pickings on Northcross Road indeed. (this in reference to your post on the Piermont Green thread) I like the idea of a spanking new school. Can't see why a nondescript Victorian building needs to be saved - perhaps its fascia if it is deemed noteworthy in some way. Building will occupy present site only. Perhaps if there are parking/ traffic problems there are other ways round that than denying the community a school, or imposing only a small one on it.

Seen this car a few times now on CPR (TLA for Crystal Palace Road) - a Land Rover with a large Union Flag and Skull&Crossbones flying from the roof, driven by a gentleman of mature appearance and always pumping out some heavy choons. Anyone know who this is?

What do you think she'll do if she's let in!? Mrs Ted did let her in. What she did was take a seat in the kitchen and plead for money until I turned up. Unless she was casing the house's security or planning to take something when our backs were turned, I'd say her plan is merely to plead for money - presumably some people must help her out or she wouldn't bother.

Brilliant. I'll bring some cheese and olives from the EDD.

Mrs Ted (being of kind and tender heart) has just let someone in claiming she'd been locked out of her house and needed ?60 for a locksmith. I heard what was going on (working upstairs) and remembering this thread went down and gently suggested that she should call the police if she were locked out, as they'd surely help her. This got her moving towards the door but she seemed v plausible, gave an actual address she said she'd been locked out of and said she'd leave her mobile behind as security if we gave her the ?60. (she also said she'd accompany us to a nearby cashpoint if we didn't have any cash in the house, which seemed less meek!) We're in Maxted Road, if you haven't guessed from my username. Hoping I did the right thing.

You can get onto the A3 at Raynes Park if you follow a route out through West Norwood, Streatham Vale, Mitcham Common, Morden. It doesn't sound the quickest (and it isn't) but at heavy traffic times on the south circ it avoids all the Wandsworth malarkey. Another slightly easier way might be to go C*****m South, down through Wandsworth Common through Earlsfield and Wimbledon and pick the A3 up there. Sounds a bit like the Southfields idea. Wandsworth Common can be busy too, though. Have you thought about a helicopter?

I know the one you mean - lump of granite isn't it, or similar? There's also a fountain (non-drinking) in the formal garden, which spouted for a short while, but doesn't seem to have done so recently. If the money is for something other than general tarting-up, there's the sad-looking community centre on Darrell Road, threatened with some kind of closure a couple of years ago, houses (or used to) a youth club called something like Post Box, and has an after school club. That could certainly do with some funding. Bawdy-Nan, did you have any specific events in mind for your sports day?

He can ride a bike, CWALD, I think that's pretty impressive for a dog.

I used to fight, and loved scaring the crap out of posh kids, cos they tried to look down on me.

ChavWIALD, are you a bit inept with a spray can?

Scottish/ English hybrid, whatever that means. Crraig and Charrlie Proclaimer have agreat take on all this stuff in Scotland's Story

Mr/ Mrs Hoopers - if you are reading this - I like what you've done and hope there is a future for you. Why don't you paint the outside, though, after Brad did such a good, sensitive job on the interior? And you could give the day-glo sheets of paper tacked in the window a miss too. It looks a bit... temporary... if you know what I mean.

It's confusing if you insist on calling things by their old names, Macroban. :)

I had a terrific night out last week. Started in SE22 and moved on to The Foresters, before finishing off in the Hamlet Inn.

Yep, Mrs Max takes the 176 and allows an hour for that exact journey. Hope you enjoy ED, David.

Let's look at the evidence. Someone called Jake, an Arsenal fan with a shaky grip of the meaning of the CND symbol - and has never used a spray can before. I suggest we start with the junior sixth art class at Alleyn's school and see where that takes us.