Ted Max

AllyCat, I suspect you mean Platform 1 - the one nearest the church? Platform 4 is for the Dartford/ Sevenoaks services.

To read your views anybody would think you have a monoply on reasoned argument. I like this bit.

Sets watch

Tsk, don't listen to the Penguin, kids. These are Dinosaur Trees.

There are ginkgo trees at the Oglander Rd end of Ady's Road. I have never noticed these before. Impress children of all ages by telling them these are the actual trees that Dinosaurs would have scratched their 'arrises on.

I see what you mean, Sean.

I read your post again. I'm suggesting some improvements that would have saved you the bother... "E.S magazine, for those that don't know, is a light but enjoyable journey into high society, a lighter version of the Sunday times glossies complete toss. The end."

Hello Sean. Have you been held in a secure facility for the duration of the Elections?

You fancy her a little bit don't you?

Can you read? (EDIT: Aimed at Snorky)

Cheers.

It's a film. With a prison theme.

I've had a couple so I've no idea if that's a total doddle or completely obtuse.

OK. My tiny hand is not exactly frozen. I pay a high price for my lack of respect for parking enforcement, despite numerous attempts to avoid doing so.

Long haired lover from Liverpool.

I'm amazed none of you has noticed that both people in the main picture are me. If I wipe the lippy off and take the extensions out, I can pass for a 23 year old youth pastor. It's my forceful chin. There was once a Minister who noticed that he never met me and my husband together. He's still on the FBI's missing files.

I like www.tedmax.com. I think I look good (I'm the one on the left). Here's Dad Theodore.

Thanks for the tip, Lenk. Yet a chap tries his best, and is still rejected. I think perhaps I am not cut out for the country set. http://www.country-outdoor-clothing.co.uk/mofcart/begreen-tweed-shooting-suit.jpg

(it was Alan Clark about Hezza, saying he was the sort of man who had to buy his own furniture. This betrayed only Clark's own insecurity, of course.) Moos, I have worked hard on my vowels, and remember to say What and not Pardon, and have, through years of painstaking private tuition, become a passable shot. Yet my monogrammed Links of London hip flask never fails to provoke a sneer, despite the Countryside Alliance sticker in the back of the X5.

Although last time I went to Malvern, all the locals seemed to be wearing supermarket jeans and hooded tops, and seemed quite taken aback by my mint-crisp tweed two-piece, flat hat and sturdy brown brogues. They all seemed to know I was from London though, despite my efforts to blend in, and were keen to advise me that I should not delay in returning to the Great Wen.

Somewhere to stock up before weekend trips to the country would be nice. Shooting sticks and waistcoats, tweeds, Coats Viyella shirts - that kind of thing.

Humanity is wasted on humanity. Apart from me. I am wasted on a couple of dry sherries.

See here.

Forgive me if I leaven the po-faced seriousness of the debate with a little light arsing about. 12 years out of date, eh? Even so, my point was not really about the social background, just the utter sterility of a campaign based on "the only viable alternative". I'm not a Labour supporter so can't really answer the rest of your questions. I quite liked the extra funding to schools though, for one, and know that many in education know it has made a difference, even to something as core as having buildings fit for purpose. Your language about primary schools is untypically disingenuous. "How very poor the vast range of primary schools are" ... what a load of tosh. Using a spike in local demographics to paint the sector as failing? Poor. Especially when the vast majority of local parents would accept a place in any of the local schools and the stated objections on this board to other schools has been about travelling 45 minutes in the morning - not their quality. You've done the Stranack v Harman background thing before (at least twice). Perhaps using the very fact of his background as a debating point might reduce you to student union debating level. I'm not sure, but you seem to be the best judge of that. You've also done the CfSJ thing before and they are not a Conservative Party organisation. Many of their policies have been adopted by Labour, and quite a few more by the Tories. Some of them are wrong-headed.

Mother is listening to an old Johnnie Ray disc whilst pressing collars and cuffs for the morning. The door clicks shut and he hangs his hat and coat in the hall. The younger children pretend to be asleep in their shared room upstairs - they won't settle down properly until he takes his place in the bottom bunk. He takes a plate out from under a low grill and eats the two curling sausages with his hands, discarding the rest of his mother's efforts. He walks out of the back door and lights a cigarette. He can hear his father's snoring through the open window above his head. The eternal defeat of his return home spirals into the sky on the blue-grey smoke, and disappears.