Ted Max

Issat so? I was four, so was more concerned with passing my Latin GSCE at the time.

Endorsed.

Snorky, quick bit of internettery reveals that God Save the Queen, June 1977, was kept off the top spot by Rod Stewart - "I don't want to talk about it".

Means nothing to me.

A mixed response, so far. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,241623

Did they? Rates @ ?1300 a month = 15.6k pa. Rent 45k pa. So rent and rates pa is 60.6k per annum. Combined Restaurant and Takeaway takings = 9.5k per week. Which = 494k per annum. Which means after rent and rates it has 433.4k per year for wages, stock, utilities, insurance etc. No?

My findings on the areas hallways are: Farrow 'n' Ball Georgian Duck Egg has been usurped recently by Designer's Guild Aged Sage for the walls. Antique white still very much in vogue for woodwork and any decorative plasterwork. Granny's coat and umbrella stand gets an outing in most 499k+ properties. At ?650+ her mirror over occasional table set comes out of storage as well. Those people that have to buy their own furniture usually invest in one of those distressed white mirrors from Northcross road, at this point. Sub 420k it's IKEA coathooks leaning out of the crumbling plasterwork under the strain of a family's worth of winter clothing.

I found the poltical and music ones a bit complicated. But this one makes sense.

I've been getting a good look at most of my fantasy homes in the area by peeking through letterboxes. I'm stunned how few hallways have both original flooring and cornicing retained. I think the owners are ashamed too because they rarely seem pleased by my interest.

(Very good, AnotherPaul)

Scots drink less than the English. Says a Scottish "newspaper". "the report's author, Eileen Goddard, warned that the people surveyed might have lied about the extent of their boozing" No shit, Eileen.

It was her Mum that had insisted she sign up. All the young ones were going, she said. That Mike, for instance. It'd be good for her. Sitting at home with your butterflies all day, that's no way to get a man. Inside her handbag Tina's chocolate bar, stored against an emergency, is already melting.

this isn't going to work out, is it?

These questions are all as yet undecided. It is up to you.

The bus is parked outside the company buildings already. Mike and Ray, sharp-suited and booted, are discussing how to smuggle their crate of ale on board without the driver noticing. The other workers, arriving in their drab work clothes, josh with the day-trippers, longing for some of that good humour to rub off on them through the morning's grind. The driver rests his eyes, reclining in the first seats behind his cab, as if summoning his strength for the battles ahead. (EDIT: Anyone else up for the ride?)

At breakfast, Reg checks and re-checks the crisp, unfamiliar notes that lie in his wallet. He will leave little to chance today. Maureen has bought a new lipstick and wonders, as she applies it for the first of many times this morning, if it would be too forward to sit towards the back half of the bus. If only Ena wasn't such a wet blanket.

The bus has been booked for weeks. On the company noticeboard is a sheet of paper which bears the legend: Summer Jolly - Sign Up or Miss Out. Using the pencil provided, 35 names have been scratched below the heading, some with amusing comments added. The News Shopper's weather column has promised, and delivered, the fairest of mid-summer mornings. Eggs have been hard boiled; sandwiches wrapped; large flasks filled with tea, small ones with Scotch. Sign up, then, for the works jolly. There's plenty of room for all.

Oh you're watching that now, I thought you were watching that other thing. I am, it's the ads, I'm just flicking over. It really annoys me that you can't watch something without flicking over all the time. I am watching it. *Silence* Are you going to bed soon? You look tired, perhaps an early night. *Turns back to Ice Road Truckers. Decides La Notte can wait for another day.*

Recording Crimewatch is very useful - especially if you run a small jewellers in a mid-sized market town, get a lot of roofing repairs done, and have the horn for Matthew Amroliwala.

Swan's wing thing was never outright explained, reenie. There's more to come on that story though, in ep 3. Who knows, they may bother to tie all these things together or it may stay the disassociated nightmare-scape that it is at the moment.

In practical terms only voters in swing / marginal seat have any impact on the election result and they are the ones that must consider most carefully. Cameron should go for his own version of the 50 state policy. The actual hatred of Brown really shocks me. But I don't deny it's a real phenomenon in much of England and I really think the Tories could blow many strong Labour leads wide open at the election. The bonus of this is that it may help them to think about the whole country, and policies for them, rather than which policies will appeal to the 5000 swithering middle-grounders in 20 "key" constituencies. Idealist, me? Not much.

I don't know anyone who posts here, as far as I'm aware, and am in no clique as far as I'm aware, but I do get annoyed by Tony's ability to make so many threads about himself. There's a neediness that manifests itself when he is disagreed with - and a consistent special pleading on his background. I know more about his life than my own, at the moment. No doubt he'll say it's not his doing, but if he wasn't spoiling for a fight on this thread then I've got comprehension issues. Marmora Man, I'm reasonably close to some of the output of the CSJ - some decent proposals but an awful lot of failed old Tory thinking in there as well. I appreciate the tactical value to the C&P Tories of having one of the apparent good guys (Stranack) on their side - but the fact that he's so different from the usual Party fodder highlights a problem, doesn't it, with the Party at large? Which opens up another discussion - should we vote for local candidates, or on a party basis?

The second episode was much more evenly paced, which helped. And it had Paddy Considine and Maxine Peak in it, which always helps. But I think for any of it to really tie up the third episode is going to be crucial. The problem with the first was that originally they were going to make four episodes, not three, but ran out of money and ended up eliding a lot of the material into one episode, including some composite characters. This meant we had a lot of atmospheric scene setting, with the action distilled into a mad final 10 minutes. I think that's why it felt so wrong.

I understood what you were getting at. Sheesh.

Nicely tucked away, Matthew. Harder to miss, though, wasn't it?