AnotherPaul

Eda, now 6 but was then 4, asked "what is the why?"

Alan, For a compelling and intelligently presented analysis of just what it is we humans have done and are doing to the climate I highly recommend 'Field notes from a catastrophe' by Elizabeth Kolbert. You get the gist from the title, and I admit to believing climate change to be fact before reading it, but even with that said it's eye-opening, jaw dropping and thorough. To paraphrase (hugely). Normally lay folk (non-scientists) get all panicky about hard-to-grasp scientific issues. When cool headed scientists start telling you to panic then you need to pay attention. ap

http://www.oneanother.ltd.uk/i/PleaseLeave.jpg Apols. for the shonky photoshop.

Let's get this straight. The needle exchange didn't happen because it was never going to happen. The application to open a 24hr pharmacy could only be made if the owners of the pharmacy stated they were willing to run a needle exchange. Not that they were going to actually run one. As for the redevelopment, make it discreet and useful and there's no argument to be had.

Good to hear there's a redesign on the cards, it is much needed. I agree with many of the comments already made but would like to add: ? new seating throughout, inside and out, the current mish-mash looks shoddy and is uncomfortable ? better artwork on the walls, some of the art on show has been 'challenging' and the black chalk boards are neither helpful or attractive ? open earlier as well as later, cafes which make croissants should be able to sell them from 7am ? more style, less bitty decor, darker sophisticated environment Things to keep: ? Lays crisps ? friendly staff ? window seats ? milk shakes Good luck.

But Bob, they do both look like potatoes.

No.1 Ex-Assistant Commander Bob Quick

Yes to daffodils and no to selfish daffodil picking parents. That was a tough one to decide wasn't it? Calling them losers is a bit stiff though. As for climate change, Louisa caused it with all that constant fuming. She also made all ghosts with her deathly vitriol causing instant mortification, preventing passing over. So there.

Whilst standing orders and direct debits get claimed at midnight, the start of the day they're due to leave my account, I can't make transfers into that account until the staff turn up at the bank and pick up a phone. If a bank can set up it's system to claim money at midnight I'd wager it would be just as easy for it to do so at lunchtime when customers would have had time to transfer money into the account. And before anyone points out the obvious, I can be a bit forgetful but I shouldn't have to give money to a bank because of that. Grrrr etc

Did the term 'morphing', as in CGI effects where one filmed image melds into another, originate with cravat wearing Tony Hart's brown side-kick? (edited to correct spelling of cravat. not surprising i got it wrong. not a word i write often)

Out of adversity comes a gleaming business opportunity! Perception being everything Foxtons will surely snap up my life sized cut out agents mounted on wheels, made to move back and forth by battery powered pulleys. Will accept ?360m for 2% stake etc.

Or the discount afternoon at the preposterous bedroom furniture shop resulted in an Edmonton Ikea style riot.

Blackburn 0 West Ham 0 Fulham 0 Man Utd 0 Newcastle 0 Arsenal 10 Portsmouth 0 Everton 0 Stoke 0 Middlesbrough 0 Tottenham 0 Chelsea 0 West Brom 0 Bolton 0 Liverpool 0 Aston Villa 0 Man City 0 Sunderland 0 Wigan 0 Hull 0 Great. Looking forward to it.

I'd be happy to help out though I only play Gabba.

That is deep.

The sunbed's gone to Phil Brown's head.

I can hear it now, chants of "down with bad service, and "down with tat" along with whispers of "ooh, that paper clock would look lovely in the living room".

I've just looked in, glad to see this thread has got away from "is Australia a nice place?" but sadly the class war over a lifestyle shop's customer service is a little weird. And, I think we all just missed a forum first. Miss Community just said "In my opinion there are far better shops scattered around without such vile staff.. Dulwich Trader, South of the River, Celestial to name a few." A spokesperson for the much maligned tat shops has emerged from the shadows. ap (edited to remove antagonistic jibe)

Nearly rose to someone's bait there. Yawn. I'd better get off down to some new Claphamesque burger venue where the chips are a quid each.

I hate him in the following ways: ? throaty screeching in place of actual singing ? putting money in tax havens while telling everyone to help the poor ? singing the same song for 20+ years ? wearing sunglasses indoors ? acting the politician

quite well, in mirror from Mrs Robinson. oh.

I don't entirely mind the food a few times a year but the plastic toy with a battery fixed inside it, guaranteed to break in day, given out with every kids meal is really very bad behaviour. Millions of toys a week, tonnes of wasted plastic headed for landfills, forget plastic bags, McD make the supermarkets look pretty enlightened. McD are not alone in being gits, most fast food outlets are terrible shits who'd grind up their mums and stick 'em in a bun for a quid, but they are uniquely ugly - possibly because they and their rubbish get everywhere. For that reason I don't want a McD in LL. A proper diner would suit me fine though. ap

Greggs shops emit an offensive stench of processed gloop. Would rather eat my own waste. Before 'anyone' bangs on about middle class Claphamites or how sausage rolls won WW2, that's my personal opinion based on the fact my nostrils flare and my eyes smart every time I go anywhere near a Greggs. Oh, and their logo's sh!t too. ap

For those in need of formal complaints.

Mine has to be the Friday night on the NME stage, Glastonbury 1992. The Orb followed by Primal Scream. I was 19. The Orb started early evening and were all spangly spaced out joy, lasers flitting above the heads of the crowd through the smokey half-light at the end of an intensely sunny day. Their tunes all merged in one fantastic soundscape. The sun went down and I, along with the other 40,000 people in the field rose up as Primal Scream took to the stage and played - as far as I can remember - the entire Screamadelica album. The whole field was bouncing, so much laughing and dancing. I thought then that I was probably at the best gig I would ever go to. ap