david_carnell

Good stuff declan. Ive gambled on the new 17st French centre(!) to bring me some points. His silly team mate Beauxis got injured so I've plumped for ogara at 10. So, who's going to the herne tomorrow night?

Mmm good work Andy. Many thanks - seems quite poignant in its current state. And of course you are allowed to resurrect old threads - in fact, it is positively encouraged compared to starting a new one on subjects that have been covered in the past. Keep up the good work. David.

With a game tomorrow night, get changing your teams (if needed) gents.

12 year olds. And people who use the crap aunts buy them for Xmas instead of throwing it away and buying a proper anti-perspirant rather than trying to disguise b.o with shite named "safari" or "java".

Salisbury avenue? Ah, so she's just off the bypassbut very close to cheam village and the station. I don't know the road but it's a handy location and in the "right bit" of cheam. In terms of other shops in that bit, off the top of my head, there's a butcher, baker, greengrocer, offie, whsmiths, boots, and then the usual odds and sods. What sort of stuff does she want or need? If you or her have any queries drop me a PM. Hope she's happy there. David.

Ok. Relax people. Help is at hand. I was born and grew up in cheam till I moved to ED aged 25 so, for possibly the first timeever on the forum, I can speak with knowledge and authority. Cheam is divided into two. Cheam Village based around a cross roads is quite pleasant. Decent, varied housing stock and some good shops. It lacks any real high quality restaurants but has pizza express and other generic Italian, Chinese and thai joints. The truly beautiful and enormous nonsuch park is on your doorstep. Decent pubs. North Cheam (where your picture is of) is much more down market. Housing tends to be 1930s identikit. Shops are more generic cheap and cheerful. The place is blighted by a giant sainsburys and the victoria house office block due to be pulled down but currently derelict along with the units underneath. Grim pubs. If schools are a consideration then Sutton is one of the remaining boroughs with grammars and some of the comps are decent. Transport links are pretty good with Sutton station being a fairly good hub and west Sutton or cheam also nearby but smaller. In general it's all very daily mail country. White flight to the suburbs and not the friendliest of places. But in pockets some of the area is very nice. Do you know what roads your sister is looking at louisa? As a comparison it has the same changes of demographic and environment that you would experience between Dulwich village, nunhead, east Dulwich and bits of Peckham in a similar sized area. It's hard to be more exact. Hope that helps.

Satire, sarcasm and pedantry. Or manners, moustaches and tweed. I'd rather like to combine all of the above but have less hair on my upper lip than Patti Smith. I'll stick to sarcasm and tweed.

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > yes yes yes Steve schmeve and all the other > blokes > > Surely we can mention the gorgeous northern lass? Sean, if we're mentioning anyone you know who it has to be! The young lady in the Rye and her magic method for transferring halves of ale from one glass to another (and her brass rubbing!). Heh.

Mmm I may try and make it down at some point. Help-Me-Boab.... any news on ideas for this year's Barry Barry Road Race? I'm tempted to start training now if that marathon runner who won it last year is defending his title!

I'm in for both energetic(ish) bowling for the nominal CPT Touring XI and a dab of lawn bowls. Last year I seem to remember the Peckham Rye Lawn Bowls Club did some intro sessions. I'm feeling all Paul Kaye already! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v91/xxdeadmemoryxx/blackball.jpg

Great pub. Bit quiet in the day time but otherwise it's fantastic.

Just use Firefox as your browser and it spell checks for you automatically. Although weirdly, it highlights its own name as a misspelling. Otherwise I'm with giggirl on this matter. It is important, but not to the extent that it's necessary to belittle people. There are some people registered on here, however, whose prose becomes close to unintelligible due to syntax, grammar, punctuation and spelling issues. It just makes their posts hard to read and thus any salient points they might have had get lost. And the use of txt spk should stay in the domain of twelve year old field-telephone users.

Cabbage, potatoes, meat, dumplings, savoury pancakes, blood sausage. Variations thereof. It's all pretty tasty stuff but not the lightest food. Imagine what you'd want to eat in the depths of a Polish winter. It's not salad.

This week's scores are up: This Week Overall Carnell 68 158 Declan 61 145 MickMac 53 124 Paragon 55 110 Declan, you're beating me on tries scored but I've got lucky with Man of the Match awards and Beauxis' kicking game. Any of you guys watching the next round of games in ED pubs? We could meet up?

I'm a big Wire fan but can also heartily give a big "hell yeah" to the shield. It's very different though. The first two or three series are very visceral with handicam footage and action galore. It gets more political and subtle as it goes along though. Moral grey areas are the order of the day with the main characters being sympathetic one minute and appalling liberal sentiment the next. I've yet to watch all of it but latter series have forest whittaker and glenn close so it can't be bad can it!? All in all... yes. Go watch.

Purile but very funny. If only for the amount of fish-based puns. NSFW.

Bugger. I made transfers too early. Williams is out. Change people. Change.

So your dig at Revie was that he was too loyal by only achieving with one club? Pah. Clough went wherever he thought they'd bend over for him. I'd say 1970-5 Leeds were the team of the era (early 70s)....but I know 'pool fans might disagree.

All right, I'll rise to the bait. Don guided Leeds to two Football League First Division titles, one FA Cup, one League Cup, two Inter-Cities Fairs Cup titles, one Football League Second Division title and one Charity Shield. He also guided them to three more FA Cup Finals, one more Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final and one Cup Winners' Cup Final. He built the team of the era which went on to the European Cup final (under Jimmy Armfield) the season after he left despite Cloughie nearly ballsing the whole thing up. He was Manager of the Year in 1969, 1970, and 1972. That Leeds team is as good as any to have graced English football. None of the bribery allegations have ever been proven and tbh, even if he was, it seems to have been fairly routine in those days. He deserves to be alongside the pantheon of footballing greats. He took an unfashionable, lower league team and moulded it into a European giant. Leeds were mediocre before Revie. He set the benchmark. And Jah, there's no way he's the worst English manager ever. Ok, he didn't qualify for the 76 Euro Champs but he had a 48% win record. Taylor and McLaren (to name but two) were certainly worse. Venables and Keegan also had worse win stats. He just never replicated his success with England that he'd had with Leeds. Pro-Leeds rant ends.

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Then you should investigate PGC.... It's a veritable who's who of modern, independent, alternative music. And very good.

If I promise to buy a copy for one or both of you upon my employment would that redeem me?

Ah...yes.....errrm....I may have "found" a copy online.....

Dark Was The Night An amaaaazing compilation album from the 4AD record label. Profits benefit the Red Hot Organization - an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS. Artists (in alphabetical order): Andrew Bird Antony + Bryce Dessner Arcade Fire Beach House Beirut Blonde Redhead + Devastations Bon Iver Bon Iver & Aaron Dessner The Books featuring Jose Gonzalez Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti) Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues The Decemberists Dirty Projectors + David Byrne Kevin Drew Feist + Ben Gibbard Grizzly Bear Grizzly Bear + Feist Iron & Wine Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Kronos Quartet Stuart Murdoch My Brightest Diamond My Morning Jacket The National The New Pornographers Conor Oberst & Gillian Welch Riceboy Sleeps Dave Sitek (TV On The Radio) Spoon Sufjan Stevens Yeasayer Yo La Tengo Guardian review from Laura Barton here. Go buy. Now. GO!

Moos.... Being able to do something and admitting it are two different things. I suspect that when that time comes, like most men, I'll muck in and get my hands dirty (so to speak). But don't even think about giving me something with safety pins... Two holes in a baby for fluids to come from are plenty. ;-)