david_carnell

I still have his pads from last time so he might turn up just to get those back! I have a colleague who lives on Green Dale who is decent and might be up for a trundle. His 11 year old son has had trials for Surrey so might provide a "if they're good enough they're old enough" youthful vibe to the team. Floating Onion for wicket keeper again?

Piers - you're in. Three.

Well, I'd play too. So that's two. I guess this is now a call for volunteers.....

Ah yes: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,104775,127584#msg-127584

A Crystal Palace Tavern (RIP) touring XI made up of various forum members once formed for a one-off match against a team of journos from the South London Press. The standard was....agricultural. One forum member, legally registered blind, managed to take three wickets in a spell of spin bowling unseen since Murali stepped down. I'm trying to see if I can find details somewhere online or in the archive.... Not sure we could muster a team again?

Just coming to the end of series one. Pretty good though I understand it gets better and better in the latter series?

Line-out, not throw-in. You can now be adopted by the rugby fraternity. And USA are pretty useful at the 7 a-side variety of rugby. You've got the world's quickest player, Carlin Isles, and you can see him make everyone else look silly here:

Annette Curtain Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Second to last is David Carnell, to a tee. An outrageous slur. Maybe. Yeah, I occasionally rock a toned down version of this with Dee Woffaz's "Young Fogey" tweed/brogues things thrown in for good measure. But as *Bob* says, it's this or chinos and pastel t-shirts. And I couldn't grow a beard if my life depended on it. I like the following description: Like some kind of next-generation emo skateboarder who entered adulthood vaguely aware that his masculinity was missing, the Urban Woodsman is the resultant placebo effect - an ineffectual imitation of the real thing. While facial hair and plaid are great short-cuts, he may also pay lip service to the simple life - cafe talk about one day owning a farm or maybe getting a chicken - but no amount of faux-redneck homesteader-styled beard bands on ye olde iPod is going to change the fact that he wouldn't even know how to change a tire on a car, let alone build a super cool smokehouse. Perhaps a distant, more now-baby cousin of the Mid-Afternoon Rambler, this city-dwelling play-actor now finds an entire world springing up around him to provide a stage and to support the illusion. Knick-knack shops sell branches and enamel camping ware, reclaimed barn wood and scratchy blankets. Bars, cafes and restaurants approximate rumpus rooms and log cabins, lifestyle magazines are encrusted with plywood and taxidermy, while the net slops over with all manner of preciously rustic how-to hominess, from pot pies to chicken coops. The Urban Woodsman probably digs that whole Amish scene - it's so DIY. Now insert some palaver about a subconscious response to the opressively modern world here, some stuff about lost values, getting back to basics and all that bluegrass. In fact, there may have been some irony here at some point, but as with so many things, the winking simply becomes blinking. Worrying I do want a farm and chickens. But I can also change a car tyre and have built a smoker so ner.

I think you're right about the 6Nations caroandcj but it might be too early to punt on th RWC in 2015. Although home turf adds a big advantage if you can handle the pressure. Wales look to be in freefall right now whilst Ireland are in transition with BOD and ROG both beginning to edge closer to retirement and some of their forwards not far behind. The French look deadly though with amazing young players coming through in the backline. If Rougerie can't get a game you know they're good. And please, just for once, could Scotland get a few results that their potential deserves? Some world class forwards and now a finisher in Visser they might cause some problems if only they got some confidence.

Game of Thrones.

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Incidentally, holiday and working time rights were > not the product of the unions, and it does a > massive disservice to 19th century philanthropists > like Lord Shaftesbury along with Quaker, Anglican > and Methodist religious movements to claim they > were. > > For the majority of rights we have today, thank > the churches. Poppycock. Trade Unions are directly responsible for or were a fundamental pressure in achieving: Two-day weekends Eight-hour working days Maternity leave Retirement ages Occupational health and safety Workplace pensions Paid holidays Equality laws The right not to be sacked because you got married, had a baby, or became ill (strange how they're seen as similar things) Pay increases The minimum wage Collective bargaining The right for the working classes to organise themselves A standard of living above that of 1850s Britain

You could have fooled me....

Without trade unions all those people attacking striking Aslef members would be in work themselves on Boxing Day. Trade unions won holiday rights. And Tube workers don't have disproportionately good working conditions, they have more effective unions. Millions of workers have crap jobs and appalling working conditions. Instead of being on their knees they should look to Aslef as an example and join a union.

Both batsmen now in caps. This is my sort of test. Is that Cook smoking a woodbine on the balcony?

Woo. Beginning update now.

???? - our tiny Venn diagram just got a little bit bigger ;-)

Meanwhile in Chez Carnell we eat phesant gypsy style. Brown your pheasant all over and set aside. Do the same to two onions. Then line a casserole dish with slices of good quality white bread. Then chop one cooking and one eating apple, place some on the bread and some in the pheasant cavity. Slice 3 rashers of streaky bacon and scatter over the apple and bread. Place another two rashers over the pheasant. Sprinkle some thyme leaves over the bread, apple, bacon mix. Put the pheasant back in the casserole dish and pour over 250ml of white wine or cider. Cook on a low heat for 2 hours until meat is tender and falling off the bone. Slosh in a small amount of brandy at the end. The bread and cooking apple will all have melted into a delcious sauce. Serve with potatoes of your choice and something green and leafy.

Is this an actual instance of "'elf and safety gone mad"?. I like a freshly cooked burger served pink and juicy. These are from decent joints not dodgy back street kebab houses. Freedom of choice here, surely? And people shouldn't have to sign anything to get the food they want and are paying for. Perhaps we are getting our cummupence for being overly litigeous.

I still haven't updated my os on my iphone yet for this reason. Are you able to get a googlemap app yet to avoid using apple maps? Am I going to miss anything by not upgrading os?

I was thinking of this:

Gowlett pizzas are better than the Actress by some way. Had many a great night there and it's my local to boot. Only once had an unpleasant experience it was as much my fault as the other fella's. Don't think it suffers any worse than any other busy pub on a weekend in London. I even like it during the week when it's quiet. ?2 a slice pizza then too - best kept lunch secret until now.

I stand corrected then. Happy to be if she still cuts mustard.

Maybe 10 years ago she would have. Age and drugs have taken their toll on that lady. Whitney ptII. Agree on Adele but reckon Florence could do it. She's got the wail nailed and it's not a nuanced or subtle part for a female singer.

I'd also add my name to this growing consensus. Let the Church eat itself. Just get them the hell out of parliament.

In a similar fashion, Starbucks had a raptor-capitalist approach to rival, independent coffee shops by using their buying power to open multiple outlets in small geogrpahic areas, often running at a loss until their competitors couldn't compete and closed. SB would then close all but one outlet and resume trading at profitable levels. This isn't market forces at work, or Government looking out for business interests - this is rapacious capitalism being allowed to ride rough-shod over basic financial standards. I'd be interested to see if Green and Blue could try and claim they are merely a trading name for a pan-European wine merchant based in Luxembourg!