david_carnell

As you asked so nicely, Rosie, here's some suggestions. Early doors Primal Scream - Come Together Goldfrapp - Happiness (Beyond the Wizards Sleeve Re-Animation) Ananda Shankar - Jumpin' Jack Flash Early Evening Hercules and Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix) Toots and the Maytals - Funky Kingston Shirely Bassey - Slave to the Rhythm Grace Jones - Williams Blood Roisin Murphy - Overpowered Nina Simone - To Love Somebody Late on Bobby Womack - I'm a Midnight Mover Ladyhawke - Back of the Van Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made for Walkin' Hall and Oates - I Can't Go For That

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jackie Wilson. Higher and higher. Total ear drugs! Seconded.

....yes it's safe. As much as any part of London is if you don't wander about with your iphone late at night down unlit streets.

Tell me about it. I think it was just after the little man had managed to scream me awake. Otherwise he's a bonny baby. Looks a bit like Eric Pickles! Braise it in cider with herbs and veg and then whisk in cream and mustard at the end. Maybe some tarragon.

Utter geekville - love it. Nothing to add to the already excellent suggestions except that Moens in Clapham might have wabbit. Yummy. How you cooking it?

Utter pandamonium for traffic. Avoid.

Hurrah! I'll be there with Bairn in tow. Is there an infants race? Brandy and milk perhaps?! 5 years? Where have the years gone? Lazers set to malky! Charge!

If it's impossible to define then how have you reached your opinion. The union has been tirelessly working behind the scenes to bring in a bottom line on H&S and terms and conditions across the industry so that fairness prevails yet the oil companies, who make huge profits, have continued to undermine them. I would think that oil is too vital a commodity to be left to the free market with firms constantly looking to cut corners to make more profit. Far better that there is a common consensus on driver issues. The constant drive by oil companies to maximise profits has led to some instances of workers having six different pension providers in ten years - a pretty shabby state of affairs. No one wants to go on strike. It is a last resort of the desperate. Workers lose pay. Yet they have been driven to this. I'd question why the companies involved have been unwilling to reach a deal on these issues instead of attacking organised labour. As to final salary pensions being unaffordable - Exxon Mobil made over $40bn profit last year so I reckon a pension for a trucker might be doable. It's just priorities.

...when tired, hackneyed cliches are recycled for the nth time.

Aurevoir Stephaneo.

Do you think any strikes are justified? I'm not being arsey - genuinely asking? If not then anything I say is moot. If you do, what criteria would have to be met in your opinion?

Jeremy - I would imagine the skill is in knowing what do when things go wrong. Much like a tube driver. I'm sure you or I could pull the lever to make the thing stop and go. If final salary pensions were a contractual term when they were signed I think workers are within their rights to demand that those obligations are kept. I'm not going to come up with some sliding scale of "skill" for jobs - it's too subjective. But I would imagine fireman and paramedic would be high on the list. And both deserve to earn more than they currently do.

Heh - fair enough. I guess all areas have good and bad bits. Most violent crime tends to be gang on gang violence. On the presumption you don't wander around with a red or blue doo-rag handing out tin foil packets, you'll be just fine. And Bellenden Rd really is becoming a lovely little parade of shops with both useful and interesting places to shop and eat. Welcome to the neighbourhood.

People are held to ransom by monopolies all the time and yet no one complains.... Water companies Train companies Price fixing by large multi-nationals regularly goes unchecked. And yet a bunch of guys want an extra few grand for transporting dangerous, flammable liquids safely around the country and you start with personal attacks and name calling. It's getting tired. This isn't going to bring the country to its knees as much as you'd like to pretend otherwise. In fact given your loathing of cars I'd suggest this would help futher your agenda to move people away from unnecessary journies.

Seems like they do a skilled, dangerous and stressful job that is of vital importance. Is ?45k that unreasonable? I was waiting to hear the usual suspects bang on about public sector workers till I realised these fellas work in the private sector - isn't this the power of the market in action?

You live in Deptford and are worrying about Peckham?! I feared for my safety last time I was in Deptford. I live on Maxted Rd just around the corner and as Huggers says, it's lovely. I wouldn't live anywhere else in the area.

Otta - easy peasy. Stick 'em in the pan, go have cigarette, a cup of tea, read the sports section. Put a pot of coffee on. Pop on your toast. By the time you've managed that, they'll be ready. You'll never eat a Richmonds again! ;-)

Local phenomena, GB. Sadly, due to the massive increase in supermarkets, small scale butchers are a dying breed. However, East Dulwich and Peckham are blessed with a decent number. In fact there was a thread recently listing them all if you do a search. The ones in ED and Nunhead tend to be traditional English-style butchers whilst Rye Lane in Peckham has a huge number of Halal butchers catering for the Afro-Caribbean and Muslim communities. You can find some very interesting things there and the prices are very low. I'd strongly encourage you to use a butcher when you arrive rather than a supermarket - the quality is better, prices are competitive and the customer service superior. Plus, you keep your ? local - keeping local shopkeepers in business.

Oh god I luuurve sausages. But then again I love pork more than my own son sometimes! Black pudding, chitterlings, hocks, hams, lardons, pancetta.....all of it. But a special place in my heart is reserved for the humble banger. Do you know why they're called bangers by the way? Because during rationing, sausages had extra water added to them to pad out the meat and filling and when you put them in the pan.....BANG! Anyway.....round here? Well my current favourite for a breakfast sausage is the large farmhouse from W Rose. Cooked SLOWLY in butter in a pan on the stove. 30mins as a minimum over the lowest heat you can manage. A lid helps too. Comes out all caramelised and sticky and golden. A dab of brown sauce and I'm as happy as....well...a pig in shit. I've made my own once. The Toulouse variety with white wine and lots of garlic were magnificent but the breakfast version had to much rusk flavour for my liking. I'm salivating now....what have you done 'Nette?!

amydown Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can someone explain to me in simple terms how > cranial osteopath works? Clare Kadvis also > recommended it for our baby who had a tongue tie. > I'm a bit sceptical about it though - perhaps > because I don't know enough about it? Amydown - I'm going to be controversial here. And no doubt alienate many. For that I'm sorry but it needs to be said. It doesn't work. At best it is a harmless head touching practised by the naive. At worst it is a con run by charlatans taking money from stressed and desperate parents whom, often, are at the end of their tether with screaming babies. The idea it could cure tongue-tie is utterly delusional. And that's not attacking you Amy - nor the person who recommended it (unless they are a medical professional) but is certainly attacking anyone practioner who claims it can. You'll often read that practitioners claim to feel a subtle pulse in the fluid surrounding the brain and claim that there is some research to suggest that these pulses are related to slow, regular changes in blood pressure in the brain. This is wrong. First, cranial osteopaths don?t even think the pulses are blood pressure; their theories revolve around the ?inherent rhythmic motility? of the brain and spinal cord, mixed with breath and cardiac cycles, causing rhythmic fluctuation of the brain and surrounding fluid, which they think they can feel through the bones of your (or your baby's) skull, and fix up with a bit of wiggling. They write long articles about actin and myosin (the things in muscle cells that make them move) being present in brain cells; unfortunately, they always forget to mention that brain cells lack the dense arrays of those filaments which are necessary to generate any significant movement. At this point you might well ask - "but are there real 'cranial pulses' to be felt, however they may be generated?" It?s easy to find out: ask a couple of cranial osteopaths to write down the frequency of the pulses on the same person?s skull, and then see if they give the same answer. There have been five papers published doing just this, and in none of them did the osteopaths give similar answers. Which suggests to me that (a) this is not a reliable biological phenomenon, and (b) perhaps these cranial osteopaths are, er, imagining it. So: the discipline is based on a misunderstanding, they can?t measure what they claim to measure and work with, and there?s no evidence to say it works. As a parent of a new born baby myself, I can understand the appeal. My little one was a forceps delivery and midwives and others were quick to tell me how I should sign the little chap to have his head rubbed by a medically unqualified voluntarily-regulated quack to help cure him of such things as "crying". Babies cry. They have colic and reflux. They go through growth spurts. They cry some more. They stop. Often this occurs most in the 2-6 week old period. Funnily enough, cranial osteopaths and cranialsacral therapists will often offer sessions running across this time frame at the end of which your baby has miraculously stopped crying nearly as much as before. In short, it's woo. Please don't hand over your hard earned money to people who claim it is anything other than a rather pleasant head rub. Stroking your baby yourself will be just as effective. Remember, the plural of "anecdote" isn't evidence. It's anecdotes.

You'd probably qualify, PGC

Won ?50 on Cinders and Ashes on Day 1 and am going for an each way on Brave Sir Robin in the 13:30 today at 22/1

Can't be too verbose. Have hijacked Pater's EDF account to publicise my own, far greater, achievements. I may only be two weeks old, but I'm on the crawl. @ThatChapHamish Pip pip. HGC.

Can I nominate Beautiful South? Popular as Mother's Day presents (see "The Dido Effect") but actually some quality songwriting. Oh, and Dolly Parton, once you get past the fake tits, fake hair and lipstick.

Alas, that's beyond my abilities. I'm attempting a farmhouse table but it's early days. I should have paid attention at school!