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well done - fingers crossed.

[what happened to the middle lines??]

Brendan - I've read that and his other ones. I think they are great.

bit bloody lost if he was looking for kensal rd!

I cycle - I always stop at red lights and never cycle on the pavement.

children under the age of (I think 11) are allowed to cycle on pavements.

Dulwich fairy - The Borders has a long tradition of rugby and of producing players for the national team. Not just the private schools in Edinburgh. When I was at school in Edinburgh my PE teacher was the captain of the Scottish rugby team and it was most definitely not a private school.

Can I just point out that in Scotland pretty much all the schools, state and private, play rugby and in no way is it seen as an elitist or posh sport there.

well I don't know, but voting is better than not voting. What did Emily Pankhurst chain herself to railings for? Anyway, I thought we'd established that chav is not a class thing but we can assume chav means working class now. There's no one out there that is doing it for me either and I suppose I am 'middle class' whatever that is. At least vote for a marginal party if the big ones don't cut it but not voting at all is apathetic.

The only way really is to go round parlaiment square, up whitehall, up lower regents street and onto regents street and there you are. It's not too bad because the roads are wide, you could faff around wiggling through covent garden and soho if you go over waterloo but I think that's more dangerous and much longer.

If you want to avoid the elephant roundabouts go through Hampton Street, Churchyard Row, Brook Drive and then onto Kennington Rd and from there up to Westminster Bridge. Well, that's the way I used to do it. Should only take about 20 mins from Elephant to Oxford Circus.

not gonna be represented if they don't vote though

Gawd, I used to have some fairly expensive metal ones from Johnny Looloos in the kitchen and tried to clean them a couple of times but the grease and yuk refused to come off not to mention the unwieldyness of the blinds, I even took it out to the garden and tried to clean it all laid out flat on the lawn. I chucked them away and now have a cheap one that when it gets too filthy will be replaced. Throw away culture and all that. The cleaners may work on a bit of dust but grease and fat from a kitchen - no way.

No its not. If cat or dog poo from untreated cats gets ingested, a disease can be contracted called toxoplasmosis which in svere cases can cause damage to the brain and eyes.

Um, I have 3 of the little bastards actually and thankfully they all go and sh!t in other people's gardens haha. BUT, Snorky, there is little evidence to suggest the decline in small songbirds is due to cats. In fact it is more likely due to the paving over of front gardens, loss of habitat for insects etc resulting in loss of food for the birdies. My cats do VERY occasionally bring a bird back and I always chastise them thoroughly! I have tried bells but they keep getting the collars off, anyway bells don't help if they find a nest.

I wonder what she'd do if a perfectly respectable, childless person spilt tea on the chairs? Would she throw them out too? Anybody care to put it to the test?

Me, and I feel decidedly worse for the wear today. I feel sick and I've had to have 2 ibuprofen.

I agree, but you can mix and match. I certainly wouldn't go to Mrs R and furnish a whole room but it does have some nice things in. Likewise Mootoo, although I have never bought anything from there myself but I'm not going to slag people off who do shop there.

right so we should all shop in the few sanctioned shops and we should only purchase functional things. There is obviously no place in this world for ornaments and cushion covers. I'm going to take all the covers of my cushions and throw away any item that is not purely functional and is in any way 'shiny'. I trust you people who are slagging off these things don't have any cushion covers or tea-light holders or shiny coffee grinders or vases or any such things in your houses. Actually I've had the same frigging cushion covers for about fifteen years, I might pop to one of the shops in ED and get some NEW ONES!!!!

link please?

Is an omelette really that difficult to cook? Is it so difficult to make some pasta and pesto or flash fry a tuna steak while you boil some potatoes? Ready meals are the cause of the breakdown of society. (ha)

barrymarshall Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I read somewhere once that the upshot was that > people should shout "Emergency!" or "Fire!" > instead, as passersby would be more reactive to > it. I also have heard that people wil respond to FIRE rather than HELP.

I've got a mug with yummy mummy on it that was bought for me as a mother's day present from a 'tat' shop (by one of my quadruplets). I like it. I don't know why you lot don't just live and let live. Or should we all just buy the same things from the same shops that are sanctioned by a commitee somewhere and if any one wants to stray from the party line they should be banished to say, Islington or Clapham. Hey ho, each to their own I say.

peckhamboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Home furnishings: > > Heals > Habitat > Laura Ashley > > What, no John Lewis for the poor, Alan? Why do you think JL is for the poor?

to help with the bear/bare in 'bear it in mind', think of carry eg. 'carry it in your mind' not 'get naked in your mind'. (well, only sometimes).