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Descriptions always tricky but I was told by the school: White man late twenties/early thirties, sandy brown hair, goatee beard, grey hooded sweatshirt, dark glasses.

Just thought this ought to be made known. A letter came from the school with this information. On Monday afternoon two girls from my son's school were followed by a man. He followed them into a quiet road and then picked one of them up and tried to run off. Luckily the girls made enough noise screaming to get people out of their houses and the man let go of her and ran away. The police were called and have his description but I thought that people on this forum ought to be made aware in order to take precautions for a while. I'm not scaremongering, rather passing on information.

that's not fair.

In the first century, Jews fasted on Mondays and Thursdays. The original Christians were all Jewish and were used to the fasting as a spiritual discipline. They moved the fast days to Wednesdays and Fridays, because Judas engineered Jesus' arrest on a Wednesday and Jesus was crucified on a Friday. Most often that fast took the form of avoiding meat in the diet. In those days, meat was a luxury food. You either had to buy it in a market or you had to own enough land to keep cattle. On the other hand, anyone could grow vegetables or forage for them, and anyone could catch a fish in a lake or a stream. You could buy better fish and vegetables, but the point is that you could eat without money if you were poor. So meat was rich people's food and fish was poor people's food. That is why the most common form of fasting was to omit meat and eat fish. The Wednesday and Friday fasts were a universal Christian custom in ancient times. The Eastern Orthodox still observe these fasts. The Roman Catholic Church downplayed the Wednesday fast, but kept the Friday fast until quite recently. Anglicans and Protestants also observed these fasts. In the 18th century, a man could not be ordained a Methodist minister if he did not fast on Wednesdays and Fridays, with the reasoning that a person who could not rule his own belly could certainly not rule the church. Ripped off some website

Thank you Jah - don't really venture up that way, bit rough for a delicate flower like me.

How do we define incomer. I've been here for 8 years and south london a lot longer. Just never noticed Le Moulin, obviously walk round with my eyes shut.

it's only fish & chips but I like it, like it, yes I do. I said I like it.

I just mentioned Le Moulin as well - and LL. Where on LL is it?

what is this term 'troll'? I have seen it a few times now. Is it particular forum speak? Definition please. Louisa, if I had put a little smiley face after my previous post perhaps you would not have taken it as an 'attack'? No sense of humour some people. We'll call it quits on who is winding who up eh? Never been to Le Moulin, never even noticed it on LL. Must say Le Piat Dor sounds inviting.

clothes from a sweat shop at ten pence a vest top But boy have they made their mark

'codfather'? Intriguing........

I'm down with the Gaia tip too man.

Oh my gawd - Big Brother is watching us.

I'll be up there too. My hometown. Forum drinks somewhere?

hey susyp - ignore Louisa, she loves to wind people up. Sucked me in good and proper yesterday, only just calmed down.

sadly, without sunburn

and doesn't appeal to the lowbrow

*pinches Sean's nose to stop the snoring* *pours stiff one* *unwinds slowly onto fluffy rug*

An ED'er went down to the Seacow

You can avoid the E&C roundabout by going through the back streets - there's a bike path route by the side of the old London Park Hotel - look up Churchyard Row SE1 on the A-Z and that's the route.

nobody's forcing you to go to these places - you've still got plenty of crappy chippys and low quality supermarkets to choose from. areas change, always have and always will - nowhere stays the same. Good thing too. Or would you prefer that we all still lived in the slums of the Victorian age?

Louisa - I have never held myself up to be an expert - unlike you I may add. And Sainsbury's is certainly not 'treasured' to me. I just cannot abide it when some people's lifestyle choices are shot down by inverted snobbery and small mindedness as is happening on these threads. It really gets my back up and I am retaliating.

Or are you?

Cripes - get down off your soapbox. You don't know what I eat most of the time so don't give me that preaching. You said on another thread you ike ASDA for gawds sake. If I want to go to the seacow twice a year and have a bit of flipping tuna I don't see why it's such a big issue for you how I spend my money.

Yes - because Tescos and ASDA (Walmart) have the pile it high sell it cheap ethos. I commented earlier that they are all out to make money and if Sainsbury does it by providing more s p e c i a l i s t items, fine by me. Anyway it's closer for me. We shall agree to disagree.