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bloody hell - you tip the meter readers. that's why they give me dirty looks as they leave! would not even consider it.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Einstein said that if the bees go mankind has four hours left. anyway those big bee like buzzy things are fabulous hover flies and are to be encouraged and loved

If it's not too late for my pennorth, out through Beckenham on the (i think) A21, out of London in no time. Past Biggin Hill etc

see you there at 1 ish?

Tillie Trotter and I are going to join you for a spot of luncheon. She is not at computer and asked me to find out where you are going to be. She did say somewhere outside possibly?

what? Mogs, where's the rhyme there?

got me the vote

no need to panic

Gawd knows, it smells pretty sh!te

Do you mean I killed your laugh?

what are you on about TT? Been on the sauce?

It happens regularly, at what cost to us taxpayers one wonders. I do love the sound of chinooks though, obviously the connotations are bad but still......

not you, the expresso factor

I was going to say that one too Mockney, v annoying

'Slither' instead of 'sliver', as in "cut a slither of cheese". Hear it all the time, drives me mad.

I over use 'to be honest', to be honest.

thank gawd - I don't think I use any of them. Mockney - you may be more of an authority on this, but I was told that the word Pajero (silly 4 x 4 jeep type thing name) means w@nker in Spanish. Ha Ha for all those with a Pajero!

so everyone, all back to mine!

All well and good. There is quite a lot of inverted snobbery which goes on on this site. People dissing the 'middle class yummie mummies' etc. Just thought I'd throw that in. Does having a law degree (or any other professional qualification) not make one middle class by definition? Therefore CWALD is now a middle class chav. I probably come from 'working class' paternal side and 'middle class' maternal side, where does that leave me? I can't bear all this class distinction.

there's a stables on the South circular just near the park entrance and before you get to the Harvesters. You can't just turn up but you can book, I think it's about ?20 an hour. They only trudge round a barn though but it's worth ringing them. Sean beat me to it, that's the one.

From Wikipedia: Chav or Charv/Charver even Chavster (male) and Chavette (female) ('ch' pronounced as in chair) is a mainly derogatory slang term in the United Kingdom for a subcultural stereotype fixated on fashions derived from American Hip-Hop (African-American) and Guido (Italian-American) fashions and stereotypes such as gold jewellery and designer clothing combined with elements of working class British street fashion. Chavs are generally considered to have no respect for society, and to be ignorant or unintelligent. The term appeared in mainstream dictionaries in 2005.[1][2] The defining features of the chav clothing in the Burberry pattern (notably a now-discontinued baseball cap) and from a variety of other casual and sportswear brands. Tracksuits, hoodies, sweatpants and baseball caps are particularly associated with this stereotype. Response to the term has ranged from amusement to criticism that it is a new manifestation of classism. [3] The term has also been associated with delinquency, the "ASBO Generation", "Hoodie culture" and "yob culture". The accepted etymology for "chav" is that it derives from the Romani word "chavi", meaning a child.[4] Related words derived from the same source include "charva" (used in northern England in a similar sense) and perhaps the obsolescent "young shaver" (meaning a boy). In modern Spanish "chaval" means "lad".[5]

yer, wondering that myself - just been to Sainsbo's

Personally think a pub filled with one of either groups mentioned would be a tad boring. Variety spice of life and all that.

just as an aside - there is an article in this weeks Grazia about 'freebirthing'. Apparantley getting popular in America (!) Giving birth at home on your own, no midwife or doctor and the woman interviewed didn't have her partner there either.