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There is a fantastic silver jewellery stall, she doesn't take cards though (sadly)

Giggirl - do you have any info on the Tom Waits gigs in London which are currently TBA? I suspect they will be in July as he's confirmed in Edinburgh on 27th.

what about if there's a hosepipe ban?

I think that depends on the sterotype don't you? What about reinforcing the sterotype that Jews are tight, or that Irish people are stupid?

I think saying "time of the month for some people" is sexist also actually, it implies that someone doesn't find that amusing due to hormones which is a load of bollox. Bit difficult to know whether it is funny or not without reading it isn't it?

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Will MM be allowed to utilise the truffle oil, beluga caviar and 25 yr old single malt he's got stashed in the cupboard this week? And none of those hand rolled cuban cigars either!

east dulwich grove. opp hospital

ok, OED (which is preferable to Wiki IMO) says "Animals of a noxious or objectionable kind. Originally applied to reptiles, stealthy, or slinky animals". So I concur, they could be construed as vermin. Personally I'd rather have a bit of cat shit than ten thousand mice and several rats in the garden. I would go with the squirty machine.

Sean, I missed your last set, let me know when you go again and I'll dust off a few more. he's selling s/hand then?

Looks like the garden in le chardon

I wish him all the best, several people on here have had a record shop on their wish list for LL so I hope they make use of it. After being involved with running a record shop for a few years in the eary nineties I know very well how difficult it is. The profit margin is tiny. Is he spec-ial-ising in a genre in particular I wonder?

pasta and tinned tomatoes are pretty cheap and when I lived on benefits, which I did for quite a long time after leaving school in the Thatcher years, were one of my staples - along with mashed potato, carrots, lentils and veggie curry. (actually that was once I got a cooker, prior to that all I had was a Breville Toastie machine - those were the days) My point was that it is not necessary to eat poor quality, cheap, mass produced food all the time. It is possible to eat fresh, natural ingredients that are not necessarily boring

Cats aren't vermin, they are predators of vermin.

what you mean like East st?

okay, got it - I always used the 'quote this message' function at the bottom of a post. thanks chaps, I'll be quoting all over the shop now..

I want a dog but Mr Asset won't let me get one - actually I might just come home with one one day and he won't be able to do anything ha!

do you mean a rail trip Nero? I've got to book a train to Edin for June. Checking website now.

Never mind the moths, the effing fruit flies are all coming out. I can't eat a salad without the little bastards trying to fly into my mouth. And don't they just love wine!

get the box round text when quoting?

"I cannot believe the poor quality of restaurants these days just because they are located in east dulwich" I'm not sure that the location has much to do with the quality

I happened to watch this the other night and feel that the keyboard player and the larger dancing woman were only put through to the semi finals for the comedy element. The sad thing is that neither of them realise that.

You can eat perfectly well on a low income, it is not necessary to resort to frozen and poor quality cheap food from say, Iceland. It involves a little imagination; eating less meat, more pulses and sourcing veg locally. Obviously the bottle of wine a night has to go. Sean, your budget was a little out. Council Tax allowance would be given so you can add that back and I don't think weekly bus passes would be necessary. Pay as travel is required is more likely. I think that the utilities cost is a little high also. I would estimate around ?18 per week (?80 per month.

global warming Nero

It's ?100 for EVERYTHING not what's left for food. A single person on Income Supoprt gets around ?50 per week to live on, a couple gets slightly less than double. You say you believe you could feed the two of you for ?100 per week if you tried. Blimey, I feed a family of four on not much more than that per week and I think we eat fairly well!