Brendan

Gender stereotypical. Pah. Typical woman.

I said "people"

pah. I give him 2 weeks.

There are plenty of people in London who do really need a car. Be it for their job or because they have kids and or elderly people to care for. It is easy for us to bang on about the benefits of walking, air pollution and Ken?s buses but for some people not having a car is just not an option.

Oy vey

You know I am feeling a bit poorly and I went to Boots on my lunch break and bought one of those scrunchy, shower sponge things. As soon as I get home I?m shaving before I end up doing the laundry and baking another victoria sponge.

"I aint gettin' on no plane fool!" - BA. The A-Team

That could be why we have this enduring cultural image of old men with beards. Only it got confused somewhere along the line and it is in fact the image of a young man dying of beard. Passed down from the great beard epidemic that was responsible for the fall of the Viking kingdoms.

I have about 4 days worth of stubble. Does that count?

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As employees ourselves however, all the evidence > points to us not being the most efficient crew > ever.... whatever are you suggesting?

Yeah that isn't really unfair. It's anal but not stictly unfair.

I do think that a resident?s parking scheme would be sensible in ED but at the same time it galls me as it will be another charge and there are many people who depend on their cars for their livelihoods. These people already pay council tax, road tax, tax on the petrol they use, congestion charge and indirect taxes every time they use a parking garage, service their car get it MOTed etc. So yeah let?s bring in a residents parking scheme and bung another few million at the council so that some incompetent, local government, lifers can outsource the enforcement to a corrupt private company and then maybe get the management consultants in for a spot of restructuring or think up some other financial black hole to justify their jobs.

So it happened to you too eh Pablo...

Cheers for the advice all. I will look into the course at Southwark college. Then I think I will have to impose my company upon some Turkish people.

I stick resolutely to my forum name.

It appears that for the foreseeable future I am going to be spending at least 1 holiday a year in Turkey so I have decided that I should learn how to speak the language. At least to the point of being able to have a basic conversation. Has anyone tried to learn a new language using one of these online courses that seem to proliferate? What were your experiences? Would you recommend it?

Oh I see. Good idea. Thanks Steve.

Cheers SteveT. I have considered getting rid of the bed somehow as you suggest but I like the idea of a green border. It works well with the garden. I just need something that will actually grow and cover the bed and not involve me being out there every Saturday maintaining it.

Liquidiser

Thanks Asset. (tu)

My garden is depressing me at the moment. Last summer I hurt my back and consequently the garden hasn?t received any attention since then. I have a similar problem to you Nero. I have a long bed that runs against a fence which doesn?t get any sun at all. Whenever I plant anything in it, it grows towards the sun and out over my garden path. I need something that will thrive in the shade, fill the bed (not leaving any space for the weeds as spending ages weeding kills my back) and provide an edge to the path. Any suggestions folks?

Well it did rain frogs in Chislehurst last summer.

Well I suppose that is more plausible than suggesting that coconuts migrate.* Oh by the way I found out what it is that kills less people than falling coconuts. It is sharks apparently. Well that is according to a fellow called George Burgess, Director of the University of Florida's International Shark Attack File. And he should know. He goes on to say that, "The reality is that, on the list of potential dangers encountered in aquatic recreation, sharks are right at the bottom of the list." Which leaves me asking, how long is this list and what are all these other things more dangerous than bloody great big fish with razor sharp teeth? You are coincidentally 100% more likely to be killed by a shark when you are wet than when you are dry. Which is bad news if you live in Manchester. * Although I suppose if they employed sparrows (African or European) or weather systems as a naturally evolved (guided by the hand of an intelligent creator of course) modus operandi for transport it could be said that they do in fact migrate. But I won?t muddy the waters of conventional wisdom with that kind of talk at this juncture.

Or the ture reason could be even stranger.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7302591.stm

That would explain why I was killed by a falling coconut in Dulwich Park over the weekend. Must have blown over with the weather from sunnier climes before it fell out of nowhere, killing me stone dead, while I was walking off my Easter lunch. I once read that more people are killed by falling coconuts than by something else that would surprise you but I can?t quite remember what it is right now.