local loveliness

[louisiana]

Big thanks to the lovely Polish guy who rescued me last night while I was carrying an item of EDF-gained furniture. He parked his car and carried the item the rest of the way home for me when he found it couldn't fit in his car! (Not so far, but far enough.) I told him all about EDF, of course.

And also to Amy, who is handing over her very nice piano to me, FOC. Again via the EDF. The excitement chez Louisiana is palpable.

I don't know where I'd be without the EDF and all our local lovely people. :))

Corrected to remove the impression that this guy had carried his own car.

[RosieH]

Hear hear louisiana: in the space of a week, the EDF yielded me some home-delivered delicious meatballs, a fixed ipod that I thought would never work again, and a delightful lunch companion. All smiley and gratis (not that I usually pay my lunch companions, you understand).

Truly the forum cup, it runneth over.

[SeanMacGabhann]

bah humbug - you guys should hang out with eater81 more if you want a taste of the REAL East Dulwich!

;-)

[louisiana]

RosieH, I believe what we are receiving is - technical term - 'care in the community' :)

SeanM, eater81 is an angry bot. *Most* of ED is about the nice stuff. Unfortunately, peeps tend to remember the nasty stuff and forget the nice stuff. Psychology, innit?

[SeanMacGabhann]

I know louisiana - I was just joshing. You know I'm in total agreement with you

[louisiana]

SeanH, do you think eater81 will ever be convinced by us that ED is a lovely place really?

[SeanMacGabhann]

Whatever eater?s problems are, I don?t think ED is one of them. It just happens to be where he is and where his toys land when he throws them out of the pram, Could me anywhere

[dulwichmum]

There is quite a bit of local strangeness too though, to be fair.

Twice I have been queueing in William Rose, to find someone has queued up to purchase just one "piece of bacon" and for clarity, I am talking a rasher of bacon here. What is going on?

Only in Dulwich...

[RosieH]

With the tory scum in power, that's all they can afford. But oh, they want it to be good bacon...

[dulwichmum]

Oh sweetie, is that it?

The way he announces "A rasher of bacon please" as though he owns the shop. My seven year old looked up and said: "Is that it then?"

And while we are on the subject of politics - would someone please give Ed Milliband a Vick inhaler?

[louisiana]

He's sounding terribly nasal, isn't he?

Anyways, I now can haz piano! Avec stool to boot. I shall have to dig out my much-travelled sheet music from the year dot...

[daizie]

I would hazard a guess he was a self important freak.

I mean really one rasher of bacon ? Unless he had learning disabilities there can not be another explaination.

[RosieH]

Somewhere I have a Smiths songbook if you're interested. I just about managed the right hand on Panic.

Will you be inviting us round for an old-time knees up?

[louisiana]

OMG: "Dulwich Library contains the Borough's collection of music scores"...!

Yay! I can now forgive them not having a single Brian Eno CD.

[Dorothy]

He might just need one rasher of bacon for a recipe (a base for a soup or pasta sauce, I would hazard a guess) and is exercising Iron Will in not buying more than one.

[louisiana]

RosieH

Smiths? Sounds interesting. If you no longer require it, I might be up for that.

I've just got some simple stuff out of the library for now to test the depth of rust.

On the knees up front, I shall have to hone the skillz beforehand, which may take a little time... unless someone else is a skilled ivory tinkler.

[waynetta]

Farmers. Minor skin grafts can be performed on pigs by covering any cuts and grazes with thin strips of bacon.

[RosieH]

louisiana Wrote:

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> On the knees up front, I shall have to hone the

> skillz beforehand, which may take a little time...

> unless someone else is a skilled ivory tinkler.

Looking forward to the I can haz skillz.

Will see if I can dig it out.

[dulwichmum]

daizie Wrote:

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> I would hazard a guess he was a self important

> freak.

That is exactly what I was thinking.

[Axeman]

One rasher of bacon, Jesus. I wonder what that went with. Half an egg?

[louisiana]

Is that a yolk?

[Mick Mac]

Maybe he was Jewish, and thought, just one rasher of bacon can't do any harm, can it?

[HAL9000]

Maybe he was Jewish ...

Actually, under Talmudic Law (see: The Mishnah by Pinhas Kehati, page 31), there is a limit beyond which an exception is recognised in respect of certain prohibited foods: it is usually an amount 'less than the bulk of an olive'.

I'm not sure whether that ruling applies in this case, though.

I've seen lots of people buy a single tomato, onion or piece of fruit. If that's all one needs, why buy more?

Perhaps the guy is on a strict one-rasher-a-day diet?

[ClareC]

My friend is Jewish and loves a Bacon sarnie at work yet keeps a kosher house, not sure she is aware of Talmudic Law but I think she may well like it :-)

[legalbeagle]

Maybe he's not Jewish but wishes to become so, and is weaning himself off slowly? The sort of holy equivalent of: "I only smoke one or two a day, I could give up anytime"?