Peckhamgatecrasher

Flock & Herd are offering free chipolatas for school children. Check their Facebook, etc, for details.

I think you could rock a tonsure Bob.

Mentioned in recent Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/oct/12/weird-wacky-worlds-greatest-unsung-museums-hilton-als-mary-beard-russell-tovey Nice to see some publicity for a charming, if not totally bonkers, man.

... you're adorable?

In defence of James, he has been doing some behind the scenes chasing for me which has resulted in a very satisfactory outcome.

So I can join the shooting party and taste the 10 year old sloe gin!

*starts to strip and oil gun*

Dawson Heights or Belair Park.

I have the barrels and facemasks (with covid-safe straw holes) in already, JohnL.

Nothing to do with the debate, but may I just say, ArtfulDogger, how wonderful to see that you slipped in "Come on, Eileen". Top marks!

Darling Alan, you are welcome to camp in my back garden. I can do a Welsh accent for a few sentences, but then it veers into an Indian one. Perhaps I could serve you my famous coronation bara brith?

I do have a tunnel from my coal cellar to the EDT. I think that trumps anything Bob may boast about.

I received a letter today for a hospital appointment yesterday. Fortunately, I had arranged it by telephone.

Here is the Daily Mail article, quite useful for everyday COVID use: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8682297/How-virus-proof-mask-laboratory-conditions-professor-answers-burning-question.html If you want to scare yourself silly then here is an article from (a relatively sane) US prepper site which covers heavyweight respirators, etc. Their research seems pretty good: https://theprepared.com/gear/reviews/best-gas-mask-respirator-survival/

Anybody else notice Flock & Herd had a mention in dispatches in the Guardian's OBO?

Ditto.

@ abingdon: not solely (see what I did there) a fish restaurant, but Peckham Bazaar in Nunhead usually has good fish/seafood choices on their menu.

johnrich: not open at the moment, but the Wildlife Centre in Marsden Road is a good place to see tadpoles/frogs. Keep an eye on their website for when they reopen. Annie5: I believe Hampshire still have red squirrels. Chocky: what a lovely sentiment.

What would we be extinguishing, btw? Mozart, Debussy, Joplin, Gershwin, Bilk, ...? I'd say 20thC but not sure what. Memory's now playing tricks: was it in fact an oboe? Does that make it socially more acceptable?

It was so bad, I left town for two days! I think I favour the melodeon or asp method at the moment. We could write Mid-Summer Murders as a collective, and make a fortune out of my misery.

JohnL - rather it were improvements on a clarinet. KK - do you mean retaliate with Peter Gabriel? Thank you, Spartacus (said tartly).

Recommendations please. Some plonker practising a clarinet in the garden from 8.10 am this morning is making me desperate.

Aeons ago I worked for MOD in Berkeley Square building (long since given way to Saatchi). I heard Vera Lynn rehearse "Nightingale" for a garden party in the Square. It was rather charming to hear it sung in Berkeley Square itself.

I've received a parking fine in the one of the new zones. I thought these were suspended for the Covid crisis? Some warning that they had rescinded this would have been useful