Shaggy

Our beautiful tiny little daughter grunts and chunters and snots and farts like a Guiness-filled rugby player throughout the whole night. Now I wake up when I don't hear chuntering.

I was going to write something that would enlighten you all, but I just can't be arsed.

If you are willing to consider the train, how about the Deans Court hotel in York? And you can probably cheaply upgrade to Weekend First for the trip. http://www.deancourt-york.co.uk/

Just wondering... Ive never really been the sort to skyve off work so I'm probably being naive. If one *did* pretend to get 'flu to get the medical certificate for a week in front of the telly, surely one would have to be quite sure of ones own immunity? I would have thought that if someone skyved for a week, and then *really* got the bug and had to take another week off later in the year, the employer might start becoming a bit suspicious. If I were an HR manager (perish the thought) I might be planning to spend some time next year combing the employee sickness records to see who had takn multiple flu sickies over the pandemic period as a way of knowing which employees to keep tabs on in future.

Just wondering - what if you do happen to live directly opposite a school? Are you still at risk of getting somewhere miles away?

Moving soon to Dunstans and am looking for a newsagent to deliver my papers. Anyone know one that will do it?

Oh, I just can't be bothered. This is all soooo predictable.

Yes, it is difficult to see if the rider is riding the horse or the horse is just following the leader. In the nursery lessons the kids are learning how to make the transition. Also they match the rider to the horse. So in early rides the rider will go round with a very good-natured, easy going horse to get the feel, moving on to more single-minded horses as they get better, before doing the walk and trot on one of the grumpier buggers. But it still looks as if they are going around and around. A few private lesson are good at the beginning to get the things underlined, but you really do need to go around and around at the beginning for quite some time to get the basics knocked in. But belive me, horses aren't all docile creatures that decide to walk around the ring. Some of them are walking round because the are really being TOLD to do it.

I ride every weekend, either at Dulwich or up in Yorkshire. It is true that you have to get out of London for a really good stables. The place I go to up North has much bigger, nicer, outdoor arenas than Dulwich, but then it is in a small village, not just off the South Circular. However Dulwich is a good, fun stables that teaches people how to ride, and doesn't cost an arm and a leg. The beginners classes are a little pedestrian, but it is unfair to say they don't give instruction. They teach the kids how to walk and trot and steer, which really has to be mastered before going on to anything else. A couple of private lessons are probably a good idea for adult learners, but with a bit of work you can progress up though the classes to more demanding rides. In short: there is nothing like riding in the countryside, but I like Dulwich and enjoy riding there.

Second that. Walk 19, Hever to Leigh is good. Cant be done on a Sunday though cos of trains. May be a bit muddy though.

In the part of France that Mrs Shaggy comes from they put up large signs shaped like coffins on the side of road by where a fatal accident has happened. On some corners there are three or four. It grabs the attention.

If, according to a recent thread, an American has a greater chance of being abducted by aliens than a Londoner has of getting shot, what are the chances of an American getting abducted by aliens, dropped off by them in London, and then shot?

``Penk'' it is not rose tinted. It is just not defeatist and dogmatic. The answer is simply: for context and added value. Spitting half-accurate facts at a web-browser without context or comment isn't journalism. True, content delivery must change and so be it. I have written to the local newspaper before, and have got things sorted out through it. In the very distant past I worked on one as a summer job for a few summers. Years later Im still a journalist and have worked across the trade. As I spend my day in a news environment I tend to get a bit bored of lots the newspapers as they are, it is true, mostly repeating what I read or wrote the day before. Some have worked out they must be different from the web offering, others haven't. Some will die. Some will flourish. I read all the papers for work, but the papers I choose to read are the Guardian, because it is more likely to have stories in it about the world in general that I didn't come across at work, and the locals, for a similar reason but in micro. If you aren't prepared to support papers and pay for the printed word then you will end up with Metro and Fox News. Whether it comes via an Amazon Kindle or iPhone, a print-off PDF or the newsagent there will always be a place for publications telling you what happened yesterday or last week and why it happened, with the benefit of thought. Not just x happened 30 seconds ago. And a newspaper tells you what the editor thinks you should know about -- which is part of the service. The web gives you a menu of everything from everywhere now. Both are important. Both are different. And to save this from the lounge, good luck Jumping Jounro. I'll be getting a copy asap.

Yep, give them a chance. We should support local newspapers like we like to support local shops. Maybe by getting lots of youngish eastdulwichites to buy their paper they will be able to raise ad revenue. Its cold and grim out there in the media world, and it was never very easy to begin with. If we don't buy papers they will all and up turning into the Metro.

Ditto the futility of trying to get on the 176 from Lordship Lane. Crowds of people at every stop. I walked as far as the Harveste, and decided there wasn't a chance. So now I'm on the 363 to Elephant where I plan to get a tube. In comparison to the 176 this one cruised half empty down Barry Road.

We are all doooooomed I tell you. Dooooooooooomed.

Don't get me started on the Ginger Pig. My mum used to get our meat from him years ago when he was in Yorkshire. He got too big for his boots when he moved down South. I last used him a couple of years ago. Asked for two steaks, so he presented us with two that were about an inch and a half thick, and handed them to his assistant to pack them. I said that they were way to big, and the assistang got all nervous and said under her breath ``oh - he won't like that, I think you had better take them.'' I didn't and havn't been back. Farmer Sharp at Borough Market is just as good, and a nice bloke too.

Fractionator -- ive just got an iphone and for me the signal is great. I was on orange and couldn't get a proper reception at home, not too far away from the police station. Now it is fine. I didn't used to get a signal at my desk off Fleet Street either, but now on 02 I have four bars and 3G.

Quite right. Why? Scrap it all. Not sure about the army though, as the French might walk in and take over.

I think I may be missing something here. Why should anybody able to look after themselves be housed by the state? And isn't this all a little off-topic? Surely all Chav is saying (although couched in dogma) is ``You people with mortgages may be stuffed, but I'm not - fuck you all?" So what? Who cares?

Anyone got any idea why armed police were closing down Whateley Rd and surrounding streets about an hour ago? The street is now open but there are still lots of firearms officers milling around. I spoke to one of them and he explained that that they had to close off the area around a certain address because of an "incident" but he hadn't been told what that incident was.

Thats an easy one. Robbing a bank.

The EDT was open last year in the afternoon. It was pretty relaxed.

Huggers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Gurkhas now have the right to settle in the UK > after the high courts verdict last week. I > believe. No, they don't, unfortunately. The High Court allowed a Judicial Review of the decision not to allow some Gurkhas to settle. The government must now review the case of the individuals in question, but is still allowed to come to the same view, provided they come to the decision `properly.' Still, the case generated publicity, and the government will be trying to work out if it can still justify not giving them passports. If Jonanna Lumley does what she plans, and gets her 1 million or 2 millon signatures to deliver to Downing Street, one would hope somebody will take note.

ChavWivaLawDegree Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > When it said in the bible that the meek would > inherit the earth, I think JC got it slightly > wrong, because it seems the tight-arsed whingers > have inherited the earth and shoved all the weird > and wonderful, non-conformists down some big pit > somewhere. "Wonderful non-conformists"? - when you read do you move your lips?