shoshntosh

poor me! i tried doing that texting thing that someone suggested on here earlier this week in order to get a code in order to get "priority" tickets but i got nothing (except perhaps a big bill on my mobile) and so this morning i have been trying on-line to get tickets, which apparently went on sale at 9am this morning, and guess what??!! SOLD OUT. help... any ideas gratefully received...

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perhaps we could set up a covert ops citizens sting?

shosh= person who puts up shelves, changing car tyres, rewires plugs tosh= person who "potters" around kitchen all weekend, baking, cooking, washing up we are in extreme role reversal, apart from he works and i'm just a mum. which would really work much better the other way as well it's just that he earns more than i did. typical.

okay, maybe we could try it this way... which would be least likely to get stolen when i no doubt leave it in the car on the first day i use it? DM, yes coffee sounds splendid! should we see if di is around?

if you are blonde, dye your hair.

Steve T -- couldn't agree more! well said. (p.s. i once dated an american republican, which is really far worse than a tory, and he... ummm... shall we say "fell at the first hurdle")

which is better? garmin or tom-tom??

Hi All Am sure I've seen a thread on this somewhere before but just wanted to say that Tosh was cycling home through the Surrey Canal area on Friday night and he was set upon by a group of six blokes. Fortunately, despite them kicking him in the leg to try to get him off his bicycle, Tosh managed to stay on and get past them without further incident. He parked over and watched as the group tried to get a second cyclist off his bikee, by which time Tosh was phoning the police. The second cyclist also got through and the group went for a third cyclist, again with no luck, and apparently fled. The police did come and take a report. Just another warning to all who cycle this way to be very careful, perhaps cycle in pairs? Also, Friday night apparently the worst! Shosh

miles, so which one were you at the Forum Drinks on Friday night? Did we meet? There seemed to be several "nice looking" males in attendance...

thanks for the info PR. any idea on where i might find a map of the council zones? when we've contacted the coppers for anything we've been passed round... east dulwich claims we are the "peckham ward" and peckham said we are in the "east dulwich ward." are ward boundaries the same as community council boundaries? HELP obviously i am really confused! (but then again, so are the cops)

sorry, i don't know much at all about ME, despite the fact that my stepmom has it. (shame on me really) but i do know that a friend of a friend had it, very very badly in fact, and that she has recently undergone a therapy called The Lightening Process and that is has completely changed her life and the manifestation of her ME. as i say, i really don't know anything about the disease or this treatment, apart from when i saw her recently she was like a reborn person come back from the edge of life. sorry to hear about your sister. it's not easy.

interesting... anyone else wondering about a potential link between this post and the "meter readers" post called "rude awakening"? i only ask because i live around the corner from oakhurst grove and i am sure i had a "suspect" seeming meter reader come around last friday or thereabouts... really sorry to hear your news, heath. i'm just glad you're wife wasn't home with the kids (as happened to a friend of mine in dulwich a couple months back). horror.

he's a complete waste of airtime. he should have been sacked. not for the phone call, which was just dumb and unfunny, but because he is always dumb and unfunny.

is the herne tavern a silly suggestion? what about that extra room they have at the back? or is that TOO secluded?

Bryan Cocksedge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As if things couldn't get any worse, a fox has > stolen my shoe. Slightly off topic but I was recently on the 176 bus and someone stole my shoe (which I -- distracted by reading -- had let slip off my foot). So I had to walk home from Lordship Lane with one shoe. Who -- other than, obviously, a fox -- would want one shoe?

WHAT IF.... we go where we think we are going to go? like, self-directed?? so... you catholic boy over there, you are going to heaven or hell or purgatory (based on how many times you masturbated, etc) and you heathen over there, you are going into the great big void... and me... well, i've so far been happy to just "let the mystery be" but now i'm thinking that maybe mauritius would be a good afterlife. well, so long as the people i love are there. and therein lies the rub.

seriously? how?

i do notice it (grammar and spelling) but am much more concerned about the thrust of an argument and about how eloquently/creatively it is conveyed than i am about whether it is grammatically perfect. context being everything, of course. i would never ever ever ever ever ever ever even think about, say, dating someone who had poor grammar and spelling. i would find it highly unattractive. (use of "would of" would have sent me running...) there is a huge difference though between not knowing and just being a bit sloppy. for the record, tosh courted me (across the cold distance of the atlantic ocean) with e-mails and boy can that boy write. gotta love a lad who can write. (i suppose my failure to ever use caps could be annoying.)

sean i am one of those people who genuinely don't "get" why someone wouldn't want to have children. and yet... i still don't judge people who don't, nor do i think they should, nor do i think they secretly wish they had. i just really cannot get my head around what that would feel like. because i cannot imagine people accepting that this is all there is... as in, they die and that's it. gone. no vapour trail. not even a palimpsist left to mark their having been here. i actually think it's quite noble really, to NOT want children. i honestly cannot imagine that. i cannot imagine being 50, 60, etc etc and having no... um, how do i put this... no continuation of myself beyond myself. does that make ANY sense? i suppose i secretly (til now anyway -- doh) might think that sometimes people make decisions out of courage, and other times out of cowardice (and other times it's just contraception failure ;-)) and i am suspicious that perhaps this is one decision that sometimes comes from the less positive of those two places. then again, i suppose having them comes from that place too... as if they will keep us alive somehow. maybe the thing i don't *get* is why people are so determined to be right. like cassius said. everyone is different and some people want kids and are lucky enough to have them and others don't want them and are wise enough not to have them. it's when these two things get mixed up that problems start. but there is no right or wrong answer. so maybe i shouldn't have started the thread??!!! (though it's really been my only successful one. well... successful in one measure of the word...:))) is it too late to change it to: why having kids CAN be the best thing ever (for some people but certainly not for others)??

Apparently on BBC News tomorrow night/Saturday morning at 2am. Who will be watching and interested in a post-debate er... debate??

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There is a difference between saying "wait a > minute, why don't we ease of on the accelerator > even if we are in the speed limit - there seems to > be a lot of oil on the ground" and "Stop the car! > Stop the car!" > > I think there is merit in people not having > children - probably a small percentage will opt > for that route but clearly at current rate of > population growth, the globe will give up the > ghost eventually? > > I wouldn't rule out an eventual cap on family size > either - I see nothing intrinsically unfair about > it - for the same reason. is that YOUR excuse? or is it not wanting to share your toys?

dear BB, don't give too much away! shame is me but i haven't read the book yet and am rushing to do so before the film hits our screens. xx

actually my Lido/fusion membership does give me access to peckham pulse and to east dulwich. at least is always has before. i haven't been in awhile. actually, i went once in the past three months. to swim at the lido. i guess it cost me ?135. and i got to freeze me baps off in the process.

if you like kate atkinson, you might enjoy her brilliant play called "Abandonment". it's in a similar vein to emotionally weird (and behind the scenes at the museum, her other well-known one) but sometimes reading plays is a nice departure from novels (& mags and rags) btw, i have just finished "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion, which was excellent. it deals primarily with grief, though, and not for the faint-hearted. i swear i could have filled the tub with my geyser of tears.