*Bob*

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We are the champions probably qualifies Rock anthems in 6/8 time just aren't musically possible, Jeremy. That's just how it is.

Sorry RD, sold out of banana. All I have left is Raspberry Ripple or Steak and Ale.

*Bob*?s Wills started out in 1993 with a single tin of Rovers and a desire to succeed. ?I remember our first client as if it were yesterday,? said *Bob*, speaking to me from his fur-lined ivory tower in East Dulwich. ?Persuading them to part with a stack of cash for a service they can more-or-less get elsewhere for virtually nothing was a real buzz.? They now have sixteen tins operating in South East London, Bromley - and Panama. *Bob*?s Wills - ?Where There?s A Will - There?s Our Wage?

Ok - final offer, ?1000 - and I'll throw in the biscuits for free.

I'm happy to store it for you for, let's say, ?1200? Absolute money-grubbing bastards, the lot of them!

Wasn't 'We Will Rock You' a b-side? That one seemed to do well.

am googling 'tolley'

They are gits. You are a nicer person - that's worth something. To me, anyway. I sound like a bloody hippy..

They're like any other musical instrument - there's no 'this one and not that one' - it's a matter of preference. Get down a shop that has a load of different ones and spend an hour playing them all. They all feel different. See what you like. Yamaha, Roland and Kawai all make some great keybeds. Can't advise on a specific standalone one though.. I have software piano instruments that run off a computer.. and a real joanna.

pop9770 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bob > WHY Because generally I believe that making connections with other human beings - especially ones you live right next door to and see every day - is worth a try. As oppose to assuming the worst, never wanting to know their names or look them in the eye.. just in case they don't turn out to be nice. I'm sorry that seems like such an alien concept.

Who has said anything about letting other people tell you what to do?! No-one. I'm not suggesting you ask them what colour your kitchen ought to be, or have ANY say in what goes on. I'm merely suggesting knowing their names and speaking to them might be a good way to start off on the right foot. That works for many other things in life as well. If that doesn't work, then assume position B. At least you tried.

yes, yes I think you have made your position on this very clear your extension - 1 human race - 0

I wonder how many other strangers have been on the receiving end of creepy-stalky anonymous birthday congratulations - or the like. Perhaps others will come forward. Vile behaviour.

outed as a weirdo stalker Even Lou and Foxy must be feeling uncomfortable about this, despite your ever-fauning attentions. Their silence says it all.

There?s plenty of room on here for virtual argy-bargy, but there are kind-of unspoken rules. One of those unspoken rules is running a personal ongoing spat into an ominous ?I know who you are, I'm watching you, but you don?t know who I am' Grok, you are being creepy, stalky and unnecessarily unpleasant - and you have crossed the line. My advice - go and lie low for a bit, spend the afternoon pulling wings off butterflies or whatever else it is you do for kicks - before you get booted off here for good.

This thread had taken a dark turn. I find it depressing that some peoples default position is not to communicate with people they live next door to, even if as a result of a bad experience in the past. When we moved here, the neighbours introduced themselves, they made us feel welcome. The gave us strange pieces of information like 'their names'. I've lived next door to (previously under / over when in flats) all sorts of people: some difficult, some eccentric. Some rich, some poor, whatever. I'd live to think I've treated them all with a bit of basic common humanity rather than 'sod you, stranger', right from the off.

No, we've done lots of building work. And we speak to our neighbours. We are clearly mad.

'the stranger next door' Good god. Maybe you reap what you sow on that one.

'zactly Jeremy.

The first our neighbours heard of any building we were planning doing (and vice versa) was not from the council. Don't people actually speak to their neighbours first any more? Seems like a bit of common courtesy to me. Maybe I'm old fashioned in that respect. Incidentally, the council failed to send notification letters to one side. It's over such little mix-ups that people end-up living next door to people who they've fallen out with - for the next ten years.

People are strange. They steam in with planning applications for stuff which clearly might rub immediate neighbours up the wrong way - and the first that those neighbours often hear about it is when they see it stuck to a lamp-post. Yes, ok if you want to go nuclear on it, so what - it?s your place - what you do is between you, planning and the lamp post and they can lump it. Personally I have found that encouraging neighbourly cohesion and friendliness is not best facilitated via the medium of lamp-posts. Generally, my own opinion (as with others above) is that here in London you should expect every bit of vacant land, existing building, road, railway and, yes, airport - to only ever get built on, busier and expanded, subject to planning. This does not mean, however, that I?ve lost all capacity to empathise with others who don?t feel the same.

Looks like a great way to spoil an afternoon. Any chance you can just leave it and hope it grows back?

I can't be bothered to read that. It's too long and it won't make any sense anyway. Westerley winds all week. Enjoy.

Solid gold wok ring. Diamond-encrusted ladle. Money scales.

Interestingly however, you will find that many of the people who say that building work (and arising permanent structures) have a negative effect on their lives - are also people who take no notice WHATSOEVER of those planes - the ones that you complain have such a detriment effect on YOUR life. And what happens if they pop up on your 'plane rant thread and suggest you just 'deal with it, get over it, accept it' - what happens? You spit the dummy! Indeed, you suggest that other people who are not bothered by plane noise should just keep their opinions to themselves.. and yet here you are, dishing out the advice. And you are incapable of seeing the irony in your position.