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Just to give a bit of balance, i bought a lovely piece of furniture there with no probs, they were helpful and were prompt with the delivery, we go in quite a few times just for a browse and to see if there is anything new and find the staff helpful and chatty. maybe thy need to just brush up their customer care skills when something does go wrong, they probably will when they have read this thread.

I love it there, mainly been on a saturday morning for a nice fat fry up and a mug of tea, don't mind waiting occasionally a bit longer gives me time to browse the papers, the two ladies i see normally cooking and serving are always pleasant and go that extra way by asking how you want your eggs done or how crispy you want your bacon, they an be a bit scatty but i think it adds to the appeal :)

That was a blast from the past, reminds me of my heady college days and remember it being played at many a party. Think it was from the crocodile dundee sound track, i bought the 12' single and remember something from the film being on the cover, cant believe that was 23 years ago. I am very scared :)

I have had mine a few months now, took me awhile to get used to the texting with my not so dainty fingers, but fine with it now. You can download a lot of free applications ( journey planners, restaurant finders etc) and i don't have an i pod so its like having the next best thing. also i don't have access to a computer a lot of the time during my working day due to the type of job so its great for a quick look at e-mails or the internet.

Thanks SteveT :)

Getting diagnosed with lymphoma in december and embarking on four months of chemotherapy, halfway through now and its all but gone, but has totally changed my out look on life and appreciate things i took for granted before, i will never think "it wont happen to me" ever again And it made me realize how strong my partner, family and friends are and how lucky i am. but i have been so bored in hospital i have been on my lap top for ages and finally had tim to delve into the forum :)

Hi candj. Yes the canapes looked really impressive when you had them fanned out on the serving dishes, i have used gold leaf quite a few times in my own work, friends asked me to make them a four tier chocolate cake for their wedding and i used the gold to bring it out a bit. I had a crispy chili catfish in chang ria, it was bought out whole to the table and you shredded it like crispy duck, and lets just say it wasn't small. It was in a restaurant called cabbages and condoms, thankfully it wasn't a reference to their signature dish.

candj Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Asset, gold leaf is delicious, especially on > chocolate! I worked with a head chef once who used to wrap a thin piece of parma ham around the base of a piece of asparagus,then over that he would wrap a thin band of gold leaf and serve it as a canape, didn't try it myself, thought it would set my teeth off. ( i can't unwrap the foil on a kitkat without them going all funny )

He has had to put off the building of his own hadron collider under his restaurant, putting paid to his "toad in a black hole"

I have had nothing but admiration for the staff at kings, in November i found a lump under my arm and my doctors sent me to kings immediately, and they went into swift action, was even sent to the scanning dept to make an appointment, and as i walked out of the building the receptionist rang my mobile and told me i was booked for a scan two day later. Unfortunately i was diagnosed with non Hodgkin's lymphoma, but i have been swiftly treated, the ward i am on (the davidson) is ultra modern with separate rooms for each patient with very dedicated staff, i am monitored 24/7 for infections and other complications and feel very safe. I do think with the NHS as a Whole if you have a minor operation or something not so scary as cancer it can take a long time to be treated, and in such a large organization Admin mistakes do happen, But if you have something very serious they do throw everything at you and leave nothing to chance, its not perfect i know, but i do know the staff work under extreme conditions and do try to limit the mistakes. its not great when you are at the end of one of these mistakes, so hopefully they will get less and less as time goes on. I was sent to a private harley street doctor by my boss to speed things up in the beginning, the doctor took one blood test (?172), poked my lump with one finger, said i need another blood test (another ?172) and said he didn't think it was cancer. the next day the NHS diagnosed me after 5 days and i was straight in hospital for my first chemo