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snoozequeen1

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  1. Hо все они пели па-англисски. Так мы выигрывали.
  2. It was a very large rat - I had no idea they were that big, quite scary - in a small garden so shouldn't be that hard to hit? If the cavalry don't turn up I will be needing that firearm when Mr Brendan has sobered up. Just as Nunhead was starting to claw its way upmarket, too.
  3. Don't panic! (unless you are in Nunhead) it's in Nunhead. I thought they were only supposed to stroll around bold as brass in abandoned places at night, not on lawns where children play in the middle of the afternoon. Does anyone have a gun I can borrow, or would it be okay to pop round and ask the Home Secretary's nice looking policemen to deal with it?
  4. Oh, talk about short memories. I am looking at pics on my wall of: my lovely grandad, in the ARP my great uncle John, disappeared, D Day my uncle John, killed Italy 1943? my auntie Margaret, bombed to bits as a Queen Alexandra nurse in Belgium, but survived Please don't ask me what D Day was. We is all ungrateful beastly little flibbertigibbets and our forgetingness will be our undoing.
  5. macker Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So in summary so far: > > bare floorboards -> you're hosed > carpets -> you're hosed > clothes -> you're hosed > victorian housing stock -> you're hosed > mothballs -> your clothes all smell, and btw > you're still hosed > > Anyone got anything cheery to add? I don't know that this is cheery but it's not all clothes. Just the ones you love and prize, ie linen, silk, wool, cotton. They don't eat most synthetics and some treated materials. Curtains that were heavy linen but had been treated with Scothguard or something similar by the manufacturer, survived intact. Heat retaining blackout linings, were heavily munched, even though I thought they were both synthetic and treated. Incidentally I was told that using an old carpet beater on your rugs was better than the best vac for moth-clearing, but I wasn't able to buy one anywhere. If anyone knows where you can buy one of these would still be v grateful to hear. Although I'm not sure if anyone under 35? will even know what a carpet-beater is.
  6. Asset Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > they also love wool carpets Too true (sob). I should have put - cover up the boards with something impermeable. Also, it's not time to be an optimist. They really seem to take a few years to get rid of, just because you don't see them it don't mean they're not there. They also seem to love Victorian plasterwork to lurk in. Anywhere out of the way that you don't dust weekly, in fact. A bit tough if you are strapped for dusting time and energy and not keen on employing East Europeans as domestic slave labour.
  7. Sadly their best friends are bare floorboards. That's where they lurk, not just in the cracks but underneath. They are very difficult to eradicate but you can do it if you cover over the bare boards for a few years, never ever leave anything with natural fibres out, change your curtains to (non fabric) blinds, and sadly, never buy anything second hand again (Nunhead to ED translation: vintage) that you're not prepared to have dry cleaned first (not just wash thoroughly - they can survive everything but boiling water).
  8. Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Pythagorus and his merry band didn't eat beans > because they produced wind and he thought there > was a spirit in the beans! Is that the same one that inhabits soya milk? I didn't know this either: Vegetarianism in modern form, invented in Kent. Practically SE22. Makes you proud. The term "vegetarian" was coined in 1847. It was first formally used on September 30th of that year by Joseph Brotherton and others, at Northwood Villa in Kent, England. The occasion being the inaugural meeting of the Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom. For many years prior to 1847, non-meat eaters were generally known as Pythagoreans or adhering to the "Pythagorean System", after the ancient Greek "vegetarian" Pythagorus.
  9. Asset Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am asking a question, is > 'vegetarian food' different in some way from say, > food that doesn't involve meat? I didn't know this (from the International Vegetarian Union): The original definition of "Vegetarian" was "with or without eggs or dairy products" and this is the definition still used by the Vegetarian Society today. Most vegetarians in India, however, exclude eggs from their diet as did those in the classical Mediterranean lands, such as Pythagoras. Some background to 'vegetarian' and 'vegan' The earliest non-meat-eaters that we know anything much about were in India and Ancient Greece (Pythagoreans), they used plant food plus dairy products - what we would now call lacto-vegetarian, which has always been, and still is, the predominant form of vegetarianism in India. The use of eggs was added by the British, probably in the 18th century when they revived the Pythagorean ideas. We can't be entirely sure why eggs were added but in the relatively cold, damp climate of Northern England, where all this was happening, the variety of fresh plant foods would have been much more limited than in India or the Mediterranean. Imports would have been very expensive and not very fresh by the time they arrived, so accepting eggs may have been a pragmatic decision. We would now call this group ovo-lacto-vegetarians and they are still the predominant tradition in the UK. (Administrator, this posting is just by way of a footnote to SE22 based discussion, honest. There is bound to have been some 19th century Vegetarian pioneer living in ED, I just know it).
  10. georgia Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Am I missing something here? What are we supposed > to be showing interest in? I have to say as a > vegetarian myself that I manage to find something > veggie to eat in most places in ED. What would you recommend then G?
  11. I feel for the Administrator, I really do. Tomorrow let us hope for SE22(ish), vegetarian related, comments and information, and meanwhile hope that the carnivore-gremlins will have departed for non-SE22, carnivore-gremlin, thread, for discussion of points re non SE22, carnivore, related matters. (Pictures Administrator desk, covered with range of Executive Stress gadgets).
  12. Administrator Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ok, consider it de-lounged but please try stay on > topic or I will move it back to the Lounge area Oh wise Administrator.
  13. Yes, but some of us were trying to discuss the topic of provision for vegetarians in SE22. There was a suggestion of a veggie evening at local restaurants. If you "lounge" something because a wrecker or wreckers with no actual interest in the subject decide to ignore the question the thread is asking, and instead use it as an outlet for their aggression, then you detract from the usefulness of the forum. In my humble opinion.
  14. Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I?ve never read such a load of rubbish. Everyone > knows that eating steak gives you a big willy. Are you sure they didn't say that eating stake makes you a big willy? (This is now seriously off-beam, and it is only Tuesday of World Vegetarian Week. Contributions on or above the level of say, George Bernard Shaw, or Mahatma Gandhi are welcomed).
  15. James Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Personally I find those who show empathy and > respect for animals are far more courageous and > intelligent than those who just brainlessly say > "Yum! I like meat" without thinking about the > consequences of their lifestyle. Of course we know that vegetarians beat all comers in intelligence tests. Maybe a lifetime of consuming all those free radicals from rotting flesh just dulls the carnivorous brain. As we also live longer and healthier lives, we are bound to win out in the end. One day, there will be veggie food chains on every corner. Meanwhile, only one type of Quorn slice for sale in Somerfield, the least popular one....why?
  16. You are right to fear cold in Newcastle. I was there 3 weeks ago and had to go straight into J Lewis to buy scarf and gloves. Is about 4 degrees chillier. Also your friend not only member of fashion police, have whole brigades, is an awful lot of loot about and social uppery in NE1- NE3 these days. Lovely houses, alas even more expensive than ED.
  17. *Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So.. what have we learnt, people? > We have learned that the veggie sisterhood (12 year run!) let you get away, apparently due to the lamentable mediocrity of our cooking, and you (presumably) have fallen under the spell of a culinarily gifted carnivore. Now you see, if only there had been a veggie restaurant in ED, you might have had a decent meal often enough to avoid this regrettable fate (although I'm sure your missus is a lovely person, blood-drenched teeth-and-claws apart).
  18. *Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >getting repeat business > from a 'mixed' group would prove difficult - > beyond the obligatory "I'll give a go because my > vegetarian (*rolls eyes*) friend really wants to > go". > > The simple fact is that too many people feel > cheated if they've been to a restaurant but > haven't found meat on the menu. My boyfriends converted to veggiedom. Blokes will do anything for a snog. We are into mutual incomprehension when you talk of - quote - being cheated if you don't eat meat. Is that cultural? Can it really be a hangover from centuries old snobberies? And if so why do people who shudder with horror at similar attitudes, still cling to the "if it's not meat it's not food" routine? I associate that with bullet-headed tatooed persons who can't get through the week without thumping something.
  19. James Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Lordship Lane is a bit behind the times when it > comes to good veggie places. > > However I tried Hisar's new little cafe place the > other day (next to the restaurant) and to my > surprise they had some great veggie stuff - > including delicious falafels. > > Am still waiting for that veggie-friendly > Vietnamese we were promised (fingers crossed)... Am probably missing something really obvious here, but just wondering why there still seem to be far fewer veggie restaurants than could happily cater for vegetarians? Also why would say, eg Food for Thought, in Covent Garden, never want to expand, since it is always packed and seems to an observer to be reproducable? The Cranks restaurants (never liked the name) closed although they always seemed busy. Surely if one opened in ED it would have very large catchment area?
  20. SteveT Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As there is a curry club, why not a veggie club, > where forumistas use there clout and book > restaurants that will cook veggie's for a night > and then we shall know which is potentially the > most imaginative veggie restaurant for further > use. Sounds good, a sort of grow-your-own-veggie-restaurant. Is an EDT veggie night on then to kick off?
  21. demery Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Seems Croydon is the vegetarian epicentre for the > week. > > http://www.croydonvegetarians.makessense.co.uk/new > s/1883.html East Dulwich out-evented by Croydon. How shaming. Any suggestions from actual local vegetarians, as to how we can redeem ourselves?
  22. lozzyloz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What exactly happens during World Vegetarian Week That's what I was hoping to find out. Hoped there might be somewhere, anywhere, local, that would make a bit of an imaginative effort re veggie food this week.
  23. *Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Surely Paul McCartney himself is one very good > reason not to go vegetarian? I don't think there's any reliable study that shows an increased tendency to compose songs about frogs, or even don tartan or marry ladies who are too keen on having their photograph taken.
  24. Hmm. Was asking if there were any signs of Vegetarian Week, eg in cafes or shops in SE22-ish? (Don't know if "Bacon Sarnie" is really complete response to idea of combatting world hunger, but there you go). If it gets any worse I shall have to consider posting quotes from Paul McCartney.
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