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OP - would you put up the link for your property so we can look at it?

I have discovered two new authors of crime fiction that I can ecommend: Gordon Ferris - try "The Hanging Shed". Hero is an ex Glasgow Dtective Sergeant - returned from WWII to a depressed Britain and trying to set himself up as a Crime Journalist in London. Gets dragged back to Glasgow to try and clear and old friend who had a bad war and has been convicted of murder. The tone is dark and the story complex - the writing of a higher order than is usual in much crime fiction. His second book - Truth, Dare, Kill, is set in and around South London, mentions include the George Canning, Ruskin Park, Camberwell Green and Peckham. Craig Russell - his "Lennox" trilogy is good. Coincidentally also based around an ex Glasgow Detective Sergeant in a post WWII city. Not quite as good writing as Gordon Ferris - tho' at one point I wondered if it was one writer with two pseudonyms.

Of course a vital question is what was Louisa doing in Harrods - not her style I'd have thought?

A piano bar a la New York would be great. Stylish, sophisticated, not too noisy, romantic. Good cocktails - Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, etc at low level background when piano not playing. Keep it cool, dark and elegant.

go to the Bishop at lunchtimes only - or breakfast (egges benedict - yum, yum). Better service, no crowds (occasional yummy mummies), no ID hassle or fights.

You're never more than 5 yards from a rat (rodent kind) in London. It's not reflection on you or your spotless housekeeping. We had similar problem in previous house where the rat, having taken the poison, had somehow climbed into the utility room ceiling to die - and yes the smell was obscene.

LibraCarr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi, > > Maggots (humanely killed) are a good source of > protein! > > Bye\\ the Royal Navy lived on them for years - tapping weevils and maggots out ofn their food was so routine they just became used to.

indiepanda Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Like the hosptial cleaning that went to private > companies, and now we have people dying from MRSA > and other superbugs in all our hospitals? The prevalence of MRSA is related more to good / bad clinical practice than cleaning techniques / practice.