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legalbeagle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well......he's asked you to follow your heart. > > Have you? > > What does it say? Well legalbeagle, I followed my instinct, which said he was an insincere time waster incapable of keeping his trousers up, which proved to be correct. There appear to have been different lines fed to various women, perhaps with varying degrees of insincerity. Which I am reminded of when I open up the Address Book on my Macbook and see "Alison from Soulmates" splashed across the screen. (Yes, he inadvertently dumped his 'dating contacts' on my machine.)

Great work John. Loved checking out all the contour lines running across our street :-S By the way, if I wanted to review the market gardening history across this area, where should I be looking, records-wise? Would be great if you could give me a pointer or two.

Scribe, I'm actually the girl with all the CDs :) cursing all the exes that have walked off with my classic vinyl.

Atticus, the cognitive dissonance going on there is something to behold, no?

Jah, his three failed marriages were definitely a clue. I plead guilty as charged :-$

zeban, the language did not strike me as the most appropriate. Cleverness really doesn't come into it, eh?

Men, eh? They give you all kinds of guff. But this perhaps the biggest guff I've ever been fed. Copied below is an email from a guy (not local) I had a fairly serious relationship with for a while. As you'll see from what he says. All names and places and everything else that could be used to identify have been removed, to preserve dignity etc. I'd just like you focus on the sentiments he reports, as you read. *** I know it's probably not what you wanted to hear but I've had it eating me up for weeks now. Every 5 minutes of every day, I think of you. All day long. I think of how we were in good times and I curse myself for not nurturing that. I know differently now, but for a long time I was in denial of my true feelings for you. Before I get too carried away here, let me say I realise we DID have our troubled times and I DID handle those badly, but that's my unreconstructed self coming to the fore, I should have been a bit more generous with my emotions instead of the selfish arse that I must have been. So what's changed? I have. Quite simply, I've had the realisation (probably for the last 6 months or more) that you and I were very very special. Of all the relationships and marriages I've had over my life so far, no one has touched me so deeply as you did. I know I fought against it, I admit that, although in my defence I once had this naive notion that I'd play the field just after I'd got divorced [editor's note: for the third time]. In truth I look back on our early days together as quite wonderful, you were a complete rewrite of my life and I've only just realised it. We had some great times of course, and in some ways that's the driver or this email. Do yo think I could ever go back on a walking holiday to the xxx Isles without you? Do you think I could ever go on a cycling holiday without you, wherever that might be? And do you think I could ever go dancing or to a festival or just to a 'listening' gig without longing for you to be next to me? Every day I find some new piece of music and *ache* to talk to you about it. To bring it to you, to lay in bed and drink it in together. It only works with you, I know that now. Maybe you do too. Over the past few weeks - as I've built up the courage to say all this to you - I've realised what I did wrong over the period of our relationship. Ok, I think the spell working in xxx did for us more than I realised at the time, but more fundamentally I didn't give you the support you needed at that critical time xxx. I should have been more there for you. There was always the seemingly insolvable problem of where we lived. Not to go over it again, I fully understand why you never ever would have seen xxx as viable, and from my side, trying to balance work (as it used to be) and keeping close proximity to xxx and xxx. If you and I find a way to resume a life together I propose moving away from xxx, and would offer up a suggestion that I could more in with you for most of the week, then spend a day or two back here to fulfil my obligations to xxx. That's a temporary solution of course, but it's way better that anything we actually achieved while we were together. In the coming year I hope we could find a tenant for this place and I take a rental on somewhere for us together. Not sure where that would be, London or country, but it's something we could plan for. Short term, I have dreams of you and I going away together again. Xxx would be superb, we could do the southern area south of xxx, that we missed last time. Or later on, xxx, or xxx again, or all of the above? :) It just takes the will, and the faith that what we had was more that just a passing thing (it was WAY more than that). I mean it when I say I want t spend the rest of my days with you. I want t grow old in your company. I want to enjoy that relaxation. You've loved me in the past, perhaps you can see that again and help to nurture us though a reconciliation? I think we both have strong love for each other and it should be given a chance. I'm fully aware this will not go down well with your friends, and that's a big hurdle you'd need to cross. I realise my name is probably mud with everyone. Please, just follow your heart. *** This email was followed a few hours later (the next morning) by another from the same guy that said "Wow. Who says men can't express their emotions :) "I'd been drinking with xxx yesterday and I've no doubt that gave me the courage to call and write to you, and so I just re-read what I'd written (in case I'd gone over the top) and no, I've no regrets, quite the opposite :)" and "If now isn't a good time for you then I'll wait." and "Looking forward to having a chat sometime, when you've thought all this through." *** It's actually a not bad portrayal of what had happened, give or take bits here and there. (Note: on work - we both work from home. On my friends and what they would have thought: he never met them, as he never hung around long enough to meet them - in four years - so they actually have no view.) However, calls in response to these two emails were never returned. And he's actually going out with someone else. :-S I think I shall file this one under *fantasist fiction*.

'bus' indeed, Nette :) Sorry, my last missive was interrupted by Skype from sunny Italy, or I'd have listed more examples.

Nette, I find the 'u' sound particularly telling. 'Come' etc.

Perhaps the worst (for me) was having some "husband" telling me "how clever" his wife was was having reached eight months, after I'd had two miscarriages myself. How clever? Terribly common, and yes, it's not what people talk about, except to discuss their "successes".

Ian Brown. Now there's a vocalist who can't hold an in-tune note to save his pretty face, especially in a live performance. (And yes, I saw him everywhere from t'north of England to down in Barcelona with the Roses in the 90s, and last time a year or two back at the Brixton Academy). BUT, what magic James Lavelle weaves with an Ian Brown vocal. Magic. If it were not for Ian's flat northern vowels, it would not be the same. (PS I was born in a northern town. Does that count as being a northerner?) (PPS North is anywhere north of Elephant. But especially north of Leeds or so.)

U.N.K.L.E. - Reign, Evil Nine Remix (on the fantabulous EP of remixes) :) Video (the good video but not the Evil Nine remix):

Can anyone recommend to me any place offering high-quality photo prints, both B&W and colour, either locally or in town? Art-quality paper and process. It's a long time since I've done any...

Loz, absolutely. Under Labour, 'security'-related legislation and regulation just seemed to go through the roof. RIPA being a case in point. But there were hundreds, thousands of other security initiatives.. I finally gave up doing certain kinds of work when a certain government agency (unconnected to defence or security or anything like that, really really mundane) required me to fill out 22 or so pages of forms that included the requirement for me to provide information about my ancestors that I didn't even know myself and would have had to research extensively over weeks/months, internationally, and possibly with dead people; and then required further legal and financial investigations to be conducted by foreign government authorities because I had had the temerity to live abroad during my life; all of which information would take them some six+ months to process (by who knows how many people), they estimated... and all in order to attend their offices in Nottingham and conduct some interviews that they had commissioned, on a single day. The instructions they were acting on emanated from the Cabinet Office, and applied to all government departments, apparently. Though funnily enough, the Cabinet Office itself (on a visit at around the same time, similarly commissioned) proved to be free of such officiousness and wasting of tax-payers' funds. At which point I threw up my hands in incomprehension and despair. When the cost of conducting "security" is greater than the entire cost of a project; and when six-month cushions have to be built in to projects before you can even turn up, for projects that should be completed in less than two weeks, all in order to *rse-cover on "security", the whole system has really gone mad.

Alec, we've got our second Green Drinks in Dulwich scheduled for Wed 23 Feb from 8pm. Perhaps if anyone interested in discussing these issues could come along to that.... What do you think? Green Drinks doesn't have any format, it's whatever people want to talk about. There were lots of other points that came up in the workshop. For example, what you grow/buy/sell is going to be highly influenced by what's already on offer, and you shouldn't be aiming to compete with existing businesses. So if a wholefood shop is already selling certain kinds of stuff in your urban area, what you sell could be quite different to a co-op set up in a rural area without those sorts of local outlets.

languagelounger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > Just that as there are already two Co-op stores > and a Co=op chemist in se22, if all the people > expressing interest exercised their right to join > the existing Co-op, could they not influence it, > rather than trying to start all over again? But "The Co-operative" (group of organisations) doesn't have any monopoly on the co-operative model. There are tens of thousands of co-ops out there. I've helped to found a couple myself :-S The > Co-op movement was founded to defend ordinary > people from vicious greedy b******* but having > defeated the Greed monster it seems it was > consumed by the Vanity monster since as soon as > the masses had a bit of cash form the 1960s on > they abandoned the Co-op mostly out of snobbery. I would say that by the 1970s there was a new generation of co-ops emerging, and the old Co-op model was looking distinctly tired. > > What was the Co-op building at the bottom of Rye > Lane now houses a Pay Day loan company, a bookies > and a Tesco. > > It's quite curious that we are so unconscious of > our own history that most people have no idea what > the Co-op is or how or where the Co-op movement > was founded, and that the source of inspiration > quoted here is Brooklyn. I know ED is nothing if > it is not pretentious, but honestly....toooo much. > I don't suppose anyone here is going to admit to > having visited and been impressed by a co-op in > Rochdale, for instance? Not Rochdale, but there's a great food co-op in Chorlton...set up in 1996.

Omar Suleiman (1936?) 02011-01-29 January 29, 2011 02011-02-11 February 11, 2011 Vice President Vacant (February 11, 2011-present) Omar Suleiman (Arabic: عمر سليمان‎, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈʕomɑɾ seleˈm?ːn]; born July 2, 1936) was for 18 years head of Egypt's national intelligence agency and for 13 days in early 2011 the Vice President of Egypt. President Hosni Mubarak appointed Suleiman Vice President on January 29, 2011, and he served until February 11, 2011, when Egypt's military assumed power.[3] On February 10, 2011, according to Egypt's ambassador to the U.S., Suleiman was made de facto head of state under Egypt's constitution, assuming all presidential powers.[4] The following day Suleiman announced Mubarak's resignation and governing power was transferred to the Armed Forces Supreme Council.[5] *** Muhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak (Arabic: محمد حسني سيد مبارك‎, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [m?ˈħ?mː?d ˈħosni ˈs?jːed moˈbɑːɾɑk], Muḥammad Ḥusnī Sayyid Mubārak; born May 4, 1928[1]) is a former President of Egypt, serving from 1981 to 2011. He was appointed vice president in 1975, and assumed the Presidency on October 14, 1981, following the assassination of President Anwar El Sadat. He is the longest-serving Egyptian ruler since Muhammad Ali Pasha. Before he entered politics Mubarak was a career officer in the Egyptian Air Force, serving as its commander from 1972 to 1975. Beginning with the 2011 Egyptian protests on January 25, 2011, protesters called for his resignation as president of Egypt.[2] On February 1, 2011, Mubarak announced that he would not seek another term in the 2011 Egyptian presidential election.[3] On February 5, 2011, Egyptian state media reported that senior members of the ruling National Democratic Party, including Mubarak, had resigned from leadership roles within the party.[4] On February 11, 2011, Vice President Omar Suleiman announced that Mubarak had resigned as President of Egypt, transferring authority to the Higher Council of the Armed Forces, following 18 days of protests challenging his thirty-year rule.[5][6] *** Consistent Verb Tense - Mubarak's Resignation Please correct some of the verb tense errors in the passage on the protests, they are phrased as if they are occuring in the present (which they are, of course, but it isn't it more future-proof to state them in the past tense?) On February 1, 2011, Hosni Mubarak announced that he would (instead of will) not contest the Presidential election in September 2011. ... On February 10, 2011, it was suggested that Mubarak might (instead of may) step down imminently.[49] ... At the same time, it was also confirmed that there was (instead of is) room for his resignation in the days and weeks following (instead of to come). *** Where would we be without Wikipedia? I'm all in favour of correct use of verb tenses during the unfolding of history ...

Direct action is a great thing, zeban.

Annette Curtain Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > "Oh THAT dog, forget about him louisiana, he's > DEAD " Anyways, that looks like an Alsatian. I bet Freud didn't have an Alsatian...

Heisenberg.

Having been at the DCC meeting on Wednesday that addressed North Cross Road market extension, can I also congratulate James on his F2F? Not an easy meeting, given all the participants. But James chaired extremely well, and councillors (in general) came out way ahead of Southwark officers on this one (with some Southwark officers seeming to have agendas of their own, but also fairly feeble at conducting professional consultations).

Isn't "weddings" a bit of a swear word? (cf gypsy weddings)

I went along to a workshop this week, organised by the Soil Association and Sustain, about group buying, co-ops, community supported agriculture etc. A brief report-back follows: 1. Both Sustain (sustainweb.org) and the Soil Association, who co-organised the event, are offering free advice to any local groups wanting to get co-op, buying, CSA etc. schemes off the ground. 2. Sustain produces an extensive Toolkit (online and also in book form) full of practical advice, template agreements and so on. http://www.sustainweb.org/foodcoopstoolkit/ 3. A fair few schemes already getting off the ground around London. In particular, Crouch End TT and Belsize TT, who are already working with farms to the north of London. Hackney has been going for a long time. 4. We heard from several small farmers supplying veg to London (east, north) who talked about how they worked, and advantages of working directly e.g. veg is picked to order so fresher. Some growers do not supply full range of veg owing to local soil/microclimate or financials. Note that distance to delivery is not such a big issue for them - it's of more concern to have a fully loaded vehicle and have the deliveries clustered together. 5. For anyone interested in dry goods/non-veg group buying, Infinity is probably the most flexible of the three majors (Suma, Community Foods, Infinity), as they don't mind working with non-legally constituted groups. Good reports about them from various people. 6. There are 'veg box people' and 'non-veg box people' (i.e. people whose lifestyles/work patterns don't fit a box scheme). Veg box schemes need education/information e.g. recipes, ideas for what to do with different veg, owing to people today not being familiar with a wide range of veg. Non-veg box people maybe need something else B) 7. In the future we'll probably see a network of community food 'hubs in the city', each working with (probably) several farms, and providing information about food and other services; and each participating farm supplying a number of different hubs. I made some good local contacts too, so a really worthwhile event all around. And the food was terrific!!

Posting an update re the workshop in the next 10 minutes, when I can find the DGG thread. Ah, here it is, just for Sue :) http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,567344,page=2

I'm sure the Chair would be amenable to a spot of Middle Eastern-style corruption. After all, that is the way the world works, as Drawing Room afficionados will be aware... [gets out her decision tree and adds some probabilities to various branches]