dukesdenver

Good news, I have just spoken to a very helpful chap called Alex who agreed that I was not a criminal and cancelled the summons. Alex, if you are reading, THANK YOU. Monkey, thanks for the tip. I will hold it in reserve because undoubtedly there will be a next time!

Thanks Louisa, I will engage in some light telephone-based ranting tomorrow and report back. I thought I'd left all this behind when I moved out of Lambeth...

Well the usual emails and phone calls don't seem to work so I may have to try something more drastic! Bizarrely the amount they say I owe bears no relation to any of the bills I've had - even allowing for the extra costs and what have you.

Just wondered if anyone else has had a problem with Southwark Council persistently claiming that you are in arrears even though you are fully paid up? Now I've got a summons and I'm RAGING.

Crappons, then...

All those little seeds would be quite grippy, I expect. Perhaps one could strap figs to one's shoes to make 'figpons'?

If one wants to use salt to de-ice one's front path, will Saxa do or should one use Maldon Sea Salt (freshly milled of course)?

I think it's brilliant that all the people who work in 'business continuity' and 'disaster recovery' have now got something REAL to do!

More efficient to leave it on for a couple of hours than to warm up the house from scratch again, surely?

LordshipLovely Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I know that my local shop gets half its stock from > Sainsburys anyway, as i've seen them loading up a > small van in the car park. Yeah, my mum used to get loads of stuff from Kwik Save when she had a shop!

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's such a load of nonsense, isn't it? If all the > local food shops were open when I get home from > work at 8:30 on a Wednesday night, then LuvPeckham > might have a valid point. Yes indeed. And spending half of Saturday playing at shops doesn't appeal. :) It would never occur to me to tip the Ocado man (or woman) given that I have already paid a delivery charge.

HonaloochieB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I thought it was a northern dialect thing. No love, that's t' I am prone to 'ont he' and 'int he', I must admit...

If your box/bag has vanished just put your recycling out in ordinary supermarket carrier bags - the recycling chaps will take it anyway.

The Heinz ads with the old man talking to his donkey which only ever says 'thistles'. For the topic of 'which ads scare the bejesus out of you', I nominate the Citroen dancing transformer/robot. Terrifying!

Foxton's Lordship Lane To Become London's Biggest Starbucks

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How about a thread called "The beast within". > > Recently I admitted on a thread that whilst I am > not a violent person, and don't get in to fights, > there is a part of me deep down that would have > laughed had I seen a particular incident where > someone got a slap for being (in my opinion) I bit > of a tit. > > Would be interested in hearing other people admit > to things that don't really fit in with their > nice, polite, friendly, reasonable persona I was quite tempted to start another 'I think I'm in love with...' thread after reading about that particular incident, I must admit...

Motown, Fleetwood Mac, Eagles and Bread. Still love 'em all!

ballcocks

For something completely different, how about No Highway by Nevil Shute? Hark back to a time when men were 'chaps' and people saved up for things. You won't believe how gripping aeronautical engineering can be!

I've just done it for 'David Cameron' to even things out.

I shouldn't worry JustG - I have a theory that big life events happen 10 years later than the average if you live in London - probably because they tend to cost money and no-one has any until their thirties! My mid-thirties chums are only just getting going on the whole houses/marriage/babies thing, for example. If it's any consolation I am 34 with nothing to show for it except a (rented) flat full of books. No debt and fairly happy, though!

On

HonaloochieB Wrote: > Of course they do *Bob*, and well done to you for > taking the emphasis off the size of the cocks. > There's been far too much of it lately and I for > one am feeling the strain. Absolutely, although some people do like a big bird.

HonaloochieB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > DukesDenver, do you work on World's Strongest Man? > You're Magnus Samuelsson, the older Swede aren't > you? > Well done on throwing Capesy into the > conversation, not of course that you could have > thrown him very far even when you were in your > prime. > Just a little humour from a fellow strongman > there, no offence. With my burnished golden locks I suppose I do have a certain Viking-esque qualities. Yours, dukesdenversson (World's Strongest Librarian)

Upon being asked to perform a feat of strength at work recently, I remarked 'Who do you think I am, Geoff Capes?' and received a blank look in response. These ignorant twentysomethings, eh?