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Bellenden Belle

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  1. To lovely Annasfield and the handsome Lozzyloz - many happy returns. x
  2. Sixteen years old. Summer holidays, awaiting GCSE results. It starts with a bottle of vodka - I think it was called Vladimir - between the two of us.Finished, we move onto the drinks cabinet - babysham, warm Lambrusco, Harveys Bristol Cream. I don't know how long it took before the hugging of the porcelain began..but the next morning I woke up with a large chip off my front tooth. Worst yet I had a job interview - having pretensions even then it was for Next in Knightsbrige as a Satuday girl. Southgate to Knighsbridge is a helluva lot of stops with a hangover. Twice I got off to throw up. I sat in the interview, conducted in an office the size of a broom cupboard, a vague smell of chewing gum attempting to masquerade puke, my glorious chipped tooth smiling away and somehow got the job. Twenty years on I still struggle with the thought of vodka.
  3. Oh Sean darling.... you can whisper sweet nothings in my ear while Carnelli is otherwise engaged!
  4. Strangers reading over my shoulder....not so bad now with all the free rags around but oh how it makes my blood boil.
  5. Congratulations to the lovely Buggie and Mr Buggie. Buggie looked absolutely gorgeous and the occasion (and venue) was indeed splendid. Wishing you both every happiness.
  6. I threw a teddy bear on stage at a Bros concert....it just felt so right at the time. Oh and I once grabbed Bono and told him I loved him..... Clearly my teenage years were very troubled.
  7. I don't think it does necessarily make us more compassionate Sean.... I think instead it taps into a primeval need we all feel to face our greatest fears and to see an outcome that while sad is bearable. Seriously. The Greeks had theatre, we have reality tv.... what I'm trying to explain are the triggers that create these outpourings of irrational grief. We simply every so often need something to hang our emotions on - and if that happens to be Jade Goody, we'll take it, since there are now so few opportunities in life to actually feel and experience anything. There are parallels with the extreme and some would say irrational emotions people experience over sport and the fate of their particular teams. Doesn't make us more compassionate... in fact it is quite a selfish act .... but I can see how it happens.
  8. I'm not a Jade Goody fan by any stretch of the imagination and I agree that there is something mawkish about the public's insatiable appetite for Jade stories - even in death. But I think Ratty summed my feelings up pretty well - deaths of public figures do make us stop and pause and think about our own lives. We talk about death being a private matter, one that takes place behind doors, midst families - but actually isn't that a reflection on our culture? And actually not necessarily such a positive attribute as we might like to believe. Grieving can be a very lonely thing - after the frantic organising of a funeral, the relatives leave and we are expected to return to our lives....and yet I don't think it has always been so. My mother talked about how the whole community would turn out for funerals in Ireland - and that sense of public recognition I think helped people tremendously in feeling their loved one's life was acknowledged and their significance recognised. So perhaps when people clutch onto the deaths of public figures - the Princess Di's, the Jade Goody's - it is actually tapping into a need to see each individual's life as of importance - and offers us old fashioned catharsis - where we see our own greatest fears re-enacted, but feel huge relief at the final outcome where people's lives are acknowledged and finally, their dignity restored.
  9. ...broken a bone in my body. Watched any Godfather films Eaten in Franklins (but I must, I must) ... Never poached an egg or made a full english breakfast.
  10. Floating Onion Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Never tried internet dating sites, but the forum > is a good place to pull. Does that count as > internet dating? From my own experience, I'm inclined to agree with you Onion!
  11. Miss Community Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There are a lot condescending and uptight people > on this site.. I imagine "How to win friends and influence people" sits snugly on your bookshelf....welcome to the forum Miss Community. On topic - I have had rather pleasant service in Miss Robinson's household shop and have been totally ignored in their fashion shop (perhaps I don't fit into their over the hill and dull demographic).
  12. My parents met through an old fashioned lonely hearts column back in the 70s! For years and years I thought they "met at a dance" and it was only when I quizzed my mother in my 20s that the truth emerged. I like to think they were ahead of their time!
  13. A new caf? is due to open where Lucius and Richards was...there's a sign in the window. I think good shops are well supported on the road - the bookshop, Fenton Walsh, Petitou, etc....I agree the "wholefood" shop was rubbish...it tried to cash in on the whole "organic" scene, but failed to deliver. It's a great place to live. Quieter, friendlier and indeed far cheaper than East Dulwich (imho).
  14. A new caf? is due to open where Lucius and Richards was...there's a sign in the window. I think good shops are well supported on the road - the bookshop, Fenton Walsh, Petitou, etc....I agree the "wholefood" shop was rubbish...it tried to cash in on the whole "organic" vibe, but failed to deliver. It's a great place to live. Quieter, friendlier and indeed far cheaper than East Dulwich (imho).
  15. Ah being both curious and greedy I shall definitely be making an appearance.
  16. Okay so at times he's arrogant and patronising and as a band U2 are nothing remarkable anymore ...and I agree he should pay some bloody taxes...BUT - I think he has done a lot to raise awareness around some issues. I remember twenty years ago writing my first letters for Amnesty International on the basis of the articles produced every month in their fanzine. We moan about apathy and then criticise people trying to make a difference. Is it so terrible to use his status to achieve something more than sleeping with groupies? So he hasn't got an education? Do we really think an education is the only thing that entitles a person to an interest in world affairs... of course not. There is a consistency to Bono's campaigning that spans years that suggests to me that his interest comes from a genuine place. Good luck to him I say.
  17. Flying ants - deep fried they tasted rather like twiglets. Guinea pig - it arrived flattened on my plate, complete with a full set of teeth, and tasted rather like kentucky fried chicken.
  18. I rented a storage space privately and to be fair paid a fair bit more than that (and I shopped around) ... and while it is not entirely comparable, I am not entirely sure if what you are paying is entirely unreasonable.
  19. RosieH Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You're probably right BB - and it doubtless serves > me right that I've never really got round to > getting involved with real life forum activities > and now everyone's getting p*ssed off and drifting > off. Note to self for future: carpe diem Actually I meant quite the opposite - that there are fantastic people (and certainly I would include your lovely self) that are new to the forum and will make friends in exactly the same way others of us have. A new generation as it were. The new posters I don't believe are any better or worse than those who have been around longer - and I am sure just as much fun will be had. ps. I do still want to talk to new people really.... I'm just hibernating at the moment!
  20. Is it me or is it the forum? *sigh* I just don't know. Perhaps I have rose tinted spectacles on but I do remember being far more engaged with the forum last year. But like AnnaJ I wonder if the forum has simply served an incredibly valuable purpose in my life and my own needs have now changed. I was new to the area, my life was going through a transitional phase and I wanted new friends in my life. So perhaps I made more effort to get to know people, to suss people out, to engage. And I did meet new people and found a sense of belonging in East Dulwich. But now those people sit alongside my old friends and I just see them as part of my messy complicated wonderful life and no longer as forumites. And occasionally a new poster comes along who displays wit and intelligence and whose posts I like but there is not the same sense of "oooh, I would like to chat with them at forum drinks"... I wonder if I have simply reached saturation point at this moment in time.
  21. If I remember rightly, you can use the squash courts and take the classes and erm, I think that's about it....
  22. I thought I was but sadly am no longer.... I need my energy for a course I'm doing at the weekend.... Hope you all have fun though.
  23. If I remember rightly (and as a member who has been I think three times this last year) guest membership is a rather extortionate ?8. And guests CAN'T use the gym... so your son is probably not quite misleading you!
  24. Belated, for which I apologise, but a very happy birthday to Out of Focus! And to Ronniemama too!
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