I thought it was very good, and so did my partner and two of our sprigs, boys aged 15 & 17, in fact the 15 year old wants to see it again

Mine is an only child who was the daughter of a factory foreman with a great sense of humour and intelligence, and a narrow minded mean-spirited woman who could’t cook. She worked hard and did evry well academically and professionally.

In everything except intelligence however she ended up taking after her mother. She has been a moderately nicer person to spend time with since she became demented.

The price of housing in the Southeast reflects the strength of the Jobs market there, and that’s it really…

Yet we’d allbe better off if jobs shifted elsewhere and souh east house prices went down, except for a few people who live in the South East and have no kids and are going to downsize to use their property riches as a pension.

It’s horrible isn’t it? I live in the southeast – and someone has to work there…

Yep, my partner and I are fine and sorted. But we have kids aged 20,17, 15 and 15.

Mine will have some dosh from relatoves who have popped their clogs at convenient times. Hers might do, eventually… but despite them all having good earning prospects – I am not sure how this is going to work out, and kids having to rely on inheritance sucks.

We are told there are not enough new houses being built, but also that there are lots of empty houses, but perhaps not in the right places, and there seems little central will to alter things to push industry and tech start-ups to base themselves in lower cost areas. But the Market really is not going to sort this out.

When interest rates go down, loan multiples go up, money supply and house prices and then indebtedness goes up. Round and round goes the bloody great wheel. :evil:

easy. go for it.

The Hard Rock Cafe – like Tussauds – is for overseas tourists with more money that sense ;)

If you are around in the daytime – the view from the 10th floor of the new extension at the Tate Modern, is rather good, and free, and a stroll away from borough market.

Lots of comedy at other places too – just look on Chortle.

Good call.

Saw Mr Swallow there on Saturday – brilliant. Jerry S is brilliant – and is doingone of his obscene and sweary late night card magic shows.

Top secret comedy club

Mine was sort of ok but a bit of a humourless prat. He went off when I was 15, and we lost contact when I was 24 for 25 years. In contact now, but adds nothing to my life and never really did.

But he has defined how I bring up my kids, by what he wasn’t.

Jake S showing just what can be done

My elder son is a good bass and guitar player, but has a decent electo acoustic uke, and Nirvana sounds really good on a distorted uke.

Look on Snowheads…

Not been but unless things have changed, there are some major issues getting up the hill at peak times

Or This…

If his mum isn’t lying he’s done more good stuff for homeless people before and after this than I ever have.

He’s been an utter twunt precisely once that we know of. He’s young and been punished, and will continue to be so.

Some prime judgemental pitchfork waving here on STW by some who might just have done one bad thing in their own lives, and perhaps are jealous of or hate what he stands for rather than who he actually is.

Somethings are better, some are worse. And we have arsed the planet up for them.

I worry for my kids too, but all I can hope is that they forge their own way through challenges using their own abilities.

Our kids and us have not had to face challenges like WW1 or WW2 or the kind of social unrest that has intermittenly spread across Europe. We ma look back on 1966 to 2016 as a time which was uniquely secure, and if you did the right things, life was ok. But that, in history, is the exception not the norm.

I have spun a car with winters all round with studs on them (Canada) with a sack of grit over the rear axle.

You can spin anything. But there are some impressive videos of cars with winters all round braking/steering better on Ice-rinks.

Cupid Stunt – the late Kenny Everett –

don’t shoot me – just saying

Yep you need to find out what is upsetting her – but choose your moment… very very carefully.

I think we should respect each others views on the ethics of food production. Meat eaters should understand there is an ethical dimension and be aware of what happens in journey of meat to their table and purchase to improve this. Vegans should not keep domestic “slave animals” espescially cats which kill so many small birds. They also need to understand that the first rule of Vegan Club doesn’t have to be you must talk about Vegan Club. ;) And I think the Dairy industry poses more ethical issues than Meat production. I could see a place for non-dairy meat-eaters. What are they called?

My Veggie partner’s veggie daughter has just gone Vegan and is also having some health and gut issues but these seem to be settling. Lots of the recipes in “Thug Kitchen” are vegan. It is a journey but there is lots of good stuff out there.

“One careful/lady owner” would put me off.

The decline of Jermyn Street and the buying and devaluing of once great names is sad.

Lewins were mid market and are still ok but not what they were. Fabric went downhill perhaps 10 years ago – still fine for School Shirts.
New & Lingwood seem now to be a House of Fraser brand.
Hilditch & Key still ok but wear quite fast.
Harvie & Hudson seem ok still but some of their thinner plain shirts have not very good cotton. I am using them for the moment.
Hawes & Curtis – cheap party shirts from the bloke off Dragons Den…
Pink are just a branding exercise

:lol:

Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a good shout, not sure they’d dare.

Return of Ecclestone? (Christopher or Bernie?)

She’s been upset about it at home more than once. She’s had to work 4 Christmasses in a row because everyone else had to take it off because they’ve got kids.

That is just wrong and needs to be dealt with.

Drac indeed

I’d be writing down details of the dates (if poss) when your wife informed her manager about her plans. He sounds a dick from the info presented, but you, PP, come across as very angry and that isn’t going to help resolve the situation.

Your wife should escalate this up the chain in writing.

At the very least her manager could have said, ” I am sorry, we cannot gurantee you will be granted holiday”, or given her a reason why things have changed.

If it is a credit card – contact the card issuer.

I like that theory – fits for me.

I love beautiful solitary places – but I need to be there with a friend or partner to enjoy them, but with no one else around to ruin our world.

I suspect this is a weakness, and admire my normally sociable mate who will go off and wild camp for a few days in Scottish mountains.

I suspect he knows himself better than I know myself.

Unfortunately discs seem a classic main dealer scam item. I would get a small independent to look. Even quikfit will actually show you the discs and wear before recommending changing.

Might have to think about this myself next year. First time round had a quiet dinner with a few mates, which was a bit of a fail on the part of the Best Man…

However – going on a mates stag in a few months… to New York. £900 before we eat and drink 8O Should be good…

GP here. Omron are usually good. Some points though…

1) Calibration drifts – we need all our instruments calibrated every 6 months
2) Ones that work on the forearm are rubbish
3) Get one that is BHS/AHA certified
4) Sometimes I check patients meters against my mercury sphyg in the surgery and they are often shockingly out.
5) We do 24hr BP monitoring on people before diagnosis of hypertension, and in monitoring if there is any doubt.

And increasingly – we are partly interested in the BP, but if it is borderline it your overall cardiovascular risk that drives how aggressively we treat BP.

We might accept a BP of 150/90 in someone at low risk, but if you are a diabetic with renal issues we want 130/70.

Finnemore disproves your argument…

Grundig used to make great reel-to-reel tape recorders, and I remember radios made by them. I cannot remember them ever being a sough after Hi Fi thing back in the day.

Perhaps you need to find a nostalgic German… ;)

We cannot reach a fair number of our patients because they implement this. So they wonder why their GP cannot reach them.

Call Guardian is ok if a pain to deal with as someone calling in.
TPS is worth doing
But only a twit would purchase the ones you just do 1470 in front of. The real spam callers shift numbers so quickly they just don’t care if you know it. And TPS usually cannot deal with them.

Tussauds is a rip off, the London Dungeon for excitable teenagers only.

The eye is ok, but there is a better and free view from the 10th floor of the new Tate extension – or the walkie-talkie viewing gallery ( but you need to book for that)

But you aren’t after that info – are you? Bike specific.

I,d be tempted to hire a bike and ride it along the Hampton Court – Richmond stretch

It seems a lot of money to spend on something you are going to tell them is a fib in a few years time. I love going to snowy places at Xmas, but why emotionally invest them more in Santa than there is already? Tons to do without invoking him…

Genuinely puzzled.

Please do change the thread title Mods, I wouldn’t want this thread to tarnish the Shop’s name on a google search.

Well – if nothing else this thread would warn one to avoid dealing with the OP in the classifieds section ;)

Badgers prefer grass to soil under plants. After insects rather than roots. But still active, one ran up the road in front of me last night.

Yes – Moles are good – leave lovely tilth. Badgers just leave ankle traps.

Badgers are bastards – sounds like them.

Nothing works. Move

chapeau…

Ok – show us a photo of a 55 year old bloke wearing a style you like!

Yes! Takes me a good 10 mins to settle down. So I usually tell her that if she is going to be in my dreams she needs to behave. :)