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Use of "Datum" suggests to me a German speaker perhaps.
What is SIR after Mary Magdalene? There is an American order called Sisters of Reparation - but I am stumped here. The date is correct for the Feast of Mary Magdalen.
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What is SIR after Mary Magdalene? There is an American order called Sisters of Reparation - but I am stumped here. The date is correct for the Feast of Mary Magdalen.
I've lived here all my life and i don't know this place as well as you.
I have spent most of my life indoors on my own. If i went out late at night it was to avoid people.
I bitch about the middle class but when i am in trouble they are the first to offer help.
I live in a one council bedroom flat. Don't let them take that away from you, she said my mum; she knew.
When i was borne i came "home" to a rent room on the Fulham Palace Road, it was bad but at least i had an older sister to tell me about it. i have no memory of it, how could i?
Council housing was a step up in status because we were slump people and then we became Council slump people; then something changed again and we no longer existed as people.
I have been bounced out of the benefits system, heavy and hard, indefinitely.
I need paid work now.
I have spent most of my life indoors on my own. If i went out late at night it was to avoid people.
I bitch about the middle class but when i am in trouble they are the first to offer help.
I live in a one council bedroom flat. Don't let them take that away from you, she said my mum; she knew.
When i was borne i came "home" to a rent room on the Fulham Palace Road, it was bad but at least i had an older sister to tell me about it. i have no memory of it, how could i?
Council housing was a step up in status because we were slump people and then we became Council slump people; then something changed again and we no longer existed as people.
I have been bounced out of the benefits system, heavy and hard, indefinitely.
I need paid work now.
Stretches one's liberalism do posts like this.
Was that kind, necessary, or even true? If not fuck the hell off unless you can explain why you think kicking anyone who's down is okay.
gaijingirl
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anyone know if I can get "liquid smoke" in Brixton anywhere? (US hickory flavoured seasoning thing)
It's ok and so am i.
The past few years i've become an expert on the benefits system and that is why i fought so hard; i saw them take other people out. I knew they would come for me. I chose not to hide or be frightened that was unusual for me but it is now my new normal.
I took my sister out on Thursday evening to show her the Brixton we grew up in but i couldn't find it.
She was shocked at the change, she loved it; i can understand why. I say take her out but she had to pay for everything, she was fine with that but i found it humiliating. Just accept it, this one is on me and i did, it's better than eating self pity and i tell you something she did not ignore me in a beer garden earlier in the evening. The alternative is just to look out for myself, to do what they did; that will just cheapen me. They didn't even mean it they didn't even know.
When i go on about the class system, when i talk about myself i tend to post it here because all of it is about wanting to belong.
gaijingirl
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I think I'll do the same.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
It was in the church in Elm Park. I was going to take a picture but was too embarrassed. Huge stretch hummer limo type thing as well.
Crash outside the church on Brixton Hill an hour ago as well. Hope nobody was on the pavement 'cos one of the cars is on the pavement
It's still there. Police are directing trafficand yes, it was a wedding. There was also a Wedding Special Routemaster parked in Elm Park
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
Is there something odd happening to the water quality around here?
Have just had to abandon making dinner - clean pan of water we were boiling for pasta was full of small soft white flakes/scum/bits - as if there was handfull of fine bread crumbs in there. We wondered if something had accidentally fallen into the pan and washed it out, filled with clean water, but the same thing happened again. I checked the water in our kettle and it looked the same. I thought my tea looked a bit scummy this morning, it had a hard water sort of surface to it. buscador says she has been routinely sieving tea for for this reason for a while. Yuck.
For years I used to filter all my water (after the mid '80s 'harmless' lavae in the water incident) but for about the last decade we hadn't bothered as the water quality seemed to have improved - it tasted a lot better.
Anyone else noticed anything?
Have just had to abandon making dinner - clean pan of water we were boiling for pasta was full of small soft white flakes/scum/bits - as if there was handfull of fine bread crumbs in there. We wondered if something had accidentally fallen into the pan and washed it out, filled with clean water, but the same thing happened again. I checked the water in our kettle and it looked the same. I thought my tea looked a bit scummy this morning, it had a hard water sort of surface to it. buscador says she has been routinely sieving tea for for this reason for a while. Yuck.
For years I used to filter all my water (after the mid '80s 'harmless' lavae in the water incident) but for about the last decade we hadn't bothered as the water quality seemed to have improved - it tasted a lot better.
Anyone else noticed anything?
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
The amount of limescale we get in the kettle is untrue. Sick of it. Sure it's got worse, as have to clean it a lot more regularly. Maybe it's because it's a metal kettle rather than a plastic one?
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
Stangely we don't have any plastic pans...The amount of limescale we get in the kettle is untrue. Sick of it. Sure it's got worse, as have to clean it a lot more regularly. Maybe it's because it's a metal kettle rather than a plastic one?
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Oh right, I was actually talking about why this current kettle gets more limescale, but as it's obviously not a plastic vs metal thing... sorry I dunno
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
The amount of limescale we get in the kettle is untrue. Sick of it. Sure it's got worse, as have to clean it a lot more regularly. Maybe it's because it's a metal kettle rather than a plastic one?
I think it might be getting worse. My kettle rattles like hell with limescale
Manter
Lunch Mob
I think the groom was from Leander Road. Walked past earlier and there was a stretch limo, lots of identically dressed men in tails fussing about tying coloured streamers to all the cars in the wedding party, and a woman in an enormous floral housecoat and rollers shouting at them between cigarettes.It was in the church in Elm Park. I was going to take a picture but was too embarrassed. Huge stretch hummer limo type thing as well.
Crash outside the church on Brixton Hill an hour ago as well. Hope nobody was on the pavement 'cos one of the cars is on the pavement
and yes, it was a wedding. There was also a Wedding Special Routemaster parked in Elm Park
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Reassuring to know I'm not just imagining it then
Dread to think what it's doing to washing machine
SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
Lbc are reporting an accident on the St Matthews road and Brixton hill junction going northbound, Traffic tailing back.
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hiraethified
The Night Market was quite busy last night. It's open till 11 tonight if it's your thing.
http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2014/07/brixton-night-market-in-windrush-square-until-11pm-tonight/
Mind you, you've got to love the way that pop up drinking is actively encouraged in the square now.
http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2014/07/brixton-night-market-in-windrush-square-until-11pm-tonight/
Mind you, you've got to love the way that pop up drinking is actively encouraged in the square now.
Manter
Lunch Mob
Because the house they were going in and out of was on Leander Road....
How do you know the groom was from Leander Road?
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
A most wonderfully described scene Manter
Almost captures SW2 with the same clarity with which Rockwell painted that folksy American small town bit.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
I'm still really worried about the water quality - is it safe? It obviously wasn't just the usual limescale (hard bits in kettle no different from usual that I've noticed)
It was small soft bits of white stuff in the water - if it wasn't in an empty open pan I doubt we'd have noticed. yuk - perhaps its been like this for days and we didn't? tea has looked sort of scummy for a while - I thought it was the teabags or the milk. I feel ill thinking about it.
The white stuff only appeared when the water was boiling it looked clear out of the tap. I sieved some of the white stuff out they looked like very small scummy pieces of poached egg, white, foamy, soft filmy bits, that sort of disintergrated/disappeared when I rubbed them between my fingers. I've never seen anything like it in water before.
I left the water in the pan and it has an oily looking residue floating on the surface now. I boiled some more fresh water this morning no white bits today but the surface still looks sort of oily, though not as bad as yesterday.
To be on the safe side we just drank wine last night. This morning I resorted to drinking the free coconut water we got at the show last week. I've been out to buy water filters and bottled water now.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
I've just phoned Thames Water surprised to find they have 24 helpline - they said it was 'fungus' and 'fungal bacterial' growth - yuck! oh and of course they say its perfectly safe. I'm waiting to be contacted by a engineer in next 24 hours. Is it just our house - does no one else have this problem?
No, but seeing as there's somebody in your house with less than great health, IMHO it's reasonable to be a bit more wary about the water quality than what TW thinks a healthy adult should get away with.
So far, apart from being cut off for no apparent reason and even less notice, the only thing which has got into the water supply here (touch wood) is fine grit.
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