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Why not choose to support independent cafés and restaurants?

I think they ought to run skills on the whole job-searching process, including so-called creative techniques.

What, with a view to charging Penguin Books with obscenity all over again?

I don't think it's at all kind to jeer at people's ignorance of these matters.

Despite the above, Cumbria Constabulary have been informed that I passed the driver alertness course satisfactorily and I will not have any points on my licence.

You're lucky you can afford such a habit - unlike me who's only been in employment for nine months out of the last three years.

A whole courtroom of people have discussed Lady Chatterley's Lover, but that was over 50 years ago.

Johannes Regis, O admirabile commercium

To be honest, so is Lady Chatterley's Lover. I just found the whole portrayal what was supposed to be the greatest love affair of all unconvincing. Plus there seemed to my Aspie-pedant mind several loose ends. Why did Connie marry Clifford in the first place when there seems to be so little affection between them - was there any before his war injury? How did Connie manage to avoid getting pregnant by her previous lovers? Why does Oliver Mellors's daughter make an appearance in chapter 6 but is never referred to afterwards in his conversations with Lady C about their future together?

Culture Club, Church of the Poison Mind

Beethoven's 9th ("Choral") Symphony

My first instructor was independent. Thankfully he's long since retired.

None really, as I already have two degrees from conventional universities. With the first module I did (M255 Object-Oriented Programming with Java during 2009/10) I did provisionally sign up for an OU Open degree so I could qualify for Disabled Student's Allowance, but decided not to bother with my current module. Ee-oh-lee-en, roughly.

Mine is 102 according to Test the Nation a few years back...

My next exam is on 16 October (for my Open University module in Electromagnetism).

I wish I had the same opportunities to make music with other people.

Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Concerti di flauti: Baroque recorder concertos

I'm reading it at the moment (and I don't mean just flicking through to the naughty bits).

The latest contribution to the Guardian's Private lives column caught my eye... http://www.guardian....s?newsfeed=true Incidentally, one of the commentators also scotches the myth that accountancy doesn't require people skills. "as someone who has worked for many years in that field, accountancy and taxation - at least in private practice - demand huge interpersonal skills (I put my own lack of success in part down to this). Even to get the basic qualification he would have to get a job in such a practice as a precursor to moving on elsewhere. "

What about Lady Chatterley's Lover?

Only this month? Where were you on 26 May? http://www.asd-forum.org.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/24444-nul-points/page__p__325297#entry325297

Prokofiev's Sixth Symphony http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz7zhVfygSc

I'm reading a David Lodge book (Thinks...) which contains a fair few sex scenes, but that's OK because he's, like, an Eng Lit professor, so it's well intellectshooal, innit?

Yes definitely. Provided they really took my condition seriously and didn't resort to saying "Oh if you feel nervous driving that's all the more reason to do more of it!" which was the line taken by those ###### at the firm who fired me. I really do want to be able to cycle again. As for the driving, that is a good question. As a woman, I feel ashamed to conform to the stereotype of a rubbish woman driver, especially after all the effort it took me to get a licence in the first place. As an environmentalist, I don't want to contribute to road traffic needlessly, still less become one of those frightful driving bores droning on about what a nightmare speed cameras / one-way systems / petrol prices / cyclists / bus lanes / other drivers are. I'd always hoped I'd be able to live without owning a car and lease one as and when from a car club like Streetcar, but maybe that's just too unrealistic for someone with my condition(s).

To which add: being too ######-scared to ride a bicycle or drive a car :crying: