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The distant sound of a penny dropping. ...into a piggybank labelled "Month-long solo journey through desolate American landscapes". D'oh!

Completely redeveloped within the last few years I think? I never have reason to pass by that way - sounds daft in a city centre as compact as Newcastle's, but it's true - so I know they were working on it but still haven't seen the end results

It used to have black flooring. Does anyone remember the pencil sculpture/play thing outside Bainbridges, or is it just me? Aye, I remember that too. I didn't use my arse to "sharpen" it like you did though. That's so gratuitous I can't help but

That's "Mikey Cobblers" to you.

My memories of being dragged around town by my adoring mother as a small child are strangely dark. I'm sure Eldon Square used to be much less bright inside (though it still has those low ceilings in places, which don't help), and then you had the bus concourse and the pervading greyness of the buildings and stuff, I don't know. I'm definitely proud to show the city off to "outsiders" these days, anyway, whereas I don't know if I would have been back in the day.

That horrible concrete thing on the corner of Northumberland Street and New Bridge Street wants to be next, mind. Pearl Assurance House I think it's called? Made all the worse by the fact that it's diagonally opposite the really ornate Northern Goldsmiths building.

Met a friend outside Trillians () when I was up the other week and the library building was basically all gone already. There's a gap in the fence where you can look through at the foundations and stuff.

The backlash begins! "Typical Brit, cutting corners and doing things by halves..." Just like the fact you're only half gay. I'd forgotten that. The shame of it, being "inned" by J69.

The backlash begins! "Typical Brit, cutting corners and doing things by halves..."

So he's found his level at last.

I was about to write "Funnily enough, that's exactly how I feel about bollocks", but I decided against it.

Does it have to be M&S beetroot like? Otherwise the whole tone of the snack is dragged down? Waitrose breaded cod fingers, Marksy's beetroot and Tesco Value beans. A contrasting combo lovingly referred to as the "I Know My Place".

Who says he'd be on the receiving end? He's s already got a website on which to leave a video note if he ever does decide to indulge. Hell, he could even soundtrack the whole thing himself. Actually, that'd be an interesting twist on the whole Marilyn Manson/evil video games/violent movies line of scapegoatism, wouldn't it? "KILLER SAYS 'I WAS DRIVEN TO IT BY MY OWN MUSIC'"

Been doing loads of soups recently. Local market at closing time = tons o' veg for not much money at all. Cook up, blend, cool, shove into some tupperware - magic.

I like to think I can do plenty of stuff fairly well, but nothing particularly out of the ordinary - just your standard Indian/Chinese/Thai/Italian/Sunday lunch etc. variants - so if it was all back to mine and I wanted to offer you lot something different (if unspectacular) then I'd probably roll out a Swedish dinner of some description. Home-made meatballs () in a creamy brown sauce ( :razz:) with lingonberry jam on the side, potato and anchovy bake, various fish concoctions, that kind of thing. Mightn't be much but it's the nearest thing I have to heritage, short of rustling up a ham and pease pudding sarnie of course.

Naah, I'd have been too busy posting oblique references to bumming in threads about Big Brother or office furniture or something.

Oo, I see what you've done there, sending up the Celtic fans by making the same kind of misguided point in your next paragraph. Clever humour, that.

It sounds nice. I've made similar things before. This isn't some tuna melt-obsessed lardboy you're trying to impress here.

These people all wept: http://cryingwhileeating.com/

Still, it'd save on the communal food bills.

hb2ya

I was actually hoping they'd admit that ITV talent scouts kidnapped her and everything.

Good on him. Is he completely untrained? I missed the "story". Either way, seems a decent bloke.

It's obviously going to be Madeleine, I mean, Connie.