Cafe Einstein - LPTPW 17 - animal, vegetable, and/or a minerally type chemically thing, and maybe some other things as well, yes :)

And here I am :) Yes, my other half is distinctly last leggish :( I think that's why they're keeping him in the critical care unit - so that they can point out everything wrong with him as bluntly as possible. But he's doing a bit better the last day or so. YAY! :) Although as soon as I knew that, I couldn't stay awake very well at all :/ weird. Discovered that my mum must have taken that opportunity to fall over herself again and collect some new bruises. Not that she remembers doing so - which one might say was worrying ... but isn't :) No head injury people - just alzheimers.

Speaking of mum's heh heh heh heh. Very good :))) I'd offer Phil my mother-in-law but I like him too much to do that to him :)

Not getting into the blonde thing though... nooooooooooooooooooo... my daughter is one and if you'd seen her eyes change colour from beautiful blue to slate grey like I have, rendering all they view lower than pond slime on the evolutionary ladder, you wouldn't either :)))

Lauren Marbe put you off, Chris? :) Blonde. Essex girl. Brighter than Hawking - apparently :)

@a few days ago - the problem is that when I received paper bills from BT for my phone service, at first they were addressed to the street cabinet outside, which took several years and a threat of non-payment to fix. I only resorted to that because the thing caught fire and during the month the entire street had no phone service, I started receiving paperwork related to the cost of replacing it. So my address was amended - in so far as it suddenly included the phone booth as well. When my actual residence did finally appear in the address, it was a lowly third in the list, which I saw as a vast improvement and definitely a step in the right direction, so left things alone for awhile. My next tackle did remove the street cabinet, and the one after, which is when I switched to non-paper billing at the same time, allegedly removed the phone booth... except it's still in the system :/ somewhere...

and@Mikey - our problem is not teens, but little ones around 8 or 9, and from what I can tell, the CCTV cameras only seem to be monitored for picking up parking infringements - probably because there's money to be made from them.

I must say it's heartening to see all the interest in the clues :) So heartening in fact, that I'm in the process of preparing a clue expansion post for you all... :) Should have it ready to post some time later today...

@MAGIC - did you opt for the train in the end? :)