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Today, I shall mostly be...
Busy day today;
I'm going to be an athlete on my pushbike, a gourmet in the kitchen, finishing off the womans' work that is never done and probably fast asleep by seven!! :)
(or dead if Mrs Grizzly sees this post!)
I'm going to be an athlete on my pushbike, a gourmet in the kitchen, finishing off the womans' work that is never done and probably fast asleep by seven!! :)
(or dead if Mrs Grizzly sees this post!)
Collette wrote: "He was in Grease 2, and played Miles Colby in The Colbys. He's also appeared in Casualty and Emmerdale...."That would explain why I've never heard of him, then...
Lez wrote: "It's amazing how ignorant a lot of them are, considering their levels of education. Have you seen any of the spelling rounds? Osman himself is pretty rubbish. They can't all be dyslexic. Perhaps because I'm from a family of good spellers I notice it more. ..."It's their lack of knowledge of geography that I find most surprising. Who was it who placed Transylvania in Algeria?
Brass Neck wrote: "No it doesn't have to be Sunday morning; other ..."And again...boak! 🤢🤮
Gordon wrote: "Lez wrote: "It's amazing how ignorant a lot of them are, considering their levels of education. Have you seen any of the spelling rounds? Osman himself is pretty rubbish. They can't all be dyslexic..."As someone who once said Canada was capital of America, I can't really comment. Mind you, I was only 7. 😳
Collette wrote: "Gordon wrote: "Thanks Lez. I still have no idea who/what he is, though.During lockdown I've got into the habit of watching repeats of Richard Osman's House of Games (BBC2 6 pm). I have to record ..."
Those images caused some moisture to leak out, C.
I've had to seek out something absorbent.
Compiling an order for Sainsbury's for delivery Thursday. Any missing items, I'll try Tesco who also have availability. Exciting times we live in.
Tim wrote: "theDuke wrote: "Watching re runs of me favourite Doctor Whos. Matt Smith is really good as the 11th incarnation of the time travelling 3 fold Galifrayian! But not quite as good as the lovely Davi..."
A bit before my time alas..as i was born in 1974...round about the time Baker took the helm as the time lord. I grew up watching Peter Davis' incarnation of the time travelling problem solver! Didn't like Colin Baker's version..and that stupid jacket he wore! Mind you...Davis' Doctor wore a stick of Celery pinned to his cricket jumper...so who's arguing?! ;-)
Collette wrote: "After talking to Mum (once she stops yacking on the phone to one of my sisters) and combing all my bears, I'll mostly be catching up with First Wave and watching episodes of Frasier.""combing all my bears"
Now that is a phrase that not many will say! :)
Today I went out! I did go to my daughter's on Sunday - restrictions have been relaxed to allow up to 5 visitors in your home at the same time - but today was the first time I have been to the shops since March 3rd! Officially I fall into the bracket of over 70s who are recommended to stay home if possible, but if you accept that Covid-19 is going to be with us for quite a while or at least until a vaccine is developed (who knows when), at some stage we are all going to have to decide what, if any, risks we are prepared to take and how we need to protect ourselves. I didn't want to risk being too scared to ever leave the house again (other than walking for exercise) so I drove to my usual supermarket/shopping centre, having first downloaded the Covid-Safe app on my phone. My main reason for going out was that I had new prescriptions and yes, I could have had the chemist come and pick them up (without charge) and deliver them next day (without charge) as they did last month but I wanted to see (and learn) how the new arrangements are working. First stop was the Post Office where the floor was clearly marked in 2 metre squares and staff were behind perspex screens. I signed with my own pen and paid by card. There were about a dozen people there but everyone did the right thing, except for young children who were racing about. Then dropped off scripts at the chemist (used their hand sanitiser) before going to the supermarket where disinfectant wipes were in ready supply. Face masks are mostly worn by Chinese and south-east Asian people. Older people are very good at maintaining social distancing, young folk don't seem as bothered. The young bloke at the check-out was on the wrong end of a tirade by an old fellow who was not impressed at having to pack his own groceries! The other person in the queue and I sympathised with him (he said he had been punched twice in the last two months). He patiently explained what I needed to do (no bother) and was happy for me to pay $50 from my $100 gift card and to give him the balance of 10 cents in coins. Then I went back to the chemist to collect my scripts from behind a perspex screen. You don't have to sign for them any more and I paid by card (tap and go) so it all went very smoothly. The shopping centre wasn't as busy as it normally would be but there were enough people about and it seemed as though all shops were open. In the afternoon Mr H and I went for another marathon walk. I left my phone at home which in retrospect was silly as the whole point of having the app is to be able to trace if you have come into contact with a carrier. A surprising number (for a Monday mid-day) of people on bikes, skateboards, scooters and just walking. Looks like a lot of people are either without work or still working from home. I will decide next week whether I feel confident about repeating the outing or whether to revert to supermarket deliveries. I've also completed a survey by the Melbourne Theatre Company on how confident I feel about sitting in an audience again and whether I am likely to subscribe again next year. Times are tough for the arts!
Also, while at the supermarket, I was able to divest myself of all the soft (schrunchable) plastic wrapping that has been building up at home over the last two months. For some reason, here we don't recycle them in the home bin collections, they are dropped into large bins at all supermarkets. And on the way home I drove past my favourite charity shop and it's open! I may need to do a drop off there sometime soon.
""combing all my bears"Now that is a phrase that not many will say! :)"
and even fewer: "combing my beaver"?
Post Soviet wrote: """combing all my bears"Now that is a phrase that not many will say! :)"
and even fewer: "combing my beaver"?"
Something The Trumpet has to regularly do, as well as lashing on the hairspray.
This morning, once suitably dosed with Midge repellent, planting out runner beans and courgette plants And this afternoon marking out and laying the first concrete blocks to form the corners of new house extension. Being fussy and slow to get it square and level, as being shoddy now causes much more hell later on in the build.
Post Soviet wrote: "Now that is a phrase that not many will say! :)"and even fewer: "combing my beaver"?"
Here's a lovely little bedtime story for you, Post S - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QSHd2rn...
😉
Today...Catching spiders, 5 so far - 2 scuttling around the hallway, 1 loitering on the bathmat, 1 trapped in kitchen sink & 1 bungee jumping from central light in lounge. Faffing about on the internet. A walk in the woods later & a walk to the village carpark to the bottle banks.
"a walk to the village carpark to the bottle banks" - will you be able to carry THAT many bottles?
Helen The Melon wrote: "Today...Catching spiders, 5 so far - 2 scuttling around the hallway, 1 loitering on the bathmat, 1 trapped in kitchen sink & 1 bungee jumping from central light in lounge. Faffing about on the int..."
Yours have been emptied? Lucky. Ours haven't been done since this started, and the place is overflowing with bags of bottles etc now. So we'll have to hang on to the empties for now.
Our council hasn't missed any of the 3 fortnightly collections and even picked up the garden waste bin on VE Day bank holiday. Go North East Lincs Council.
Brass Neck wrote: ""a walk to the village carpark to the bottle banks" - will you be able to carry THAT many bottles?"Actually Mr. Neck, I don't drink (anymore) 😛. I think I'm going to have to put you on Collette's naughty step today. Soooooo rude! Calling me common as muck & now a boozehound. Hmmmph. Not happy 😞
Tim wrote: "Yours have been emptied? Lucky....."
I'll find out when I get there, Tim. Our bin collections haven't been affected either, fortunately.
Tim wrote: "Helen The Melon wrote: "Today...Catching spiders, 5 so far - 2 scuttling around the hallway, 1 loitering on the bathmat, 1 trapped in kitchen sink & 1 bungee jumping from central light in lounge. ..."
The bottle banks at my local Co-op, haven't been in place since last summer...when they were removed becuase holiday makers were dumping everything next to them.
Fortunately, i live half a mile from a newish civic recycling site...so we go there now.
Falkirk Council collects food waste weekly. Glass etc. fortnightly though they still have bottle banks as well. Paper, card, egg cartons etc. 4 weekly. Milk cartons, plastic bottles, punnets etc. 4 weekly. General waste 4 weekly. They occasionally miss mine as I have assisted collections, but they come as soon as I remind them.
Spraying field edges on a neighbours farm, burning sunshine... and more than a few bastard horse flies.Best thing is getting to do it from a nifty little 4x4 quad......
Sorting out the cupboards, we have a Sainsbury's order coming this evening. :o)At the risk of sounding ungrateful, I'm a little puzzled about the substitution system. Last time, we had a block of grana padano as replacement for mozzarella and this time, they're sending a ready-made pizza base (with tomato) as a substitute for puff pastry. I suppose we'll get round to using them, as it's a faff to send them back but but it's a bit like getting lemons when you've asked for grapes...
Surely it's nothing more than a few taps on a PDA for the driver to organise returning the substitution if you don't want it?
I must admit I rarely send back substitutions but that's because it's normally just a different brand to the one I've originally ordered.
I must admit I rarely send back substitutions but that's because it's normally just a different brand to the one I've originally ordered.
Grizzlygrump wrote: "Surely it's nothing more than a few taps on a PDA for the driver to organise returning the substitution if you don't want it?I must admit I rarely send back substitutions but that's because it's n..."
You would have to stand 2 metres away and both of you wear gloves to place the item on the step or wherever?
Lez wrote: "Grizzlygrump wrote: "Surely it's nothing more than a few taps on a PDA for the driver to organise returning the substitution if you don't want it?I must admit I rarely send back substitutions but ..."
Not at all. If you know something you don't want has been substituted, simply tell the driver before taking delivery so he/she can remove it. A refund will usually come through within hours in my experience.
I didn't know about the substitutions till I opened the bags after the driver had gone.
Tim wrote: "Lez wrote: "Grizzlygrump wrote: "Surely it's nothing more than a few taps on a PDA for the driver to organise returning the substitution if you don't want it?I must admit I rarely send back substi..."
Didn't know that, I'll try it, thanks.
Yep, Tim knows what he's talking about :)
You should always be advised about substitutions before the delivery arrives so you have the option of telling the driver that you don't want said item, even if it is while the bags are being placed on your doorstep. So long as it is removed before you pick up the bags yourself there shouldn't be any problem.
You should always be advised about substitutions before the delivery arrives so you have the option of telling the driver that you don't want said item, even if it is while the bags are being placed on your doorstep. So long as it is removed before you pick up the bags yourself there shouldn't be any problem.
Early morning farm work, including the feat of getting a 4x4 Quad completely stuck in a deep mud hole, even though it's barely rained in weeks :0 Of course you try as long as possible to free it, before you make that phone call for help, by which time you've managed to get it really, really deep and wedged :0Oh well.
Nice evening walk with kids by the a local river, fish, ducklings, Cows and a heron to see. Not sure the Heron has good intentions to those small fluffy Ducklings :(
Gulls are partial to ducklings as well, which is another reason not to throw bread to ducks with a family in tow.
You shouldn't give bread to birds anyway. It has no nutritional value and they waste energy flying, swimming and then eating it.
Catching up with last night's Emmerdale and the past 2 nights' episodes of First Wave, then tonight I'll have a nice bottle of wine and watch Taking Lives with D.
Went and bought a second hand door today, Latvian people. Tough bargainers! Got him to 90 euro down from 120, started at 70 euro much to his disgust :0 One of their uncles getting picked up by car, same time I was there, being driven overland to Latvia, several days trip. As there's no flights.
WTF!
Nice spreading Cornonavirus work if you can get it.
Serial wrote: "Went and bought a second hand door today, Latvian people. Tough bargainers! Got him to 90 euro down from 120, started at 70 euro much to his disgust :0 One of their uncles getting picked up by ca..."
Do they know Post Soviet?
Serial wrote: "Went and bought a second hand door today, Latvian people. Tough bargainers! Got him to 90 euro down from 120, started at 70 euro much to his disgust :0 One of their uncles getting picked up by ca..."
The uncle wasn't wiry, bespectacled and bald, going by the name Dominatrix Cum-minge was he?
SussexWelsh wrote: "Have I mentioned digging?"Yes, now please tell us about other gardening techniques.
Brass Neck wrote: "Serial wrote: "Went and bought a second hand door today, Latvian people. Tough bargainers! Got him to 90 euro down from 120, started at 70 euro much to his disgust :0 One of their uncles getting ..."
How could you know that?
Have you tapped into my Dash Cam.
If you have then I hope you know although not immediately obvious, that cyclist was in the wrong, and definitely brought those injuries on themselves.
Lez wrote: "Serial wrote: "Went and bought a second hand door today, Latvian people. Tough bargainers! Got him to 90 euro down from 120, started at 70 euro much to his disgust :0 One of their uncles getting ..."
Quite possibly. Post Soviet is legendary amongst the Eastern European population.
"According to the United Nations, Northern European countries are Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom."And yes, all my uncles and aunts are famous door & window traders (another big party coming to county Kerry tomorrow, my phone don't stop, I'm so excited!). I am a welder myself, outcast in my country. dam...
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My wife's berzdei tudey (zets East Leitrim accent), so BBQ by Armenian recipe on the way. Hopefully winds gonna ease today. Winds coming from the West Ireland.
Helen The Melon wrote: "Post Soviet wrote: "Now that is a phrase that not many will say! :)"and even fewer: "combing my beaver"?"
Here's a lovely little bedtime story for you, Post S - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QSH..."
Oh, thank you Helen, really lovely. To be honest, expected more response on this particular subject from Brass Neck! '0)
Post Soviet wrote: ""According to the United Nations, Northern European countries are Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom."And yes, all my uncles and..."
Happy berzdei to Mrs P.S.
I think, if I wrote fiction, 'Berzdei Tudey' would make an excellent name for a slightly eccentric lady vicar...
Thanks, Isabella. Accents are funny thing, the Scottish one - that's something!Alright, we started with the honey pie (made by Mrs Soviet).
...or is it Mrs Post, ah whatever.
Post Soviet wrote: "Helen The Melon wrote: "Post Soviet wrote: "Now that is a phrase that not many will say! :)"and even fewer: "combing my beaver"?"
Here's a lovely little bedtime story for you, Post S - https://m..."
I'm getting 'video unavailable'. 😕
Lez wrote: "Post Soviet wrote: "Helen The Melon wrote: "Post Soviet wrote: "Now that is a phrase that not many will say! :)"and even fewer: "combing my beaver"?"
Here's a lovely little bedtime story for you..."
Lez - links in replies don't work properly. I've put the original link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSHd2...
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During lockdown I've got into the habit of watching repeats of Richard Osman's House of Games (BBC2 6 pm). I have to record it because I st..."
He was born in England and has had a long acting career, Gordon. He was in Grease 2, and played Miles Colby in The Colbys. He's also appeared in Casualty and Emmerdale. Been married to Juliette Mills for the past 40 years.