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Today, I shall mostly be...
"Pig heads are the stuff of nightmares" - for David Cameron they were allegedly objects of sexual gratification. Oink.
Sourcing reusable face masks. Compulsory from Wednesday when outside (which you are only allowed for work, if you cannot work from home, exercise, getting food or medical supplies). Beware the second coming folks!
"Beware the second coming folks!" - Oh Jesus!
Brass Neck wrote: ""Beware the second coming folks!" - Oh Jesus!"Well he is the son of God, surely blessed with on tap 'good to go' skills.
.....walking on the road. at 6.45 am, walking to the bus station, the pavements in front of every hairdresser's i passed (3 or 4) had ripped open binbags of dirty ppe strewn over the pavements to the degree that one had to walk on the road to avoid them. disgusting 'kin seagulls (8 miles from the sea, mind!)
Don't ger knocked down en route, Techy. 😳😬
The lack of tourists at Troon for them to dive-bomb is forcing them inland.
Listening to our plumbers ripping out our old bathroom before they refit it as our new shower room.
Ballyheigue Beach, Co Kerry, today. Beautiful weather, stunning scenery.
https://www.tripadvisor.ie/Attraction...
Fixing more woody things..today filling in a hideous and large crack in one of me new-ish driveway gateposts. Thank heavens for resin & sawdust. Ya'd couldn't tell that there was a crack....now! :)
Ducklings hatching, great excitement!photos on profile
Gorgeous (the ducklings, that is). 😊
Tech XXIII wrote: "Gorgeous (me, that is)."Duck off!
Yeah, you're a fine specimen of man, Techy! 😉
Collette wrote: "Yeah, you're a fine specimen of man, Techy! 😉"You got the specimen bit right at least.
Collette wrote: "Yeah, you're a fine specimen of man, Techy! 😉"I'm guessing in Scotland standards differ.
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Collette wrote: "Yeah, you're a fine specimen of man, Techy! 😉"Hmmm? - so why is he comparing his looks to pictures of Ducks?!! ...
Serial wrote: "I'm guessing in Scotland standards differ.:0"
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Have we just discovered the truth behind tech's real identity!!! ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Have we just discovered the truth behind tech's real identity!!! ;o>"It'd explain a lot, starting with the fact he's obviously quackers...
I'll get my coat.
I SO want to say just how adorable I think your little Ducklings are ... but if I do? ... will you be telling me next that they are already destined to become Christmas Dinners in December?!! ;oO
Lamenting the vagaries of satnav... Sent us on a wild goose chase to a wildlife park, instead of the house we wanted and then decided we wanted to go home as we'd 'reached our destination'. We've been to a quarry instead of a hotel, along a single track road to the back entrance of a hotel when there was a perfectly adequate dual carriageway a hundred yards from the front entrance. Outstanding among all of them was a decommissioned mental hospital when we were on our way to a funeral.
We've spent many happy(?) hours trying to outwit the benighted device and more petrol than I care to think. And every time, I get home and check that I've not lost my mind and put in the wrong postcode and every time, I've been right...
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I SO want to say just how adorable I think your little Ducklings are ... but if I do? ... will you be telling me next that they are already destined to become Christmas Dinners in December?!! ;oO"Nope. No worries there!
They're egg laying breeds.
We have a flock of about 20 already, fond of em, could never eat Duck!
Serial wrote: "suzysunshine7 wrote: "Have we just discovered the truth behind tech's real identity!!! ;o>"It'd explain a lot, starting with the fact he's obviously quackers...
I'll get my coat."
And the webbed feet and appetite for worms?
'And the webbed feet and appetite for worms?'Inevitable consequences of living north of Hadrians wall.
away the perr o' yez, an' get ducked!
Today I'm planning to sit with a can or 2 of Bavaria and listen to Europe. Tonight I'll watch Murder She Wrote or Pretty In Pink with either a bottle of wine or a 2l bottle of cider. Decisions decisions...
I'm already watching Murder She Wrote on 5 USA ;o>... is it too early in the day for a Port & Lemon? ... or a Snowball? ...
I think I'll settle for a large extra strong Mug of freshly filtered Java Sumatra Coffee and a couple of lightly buttered toasted Tea Cakes instead ;o>
Carrying on with my genealogy. Not getting very far and have already encountered 2 mysteries. 2 great-aunts whom I met several times don't appear anywhere. I have both names and the death certificate of one of them but I can't find them. Very strange.Non-working wives in the 1930s-40s appear on the census as doing 'unpaid domestic duties'
We were very surprised to find out that the Mormon Church had bought some of our Family Tree Records for a quite a few of our now long-deceased family members! And apparently that supposedly converts their Souls from being life-long devout Irish Roman Catholics into now being Mormons over 150 years after their deaths?!!
Weird or what? ... I reckon they'd be far more likely to be absolutely furious about this, spinning in their Graves, and coming back to haunt the Mormon Church if they could ;oO
I want 'DNCAD' written up in my Records ... 'Do Not Convert After Death' ... LOL!!! ;o>
Collette wrote: "Today I'm planning to sit with a can or 2 of Bavaria and listen to Europe. Tonight I'll watch Murder She Wrote or Pretty In Pink with either a bottle of wine or a 2l bottle of cider. Decisions deci..."Gee....i wouldn't like to be your liver tonight Collette!
I've heard Collette likes to eat Liver with some Fava Beans and a nice Chianti ... so I'd start running now if I was you, Duke!!! ;oO
suzysunshine7 wrote: "We were very surprised to find out that the Mormon Church had bought some of our Family Tree Records for a quite a few of our now long-deceased family members!And apparently that supposedly converts their Souls from being life-long devout Irish Roman Catholics into now being Mormons over 150 years after their deaths?!!
Weird or what? ... I reckon they'd be far more likely to be absolutely furious about this, spinning in their Graves, and coming back to haunt the Mormon Church if they could ;oO
I want 'DNCAD' written up in my Records ... 'Do Not Convert After Death' ... LOL!!! ;o>..."
Do not worry Suzy! As someone who has been into genealogy since 1975, I can assure you that the Mormons are the genealogists' best friend. I doubt anyone other than the deceased forebears of church members are converted - and then only if you believe in baptism after death!
"Members of the church use family history records to perform sacred temple ordinances, such as baptisms, eternal marriages and sealings of children to parents, for their kindred dead if the deceased family members were unable to perform the rites themselves. This gives deceased ancestors the opportunity to accept these ordinances in the afterlife."
Without the Mormons filming baptismal, marriage and other records, few of these would be available free of charge, if at all. It is even possible that some of the registers they filmed are no longer readable or traceable. I think I first visited a Mormon reading room in 1980. Since then I've been to quite a few. I've never felt any religious pressure and all the volunteers have been extremely helpful. I don't think you even have to be a church member to be a volunteer.
"Because interest in family history is not limited by culture, ethnicity or religious faith, FamilySearch’s resources, from church records in Europe to oral histories in Africa, are available to everyone who wants to discover more about their family and their heritage."
They have my gratitude!
I have nothing personally against the Mormon Church, Val ... it's just rather a shocking and quite extraordinary thing being told that your Great Great Great Uncle who was actually a very much loved and well-respected ordained Roman Catholic Priest for almost all of his adult life was subsequently rebaptised (over 70 years after he had died) into now becoming registered as a deceased member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?!!And, to be honest, it actually made me feel sad to hear of this - because he clearly never would have imagined this to be possible or have ever wanted it for himself as he chose to live a life that was totally dedicated and deeply devoted to his own Faith.
I sincerely doubt that his God will hold it against him - as it wasn't as if he ever had any say at all in the matter but it is a very weird way indeed of trying to boost the membership of your Church Congregation, isn't it? - by rebaptisting the souls of the dead so that you can then claim them as being one of your own Religion?
And I'm just not sure if it would go down at all well with the Mormon Church if my Great Great Great Uncle's Church ever decided to start with rebaptising the souls of their long deceased members and registering them years after their deaths as now being Roman Catholics? It does beg the question that if you can't just be left to rest in peace when you're dead then when and where on Earth (or in Heaven ... or Hell!) else can you?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...
I thought that could only happen if one of his descendants (as a RC priest, let's assume a gt-gt-gt-nephew or similar) was a Mormon and asked for all his ancestors to be baptised into the church.EDIT: I am also under the impression that if that did occur, the record would be sealed and you (i.e. Suzy) would not be able to access it. If you can access the record on the IGI, then I doubt he has been baptised into the LDS.
That really would make some kind of sense of this religious practice, wouldn't it Val? - but we have been researching back through Mum's side of the Family Tree in rural Ireland and my Dad's from all around Cheltenham and parts of Coventry and discovered that it has happened again and again. We don't know of any living family members over here, or in the USA, that have embraced the Mormon Faith and then decided to try to guarantee the family's place in the Afterlife by requesting this? - it just appears to be a random and a strange thing that has been done over here in the UK, and over in Ireland too, with several centuries old registered Records of folk who probably never even heard of the word, Mormon, or of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in their lifetimes and their own local communities.
Edit: we found out because we were doing research and were referred to several Records Offices run by local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Val, and when we asked why it was that they had the Records we were told about this and it was mentioned in their Records that reBaptism had taken place but we were not allowed to know anything more than that.
We got the impression that it could possibly be one of the main reasons as well as an established requisite within their Church for them in acquiring and then maintaining such Records as these? - but they were rather evasive in their answers and we were far too surprised to think of asking them anymore about it at the time.
https://www.pbs.org/mormons/etc/genea...
Collette wrote: "Today I'm planning to sit with a can or 2 of Bavaria and listen to Europe. Tonight I'll watch Murder She Wrote or Pretty In Pink with either a bottle of wine or a 2l bottle of cider. Decisions deci..."I'd suggest drinking it all prior to listening to Europe.
Are you dissing my gorgeous Joey Tempest, Tim? Are you wanting a cyber pressie from Glasgow or something? ðŸ˜
She's asking you to pick a windae, Tim!
Been trying to see if it's possible to plug a 20 year old Technics hi-fi system to my new PC, in order to improve the awful audio sound. The HP sound card is crap.....and although i have bought a USB plug in Creative Soundblaster Play 3! card..which is better, but still not as good as the old laptop's Realtec internal sound card. I'll figure it out one way or another.
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I've heard Collette likes to eat Liver with some Fava Beans and a nice Chianti ... so I'd start running now if I was you, Duke!!! ;oO"Now there's a thought.......i wonder if Collette has got one of those face mask restraints Dr. Hannibal Lecter was forced to wear?
If ever there was a time one could get away with wearing such a garment...it is now! #Covid19
Lez wrote: "She's asking you to pick a windae, Tim!"LOL!
theDuke wrote: "Been trying to see if it's possible to plug a 20 year old Technics hi-fi system to my new PC, in order to improve the awful audio sound. The HP sound card is crap.....and although i have bought a U..."Has PC got a headphone socket? Go from that into the aux input on amp, maybe?
Collette wrote: "Are you dissing my gorgeous Joey Tempest, Tim? Are you wanting a cyber pressie from Glasgow or something? 😠"I love a pressie, C.
Serial wrote: "theDuke wrote: "Been trying to see if it's possible to plug a 20 year old Technics hi-fi system to my new PC, in order to improve the awful audio sound. The HP sound card is crap.....and although i..."Yes it has..and that was my thinking too. But it also has an optical out too.....i just gotta see if the 20 year old hifi has got an optical in..now!
Only 20 years old :0I use a Philips F4213, from the 80's.
Still going strong. It had a buzz on one channel a couple years back, got it repaired and on it goes... :)
Today I shall mostly be ... still unable to get a Facebook Post out of my Head that was written and posted up by a Nurse yesterday on a local community group's Page ;o< ..."In March our jobs changed drastically. The dynamics changed. The mood changed. Leave was cancelled and most of us stepped up to the plate to cover those who had to isolate/shield and distance by doing what we had to do. We joined forces as sisters and brothers fighting an invisible war.
We've laughed, cried, reflected, but most of all WE'VE WORKED!
We've worked in stifling conditions called PPE, or even lack of it, risking ourselves and our families. We've worked when we've wanted to be at home. We've worked when we should have been on holiday on a beach somewhere. We've worked when our family have needed us, we worked and not seen our children for weeks to keep them safe!
There's been no furlough in the NHS. There's been no time off in lieu.
There's no zoom in an NHS ward, there is no zoom in a care home full of precious family members or elderly alone at home as it’s too risky for family to visit.
You can't empty catheters by zoom..... Or take bloods by Skype, or administer drugs, change beds, deliver babies..... Nothing can be done in our profession by zoom. You have to get up close and personal. None of this 2 metre rule! I've been lucky if I've ever been more than 2 feet away from a patient let alone 2 metres.....
Clean hands, clean apron, clean mask..... Now wash your hands.....
Over and over..... and over and over..... and over and over again.....
We're dedicated NHS and care staff who stand on the front line ready to do whatever is asked of us. No matter how frightened we are, we can't show it..... And we can't..... And we won't say no.
As things started to ease so did our PPE..... Still mindful of the risk, we take it in our stride, but we're still here, on the front line, and we've still battling.
Until today we thought we were warriors. NHS heroes they called us. We were loved, appreciated, and clapped for. Until today we thought we'd achieved our aim of keeping that bright star shining..... The NHS..... The envy of the world. The greatest institution this country had created. Then today..... In one sentence.... We realised just how loved and how appreciated we really are.
Regardless of the fact that the Prime Minister had his life saved by NHS warriors and his partner delivered her baby by NHS midwives during the Pandemic..... He chooses to put Midwives, Nurses, MSWs, and HCSWs at the bottom of the pile for a pay rise. The 2 main departments that kept him and his family alive and safe.
We're not warriors..... We're foot soldiers..... Cannon fodder. Totally replaceable and irrelevant.
I am disappointed beyond belief. I honestly believed that we would be recognised and rewarded for our commitment, our professionalism and our loyalty.
We don't want a medal?..... We want a decent wage for a decent day's work
All of us in the care sector, nurses, carers, clerks, receptionists, physios..... To name but a few..... Have to work nights, weekends, and Bank Holidays to enable care and to earn a living wage.
Thanks Mr Johnson.
Our Unions may have agreed a deal with you but this was always a fact..... We're still here working below the cost of living..... and this is our working day!
To all nurses, healthcare assistants, carers, domestics, admin, and our multidisciplinary teams that keep on working and keep doing on what’s right for the sake of others.....
Stand proud!..... and always remember why we do what we do!"
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Ha ha.
No, no names, they're not pets.
Now Zombies, those I agree are quite real.
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