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Collette wrote: "So Charlotte Church isn't a size 10 or 12....crime of the bloody century!! Look at yourselves in the mirrors folks. Adonis's you ain't!"Hear, hear, Collette!
Brass Neck wrote: "Collette wrote: "So Charlotte Church isn't a size 10 or 12....crime of the bloody century!! Look at yourselves in the mirrors folks. Adonis's you ain't!"*Adonises. Just checked. I are!"
Welcome to the Club, Cap'n Ahab, keep em harpoons ready, they be Whales on the horizon.
Serial wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: "Collette wrote: "So Charlotte Church isn't a size 10 or 12....crime of the bloody century!! Look at yourselves in the mirrors folks. Adonis's you ain't!"*Adonises. Just checked..."
Call me Ishmael
Got xmas tree yesterday, real one. Same goes for chairs, tables, shelfs, wardrobe etc in our house - all made from murdered trees. Guilty, I know. We can travel around and between counties now! So... Sligo!! Beach!!! Penneys!!!
A bit rain? *uck it!
Brass Neck wrote: "Collette wrote: "So Charlotte Church isn't a size 10 or 12....crime of the bloody century!! Look at yourselves in the mirrors folks. Adonis's you ain't!"*Adonises. Just checked. I are!"
If you say so petal! (aka "aye right, in your dreams!") 🙄
Put couple photos on my profile of our cat clearly getting xmasy vibe.
Post Soviet wrote: "Put couple photos on my profile of our cat clearly getting xmasy vibe."Great photos. What is it with cats and Christmas trees? All of ours have been fascinated by them. One of them, Tip, had the tree over one year, jumping from the chair arm after something that attracted him. The baubles hardly move at all normally and I believe cats are more or less colour blind so I can't quite account for it. It's amusing to watch as long as the tree's secure, though!
And as long as they don't start snacking on the tinsel/lametta.
Made a fruit cake for Christmas. Just had an excellent view of the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. For once, the sky cleared enough at the right time. I think the closest approach is tomorrow but who knows if there'll be clear skies.
Watching the news, and realizing yes this is actually the news, not a fictional disaster movie.The fat's in the fire, and the fan is brown.
Serial wrote: "Watching the news, and realizing yes this is actually the news, not a fictional disaster movie.The fat's in the fire, and the fan is brown."
..... and Eire has an open border with N Ireland.......
Are you familiar with the term Job's Comforter? That's you with added schadenfreude.
Brass Neck wrote: "Serial wrote: "Watching the news, and realizing yes this is actually the news, not a fictional disaster movie.The fat's in the fire, and the fan is brown."
..... and Eire has an open border with..."
Yes, good point, we'll see, possibly travel will also cease between the UK and Northern Ireland.
To be honest I don't believe it'll make much difference.
The normal Covid strain got across the world with little trouble, if the new one is 70% more infectious, it's laughable to think it can be contained.
Let alone the fine job all the fleeing Londoners are doing of spreading it far and wide.Why is there no enforcement?
I find that bizarre. Why aren't the police or army in these train stations, sending people home who aren't meant to travel.
Because ...... Austerity and huge cuts means there aren't enough of them. There are some crap and pointless jobs in this world but can you imagine being deployed to deal with British exceptionalism in action? "I ain't seen my nan for 9 mumfs mate, I got a right to give 'er Covid and you plods ain't gunna stop me."Anyway the armed forces'll all be sent to schools in the New Year to do mass testing since all the unions including the heads have said they can't/won't do it in addition to teaching in class and online at the same time. 155K armed forces personnel divided by 32k schools is about 5 apiece (if the admirals and generals are included). Should be enough to grapple with the snotty anti-vaxxer gobshites in the bottom band of Y10.
next 10-14 days hanging in the balance of mrs t's test result taken yesterday. i've been advised to attend work, and to act if result is positive. which could potentially be too late for containment. ****'s sake!
Tech XXIII wrote: "next 10-14 days hanging in the balance of mrs t's test result taken yesterday. i've been advised to attend work, and to act if result is positive. which could potentially be too late for containmen..."Advised to attend work?
Is it any wonder, the current plague proportions.
Today, I shall mostly be watching the queue for the butcher's. I live next-door-but-one to a local butcher's shop. The kind of shop whose signs seem to be offering to butcher your family. Well, obviously, this is their busiest time of year and the queues generally stretch some way up the street. It doesn't compare with Ryan's in Much Wenlock - either for quality of produce or for length of queues - but it still has impressive queues.
Anyway, the interesting thing this morning has been an enterprising waitress from the coffee shop across the road coming and taking orders from the people in the queue. Probably brightened up their morning and will have helped the coffee shop's turnover. For background, the coffee shop opened early this year and was almost immediately flooded in the February deluge. Then the hairdressers next door moved into bigger premises recently vacated by Boots and the coffee shop extended into that space. Within a couple of weeks they had to close for lockdown #1 but set up a takeaway service that boomed, and when they were allowed to reopen to socially-distanced sit-in customers they did a roaring trade. The owners of the coffee shop also own an artisan bakery & wholefood shop round the corner, which has also moved into bigger premises (in this case vacated by a florist) and thrived despite restricted numbers of people allowed into the premises. Although 2020 has been a terrible year for non-internet businesses, some have really made the best of it. Both the butcher and the coffee shop/bakery are small, local businesses and it's great to see them succeeding.
Well, good for them. Its does bring back to mind a comment on last night's local news though; a hairdresser (I think) wondering why she and other stores were forced to close yet again, despite having introduced covid-secure ways in shop (screens, sanitiser, restricted numbers of customers allowed in, etc), and yet coffee shops were deemed 'essential' and allowed to remain open. Is a takeaway coffee really essential?
As essential, presumably, as ice-cream kiosks on Cleethorpes seafront in December which are open.
Having a lazy day now that the housework's done. D's off to his mate's tonight for a couple of beers so I plan to retire to bed early with a bottle of wine and a dvd. Yee-ha! Before all that I've just got to find the energy to drag my asss into the shower.
I think that it probably depends on where you live and on what your social and financial circumstances are, Tim, as well as to how aware you might be of just what else a lot of these Food Preparation places have been coming together and doing within your own local community. Most of the Cafes around the Greater Manchester area have been so utterly selfless and simply amazing - they have taken on and risen to the challenge of providing absolutely essential and regular hot Food and hot Drinks Delivery Services (in some cases at a huge discount but mostly in other cases it has all been volunteered for free using their own stocks plus other donated Ingredients from other Businesses) for all of the elderly, isolated, vulnerable, disabled, and struggling and suffering folk who suddenly found themselves left all alone while stuck shielding since March, and also for the Homeless, the teams of NHS Staff who have been working so tirelessly all around the Clock that they have barely had the time or the energy to also shop for and feed themselves around all of their Shifts, and for all of the many less well-off Kids too who would have otherwise been relying on their free School Dinners to provide them with their main (and in some really shockingly sad cases also their only) Meal of the day.
Well, that's the far more shocking and the stark reality of just why the Govt has done their best to always try to allow for them to continue to stay open up here in the North West of England anyway -and why, in some extremely poor and socially deprived areas, these little Cafes and Coffee Shops have now gone on to become community support hubs, local beacons of hope and light, as well as becoming an absolute lifeline to all those who are still very much in the most greatest need of them ... because a lot of folk would have actually gone without and starved to death behind their closed Doors without them being there and staying open.
My Hair may be so long now that I have to tie it back these days! ;o> ... but my Hairdresser never offered or delivered any Meat, Milk, or Bread to us when we really needed it and I couldn't work out how on Earth to get it ... it was a nearby Café that so very kindly brought us two of their Essential Food Boxes along with a Takeaway Meal to see us through that week until I could get to book a Supermarket Delivery Slot and get us stocked up again ;o>
Collette wrote: "Having a lazy day now that the housework's done. D's off to his mate's tonight for a couple of beers so I plan to retire to bed early with a bottle of wine and a dvd. Yee-ha! Before all that I've j..."Sounds like a sound plan to me ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I think that it probably depends on where you live and on what your social and financial circumstances are, Tim, as well as to how aware you might be of just what else a lot of these Food Preparati..."Suzy, if ever you're really stuck again, Oakhouse Foods do have some basic groceries - bread, milk, tea coffee etc. as well as all their meals. No guarantee they won't run out of course.
oakhousefoods.co.uk
It was at the very start of the first Lock-down, Lez ... we followed all of the advice that was given not to panic-buy or to stockpile ... and then we ended up in struggling and suffering from the consequences of not doing so! ;o<Now, whenever I start hearing of the same advice being issued yet again or of yet another restriction being added to our continual Local Lock-down, I always completely ignore it for the utterly thoughtless and incredibly stupid advice that it was/is to folk like us who are stuck in a permanent state of Shielding with no family or any support network in place and I immediately get myself online to book in several Supermarket Delivery Slots over as many days or weeks ahead as I can! - LOL!!! ;o>
Merry Christmas all. Couldn't remember which thread pets stuff was on but yesterday we broke the law multiply as we toured Sheffield dropping off pressies Santa-style (Ho, ho, NO!) and exchanging germs and stuff and my niece, who was 'working from home' which meant occasionally venturing off to waggle her mouse and features on one of them, took a bunch of photos of the now 8 month old Minnie which are now on my profile. Why I've still not taken any is beyond me. I think her first season is now over (Minnie's not the niece's) since very few dogs chased her down the beach this morning with their nose wedged up her undercarriage.
Had to read that twice, Mr B. Thought your niece had a pet mouse. Did Minnie enjoy her Christmas turkey then? Having a nice relaxing day here. Dropped Mum's Christmas dinner and pressies off this morning, and boy was it bloody cold out. We were glad to get in again. Sat now watching a bit of the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert with a Lambrini, then later on we'll watch some more Death In Paradise and a couple of eps of Still Game. Merry Christmas everyone. 🍾🎄
Collette wrote: "Had to read that twice, Mr B. Thought your niece had a pet mouse. Did Minnie enjoy her Christmas turkey then? Having a nice relaxing day here. Dropped Mum's Christmas dinner and pressies off this..."
She loves any roast meat leftovers so yes she did and a bit of pork too though she's been offered rather too much pork while she's been in season.
Be careful you don't overfeed her or she'll be a Maxi.
Yes there was a chill wind on Cleethorpes beach this morning. Still a couple of blokes with shorts on though and loads of folk without gloves while I'm thinking I have to get a thicker pair and clenching my fists to try to maintain circulation. Even wondering whether Minnie needs some sort of coat for the depths of winter even though she has quite long fur/hair. There were quite a few dogs out in their Xmas jumpers which nearly made me boak.
Relaxing now, food is over, enough leftovers for a week.From where I'm sitting I can see a tower of 7 chocolate selection boxes....
Tomorrow we're roasting a lump of Pork and taking it down to the neighbours for yet more noshing.
Should be peaceful with their 5 kids and our 3 :0
Serial wrote: "Relaxing now, food is over, enough leftovers for a week.From where I'm sitting I can see a tower of 7 chocolate selection boxes....
Tomorrow we're roasting a lump of Pork and taking it down to t..."
You'll be Serial Chubby Trumpet after all that!
Collette wrote: "Serial wrote: "Relaxing now, food is over, enough leftovers for a week.From where I'm sitting I can see a tower of 7 chocolate selection boxes....
Tomorrow we're roasting a lump of Pork and taki..."
He's an excitable boy; always with a chubby on!
Have you been peeking in his windows again, Mr B? Urgh! Nightmare alert. 🤢🤮
Collette wrote: "Have you been peeking in his windows again, Mr B? Urgh! Nightmare alert. 🤢🤮"Too busy looking in yours.
Collette wrote: "You can get the jail for that! 😳😬"S'OK, I use a drone with a camera.
Collette wrote: "Have you been peeking in his windows again, Mr B? Urgh! Nightmare alert. 🤢🤮"No need for that, C. I webcam Brassole regularly.
White wine, Captain Morgan,,,,and now Beer.
Jeez! It's drunken confession time. Far TMI, Timtim. 😁
Serial wrote: "White wine, Captain Morgan,,,,and now Beer."I hope you savoured having Cap'n Morgan swilling around your mouth Serial. Ooooh and indeed aaaarrr.
aaaarrrrr and indeed ooooh! oi hears he loikes t'get one o' the cap'n's stiff uns down the back o' 'ehs throat! goes down well with a bit o' pork 'n' sauce! yaaaarrrrr!(very poor)
well! how well did work go over the last 2 days? one of the residents had the damn cheek to die on xmas day, some **** ate my xmas dinner, and i managed to open up my forearm with a 15" slash sustained from contact with an errant panel pin on a laundry basket! yeah, good!
Slightly worst for wear today. That Cap'n is a rough ride.
That'll teach ya, ya drunken floozy! No Irn Bru? Best hangover cure.
one of the residents had the damn cheek to die on xmas day, some **** ate my xmas dinnerNo connection between these events?
Tech XXIII wrote: "well! how well did work go over the last 2 days? one of the residents had the damn cheek to die on xmas day, some **** ate my xmas dinner, and i managed to open up my forearm with a 15" slash susta..."Wow, it all happens for you, Tech.
Sounds as if you got off lightly.
Brass Neck wrote: "Serial wrote: "White wine, Captain Morgan,,,,and now Beer."I hope you savoured having Cap'n Morgan swilling around your mouth Serial. Ooooh and indeed aaaarrr."
That Cap'n fair swims down your throat, so smooth it is.
Tim wrote: "one of the residents had the damn cheek to die on xmas day, some **** ate my xmas dinnerNo connection between these events?"
Poor befuddled resident, after weeks of pill saving, managed to finally dose Techs roasties, but had a momentary senile moment and scoffed the lot.
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*Adonises. Just checked. I are!