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Sioni Sais
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Opera??
In Lent??
Is Outrage!!
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As it is Lent, will the fat lady be present, let alone able to sing?
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Baptist Trainfan
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She could certainly sing, but she wasn't fat.
The bass, on the other hand, was fairly well-proportioned ...
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Anyone want to come over here and try to squeeze clothes for two people for nearly a fortnight (including smart funeral clothes) into one medium-size suitcase?
Oh yes, and they also need to include something warm enough for Toronto and cool enough for the south of England.
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Sioni Sais
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Anyone want to come over here and try to squeeze clothes for two people for nearly a fortnight (including smart funeral clothes) into one medium-size suitcase?
Oh yes, and they also need to include something warm enough for Toronto and cool enough for the south of England.
I would investigate the cost of hiring some decent outfit for the funeral, buying the cheapest acceptable clothes possible in the UK then (ideally) selling them on before you have to return to Canada.
I don't suppose you can leave cold-weather clothes at Toronto? Have you friends there who could look after them while you over here, taking them from you on departure and being there to hand them back on your return? A bottle of something old may help.
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Bishops Finger
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Hope the trip goes sell, Piglet - the logistics do sound a bit complex... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
for the funeral, too.
The weather is mild and lachrymose in southern Ukland just now, but set to get a bit colder (well, cold to us effete Southrons) later in the week.
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Bishops Finger
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Hope the trip goes well, I mean...
(Actually, the idea of buying cheap clothing here, and then selling it, is OK as far as it goes, but how would you go about the selling, given your limited time here?
If your budget can stand it, you could always pass it on to the homeless, if a convenient agency is to hand, or simply leave it with a charity shop.)
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Jengie jon
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A quick trip to your local charity shop or two when here?
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Bishops Finger
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Do you mean in order to buy clothes, Jengie?
Cos that's a Very Good Idea!
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Pigwidgeon
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I know of some people who ship their luggage to their destination because they find it is more economical that paying the airline rates.
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Pigwidgeon
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We've got our flights booked - we're heading over the Pond on Monday.
Oops! I guess it's too late for suggestions.
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There's always the final resort -- wearing two or three jackets one on top of the other, with four shirts beneath.
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Jengie jon
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Originally posted by Bishops Finger:
Do you mean in order to buy clothes, Jengie?
Cos that's a Very Good Idea!
IJ
Yes.
pack essentials
buy others from charity shops
give back to charity shops excess clothing
It is standard backpackers advice iirc and I am prepared to bet there will be something from the charity shop that becomes an essential.
Jengie
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Bishops Finger
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Excellent advice, though I suspect Piglet and D. are on a tight schedule, and may simply not have enough time.
In other circumstances, yes....
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Bishops Finger
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Just to brighten your day, if you live in the damp parts of Ukland (i.e. most of it), here is a cheerful rendition of a little musical snippet by Dmitri Shostakovich, courtesy of Yuja Wang and an anonymous trumpet player.
Enjoy!
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Ferijen
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Piglet's journeying seems to have slowed down this thread. Hoping her travels have gone as well as one could expect
Happy Friday everyone. Sunny and cold in this bit of the South...
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Originally posted by Bishops Finger:
Just to brighten your day, if you live in the damp parts of Ukland (i.e. most of it), here is a cheerful rendition of a little musical snippet by Dmitri Shostakovich, courtesy of Yuja Wang and an anonymous trumpet player.
I heard this live in Heidelberg, played by the Heidelberg symphony orchestra - simply marvellous.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Ferijen:
Piglet's journeying seems to have slowed down this thread. Hoping her travels have gone as well as one could expect
Happy Friday everyone. Sunny and cold in this bit of the South...
At 8am it was -2C in South Wales (and *not* up in the hills either). Quite a bit of ice to scrape off the car. Happily it is half-term so a quick journey to work. It will all be different next week when the little darlings will have to be ferried to school - we have two primary schools and three large secondary schools close to my office so that's a lot of SUVs/People Carriers and Chelsea tractors to contend with, especially with a lot of road works going on.
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Bishops Finger
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Horrid east wind here - the one that makes your ears seem tight, as though they need a quarter-turn on order to feel right again....
Sn*w is forecast for next week, as in 'KILLER SN*W STORM ALERT!!!!' on the front page of the tabloids. Maybe it's to make Piglet feel welcome ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
Though I'm sure we all hope that she and D. are OK, and that her Dad's funeral went as well as could be expected (it was today, IIRC).
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LRP and I have had a pleasant but cold trip to Wakefield at the Food, Drink and Rhubarb festival, and met with Arachnid in Elmet for what could be the last mini shipmeet before Ship II sails. Unless you know otherwise.
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Bishops Finger
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The east wind persists, but we have some Sun-Shine today, and, as the Palace possesses a sequestered Nook or Den, I am able to take some advantage of it.
However, on visiting the corner shop this morning, I found that, with the threat of SN*W next week, the population of South-East Ukland has decided (as per usual) to stockpile bread, milk, and toilet rolls.
Not that I particularly need any of those commodities, but why do Uklanders persist in buying stuff that they obviously know will make them incontinent?
The Palace is, I am happy to say, replete with SOUP, logs, coal, and WHISKY, so it can sn*w as much as it likes.
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People obviously like stale bread and milk, otherwise there's going to be a craze for bread and butter pudding.
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Bread and milk was what Mum used to give us when we were poorly - that and stewed apple 🍎
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No need for bread and butter pudding at Chez Arachnid as we've just had a very tasty rhubarb frangipane tart from yesterday's Rhubarb Festival meeting with Balaam and LRP. There's some rhubarb waiting to be stewed for tomorrow.
It's definitely crumble weather. I'm writing this from under a duvet supplemented by a hot water bottle.
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Bishops Finger
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Yes, indeed - Comfort Food required! I've just had some nice chicken-and-mushroom SOUP.
My Old Mum used to stew a mean apple (Bramleys, mostly, IIRC, as we had a huge old tree in the wilderness that passed for a garden), and we were so fed whether we were poorly or not.
But it was delicious (where's that drooly emoji?).
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Bishops Finger
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More Black Breath of Putin (i.e. east wind from Russia) today, but a most beautiful cloudless, and clear blue, sky.
However, Siberian temperatures, along with SN*W, are on their way, which will interfere (possibly) with My Arrangements.
Thank you, Uncle Vlad.
Not.
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In mitigation of which, I have today (despite it being the Sabbath) been to the shop, and bought some nice SAUSAGE ROLLS, and smoked CHEESE, together with PEANUT BUTTER, for the adorning of TOAST.
Isn't comfort food wonderful?
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For lunch we had some most excellent and large Sardines (from Asda!) on toast. Mmmm ...
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Bishops Finger
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How very Frugal, and, indeed, Lenten.....
Yes, I like the occasional dose of sardines or mackerel on TOAST. When Ah wor a lad, My Old Mum used to sometimes give us pilchards and boiled potatoes (accompanied by bread and butter) for lunch on Saturdays.
In winter, it would be tomato SOUP (Heinz, of course) with boiled potatoes in it.
Mmmmmmmmm......
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Just because this amuses me, apparently the next "tenant" in my daughter's flat was a young looking police officer. The drug dealing neighbour leafleted the letterbox as normal. He then set up a deal with his new neighbour. There's now a certain amount of sorrow on the Book of the Face that supplies have dried up. The policeman only lived there for two days.
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
Just because this amuses me, apparently the next "tenant" in my daughter's flat was a young looking police officer. The drug dealing neighbour leafleted the letterbox as normal. He then set up a deal with his new neighbour. There's now a certain amount of sorrow on the Book of the Face that supplies have dried up. The policeman only lived there for two days.
Okay, now this is news! ![[Smile]](smile.gif) Too bad she couldn't have employed the strategy of inviting someone like this over regularly.
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
Just because this amuses me, apparently the next "tenant" in my daughter's flat was a young looking police officer. The drug dealing neighbour leafleted the letterbox as normal. He then set up a deal with his new neighbour. There's now a certain amount of sorrow on the Book of the Face that supplies have dried up. The policeman only lived there for two days.
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I did work two days at The Job™ last week around the cover gig locally. I was supposed to be going in today, but the travel disruptions are huge, UK snow!, so getting home in a hurry does not look an option, and I am not working anywhere where I cannot get home quickly atm.
I am also feeling a whole lot less like going in because, although I had agreed the work to cover, on Thursday my successor told me that she had been authorised to use me to sort out the exams with her. So I spent most of the day refinding and retyping up the information I had given her before I left at the end of October (finding the spreadsheets and How To™ notes saved on the Exec Drive where I'd left them, but nothing updated). The narrative was on an email, with attachments, but I don't have access to my old email account to reforward her previously composed emails, because that would have saved half a day. Another one who'd like a Grr emoticon.
Currently it's very pretty here - light icing of snow, occasional flakes drifting past.
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Yes, heavy sn*w here in North Kent - it's been quite a few years since we had this much (4 inches or so, and still coming down thick and fast).
I blame Putin. The Russian tanks etc. will be moving in soon, under cover of his Black Breath.
Fortunately, I don't have to leave the Palace today, but for all who do have to be out and about...especially the emergency services, carers etc. ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
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Sioni Sais
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I worked in North Kent for a couple of years (at an MoD establishment between Orpington and Sevenoaks) and we had some serious snow there. Over the winter of 1983-1984 we had snow on the ground for six weeks!
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Ha! I recall the great winter of '62-'63, when sn*w lasted pretty well from Boxing Day until Easter!
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Yes, we went to a matinee performance of "Emil and the Detectives" on Boxing Day and it was snowing when we came out. Fortunately my parents had installed central heating that very summer!
I sledged after school nearly every day (school closed early during the snowtime, and the park was almost next door).
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Yes, we had central heating, too.
My Old Dad would stand in the middle of the living room, smoking a fag. Every time he took a drag, we'd stretch out our hands to the glowing tip of his roll-up......
I'll get me mittens....
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Ha! I recall the great winter of '62-'63, when sn*w lasted pretty well from Boxing Day until Easter!
I remember going to school in shorts.
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I remember going to school in shorts.
We weren't allowed to wear shorts to school even when it was over 100F (38C). Girls weren't even allowed to wear slacks until the year after I graduated, when they relaxed some of the rules.
But of course this was back when we drove our horse and buggy to school. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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I was still in shorts, too, back in the Great Ice Winter....the bloody sn*w was deep enough to come over the top of my wellies, thus soaking and freezing my poor little toes and matchstick legs.
We were too poor to afford Thick Sox.
More sn*w is falling as I write, but the forecast for the weekend is not too bad (cloud and rain!).
The resultant thaw will doubtless reveal more leaks in the Palace roof, complete with Annoying Drips.
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Just been having a conversation about people who wear shorts no matter the weather, sparked off by the local school caretaker. Apparently there's someone in this category who, in especially cold weather, may consider putting on a hat...
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Proper snow here - suspended trains and tube and a pretty delicate sunrise following a sunset showing orange through falling snow. I expect a snow day for everyone else. Good thing I forgot to contact The Job™ agreeing times to go in this week.
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Just been having a conversation about people who wear shorts no matter the weather, sparked off by the local school caretaker. Apparently there's someone in this category who, in especially cold weather, may consider putting on a hat...
Won't they need two hats ... one for each knee?
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Ha! I recall the great winter of '62-'63, when sn*w lasted pretty well from Boxing Day until Easter!
IJ
We were living on a airfield in Lincolnshire at that time. I can't remember much beyond the cold but with one fire and no central heating we hunkered down in one room with blankets round the chairs, only moving to feed and go to bed. I started school in the January and I'm sure there was snow on the ground for weeks, possibly until we moved in March to the south coast.
btw, our postie wears shorts, but he moves pretty fast!
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They were putting out a display of sledges in the supermarket this morning ... so far we've only had the lightest of dustings and the sun is now out, but there is Much Worse To Come tomotrrow.
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Snow day around here - genuinely - it's been snowing all morning. Currently I'm looking out on to sunshine on lots of white, but it's clouding over again, which suggests more fluffy stuff descending. The schools that did try to open are sending children home early and we've cancelled Guides tonight. One school opened at 10am and shut at 11:30am. The tube has had severe delays all day, as had the overground.
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Nice Sun-Shine here, though the East Wind is beginning to pick up again....
The environs of the Palace are workaday, not to say ramshackle, but the frost and sn*w in the Sun-Shine earlier this morning made it all look quite beautiful-ish.
The other noticeable thing about sn*w, of course, is how it muffles sound. This, I like.
(BTW, spare a thought for poor piglet, over this side of the pond for Daddy Pig's funeral. Let's hope the Siberian-style weather doesn't incommode her, and D., too much on what is probably not a particularly pleasant trip.)
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The other noticeable thing about sn*w, of course, is how it muffles sound. This, I like.
IJ
When I lived in New York City (Manhattan) I loved major snowstorms if I didn't have to travel more than a block from home. It's so QUIET with automobile traffic reduced to almost nothing, and -- as you say -- the snow muffling what sound there is. Not even any planes when the airports have to close.
I felt sorry for all for whom the weather was a major inconvenience and a health and safety concern, but oh, it was lovely if you were safe at home.
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