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Jengie jon
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I take zinc everyday but despite the current cold the best one I have heard is when travelling be thorough over washing your hands before eating or drinking. My cold numbers dropped drastically when I implemented that last year.
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Today --- 3 new windows very well done. One fall by me on my head. Tripped!! Suggestions for getting bloodstains from cream carpet gratefully accepted (not joking this time). My head will heal but I fear for the carpet.
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Peroxide removes bloodstains, but I don't know what it would do to the color or fabric of the carpet. If you do use peroxide, shield the area from light until the peroxide is dry. Otherwise you will get a yellow stain.
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Enigma
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Originally posted by Moo:
Peroxide removes bloodstains, but I don't know what it would do to the color or fabric of the carpet. If you do use peroxide, shield the area from light until the peroxide is dry. Otherwise you will get a yellow stain.
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Light - in darkest Wales?? We've had our bit for this year I think. Thanks Moo I'll have a go.
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Goodness, Enigma, that sounds more than a little alarming. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
We seem to have people queuing up to complete the job left by our late lamented builder; D. got what seemed like a very good quote from a bloke who lives across the road* and another bloke knocked on the door offering to give us a quote, so we may be sorted sooner than we thought.
We're now getting red hurricane warnings from the Weather Channel, and it's just occurred to me that we've got scaffolding up against the house - perhaps a spot of securing might be in order ...
* He's probably fed up with the view of our house in its unfinished state. Can't say I blame him. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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At the recommendation of our pharmacist I am now taking Vitamin C with added zinc instead of just plain old Vit C - this one doesn't taste wonderful but it is tolerable; I'll see if they do a non-chewable so I can just swallow it down.
If the weather stays steady I may have my long promised but never really accomplished trip to the secondhand bookshop today but the sky is looking ominous as I type!
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I'm having yet another Proud To Be British moment - as I mentioned on the Scottish thread, Andy Murray has won the U.S. Open - the first British man to win a Grand Slam since Fred Perry in the 1930s.
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Uncle Pete
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quote:
Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
I take zinc everyday but despite the current cold the best one I have heard is when travelling be thorough over washing your hands before eating or drinking. My cold numbers dropped drastically when I implemented that last year.
Jengie
I learnt that when I was a schoolboy! And it reinforced in my travels when I started spending time in South Asia and following local customs.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Originally posted by PeteC:
quote:
Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
I take zinc everyday but despite the current cold the best one I have heard is when travelling be thorough over washing your hands before eating or drinking. My cold numbers dropped drastically when I implemented that last year.
Jengie
I learnt that when I was a schoolboy! And it reinforced in my travels when I started spending time in South Asia and following local customs.
...and apparently it's one of the measures Dave Brailsford implemented within British cycling as a way of reducing time lost from training due to illness (and we all know where that led, don't we? ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif) )
Mrs. S, proud to be British again this morning ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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Gorgeous sunny morning here in paradise and I have to take Nephew Person's bike down to the village for repair, so it may well rain fairly soon! It is is only ten minutes walk but still I shall take an umbrella just in case.
Was cruel to 14 year old neighbour boy yesterday - over the weekend I found a photo of him taken back in 2007 so I got a print made which I then gave to his older sisters - lots of cooing about "Awww, wasn't he cute!"
He didn't hit me and he was still smiling so I reckon I am forgiven.
It is not all happy stuff here, the older of the two older sisters above was attacked the other day just 200 metres from here by two men who tried to steal the gold chain she had round her neck - she fought back and they rode off on their motorbike but she was hurt and shocked. She has two adult cousins into martial arts as well as a father and uncles and all - if they got hold of the perpetrators they might well regret what they had done. I really disapprove of mob justice but there are times...
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Welease Woderwick
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Predictably, I suppose, as it is monsoon, the umbrella was not wasted! Nephew Person's bicycle now fully functioning again for less than 20 pence!
I also gave bicycle repair man rather nice photo I took of his son at the temple on Sunday.
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Rain rain rain here in Rochdale. I have a new umbrella policy - one in every bag, that way I can't forget it. So far it's worked well.
(Handbag, camera bag, swimming bag, school bag, walking rucksack - yep, that's five umbrellas and me dry!)
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I thought having three umbrellas was excessive. Mind you I still have to remember to swap between handbags.
Rain hasn't reached the sunny south east yet but it was almost cold enough to get the gloves out on the journey into work.
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Umbrellas are a bit tricky for me, so when I take the dog out, I have a Hat - which is waterproof but makes me look a proper Nellie! /~\ ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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Amm my umbrellas are really past their use by date and since before the beginning of this year's monsoon I have been promising myself a new one but first I have to get a round tuit and am still waiting for that event to occur.
Just had a call from my UK bank to say the transfer I made on Monday has been returned because I gave an invalid account number for my account here in India - I gave the same number I have been using for 4 years! It is a bit late today but I shall go in my bank here tomorrow morning and make my discontent known. Luckily we are not quite on our uppers this month but it won't take long. The round tuit for that has already arrived!
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Originally posted by ElaineC:
I thought having three umbrellas was excessive ...
Then again, you don't live near Manchester ...
No umbrellas needed here today; after the vicissitudes of Hurricane Leslie yesterday it was an absolutely gorgeous day. It was an odd sort of storm: it really seemed very short-lived. It started around 5 in the morning, and the University was closed to staff and students, so I got a day off w*rk , but by lunch-time the sun was breaking through and the wind had died down considerably.
Although we personally didn't have any damage (the aforementioned scaffolding slipped a few inches down the hill, but that was all), there was quite a lot of damage in other parts of the city and out into the country.
One nasty side-effect of the storm was a proliferation of wasps and assorted Horrid Wee Bugs™, one of whom decided my right arm was just what he wanted for lunch, leaving me with a v. painful and rather large lump. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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Is the Horrid Wee Bug okay?
![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
Sorry about that, hope your arm gets better soon and there are no after effects, as can sometimes happen.
I'm glad you survived the storm, the forecasts didn't look like fun at all.
Off to the bank in an hour to vent my wrath. I quite enjoy these things in a perverse sort of way.
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You have rain? I wish I could feel sympathetic, but I can't. At least the changes in weather gives you something to talk about.
I'm here suffering from the monotony of the weather being unchanging. 13 days in Southern Spain. Nothing but blue skies and sun. Poor me.
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Welease Woderwick
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Oh balaam, I am SO sorry! I hope you get through that awful ordeal with no permanent damage.
My bank here didn't know how problem happened, they phoned head office who didn't understand how problem happened - all details check out fine! Anyway, payment re-initiated and I have been sent copy of original document for my bank so they can find out what went wrong.
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Welease Woderwick
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We have spent a while today considering which provider to go to for our next satellite TV connection - we could upgrade to HD with the one we've got but there are so many providers and different deals here it is so tough to make the choice - but it is so much better than UK where it used to be just one provider, in the shape of the Evil Empire of Murdoch - is it still the same? One of the possibilities here is linked up with SKY so I haven't even bothered looking at what they offer - I am as ruled by Blind Prejudice as anyone else!
In the end one of the companies offers a 14% discount for booking online so I think that's the one for us - if we pay up front for two years we get a free extra 4 months, too! We would get an even bigger discount if we pay for 5 years but by then we could be in the realm of the Super HD so I think we'll stick to the 2 years.
Now to work out how to block the Fox channels...
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Is the Horrid Wee Bug okay?
Quite frankly, I hope he got squashed. Slowly.
Re your TV provider, don't you have to have Sky to get the cricket?
After D. asking around a bit, and getting good reports, we've taken up the offer from the bloke across the road to finish the work chez Piglet, and he's starting on Monday. He reckons it'll only take a few days, so we should be sorted fairly soon.
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Welease Woderwick
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We do have a derivative or combine or something of or with Sky but Sky is owned by, or something, Murdoch and Co so I'd rather not deal with them directly although perforce some of the cricket will still be on one of their channels whichever provider we use. I will probably do the order for the other company over the weekend and have it installed next week. We look to be about to have about 400 channels with quite a few in HD - of course we will never watch most of those channels as they will be in languages that no-one in the house understands. I doubt that we will watch more than 10% of them.
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Who gives a hoot what language the cricket is in?
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Welease Woderwick
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HWMBO baked me some spiced fish [marinated in ginger, garlic, black pepper and salt] this morning whilst I was in town and also boiled some potatoes so I then made saute potatoes [home fries, I think, to those from across the pond] and I had far too much lunch.
But it were lovely, it were.
A quick visit to the bank this morning where I was promised my money would be credited today, I'm still waiting but it is encouraging news even if it is 4 days late!
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Yesterday my car battery died, which meant an emergency replacement, and time off work, and as a way of ensuring the battery was fully charged, I took the car off to Stratford upon Avon.
It was a hot sunny day, and just right for the homecoming parade for one of the Paralympic Gold Medal athletes, who was being taken around town in an open-top bus, then gave a speech from the town hall balcony along with the mayor and dignitaries, to rapturous cheers. Lots of balloons, bunting, locals and small children waving flags, bemused tourists and a lot of excited schoolboys in uniform who'd been allowed out of lessons for this.
After that it was lunch al fresco at a table in the sun (food always seems to taste better in the open air), and then waiting for Judi Dench to appear at the RSC to sign CDs. I had to leave before she got there but saw it on TV news later and even a Paralympics crowd scene from earlier!
And I'd woken up that morning thinking I'd be spending most of the day at work, as usual. You never do know.
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{Just to let everyone know, I'm opening the Secret Santa thread}
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Piglet
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Originally posted by PeteC:
Who gives a hoot what language the cricket is in?
I don't even understand cricket when it's in English ... ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
... although there's something very civilised about a game that stops for tea.
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Welease Woderwick
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A state-wide strike here today so very quiet - I took the opportunity to cycle to another nearby and slightly larger village to go to the ATM there. It was closed down because of the strike!
Ah well, the cycle ride was pleasant, I got some exercise, met some friends and got back before it started to rain again.
I can go to the ATM tomorrow after mass and before we go shopping so still a successful day.
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Still recovering from a rather late night last night - we went to Weobley to see the wonderful Gordon Giltrap in concert. Yes, it was worth the hoour and a half journey.
He's going to be touring with Oliver Wakeman (Rick Wakeman's son) - that should be a concert worth going to.
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This weekend we were down in the beautiful Peak District for a wedding (well the wedding was in Sheffield) - we drove down after work on Friday so arrived at our B&B around 10pm, I was thinking as we were driving round all these country lanes in the pitch black that we were probably missing some amazing scenery, and the next day when we drove first to the wedding and then to the reception I was certainly proved right, it was absolutely beautiful. The reception was in a picture-postcard-perfect village, in the village hall next to the village green (and yes there was a cricket match going on), with river and dinky wooden bridge that was just made for wedding photos. It was absolutely delightful, and my goodness they chose the best day for a wedding, the weather was fantastic.
The only downside was that shortly after getting into our room at the B&B on Friday night, the most enormous spider scuttled across the floor and disappeared, we never did find it, but it certainly did for peaceful sleeping! Even TME, who is used to me squawking when I see spiders and nods in a "yes dear, of course it was that big" kind of way had to admit when he saw it that it really was worth making a fuss about.
He also saw a couple of mating slugs next to our car when we left the reception. I had to reverse in their general direction, so they may have had their passion somewhat rudely interrupted.
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I know the sort. Size of your hand (and what's more, it was coming from the bedroom. I may have got that one, but I always fancy it had family).
This time of year is bad too; it's when they come indoors.
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Think how big we must look to the spiders, doesn't seem to worry them though.
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Welease Woderwick
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We had one in the bedroom Friday night and one in the bathroom Saturday night - both unkindly despatched with a bit of cockroach spray.
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At least spiders don't sting - I've still got a bruise from that bloody wasp the other day.
I really ought to go to bed - I'll need to be up earlier than usual as the builder's supposed to start tomorrow morning.
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Welease Woderwick
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Who told you spiders don't sting?
I have had stings from spiders here - the big ones don't seem to be much of a problem but the littler ones...
A wasp sting can be very unpleasant and so can a spider - and it seems to be sore for days afterwards.
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I got a nasty spider bite in India - my first and, so far, only - and it took a week's application of an antibiotic cream to clear it up. I was startled at how fast the venom spread.
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Watch spider bites carefully, many are necrotic and go on to ulcerate -- our local GP refers people to the vet if he is in doubt because vets deal with spider bites on animals quite often.
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Welease Woderwick
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That's fine by me, as a colleague of mine used to say:
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It's better to be vetted than doctored!
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Originally posted by moonlitdoor:
Think how big we must look to the spiders, doesn't seem to worry them though.
Yes, I was always told "it's more afraid of you than you are of it". To be honest, I doubt it.
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Mea culpa for my arachnological ignorance - maybe it's just that a spider's never bitten me.
We now have one more Nice New Window than we had yesterday - yay for new builder!
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Could we change the subject, please? <shudders>
Its still raining here, though its colder rain than it was.
I can therefore offer hot coffee or tea, plus a choice of biscuits - hobnobs, digestives, choc, whatever.
And having sat through a rather tedious committee meeting yesterday, I have decided there is a lot to be said for Dictatorship.
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Originally posted by Nicodemia:
And having sat through a rather tedious committee meeting yesterday, I have decided there is a lot to be said for Dictatorship.
haha!
I gave up meetings a couple of years ago. Stuff gets done or it doesn't, we don't need meetings to talk about stuff getting done.
Yes please to biccies (virtual biccies are the best for the waistline!)
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Originally posted by Nicodemia:
And having sat through a rather tedious committee meeting yesterday, I have decided there is a lot to be said for Dictatorship.
May I recommend a chairman who dines later and that you arrange meetings before his dinner. At least the duration is limited. Retired officers of the right level (c Lt-Col) usually fit the bill. They detest attempts to butter-them-up, aren't afraid of anyone while troublemakers are usually afraid of them.
On reflection, I suppose that is a dictatorship.
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Curiosity killed ...
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Unsurprisingly, if you know me, I took photos of the spider in the bath last week (my current Flickr Get Pushed challenge is a triptych), it hasn't returned to star again - I really didn't kill it.
The last few days have been busy with offspring down for what was effectively her summer holidays. Changing jobs at the beginning of the month she managed to lose her holiday entitlement as time off, although she'll get paid it in lieu from the previous job this month. We saw two BBC Radio 4 recordings, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme on Friday and the Museum of Curiosity on Sunday night, plus The Taming of the Shrew at The Globe on Saturday afternoon. The Museum of Curiosity had:
- Pamela Stephenson Connolly,
- Humphrey Ker of the Penny Dreadfuls and
- Sir Andre Geim, the guy who got an igNobel for levitating a frog and a Nobel for grapheme as guests,
- John Lloyd (Not the Nine o'Clock News, QI, News Quiz in the early days, you name it in comedy over the last 30 odd years) is the chair and
- Jimmy Carr the curator, replacing Bill Bailey.
It took 2 hours to record a 30 minute programme - the same format, but more extensive conversation - and only a few retakes of questions. I suspect I can guess some of the bits that will be cut. Tickets are free for BBC recordings, but you have to apply in advance and none are guaranteed. I've applied for some others, things I'd like to see, but I'm not sure I'll get anything.
I also rebraided my daughter's hair and persuaded her to sort out the boxes of stuff I didn't move up to her studio flat in February. We're now down to one box of university notes for storage here and another (small) pile of things she couldn't manage this time.
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la vie en rouge
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Originally posted by Boogie:
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Originally posted by Nicodemia:
And having sat through a rather tedious committee meeting yesterday, I have decided there is a lot to be said for Dictatorship.
haha!
I gave up meetings a couple of years ago. Stuff gets done or it doesn't, we don't need meetings to talk about stuff getting done.
I can one-up you ![[Razz]](tongue.gif) . Try sitting through a meeting with a load of French people... (like I did last night - the management of our orchestra has let us down HUGE time so we are setting up our own charitable association to make the orchestra belong to the musicians).
En France, ça discute...*
*hard to translate but means that French people like to talk a lot and disagree with what everyone said pretty much for the fun of it
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Nicodemia
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La Vie en rose said:
En France, ça discute...*
*hard to translate but means that French people like to talk a lot and disagree with what everyone said pretty much for the fun of it
Yeah, we had one of those, but he left. But he spoke English. Emphatically.
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'Evening all. Just calling in to say hello to everyone. I read. I'm just not posting much.
Hugs all round. Or bracing handshakes. Or a nice cup of something.
(I'm still alright, which is good)
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Hey Amber. - hugs to you too. Lovely to see you here - like you I read more than I post.
This evening on my bike ride home from town I heard this and was glad (very glad) that I live far away from it. I also saw a fox, loads of stars and smelt some scrummy apples. I do like September.
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Hello Amber **waves**
Those of you attending meetings have my sympathy; I've just finished typing up the minutes of this evening's meeting of the Anglican Cemetery Committee, for which I'm the Recording Secretary*.
All the new windows are now in, although as they're only just in I'm wary of opening them. This is unfortunate as the weather here's been absolutely glorious, so the temperature is slightly beyond the comfort zone of the hyperborealian piglet ...
* Like a Recording Angel, but without the wings, halo and general angelicity.
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Hi Amber, good to see you around again - I think of you often. I'm glad your health stuff is going well.
Had a nice troll around the city yesterday but still didn't get to the secondhand bookshop. I ended up in the opposite direction, went past an ice cream shop I used to frequent but first needed to go elsewhere, which I did, promising myself a double scoop [butterscotch and pistachio] in a few minutes. I remembered the ice cream when I was walking up from the bus to home so in the end it was only a virtual ice cream, perhaps I'll remember next time I am over that way.
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