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Thread: Keep Calm and Carry On - the British thread 2014
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daisydaisy
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Originally posted by Jack the Lass:
No doubt they'll still grow if I put them in next weekend instead.
I hope so - when I read the fertiliser box it said to wait a week before planting. So I got even more digging done.
One of the perks of digging is the bits of clay baccy pipe that I find: 2 pieces of stem today. Over the last 7 or 8 years I've collected quite a few including an almost-complete bowl. It turns out that about 300 years ago my ancestors are likely to have strolled on or near the site of the allotments on their way into town - I like to think that one of these fragments might have belonged to one of them, although I suspect they are more recent.
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moonlitdoor
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The Monday after the autumn clock change is not a day to look forward to. It's going to be dark when I leave work tomorrow afternoon, and every weekday for about 4 months. Although I have only 6 miles to cycle, it always seems farther in the dark than it does in the light.
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Our clocks go back next weekend, and to be honest I rather look forward to it. Having grown up in Orkney I'm used to it getting dark early in winter and I just tell myself it'll even out in the summer. As I only work mornings, I don't go home in the dark anyway, although when I did, I really didn't mind.
We sang lots of nice Tudor music today (Byrd four-part mass and Prevent us, O Lord in the morning, and Morley responses, Ayleward Mag and Nunc and In pace by Blitheman in the evening). Recipe for a happy piglet. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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I enjoy this puppy walking lark!
I get up and think 'Where shall we go today Gypsy?'
I think we might do her first tram journey into town, then have a look round the new bus/tram station
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Heavenly Anarchist
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I've just had a tooth pulled ![[Frown]](frown.gif) currently numb but I'm waiting for the pain to come. And it's making me all fidgety.
The boys are home for half term too. I might go into the bedroom and hide with a book.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by moonlitdoor:
The Monday after the autumn clock change is not a day to look forward to. It's going to be dark when I leave work tomorrow afternoon, and every weekday for about 4 months. Although I have only 6 miles to cycle, it always seems farther in the dark than it does in the light.
My sense of direction packs up at sunset too.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist:
I've just had a tooth pulled ...
Poor HA. Hope it doesn't give you too much gyp. I'm prone to "dry sockets" when I have tooth extractions, and I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy.
**shudder**
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Welease Woderwick
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Consultation and prescription of drops and tablets for the week for my @#$%^&*! conjunctivitis came to nearly a quid and a half!
How much does a scrip cost in England these days?
Currently my eyes look like I've spent the last 24 hours smoking noxious substances.
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Ariel
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Still dark when I leave for work in the mornings so no change there, but at least we're back on GMT.
This is where the lack of daylight begins to make itself felt, though, with only lunch hours to see the world in full colour, and journeys in the dark in either direction. As much of mine is past fields, there's nothing but pitch blackness for a lot of it.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Consultation and prescription of drops and tablets for the week for my @#$%^&*! conjunctivitis came to nearly a quid and a half!
How much does a scrip cost in England these days?
Currently my eyes look like I've spent the last 24 hours smoking noxious substances.
The prescription charge is £8.05 per item in England, but you can get prepayment certificates or 'season tickets' for three months or a year. Over-60s are among the many exempt groups.
There are no prescription charges in Scotland or Wales.
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Sorry for all those with eye and teeth trouble! Hope you are not suffering too much, WW and HA!
Dark and murky here, but just had very pleasant morning drinking coffee with Home Group in the cafe of local posh (very posh) Furniture firm as it is my birthday next week. Came away with fistful of cards and an exotic orchid.
Unfotunately however, having made soup and olive bread ready for today, discovered that Mr. N did not like olive bread as he said it had funny taste! Now I have large loaf of said bread in the freezer which will take ages and ages for me to eat myself and which is taking up a lot of room.
(It was a new recipe I was trying, and it did seem to have a lot of olive oil in it. It came out a very dark brownish grey with large holes in. Artisanal is, I think, the right term. I thought it was lovely, but there you are, I can't please everyone!)
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St. Gwladys
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
There are no prescription charges in Scotland or Wales. [/QB]
There are definitely advantages in living in Wales!(Especially when your family is a medical disaster area)
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About daisydaisy's tobacco pipes - I used to dig things like that up for a living! They're actually pretty easy to date - the bowls change over time in recognisable styles. The very early ones are so tiny they're called fairy pipes, because tobacco was so expensive. They gradually get bigger, and in the nineteenth century there are lots of decorated ones which can be quite pretty. My ex-husband used to smoke a cut down churchwarden pipe that he'd dug up himself. It had about half of the very long stem left.
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Pipe smoking, that takes me back. When I was growing up both my parents and two brothers smoked and my dad and brothers all had pipes as well as cigarettes. My eldest brother had one of those curly Sherlock Holmes-type ones.
I'm not enjoying the dark evenings either and November's just round the corner - my least favourite month of the year. In my opinion, the nicest thing I can say about November is that it means Christmas is on the way. I love Christmas. ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
And it's Tuesday tomorrow. Tuesdays are my favourite day of the week. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Nenya:
And it's Tuesday tomorrow. Tuesdays are my favourite day of the week.
Nen, you can have all my Tuesdays! I've never liked them, rating them a rather pointless, nothing sort of day. I suppose it goes back to my childhood when there was nothing worthwhile on TV on a Tuesday (certainly no sport) then when I was older there was never any live music in pubs, probably because it was by tradition, the landlord's night off. Pub managers being what they are they often went to another pub and were buoyed up to see them doing badly, little realising that every pub in the town was quiet.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Nenya:
Pipe smoking, that takes me back ...
Me too - I had a great-uncle who smoked a pipe and had a rack fitted in the bay-window of his sitting-room.
I smoked for over 20 years, and I always felt it was deeply unfair that they didn't put nice-smelling pipe-tobacco into cigarettes.
I can still almost smell the aroma in my mind's nose ...
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Sarasa
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My grandad smoked old soberonie(sp?), and on the rare occasions I smell it nowadays I expect to see him come shuffling along - he died over fifty years ago.
I have had a nasty cold this last week or so, and although I feel a lot better, still have a cough that's keeping me awake at silly o'clock. Grr
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Piglet
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Take a honey-and-lemon drink with a wee drop of whisky before you go to bed - that might help. Hope you feel better soon.
Pot of chicken-and-veggie soup bubbling on the stove - should be ready for virtual tasting when you read this.
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Welease Woderwick
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Queueing for train tickets [going away for the weekend] yesterday the person behind me in the queue was a youngish nun - at first we contemplated saying the rosary to pass the time then decided that waiting in a railway queue is rather like what we can expect when we get to purgatory!
Why does the other queue always move quicker?
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Socket less painful than yesterday and clot intact so all apparently healing well. I've just taken my painkillers so am feeling okay. On the upside, the painful mouth has distracted me from my painful leg!
I need to get a little OU work done and then see if I am able to concentrate enough for some study. I might stick a Lancashire hot pot in the slow cooker, I had one in the pub last week and it reminded me of my childhood
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Sarasa
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Glad the tooth is mending well HA. Hope it and the leg get better soon.
I don't really like whisky, but I'm off to Edinburgh for a couple of days tomorrow and I guess I could have one or two medicinally then. My husband is rather worried as to what sort of short break he's going to have if I'm up coughing half the night!
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Sipech
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Why does the other queue always move quicker?
Confirmation bias. You notice it when it the other queue is moving faster; you don't when your queue is moving faster.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Sipech:
quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Why does the other queue always move quicker?
Confirmation bias. You notice it when it the other queue is moving faster; you don't when your queue is moving faster.
A bit like the last bus to arrive always being the one you want.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Originally posted by Sipech:
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Why does the other queue always move quicker?
Confirmation bias. You notice it when it the other queue is moving faster; you don't when your queue is moving faster.
It's not as simple as that. Queueing theory clearly states that, if there are three or more lines, you are unlikely to be in the fastest.
I guess with two lines the probability is 50/50.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
A bit like the last bus to arrive always being the one you want.
Yes, which then stops at the end of a long line of buses to pick up passengers (causing you to miss it), or whizzes past because the driver can't be bother to stop.
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Whenever I'm queuing at the checkout in the local chemist's (which also has a grocery section and sells lottery tickets) I seem to end up behind the dozy old bint who's buying 10 scratch cards, can't decide which sort she wants and then checks every one before moving on.
Of course, if one of the tickets is a winner, she has to get some more ...
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St. Gwladys
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Darllenwr's dad used to reckon that he'd always chose the queue in the post office where he'd be behind someone wanting to send a bassoon to the Cayman Islands.
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Welease Woderwick
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Yesterday I got my visa extension and am now on the path towards getting the next step which will give me a right to remain, limited by good behaviour, for either 15 years or the rest of my lifetime! This involves a mad dash next week to the State Capital to tackle even more bureaucracy but will be so worth it!
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Boogie
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The tram ride went really well with Gypsy, she was confident and well behaved.
I parked where I have always parked (one of those private ones which services lots of stores and there are plenty of spaces)
I have used it for over 20 years when going to the station as there are only 15 (!) station parking spaces. I didn't notice the new cameras ...
I got a parking ticket ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
I won't be paying it!
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Welease Woderwick
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Thanks HA.
Trains now booked to and from State Capital in a reasonable level of comfort - we go Tuesday morning, early and come back Wednesday afternoon, home Wednesday evening. Also got good news from the Registration people about another piece of paperwork, that we now don't need.
What we have will be sufficient as long as it is all correctly referenced in the documentation.
Tomorrow off to buy a ream or two of Stamp Paper to make sure everything is legal and above board. Actually two sheets should suffice.
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Sipech
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Anyone else here heading to the Christian New Media conference in London on Saturday?
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Yesterday I got my visa extension ...
Congratulations!
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
... limited by good behaviour ...
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
Do you need references? ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
Good luck with the paperwork!
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Nenya
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Originally posted by Boogie:
I won't be paying it!
Let us know how you get on with that... ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Gypsy sounds like a complete star.
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Originally posted by Nenya:
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Originally posted by Boogie:
I won't be paying it!
Let us know how you get on with that...
I will.
It was on private land - and I did go in a shop, just after Gypsy's training walk, not before. I have the receipt.
If they wanted to charge me for parking on their land, that's what they should have done. Charged me £2 or so for the hour. Not £80! Madness I say, complete madness.
I'm really up for a fight this week - so this firm have one! In spades - I'm looking forward to cute puppy pictures in the paper all upset about how they didn't even allow her a walk before giving me a ticket for 'leaving the premises'!
I am super impressed with Gypsy today - she was HARING towards a 3 (ish) year old child. I blew the whistle and she turned tail and hared back - phew phew phew! I was pretty scared she'd jump all over the poor wee boy!
We scattered Mum's ashes on Sunday. I call dementia the 'illness of 1000 goodbyes' and this was the final one. It has left me tearful and bolshie in equal measures!
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Sioni Sais
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I don't know the exact details but if you have parked in a supermarket or similar car park they often have time limits. It can be difficult to find the signs though.
Good luck!
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Martins money saving website has a forum with lots of stuff about parking tickets from private companies, might be worth a look.
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So yesterday morning at about 8.15 I'm in my PJs, cheerfully brushing my teeth and looking forward to a nice shower and breakfast (the joys of retirement )
Suddenly I get a little quiver of a memory - teeth? deferred dentist's appointment?? Downstairs, electric toothbrush still cleaning away, to discover that I am due in the Chair of Doom in half an hour precisely ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif) Luckily the dentist is only 10 minutes' drive away and Mr. S hadn't taken the car! I had to wait for my breakfast though...
Seriously, I normally remember things like that when it's Just Too Late, don't you?
Mrs. S, pleased to be let off with just X-rays this time
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Originally posted by Chocoholic:
Martins money saving website has a forum with lots of stuff about parking tickets from private companies, might be worth a look.
Thanks Chocoholic - I will!
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Originally posted by Boogie:
You went in you PJs?? ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Like this?
Talking of being a bit behind oneself, can anyone explain why today, the 30th of October, I'm starting to write the date as "2013"?
![[Confused]](confused.gif) Answers on a postcard please.
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Ariel
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30/10/13 is a more intuitive progression than 30/10/14.
You may also find yourself doing the same thing tomorrow, as 31/10/13 is almost, but not quite, palindromic.
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That would have been logical had I not been writing 30th October 2013.
Sometimes these little brainfarts afflict me. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Get used to that, dear. It doesn't get any better with age, you know.
Now, why did I come into the study?
[ 30. October 2014, 20:11: Message edited by: Uncle Pete ]
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Originally posted by Boogie:
You went in you PJs??
I would have been very much more respectable in my PJs than many people who have been seen in public this summer ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif) but no, I managed all my morning routine - with the exception of breakfast - in the 20 minutes between remembering the appointment and leaving the house ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
Mrs. S, still mopping her brow
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Don't get your knickers in a twist over your advancing age. It achieves nothing and makes you walk funny.
Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
Get used to that, dear. It doesn't get any better with age, you know.
Thanks, Uncle P. - you're so kind.
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Boogie
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I'm off to puppy class with Gypsy this morning to Brighouse - over the hills on the M62. It should take 30 minutes to get there.
At this time? Hmmmmm, we'll see!
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Welease Woderwick
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Uncle Pete knows ALL about the perils of old age, he's been there such a long time!
Back on the dreaded notebook after a storm the other night knocked out both our PCs - and they weren't even plugged in! It was a great storm.
With the notebook and its rather different keyboard I have to watch my fingers all the time - it's a pain!
Ah well, it is only today at the moment as I am away tomorrow night living it up in Thrissur, never been there before so it should be fun.
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Yesterday I was 21 again . So we went for a new (to me at least) experience – a six course meal in a Michelin starred restaurant. The six courses being – lobster salad, a sort of foie gras fritter thing, St Pierre with artichokes and warm tomato/olive tapenade, pigeon wrapped up in savoy cabbage with creamed celery, terrine of Roquefort cheese with apricots and walnuts, and a cream/meringue/chestnut dessert. This is not actually as much food as it sounds because it’s one of those extremely chic restaurants where they have very big plates with not much in them. Still, six courses makes a rather substantial dinner.
This was accompanied by some very nice Champagne for the aperitif, an excellent 2004 Bordeaux for the meat and cheese and some Armagnac as old as me (21, obviously) to assist the digestion at the end. This morning I have a headache ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) .
(He he I just got a text back from my very foodie Dad, with whom I shared this experience, saying “Covet not your neighbour’s dinner”)
In completely unrelated news, I had a very ahem, interesting experience last night when I left the office. We are about 50 metres away from the embassy of Burkina Faso which was surrounded by some rather enthusiastic protesters and frosty-looking riot police. Trying to get through the crowd was mildly alarming.
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