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Post by marispiper on Apr 15, 2024 19:11:45 GMT
I had Galia Des Liteaux in the National sweep. (Sunk without trace.) I am trying to eat proper food with some success. If I eat slowly and chew everything to a mush ,I can manage. It takes quite a lot of effort, so once a day is enough. Struggling today with my hands and back pain. I saw my neighbour and her fiancé jiving in their garden earlier. Both in their 70s, bless them. I thought it was great. The bane of my life (him next door) has started calling me over the fence. My name is not Lassie, so I certainly won't come when I'm called. Althea, You've always said what's nuisance him nextdoor is...You think he'd have taken the hint by now , eh? You're hardly encouraging... The eating sounds a right pain, but you do need the nourishment so try and persevere until it's sorted X I went up to Frinton today to visit my old school pal who has Parkinson's. Couldn't have picked a worse day for weather...🙄 We went to a garden centre near her for lunch and everything was simply delish - all freshly prepared. We were taking pix of each other when the chap on the next table offered to take one of us both - lovely. I explained that we'd been friends since school days to which he answered "So are we" Theyd been married sixty years and were teenage sweethearts who met at school. He showed us a black and white photo of them on their honeymoon in Gt Yarmouth looking totally 1960s...then another one in exactly the same spot by the prom railings last summer. They still looked really good -and very happy. Something to be proud of I think 😍💞
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Post by rondetto on Apr 16, 2024 3:35:00 GMT
Morning all: Very cold start to the day, I've got a few calls to do around the town this morning. Going to Sainsbury's to buy a few things for our new addition.
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Post by rondetto on Apr 16, 2024 8:08:05 GMT
We went to B&M's and bought two teddy's. One each for the two grandchildren. Then to Mr Sainsbury's where we bought a tiny dressing gown and pyjamas for the baby. Then to Lidl to stock up on the bakery items. Been a busy few hours.
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Post by rwthless on Apr 16, 2024 9:42:36 GMT
I don't care how long my Bosch takes to wash a load. It does it super eco. I don't own a tumble drier, and the laundry comes out dry enough not to drip on the shower room floor. If I'm feeling strong I hang a basketful on the rotary drier, knickers in the middle, outerwear on the outer sections and let the good weather forecast live up to its name, or everything gets an extra rinse.
Glad your great grandson arrived safely, Ron.
Euronics are very good. I prefer them to John Lewis, but what do I know? I have never used them. I like the local shops, if only because they also recommend good repairmen/women. Otherwise Facebook "I love (local town)" or Next Door for recommendations. Locals recommend well and I pick the one with the most nice comments in their favour.
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Post by althea on Apr 16, 2024 10:01:16 GMT
Congratulations on your new great grandson. Ron. When I see new babies these days, I often wonder what the world will be like when they are grown up. The world has changed so much since I was born, I expect it will keep on changing. I use Next Door for recommendations too, Rwth. On Sunday I put washing on the line for the first time this year. I was hoping it would be the start of outdoor drying, but it has rained each day since. I am managing to eat more types of food, if I take my time and sip water from time to time, I can manage quite well. I am beginning to think I was right about that awful cough damaging my throat. My throat is improving a little each day.
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Post by hild1066 on Apr 16, 2024 12:02:31 GMT
I suspect our parents and their parents looked at babies and thought exactly the same thing. The world keeps changing and most of what we find out now, we may never have previously. How long would it have taken us to find out that some mentally ill person stabbed people in Australia in 1950. We might not have ever known unless there was some connection to the UK. The same applies to a lot of the news we see and hear.
Remember that being able to post a letter in 1900 was a huge step for women, just having the ability to write one was a major breakthrough. Now we can send messages around the globe. This doesn't mean that the news we hear has anything to do with us, or even that it effects us in anyway (other than perhaps emotionally) and certainly people need to sometimes make a cuppa, sit down with a digestive and simply accept they cannot change the situation in Turkmenistan and have no power in this game at all. It is more peaceful just to do that and then if you want to help, donate something to somewhere. Even if that is your old coat to Oxfam.
We need to remember we have the power to not join in, not to engage, not to enrage ourselves about the awful things happening in every corner of the globe. We can relax our shoulders and do something else because that is sometimes the only way to get through the day or week.
We can join a campaign or protest, we can write to our MPs, we can vote, but the blissful thing is that we don't have to.
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Post by rondetto on Apr 16, 2024 12:33:54 GMT
I do agree about worrying what our grandchildren face in the future, wars everywhere and people carrying knives when they go out of an evening. Practically every day you here of some stabbings here or there. It wasn't like that when we were kids. We live a sheltered life these days, there's no way I would venture out of an evening now, that many drugged up zombies around these days, they will do anything to get their next fix.
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Post by hild1066 on Apr 16, 2024 14:11:34 GMT
Ah well, in Sunderland about 30 people every Friday night were locked up for being drunk and disorderly, affray and theft. That was in 1870. So although we report everything that happens now, every comment, every incident, we do forget that it never ever was that safe to venture out at night.
We did feel braver when we were younger.
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Post by rwthless on Apr 16, 2024 15:22:16 GMT
I have never felt afraid out at night. Walking home in the dark from Guides as a child I was terrified at first when a cow on the other side of the hedge coughed loudly, but soon reflected that townies would be even more scared of the dark than I was. My eyes adapted well enough to see my way on the road I knew. When lads working in the residential home I clerked for, insisted seeing me to my car to go home, I used to comment that they were in more danger than I was. I looked through death records in the Black Country in the 1870s-1890s as part of my genealogy interests and found that among those surviving infancy, young men were in more danger of premature death. I didn't look at causes, just ages and was surprised that fewer women died in childbirth than I expected. Perhaps they couldn't afford hospitals.
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Post by marispiper on Apr 16, 2024 16:42:25 GMT
Congratulations on your new great grandson. Ron. When I see new babies these days, I often wonder what the world will be like when they are grown up. The world has changed so much since I was born, I expect it will keep on changing. I use Next Door for recommendations too, Rwth. On Sunday I put washing on the line for the first time this year. I was hoping it would be the start of outdoor drying, but it has rained each day since. I am managing to eat more types of food, if I take my time and sip water from time to time, I can manage quite well. I am beginning to think I was right about that awful cough damaging my throat. My throat is improving a little each day. So good to hear you are feeling a little improvement Althea
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Post by rondetto on Apr 17, 2024 3:35:09 GMT
Morning all: A chilly start to the day and tomorrow they say will be even colder. Maybe it's the last blast of winter.
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Post by althea on Apr 17, 2024 10:17:35 GMT
It's rather chilly today and we have showers. I hope Ron's right about it being the last blast of winter. Just to compare , it's 27 degrees in Berlin today. I am feeling the cold and I have to go out shortly. Still, keeping on, keeping on, is what I do best.
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Post by lily on Apr 17, 2024 13:57:47 GMT
It's rather chilly today and we have showers. I hope Ron's right about it being the last blast of winter. Just to compare , it's 27 degrees in Berlin today. I am feeling the cold and I have to go out shortly. Still, keeping on, keeping on, is what I do best. 30 degrees in Bucharest, yesterday. Today, 15 degrees and light rain ! We are happy with such a weather, now! We have the opportunity to complain about temperatures in summer, June, July and August, when the heat keeps us in. Usually, 35 to 40 + degrees Celsius.
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Post by hild1066 on Apr 17, 2024 14:33:12 GMT
It is freezing up here. Averaging 6, dropping to 0 tonight. I keep thinking I can keep the heating off, but you just can't. Needed mittens today!
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Post by rondetto on Apr 18, 2024 3:34:35 GMT
Morning all: Very icy cold here this morning, I thought we had got rid of frost. Hopefully this will be the last day of frost for us.
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