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[classic33]

You don't need to say...

This was in the days when Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue were among the cast.

Sorry


You mean they're not in it now?

 

[Reynard]

So-so in Tesco tonight. The other regulars were pretty well much all absent, but there were a couple of new faces. Not too much to be had tonight - pickings were very slim in the fruit & veg section, but if you're unfussy and win "fastest finger" there's always opportunity...

Picked up doughnuts, chocolate croissants, breakfast cereal, coleslaw, avocadoes, raspberries, cheese & onion rolls, pork pie, ham, cooked chicken, sea bass fillets, salmon fillets, beef mince, lamb neck (for the cats - lucky girls) and the piece de resistance, half a kilo of beef fillet marked down from £14 to £3.50...

I will be doing chateaubriand tomorrow

 

[classic33]

So-so in Tesco tonight. The other regulars were pretty well much all absent, but there were a couple of new faces. Not too much to be had tonight - pickings were very slim in the fruit & veg section, but if you're unfussy and win "fastest finger" there's always opportunity...

Picked up doughnuts, chocolate croissants, breakfast cereal, coleslaw, avocadoes, raspberries, cheese & onion rolls, pork pie, ham, cooked chicken, sea bass fillets, salmon fillets, beef mince, lamb neck (for the cats - lucky girls) and the piece de resistance, half a kilo of beef fillet marked down from £14 to £3.50...

I will be doing chateaubriand tomorrow

Five days to go.

 

[Illaveago]

You don't need to say...

This was in the days when Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue were among the cast.

On during the lunchtime then ?

 

[Illaveago]

Morning!
I heard it rain twice in the night . It is grey at the moment.
We discovered that our grandson has broken his arm . . He was doing a wheelie on a friend's bike and hit a lamp post. He is having an operation this morning to set it .

 

[biggs682]

Hiding under the A45 at Earl's Barton from the rain

 

[Andy in Germany]

^^^ this, in spades.

And you would think that at a fee-paying (single sex) public school, that kind of support would be better. To be fair, I think in retrospect, I probably would have had a better time of it at a co-ed school, where at least I might have had some classmates with similar interests. Which would have made me stick out less like a sore thumb.

I mean, when you have to force yourself to watch Neighbours so that you've got *something* to try and talk about with your classmates, you know you're in deep doodoo...

It was only when I went to uni in '93 - Brunel, to read, first, Foundations of Engineering, then Mechanical Engineering with Automotive Design - that I found out that I wasn't the odd one out, that there were loads of like-minded people out there. Plus, most of us were broke, so not being able to afford stuff wasn't the issue it had been while at school.

And when anyone wanted to know something about motor racing, I was the one they came to... It truly was such a refreshing step-change.

Of course, I still had the problems at home, but once I got my confidence back, it became easier to deal with.

Watching neighbours was extreme. I didn't do that even when I had to watch a soap opera for my Media Studies A Level. At High school I realised that the stuff other people wanted to talk about was incredibly dull for me so I withdrew.

For me the first change was another house move, this time to a very rural part of the South West so the only place to do A-Levels was a 6th form college with a catchment of many hundreds of K's. Everyone was new, starting afresh, and open for fresh experiences and I had a great time with some great people.

The longest lasting effects were the feeling that I was a bit inadequate. people with SPS tend to internalise and exaggerate our mistakes, and also to take on board what other people say, so having my mistakes shouted out for all to hear by my peers wasn't helpful. especially in a society where intelligence and 'Talent' were measured in very narrow ways, none of which I fitted. Strangely I've only really laid that to rest through getting my Occupational Therapist qualification, and realising that you don't get a professional qualification in your second language by being a bit inadequate, so that little voice could shut up now.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Out shopping with my wife yuk, the shopping not the wife

 

[PeteXXX]

I walked out of the front door this morning, straight through a load of spindrift..

When do starlings emigrate for the winter?

 

[Andy in Germany]

My laptop has been updated and no longer defaults to a QUERTY keyboard.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

QUERTY keyboard.

???

 

[Andy in Germany]

???

A QWERTY keyboard is the standard keyboard for English language computers, it's taken from the keys on the top row. German computers are slightly different to accommodate keys like "Ü", "Ä" and "Ö" among others, and a couple of keys are in different places, such as "Z" and "Y"; Germans like Z's more than Y's.

I've used a German keyboard for nearly two decades but I set the OS to English which was confusing it. Now it seems to have got used to the idea, which saves me retyping my first sentence every time I come on CC...

 

[classic33]

On during the lunchtime then ?

Thought it was teatime. Every time that music started it'd be telly off, or me out of the room. Often both.

 

[classic33]

I walked out of the front door this morning, straight through a load of spindrift..

When do starlings emigrate for the winter?

They emigrate?

Swallows fly South, when the weather is in their favour. The later the better.

 

[Illaveago]

Hiding under the A45 at Earl's Barton from the rain

I can see you !