Mundane News

[Deleted member 1258]

Glad to hear it. Your charges sound cheaper than ours, cost me £22!

A couple of years ago my stepdaughter was in for several weeks, I spent a small fortune in parking charges.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Got out of A & E at six am, ten quid in parking charges. Brought my Good Lady home with me, she's got an infection, unpleasant but not serious.

Hope she recovers swiftly. Meanwhile, I'm on lurgy watch for the granddaughter, who went down with a stomach bug a couple of days ago. She's well enough to go back but schools operate a quarantine thing which in this case means isolation for a full 48 hours. Of course, with 3 other siblings in the house who go to the same school, quarantine is pretty much impossible. A good idea which doesn't work.

 

[Illaveago]

It is grey here, I think it's supposed to brighten up later.
When I was in hospital years ago my wife found out that it was cheaper if she bought a weekly parking ticket. I'm not sure if that option is available now.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Just hearing all about Craftivism in Hull. This is fascinating, @Hill Wimp @hopless500
https://www.hull2017.co.uk/discover/article/9-ways-revolutionary-maker/

Very interesting. Will have to have a think about that

 

[Haitch]

Craftivism in Hull

And I thought you were an avid Radio 4 listener. Yesterday's Woman's Hour:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08gwfv5

With the Woman's Hour Craft Prize entrants being mulled over by the judges, we take a look at a different area of craft - craftivism - when activism and craft collide with Sarah Corbett from the Craftivist Collective, and Debbie Zawinski from Haddington Spinners and Weavers.
It's been confirmed that significant numbers of children's remains lie in a mass grave adjacent to a former home for unmarried mothers run by the Bon Secours Sisters in Tuam, County Galway. Five years ago amateur historian Catherine Corless wrote an article in her local paper asking where the bodies of infants from the home were buried - the national press picked up the story in 2014 and it a Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation the following year. Catherine Corless talks about her extraordinary research, and we hear from Sally Mulready, Chair of the Irish Women Survivors Network and journalist Catherine Sanz a journalist for the Ireland edition of The Times. Plus what impact will the Budget have on you and your family ? And Susan Goldberg the first woman Editor in Chief of National Geographic in its 129-year history talks about the changes she's seen, the challenges she's encountered, and what the future holds for the magazine.

 

[EltonFrog]

There is a squirrel in the garden, JessieThePup is going postal.

 

[Gravity Aided]

-3 here, due to be around 0 to 4 above C here for the next week. At least forecast snow has been removed from the forecast for this cold spell.

 

[Katherine]

Got out of A & E at six am, ten quid in parking charges. Brought my Good Lady home with me, she's got an infection, unpleasant but not serious.

Best wishes to your good lady. Hope she will be better soon.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I now have four baby spider plants, the bigest is well established, two have good roots and should thrive, the smallest hasn't got well developed roots and might not suvive.

 

[Fab Foodie]

No here, it ain't. Blumen grey and horrible so it is.

Just had lunch in the sunshine too!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Just had lunch in the sunshine too!

Can you send it this way? It was lovely here yesterday but today its just cold and grey.

 

[Reynard]

Just about to have some lunch. There's a piece of cooked fish in the fridge that has the makings of a nice sandwich.

Then I need to go do some chores before heading off at half five to help set up a hall for a cat show tomorrow.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Car salesmen really don't listen very well do they?
...

I managed to find one today who listened, maybe my opening line of "I am not having much luck finding someone who listens..." helped. I am picking a new car at 5pm today, less than 6 hours after walking in.

Well done to carman.

 

[Maverick Goose]

I've just changed my socks.

 

[Speicher]

This evening I may be eating some home-made Soda Bread.

Is it supposed to rise very much in the oven?