When my mum died in 2000,i went through the house like a whirlwind,skipped everything nothing of any use to me.Funny thing was two glass vases i put in the skip very gently,along came my brother who wanted them,why i had not smashed them i will never know.Funny sometimes i feel as though the soft part of me is missing ,things dont always get to me.I am a very practical person,yet sometimes i cry at soppy things like Repair Shop.Odd really i really am.
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Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
Here is Jo Siffert .
Andy in Germany
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- Rottenburg am Neckar
Beautiful Wife loves that one. Fortunately we're very close to the Ritter factory; they do children's parties with a "make your own chocolate bar" activity.
5 bonus points for using the word 'purloined' 👌
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
SIL has a Hi8 camera of FIL's. We've a standard 8mm camera that won't play FIL's videos well, I've asked her if I can borrow it so I can digitise all the family videos. She can't find it !
Now't so queer as folk.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
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- Isle of Mull
Never stopped raining all day so far but got out to take some stuff to the dump. Lots of people had the same idea causing traffic congestion. Place has been reorganised a bit since my last visit but fortunately they had a member of staff handy to tell me where to put various bits. No limit on number of visits here.
Two junk calls and as I was beside the phone with no specs I answered the first.
“ Is that Mr OW?”
“ I will see if he is available. Who is calling please?”
“ This is the police”
“How interesting may I ask why you are calling?”
At this point the line unfortunately became a bit indistinct and I was not able to find out more.
Number was from Ashford in Kent which apparently has a record of scam bank calls.
Five minutes later a call from my local dialling code but from an impossible number so ignored.
Two junk calls and as I was beside the phone with no specs I answered the first.
“ Is that Mr OW?”
“ I will see if he is available. Who is calling please?”
“ This is the police”
“How interesting may I ask why you are calling?”
At this point the line unfortunately became a bit indistinct and I was not able to find out more.
Number was from Ashford in Kent which apparently has a record of scam bank calls.
Five minutes later a call from my local dialling code but from an impossible number so ignored.
rockyroller
Guru
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- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
Wifey says we are bowling w/ some of her Teacher colleagues tonight. supposed to be food & drink ...
Wifey says group of colleagues event canceled, due to lack of sign-ups, so she & I will go anyway, as just a couple
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
And it's the weekend 😅
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
When my Mum goes it's all going to my Dad with the exception of each of my three Aunts having a choice of painting.
We've a fairly famous 19th century Royal Society artist in the family tree and my parents have collected his paintings over the years. My aunts have the odd small one, as I do, but my parents have several very big ones. Value? Not a clue, and it's irrelevant to me, but mine's been valued at £5k and it's about an eighth of the size of their three 'big' ones let alone the rest.
It'll be a bun fight as to who gets which one, although the selection order is already in the will, and I'll have to referee. And hide mine, which is at my parents' in with the others.
They don't get the signed Beatles single from before they were famous
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Had a lovely luncheon of two slices of wholemeal toast, one with the last of the home made gravlax, one with the last of the ham hock (with a dab of mustard), an apple, a tangerine and two 
Topped up the wood bins in the house, brought in a load of kindling, picked up mum's prescription and then had a nice long girly pamper session.
Now sat watching the news. I have a and some Lindor.
Topped up the wood bins in the house, brought in a load of kindling, picked up mum's prescription and then had a nice long girly pamper session.
Now sat watching the news. I have a
and some Lindor.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
That's much what happened when they did a blind taste test of milk chocolate on "Eat Well For Less" - the Cadbury's won hands down, even though it's actually had the lowest cocoa solids content of all five brands tested.
One of the ones I usually buy for myself (Lindt) finished joint last with the value Asda own brand, as people said it was too bitter. It has 35% cocoa solids iirc, compared to the 20% of the Cadbury's.
20% cocoa solids is the minimum legal amount for something to be actually sold as chocolate.
I think I'd enjoy a "make your own chocolate bar" party thing.
I think I'd enjoy a "make your own chocolate bar" party thing.
York’s chocolate story do a similar thing as part of your tour.
presta
Legendary Member
For the last 3 days they've been working on a wartime bomb dredged up in Yarmouth, and it went off a couple of hours ago whilst they were trying to disarm it. Fortunately they were working by remote control, so nobody's hurt, and they'd built a 400 ton sand bunker to contain the blast, so the damage might be minimal too. There's a gas main that needs checking apparently.
View: https://twitter.com/RobSetchell/status/1624091632818696192
View: https://twitter.com/RobSetchell/status/1624091632818696192
Reynard
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
Aaaaanyways, it's time to feed the cats, and then it will be time to feed me.