I once won a cottage in Chorley...Aaaaaaargh, what time is it?!!!
Just woken up by a persistent caller from an unknown number. I was too tired to think straight otherwise I would have remembered that I am supposed to answer such calls now in case they are about competition wins.
I had a young woman ring me up a few years ago from a magazine and I was quite short with her. I thought she was trying to sell me a subscription. After some banter she finally got me to identify myself and then cheerfully announced that she had a large cardboard box on her desk containing my prize. It was a music synthesiser workstation worth £1,800!
A similar thing happened a few years later, prize £2,000 in cash.
I looked up the number, just in case... A GP surgery in Worthing! I don't know anyone who lives near there and they will not have any prizes for me (Covid-19 jab?) so it must have been a wrong number.
That leaves me in the twilight zone. It is too late to go back to sleep but too early to feel rested. (Lights out 05:15 and nearly 06:00 before I went to sleep.)
It is still raining heavily here. I might go and pick up a Metro and some milk and check the river level. We have a flood alert in the valley and if it carries on like this the poor folk in the at-risk zones will get hit again. I could not take being flooded every 2 or 3 years!
I will have to have a snooze later to catch up on my sleep.
Oh, yes it is finally de-Trumping day in the USA! I really hope that the FBI have vetted those troops in Washington effectively. It could take only one suicidal QAnon nutter with an assault rifle to trigger a civil war over there. There are more guns than people so they wouldn't exactly have to fight with baseball bats and knives...
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BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
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My brother’s contribution this morning:Well. Today is the day Trump is booted out, but will Biden and the Democrats be any better, fairer, less in the pockets of big business, less out for themselves and what they can get, or will they make sure everyone knows they are in power, just like today when they are drafting thousands of troops into the Capital under the guise of keeping the peace. Isn't that what the police are for? Since when have troops been deployed the the streets of a city in America.
Times they are a changing as they say. Any good programmes on today ?
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Drago
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Your Brothers a bit late - the Donald did a bunk yesterday so the old guy who can't remember the name of his opponent gets wheeled in unopposed.
That was the booby prize. What was 1st prize ?
PaulSB
Squire
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- Chorley, Lancashire
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Oi!!!
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
Your autocorrect has cut in. You meant to say you went cottaging in Chorley.
PaulSB
Squire
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- Chorley, Lancashire
This one?
22 hours ago and 0.5 miles outside the town centre at the bottom of a deep dip in the road. Lancashire CC have been under local pressure to fix the damaged culvert for a very long time.
Juan Kog
permanently grumpy
Stop Press . Jab news . Mrs JK ( aka Mrs Stroppy ) just had a phone call from our GP surgery come in tomorrow 6 pm . She is a youthful 65 , but that nice Mr Hancock keeps sending her letters and emails telling her she is in the extremely vulnerable category. So no doubt with MiL and now Mrs S done I will be living in the Velo Cave.
It was a more modest affair, though it was hand built 😁
( I was really pleased to receive something so individual, most races just handed out mass produced trophies, this was a lot more personal, with the house number reflecting finishing position )
That's great news !
BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
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- South Tyneside
Good News!
May I ask, which area you are in? According to eldest daughter, (working in vaccine centre), our area (Tyne-Wear) is currently "doing" 70+ group, it looks as if your area is in the lead!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Very expensive Metros in Halifax!
We get them free in Tod...
I did end up selling it. It was a great instrument, but I'm no musician and it wasn't getting much use. A friend of mine ran a small recording studio and kept asking me to sell it to him. In the end, I relented and got about £600 for it. (Prices had dropped a lot by then, and it was a few years old.)
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Juan Kog
permanently grumpy
South Hertfordshire. Our GP practice seems to be in a vaccine group with at least 2 other practices. Mrs JK has friends in neighbouring areas 8 miles one way 5 miles in another direction who appear to be behind us in the age groups they are dealing with.
(edit) I think the extremely vulnerable are being grouped with the 70+.
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