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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    @LG_ Not only did I watch it, I was thinking " aren't the acoustics good, or is it the phone?"
    Devon.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited August 2018
    RIP Aretha Franklin.
    A much overused word these days, but she was a "legend".
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Oh no!  
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Just got in to hear the sad news ... I knew she was very ill but it still comes as a shock ... I grew up listening to her music and her great great voice and wonderful delivery.

    A real true legend kneel kneel kneel cry

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45169609

    It seems that she had pancreatic cancer  :'(

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Just hearing the opening bars on the piano still send me giddy .
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtBbyglq37E
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    What a voice ... what a talent  :'(

    I'm back from the city with loadsa shopping and considerably shorter hair 8- .... the woman at the next mirror really loved it and kept on saying how great it looked lol

    I also went to the market and bought a couple of sea bream for our supper, then some sausages, pork chops, a piece of beef rib, pigs' kidneys and some green back bacon ... that lot'll keep us going for most of the week. I got a smart red case for my new mobile phone, some special oil for my hair as the hot weather has dried it to almost a frazzle, some cologne from Body Shop and other bits and pieces (deodorant, cotton wool pads etc etc etc) from Superdrug and I had a silver chain mended and soldered while I waited for the bargain price of £3.50 D and while that happened I was entertained by a mother and her 11 year old daughter who wanted to have her ears pierced but kept backing out just as it was going to happen lol Her exasperated mother has told her that she now has to wait until she's 16 and can go and get it done on her own 'cos mother is fed up with all the fuss and drama lol 

    Then OH and I went to an interesting  exhibition  https://www.nua.ac.uk/events/all/in-the-city/ and then had a pint (well I had a half) and a light lunch at The Lamb D 

    It fair ferdiddled down most of the day ... the bus was full to bursting with youngsters who were camping at a local Scout/Guide outdoor activity centre ... think the weather forecast had resulted in the leaders taking them into the city for a shopping expedition. There was great excitement ... for us 'older people' as they described us when explaining that they would give up their seats for us, it was like going on a school trip, with all the chatter lol


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Presume you are having a colonoscopy then Hosta, hope all goes well.  The caffine thing, I gave it up completely for 2 months, (special acid free diet) only fluid allowed was water, felt fine, but didnt help me sleep any.  Its never great, but sometimes worse, 5 hours I feel fine on, but not 2 or 3.  I cheated last night, went to bed at 1am and took my last co-codamol, (low strenth over the counter job, not prescription)  that is a very last resort after several weeks.  Was talking to someone I know who said, you shouldnt take anything, if she ants to swap places with me, she is very welcome.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    Dove my #3 unstepson stood up to let 2 'old people' sit down in the bus station. I don't think he expected the reaction he got. He was still all warm and glowing days later.  :D
    No 'old person' will be safe standing near him for a while.  
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845
    Taken me an hour and twenty to do a fifty minute journey to osteopath. Why can’t they warn us when roads close! Don’t think I will mind it being able to drive for a while!
    However there was a half hour tribute to Aretha Franklin on the radio finishing with Bridge over troubled water.  Soooooo sad, truly one of my favourite singers .
    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @plant pauper  :D  

    I do sometimes think that if some adults were a bit nicer to children then children would repay them many times over   ... I sometimes see some very grudging, unkind and curmudgeonly behaviour from adults when children are only being children and are often not sure what's expected of them ...

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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