Have done precious little all day. Mended OH's gardening anorak, hem and pocket. Made a cushion cover, with piping. Got in some logs. Don't know if they'll last the winter, log man is behind as he was ill.
Just made a chicken and leek pie for OH's dinner, I'm having smoked salmon salad. The smoked salmon was a pack bought for Christmas, but others bought some too so I found it unopened just past its sell by date. Seems fine.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Social, political, economic history and all the rest is there in the library, on the internet, on TV, in the mouths of your parents and grandparents if you care to look for it.
I have "known" Frank on these boards and their BBC precursors for many years - a decade or so - and can't tell you how often he's announced his departure when he's feeling sorry for himself. I know he misses his wife but then he is coming up to 90 and he did have 60 years of married bliss blessed with a good job, children and grandchildren. He should be taking his own advice, counting his blessings and living what is left, not wasting it in regrets.
I do think that when people decide these boards are no longer useful to them they should just go quietly and not do the whole prima donna "I am leaving" thing just to see how many beg them to stay.
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"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I have to second that, well said Hazel, I would rather listen to Franks stories than that peodo/ pervert racist that used to ramble on about his old days.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I'm with Hazel on this. As I've already said, please don't leave us, Frank.
Anyway, if someone who has posted here for a few years decides to leave I would rather they let us know and paused to say farewell. I worry about people who just disappear, like Happy Marion. I hope she's OK.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Er, hello all, I think. Not sure what to write this morning. Time for a cheerful day. The sun is shining, Hosta is bathing in sunshine. Alls well with our world.
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Just made a chicken and leek pie for OH's dinner, I'm having smoked salmon salad. The smoked salmon was a pack bought for Christmas, but others bought some too so I found it unopened just past its sell by date. Seems fine.
I have "known" Frank on these boards and their BBC precursors for many years - a decade or so - and can't tell you how often he's announced his departure when he's feeling sorry for himself. I know he misses his wife but then he is coming up to 90 and he did have 60 years of married bliss blessed with a good job, children and grandchildren. He should be taking his own advice, counting his blessings and living what is left, not wasting it in regrets.
I do think that when people decide these boards are no longer useful to them they should just go quietly and not do the whole prima donna "I am leaving" thing just to see how many beg them to stay.
I'm with Hazel on this. As I've already said, please don't leave us, Frank.
Anyway, if someone who has posted here for a few years decides to leave I would rather they let us know and paused to say farewell. I worry about people who just disappear, like Happy Marion. I hope she's OK.
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