We have two 3yr old cats and a Labrador with a very waggy tail and a long reach plus a terrier. The last few years have seen more and more casulaties of low hanging Xmas baubles being swiped off the tree. I have taken to making my own felt decorations to replace them on the grounds that they are unbreakable.
I've also made my own Xmas wall hangings and table runners and Xmas prezzies too. The only things we replace now are strings of lights if one dies. I can't see us going back to candles in the tree somehow.
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)."
I went to Wilko yesterday and browsed the xmas section as they had lots of stuff reduced already. I didn't know that llamas, sloths, flamingos and dinosaurs were now all part of Xmas. It makes as much sense as penguins and polar bears I suppose. I didn't buy any of it. My plan is the same as last year where I try and buy everything locally and if I have to get it online then I stick to UK companies. Luckily the high streets around here are still very good for interesting shopping.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
We have felt/fabric/paper decs, plus wicker woven balls - we have the same problem with dogs @Obelixx, they are far too fond of swatting off the glass baubles... used to have some beautiful old ones, but since we got the dogs, most of them are no more
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
My one year old granddaughter has a Christmas sleepsuit covered with well-known Christmas icons - snowmen, sleighs, holly, Christmas trees, dinosaurs....
But if the object is to 'just get it done' then we could have left still belonging to the customs union, having free movement and still under EU law. So what would be the point in leaving? That's the insanity of this - without a definition of what Brext means - and in detail - Brexit can actually mean whatever you (or Boris) wants it to mean.
Like asking the public what car they want - they will all have different ideas - and then giving them all a Reliant Robin and expecting that to sort the issue.
Still no idea as to what Brexit means to Boris - is it the Robin, a Twinky or a diesel guzzling SUV (I hope he goes for a Porsche Cayenne - as i will look good in that as I park it near my yacht).
For the rest of you, I suspect you'll be keeping an eagle eye on what they do about improving infrastructure, housing, education, universal credit and the NHS. I sincerely hope they get that right but we'll just have to wait and see.
Given their record on these and other issues for the last decade when THEY have been in charge doesn't fill me any hope whatsoever that they will suddenly become a priority for a Tory Government with a whopping majority.
Waiting time targets at A&E are the worst ever , as reported on the news today. Maybe they're blaming Labour for that? or the EU? or just anyone but themselves?
For the record, I've never voted Labour in my life .
But if the object is to 'just get it done' then we could have left still belonging to the customs union, having free movement and still under EU law.
"Get it done" means doing what many people voted for in the referendum. Regaining control of our borders (ending free movement), controlling our own laws (escaping from control of the European court and the European parliament), and free trade (exiting the customs union). If we leave without those then we haven't really left at all.
Did you not listen to any of the coverage of the election campaigns @steveTu. It was all too clear what the "goal" was and is. We shall all just have to wait and see what Boris and co mean by Brexit.
As for public spending, rightly or wrongly, the Conservatives went for austerity to fix the holes in the public coffers. Now they'll have to spend loads to fix the problems that has caused. I hope they have the imagination and intelligence to do that well.
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)."
@Obelixx, I do beg your pardon, I completely misunderstood your sentence about the socks for Possum.
@AnniD I think the same as you. I don't buy dates, nuts or clementines and certainly not any of the fancy table 'must haves'. A box of crackers lasts 2 or 3 years and I don't buy lots of food either. I think I've become rather a scrooge!
@Hostafan, A & E waiting times haven't changed much since the 1970's when my children were small. My son especially, being rather accident prone, was in and out like a yo-yo. At any time of the day or night, waiting was always about four hours. In fact when he broke his upper arm badly when he was about 9, (you could see the bulging broken bone sticking out in the arm right below the shoulder) on the Monday afternoon, I was told to give him a junior aspirin and take him home because they only did plastering on Tuesdays! I had to sit up with him in my arms all night as he couldn't lay down and he was not operated on until the Wednesday afternoon and then only because I had a total meltdown in the ward and screamed for the consultant to see him.
Nearly every time I've been to A & E since or taken somebody else in it's always been a four hour ish wait. I'm not at all surprised the waiting times have gone up in the last couple of days, the flu cases have risen by about 25% I believe.
Dim Sum are Chinese goodies and we love them when well done which doesn't happen - so far for us - in France. We don't eat Thai, Indian or Vietnamese here either unless I make them myself.
Sushi, sashimi, teryaki etc do not thrill us at all and I don't want to think what they've done to them to make them good for French palates.
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)."
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I've also made my own Xmas wall hangings and table runners and Xmas prezzies too. The only things we replace now are strings of lights if one dies. I can't see us going back to candles in the tree somehow.
Waiting time targets at A&E are the worst ever , as reported on the news today. Maybe they're blaming Labour for that? or the EU? or just anyone but themselves?
For the record, I've never voted Labour in my life .
"Get it done" means doing what many people voted for in the referendum. Regaining control of our borders (ending free movement), controlling our own laws (escaping from control of the European court and the European parliament), and free trade (exiting the customs union). If we leave without those then we haven't really left at all.
As for public spending, rightly or wrongly, the Conservatives went for austerity to fix the holes in the public coffers. Now they'll have to spend loads to fix the problems that has caused. I hope they have the imagination and intelligence to do that well.
@Obelixx, I do beg your pardon, I completely misunderstood your sentence about the socks for Possum.
@AnniD I think the same as you. I don't buy dates, nuts or clementines and certainly not any of the fancy table 'must haves'. A box of crackers lasts 2 or 3 years and I don't buy lots of food either. I think I've become rather a scrooge!
@Hostafan, A & E waiting times haven't changed much since the 1970's when my children were small. My son especially, being rather accident prone, was in and out like a yo-yo. At any time of the day or night, waiting was always about four hours. In fact when he broke his upper arm badly when he was about 9, (you could see the bulging broken bone sticking out in the arm right below the shoulder) on the Monday afternoon, I was told to give him a junior aspirin and take him home because they only did plastering on Tuesdays! I had to sit up with him in my arms all night as he couldn't lay down and he was not operated on until the Wednesday afternoon and then only because I had a total meltdown in the ward and screamed for the consultant to see him.
Nearly every time I've been to A & E since or taken somebody else in it's always been a four hour ish wait. I'm not at all surprised the waiting times have gone up in the last couple of days, the flu cases have risen by about 25% I believe.
Sushi, sashimi, teryaki etc do not thrill us at all and I don't want to think what they've done to them to make them good for French palates.