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Curmudgeons' Corner 6 - Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet đŸ”

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  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Is it just me all this talk of Chinese new year & not a single mention of Burns night in the news.
    AB Still learning

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Rather more Chinese/Koreans/Vietnamese celebrating New Year than Scots doing Burns Night?   Better food too TBH.  Not a fan of haggis or whisky.
    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
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Why don't they train retail staff anymore?
     I bought a jumper yesterday and noticed that it said not to use biological detergents. I asked what would happen if I did. The assistant asked the manager who didn't have a clue either. She then suggested that it might damage the fabric -well, doh! I sort of worked that out for myself. Would it melt, disappear in a puff of smoke, explode?
    Mr Google was quite helpful but seeing as the jumper was neither woollen or silk, the warning seems unnecessary anyway.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    If the jumper is a dark or bright colour, bio will take the colour out.  In other words, the label should have said ‘  not colourfast’ as they used too. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Oh well it can join the rest of my shabby chic then😉
    Apparently, another issue is the enzymes gobbling up the proteins in some natural fabrics. I must say, I haven't noticed this.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Go with the flow😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I'm sniffling, think I've got a cold coming and no, I haven't been to China! 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Singing GardenerSinging Gardener Posts: 1,237
    Obelixx said:
    Rather more Chinese/Koreans/Vietnamese celebrating New Year than Scots doing Burns Night?   Better food too TBH.  Not a fan of haggis or whisky.
    Not disagreeing but my son, who lives in Korea and has a Korean family gets absolutely livid if I accidentally refer to Chinese New Year. I have to remember to call it lunar new year!
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I'm Scottish and I've never once been to a Burns' Supper or celebrated it in any way.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2020
    We have only slight Scottish connections (OH more than me) but we love haggis, so we take any chance we can to eat it ... last night of was MacSween’s finest  free range haggis, freshly shot ... and Clapshot... 😋 

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





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