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Curmudgeons' Corner 6 - Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet 🍵

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    It's a shame he didn't take a nice holiday in China.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    wild edges said:
    It's a shame he didn't take a nice holiday in China.
    Or he could have gone to see what's happening in Yemen?
    Devon.
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Remember that this is the man who said getting paid £175k a year for a couple of hours work a week (Telegraph column?) was chicken feed.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Oh well, how to lose friends , but I will admit that I did spend that much on a holiday, seriously worried me doing it, but we did love it.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I don't think it's a lot at all. Our 4 weeks in The Gambia , staying in a pretty basic, but clean B&B was £3K for 4 weeks
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Coming up to retirement, I suppose  i  could afford  a holiday  like that but what if it was a pile  of💩?
    I couldn't  afford  another one 
    It's  like those high prize game shows.  You can only win the million pounds if you can afford  to  lose 5000
    A 15000 holiday is chicken feed to him 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Spending your own money is fine. 

    Spending another man’s money puts you in his pocket. 



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





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Definitely
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I'm feeling guilty that the external insulation being put on our bungalow so we stay cosy and use less heating, is made of plastic... as is the insulation built into the walls and floor of the extension.  There's apparently no "green" alternative, at least not in Ireland.  I'm trying at least to scour the garden frequently for little bits of expanded polystyrene which would blow about and get incorporated into the soil, but it's often windy and I think I'm fighting a losing battle.  I shall keep fighting, though...   :/
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Liriodendron said:
    There's apparently no "green" alternative, at least not in Ireland.  
    https://www.ecologicalbuildingsystems.com/Ireland/Products/Product-Detail/Hemp-Insulation-Ireland

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
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