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

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I haven't dared to look yet😒
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    I wish I could put on weight !!!
    West Yorkshire
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Hubby has now put on enough weight to be able to wear his wedding ring again. 
    I've lost 8 lbs.
    Win win
    Devon.
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    I was just looking at the list of gongs on the New Year Honours list, one for the daily cleaner at one of the royal residences, really! The mind boggles.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Iain Duncan Smith gets a knighthood despite overseeing the introduction of the disaster zone that is "universal credit"
    Devon.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    @Obelixx said "All good suggestions but I always thought it was coca-cola for stripping varnish and rust and cleaning metal!  Grappa would be less sticky tho."  That's because you have to use the 0% sugar Coca-cola! Then it's not sticky.

    Off to look at the New Year Honours list.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It sickens me that the level of award is based entirely on class - unless,of course, you've made the heroic sacrifices needed to become faymus.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    The guy who played cello for Harry and Meghan's wedding is in there too.
    Devon.
  • So is the woman who started a co-operative franchise for female plumbers in Todmorden, where I used to live.  It's called "Stopcocks", appropriately...   :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Hostafan1 said:
    Iain Duncan Smith gets a knighthood despite overseeing the introduction of the disaster zone that is "universal credit"

    I agree it's a disaster zone.  Like so many ideas from politicians, it's a great theory and if implemented properly would probably have been great in practice too.  Unfortunately there don't appear to be any companies out there who can actually implement the systems required.  That's partly down to the IT companies greed, seeing a bottomless pit of money because it's public sector, and partly down to the relevant government departments who seem incapable of creating a functional spec for a system and then sticking to it.
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