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

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Wouldn't it be ironic if they killed him off with Corona virus.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hoist with his own petard 😂

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





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Petards should be treated with extreme  caution 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    KT53 said:
    Brilliant headline today "Coronavirus causes CHAOS (their caps) on the Coronation Street cobbles as star placed in isolation".
    Read the actual article and the first paragraph reads "Cast member took decision to self isolate. They have not been to work. There is no disruption to filming"
    .....
    And if that's true then maybe the 'star' should be checking ahead in the scripts to make sure their character is still around ............. 

    Apparently filming is done about 8 weeks before transmission so plenty of opportunity to tweak storylines to cover any absence.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2020
    KT53 said:
    KT53 said:
    Brilliant headline today "Coronavirus causes CHAOS (their caps) on the Coronation Street cobbles as star placed in isolation".
    Read the actual article and the first paragraph reads "Cast member took decision to self isolate. They have not been to work. There is no disruption to filming"
    .....
    And if that's true then maybe the 'star' should be checking ahead in the scripts to make sure their character is still around ............. 

    Apparently filming is done about 8 weeks before transmission so plenty of opportunity to tweak storylines to cover any absence.




    Yes of course ... that was a joke 😂

    ... but there's many a true word spoke in jest ... and if a 'star' is proving 'difficult' or 'surplus to requirements', sometimes a storyline is tweaked the other way ... no star is bigger than the Soap.  

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





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    As far as I'm concerned, all Soaps are surplus to requirements.


    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
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Same here ... except for The Archers ... but that’s not really a soap is it ... it’s a fly on the wall documentary ... right? 👍 

    And on another subject ... let’s hope these folk never need rescuing https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/appeal-following-arson-attack-on-lifeboat-shed-1-6548409

    😡 

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





  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Tried to do my good Samaritan bit today and rushed over to help an elderly woman who had fallen over, then found I wasn't strong enough to haul her upright and she was in danger of pulling me over. Fortunately two strong chaps in a passing car stopped to help as did another motorist and they managed it. She was rather shaken up and had a small child with her so I walked her to the church Café nearby and they looked after her. I did find out however that she was about ten years younger than me!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    She probably wasn't a gardener @Lizzie27

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





  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    I lived in a house on Bear Flat for a while @Lizzie27 and I remember walking down Holloway (for those of you not familiar with Bath it's a ridiculously steep road) on an icy day and slipping over. A chap passing tried to help me up, but as we got about halfway to vertical it became apparent he was quite a lot shorter than me which left us both in a rather precarious situation. Not helped by my friend in pleats laughing and me rapidly going the same way. He had to sort of hook me onto the fence and leave me to get my feet under me on my own.

    Oddly enough, something very similar happened to me in Bristol Ice Rink. I'm not THAT tall. Honest.
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

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