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

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Oh ā€˜eck! Ā But I’m not sure that I’d have sent a valuable package like that just before ChristmasĀ 

    https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/st-peters-church-copdock-washbrook-blames-royal-mail-for-missing-silverware-1-6549226Ā 

    šŸ™„Ā 

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





  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Lizzie27 said:
    Tried to do my good Samaritan bit today and rushed over to help an elderly woman who had fallen over, .... I did find out however that she was about ten years younger than me!
    Reminds me of a cousin of my mother who used to go on about "Taking the old folk to the day centre"Ā  He was in his 80s and many of them hadn't reached 70.

  • 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"
    Can anybody find any correlation between the headline and the actual article apart from the fact that CV is potentially involved?

    Just had another look at the on-line paper and the story has been changed out of all recognition.Ā  If you had read all the comments taking the p out of the article it's not difficult to understand why :D
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    My mum moans constantly about how old the people are in the warden controlled flats she lives in. She is 93.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Good for her @punkdoc
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Some people are born 'old' and some will always be 'young'. Maybe there's something to reincarnation😐
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Ā You're dead right about Holloway being steep @raisingirl, as are most of the hills around Bath. I well remember my first driving lesson when the instructor drove me to halfway up Bathwick Hill, then told me to do my first ever hill start, saying that if anybody learnt to drive in Bath, then they could drive anywhere! I managed somehow despiteĀ  being absolutely petrified!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Oh isn't happy tonight, left Southampton at 2 pm on a bus to Salisbury as there no trains are running between the cities due to a landslide in one of the recent storms. Got to Salisbury station to find that the substitute buses weren't timetabled to coincide with the trains so had to wait another hour. Then his particular carriage weren't told the train wasn't stopping at Bath after all so he ended up at Bristol Temple Meads, where he had to wait for a train back to Bath and a taxi home! Arrived here at nearly 7 pm. You couldn't make it up could you. Five hours to travel maybe 60-70 miles.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited March 2020
    Lizzie27 said:
    Oh isn't happy tonight, left Southampton at 2 pm on a bus to Salisbury as there no trains are running between the cities due to a landslide in one of the recent storms. Got to Salisbury station to find that the substitute buses weren't timetabled to coincide with the trains so had to wait another hour. Then his particular carriage weren't told the train wasn't stopping at Bath after all so he ended up at Bristol Temple Meads, where he had to wait for a train back to Bath and a taxi home! Arrived here at nearly 7 pm. You couldn't make it up could you. Five hours to travel maybe 60-70 miles.
    Welcome to West Country public transport

    Welcome to West Country public transport
    Devon.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Normally Hosta, we get quite a good service from London to Bristol on the main line but to go cross country has always been a bit of a nightmare. Hopefully (if it ever happens) some of the axed Beeching lines may stage a comeback but I'll believe it when I see it.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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