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🐫CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 7. If you have a dose of the cameelious hump🐪

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Furlough @Bijdezee. A lay off.  :)
    Although - if it's for a while, maybe it could be  'fur[a]long' time....

    @wild edges - he sounds like my kind of helper.Can you send him here to get rid of more cr*p piling in my daughter's bedroom.... :/
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I seem to remember ‘furlough’ from Hardy and Austen ... weren’t  Sgt Troy and Capt Willoughby ‘on furlough’ from their regiments a lot of the time? 

     Doesn’t bode well for a lot of folk when you see how they turned out 🙄  ... the devil finding work for evil hands etc etc etc 
    😉 

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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It's ok  @Dovefromabove - they're all extremely busy - fly tipping..... >:)

    I said to both my girls over a week ago, when the local tips were all closing, 'guess what all these people are going to do now?'
    I don't even have a crystal ball....
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The obnoxious J Vine was on about it the other day ... think he puts ideas in people’s heads. 🙄 

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





  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Re the comment about mindfulness earlier,  l was reading an article yesterday about practising it in the shower. 
    Apparently you have to be aware of the water on your skin, the scent of the shower gel or whatever,  and just "be".
    I just stand there thinking (in no particular order)
    "FGS, wake up"
     "What day is it ?" 
     "Bugger, that's not the shampoo"
    "Where's the ruddy towel ?"

    I don't have time to fit in mindfulness as well....

  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Toddler has been crying for about an hour because he wants to play with the rake in the greenhouse and I can't make him understand what a monumentally bad idea that would be. :| 

    I thought the latest 'policy' was to allow children to learn through play. :D
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Mindlessness might be a little more therapeutic.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    edited April 2020
    I dont like these Americanisms but if it's a resurrected English word then fine, I'll accept that.  :|

    J vine is indeed an obnoxious man and doesn't he just love winding everyone up?

    Also, I can't stand Zoe Ball and her silly childish behaviour plus 'claude' Winkleman (of the same ilk) but most of all Richie Anderson who seems to be taking over the Ken Bruce show with his strange pronunciations.

    Still, there's always the off button. Think radio 2 has gone downhill on its attempts to lure a younger audience. As a child I remember the Jimmy Young show and his recipes, he was always on in our house. 

    That's a good moan I've had. Back to trying to make my own oatcakes. 
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    As far as I know, it's an old English word used in the military to denote when a soldier went home on leave. I don't know how it originated prior to that though but I expect somebody does.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    KT53 said:
    Toddler has been crying for about an hour because he wants to play with the rake in the greenhouse and I can't make him understand what a monumentally bad idea that would be. :| 

    I thought the latest 'policy' was to allow children to learn through play. :D
    A little girl up the street has a very fancy inflatable paddling pool set up in the garden now complete with slide and bubble machine. My boy has been paddling in an old horse feed bucket that I keep under the waterbutt tap to catch drips and playing with muddy plastic plant pots. I'm not sure who is learning what :#

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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