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🦃 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XIX 🦃

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    A married man shouldn't be zooming by himself
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited December 2021
    He wasn't married last Christmas @B3 ... at least, not to the current Mrs J ... was he still married to the second one back then? ... 

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





  • Given Mr. J's propensity for breeding, one hopes that Zoom technology has a suitable "barrier" to stop the passage of bodily fluids to the wider world :D
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
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    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I was having second thoughts. Despite the risk to his eyesight, perhaps it's better that he zooms by himself
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Quarantine for the next 50 years ?

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





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    This is not a new problem!  About 18 years ago, I half drowned my car engine in an unexpected flood at the top end of Thirlmere following unusually heavy rains.   No mobile phone signal so my stepmother trekked 2 miles to the nearest farmhouse to call for help.  

    You try explaining to a Belgian AA service that they can't just put you on a flight home because the boot is full of 2 damson trees, 2 bilberries, a raid on Lakeland plastics plus the usual luggage and wellies for a trip to the Lakes in autumn.

    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
    edited December 2021
    I think you’re missing the point … it’s not about poor mobile network per se …  the problem is that ‘analogue’ landlines are being phased out and replaced with digital systems that will only function when the electricity network is functioning. Trekking 2 miles to a farmhouse would be no good, as if the electricity lines were down they would have no landline phones functioning.  

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





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