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Reasons to be cheerful 2022

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  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,923
    @2000GTV and @didyw just watched Camel's 'Sight & Sound In Concert' gig from 1977 on YouTube. Shows both Andy (Ward) and Richard Sinclair at their best. What an engine room! Made me quite tearful it did, especially when I saw the late great Pete Bardens. Took me right back to them days when my whole life was ahead of me. 
    Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border

    I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    At least they've seen sense [if the chief exec is to be believed]  but Ms McDermid's final paragraph is the important part, and certainly wasn't a RTBC in any way

    https://uk.yahoo.com/news/david-goodwillie-signing-broken-dads-094136730.html
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Two more resignations from 10 Downing Street,  the last one in the past half hour. 
    AB Still learning

  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    A sinking ship comes to mind, @Allotment Boy
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    edited February 2022
    An unusual RTBC for me today. I'm doing a total revamp of a website (not one I created) and there was one key feature I'm totally reliant on for the new structure. But whatever I tried I could not get it to work. I'd searched and searched for solutions and had no luck, then spotted a box for online help from the software provider. They were brilliant - made sure they understood the specifics of the problem (rather than making assumptions), spent time looking into it, explained not only the how but the why of the solution, then waited while I tried to implement it to make sure I'd understood and that it worked. An entirely positive experience (and I don't have to redesign the whole thing to accommodate the problem - hurrah!).
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Excellent LG, and what good service from the software company.
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I've got the first flower bed weeded. It was perishing cold though.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    edited February 2022
    This might be one of the best laugh I'll have today. The brilliant Mark Kermode's review of a new film  :D
    https://uk.yahoo.com/news/mark-kermode-fans-desperate-see-142009153.html

    My real RTBC, apart from the fact that we seem to be getting some proper winter weather here at last [thankfully] is that I treated myself to the Divine Comedy's new compilation which was out on Friday. That'll get put on the iPod [ or the ayePod as we call it here] for weekend walks. The radio's pretty woeful on weekend mornings. 

    It's a bit sad that this thread regularly drops rapidly down the pages at the expense of all the moaning and whining threads though. Come on folks...get with it... ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    RTBC did my first sowing of the year. Sweet peas are in and now sitting on the bench in the greenhouse. :)

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    pansyface said:
    Scotland won the rugby, apparently. Might make someone smile.🙂

    My OH, who always believed himself to be almost 100% Scottish, had a DNA test done for his Christmas present and now finds that he has close(ish) links to people from Cornwall, Norway, Australia and (heaven protect him) Yorkshire. 😊 Some hanky panky going on somewhere. 😉

    Definitely makes me smile. :)  I think it would be rare for anybody in Europe to be 100% anything given all the marauding hordes crossing borders over the centuries and taking the women without so much as a 'by your leave'.  I can certainly understand the Scandinavian connection as my own family has Scandinavian names in their history.  Australia is an odd one as, other than the indigenous population, everybody has arrived from other countries.
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