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  • seacrowsseacrows Posts: 234
    The children round here are charming and sweet until they reach about 12 years old. Then their repertoire includes taking all the sweets left out, smashing pumpkins, pulling down decorations, kicking doors, throwing fire crackers and knock-and-running. I'm so tempted to do what my Dad used to and chuck a bucket of water over them. (Eek, now I'm really feeling curmudgeonly.)
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    edited November 2022
    Wild edges,a school in Eastbourne, unsure if I am meant to name it on here. If one of the grandkids was ill,my daughter at work,and I needed to collect them, she has to ring ahead, this was the last school. This last one (they're both at High school now) although I was down as emergency contact,I still didn't have full access to everything that has happened. One morning I was late because of the volume of traffic,after being buzzed in the gate,I had to go to a little lobby by reception, door locked and the teacher came out into the lobby, I wasn't allowed any further. My curmudgeon,I had a triple nectar points voucher for fuel,was going to fill up Sunday,in the back of my mind,was thinking I needed to do it...also wanted a particular colour thread... what with the 2 previous day's (hubby I'll, hospital) I didn't bother,and it expired on Sunday!!
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    How come, when you get a money off fuel voucher at the S/M, it is always when the car is already fuel of fuel?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    'Have a good one'
    Have a good what? Can you fill in your own word?

    'Come round to [y]ours'
    [Y]Our what?

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited November 2022
    Ma used to get quite irritated by ‘coming round’ and ‘going round’.  

    She’d mutter ‘It’s around  … round is the shape of a ball’.  The Beatles were often the cause of this muttering … 

    “… and I do appreciate you being round …” 🎶 

    She found it hard to believe John Lennon had been to a grammar school …
    🤣 

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





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    1st November and I'm sat at my desk with the window open. It's better than needing the heating running that's for sure. I had to get up in the early hours to shut the bedroom windows when the wind picked up though. Couldn't find the key for the windows anywhere but figured out that my wife must have left it in one of the kids' rooms. Youngest boy climbs like a monkey so all windows are locked in the vent position and have secondary restrictors too just in case.
    The auto spelling checker I've installed says I should type "I are sitting at my desk" :|
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Ergates said:

    Im getting really fed up with this.
    I think that's the whole point. 😬
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    The spell checker should say ‘I am seated at my desk’. I am sat means somebody put you there.
    Rutland, England
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190


    She’d mutter ‘It’s around  … round is the shape of a ball’.  The Beatles were often the cause of this muttering … 

    “… and I do appreciate you being round …” 🎶 


    Perhaps he could foresee how a lot of women would be in the future and was pleased he’d found one back then.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Ma did once add that it was 'nice to be appreciated' ...  ;)

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





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