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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2022
    @Nanny Beach it’s when there’s no one posting/chatting for a while on a forum or whatever … probably because everyone’s actually doing something rather than just talking about it 😉 

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





  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    edited April 2022
    Nanny Beach said:
    Can someone please explain to me what Dead Chatting" is
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy

    (it's a strategy - and a term - that's been around a long time, but mentioned a lot these days as this government does so much of it)
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I thought it was dead catting
    Looked it up yesterday😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    edited April 2022
    B3 said:
    I thought it was dead catting
    Looked it up yesterday😊
    It is - I'm assuming @Nanny Beach had an autocorrect moment 😉

    He didn't invent the term, but apparently



    Or in other words

    Anyway, it makes me curmudgeonly - especially when it works.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Thanks folks,yes, you are correct, phone took over and I didn't notice. Some words,it really objects to me trying to type
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    You aren't on your own NannyBeach, I'd never heard of the phrase before either. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Nanny Beach said:
    Can someone please explain to me what Dead Chatting" is
    No idea but I think you need one of those weegie boards.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I don't get it. The Hermes women is on her rounds again. She rings or knocks the houses over the road, then happily waits for a reply and if no one is home she leaves the parcel in a safe place. With our house she just throws the parcel down by the garage door and walks away. We never get a knock or note through the letterbox or anything. She even does it when it's raining.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Probably scared of your kids wild edges. :D
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Chief exec of Gloucestershire NHS Trust got her husband to take her to hospital when she thought she had had a stroke because, in her own words, she would have waited hours if taken by ambulance.  In plain English - "I knew how to queue jump"

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