In between the sleaze is the ineptitude - fine they were unprecedented times in our era - but isn't this just wrong? £4bn of unus[ed|able] PPE? Really? And the 40 hospitals won't now get built by 2030 because of the impact of Covid - what, the fact that millions were wasted?
When I was small we had a visit from mums cousin and her husband ,who lived in San Francisco. During the afternoon my mums cousin asked to go and see her aunt .The only aunt I knew was aunt Maud who lived in the next street. I took mums cousin to the end of our street ,she stopped and asked if it was much further .I said no . As we approached my aunt mauds she looked up and said this is not the rest room dear .I was about nine years old. I didn’t know what she was talking about. She whispered,the lavatory dear .We walked back and past our home to the other end of our street to the block of outside toilets .Ours was the first one on the block .Mum kept it scrubbed and it was scrupulously clean . But it did have a plank with a hole in the middle ,it was a flush loo. My mums cousin didn’t say a word on the way back to the house.It must have been a dreadful culture shock .
Wildflower meadows are no more natural to the UK than formal gardens . If vegetation was left to its own devices, it would soon return to deciduous woodland.
I've just been out to set up my Hozelock drip watering system. I've had one for about 10 years to do all the pots, baskets and 2 raised beds. Connected it up, switched it on and opened the tap. Water going everywhere out of the control unit! then it stopped working at all. I had the same thing happen to the original controller after about 5 years. Difference this time is that Hozelock have stopped making the system and nowhere has the controller available. Well and truly b*ggered if I can't find a solution quickly.
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I hated it when my gran called it 'the lav'.
@B3 So is squatting said French toilet on some of the French Aires. Harder as you get older
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
During the afternoon my mums cousin asked to go and see her aunt .The only aunt I knew was aunt Maud who lived in the next street. I took mums cousin to the end of our street ,she stopped and asked if it was much further .I said no . As we approached my aunt mauds she looked up and said this is not the rest room dear .I was about nine years old. I didn’t know what she was talking about. She whispered,the lavatory dear .We walked back and past our home to the other end of our street to the block of outside toilets .Ours was the first one on the block .Mum kept it scrubbed and it was scrupulously clean . But it did have a plank with a hole in the middle ,it was a flush loo. My mums cousin didn’t say a word on the way back to the house.It must have been a dreadful culture shock .