Sorry to see that the India Club restaurant is closing down. We used to go there frequently in the 70s. Apart from the good, basic food, my best memory is the waitress. A plump, late middle-aged eastern European woman who wore her hair in a tatty bun with several biros poked into it. She would extract one to take down your order.
My passport photo was over 20 years old. Passport application in 2003 had used my driving licence photo which was a few years old then, and passport in 2013 happily used the old photo again. I had gone to the Post Office to get a new photo but they said it wasn't required as the old one was still recognisable as me. I did get a new photo done for the latest passport renewal.
Anybody trying to wind me up on a social media site is doomed to failure. I just reply to any question as if it is genuine, assuming I do respond, and that must wind them up no end.
Temperatures are forecast to drop into single figures tonight but staying up for the rest of the week. Do I give up and bring the house plants in from the greenhouse or risk giving them a bit more time in there? They've been growing so well in there recently but I had my fingers burned by the early cold snap last year so I'm risk adverse.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
We are in autumn temperatures here too @wild edges Next week as well. It's quite weird. Warmer than where you are but cooler here for this time of year. We usually have an Indian Summer and a Golden October. What's going to happen this year?
Daytime temps are set to be in the low to mid 20s here for the next 10 days or so - but they're bound to change their minds - and night time temps in double figures which is just as well as I don't yet want to bring in the rather large ficus benjamina and elastica which have been on the terrace since late spring along with a few smaller house plants.
I'd hate to lose them so will be keeping an eye on forecasts.
For your peace of mind @wild edges could you bring them in at night and put them out by day or is that really too much faff?
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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I've brought the easy ones in. All the air plants are pretty tender so I don't want to risk those and with no pots they just need to be bundled into a basket. My spider plants are usually ok out there all autumn and the succulents are usually fine as long as they haven't been recently watered. The windows get pretty crowded once everything is in and I've been taking a lot of cuttings this year so space will be tight through the winter and I try to leave things out as late as possible.
Tonight I feel like I've joined Extinction Rebellion. I just glued myself to an Ankylosaurus Between the two boys and my heavy-handed wife I get through a lot of superglue these days.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The latest folks. 9am I rang the DVLA. said 30minute wait. It was 40, fair enough. Went through the saga. She said the woman in the Post office DIDN'T renew my license, she only renewed my picture!!! She confirmed I should not have been charged. Told me to go to the post office,get a refund. She also assured me that now I have renewed the picture,I can do the license renewal online. It did eventually work,got stuck at the passport bit again. That's a flaming nuisance,8 miles round trip,pay to park. There's a problem with the parking machine in town...it's now cash only, naturally they don't give change anymore. Off,we go, huge queue. Get to the cashier, explain,show her license,ask why anyone would think to renew for 6 weeks. Tell her about call to DVLA. She replied "Oh, I dunno why she did that (6 weeks renewal) oh dunno why she did that (failed to renew the licence) dunno why she did that (charged me when I had said I was over 70 and my DOB is on the license anyway!!! Then she told me, the money had gone to the DVLA and I had to contact them 🤬🤬. Came home, grandkids turned up on their bikes, hubby came in from the porch waving a brown envelope at me....it was my £17 fee from the DVLA,dated last Tuesday. Course, now I have to go to the bank to pay in the cheque.
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I'd bring them in.
I'd hate to lose them so will be keeping an eye on forecasts.
For your peace of mind @wild edges could you bring them in at night and put them out by day or is that really too much faff?
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