Unfortunately, my position as assistant Pope is unpaid and warrants only an old bike I'm too unfit to ride.
Don't read the magazines? DON'T READ THE MAGAZINES?!! Sacrilege! I am completely hooked!
Result - a head stuffed with unrelated facts and ideas - mental cotton wool. (What a picture of my life I must present - hours spent reading magazines and posting on this forum...)
Anyway, off to Fat Club and then lunch with a proxy daughter - an old pupil. Well I suppose she really is quite old, now! So, another really good gas. My idle, unproductive, lovely life!
Good Morning all , I used to dislike people who would come to work dying with head colds and passing their Germans on to unsuspecting fellow workers , now I don't care!.
Because we as Adults are so polite and are reluctant in some cases to confront these people who have no regard for the health and safety of others that we suffer with Snotty noses , coughs, and General nausea while making grunts and groans at our misfortune of getting a cold or worse FLU
Derek
I felt a rant coming on with the above text and thought that if I wrote any more I would be gave out to .
While I was in work it always amazed me the amount of time some person would come to work with sniffles ,the majority of the people I worked with were Men the women where confined if that's the right word to offices away from the heavy work that was railway engineering but anyway back to my rant most of these men where Married and because there better half's didn't want them at home getting under their feet they would Send to work and spread their sickness on every one else ARRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHH
The,normal busy lizzies have no resistance to disease, as far as i know. The new guinea and couple of newer varieties are resistant. Clogherhead, if plants bought suffer because of disease purchasers have the right to refund or replacement. However, I would contact the supplier and raise this issue with them. Their reply would be of interest to rest of us too
Here is my rant: Why are Jersey Plants Direct selling Busy Lizzy that are prone to fungus and why are is there no disclamer. I just bought 160 and have only just found out about the fungus that is killing them !!!!!
I posted your rant last night so that it might get a better response
FairyGirl, Lemon drizzle yum though more lemon than sugar in the drizzle, G/G coffee and walnut a favourite and any straightforward cake that does not have garden vegetables added to it for some unknown reason, I think it too much of a reminder of Mr Wooltons Pie. As to diet fads and that is what they are my advice is look at them closely, hidden sugar salt and chemicals abound. Being active all my life weight was never a problem then I seemed to pile it on. On my yearly MOT I got 11 out of ten having got rid of a full stone and not by diet simply eating less at each meal. I have seen everything you could put in your mouth demonised at one time or another then held up on high as the wonder food of the century, baloney the lot of it. FairyG, In Cavalry Barrakcs York when they found out I was from farming stock they gave me the 18 hand mad horse who had been very badly handled by people who should not have been anywhere near a horse. Within a week he was following me round like a dog though he would show his teeth to anyone coming near me, When the Blacksmith arrived I had to hoof him and he would stand still while the shoes were changed and luckily when I knew I was leaving he went to a good home retired, animals like humans respond to kindness and a firm hand, take note G/G.
Frank, your reference to the thieving birds who stole your grub in Egypt, the name you called them is the same name that India gives to the Red Kite. As they are now probably the most common bird in the Chilterns, does that mean I will have to guard my food when ( when....!) I sit in the garden in the summer sun?
Better day today hes gone to work. Todays rant. One of my beloved cats brought yet another mouse in so i got out the humane mouse trap , put peanut butter in it and put under kitched cupboard to catsh the blighter. Have removed trap today to find the peanut butter eaten but no mouse. Think i will to resort to proper traps and not be such a ninny about taking the dead bodies out if it. Oh for a cat that will actually kill the bl...... things
Dmball, We normally ate a breakfast just before the sun came racing up (now that was a sight I never got sick of watching, one minute black next minute sun). Tiffin was a very light snack around eleven and then if possible we got in any shade we could, not easy with the sun directly above and tried to rest. The evening meal was after sundown so the Kite Hawks only had the Tiffin to go at and they would literally fly under a stretched canopy snatch the food from your plate and be gone, it was so fast you only realised after they had gone. So yes they will have your food unless they have nets strung. Supper if in base would be many bottles of Stella and if out patrolling a bottle we had hidden in an ammo locker. I was never bothered by mosquito's though we slept under nets anyway, out on guard we would wear long trews and sleeved shirts, the lads would be batting the things off and I was never bothered by them. The same in Scotland, when they were all being eaten alive by midges I was always clear of them. We actually got on well with the people and they would give us information about the hard liners who they did not want in the villages, in return we turned a blind eye to some things and did not wreck everything searching. I had meals with some of the contractors in their homes and the food was good. I got to a banquet in Port Said and that was an eye opener and then some. A local return group have asked me to go back with them a couple of times but too many bad memories plus I never go back to most places as it is never the same.
Maud, get a shot gun that scatters the little b err blighters, you can stick chewing gum in the holes made in the cabinets, it also gets rid of mice as well as the cats. "Oops" sorry that is me definitely not a cat lover talking, I would feed the mice.
Interesting times Frank - I found the majority of the people out there to be fine people. Two different people though - Arabs along the Med, and Nubians way up the Nile at Luxor and beyond - very gentle and shy people, except when they were trying to sell you something!
Several of my uncles served in Egypt and North Africa during the Second World War, and some of their stories made my hair curl - lets just say I would never turn my back on most of these people ( ...apologies for this generalisation to anyone of Egyptian extraction reading this).
As for birds nicking your grub, nothing beats the gulls in Cornwall, places like St Ives and Mevagissy - when my 4 year-old grandson has his lunch on the beach we have to throw a blanket over his head - all we hear is munching sounds, and muttered grunts about 'pesky birds'!
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Don't read the magazines? DON'T READ THE MAGAZINES?!! Sacrilege! I am completely hooked!
Result - a head stuffed with unrelated facts and ideas - mental cotton wool. (What a picture of my life I must present - hours spent reading magazines and posting on this forum...)
Anyway, off to Fat Club and then lunch with a proxy daughter - an old pupil. Well I suppose she really is quite old, now! So, another really good gas. My idle, unproductive, lovely life!
That should say I'll leave that with you all...sorry
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I felt a rant coming on with the above text and thought that if I wrote any more I would be gave out to .
While I was in work it always amazed me the amount of time some person would come to work with sniffles ,the majority of the people I worked with were Men the women where confined if that's the right word to offices away from the heavy work that was railway engineering but anyway back to my rant most of these men where Married and because there better half's didn't want them at home getting under their feet they would Send to work and spread their sickness on every one else ARRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHH
Derek
For the attention of Greentooth
FairyGirl, Lemon drizzle yum though more lemon than sugar in the drizzle, G/G coffee and walnut a favourite and any straightforward cake that does not have garden vegetables added to it for some unknown reason, I think it too much of a reminder of Mr Wooltons Pie.
As to diet fads and that is what they are my advice is look at them closely, hidden sugar salt and chemicals abound. Being active all my life weight was never a problem then I seemed to pile it on. On my yearly MOT I got 11 out of ten having got rid of a full stone and not by diet simply eating less at each meal.
I have seen everything you could put in your mouth demonised at one time or another then held up on high as the wonder food of the century, baloney the lot of it.
FairyG, In Cavalry Barrakcs York when they found out I was from farming stock they gave me the 18 hand mad horse who had been very badly handled by people who should not have been anywhere near a horse. Within a week he was following me round like a dog though he would show his teeth to anyone coming near me, When the Blacksmith arrived I had to hoof him and he would stand still while the shoes were changed and luckily when I knew I was leaving he went to a good home retired, animals like humans respond to kindness and a firm hand, take note G/G.
Better day today hes gone to work. Todays rant. One of my beloved cats brought yet another mouse in so i got out the humane mouse trap , put peanut butter in it and put under kitched cupboard to catsh the blighter. Have removed trap today to find the peanut butter eaten but no mouse. Think i will to resort to proper traps and not be such a ninny about taking the dead bodies out if it. Oh for a cat that will actually kill the bl...... things
Dmball, We normally ate a breakfast just before the sun came racing up (now that was a sight I never got sick of watching, one minute black next minute sun).
Tiffin was a very light snack around eleven and then if possible we got in any shade we could, not easy with the sun directly above and tried to rest. The evening meal was after sundown so the Kite Hawks only had the Tiffin to go at and they would literally fly under a stretched canopy snatch the food from your plate and be gone, it was so fast you only realised after they had gone. So yes they will have your food unless they have nets strung.
Supper if in base would be many bottles of Stella and if out patrolling a bottle we had hidden in an ammo locker.
I was never bothered by mosquito's though we slept under nets anyway, out on guard we would wear long trews and sleeved shirts, the lads would be batting the things off and I was never bothered by them. The same in Scotland, when they were all being eaten alive by midges I was always clear of them.
We actually got on well with the people and they would give us information about the hard liners who they did not want in the villages, in return we turned a blind eye to some things and did not wreck everything searching. I had meals with some of the contractors in their homes and the food was good. I got to a banquet in Port Said and that was an eye opener and then some. A local return group have asked me to go back with them a couple of times but too many bad memories plus I never go back to most places as it is never the same.
Frank.
Maud, get a shot gun that scatters the little b err blighters, you can stick chewing gum in the holes made in the cabinets, it also gets rid of mice as well as the cats. "Oops" sorry that is me definitely not a cat lover talking, I would feed the mice.
Of well we are all different. Frank.
Several of my uncles served in Egypt and North Africa during the Second World War, and some of their stories made my hair curl - lets just say I would never turn my back on most of these people ( ...apologies for this generalisation to anyone of Egyptian extraction reading this).
As for birds nicking your grub, nothing beats the gulls in Cornwall, places like St Ives and Mevagissy - when my 4 year-old grandson has his lunch on the beach we have to throw a blanket over his head - all we hear is munching sounds, and muttered grunts about 'pesky birds'!