Hello folks from the Oban to Lismore ferry. Been buying paint and stuff - looking forward to getting back to peace and quiet on the island and painting the staircase. But not tonight or I won't be able to go upstairs to bed...
Snowy view from this morning's ferry.
Hope it's warmer where Hosta is off to....
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Sorry if this offends, but I have just read it and I was gobsmacked
"More people in India own a mobile phone than have access to a toilet 53% of families don’t have a toilet Almost 70% of rural households don’t have access to proper toilets 550 million people defecate in the open"
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Indeed so punkdoc.If you fly into Goa on an early morning flight , you'll see dozens , erm, doing it, in a field next to the road as you leave the airport.
I remember staying in a house in India where the house next door had a satellite TV dish , yet the ladies, ( never saw men do it ) used to pull water up from a well by hand.
My understanding is that in some parts of rural India there is a fair amount of resistance to using toilets. It's a change from a centuries old way of doing things which is considered by some to be much more hygienic than using a toilet.
I remember, back in the late 1950s, our local village postmistress telling us very proudly that they were having a bathroom installed in their pretty thatched cottage.
She then added that she was having a flush w.c. installed in the shed that had housed the privy in the garden.
Ma asked why she wasn't having the toilet in the bathroom?
Mrs E looked appalled and said, "I'm not having people doing that in my house!"
And she never did - not until she died and her daughter took over the Post Office in the 1980s was there an indoor toilet at the village post office.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
One of the reasons mobile phones first had torches built in to them was that most of their users did not have electricity at home. It was such a popular idea that it soon became standard even for those of us who are blessed with all mod cons. The world develops in mysterious ways.
At school, or at work. Sometimes at home too, but then the torch is to cope in frequent power cuts. Its what made Nokia the brand leader in India and Africa a few years ago .....although they have probably lost that accolade now.
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Hello folks from the Oban to Lismore ferry. Been buying paint and stuff - looking forward to getting back to peace and quiet on the island and painting the staircase. But not tonight or I won't be able to go upstairs to bed...
Snowy view from this morning's ferry.
Hope it's warmer where Hosta is off to....
Great view Liri. I do love the Highlands.
Is that what it is Dove, no wonder I am tired?
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Was it busy in Oban Liri, when you want back to the peace and quiet?
Don't be working too hard
Sorry if this offends, but I have just read it and I was gobsmacked
"More people in India own a mobile phone than have access to a toilet 53% of families don’t have a toilet Almost 70% of rural households don’t have access to proper toilets 550 million people defecate in the open"
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Niece & hubby in Scotland on Holiday and posted pictures with snow , it looks good
Peronally I don't mind the cold weather , in fact have lit a real fire tonight
Indeed so punkdoc.If you fly into Goa on an early morning flight , you'll see dozens , erm, doing it, in a field next to the road as you leave the airport.
I remember staying in a house in India where the house next door had a satellite TV dish , yet the ladies, ( never saw men do it ) used to pull water up from a well by hand.
Aren't priorities weird?
My understanding is that in some parts of rural India there is a fair amount of resistance to using toilets. It's a change from a centuries old way of doing things which is considered by some to be much more hygienic than using a toilet.
I remember, back in the late 1950s, our local village postmistress telling us very proudly that they were having a bathroom installed in their pretty thatched cottage.
She then added that she was having a flush w.c. installed in the shed that had housed the privy in the garden.
Ma asked why she wasn't having the toilet in the bathroom?
Mrs E looked appalled and said, "I'm not having people doing that in my house!"
And she never did - not until she died and her daughter took over the Post Office in the 1980s was there an indoor toilet at the village post office.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
One of the reasons mobile phones first had torches built in to them was that most of their users did not have electricity at home. It was such a popular idea that it soon became standard even for those of us who are blessed with all mod cons. The world develops in mysterious ways.
If they have no leccy at home, how do they recharge them?
At school, or at work. Sometimes at home too, but then the torch is to cope in frequent power cuts. Its what made Nokia the brand leader in India and Africa a few years ago .....although they have probably lost that accolade now.