Morning all, Rain, rain go away. It rained all yesterday afternoon and got up to rain again this morning. I want to get out there but it's too wet at the moment.
Not bothered one way or the other about Sunday trading, but then I don't work so I can go shopping whenever I want. I think it's important for working families to have as much choice as possible regarding shopping hours. I think lots of students find it useful to be able to earn at weedends and evenings.
I'm kinda with you punkdoc, but if I was a gardener/ painter/ accountant, nobody tells me when I can , and can't work. Why , if I open a shop, am I told?
Internet offers 24/7 shopping, but with both, nobody is compelled to avail themselves of it.
Hostafan, It is not the common or garden man that leads any one into war it is overblown Politicians who think they have suddenly acquired Big ben between the legs who lead us into war. Lets have a war lads and lasses, it is not us who get hurt and it takes peoples minds off our mismanagement of the Country.
When you have stood in line naked, under a canopy in the Desert, whilst a woman Doctor walked along lifted each appendage with her cane looked at it with a rather scornful look on her face as she dropped said appendage, then looked at her cane to see if it had been smitten with noxious bugs you realise its place in the way of things important or not. Mind, saying that, said woman Doctor who was on loan to the garrison for three weeks demanded i become her driver and bodyguard and I do not think it was because I had the biggest sub-machine gun.
It is an old adage, "There are no Atheists in foxholes" coming from an age where every week at school we had an hour of Religious Teaching, Church and Sunday School on Sundays and I suffered greatly because i questions everything instead of just soaking it up believe me when I say religion was not top of my list of things to do. When you have seen the biggest and toughest crying and yes praying you realise we are not and never will be in control of our lives. I do not write off any possibility, we do not know and never will until it is too late, the one positive is we are all star dust.
Not fake news, why is everything making me so angry?
A woman married to a British man for 27 years has been sent back to Singapore.
Irene Clennell was being held in a Scottish detention centre, but told the BBC she has been removed to her country of origin without warning.
She had been living near Durham with her husband, and has two British sons, as well as a granddaughter, in the UK.
Periods spent abroad caring for her parents are thought to have invalidated her residential status. The Home Office does not comment on individual cases.
That's appalling, punkdoc. I hope she's allowed to stay with her family.
Not many of the French here go to church on a Sunday. Don't know if the Sunday closing is for religious or social reasons. But more than half the shops in Périgueux, the Dordogne capital, were closed on Saturday afternoon and I know they are closed on Sundays and a lot are closed on Monday morning too. A lot are closed for 2 hours at lunchtime every day. The garden centres are closed at lunchtime too and they don't have refreshments or cafés like in England. Some supermarkets are open Sunday mornings on the outskirts of town. Everything is shut on Sunday afternoons.
Also it was hard finding a nice restaurant for OH's birthday lunch as a lot of the restaurants here are shut for the winter. I've been told the owners also have restaurants in the ski resorts so that's where they are in wintertime.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
That sounds awful Pdoc - hope it gets sorted positively.
I suppose she could have applied for British Citizenship - that's what someone I know did after having been married to a Brit for a few years she applied, took the test and now has a full British passport.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Good morning all , nice day so far , going on a walk shortly
Shopping , I can still remember shops closing for half a day on Thursday and closed on Sundays , Banks only open Monday to Friday and closed at 3-30
Dont remember going short of anything thou ! Progress ?
Have a good day everybody
Morning all, Rain, rain go away. It rained all yesterday afternoon and got up to rain again this morning. I want to get out there but it's too wet at the moment.
Not bothered one way or the other about Sunday trading, but then I don't work so I can go shopping whenever I want. I think it's important for working families to have as much choice as possible regarding shopping hours. I think lots of students find it useful to be able to earn at weedends and evenings.
Hope it dries up soon.
24/7 consumerism depresses me.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Lovely sunny morning after two vile wet and windy days.
Couldn't cope now without online SM order/delivery.
I'm kinda with you punkdoc, but if I was a gardener/ painter/ accountant, nobody tells me when I can , and can't work. Why , if I open a shop, am I told?
Internet offers 24/7 shopping, but with both, nobody is compelled to avail themselves of it.
Started the first slug patrol of the year last night, 4 newly hatched little buggers - one helping himself to the fresh alstroemeria shoots!
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Hostafan, It is not the common or garden man that leads any one into war it is overblown Politicians who think they have suddenly acquired Big ben between the legs who lead us into war. Lets have a war lads and lasses, it is not us who get hurt and it takes peoples minds off our mismanagement of the Country.
When you have stood in line naked, under a canopy in the Desert, whilst a woman Doctor walked along lifted each appendage with her cane looked at it with a rather scornful look on her face as she dropped said appendage, then looked at her cane to see if it had been smitten with noxious bugs you realise its place in the way of things important or not. Mind, saying that, said woman Doctor who was on loan to the garrison for three weeks demanded i become her driver and bodyguard and I do not think it was because I had the biggest sub-machine gun.
It is an old adage, "There are no Atheists in foxholes" coming from an age where every week at school we had an hour of Religious Teaching, Church and Sunday School on Sundays and I suffered greatly because i questions everything instead of just soaking it up believe me when I say religion was not top of my list of things to do. When you have seen the biggest and toughest crying and yes praying you realise we are not and never will be in control of our lives. I do not write off any possibility, we do not know and never will until it is too late, the one positive is we are all star dust.
Frank.
Not fake news, why is everything making me so angry?
A woman married to a British man for 27 years has been sent back to Singapore.
Irene Clennell was being held in a Scottish detention centre, but told the BBC she has been removed to her country of origin without warning.
She had been living near Durham with her husband, and has two British sons, as well as a granddaughter, in the UK.
Periods spent abroad caring for her parents are thought to have invalidated her residential status. The Home Office does not comment on individual cases.
Woman faces removal after 27 years
Mrs Clennell told the BBC she was put in a van and taken to the airport from the Dungavel Detention Centre in South Lanarkshire on Saturday.
She had been held at the facility since the start of February.
She told the BBC she was unable to contact her lawyer and did not have the chance to get any clothes from her home.
Mrs Clennell, who had been living in Chester-le-Street, was given indefinite leave to remain in the UK after her marriage.
She says she has made repeated attempts - both in Singapore and in the UK - to re-apply for permission to live with her husband.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
That's appalling, punkdoc. I hope she's allowed to stay with her family.
Not many of the French here go to church on a Sunday. Don't know if the Sunday closing is for religious or social reasons. But more than half the shops in Périgueux, the Dordogne capital, were closed on Saturday afternoon and I know they are closed on Sundays and a lot are closed on Monday morning too. A lot are closed for 2 hours at lunchtime every day. The garden centres are closed at lunchtime too and they don't have refreshments or cafés like in England. Some supermarkets are open Sunday mornings on the outskirts of town. Everything is shut on Sunday afternoons.
Also it was hard finding a nice restaurant for OH's birthday lunch as a lot of the restaurants here are shut for the winter. I've been told the owners also have restaurants in the ski resorts so that's where they are in wintertime.
That sounds awful Pdoc - hope it gets sorted positively.
I suppose she could have applied for British Citizenship - that's what someone I know did after having been married to a Brit for a few years she applied, took the test and now has a full British passport.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.