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[Gunk]

I hope you're having a day of happy bithdayery.

thanks

 

[classic33]

Lovely lunch of turkey noodle soup, a sandwich with lox and a schmear, two and a clementine.

Wasn't aware turkeys had noodles!

 

[classic33]

I wouldn't have any decorations up at all left to me . They go up for the kids and wife. Although, I am partial to the train around the base of the tree - I made damned sure it was a Hornby 🚂 I'm not superstitious either so I'm not waiting until Epiphany comes along to remove the clutter.

I can see the look on my wife and kids faces now were I to tell them they couldn't put up the decorations until Christmas Eve I'd feel like Captain Bligh and be just as likely to face the same fate!

"Smokey Joe"?

 

[tyred]

I'm off to bed. Good night.

 

[raleighnut]

I wouldn't have any decorations up at all left to me . They go up for the kids and wife. Although, I am partial to the train around the base of the tree - I made damned sure it was a Hornby 🚂 I'm not superstitious either so I'm not waiting until Epiphany comes along to remove the clutter.

I can see the look on my wife and kids faces now were I to tell them they couldn't put up the decorations until Christmas Eve I'd feel like Captain Bligh and be just as likely to face the same fate!

I get "Well everyone else has theirs up" but Maz cannot get up into the attic where they are stored so 'Ya Boo Sucks' but I do get them down 2-3 days beforehand, start checking which lights still work etc and then make a start.................But I never finish putting everything up til Christmas Eve (I believe you're allowed a bit of 'prep' work in the schedule)

Round here Christmas seems to start mid November and they're down by Boxing Day or the day after (I've even heard someone saying
"It's called 'Boxing Day' cos that's when everything goes back in it's box" (Bet his Dad made that up)

Kids today miss the excitement of finishing School early and rushing home to help Mum decorate the Tree that Dad had put in the front room that morning before going out with Mum's 2 Brothers to collect the (pre-ordered) Meat from the Butchers.
The traditional unpacking of the Nativity Scene with Mum saying "Who broke the Donkey? " to be answered by the chorus of "It's been broken for years" by Me and my 2 little Sisters.

Then Nan nearly setting the Carpet alight as she got the Coal fire going before my Uncle Jack and Uncle Dave poured my Dad in through the back door and plonked him in the Kitchen Chair with a bucket placed next to it by Mum earlier in the day with the Blanket ready on the Table to be placed around him (Mums Brothers were both 6'+ and built like brick outhouses who had their own Building Company)

 

[classic33]

I'm off to bed. Good night.

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"You will be haunted," resumed the Ghost, "by Three Spirits."

 

[Reynard]

Anyways, time this little Reynard stopped looking at tempting things on the Bay of E and went to bed.

Nunnight one and all xxx

 

[biggs682]

No sign of frost and ice so might just go for a gentle bimble see y'all later

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

"Smokey Joe"?

And then we buy the current year’s rolling stock carriage to add to the train.

 

[Illaveago]

Morning.
I'm having problems with this new system !
1.Lerts aren't working all that well, Mundane news for me apparently doesn't exist and I have to search for it .
2. Sometimes I will click on a subject and something totally different will appear !
3. Just now I was reading something,I scrolled down a bit and it had logged me out !
Is it my tablet or some new Boing 777 software?
Yours. Getting really ****** off!

 

[Illaveago]

Thanks, I was well looked after. My daughter decided to wrap up a bottle of whisky as a comedy shaped present.

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I can see you !

 

[Illaveago]

We've got a bunch of old 'low voltage' lights where part of them have failed* that go out on the Privet at the front. I'm not bothered if they get damaged/vandalised but they've been limping on for years although they do look nice when I've arranged them so that the 'dead curcuits' are not too noticable. Some of them have been going on like this for years.

* Non repairable and in the House the dead sections are too visible on the tree but rather than bin them they go outside until they completely fail.

Why not paint the bulbs with luminous paint, they will only come on when it's dark ?

 

[PeteXXX]

Morning.
I'm having problems with this new system !
1.Lerts aren't working all that well, Mundane news for me apparently doesn't exist and I have to search for it .
2. Sometimes I will click on a subject and something totally different will appear !
3. Just now I was reading something,I scrolled down a bit and it had logged me out !
Is it my tablet or some new Boing 777 software?
Yours. Getting really ****** off!

CC is pretty much the same as usual on my Android phone.. I occasionally lose threads but I've been known to have accidentally tapped on 'ignore thread' without realising!

Morning all..

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Each morning i have to take a pill, it's a little tiny thing & quite difficult to get out of the packaging, for me at least, so today's pill ended up on the floor, switched the light on & searched for it but couldn't find it. I was concerned just in case the dog or cat found it, but if I can't find it I can't help that. Got & took another pill from the strip only to look down & see the one I couldn't find, I swear it wasn't there before!

 

[biggs682]

No sign of frost and ice so might just go for a gentle bimble see y'all later

Right back home with a cuppa and in bed .
A nice 20 miles damp underfoot but otherwise nice .