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welsh dragon

Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Just reading a few of the supermarkets are going to close on Boxing Day to give their staff a day off after the year they've had. Well deserved I say, but just wait on the complaints from all the people that can't seem to cope with a shop being closed for a day now.


My god. What are people going to eat if they can't go to the supermarket the day after Christmas. Surely they will starve to death.
 

Mo1959

Legendary Member
My god. What are people going to eat if they can't go to the supermarket the day after Christmas. Surely they will starve to death.
A few of them could do with a few days starving these days! :laugh:
 

oldwheels

Legendary Member
Location
Isle of Mull
Light rain and windy which is forecast to stay till Sunday when it turns into heavy rain and high winds.
Bread rising and soup to make next.
I also am very much on my own tho' I do communicate with most of my family by email. I would spend more time on the mainland at my younger sons's house but travel restrictions put paid to that and I will probably not be over until I get the vaccine which may start here even for the ancients in February.
My social contacts here are very much at a distance due to chemo treatment and being in a very high risk group. Unfortunate but they do get to Oban nearly every week for chemo and my buddy can get proper shopping as his wife gets the chemo.
I would have cycled more but the influx of hordes of anti social tourists put paid to that.
 

Mo1959

Legendary Member
Light rain and windy which is forecast to stay till Sunday when it turns into heavy rain and high winds.
Bread rising and soup to make next.
I also am very much on my own tho' I do communicate with most of my family by email. I would spend more time on the mainland at my younger sons's house but travel restrictions put paid to that and I will probably not be over until I get the vaccine which may start here even for the ancients in February.
My social contacts here are very much at a distance due to chemo treatment and being in a very high risk group. Unfortunate but they do get to Oban nearly every week for chemo and my buddy can get proper shopping as his wife gets the chemo.
I would have cycled more but the influx of hordes of anti social tourists put paid to that.
Do you ever visit Colonsay? My dad and step mum were very fond of it and made a few friends there. I only recently found out one of dad's best friends and old stalwarts on the island died at the end of August. Even after dad died, he still phoned me occasionally for a blether so it was sad to find out he had passed away.
 

JPBoothy

Veteran
Location
Cheshire
Thank goodness it stays light hearted in here. Couple of the other threads are so full of doom, gloom and negativity. :sad:
And sadly a bit of 'not so subtle' nastiness.. I have to confess to not being quite old enough to join your club yet (not far off) but I like to have a little peep at what you are doing (or not in a lot of cases :laugh:) and this thread always seems more friendly and care free than a lot of the others.

Enjoy your day folks :okay:
 

welsh dragon

Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
And sadly a bit of 'not so subtle' nastiness.. I have to confess to not being quite old enough to join your club yet (not far off) but I like to have a little peep at what you are doing (or not in a lot of cases :laugh:) and this thread always seems more friendly and care free than a lot of the others.

Enjoy your day folks :okay:

We dont take anything seriously especially ourselves. :laugh:
 

Sterlo

Early Retirement Planning
And sadly a bit of 'not so subtle' nastiness.. I have to confess to not being quite old enough to join your club yet (not far off) but I like to have a little peep at what you are doing (or not in a lot of cases :laugh:) and this thread always seems more friendly and care free than a lot of the others.

Enjoy your day folks :okay:
That and the fact that most of them on here are clinically insane:hyper:
 

oldwheels

Legendary Member
Location
Isle of Mull
Do you ever visit Colonsay? My dad and step mum were very fond of it and made a few friends there. I only recently found out one of dad's best friends and old stalwarts on the island died at the end of August. Even after dad died, he still phoned me occasionally for a blether so it was sad to find out he had passed away.
Never landed on Colonsay but sailed around it a few times on our annual yacht club "cabbage cruise" in company with several other boats. Why cabbage cruise? One year somebody brought a very large cabbage which we shared out and ate for the whole cruise and the name stuck. As the largest boat we usually ended up having everyone to eat and drink. Once we had a very large pot of curry on our gimballed stove which overturned. We scraped it up and it tasted very good but the fibreglass area round the cooker remained red until I sold the boat some years later.
 
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Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
After the naked hot dog from @Dirk yesterday, I give you this mornings sausage sandwich.
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