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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 18, 2022 23:03:05 GMT
Morning All
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 18, 2022 23:07:05 GMT
Boing!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 19, 2022 6:29:33 GMT
Morning All!
It's Monday - 2022 Week 38
Yesterday: Decent day. Church in the morning, sleep afternoon, quiet day otherwise.
Today: Used the bank holiday to try to have a bonus lie in as my body is telling me it's tired - body woke me 7:10. Oh well. L due home c11am. Chinese tonight so she doesn't need to cook
Pray Day goes OK, Sinuses, CMT and Head cope OK. Pray we stay protected from the virus.
Have a good day, stay safe & well.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 19, 2022 7:28:57 GMT
I see the names Graham Thompson and Paul Wright on the guest list for the Queens Funeral and wonder how not one but two of our chums manage to blag an invite while posing as national religious officials..... www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62948934 |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 19, 2022 9:07:52 GMT
Planned to spend the day entirely at home and not go out at all until I woke up and remembered, as I always do whenever I plan to spend a day not going out, that lockdown made me hate days spent entirely at home. So I went out.
It's like mirror universe lockdown out there. All the supermarket chains are shut. They're staffed and taking deliveries of Funeral Special morning newspapers containing guides to the order of service, but they won't open for a few hours to sell them to people who want to buy them because that would be disrespectful. Tesco's will apparently open at 5pm if people want to buy a morning newspaper then. Goodness knows how many souvenir newspapers Sainsbury's will send back to be pulped because they're not opening at all.
BUT all the cafe chains are open for sit-in breakfasts, and doing a roaring trade. As I understand it, they'll be respectfully closed during the Funeral itself. Common sense and proportionality prevail in one sector, at least!
I found one independently-run out-of-the-way newsagent that was open to sell early morning newspapers. After respectfully reading it over a porridge and mug of hot apple and cinnamon I left it for the newspaper-starved cafe-goers to fight over and enjoy, then returned home to watch the thing on the telly.
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 19, 2022 9:36:16 GMT
Well done for respectfully supporting the local economy.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 19, 2022 10:35:37 GMT
Just had Suki out for a walk. Nice and quiet, the only shop open near me is the Tattoo/Aquarium Fish Shop combo.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 19, 2022 11:51:30 GMT
Went up the Great Orme in search of goats as I have no interest in The Funeral. Lovely walk.
Came back down and everwhere shut except for a pub and a clairvoyant's parlour nearby.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 19, 2022 12:36:14 GMT
Got it on here as I dont have the energy to pay attention to anything properly. Have to admit to finding it affecting. If only for realising I was hearing God Save the Queen for likely the last time in a contemporay context which is just odd.
But it would have been so much more so without the week long enforced mourning preceding it.
I did go out in the garden to avoid listening to Truss. It was very quiet. Quite pleasant really.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 19, 2022 12:58:31 GMT
a pub and a clairvoyant's parlour Did you support your local economy...? Martin |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 19, 2022 13:01:13 GMT
to avoid listening to Truss I confess that one mean-spirited positive thing about all this for me is how gutted Boris must be that he missed out on presiding over this by a matter of weeks. Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 19, 2022 13:16:19 GMT
a pub and a clairvoyant's parlour Did you support your local economy...? Martin I will be later, but I was enjoying a splendid walk at the time. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 19, 2022 13:16:41 GMT
to avoid listening to Truss I confess that one mean-spirited positive thing about all this for me is how gutted Boris must be that he missed out on presiding over this by a matter of weeks. Martin He is finally getting his cumuppance. -Ralph |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 19, 2022 14:29:16 GMT
Did you support your local economy...? I will be later AHA! Future knowledge! Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 19, 2022 16:03:49 GMT
Got some cheap old TF comics on holiday today, to my wife's mild despair. My robot sensors are always on duty.
-Ralph
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Post by KnightBeat on Sept 19, 2022 21:54:31 GMT
How did you find comics when the shops are closed and you're looking for goats?
Is a question I never thought I'd ask.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 19, 2022 21:57:28 GMT
I have skills!
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 19, 2022 22:07:15 GMT
to avoid listening to Truss I confess that one mean-spirited positive thing about all this for me is how gutted Boris must be that he missed out on presiding over this by a matter of weeks. Martin I had similar thoughts. But they werent enough to make me listen to Truss. |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 20, 2022 5:00:09 GMT
Well anyway, 'London Has Fallen' didn't happen, that's the main thing.
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 20, 2022 6:46:06 GMT
Morning All!
It's Tuesday
Yesterday: Day went OK, apart from body waking me just after 7 when it could have had a nice big lie in! Liz home early, roads deserted, we watched the funeral together and got a Chinese for tea so she didn't need to cook first day back.
2am. Thank you body.
Today: L teaching then out to see her Dad. J college.
Pray Day goes OK, Sinuses, CMT and Head cope OK. Pray we stay protected from the virus.
Have a good day, stay safe & well.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 20, 2022 7:27:33 GMT
TO THE VILLAGE!!!!
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Sept 20, 2022 9:07:29 GMT
I am on holiday this week!  And I saw a good pal!  |
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 20, 2022 15:07:36 GMT
The solo bag-pipe player slowly marching off out of site with the sound gradually fading was very touching.
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 20, 2022 20:23:23 GMT
I see Blueshift has provided us with a good ol' Crazy Caption Competition photo.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 20, 2022 22:24:13 GMT
I HAVE RETURNED FROM THE VILLAGE!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 21, 2022 6:43:38 GMT
I HAVE RETURNED FROM THE VILLAGE!!! -Ralph Morning All! It's Wednesday Yesterday: Rough day. Didn't get off the night before till 2am. Used what little head I had trying to rind the bus company. Still not good post bath so went to bed for the morning, only got up for lunch. Got an hour or so more in the afternoon but still not functioning great in the evening. Slept just before midnight till 7am! Today: Leading 8am. L work then her Mum then both going to see her Dad. J ARC then college. Home group in evening. Pray Day goes OK, Sinuses, CMT and Head cope OK. Pray we stay protected from the virus. Have a good day, stay safe & well. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 21, 2022 6:44:57 GMT
I HAVE RETURNED FROM THE VILLAGE!!! -Ralph Or have you? Ralph wakes up in the Village the morning after Animation of bars crashing in over his face.... |
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 21, 2022 18:42:31 GMT
I always know when we've had a postal strike because my magazine subscriptions get really screwed up. Today I got the DWM that should have been here last Thursday, last week's 2000AD (#2299), the new Megazine I can't read yet because #2300 hasn't arrived, and the subscriber gift magazine.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 21, 2022 20:55:25 GMT
I HAVE RETURNED FROM THE VILLAGE!!! -Ralph Or have you? Ralph wakes up in the Village the morning after Animation of bars crashing in over his face.... I will escape! I will! -Ralph |
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Post by blueshift on Sept 22, 2022 6:04:59 GMT
I ate a cheesecake on a stick
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