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Thank you for that sensible explanation. As I said earlier I placed the lights on dinner plates for safety. One of them oozed some wax onto the plate which made me wonder if vinteul got his info from the helpful wickyleaks:
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Mine too - that and falling over like I did last year when I fractured my wrist on the way to a carol service. Not the best Christmas ever!Originally posted by Mary Chambers View Post
Just got in having taken three quarters of an hour to drive less than a mile. Snowing heavily here and bitterly cold but the hills look beautiful from my study window. All very quiet and peaceful.Comment
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Hello to all. This past day moving into the Winter Solstice with a lunar eclipse I wondered how everyone is faring as the weather is changing many plans, but mostly I would like to ask of salymap if she has people who can make the trek to her cottage. So, salymap I hope you are well and safe, warm and have food and fine companionship.
As for me, well I have a blasted head cold ~ fourteen days with cold relief remedies and two weeks with none.
Happy Holidays to all and thank you French Frank and johnb for this forum.
sigolene euphemia
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If any of you are worried about power outages, why not get yourself a sub-zero-rated winter sleeping bag? When I lived in a rickety old loft in Brooklyn, I opened mine and used it as a quilt. Very comfy, and I never had to worry about the electricity going out! One winter, the pipes in my bathroom froze and burst...When your pipes freeze from the inside, you know there's something wrong, haha! (Oh well--at $350 a month, you get what you pay for...) Anyway, some sleeping bags are quite economical, have a look:
Quite a bargain, if you think of it as being a kind of life insurance.
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Hi!
From the housebound here on the North Sea.
The weather has us looking at this interactive online site provided by the Guardian. And nearly all I think of is how to really survive with no electricity. It is daunting how dependent I am on electricity. We do have wood heating but am starting to wonder how much of the wood is seasoned for use, since we are going through so much.
sigolene
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When icicles drip on your head, you wish that you were back in bed. Sorry Shakespeare!
Morning all especially Euda and Sigolene. Above is when I ventured to bins in sideway.
Yes, S I have instructions to stay indoors while it's like this. Ihave food delivery from local cozes today or tomorrow, depending on weather. Sorry about your cold. Miserable things at the bestof times.
My Christmas plans are flexible, we are all in touch by phone or email but some journeys may not be possible.
I am going nowhere, they call on me as and when they can. I have invitations but better here. E.I have a lovely thick sleeping bag. A Happy Christmas or Season's Greetings to all Stormyweatherites and especially FF for her work for all of us. salyComment
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Hi Salymap,
Belated thanks for your correction on the memorial thread when I missappropiated Sidcup's Queen Mary Hospital. I was getting confused with my local hospital which IS Queen Elizabeth Hospital on Woolwich Common.
Can I ask what 'local cozes' are. Is this some Kentish version of the Cosa Nostra?!Comment
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Morning SHB, you may think so, Icouldn't possibly comment
I visited your Queen Elizabeth Hospital 10 years ago for a bone scan. As my QM closes more and more facilities it may well become my local too. How long before 'they' withdraw hospital transport by car or ambulance? A very happy Christmas/holiday/whatever. salyComment
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Afternoon all
Yes, QM Sidcup is closing A&E and maternoty wing to save money. They did a fab job repairing accidental damage to my son's eye a few years ago.Comment
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the middle kingdom is covered in a deep frost but no snow [yet] very cold very pretty and also foggy ...
yesterday we had an outing en famille to Corby visiting the new 'centrum', Willow Place .... a unique collaboration between community and enterprise to produce a remarkably European feel to the new centre, with shops, eateries, library, recreation centre, cinema, housing, and cheap parking! practically empty and enough to keep three generations amused for a couple of hours .... driving through the vales on the daylight journey south through Uppingham and Rockingham was a landscape wonderland of frost, mist and suffuse wintry light .... but ten seconds in the open air and you could not wait to get indoors ....
as we sat in the cafe the sky news big screen played a non stop tale of woe for travellers across the country .... i would not appreciate being stranded in transit at Heathrow on the journey home for Christmas! the disruption perhaps is excusable, it does not happen often, but there seems to be a very large number of people who are stranded for days in disgraceful conditions and that reflects very badly on this countryAccording to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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Oh dear! Very heavy snow forecast for this area tonight and tomorrow. My company were not all that understanding of the train cancellations a fortnight/three weeks ago. You're no good to them unless sat at your desk. Scrooge and Marley have nothing on my lot! Here we go again then..."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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Is this the same job Petrushka....I remember at one point last year you were expecting redundancy....I remember feeling very sad for you at the time....
....Today walking above Grassington N Yorks on the limestone pavement....found extraordinary thin and delicate sculptures hanging from light branches of trees....also many textures and flake consistencies I'd never ever seen before....like the thinnest flakes of glass pointing upwards like coral beds....bong chingComment
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Aaaah thinking about it....what i saw was severe frost coinciding with freezing fog....very beautiful....bong chingComment
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Yes, it is. I was forced to relocate to a place I hate (having worked there before) as the redundancy payout was derisory. Tried looking elsewhere but age is now too much of a barrier and I'm pretty much trapped. Management attitudes are still firmly rooted in Victorian England with a very 21st century lack of trust between employer and employee.Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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A calm sea and a pleasant voyage...soave sia il ventoComment
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