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  • Padraig
    Full Member
    • Feb 2013
    • 4236

    Originally posted by french frank View Post
    But can you genuflect bending only one knee?
    In all the talk about 'taking a knee', far from disparaging the Flag it is an alternative way of showing respect. That's what we were taught as Catholics when told as boys how to behave properly when at services. Traditionally it was the right knee. Two knees was kneeling and we did a lot of that too.

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    • Serial_Apologist
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 37683

      Originally posted by Padraig View Post
      In all the talk about 'taking a knee', far from disparaging the Flag it is an alternative way of showing respect. That's what we were taught as Catholics when told as boys how to behave properly when at services. Traditionally it was the right knee. Two knees was kneeling and we did a lot of that too.
      Too much kneeling on one knee, you end up getting amkneesia.

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      • Leinster Lass
        Banned
        • Oct 2020
        • 1099

        Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
        Too much kneeling on one knee, you end up getting amkneesia.
        I'd forgotten that that actually happened to two of my friends, Pat and Ella.

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        • french frank
          Administrator/Moderator
          • Feb 2007
          • 30286

          Originally posted by rathfarnhamgirl View Post
          I'd forgotten that that actually happened to two of my friends, Pat and Ella.
          Then you noticed their knees and it reminded you?
          It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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          • Serial_Apologist
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 37683

            Originally posted by french frank View Post
            Then you noticed their knees and it reminded you?

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            • cloughie
              Full Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 22120

              Our village Christmas lights were switched on this evening - no countdown or ceremony but good to see. Many of the villages in the area decided not to do any lights this year because of Covid, including the very popular Mousehole ones.

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              • teamsaint
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 25209

                Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                Our village Christmas lights were switched on this evening - no countdown or ceremony but good to see. Many of the villages in the area decided not to do any lights this year because of Covid, including the very popular Mousehole ones.
                Why did many of them decide not to have lights?
                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                • Old Grumpy
                  Full Member
                  • Jan 2011
                  • 3612

                  Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                  Why did many of them decide not to have lights?
                  No lights, no crowds?

                  Excuse to save money?

                  Not putting workers at unnecessary risk?

                  Dunno, but could perhaps be one of the above.


                  Just put our lights out today at Grumpy Towers. Probably about 2.5 weeks earlier than usual, but must admit it does cheer the place up!

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                  • teamsaint
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 25209

                    Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
                    No lights, no crowds?

                    Excuse to save money?

                    Not putting workers at unnecessary risk?

                    Dunno, but could perhaps be one of the above.


                    Just put our lights out today at Grumpy Towers. Probably about 2.5 weeks earlier than usual, but must admit it does cheer the place up!
                    Yep, more lights than ever round here, even more welcome than usualy this year.
                    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                    • Old Grumpy
                      Full Member
                      • Jan 2011
                      • 3612

                      Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                      Yep, more lights than ever round here, even more welcome than usualy this year.
                      Perhaps should have been phrased "put our lights up", rather than "put our lights out"!

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                      • cloughie
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2011
                        • 22120

                        Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                        Why did many of them decide not to have lights?
                        The reasons given by OG except the excuse to save money - though fundraising activities would be more limitied in the Covid scenario. The cheerup factor was a major one in ours going ahead - though we have not as many lights as usual and have worked on what we had that were readily available.

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                        • Pulcinella
                          Host
                          • Feb 2014
                          • 10927

                          Here's a relief: the answer to all your lockdown Christmas present dilemmas.
                          From a list of 10 brilliant homemade Christmas gift ideas on the Guardian's website.
                          However, I have no idea how to 'pop out' the ball, and, in true DIY instruction style, there seems to be something missing: how and when do I pop it back in?


                          Headache oil

                          Pop the ball out of a used essential oil roll-on container (or buy new ones cheaply at etsy.com), and sterilise it as you would a jam jar: wash in hot soapy water, and rinse but don’t dry. Place on a baking tray in an oven heated to 160C/gas mark 3 for 10 minutes. Soak the ball in boiled water for a few minutes.

                          Mix 20 drops of peppermint oil (for relieving stress and easing headaches) with two drops of camomile oil (which promotes sleep and reduces anxiety) and two of lavender oil (for calming and easing tension), and top up with coconut oil (try nealsyardremedies.com).

                          Place an attractive coloured sticker on the bottle, then tie on a dried leaf or flower with twine. On the bottom of each container, on another sticker, write the product’s name, ingredients and how to use it (roll it on your temples and relax).

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                          • oddoneout
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2015
                            • 9192

                            Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                            Here's a relief: the answer to all your lockdown Christmas present dilemmas.
                            From a list of 10 brilliant homemade Christmas gift ideas on the Guardian's website.
                            However, I have no idea how to 'pop out' the ball, and, in true DIY instruction style, there seems to be something missing: how and when do I pop it back in?


                            Headache oil

                            Pop the ball out of a used essential oil roll-on container (or buy new ones cheaply at etsy.com), and sterilise it as you would a jam jar: wash in hot soapy water, and rinse but don’t dry. Place on a baking tray in an oven heated to 160C/gas mark 3 for 10 minutes. Soak the ball in boiled water for a few minutes.

                            Mix 20 drops of peppermint oil (for relieving stress and easing headaches) with two drops of camomile oil (which promotes sleep and reduces anxiety) and two of lavender oil (for calming and easing tension), and top up with coconut oil (try nealsyardremedies.com).

                            Place an attractive coloured sticker on the bottle, then tie on a dried leaf or flower with twine. On the bottom of each container, on another sticker, write the product’s name, ingredients and how to use it (roll it on your temples and relax).
                            I saw that too and reckoned you would need a headache remedy after battling through the instructions. It's been decades since I had any close contact with such containers (I didn't favour such application methods but other family members did) but the balls were plastic so the idea of putting one in the oven made me cringe.

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                            • Pulcinella
                              Host
                              • Feb 2014
                              • 10927

                              Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
                              I saw that too and reckoned you would need a headache remedy after battling through the instructions. It's been decades since I had any close contact with such containers (I didn't favour such application methods but other family members did) but the balls were plastic so the idea of putting one in the oven made me cringe.
                              The ball doesn't go in the oven though, merely in 'boiled water' for a few minutes.
                              No clue given as to the temperature of the water: so just the fact that it's been boiled is good enough?

                              As you say, headache providing rather than curing!

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                              • oddoneout
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2015
                                • 9192

                                Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                                The ball doesn't go in the oven though, merely in 'boiled water' for a few minutes.
                                No clue given as to the temperature of the water: so just the fact that it's been boiled is good enough?

                                As you say, headache providing rather than curing!
                                Having re-read the original several times I think you are right about the ball - but the sentence actually says "pop the ball out....and sterilise it" then gives the wash and put in the oven sterilising instructions without clarifying that 'it' is the bottle not the ball - although the bottles are usually plastic as well. I don't know if the original instructions from which the Guardian article summarised are any clearer.
                                When making jam etc putting jars in the oven is as much about getting them thoroughly dry after washing and making sure they don't crack from thermal shock when the hot contents are added as sterilising. Getting the container dry would be important for the repurposing idea but using the oven is a dubious suggestion to my mind. I wonder if the buy new ones mentioned are glass?

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