Sunday night chat

[BBMmk2]

It's Bbm and his predictive text - either that or his porn character nom de plume!

For Lent, I must try harder! Apologies.

I don’t blame you Pet for waiting a further six months. We will wait to see what purchases you will make!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Amos Triarder is my porn character nom-de-poule.

[Alison]

Did you go to the midweek BBCPO afternoon concert last week, Edge?

The Puel honeymoon seems to be over at Leicester, rumours of players hacked off etc. Some puzzling team selections not helping matters. But then we are still eighth!

[Petrushka]

Back to work tomorrow after being forced to take Thursday and Friday off due to snow. Be interesting to see if I'm further forced to take them as 'holiday' or unpaid leave, Losing out either way.

[teamsaint]

Back to work tomorrow after being forced to take Thursday and Friday off due to snow. Be interesting to see if I'm further forced to take them as 'holiday' or unpaid leave, Losing out either way.

Absolute disgrace making people take unpaid leave, or annual leave.

A compromise might be to ask people to make up an extra bit of time each day for a week , or something.

I am home based, so was OK, but our bosses just closed the office and asked people to do what they could from home.most of our people can and do work from home sometimes, so a bit less of a problem than for some businesses, I suppose.

[cloughie]

Back to work tomorrow after being forced to take Thursday and Friday off due to snow. Be interesting to see if I'm further forced to take them as 'holiday' or unpaid leave, Losing out either way.

Trouble with this country now - religion means nothing so the weather is not accepted as an act of God.

[EdgeleyRob]

I used to work from home 2 days a week,got twice as much done without the distraction of office life and politics etc.
Mind you it's better not working at all (sorry Pet,not rubbing it in honest)
Alison I was unsuccessful in my application for tickets for that concert,there are a couple of nice looking freebies coming up so hoping for better luck.
I get about half the ones I apply for so can't complain,got the John Wilson RVW 5 and Korngold vc to look forward to on the 27th March,had to pay for that though.
Off to Rome tomorrow for a mooch around for a few days.

Hope everyone is well.

Night night

[Serial_Apologist]

Absolute disgrace making people take unpaid leave, or annual leave.

A compromise might be to ask people to make up an extra bit of time each day for a week , or something.

I am home based, so was OK, but our bosses just closed the office and asked people to do what they could from home.most of our people can and do work from home sometimes, so a bit less of a problem than for some businesses, I suppose.

I would find working from home very difficult - so many distractions!

[Serial_Apologist]

Trouble with this country now - religion means nothing so the weather is not accepted as an act of God.

(You did mean that ironically, I hope )

[BBMmk2]

Have a great trip ER!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Have a great trip ER!

[antongould]

Have a great trip ER!

Indeed

[Lat-Literal]

We've been looking again fondly at the letters from the late Eric Foessleitner and other papers in the bundle including an invitation from the Queen to a garden party. My parents were walking along the seafront near Worthing in the early 1990s before stopping at a seat for a rest. "What an unusual dog" my mother said to the man who was already on the seat with a pet beside him. "It's not a dog", he said, "it's a fox". My father got out his camcorder and asked my Mum to conduct an interview. They could not have picked a better person because the man who was known as Eric, "The Fox of Worthing", although the fox was named Ben, was frequently on radio and television. Following his death in 1998, it appears that a book was written about him. I haven't got it and it is prohibitively pricy - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fox-Man-Dor.../dp/0953583708. But, what I have done is note the animal sanctuary that he left Ben to as well as some of his money. This might well be a more deserving cause than some of the bigger charities. That is, if it remains modest and also soundly managed.

[Serial_Apologist]

We've been looking again fondly at the letters from the late Eric Foessleitner and other papers in the bundle including an invitation from the Queen to a garden party. My parents were walking along the seafront near Worthing in the early 1990s before stopping at a seat for a rest. "What an unusual dog" my mother said to the man who was already on the seat with a pet beside him. "It's not a dog", he said, "it's a fox". My father got out his camcorder and asked my Mum to conduct an interview. They could not have picked a better person because the man who was known as Eric, "The Fox of Worthing", although the fox was named Ben, was frequently on radio and television. Following his death in 1998, it appears that a book was written about him. I haven't got it and it is prohibitively pricy - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fox-Man-Dor.../dp/0953583708. But, what I have done is note the animal sanctuary that he left Ben to as well as some of his money. This might well be a more deserving cause than some of the bigger charities. That is, if it remains modest and also soundly managed.

I'm quite sure that the other day I caught sight of a wolf being kept as a pet in a housing block nearby. Possibly a husky, but I am pretty sure it was a wolf. Is it legal, let alone desirable, to own a wolf as a pet? I could ask the same question about a husky, as i understand our climate to be totally unsuited to the breed.

[Lat-Literal]

I'm quite sure that the other day I caught sight of a wolf being kept as a pet in a housing block nearby. Possibly a husky, but I am pretty sure it was a wolf. Is it legal, let alone desirable, to own a wolf as a pet? I could ask the same question about a husky, as i understand our climate to be totally unsuited to the breed.

From memory, it is legal to keep almost anything including a pet zebra if you can prove that the conditions are suitable. This is not without controversy and by their very nature some animals rule themselves out. I don't think Eric tamed the fox. Uniquely, it couldn't survive in the several acres around the mansion where he did most of his work with the wild foxes.