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Yes, you are right @ianpspurs - the dead don't tend to be repeat customers.

Am being really sensible (for once) and making sure that I am having downtime every day.
 
Yes, I totally agree that our brain lies to us.

It even does it when I do my exercises. It tells me that I am in perfect alignment but when I look in the mirror - no I am not.

It is so annoying that it does that.
 
I tend to agree that a universal payment should be implemented.
But the current system doesn't allow for this, it could not be implemented because of means testing.
The level at which benefits are paid is well below, a real living wage.
You would only create more poverty.
As is the disability payment levels.

We are creating at this time in society, that the majority are in need of financial help, to just survive.
I read that the average wage is at its lowest in percentage terms since the fiftys.

It does make economic sense for the country.
 
I'm all for justice, equity and social harmony, (I read the Guardian, am the thread's token woke) but could a couple of you chaps just chill your beans and hold off on the revolution a little longer? Perhaps until the summer at least - that's traditional rioting season. Way too chilly for some of us to be on the barricades just now. I would need to order in my Gucci Les Mis costume first (missed the Christmas delivery date now), my turkey is on order and there is so much sport on TV over Christmas and New Year. Have your people talk to my people, we'll find a window.
 
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Still wasting my life on doing this family history stuff and have spent the afternoon listing the generations from Mark Antony's grandfather to my ancestor Henry Smythe in mid 16th century. 85 generations! Not sure how many more to reach me but I'm leaving that for another day. Took the last 6 hours to get this far.
 
I blame the French!
Liberte, Fraternitie etc.
We have become a nation of scroungers, not shopkeepers.
We rely on the state for everything.
And the blame lies with the euro aristocrats for forcing brexit.
We need a new societal framework.
It might happen.
But probably not in our lifetime.

It has been already predicted, that there will be mass unemployment again within twenty years, and we haven't got the oil money, like in the seventies, eighties.t
Thirty years out of the last forty of right wing dogma, has robbed the population of social justice.

The post office, the contaminated blood, Hillsborough, and many more.
And the media propaganda.
This country is well and truly broken.
It will collapse, if nothing is done.

According to a top economist, fifteen men, (no women!) Decide where all the taxpayers money goes.
Not the government! And they are all from the privileged elite.
This is England!
 
@Lamont D chin up, your team won on Saturday. Unfortunately the revolution will not go better with coke nor will it make you look five pounds lighter. Meanwhile, it is Advent and this is a light in the darkness. While you are waiting cook some gammon, drink some tea and chill out. I'd avoid the cricket later as there's really only two hopes of England winning and Shai plays for the Windies.
 
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I do hope your Lord blesses me and mine some more.
And I insist He does likewise to you and yours, as you are follower of the faith.
The gammon salad I had this evening was exquisite.
How, the Lord could produce up a taste like that. Don't agree with create.
The footie is for another thread. And just to say, I'm quite happy with being in the lower pyramid. Better footie.
EPL has been criticised as poor by those who have an interest in pro football. As Brian Clough, who is a footie god, once said, who could watch 90 minutes of that?
And I think that some aspects of our cricket is, as has been said, very hit and miss. Maybe time for some newer thinking on baz ball or a new think tank on important parts of the game plan.
Cos, even tho, we won the series, we have lost the plot, on a flatish pitch. And the leadership on and off the pitch is not there. Resorting to bouncers, which suits them and not using spin in first innings.
Got me plates up, watching the World champ darts.
And chrimbo around the corner.

Mrs L wishes everyone a happy new year, and you did say, that the decs can for down now.
yes dear.
 
"MAN THE BARRICADES ...
SMASH THE SYSTEM...

But be careful with the baubles."...Gotcha
 
Very north of the border festive
 
Good morning everyone on a spectacularly quiet start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.4 this a.m. and we are off! We have changed a vehicle - The Girl In The Bubble’s trike cum grandad powered push chair vehicle has been outgrown so we got her fitted for a bike at the bike recycling shop on Friday. Optional extras were fitted in the form of outrigger wheels and for the princely sum of £22 was collected yesterday. It will do her for a couple of years and then we will hand it back and get a bigger one. Every penny spent twice and saving the planet at the same time. It’s challenge time - how to prepare a smashing three course Christmas lunch for 6 people using an air fryers, a slow cooker and an induction hob? Sandwiches is it then - but not just any sandwiches, Waitrose do a Christmas merry club’mas sandwich - see what they did there? We can toast them in the air fryer. Well, that was easy; prawn cocktail crisps to start, the magic toasted sarnie and a packet of Christmas pudding flavoured crisps to finish. Should be OK, we have managed with less when camping and it’s all a bit of fun. Joking aside, I need to make a plan - veg prep the day before and parboil some King Edwards - I think that they have the most fibre of the spud species. The rest is just juggling. Art bit, a lazy boat. Hope you day is a Tuesday, I shall finish my koffy and get ready for a wander into town.
 

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Morning all on a totally predictable dull and cool start to December 17th in East Anglian (UK) L.A. Start of the Great O Antiphons today which I like a great deal. A poet/musician/priest/Cambridge University scholar/lecturer I greatly admire gave a wonderful talk on these and wrote sonnets on each which, if no one objects, I will link as my contribution to the creative element of this thread. Ok, to business. No known fbg here. How to top yesterday? Three year old grandson entered the car and began to tell me about his Christingle - already very good. His big sister (five) joined about 15 minutes later, was told all about said Christingle. A short while later, driving past Ely cathedral (aka the castle, not sure they know the biblical link), quite a lively debate ensued over the meaning and eating of the ribbon around the orange. Big sister said it was a symbol of the blood of Christ. Touched on the real presence ( C of E school) but grandson was adamant that the glue holding on the ribbon made it inedible. It was finally (amicably) agreed: glue 1 theology nil. Later, whilst eating several (second helping) roast potatoes, much chicken and all her veggies - theology makes one very hungry - RMP growenup, tried incredibly hard to explain to four very dull witted adults why her Christingle had to remain at school due to corrective/collective - interchangeable it seems - worship. Then Santa was driven around this close so they rushed outside with Nanny and G to put money in the buckets and be given a chocolate coin: twice for the Little Man due to the shape of the close: expensive business though I'm assured it was coins not folding sweety pennies. Three year old was totally entranced by the magic - and coins. Elsie Keto offers absolutely nothing in comparison.Today's sonnet. I'll be back.
 
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gennepher said:
Extra hugs for the sore arm @Krystyna23040

I can do 2 seconds now!!!!!!!!!!!
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That's brilliant @gennepher. The more we practice the better our brains are at decoding the messages sent by the proprioceptors in our muscles.
I am still wobbly but am also improving.

My arm has much improved over and only slightly sore now. I have never had a reaction like that before with a jab. It was so painful I had great difficulty taking my jumper off last night.
 
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What is the thinking behind it all.
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While asking questions re mums condition, an overly acute fixation with money is very common .

I did come to the conclusion it's part of the regression back to earlier times.

Perhaps when money WAS harder to find.

Best description I had is that memories are like a pile of eggs.

The disease randomly takes away some if the top row of eggs

And gradually moves on down to the next layer when layer one is depleted

Made a lot of sense why mum didn't know me or dad yet kept asking about people who had long since passed .

For mum, that was where she was in her life.
Back at 50, 40, 30, 20’s.

There is some suggestion that carers should address THAT time frame to encourage engagement .

As in discussions about items of that era, music or films.

Can't see it does any harm & likely better going with the flow than causing more confusion by constantly correcting a loved ones view of the world....


And trust me, I feel your pain, I well remember how annoying that was.

Love and best wishes to you both
Even if you're ala Gweneth @ sliding doors slightly on the time frame, you're still sharing this Xmas time together.

And sadly that's not always a given.

Seize the moments, as I know you do.

We pass this way only once.
 
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5.5 this morning.
Again a lovely early morning walk around the park with Poppy.

With all the balance practice I am finding my ankle is coping really well with the slightly uneven ground at the park. I feel much more stable now than I did even a week ago.
 
Me again, sorry. @dunelm yesterday with TGIB sounds wonderful and thank you so much for sharing the art. King Edward's are the go to for Christmas roasts here and the Christmas Eve par boil, shake and smother in November's goose fat routine is all the rage. Enjoy the wander into town. @Krystyna23040 hug for the sore arm. I have been invited to partake of the shingles jab, that response doesn't fill me with joy. @jjraak very useful feedback from the advice given on dealing with that condition, hug for the memories and frustration at the time. Later we need to collect then mind the same two grandchildren, in Dad's house - #smartmetergateissues. Y'all enjoy Tuesday: SPOTY is relegated to Chewsday now, very little room left in that handcart
 
Actually, the first one I had 6 months ago was completely pain free. I don't think it was the vaccine itself but how the nurse injected it into my arm.

I have been told in the past that because of my skinny arms it is quite difficult to give me injections - but I have never had one where it felt the needle was drilling through the bone. It was really painful as she administered it and the pain got worse that evening.
 
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