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Yes that looks good, are you sure you want us yorkshire folk up there 🙂
OK if you come one or two at a time, no problem.😊😋
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I'm out.Ed thank you for the Cambridge link. My daughter teaches at a Primary as a one-to-one for children with special needs. Her daughter our youngest grandchild is 15 this July and an A* student at another (grammar) school. It begins to look as if the grammar will close soon, so I have passed your link to our daughter. Our only concern is that granddaughter will start chasing extraneous knowledge ( she is hungry for knowledge, always has been) across the Uni website.
If the school closes, I thought it may put our son out of work: he is senior caretaker at the Academy of which the grammar is a part, with several schools involved. However, he has been told that there is enough work to keep him employed for at least 4 months, as the school can go ahead with work planned for the holidays later in the year.
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I'm out.That’s a bit ominous Nolan, have to check local ATM’s. Although yesterday I had to shop, touring Louth for food, barsteward stockpiling scumbags have scarfed up so much. I usually park in the market place because there are 3 different bank ATM’s there. The Halifax one inside was out of order, with a notice. The outdoor machine had no notice, but ate my card, spat it back out after 5 minutes, did not work. Asked a bank employee inside why there was no notice on that one. Blank look… I went across to the HSBC ATM, got a little cash. We have to be careful not to withdraw too much, as today I paid the Estate agent for the move, almost £1K.
Today our Mr Reliable (son) turned up with a 9 pack of Aldi bog rolls. Apparently he finished work early, toured supermarkets and shops. Aldi manager he knows personally, gave him a wink and asked him to stay. There was a delivery unloading at the rear and he went to get some from the pallet. Son knows I can use a roll a day ( medical reasons) and managed to get us a pack each. I guess we are lucky: have a great family who will help. I have a mate in Notts who lives alone, family far away and he has no one else. I have asked other mates to help him if they can, but they are all my age, so not going out.
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I'm out.You would like this Lee:
-if it wasn’t closed! It’s free entry, used to take grandchildren regularly.
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I'm out.Some great old motors there Lee. Pic No. 5, front car is the black Jowett Javelin, manufactured in Bradford of course. The cars were years ahead of time, but suffered from that due to expense of manufacture, making them expensive to buy. They also became unreliable, but most of the problems they had have been ironed out by modern enthusiasts.
I might get around to that place after all this virus BS is over. Providing I survive that and being locked up with my old lass for 4 months. At least the spare room/computer room/hobby room is farther away from the lounge in the new place! My cuppa will be cold by the time she brings it round…
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I'm out.I’m still trying to get my head around the fact that some of the many Americans I met over the years, actually voted for the Orange Idiot. Most were perfectly reasonable people. I think it must have something to do with living in a money and status – obsessed society.
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I'm out.We I can assure you that the Army will have the necessary paper, although it will probably be the sandpaper stuff from ration packs! I also imagine that in every unit there will be at least one “entrepreneur” who has a huge supply stashed away for sale!
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I'm out.Population control Lee, keeping the numbers down. Besides the fact that I do not want to fall off my perch just yet, I would like to be around when it is all over, just to see how it all pans out. A weird way to look at it maybe, but my mind has always worked like that: “What if…?”
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I'm out.Bet a certain orange PoTUS is one! He’s been tested and passed*, he says. Should have checked the contents of his head.
*Would any US Doctor dare to say he was infected though?
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I'm out.Thanks Dave for that RM “heads up”. I have 2 RM parcels coming this week and have warned SWMBO about the procedure, as I am usually in the bathroom when our Postie calls.
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I'm out.@bullstuff2 Is no one helping you?
Yes I’m fine Lee, son, daughter and 3 grandbrats come round. Youngest gson was here today carrying out more work on the shed that will be removed to his dad’s when we go. Daughter’s 50th party on the 4th April. wife’s 75th on the 16th. Might not be able to go if we’re locked in. Daughter has taken lots of garden stuff away, says she can call on her way home from work. So does son.They all look after us in their own ways, will always answer if we need them, but know also that we want them to have their own lives.
We have a great family, I wish you had something like it mate. Don’t get down, we here are all rooting for you. You have a lot of friends here who respect you and admire what you did with Forumite. Keep on truckin’ Lee!
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I'm out.All good Les, but imagine trying to complete a Home move and Handover before they lock us up! That’s what we have to do and I am typing this in a break from packing stuff.
Why do women need so many fragile ornaments, glasses and crockery? 90% of which is not used. Packing that is taking too much time, bubble wrap and boxes.
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I'm out.Read my post in the BlogPost Ed, I totally agree with your last words here.
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I'm out.No one is going to stop me leaving if I NEED to go out. How do they expect to stop me? We oldpharts are the ones more likely to stand up and not lie down to accept this. I understand the problem, but this solution is the usual knee-jerk political garbage.
Where are the people who will supply our “essentials”?
What is an essential, it varies as much as the individual does? There are not enough Carers in the system as it is now, the supermarkets do not have enough vans or staff to carry out the supply.
What happens to medication supplies? There is some that keeps me alive and I know that the local Prescription Delivery Service is already over-subscribed, just in this area. What will happen in urban conurbations, big towns, very rural areas?
This is bowlocks, as usual the idea is acted upon without thought of consequences. Will somebody correct the mistake made by making Matt Hancock the Health Minister?
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I'm out.Interesting comment on FB from a British lady living in Italy, basically saying that Italy would not have so many cases and deaths if they had locked down earlier. Their PM is quoted as saying “There is no more time.” She also says that there are more deaths among younger people than reported or expected, even 18 yo’s dying.
Are watching, BoJo?
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I'm out.Fairly certain that’s what my late FIL used. It was quite good iirc, tasted “Hoppy” and certainly hit the spot.
Lee, yesterday I spotted a narrowboat on FB Marketplace, at Bingley. £19K I think.
Lots on FB Marketplace.
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I'm out.Some great comments on FB. One from my nephew pictures a massive pile of bog rolls, with the caption “This week’s EuroMillions Jackpot!”
My trucky grandson-in-law is currently telling other Truckies where he finds places with stocks of anything, on his routes. One comes back to say he has thousands of bog rolls on his load, but not saying his destination until unloaded. Doesn’t want to be hijacked!
KEEP CALM AND PRAY FOR CONSTIPATION! 😆😊
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I'm out.I think this needs saying, as many of us here are of a certain age.
If a Forumite should not return for, say, two weeks, we will be concerned. So if anyone is going away for a while, please say so, giving approximate return time.
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I'm out.I already blew my top on FB about the toilet roll stupidity, but here goes.
Due to more than one medical condition, I can get through up to 8 rolls every week. Normally at Morrisons, I buy two packs of “Comfy Bum” – their plain white, Quilted 4 roll packs. This week they were all gone, so was every other pack except the expensive “Shea” peach coloured stuff. I bought two of those and a woman approaching the same aisle said to her husband “There aren’t any left, there were plenty yesterday!” Well I was already in p****d off Mode, so that set me off.
“How many did you buy yesterday then?” I asked – “Oh we filled a trolley!” (and appeared proud of that particular act of insanity)
“Why? They are not stopping either manufacture or supply of the stuff. What is wrong with people like you?” Her hubby just stood there mute, which considering the size of his dragon seemed the right option. Dragons, even large overweight sweaty ones, do not worry me at all.
“Well you have enough, you have two packs!” – to me. I proceeded to lecture the dimwitted harridan about my medical needs, then asked her to go home, pile her collection of bog rolls in the garden, set fire to them and jump on the blaze. They left. I got one of those SWMBO looks – “You make friends wherever we go, don’t you?”
We went down to the Co Op, where we don’t often shop as it’s more expensive, we needed some white rolls for SWMBO as her favourites had already been sold out at Morrisons. They had plenty of toilet rolls, because the manager had allowed two packs of 4, or one of 9, to each customer. This whole hoarding affair, which is what it is, is just plain stupid. People are like sheep: one panics and they all follow. As I heard from another shopper, about my age; “What if we Brits had panicked like this in 1939?”
KEEP CALM AND STOP HOARDING is my message to this country.
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I'm out.That’s “Raisin Jack” in US jails, Ed. Got that from an American serviceman back in HMF days on exercise with them. Apparently they brewed it in (hopefully) sealed plastic bags, inside the toilet bowl. Bet that is still happening now.
Incredible what some will do to get their alcohol fix.
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