The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

#25281 Post by 4mastacker » Wed Jan 20, 2021 3:30 pm

Got me jab appointment for next Thursday. :-bd
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#25282 Post by Groundgripper » Wed Jan 20, 2021 4:28 pm

Had our jabs this morning. SM booked in at 09:40, self at 10:00. Arrived at 09:25, no queue, straight in together, both jabbed, 15 minutes waiting to see if any after effects emerged (overseen by two young ladies from the Lancs Fire and Rescue Service) but none did, picked up SM's repeat prescription, departed the surgery at 10:00 and home in time for coffee.
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#25283 Post by PHXPhlyer » Wed Jan 20, 2021 4:39 pm

GG: :-bd :YMAPPLAUSE:

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#25284 Post by G-CPTN » Wed Jan 20, 2021 7:51 pm

Just had a sequence of about 50 firecracker explosions like a jumping jack - someone celebrating the new POTUS? (or the end of the previous).
Firecrackers cannot be purchased legally in the UK anymore.
Back in 1997, they were labelled as potentially harmful and therefore were banned, together with 'jumping jacks' and 'bangers'.

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#25285 Post by fareastdriver » Wed Jan 20, 2021 8:08 pm

I have my first jab on 2nd February. The second is the 27th April - twelve weeks. I just hope that they don't run out of vaccine before then.

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#25286 Post by handsfree » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:22 pm

It is absolutely hoofing it down here.
Looks like it'll be with us for a while yet.

Now snow

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#25287 Post by jimtherev » Wed Jan 20, 2021 11:34 pm

4mastacker wrote:
Wed Jan 20, 2021 3:30 pm
Got me jab appointment for next Thursday. :-bd
I was supposed to have my second last Friday. Got there, handed in my card, 'see that lady over there', 'Sorry Mr Jim, your appt's been cancelled. We didn't seem to have your phone number.'
'But you called me in for the first one by phone. What went wrong?'
'Errrr...'

So anyway, me next one's in March
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#25288 Post by PHXPhlyer » Thu Jan 21, 2021 12:48 am

It would be funny if it wasn't so serious. :-o ~X( [-X :-q

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#25289 Post by ExSp33db1rd » Thu Jan 21, 2021 5:26 am

Save all junk mail till the end of the week and then repost it.


Yes, I sometimes collect all the assorted garbage that we seem to get almost daily from various Estate Agents over a couple of weeks, then bundle it up and "give" it back to one of them in town. Such fun.

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#25290 Post by OFSO » Thu Jan 21, 2021 6:04 am

Morning all. Not freezing but damp makes it unpleasant. 7am and have to get the laundry into the Miele before Housekeeper arrives to do the changes, dust and iron. Our vaccinations are ready but in London which we can't reach without cost and risk.

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#25291 Post by Ex-Ascot » Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:59 am

Morning folks. Nice start to the day but now overcast and rain forecast which is great. Everyone is looking forward to a great flood in March. Now the farmers to the east of us in an agricultural area are complaining about their tractors getting bogged down. Folk in the UK have no idea how lucky they are with floods. Hope all is OK Ribrash you seem to be the most vulnerable there.

One of our lemon trees is bowing down under the weight of fruit. Just having it propped up.
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#25292 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Jan 21, 2021 8:28 am

Ex-Ascot wrote:
Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:59 am
Morning folks. Nice start to the day but now overcast and rain forecast which is great. Everyone is looking forward to a great flood in March. Now the farmers to the east of us in an agricultural area are complaining about their tractors getting bogged down. Folk in the UK have no idea how lucky they are with floods. Hope all is OK Ribrash you seem to be the most vulnerable there.

One of our lemon trees is bowing down under the weight of fruit. Just having it propped up.
My better half's sister, husband and little boy live in Didsbury and the waters of the mighty Mersey have rising inexorably and were lapping some 50 feet from their back garden last night. Too much rain Meester Ex-Ascot

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#25293 Post by Ex-Ascot » Thu Jan 21, 2021 8:36 am

Brought up close to Didsbury in Hale. My brother is still there but he will be OK.

Lemon juice, water and sugar very refreshing. Also I drink green tea with lemon in it. Lemon marmalade also nice.

Just learnt a new word: 'kleptoparasitic'. No doubt the more educated here will know what this is. Bet GG does. I have a forked tail Drongo which sits in a tree above my outside office. Just looking up details. They are kleptoparasitic. Steal food from other birds or animals. They are difficult to identify by their call as they imitate other birds. Very common in Southern Africa.
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#25294 Post by Wodrick » Thu Jan 21, 2021 8:49 am

Morning all,
12°c rising, guess 17°c High haze at present.

Didsbury.

I'm sure that there were/are sluice gates in the levees by the run of golf courses adjacent to the river there, Didsbury, Northenden, and Withington certainly, and the plan was to open the sluices and dump the river onto the courses to lower the level.
Probably don't work due lack of use/maintenance.

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#25295 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Jan 21, 2021 8:50 am

Ex-Ascot wrote:
Thu Jan 21, 2021 8:36 am
Brought up close to Didsbury in Hale. My brother is still there but he will be OK.

Lemon juice, water and sugar very refreshing. Also I drink green tea with lemon in it. Lemon marmalade also nice.

Just learnt a new word: 'kleptoparasitic'. No doubt the more educated here will know what this is. Bet GG does. I have a forked tail Drongo which sits in a tree above my outside office. Just looking up details. They are kleptoparasitic. Steal food from other birds or animals. They are difficult to identify by their call as they imitate other birds. Very common in Southern Africa.
Plenty of drongos in Australia, allegedly, sitting in bars chasing Sheila's, but like the black race horse always winning nuffing! :))
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#25296 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Jan 21, 2021 8:55 am

Wodrick wrote:
Thu Jan 21, 2021 8:49 am


Didsbury.

I'm sure that there were/are sluice gates in the levees by the run of golf courses adjacent to the river there, Didsbury, Northenden, and Withington certainly, and the plan was to open the sluices and dump the river onto the courses to lower the level.
Probably don't work due lack of use/maintenance.
My better half mentioned those this morning and they were definitely extant a year and half ago as the ladies took a walk past them. News is that the waters are subsiding but I don't know if they opened the sluices or not.
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#25297 Post by tango15 » Thu Jan 21, 2021 9:42 am

I know Didsbury and et al quite well, having looked at the area as somewhere to live at one time when moving to south Manchester. I had never had it down as a potential area for flooding, even though the Mersey meanders through it, and was somewhat surprised to see what had happened.

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#25298 Post by ribrash » Thu Jan 21, 2021 10:08 am

Ex-Ascot wrote:
Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:59 am
Morning folks. Nice start to the day but now overcast and rain forecast which is great. Everyone is looking forward to a great flood in March. Now the farmers to the east of us in an agricultural area are complaining about their tractors getting bogged down. Folk in the UK have no idea how lucky they are with floods. Hope all is OK Ribrash you seem to be the most vulnerable there.

One of our lemon trees is bowing down under the weight of fruit. Just having it propped up.
All good in my area.Only flooding is on my front path,which will soon drain away. :-bd

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#25299 Post by ribrash » Thu Jan 21, 2021 10:10 am

ExSp33db1rd wrote:
Thu Jan 21, 2021 5:26 am
Save all junk mail till the end of the week and then repost it.


Yes, I sometimes collect all the assorted garbage that we seem to get almost daily from various Estate Agents over a couple of weeks, then bundle it up and "give" it back to one of them in town. Such fun.
+1 ^:)^

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#25300 Post by Boac » Thu Jan 21, 2021 10:15 am

I need to visit the store of Tesco today as we have run out of whole 'peppercorns of colour' :))

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