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silverIn the beginning there was nothing, and then it exploded.USA, Left coast.Veteran
That was a nice little run, wasn't it folks.
In case ya didn't know, use 1/2 to 1-1/2 cups (give or take) of vinegar in the rinse cycle with your towels to get detergent build-up out of them and make them soft and fluffy.
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
In whichever way you choose to pass this weekend, have a great one, everyone!
On Wednesday the water temperature was 22 celsius (74 fahrenheit)...But the weather's about to change, it will start to get cooler...So today might be my last swim for the season....
I totally spaced on Easter. My wife and I were going to head to the local humane society and inquire about volunteering. (We're totally down with caring for the kitties and small animals!) I had volunteered there YEARS ago, but I was also balancing work, home, and the rape crisis hotline. I have some more free time these days, thankfully. Of course, I just had a "Oh, duh!" moment just now. Maybe we'll pop by on Monday when I have to head to the gym after work.
@Namada said:
SpinyNorman: "Lots of chocolate and no church! "
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silverIn the beginning there was nothing, and then it exploded.USA, Left coast.Veteran
This is probably my first (and hopefully last) chance to share this useless childhood experience I had that I think about every now and then - especially on Easter. I had a neighbor g/f and this girl kept every single chocolate Easter bunny on display in her room...there were a couple dozen of them. It was kinda creepy in a way...
When I was about 3 years old, we went flying on Easter with my dad. I had eaten a ton of chocolate and my dad decided to have fun with airplane tricks. I puked all over. It was a rented plane, too, LOL.
I hate Easter. I really do. I enjoy my kids finding eggs and enjoying their baskets (we try to keep candy to a minimum and focus on experiences, so we got them stuff for our upcoming vacation). But I don't like ham, I don't like cheesy potatoes, I don't like pumpkin cheesecake, and I don't like spending time with my stepdad's unwelcoming family. Grateful that we have an early dinner today and then I can take a hot bath and read the book I picked up from the used book store yesterday. "Saffron Days in LA: Tales of a Buddhist Monk in America." Trying to focus on feeling grateful I have family to spend time with. But it's not a favorite day, for sure. We have SO much to do getting ready for our trip and having to celebrate a holiday that means nothing to me is just pffffft.
Yesterday after a meal of fish and Easter eggs, trusting technology, we put the postcode into the sat nav and drove to a nice National Trust countryside location (Toy Hill) using the 'ecological route' . . .
... you have now reached your destination
'Looks like a housing estate in the middle of nowhere to me.'
Oops.
... some human had put in the wrong postcode and as we proudly awaited to be confronted by stunning scenery and a car park with much needed toilet facilities, we were somewhere else entirely. I had printed no longer needed info on areas of interest . . .
Fortunately we were near Ashdown Forest and very nice too . . . gorse toilet facilities left their mark though . . .
Technology good. Humans be more careful. Getting lost. What fun.
Hope pagan champagne brekkie and choc drowning rituals went well?
Hurrah, the supermarkets are open again and nobody is in church! Bah humbug! Pagans rule!
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
have I got news for you...! They never closed at all round here! (The supermarkets that is... The Church was open for business and I believe they did passable trade....)
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
"I'm just sitting quietly, on an Easter Monday afternoon, flicking through the 'net, knitting a bathmat....."
" Heh heh.... wait...hold on.... for a minute there, I thought you said you were 'knitting a bathmat'...."
"Yes, that's exactly what I said...."
"...Knitting a bathmat...?! Woah.... this, I gotta see.....!"
"You will, Oscar, you will...!"
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silverIn the beginning there was nothing, and then it exploded.USA, Left coast.Veteran
@SpinyNorman said:
Hurrah, the supermarkets are open again and nobody is in church! Bah humbug! Pagans rule!
You just gave me an idea - from now on, when there are big (and small) holidays (and Sundays), I will just stay home and pretend we're back in the old times when things were shut up tighter than _____ . I mean it... I like it. (Well, we'll see how long that holds up.)
Maybe they should combine church and supermarket, that would get the numbers up.
The Pentecostal Church of Walmart?
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
The Holy trinity Church of Wil.ko-oP.oundstretcher....
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SarahTTime ... space ... joySouth Coast, UKVeteran
@lobster said:
Thanks for pagan hill fort info. Wonderful but largely lost oral celtic culture. Going to look for my nearest celtic site . . .
Did you find it? Or did the sat nav reign supreme?
@lobster said:
Hope pagan champagne brekkie and choc drowning rituals went well?
"Fire" was more of a "smoke" (nobody tell the National Trust ...) and a little cloudy to see the sunrise but full cooked breakfast - including scrambled eggs with smoked salmon and pretty decent bubbly - and a lovely walk up to the top of the fort with parents' dog. Pretty awesome start to the day, all in all Trip to the beach after. H says best Easter he's ever had.
SarahTTime ... space ... joySouth Coast, UKVeteran
@how said:
Is that fence along the sea a property border?
No, just to reduce erosion
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
@SarahT said: "Fire" was more of a "smoke" (nobody tell the National Trust ...) and a little cloudy to see the sunrise but full cooked breakfast - including scrambled eggs with smoked salmon and pretty decent bubbly - and a lovely walk up to the top of the fort with parents' dog. Pretty awesome start to the day, all in all Trip to the beach after. H says best Easter he's ever had.
How wonderful! How wonderful, things exactly as they are....!
@lobster said:
Yesterday after a meal of fish and Easter eggs, trusting technology, we put the postcode into the sat nav and drove to a nice National Trust countryside location (Toy Hill) using the 'ecological route' . . .
... you have now reached your destination
Hope pagan champagne brekkie and choc drowning rituals went well?
Unfortunately my next door neighbour died yesterday.
We think it was probably a heart attack. He was only 52.
I walked outside at about 1pm and his friend was hysterical on the phone with 000 out the front of his house. I ran over but I could see by the time I got there he was gone. He was slumped back in his chair with his eyes rolled back in his head. I haven't seen many dead people but it was pretty clear he was gone.
My wife came over and the people on 000 were trying to get us to resuscitate him but it was fairly clear to us he had been dead awhile. The ambulance and police came and chatted to me a bit about it. They reckon he'd been dead at least a few hours.
I was in shock a bit yesterday and think I am still a little now. He was a ticking time bomb though. Very unhealthy and from all accounts didn't take the medication he was prescribed. I feel sorry for his kids though.
We'll go to the funeral later this week. Not sure what day it is yet.
awww, sorry to hear that, @Bunks. It's hard when it happens but harder when you are personally involved.
I like that your emergency number is 000. Ours is 911. And then we have road info at 511. In some areas, general information at 411. i don't know what constitutes general information...lol We like the -11, apparently.
We leave for vacation Saturday morning, and my kids are making me craaaaaazy! It better be a relaxing vacation!
Comments
God? Is that you?
Surprisingly, yes....! Physically, I look at her and am convinced...
Psychologically, I look at her and I really wonder sometimes.....!
(...Why what did you have...?
)
I was a product of an alien cross-breeding experiment....
....You had aliens?! You were lucky!
I luvs Tesla but he was into pigeons, no chance for a lowly cructacean . . .
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tesla/esp_tesla_26.htm
So Tesla raced pigeons? You mean he had a cloth cap and was from "Up North"?
He may have been a bit Northern. He was in love with a pigeon (nobodies perfect).
http://www.teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla-timeline-1922-tesla-pigeon-dies
That was a nice little run, wasn't it folks.
In case ya didn't know, use 1/2 to 1-1/2 cups (give or take) of vinegar in the rinse cycle with your towels to get detergent build-up out of them and make them soft and fluffy.
In whichever way you choose to pass this weekend, have a great one, everyone!
Bah humbug!
Wrong Festival.
I take your point though...
Aww...How can you be like that? Look at him - so cute!
ooohhhhh.
The wolf in me is smiling at this bunny.
I want the ears ...
I have a mother, @SpinyNorman...
...And today she ate fish because it was Good Friday while hubby swallowed his steak...
....please nobody ever tell me I look like her...
Planning on greeting Sunday morning with a dawn champagne breakfast at an ancient fort near where I come from:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badbury_Rings
Pagan? Qui, moi?
OMG!!
I was jut thinking, "...Are you sure she's your Mum? I don't see...."
Nice one! I remember visiting Maiden Castle years ago, amazing feel to the place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden_Castle,_Dorset
Summer seems like it will never end...I went to the beach again today and had a swim...It's mid Autumn ...
BTW it's daylight saving, we put the clocks back an hour in this part of the world...
You are lucky! Where I live there is about 2 weeks of the year when the sea isn't freezing cold. Brrrr!
On Wednesday the water temperature was 22 celsius (74 fahrenheit)...But the weather's about to change, it will start to get cooler...So today might be my last swim for the season....
Thanks for pagan hill fort info. Wonderful but largely lost oral celtic culture. Going to look for my nearest celtic site . . .
And let's celebrate a pagan Easter! Lots of chocolate and no church!
Kilt Power?
http://www.celticbuddhism.org/lineage.html
SpinyNorman: "Lots of chocolate and no church!
"
Excellent!
It reminds me of a really bad joke:
Woman to Scotsman: "Is anything worn under the kilt?"
Scotsman: "No, my dear, it's all in perfect working order."
I totally spaced on Easter. My wife and I were going to head to the local humane society and inquire about volunteering. (We're totally down with caring for the kitties and small animals!) I had volunteered there YEARS ago, but I was also balancing work, home, and the rape crisis hotline. I have some more free time these days, thankfully. Of course, I just had a "Oh, duh!" moment just now. Maybe we'll pop by on Monday when I have to head to the gym after work.
This is probably my first (and hopefully last) chance to share this useless childhood experience I had that I think about every now and then - especially on Easter. I had a neighbor g/f and this girl kept every single chocolate Easter bunny on display in her room...there were a couple dozen of them. It was kinda creepy in a way...
When I was about 3 years old, we went flying on Easter with my dad. I had eaten a ton of chocolate and my dad decided to have fun with airplane tricks. I puked all over. It was a rented plane, too, LOL.
I hate Easter. I really do. I enjoy my kids finding eggs and enjoying their baskets (we try to keep candy to a minimum and focus on experiences, so we got them stuff for our upcoming vacation). But I don't like ham, I don't like cheesy potatoes, I don't like pumpkin cheesecake, and I don't like spending time with my stepdad's unwelcoming family. Grateful that we have an early dinner today and then I can take a hot bath and read the book I picked up from the used book store yesterday. "Saffron Days in LA: Tales of a Buddhist Monk in America." Trying to focus on feeling grateful I have family to spend time with. But it's not a favorite day, for sure. We have SO much to do getting ready for our trip and having to celebrate a holiday that means nothing to me is just pffffft.
Yesterday after a meal of fish and Easter eggs, trusting technology, we put the postcode into the sat nav and drove to a nice National Trust countryside location (Toy Hill) using the 'ecological route' . . .
... you have now reached your destination
Oops.
... some human had put in the wrong postcode and as we proudly awaited to be confronted by stunning scenery and a car park with much needed toilet facilities, we were somewhere else entirely. I had printed no longer needed info on areas of interest . . .
Fortunately we were near Ashdown Forest and very nice too . . . gorse toilet facilities left their mark though . . .
Technology good. Humans be more careful. Getting lost. What fun.
Hope pagan champagne brekkie and choc drowning rituals went well?
Hurrah, the supermarkets are open again and nobody is in church! Bah humbug! Pagans rule!
have I got news for you...! They never closed at all round here! (The supermarkets that is... The Church was open for business and I believe they did passable trade....)
"I'm just sitting quietly, on an Easter Monday afternoon, flicking through the 'net, knitting a bathmat....."
" Heh heh.... wait...hold on.... for a minute there, I thought you said you were 'knitting a bathmat'...."
"Yes, that's exactly what I said...."
"...Knitting a bathmat...?! Woah.... this, I gotta see.....!"
"You will, Oscar, you will...!"
You just gave me an idea - from now on, when there are big (and small) holidays (and Sundays), I will just stay home and pretend we're back in the old times when things were shut up tighter than _____ . I mean it... I like it. (Well, we'll see how long that holds up.)
Maybe they should combine church and supermarket, that would get the numbers up.
The Pentecostal Church of Walmart?
The Holy trinity Church of Wil.ko-oP.oundstretcher....
Did you find it? Or did the sat nav reign supreme?
"Fire" was more of a "smoke" (nobody tell the National Trust ...) and a little cloudy to see the sunrise but full cooked breakfast - including scrambled eggs with smoked salmon and pretty decent bubbly - and a lovely walk up to the top of the fort with parents' dog. Pretty awesome start to the day, all in all
Trip to the beach after. H says best Easter he's ever had.
Is that fence along the sea a property border?
No, just to reduce erosion
How wonderful! How wonderful, things exactly as they are....!
The Celtic sites are everywhere, need to do research.
Brekkie sounds great.
My cousins husband decommissions church's, some are turned into supermarkets eg.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328629/Tesco-opens-latest-convenience-shop--church.html
Actually, that's quite sad, in a way.... (Matt. 21:13).
Yes, the cottage is 75 yards to the left.....
I can see a "Resting Buddha" in the clouds
Unfortunately my next door neighbour died yesterday.
We think it was probably a heart attack. He was only 52.
I walked outside at about 1pm and his friend was hysterical on the phone with 000 out the front of his house. I ran over but I could see by the time I got there he was gone. He was slumped back in his chair with his eyes rolled back in his head. I haven't seen many dead people but it was pretty clear he was gone.
My wife came over and the people on 000 were trying to get us to resuscitate him but it was fairly clear to us he had been dead awhile. The ambulance and police came and chatted to me a bit about it. They reckon he'd been dead at least a few hours.
I was in shock a bit yesterday and think I am still a little now. He was a ticking time bomb though. Very unhealthy and from all accounts didn't take the medication he was prescribed. I feel sorry for his kids though.
We'll go to the funeral later this week. Not sure what day it is yet.
awww, sorry to hear that, @Bunks. It's hard when it happens but harder when you are personally involved.
I like that your emergency number is 000. Ours is 911. And then we have road info at 511. In some areas, general information at 411. i don't know what constitutes general information...lol We like the -11, apparently.
We leave for vacation Saturday morning, and my kids are making me craaaaaazy! It better be a relaxing vacation!
my cat was dying and I was in bed and she screamed. found her under the bed with her eyes rolled up. reminds me