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Post by xanady on May 16, 2020 20:08:53 GMT
^Chips with....Curry sauce OR Gravy OR Mushy peas OR just plain?
Vote now!👍
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Post by lynette on May 16, 2020 20:17:39 GMT
Vinegar
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2020 20:32:38 GMT
Chips need to be plain, or with perhaps a sprinkling of salt. And dry: you can't have gravy-soggy chips.
Definitely not with vinegar. I've never understood the idea of putting rotten wine acid on your food. "Well, these chips are nice, I suppose. I just wish they were wet and tasted of batteries."
I want chicken and chips now. And just today I stocked up on food for the entire week, dammit!
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Post by david on May 17, 2020 8:50:32 GMT
Today I should be celebrating my birthday with a trip to the Liverpool Empire to watch Riverdance. Instead I am spending it sitting on the couch eating chocolate. Thankfully I have a nice Sirloin steak to cook later to cheer me up.
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Post by Latecomer on May 17, 2020 9:38:26 GMT
Today I should be celebrating my birthday with a trip to the Liverpool Empire to watch Riverdance. Instead I am spending it sitting on the couch eating chocolate. Thankfully I have a nice Sirloin steak to cook later to cheer me up. Happy birthday david! I hope it is a good one, despite the lack of Riverdance! |
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Post by david on May 17, 2020 9:50:57 GMT
Today I should be celebrating my birthday with a trip to the Liverpool Empire to watch Riverdance. Instead I am spending it sitting on the couch eating chocolate. Thankfully I have a nice Sirloin steak to cook later to cheer me up. Happy birthday david! I hope it is a good one, despite the lack of Riverdance! Thanks. I’m trying to organise a family FaceTime / WhatsApp thing later on today to have some sort of celebration. |
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Post by TallPaul on May 17, 2020 11:59:30 GMT
Happy birthday, david. 🎂 After all that chocolate 🍫 you'll need to turn the dial up to 11 and dance 🕺 like nobody is watching! Pretty much a normal Sunday round yours then, birthday or no birthday. 🙂 |
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Post by david on May 17, 2020 12:29:55 GMT
Thanks for the birthday wishes. I'm really disappointed not to be watching Riverdance TBH TallPaul . Though I would of definitely not of been participating in this one! I'm just glad it's been rescheduled for next year. Hopefully all that chocolate doesn't increase my waistline too much! |
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Post by TallPaul on May 17, 2020 12:56:52 GMT
Incidentally, david, I see from the Sunday paper that you share a birthday with two other dancers of some repute...Tamara Rojo and Jeremy Vine. There is clearly something very special about 17 May! |
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Post by theatreian on May 17, 2020 12:58:29 GMT
Hopefully all that chocolate doesn't increase my waistline too much! I am sure you are not the only one resorting to chocolate!!I am having a good day after yesterday's chocolate binge!! |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2020 15:46:24 GMT
Sainsbury's (used to?) do some rather nice packets of mixed nuts and chocolate raisins but I haven't seen them on the shelves recently. I decided I'd assemble my own substitute and with that in mind I bought some nuts and some chocolate raisins. I bought two packets of chocolate raisins, and it's a good job I did because one of them didn't make it through the afternoon.
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Post by Latecomer on May 17, 2020 18:15:10 GMT
Sainsbury's (used to?) do some rather nice packets of mixed nuts and chocolate raisins but I haven't seen them on the shelves recently. I decided I'd assemble my own substitute and with that in mind I bought some nuts and some chocolate raisins. I bought two packets of chocolate raisins, and it's a good job I did because one of them didn't make it through the afternoon. I think sometimes I must have been the best mother as chocolate raisins and popcorn both counted as a fruit/veg portions in my house! The children still chuckle about it!  |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2020 18:44:24 GMT
Sainsbury's (used to?) do some rather nice packets of mixed nuts and chocolate raisins but I haven't seen them on the shelves recently. I decided I'd assemble my own substitute and with that in mind I bought some nuts and some chocolate raisins. I bought two packets of chocolate raisins, and it's a good job I did because one of them didn't make it through the afternoon. I think sometimes I must have been the best mother as chocolate raisins and popcorn both counted as a fruit/veg portions in my house! The children still chuckle about it! And why not? Similarly, I have loads of apples. The fact that they were bottled by Thatcher's on their way from tree to me means nothing. |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2020 12:09:27 GMT
Sigh. Forecast is for 80% or greater chance of rain all this week, and it has been raining for the past eight hours almost nonstop. Not having the chance of a long outdoor walk is going to be a bit taxing at this point in the shelter-at-home regime.
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Post by Latecomer on May 18, 2020 13:15:02 GMT
Sigh. Forecast is for 80% or greater chance of rain all this week, and it has been raining for the past eight hours almost nonstop. Not having the chance of a long outdoor walk is going to be a bit taxing at this point in the shelter-at-home regime. A coat? Rain wouldn’t stop me (unless there is thunder and lightening, then I stay home!). After all, even if you get wet you don’t shrink! I usually find the worst bit is contemplating going out in the rain...once you are out it’s not too bad! Sometimes quite exhilarating. Other times I feel like a gloomy French poet...without writing the poetry, or being French!!!! |
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Post by alece10 on May 18, 2020 13:25:57 GMT
A list of the 20 busiest stations in London has just been published and both my departure and arrival stations going to work are on the list.
Well that's me bug**red then!!
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And waiting for the bus to go home when a pigeon does a big sh*te all over my shirt. Then to add insult to injury when the bus comes it wont let anyone on as they had reached their new social quota of passengers allowed to carry, which is about 3 people per bus!
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Post by Forrest on May 18, 2020 13:28:23 GMT
Sigh. Forecast is for 80% or greater chance of rain all this week, and it has been raining for the past eight hours almost nonstop. Not having the chance of a long outdoor walk is going to be a bit taxing at this point in the shelter-at-home regime. Hang in there! Sending a bit of sunshine your way from Central London. :) I find your troubles so relatable: my mood simply brightens with the sun and turns greyer with the rain... Not much I can do about it, really - I've just learned to embrace it. I decided yesterday, during a long walk, to do something potentially silly and embarrassing, which might turn into a great joy if it works out, so I'm in a pretty good mood today and cannot wait to finish work to dedicate some time to it. Sometimes I worry I come across as silly, on other days I just acknowledge the fact that I am a bit silly, and embrace it - just like the weather mood swings. Today is one of those days, it seems. (Also, I am waiting 5:30 to strike so I can go outside to buy ice-cream. I am craving ice-cream. I am also restarting my yoga journey which has been on hold for the past week, and that's something to look forward to.) |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2020 17:04:30 GMT
I've decided I need to go on holiday. I'm going to head up north. About 12 metres north, to the far end of my garden, behind the tree.
I hear the weather can get pretty extreme all the way up there.
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Post by peggs on May 18, 2020 17:52:56 GMT
Feel free to send rain my way, we could really do with it. I rather love a walk in the rain when prepared for it. Less fun when cold but even can work. Looks like quite a few things I habitually do aren't going to survive all this so walking may be what's left to me. In which case I'm really going to have to find some new walks.
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Post by TallPaul on May 19, 2020 11:51:11 GMT
With some trepidation, I've just checked the balance of my current account. I used an app, and everything! It's much healthier than I feared. 🙂
Before lockdown, I paid for my grocery shopping almost exclusively with old-fashioned cash, now I pay almost exclusively by card which, despite spending broadly the same, somehow makes budgeting harder. ☹
I may even push the boat out and treat myself to a sausage with my chips on Saturday. 🍟 Just a small one, mind.
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Post by Forrest on May 19, 2020 13:20:41 GMT
Before lockdown, I paid for my grocery shopping almost exclusively with old-fashioned cash, now I pay almost exclusively by card which, despite spending broadly the same, somehow makes budgeting harder. ☹ It's funny how I find the complete opposite to be the case: I pay for everything by card - I have a regular bank account, but I transfer money to and use a Revolut card for all my shopping, offline and online - and it makes it (for me) super easy to track how much I'm spending. When I handle cash (which I don't do now at all, and didn't do really, even before the lockdown began) money seems to slip through my fingers much easier. :) |
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Post by lynette on May 19, 2020 16:18:31 GMT
What is cash? Haven’t used it for two months now. Found a load of old £1 coins the other day, not that many but of course useless. And then the notes, old notes. Before we know know it they will have changed the system and any cash we have will have to be turned in , replaced by the ‘health beads’ they will give us. Kids born this year won’t see cash. ( could be a metaphor) )
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Post by lynette on May 19, 2020 16:20:37 GMT
Just started up, the evening ‘yowl’ by the kids a few doors up with the swimming pool. Don’t mind jolly laughter but not sure about the ‘yowl’
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2020 17:46:34 GMT
What is cash? Haven’t used it for two months now. I thought I might need to use a 50p at a parking meter today, but they've made the parking free for the moment so I didn't. I can't remember exactly when I last used cash but it was probably paying the milkman before they asked everyone to pay online instead. At this rate the next time I use cash will be when I take my emergency £20s to the bank to replace them with the new ones. I can't say I miss it much, as I can manage with a smaller wallet now. |
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Post by Someone in a tree on May 19, 2020 19:59:18 GMT
I do try and visit my local market and buy bowls of veg for a quid. Such a bargain but generally everything goes on my credit card and I get points.
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