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Post by Scrubb on Apr 28, 2024 3:50:36 GMT 2
Ran to Mom's this morning, and home a couple hours later.
This afternoon I met friends and their 16 month old grandson at their property out in the country for a little walk, looking for crocuses. It was really nice spending time with a toddler. He's a sweetie.
Made veggie burgers for dinner. Am going to bike over to see friends this evening. Though I'm tired. I was awake for a couple hours in the night.
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Post by sophie on Apr 28, 2024 5:11:05 GMT 2
Went to the theatre with d-I-l to a superb play: The Lehman Trilogy. It’s very well written, only 3 actors, a minimalist stage and 3 hours long. Really enjoyed it.
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 28, 2024 8:16:06 GMT 2
need to get going. mom wishes to attend mass today. then water the outside and lunch and I need to scan piano partitions for my niece.
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Post by Baz Faz on Apr 28, 2024 11:13:09 GMT 2
Mrs Faz says it is Walkies time.
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Post by rikita on Apr 28, 2024 23:18:51 GMT 2
went climbing. back home, i took a bath and practiced guitar a bit (but not as long as i wanted to) before going to get a. ... had a chicken halloumi sandwich with peanut sauce for dinner.
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Post by Scrubb on Apr 29, 2024 0:19:48 GMT 2
This morning it looked potentially drizzly, and I was tired, so I drove to Mom's instead of riding my bike. And it's a good thing, because she needed me to shop for her urgently.
Then at the store, things were on sale so I bought a lot - 8 large boxes of things, as well as some smaller things. It was very awkward carrying everything. And I stopped at my brother's to pick up some things he'd bought for her too. It took me 2 trips to get everything into her apartment.
Also found crab on sale, which I bought to make for Mr_S's birthday in a couple of weeks.
And I've been reading and interneting for a couple hours now. Need to get myself out for a run soon.
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Post by sophie on Apr 29, 2024 1:38:01 GMT 2
Had lunch with a friend, then tea with a different friend. Highlight of the second visit was a hysterical conversation about ‘rabbits’. And I’m not referring to the animal!!!! (I don’t go into any description here as it could be considered rude, if you need to know, Google it..)
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Post by shrjeff on Apr 29, 2024 10:04:03 GMT 2
scrubbie, won't the crab go bad in a couple of weeks?
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Post by Baz Faz on Apr 29, 2024 10:54:37 GMT 2
Had lunch with a friend, then tea with a different friend. Highlight of the second visit was a hysterical conversation about ‘rabbits’. And I’m not referring to the animal!!!! (I don’t go into any description here as it could be considered rude, if you need to know, Google it..) No, I think you have to tell. I Googled rabbits and got lots of info about buying them locally, what to feed them on, etc. The most promising bit was: The best combination is a neutered male and neutered female.
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Post by Voy on Apr 29, 2024 13:40:40 GMT 2
Yep - what Baz says ^ I googled and got zillions of ones on animal-rabbits and only 2 that weren't - and they were about some horror film...
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Post by tzarine on Apr 29, 2024 14:19:21 GMT 2
Had lunch with a friend, then tea with a different friend. Highlight of the second visit was a hysterical conversation about ‘rabbits’. And I’m not referring to the animal!!!! (I don’t go into any description here as it could be considered rude, if you need to know, Google it..) oh yes! rabbits!
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Post by sophie on Apr 29, 2024 16:18:13 GMT 2
Okay.. Amazon has them.. rabbit vibrator..
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Post by Voy on Apr 29, 2024 20:05:24 GMT 2
Oh.
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Post by rikita on Apr 29, 2024 23:30:03 GMT 2
met up with a girl a. used to be friends with many years ago, and her mom (they lost touch after a. started school a year before the other girl, but now they have the same therapist), and went to the park to play football (a. doesn't really like football, but the other girl does and we want to support her, so she joined), there was another kid who just flew in from greece to visit his grandma, and she asked if he could join ... afterwards, we had ice cream ...
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Post by Scrubb on Apr 30, 2024 1:05:19 GMT 2
scrubbie, won't the crab go bad in a couple of weeks? Frozen crab...
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Post by Scrubb on Apr 30, 2024 1:10:24 GMT 2
Today my work got a bit confused. In the morning my contact said there would be a meeting tomorrow to finalize something, so I said I'd have my portion ready before tomortiw morning. Then Mr_S and I took off to a nearby provincial park to look fir birds.
When I got back, I saw I'd missed an email that they decided the key thing and could I finish the document today?
It was 1 hour and 20 minutes later that I saw theit message, so I quickly updated everything and let them know it was ready.
An hour later, no response from them and it's now end of day. Ah well.
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Post by Baz Faz on Apr 30, 2024 13:34:02 GMT 2
We have been to Waitrose. We are having coffee. Now it is the battle against French bureaucray. When we lived in France we employed a financial adviser who guided us to putting our money into 3 investments. We didn't touch the money but let it grow for old age. Old age is now. So we want to close those investments and transfer the capital to England. Problem. Our last email correspondence with our adviser was 18 months ago. We emailed him. No reply. We telephoned. No answer. We contacted the mayor of the village where he had his offce but the mayor knew nothing.
Then Mrs Faz turned sleuth. She consulted a map of the village and emailed the business next to our financial adviser's office. The answer we got was that our adviser (unmarried) was found dead in bed just before Christmas 2022. He had all our financial details. Of course not only ours but of his other clients. So his office has all this stuff just waiting for a burglar to nab it.
Our adviser was a member of the appropriate professional body but they cannot help us. There appears to be no government process for dealing with the death of an a professional adviser. When we try to cash in these investments the 3 companies all say we must go through our adviser. But he is dead. His office is closed. After much persistance one company has agreed that we ourselves can get our money back.
Two forms have been emailed to us this morning. They total 15 pages. Because the forms are 99.999% directed towards French people it all seems inappropriate for us. And the language is not the French that we used in our daily life in France.
Oh well.
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Post by shrjeff on Apr 30, 2024 14:08:31 GMT 2
i hope you can cope with the forms, baz... perhaps annie can help. your predicament rings with me as the major motivator for us selling our flat and moving into a rental was so we would have no real property which would necessitate the survivor going to probate court... all our funds are in a liquid bank account with right of survivorship... i worked in bureaucracies for enough decades to figure out how to avoid them...
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Post by tzarine on Apr 30, 2024 14:10:46 GMT 2
reading a collection of romantic poets
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 30, 2024 17:05:18 GMT 2
@baz I am more than happy to help if I can.
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Post by Baz Faz on Apr 30, 2024 18:06:35 GMT 2
Bless you, Annie.We'll see how we go.
Jeff, the point in our having a financial adviser is that he would take care of all this bureaucracy. Mrs Faz Faz asked what would happen if he died and he laughed it off (he was about 20 years younger than Mrs Faz, so 28 years younger than me). He had an assistant - what happened to her? What has happened to his office? Presumably he rented it so who is in it now? A lot of business is done online but there is physical paperwork like documents we signed. When we lived in France he came to our house for lunch with a dog - what has happened to him?
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Post by rikita on May 1, 2024 0:27:22 GMT 2
hurried to school to get a. out of her orchestra rehearsal for a conversation with her teacher, but then it turned out the teacher had canceled but forgotten to write to me - but she did have time, so we had the conversation after all (nothing bad, just the normal regular teacher meetings). after that, a's recorder class, and then we went to the library.
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Post by Scrubb on May 1, 2024 4:11:11 GMT 2
Well, other than seeing Mom and taking her to a doctor appointment this morning, I've done nothing but laundry and reading and napping.
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Post by sophie on May 1, 2024 4:39:55 GMT 2
Swimming then got my next Covid vaccination as it needs to be done at least a week prior to the knee replacement surgery. Managed to get some gardening done and made a very tasty supper. Now watching hockey finals.. go Vancouver!!
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Post by slowcoach on May 1, 2024 9:23:22 GMT 2
Had lunch with a friend, then tea with a different friend. Highlight of the second visit was a hysterical conversation about ‘rabbits’. And I’m not referring to the animal!!!! (I don’t go into any description here as it could be considered rude, if you need to know, Google it..) I knew what you meant. I'm all for an easy life.
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Post by slowcoach on May 1, 2024 14:53:59 GMT 2
As for me:
Looking from the kitchen to the burrito outside.
And I AM referring to the animal.
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Post by rikita on May 1, 2024 22:28:34 GMT 2
no work/school today, so managed to sleep in a tiny bit, then practiced guitar and did the dishes, and the nwe went to my dad's, and went with him to a town an hour south of here where in the local church there was the opening of an exhibtion my dad had helped organize (the main artist is an old friend of his, i remember going to his exhibitions and parties regularly when i was a kid). my brothers and my mom and my aunt and uncle and a lot of old friends of my dad were also there. after the opening and some drinks together, we (family) went to the town square for ice cream (unfortunately no gelato, just packaged ice cream), and later after the others left, dad, his wife, little brother, a. and i went to the river for a while to sit in the grass ... it was very warm today ...
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Post by auntieannie on May 1, 2024 23:38:18 GMT 2
met with mom after her medical appointment and we went food shopping, then lunch, then I faffed then after dinner, we went for a walk.
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Post by Scrubb on May 2, 2024 4:32:05 GMT 2
Cleaned the house this morning. Went for a long run. Cooked what turned out to be an elaborate, tasty dinner (shrimp etoufee, and szechuan green beans).
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Post by Baz Faz on May 2, 2024 11:18:58 GMT 2
It's election day in Britain - not a general election but a hotchpotch of various elections. There is just one by-election to parliament. But there are elections to various local councils - not ours. Chipping Sodbury gets to vote for a regional police and crime commissioner. These local elections are meant to be about local issues but inevitably they are really about what you feel about the government. I have sympathy for the prime minister who had an awful inheritance - the lying Boris Johnson, the calamitous Liz Truss who in her 7 weeks in power managed to crash the economy. But the conservative party in parliament is incoherent, factions fighting against each other. And nearly every week brings a sexual scandal. The current police commissioner is Conservative. He'll have to go.
I'll just have a look out of the window to see if the rain has stopped. Now it is off to do my civic duty.
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