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Post by Netsuke on Jan 27, 2021 21:59:08 GMT 2
what Annie said ^ --Netskie's comment made me think - and here most 'vacations" are taken in the summer, when there are no holidays - except 4th of July - which just calls for fireworks and bbqs. Easter dpesn't count - we don't even get the Monday off, much less the Friday. And Thanksgiving, while major, is just referred to as Thanksgiving. Good Friday isn’t a public holiday in America? Nor Easter Monday? Geeze, stone the crows! Good Friday is a day where everything shuts down. It’s the busiest day of the year for fish ‘n chip shops. You need to pre-order, otherwise you’d be waiting, waiting, waiting........... There are no newspapers printed on Christmas Day.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 28, 2021 0:52:38 GMT 2
@ schools, it's called christmas break or christmas vacation
the friday following thanksgiving is usually a holiday
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Post by Voy on Jan 28, 2021 1:42:50 GMT 2
Separation of Church and state - Easter? no way! It's amazing that we get Christmas day !!
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 28, 2021 2:43:01 GMT 2
Tzarine, it makes sense to have the Friday off, your Thanksgiving Day is a Thursday, who wants to work Friday? Like it’s good to have the Monday as a public holiday - you get the proverbial “Long Weekend “
Voy, it is my understanding the Separation of Church and State means the government does not make laws for an established religion or impose religious observance or prohibit the freedom to choose and follow the religion of choice.
Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday are public holidays as are Christmas Day and Boxing Day. To some extent, Australia follows the British system, although some are called Bank Holiday but America doesn’t. Ever since that little temper tantrum you called the War of Independence!
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Post by Voy on Jan 28, 2021 4:17:35 GMT 2
be glad we did it ! so the Brits needed a new penal colony ! "Voy, it is my understanding the Separation of Church and State means the government does not make laws for an established religion or impose religious observance or prohibit the freedom to choose and follow the religion of choice." -- yep. and that's why religious holidays are not state holidays. You can take them if you want. And for the last maybe 50 years, companies have given an extra 3 or 4 "personal" days, separate from your vacation time, to be used exactly for that. That's why it's amazing that we get Christmas, which often lands on a weekday.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 28, 2021 11:25:09 GMT 2
Netsie, be thankful you are not in Thailand where royalty impinges on daily life.
Baz: Why can't I have a beer with my meal? Waitress: Because it is the king's birthday.
Knowledgable Thais had come prepared, some with bottles of imported whisky.
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Post by shrjeff on Jan 28, 2021 12:02:42 GMT 2
the long merkin summer vacation stems from rural days when the kids would be busy helping with the harvesting during the summer... now its only tradition... here there are two holiday periods: passover in the spring and the new years through the festival of booths in the fall... not much going on in the winter or summer... one is too cold and rainy and the other too hot...
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 28, 2021 13:54:15 GMT 2
Procrastinating
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 28, 2021 14:05:39 GMT 2
procrastinating.
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Post by Voy on Jan 28, 2021 16:07:43 GMT 2
going to try and figure out the printer I bought. First to get it hooked up wirelessly ( the cord, for the machine I didn't want in the first place was nother 50ucks!) - and then, optimistically assuming success, start printing out the surveys that I need to tabulate. blergh.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 28, 2021 21:02:56 GMT 2
being interviewed by study staff
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 29, 2021 4:05:47 GMT 2
Fortunately I’m not a beer drinker, Baz, but I nice glass of Red Ned or two or three will go down well.
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 29, 2021 4:21:24 GMT 2
For Voy who is famous on the other side of the world 🌎. I give you Lobster 🦞 Cave, a restaurant in Beautiful Beaumaris . Gastronomic Utopia! Attachments:
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Post by Voy on Jan 29, 2021 4:36:27 GMT 2
I love it ! and the one on the sign IS a lobster - as is the one in the pic. but I bet that the ones they serve are RockLobsters - which , while delish, are very very diff from cold water lobstahs ! but.. you have given me the idea, I have to go past the pound on my way to get a hair cut tomorrow -- lobstah for suppah !
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 29, 2021 11:24:27 GMT 2
Fortunately I’m not a beer drinker, Baz, but I nice glass of Red Ned or two or three will go down well. On the Thai king's birthday you woudn't have got wine either. Well, king's birthday or not you wouldn't get wine outside of tourist hotels. Strangely we were told we could have cocktails. They were vile and cost a lot.
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Post by Voy on Jan 29, 2021 16:25:09 GMT 2
getting a hair cut !!
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Post by sophie on Jan 29, 2021 16:27:35 GMT 2
It’s early and I don’t have a clue what I will be going today other than taking the dog first for a walk and then after breakfast, a longer hike somewhere in the local parks. I might go and buy a nice card for my husband and drop it off at the hospital since I can’t see him, and today is his first ECT therapy.
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Post by kuskiwi on Jan 29, 2021 21:06:10 GMT 2
Unpacking a grocery delivery to refill my now repaired freezer. I missed the convenience last week as I'm not someone who shops weekly. I get my veggies delivered weekly so no need. Year's ago on the farm I had a huge surplus in the garden so started a drop off service to an area where there is a high proportion of welfare beneficiaries. The new owner continues it and drops enough off for me also.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 29, 2021 21:07:25 GMT 2
sophie wishing your husband the best for therapy today
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 29, 2021 21:32:48 GMT 2
today, I sorted some stuff and I intend to continue for the next few weeks. I am happy with what I did today.
and tonight I'm thinking of Sophie and her husband.
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 30, 2021 2:46:02 GMT 2
I love it ! and the one on the sign IS a lobster - as is the one in the pic. but I bet that the ones they serve are RockLobsters - which , while delish, are very very diff from cold water lobstahs ! but.. you have given me the idea, I have to go past the pound on my way to get a hair cut tomorrow -- lobstah for suppah ! How did you know that? Yes, you are right, Voy, the lobsters 🦞 served are RockLobsters. Your Maine lobsters 🦞 must be famous because they are mentioned. Also there was a lobster 🦞 named George who was estimated to be 140 years old and born in 1869. It weighed 20 lb, or 9.1 kg. And a Maine fisherman caught a blue lobster 🦞 twice! I must admit it looks a bit sick looking at it!
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Post by Voy on Jan 30, 2021 2:53:30 GMT 2
Rock Lobsters don't have the huge claws. Only the cold water lobstahs. Did I mention that I just threw into the recycling a blue lobstah shell - found in 2 pieces on the beach in Nantucket a few years ago - he was huge - and getting bigger which is why he had shed them -heal to tail was 21+inches - ( we never did find the claws.) I had him on a stand in my living room bookcase, but after all these years he was very fragile and almost completely bleached white. and thanks again for the idea - I just finished a regular one !
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 30, 2021 11:01:06 GMT 2
Have I said this before? Staying at a motel on Deer Island, New Brunswick, we were intrigued by a truck leaking water. About 9 in the evening the driver received a phone call and off he went. Next day we caught the little ferry that crossed over into the USA where one dozy official waved us through. I think that truck driver last night was waiting for the signal to cross and those New Brunswick lobsters changed nationality and became Maine lobstahs for VOY.
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Post by Voy on Jan 30, 2021 17:12:52 GMT 2
Yep - it happens ! Same with maple syrup form Canada, ending up packed as Vermont... those sneaky Canuckistanians ! still smarting from the 7Years War. This "nice" thing is all an act....... ( hi Scrubb !)
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Post by Netsuke on Feb 1, 2021 3:38:49 GMT 2
Of course, it happens with peacocks and pheasants too! The fly over His Lordship’s estate 🏡 and end up in the farmer’s field. The farmer has every right to shoot birds on his property. Good eating bird, pheasant. Makes a tasty casserole!
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 1, 2021 15:44:37 GMT 2
struggling along with my tidying up... mostly procrastinating.
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Post by sophie on Feb 1, 2021 17:09:18 GMT 2
Carpenter is coming to finish a few things and the masons are coming to set up scaffolding to rebuild the chimney. House will be in great shape to sell.
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 1, 2021 20:30:36 GMT 2
Sophie, here people are looking for slightly remote properties, after they've been cooped in small apartments in cities during lockdown. if it is the same where you are, you might be able to sell for a good price.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 1, 2021 21:07:58 GMT 2
sitting out the snowstorm
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Post by Baz Faz on Feb 3, 2021 19:12:47 GMT 2
After breakfast we went out for our customary walk and picked up litter. Then I went to do the supermarket shop. I gave the woman at the cheese counter 7 golf balls we had collected. After lunch we had a read in the sun room and then had another walk (and picked up litter). Then it was time to participate in a zoom memorial service for my (ex)sister-in-law who lived in Wisconsin. And now I am here.
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