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Post by Voy on Nov 16, 2021 16:42:27 GMT 2
oh no ! not the dreaded Zombie Apocalypse Netskie -- as long as something hurt you are alive, remember, after 40 if you wake up and nothing hurts - you're dead !
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Post by tzarine on Nov 17, 2021 20:13:02 GMT 2
oh no ! not the dreaded Zombie Apocalypse Netskie -- as long as something hurt you are alive, remember, after 40 if you wake up and nothing hurts - you're dead ! i will remember that about waking pain
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Post by Voy on Nov 18, 2021 2:25:40 GMT 2
I was told that just before I turned 40... it's still true 37 years later !
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Post by Netsuke on Nov 18, 2021 10:44:10 GMT 2
1. How can you prove you haven’t woken up in some afterlife? 2. Lol the meeting pot is a hangout for the afterlife? 3. The Afterlife of the Party
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 18, 2021 11:28:38 GMT 2
1. The National Trust has become a bureaucratic nightmare. Never mind that I have been voluteering for 6 years, I have wasted hours being instructed about unconscious bias, how to tell what is a fire hazard, etc. 2. Hundreds of thousands have been spent on updating the rooms at Dyrham Park where I worked. Basically this means that every quirky bit of evidence evidence of the past has been removed. Every wall has been painted white. Everything that had a story I could tell has gone. 3. I have resigned.
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 18, 2021 23:03:05 GMT 2
hugs, Baz.
I am cream crackered.
Lovely to draw plant parts as a study to the next piece on our painting course.
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Post by Netsuke on Nov 19, 2021 1:26:22 GMT 2
1. The National Trust has become a bureaucratic nightmare. Never mind that I have been voluteering for 6 years, I have wasted hours being instructed about unconscious bias, how to tell what is a fire hazard, etc. 2. Hundreds of thousands have been spent on updating the rooms at Dyrham Park where I worked. Basically this means that every quirky bit of evidence evidence of the past has been removed. Every wall has been painted white. Everything that had a story I could tell has gone. 3. I have resigned. I am surprised that all features of the past have been removed. Isn’t the National Trust in England the same as here? The National Trust of Australia of which I’m a member, fights very hard to preserve that which it believes to be historical and needs to be preserved. The properties where you are many hundreds of years older than the ones here. Apart from resigning, throw rotten eggs, bad tomatoes and large vats of disgustingly smelling boiled black pudding, ox liver heart and lungs at the people who pissed you off! Then you resign.
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Post by Netsuke on Nov 19, 2021 1:28:36 GMT 2
1. The National Trust has become a bureaucratic nightmare. Never mind that I have been voluteering for 6 years, I have wasted hours being instructed about unconscious bias, how to tell what is a fire hazard, etc. 2. Hundreds of thousands have been spent on updating the rooms at Dyrham Park where I worked. Basically this means that every quirky bit of evidence evidence of the past has been removed. Every wall has been painted white. Everything that had a story I could tell has gone. 3. I have resigned. I am surprised that all features of the past have been removed. Isn’t the National Trust in England the same as here? The National Trust of Australia of which I’m a member, fights very hard to preserve that which it believes to be historical and needs to be preserved. The properties where you are, are many hundreds of years older than the ones here. Although Australia has existed for many thousands of years, it wasn’t until the late 1700’s when European settlement began here that the landscape changed. Apart from resigning, throw rotten eggs, bad tomatoes and large vats of disgustingly smelling boiled black pudding, ox liver heart and lungs at the people who pissed you off! Then you resign.
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 19, 2021 11:27:57 GMT 2
Netsie, one of the problems is that "they" have decided Dyrham Park should return to what it was in the late 17th century when it was built. The problem "they" faced was what to do about the changes that were made after that because no building remains static. Take the Victorian kitchen where I have worked. The name tells you it wasn't late 17th century. It was built to replace a shed. No point it tearing it down and trying to replace it with a shed because no one wants to look at a shed. So "they" decided to remove as much of the Victorian innards as possible. There was a huge spit which operated by the heat of the fire going up the chimney and revolving a fan which turned the spit. We couldn't have a fire (insurance problems) but there was an electric motor which turned the spit. I could explain how the original worked and everybody loved it. Earlier this month I looked in the Victorian kitchen and the spit was now well away from the wall. It looked as if it was waiting for people to remove it altogether.
Of course not everything is 17th century. There is electricity. No one has suggested they go back to candles. Also there is central heating though of a strange kind. It doesn't work when it gets cold but when the air gets too humid which could be a danger for the curtains and paintings. So if there is a rainy patch in the middle of summer the heating comes on;if there is crisp sunny dry weather in the middle of winter the heating stays off. One December day when I went in the temperature in the room was 6 celcius and I said I wasn't going to work there any more.
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Post by tzarine on Nov 19, 2021 19:23:03 GMT 2
1. hugs, baz 2. it is sunny 3. the coffee from the shop was ok
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Post by Netsuke on Nov 20, 2021 3:03:30 GMT 2
1. Bad migraine today. 2. Out of tablets. 3. Neck pain too.
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Post by sophie on Nov 20, 2021 5:38:42 GMT 2
1. Out for lunch at a Thai restaurant with a friend.. delicious 2. Sushi for a family dinner tonight. Delicious. 3. Made chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. Delicious.
See a trend?
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 20, 2021 8:25:31 GMT 2
I see a food trend I don't want to get up and prep I will get up and prep now.
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Post by Voy on Nov 20, 2021 15:27:34 GMT 2
1) having polished the silver 2) having had two dinner parties 3) I will now put it all away til next year
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Post by tzarine on Nov 20, 2021 15:44:15 GMT 2
1. insomnia is cool 2. insomnia is fun 3. insomnia rules! it sucks
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 29, 2021 13:30:59 GMT 2
1. Number 24, 2 doors down from us, has a caged parrot in the window. 2. The parrot is called Pepe. 3. Every morning on my way to pick up our paper I say good morning to Pepe. 4. Pepe squeaks back and sometimes makes pips like a radio news announcement and on exceptional days adds an oldfasioned telephone ringing tone. 5. In the afternoon Pepe ignores me. 6. Have I done something wrong?
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Post by Netsuke on Nov 29, 2021 21:11:56 GMT 2
1. I don’t feel like going to work today. 2. I really should go to work cos I need the money. 3. Stuff it. I called in sick.
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Post by tzarine on Nov 29, 2021 23:04:20 GMT 2
1. mailed a card to nurse allison 2. ran in nicky, old mate& propieter of local shop 3. bought milk 4. bought beets 5. ran into cece, one of tzarevich's many aunts, showed him currentish photos 6. kick my ass - robber baron app due on 1st
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Post by tzarine on Dec 26, 2021 4:27:06 GMT 2
1. went for a walk 2. walked by creche near church 3. went to a park where tzarevich spent many many hours 4. read a bit in local park 5. got home where lads were up 6. semi cooked din
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Post by Voy on Dec 26, 2021 23:24:17 GMT 2
1) had a lovely Christmas Eve with cousin Steve 2) had a lovely Chrismas Day with cousin David, his daughter Brette, and her kids Paris and Mackie. 3) Got home and had a lovely Boxing Day with pressies from friends NICE!
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Post by tzarine on Dec 27, 2021 2:04:37 GMT 2
1. opened my secret santa gift 2. got a cute bag from local edinburgh shop 3. made lasagna 4. served to the lads. it was delicious 5. went for a boxing day walk w the lads 6. the shoppers were maddening
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Post by tzarine on Jan 27, 2022 20:40:50 GMT 2
1. it is sunny. 2. it is not as cold as it was yesterday. 3. i will go to the store
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Post by tzarine on Jan 28, 2022 2:10:50 GMT 2
1. i said goodbye to alexander @ cvs 2. i bought milk 3. i shared my doritos w tzarevich 4. i made tzarevich some ybarra - i had some, too 5. i did a submission 6. i listened to tinariwen
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 30, 2022 1:13:47 GMT 2
1. Today is the last day of holidays. 2. Tomorrow I go back to work. 3. I am not looking forward to tomorrow.
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 30, 2022 9:44:52 GMT 2
1. today is supposedly the last sunny day for a little while (we've had plenty) 2. I'm excited about my future 3. need to get going.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 30, 2022 10:24:56 GMT 2
1. On Tuesday we fly to Catania. 2. I must check-in online. 3. I dread doing anything with Ryanair. 4. C'mon Baz, it has to be done.
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Post by Netsuke on Feb 2, 2022 11:52:34 GMT 2
1. I was very naughty today. 2. I ate half a packet of biscuits. 3. They were Choc Chip.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 3, 2022 19:42:24 GMT 2
1. celebrated anniversary of first date w tzar. a coupla teens drinking espresso, hanging out on a fire escape 2. took a stroll w tzarevich 3. picked up paprika 4. sent the lad off w instant pad thai & yakisoba 5. waited w him for his bus 6. bus was late, so had kentucky fried chicken nearby 7. walked home w tzar 8. sad one of my fav peruvian joints was a covid casualty
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Post by tzarine on Feb 14, 2022 21:20:22 GMT 2
1. i got out of bed 2. it is sunny 3. my childhood hometown team won the superbowl 4. i painted my toes cherry pink 5. i have submissions due 6. happy valentine's day! sending heart shaped chocolates
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Post by Baz Faz on Feb 15, 2022 0:43:09 GMT 2
1. The gas rings on the top of the stove wouldn't light. I thought Putin had cut our gas supply. 2. Then the electric oven wouldn't work. I decided our whole cooker had ceased working and we'd need a new one. 3. Mrs Faz explained she had turned off the electricity while checking something. 4. The dishwasher broke. It was here when we came 8 years ago. We found a receipt from the previous owners from 2006 so we decided it was time for a new one. 5. Doing all the washing up by hand makes me think we are still in a holiday rental. 6. Despite all the problems we had a good Valentine's Day dinner including a little chocolate cake brought back from Malta. 7. The cake came from a pastry shop in Valletta called Sunday in Scotland. 8. I wonder if Edinburgh has a pastry shop called Wednesday in Malta.
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