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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 23, 2020 17:15:18 GMT
Asda is a nightmare. Won’t go there. Most of our meat comes from a local butcher and is excellent. Went to Iceland this morning. Quality and prices good. Main freezer was empty. Not now.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 23, 2020 18:08:06 GMT
The 3 Iceland shops around town are usually rammed. Asda, Tesco and Sainbury's here have huge queues most days. I think that we will continue having groceries delivered with monthly dashes to M&S for certain things.
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Post by whatagain on Jun 23, 2020 18:31:29 GMT
I have been thinking of you cheery. Simply because we collected tons of cherries from our trees. I guess nobody would think to assimilate cheers with cherries but foreigners who have no clue about english language do. At least i do. I am in a fantastic mood. The bottle of Graves 2002, surprisingly good (i bought it very cheap but it afed very well helps but still.. I had a great discussion with a commercisl partner who made a proposal that i subtly instilled. I played dumb and pretended to be surprised ... I love playing dumb, nobody ever suspects anything. I drove the young one to school, spent some time on my sons's tomb (on ? Over ? At ?). Then fetched her after school, then back to school to get her 'bulletin, a paper giving her notes. I had a nice lunch with nr 2 and saw nr 3 who came for a swim and complained about the quality of the water if the pool.
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Post by whatagain on Jun 23, 2020 18:38:39 GMT
Cheery my daughter also say clients overpay and overeat at the restaurant she works since they feel good znd saved so much and somehow want to spend to help them survive.
So... my rice was at the verge of burning. Ex elkent day thus. I played air hockey with Marie, cooked for ghe family, and we are eating outside. Life is just perfect.
I could even be friend today with a dutch. Or with Mark.
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Post by htmb on Jun 23, 2020 20:17:12 GMT
It’s interesting to hear the shopping adventures of others. Especially enjoyed hearing about your time out in the shops, Cheery. I need to decide what I’ll do about my groceries. My daughter left this morning, so I’ll be arranging for my own shopping and/or food delivery from this point on. Though there’s still a lot in the house, I’m noticing some major gaps in items such as toilet paper and laundry detergent. I’m not out yet, but will be soon. Since confirmed cases of the virus have been reported here as getting higher each day, and my local grocery store is often too crowded for my liking, I’m thinking about having my groceries delivered. Not something I want to do, but better that than face the mask-less idiots in the grocery store who think the virus is just a political fantasy created by the Democrats.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 23, 2020 20:54:51 GMT
When I go to other parts of Paris, I am always amazed at how disciplined my own area is. It's probably because the Chinese, Indians, Africans and North Africans in my area are much better at following government directives than the ethnic French, almost certainly because they don't want to get in trouble. Also, they know more about nasty diseases than the French do.
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Post by bjd on Jun 24, 2020 6:04:13 GMT
During lockdown from March to mid-May, my local supermarket had only one entrance door and customers were counted as they went in so there was often a line-up, although never huge. Then things began to relax and they re-opened the second door (it's a tiny mall with two entrances). For several weeks now both doors have been open, no checks, no lines.
But on Monday afternoon I saw that they opened a door that is usually locked so there are separate entrances and exits at both main doors, and they taped passages with arrows through the mall so that people will walk keeping apart.I can only assume this is being done as they prepare for tourists and bigger numbers of shoppers at the store. Parisians and other "foreigners" have been arriving lately.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 24, 2020 9:06:21 GMT
@whatagain my brother and SiL were out picking cherries in the countryside yesterday too. My SiL will make jam and my brother will make cherry brandy Altho a lot of people are back at work now it's still quiet here, at the shopping centre yesterday there weren't crowds of people, altho it's such a big place maybe they were just spread out. Today my beloved is washing the silk rugs. He's using the jet cleaner but on a low power...then washing with diluted eco-vere hand wash solution before he rinses it off...using our ancient aquavac to suck off most of the water then laying the rugs out to dry in the sun...its supposed to be over 30° today.
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Post by tod2 on Jun 24, 2020 9:37:47 GMT
Cheery - Your brother makes cherry brandy?! How nice and very necessary ingredient for a Singapore Sling. I can't find it here , don't know why. So glad you had a good shopping experience . Here Marks & Spencer is called Woolworths. Like you and others I love the quality and food on offer tho quite expensive.
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Post by casimira on Jun 24, 2020 11:33:42 GMT
I am thrilled you had such a positive, productive, and seemingly enjoyable experience on your outing Cheery. And, you seem to have accomplished all that you set out to purchase.
I have always heard such positive praise for the Marks & Spencer stores from friends of mine who have spent significant time in the UK. And, to hear of it from the locals there certainly does speak volumes.
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Post by mossie on Jun 24, 2020 15:05:46 GMT
I took the bus into town this morning for the first time since the pandemic started. It was very quiet although I only visited 2 shops and stupidly lost the little list I had made so didn't get everything I had intended to. Never mind, I mean to go in again soon to a different end of town for another shop. I know I have very kind people who do my main shopping for me, but I needed to escape and these were odds and sods I needed to pick out which the supermarket doesn't stock. I hold Cheery entirely responsible for my breach of the regulations and will point Mr Plod in her direction if he comes after me.
One of the reasons for the trip was I got a letter yesterday which made my blood boil. It was official and had come all the way from Darlington which puzzled me because i don't remember stuff from there. Anyhow it told me that my prison terms were being relaxed, and what I had never been told before, although I had wondered. I was classed as extremely vulnerable !!. I had had a letter from a hospital in the next town to tell me that I should stay indoors for 12 weeks but with no reason why, and that letter had been followed by a word for word copy from my doctors many weeks later. This new one had been signed personally by our useless waffler Hancock and a litle pipsqueak called Jenrick, both of whom had obviously been wasting their time going all the way up north to do so.
Confession and rant over.
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Post by tod2 on Jun 24, 2020 15:31:16 GMT
That could never happen here Mossie. Nobody in government circles gives a flying F..K what you are doing or should be doing. What a waste of time as the elderly know better anyway. Somebody is making a buck through doing all this unnecessary mail. Junk Mail?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 24, 2020 16:49:11 GMT
Oh gosh Mossie...just be very careful. Covid is a horrid disease. I trust that you were jolly sensible and stayed away from crowds. You are very precious to us all on here.
Son is also classed as 'extremely vulnerable' too. He has ventured out on a couple of short walks but that's it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 24, 2020 19:39:25 GMT
I am waiting for my new glasses and realising that I am blind.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 24, 2020 20:31:09 GMT
My eyesight has deteriorated in the past 3 months...goodness knows when I'll get an appointment at specsavers tho...
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 24, 2020 20:32:44 GMT
I had my appointment just before lockdown and went to the optician last week.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 24, 2020 21:00:30 GMT
My dentist has said the hygienist will be available in 2 weeks time. Heard today.
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Post by bjd on Jun 25, 2020 6:09:10 GMT
We have a glass door in the kitchen. Just now a young thrush banged into it as it flew toward the house. It fell down and is now trying to stand on the very narrow frame of the door, looking into the kitchen. It keeps falling off and has now settled on the small step facing the garden.
I don't understand why they do this -- it's not as though my windows are clean enough to be invisible.
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Post by monetsmum on Jun 25, 2020 8:35:12 GMT
Poor little sparrow in my greenhouse when I opened up this morning. Hope it had a comfortable night among my tomatoes and cucumbers.
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Post by tod2 on Jun 25, 2020 13:13:57 GMT
bjd - We have the same thing too often for my liking. Usually its doves who seem to veer off again if they haven't broken their necks. I have in the past revived a few birds with a drop of sherry mixed with a drop or two of water. That brings them around pretty quickly - of course they must be captured first so you can open the beak.
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Post by casimira on Jun 25, 2020 13:48:52 GMT
That's rather funny Tod, using sherry as a revitalizer. How did you hap on that remedy? Or were you thinking, if I had banged myself into a glass door all I would need is a few drops of sherry to revive myself?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 25, 2020 15:01:36 GMT
it's the sugar I would have thought. rather than the alcohol
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 25, 2020 16:43:04 GMT
I don't understand why they do this -- it's not as though my windows are clean enough to be invisible. I don't think they whack the windows because they don't see them. I suspect it's more that the windows are reflecting what looks to the birds like open space. At least you know it's not because they're drunk, which is likely to be the case where Tod lives.
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Post by lugg on Jun 25, 2020 19:19:48 GMT
I felt like I was whacked in the face today by a swallow as I walked into one of my stables today - the reality is it probably just wafted the air around me as it is so acrobatic. (....that was before I had a glass of Prosecco honestly)
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 25, 2020 20:22:56 GMT
I was most definitely whacked by a bird the other day in a cemetery. I was trying to get a photo as it hopped around with something in its beak. I failed, and it flew away, but a minute later it dive bombed me from behind. Extremely startling when they come up unexpectedly in back of you.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 25, 2020 21:59:15 GMT
Two Tippi Hedrens in one forum!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 27, 2020 12:55:48 GMT
Think we've been invaded
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Post by casimira on Jun 27, 2020 13:16:56 GMT
I think so!!! Maybe because I was talking about weed whacking in the gardening thread it triggered off some troll lying in wait...did someone just post something about weed?!!!!
This calls for the Wizard!
I only left for a few minutes to relocate myself to be outdoors and when I came back....whoosh!!!
Interesting threads he or she or they chose to jack into.
WTF?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 27, 2020 13:39:40 GMT
I was amused that one of the posts was put in the gardening thread, the perfect place for it.
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Post by tod2 on Jun 27, 2020 14:16:48 GMT
I was most definitely whacked by a bird the other day in a cemetery. I was trying to get a photo as it hopped around with something in its beak. I failed, and it flew away, but a minute later it dive bombed me from behind. Extremely startling when they come up unexpectedly in back of you. The only reason birds dive bomb a human is because they have chicks in a tree above or close by. I see birds attacking other birds almost daily in the trees surrounding our property. The most amazing of which is smaller birds attacking Eagles and especially the Tomb Raider "The Gynogene Eagle" who loves slurping chicks from the nest.
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