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[DoctorStrangelove]

Homemade sausage roll (large) for lunch

You are an overheated culinary example to us all.

For reasons I can't explain I've just spent half an hour looking for this:

Mrs Francis sits in her cluttered living room on Christmas Street ,... News Photo - Getty Images

It's a photo out of my latest tome.

I wonder what happened to her.

Christmas Street Home
Mrs Francis sits in her cluttered living room on Christmas Street (formerly Noel Street), south-east London, 21st December 1946.

Widowed for many years, she helps out her neighbours by collecting their milk and looking after their children.

Original Publication : Picture Post - 4277 - The Story Of Christmas Street - pub. 1946 (Photo by Charles Hewitt/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

I wonder if she was widowed in the first global unpleasantness.

[Anonimouse]

UBS combined with ASBC Warburgs in 1996. Effectively SBC took oover but kep[t the UBS name. It was UBS in 1991.

I was there in 95 it was warburgs then

[original PM]

Now I'm living on me own, not having much success doing my own cooking. Followed instructions for a pasta thing in the pressure cooker the other day and the pasta was so under cooked I may as well have eaten it out of the packet.

Currently googling <various recipes> +simple +easy + lazy +"cant be bothered"

Just keep things simple.

[BrilloPad]

I was there in 95 it was warburgs then

Were you at UBS or Warburgs prior to the "merger"?

I was at UBS....

[DaveB]

Air-con arrived today.

Worth it.

[Anonimouse]

Were you at UBS or Warburgs prior to the "merger"?

I was at UBS....

Warbergs

[WTFH]

Just had a brief but heavy rain shower. Very stair-roddy. Big, straight down, no breeze.

Although it may just have been the humidity passing 99% and the H2O changing state.

[NickFitz]

Looks like we peaked at 34° here; it's dropped back down to 33° now, thanks to a layer of cloud starting to form

And it appears we now have a better-than-evens chance of a thunderstorm this evening

[ladymuck]

Felt like crud when I woke up this morning so stayed in bed. Crawled out the pit and logged on for 9am. Knew I still had to make it into the office for a project board meeting at 2pm.

Left home at noon (mad dogs and all that). Fookin hot. On tube with bloody tourists and their infernal suitcases. Then a wait at the other end for the staff bus to HO. Just the walk from the bus stop to the office made me feel like I was going to catch fire. Not looking forward to the journey home.

In sad news, HWMBO has retreated back up north and I will have to fix my own G&T and dinners now.

[DoctorStrangelove]

It's got to 25.8 in the living room now.

And there's a CBS which is a bit of a pain.

The Latest Tome is leading to a fair amount of googling.

Bread rationing.

1946.

In a Socialist Paradise.

Who'd have thunk it?