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[wattaj]

Just curious: is it necessarily "a bad thing" to be crashing into one's 50s and be walking into rooms tummy first like a pregnant ladyee?

[BR14]

Just curious: is it necessarily "a bad thing" to be crashing into one's 50s and be walking into rooms tummy first like a pregnant ladyee?

do you usually walk backwards?

[NickFitz]

Just had a narrow escape. I was thinking of walking into town to get some stuff from the market. Turns out Charles and Camilla are visiting it this afternoon!

Good excuse to leave it for another day

[DoctorStrangelove]

Sun just about shining on the top of the mountain across the valley, there's tidy then, boyo.

On the walk I noticed that the mountains further up the valley, boyo, were all white.

No good shall come of this.

Just had a narrow escape. I was thinking of walking into town to get some stuff from the market. Turns out Charles and Camilla are visiting it this afternoon!

Good excuse to leave it for another day

Apparently some of the descendants* were in Swansea the other week.

*Heir Presumptive & Mrs Heir Presumptive.

[WTFH]

Morning all

First proper interrupted night’s sleep since I got here. I didn’t wake up at 2,3 and 5, but slept through to 6.30. Two more night’s sleep until I head home.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Lunch: quite a lot of vine ripened cherry tomatoes (Morrisons, reduced a lot), baked beans on Morrisons sunflower and pumpkin seed toast (crust), 1.05 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Thankfully there was no more Cornish Brie (Morrisons, reduced too much to ignore) having consumed far too much yesterday and on Sunday.

Them next door are both off sick, the brave little soldier has "a cold" and she has just had a blood test for rheumatoid arthritis () and underactive thyroid and is off sick for a fortnight.

I'm not sure I ever took time off work for "a cold" though one year I had flu* 3 times in two months.

*That's proper flu not man flu.

[Scruff]

Nazaré Big Wave Challenge is on today. Pity I couldn't be there...

https://nazarewaves.com/en/Home/InfoSurfReport

[DaveB]

Cold, windy and intermittently has white stuff falling out of the sky.,


Lunch is a crusty cob with some of the leftover beef from the weekend with left over veggies and horse radish miseducating up and added to the meat.

[LondonManc]

You know it's windy outside when snow is vertical outside you window, in the wrong direction!

[NickFitz]

I'm not sure I ever took time off work for "a cold" though one year I had flu* 3 times in two months.

*That's proper flu not man flu.

Back in the 1950s my mother worked as a lab assistant at Liverpool University in the department where they were developing the technique of growing the flu virus in eggs to make a vaccine. Her job involved being given a strain of live flu virus and injecting it into eggs. The virus hopefully grew in there over the next week or two, allowing the boffins to do whatever they did next, and she started again with another strain.

But in those days safety gear and lab procedures weren't as well developed as they are now. The result was that she got a different strain of flu every couple of weeks for the entire year or so she was working on that project