High winds can blow straight off to hell. Winds in North Nottinghamshire have made a complete mess of the east coast main line and only a fool would bet on when I'll get home....,
The people who designed the packaging of a frozen egg roll I bought. The heating instructions are in very small print in black ink on a darkish blue background. I was going to eat it today, but I couldn't figure out what to do with it.
I keep meaning to try the brussel sprout flavour crisps, but I haven't seen them for sale anywhere. Not sure I want to try the tea, but I'm curious. And the pigs in blanket tea too.
Small girl on bus (I'd estimate 12-14 months old) kept shrieking. Fine, shrieks are age appropriate for infants. However the woman with her, her grandmother I'd guess, seemed to think that if the small girl wasn't using words, she shouldn't either. Instead she responded to each shriek by a variety of yips, growls, barks, hisses and nonsense sounds. This did not enhance my journey home.
I could cope with the shrieks, although they were ear splitting. The child was small; it's what they do. It was the grandmother yelping, giggling and barking that was getting to me.
Useful things which all break down at once when visitors are expected (doorbell, telephone, light switch, toilet cistern).
I fixed all those (except the cistern, I had to call the plumber in the end) but now I am clearing up after the visitors the dishwasher has packed up.
Baptist Trainfan, I think the misery gremlins want to stop us enjoying anything.
Indeed. We had a problem a couple of months back on a Sunday morning - my wife took s shower and couldn't turn off the water when she finished due to a fault. Sheer panic as the water kept gushing out! Fortunately only the cold water was affected, so we turned off the hot water as normal and turned off the water supply at the main. We had no water for a few days until the plumber capped off the pipes - we discovered that Aldi sell 4x2 litre bottles for 99;p! Now we have a nice new shower unit.
TICTH the Engagement and Development Team of some local authority who have sent a letter to our profoundly autistic great nephew asking if he would like to mention any of those on the team who had done "good things" to him. As he can neither read nor write and is entirely non-verbal, his parents replied for him mentioning that he had been thrown out of a supposedly special school and that no respite care had been offered for some twelve months, so that his father has been his 24/7 carer and educator, and therefore unable to do any work of any kind. Lots of crocodile tears and wringing of hands. "Lessons have been learned" my arse.
He's far from being alone, as You and Yours of 27th November willl show.
Blue lights for Christmas decorations. Just no. I am going to leaflet our neighborhood and warn people to take them down by 24th December (when Christmas decorations should go up) or else.
When I lived in Chicago I was told that the blue lights were for Hanukkah? Maybe that was an idea local to there, though. Or maybe the person who told me was wrong!
It's just that, in recent years in this area, quite a few houses putting up 'Christmas' light decorations have plumped for white and a darkish blue.
I doubt if the inhabitants are all of the Jewish faith (alas, our former large Jewish community has all but gone - their gorgeous synagogue, happily, survives in regular use by a small Liberal congregation).
The blue reminds me of the one-time liturgical colour (in some places) for Advent, which, under Sarum Use, was possibly dark blue (we have a lovely antique chasuble of this hue).
I think, for most people, the white/blue reminds them of snow and ice. After all, the baby Jesus was born in Lapland, Mary & Joseph's sled was pulled by reindeer - innit?
No, no, it's Santa who comes from Lapland, and his liturgical colours are red and green, as enny fule (or elf) kno!
(BTW, it's that well-known Irish saint, Hal O'Ween, whose liturgical colours are orange and black, and the rather oddly-named Eas St. Er Bunny whose colours are yellow and green).
When I lived in Chicago I was told that the blue lights were for Hanukkah? Maybe that was an idea local to there, though. Or maybe the person who told me was wrong!
In certain neighborhoods and suburbs, yes. (Where in Chicago?)
TICTH my pension providers (again) who, having forgotten about one part of my pension, meaning I had to fill in all the forms again, are now saying they have to wait until the company where the additional bit was invested have paid it to them before they can pay it to me.
I'm normally a very patient piglet, but this is really pissing me off.
When I lived in Chicago I was told that the blue lights were for Hanukkah? Maybe that was an idea local to there, though. Or maybe the person who told me was wrong!
In certain neighborhoods and suburbs, yes. (Where in Chicago?)
I was first in Hyde Park, then in Rogers Park, but I served a church in Morgan Park, and another in Mount Prospect. I forget who it was and from where who mentioned the blue lights/Hanukkah thing.
Blue lights for Christmas decorations. Just no. I am going to leaflet our neighborhood and warn people to take them down by 24th December (when Christmas decorations should go up) or else.
...and this will help your status of welcome in the neighborhood *how*?
I was first in Hyde Park, then in Rogers Park, but I served a church in Morgan Park, and another in Mount Prospect. I forget who it was and from where who mentioned the blue lights/Hanukkah thing.
Ah. My mother was the longtime head of children's services at the Mount Prospect Public Library.
TICTH this sodding headache that came on yesterday afternoon, keeps fading and fooling me into thinking it's gone away and then coming back with a vengeance.
Blue lights for Christmas decorations. Just no. I am going to leaflet our neighborhood and warn people to take them down by 24th December (when Christmas decorations should go up) or else.
...and this will help your status of welcome in the neighborhood *how*?
There are people all over the US who do things like this. They can cause power outages, and bring many cars filled with gawkers.
Oh, we'll make it a Christmas trick or treat, promising that their turkey will be dry. As for power outages, there are a couple of houses onNorth Road Cardiff that vie with each other for light displays.
TICTH the Priest in Charge for choosing to holiday service on Sunday when the temperature in the nave was 3 degrees Celsius. Also, the Assistant Curate from removing Ms. C.'s politely worded critique of this decision from the parish FB page.
TICTH our British bank, who have closed our account without any warning, so our pensions (D's, which is paid in once a year in December, and mine, which has been applied for), have nowhere to go.
Or maybe something to do with the Halifax Building Society, who have closed our accounts without warning and want to delay reimbursing us. It's a substantial amount (for us) running into many hundreds of cat food pouches.
Set the unfed moggies onto them, or organise some mating cats to sing under their windows, or film a You Tube video of the cats looking cute, pathetic and hungry because of the nasty bank's incompetence.
BT. We were supposed to have an engineer come to the house on Tuesday afternoon. We were asked to move furniture to ensure the engineer had clear access. It took an hour to move all the boxes etc out of the study. The engineer did not come.
We rebooked for this morning. Meanwhile, the contents of the study were left strewn round the rest of the house. The engineer was a no-show for the second time.
Though on the plus side, I set the Bob the Roomba off round the clear study, and I had to empty him three times! So I guess that at least the study has had a much needed clean up.
To the delivery drivers of Hermes, Royal Mail, ParcelFarce, Amazon etc for this years merry "Hunt the Parcel" game. OK, you do put cards stating where parcels have been left but they are all over the place. We are at no 77, but we have parcels for 69 and 79, parcels for us are at 79, 106 and the depot and we have a Christmas card for number 70. That is just yesterday's haul. WTF?
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The instructions are outsourced to people who don't even speak English as their first language. Great idea to save money isn't it?
Ooo look! A new emetic...
Our local Tesco is just awash with Christmas trees (artificial) and lumpwood charcoal.....WTF?
O, I know! Artificial Christmas trees for the incineration of!
Baptist Trainfan, I think the misery gremlins want to stop us enjoying anything.
He's far from being alone, as You and Yours of 27th November willl show.
It is, as you rightly say, not yet Christmas.
It's just that, in recent years in this area, quite a few houses putting up 'Christmas' light decorations have plumped for white and a darkish blue.
I doubt if the inhabitants are all of the Jewish faith (alas, our former large Jewish community has all but gone - their gorgeous synagogue, happily, survives in regular use by a small Liberal congregation).
The blue reminds me of the one-time liturgical colour (in some places) for Advent, which, under Sarum Use, was possibly dark blue (we have a lovely antique chasuble of this hue).
(BTW, it's that well-known Irish saint, Hal O'Ween, whose liturgical colours are orange and black, and the rather oddly-named Eas St. Er Bunny whose colours are yellow and green).
Sion Corn ydy'r enw/is the name.
I'm normally a very patient piglet, but this is really pissing me off.
Grrrrr!
Oh well. 07:20 and I'm at work indulging in a strong coffee.
I was first in Hyde Park, then in Rogers Park, but I served a church in Morgan Park, and another in Mount Prospect. I forget who it was and from where who mentioned the blue lights/Hanukkah thing.
...and this will help your status of welcome in the neighborhood *how*?
Be glad you're not dealing with something like this:
"What does it take to make an extreme Christmas display? Thousands of lights. " (Washington Post)
There are people all over the US who do things like this. They can cause power outages, and bring many cars filled with gawkers.
Ah. My mother was the longtime head of children's services at the Mount Prospect Public Library.
And sometimes it's whole neighborhoods! (eep)
Oh, we'll make it a Christmas trick or treat, promising that their turkey will be dry. As for power outages, there are a couple of houses onNorth Road Cardiff that vie with each other for light displays.
Merry chuffing Christmas to them too.
Conversely, I commend to Heaven the nice bloke from my pension provider, who has told me that it can be paid into our Canadian account.
Christmas might not have to be cancelled after all.
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Now back to the condemnations ...
We rebooked for this morning. Meanwhile, the contents of the study were left strewn round the rest of the house. The engineer was a no-show for the second time.