Greetings all. It is persisting down here with a dull, grey blanket of cloud just sitting there cos there's no just the lightest of breezes tho...
@Meomye the 12 days of Xmas are a Catholic tradition and end on the 5th of January. The 6th of January is Epiphany when the magi are celebrated...
Greetings all. Been out doing the weekly shop today and it is cold. Not frosty but the northerly wind chill makes it fell freezing. Pottering...
Anyone who can read and respond to posts on this, or any other forum @Jiffy.Anyone who has adequate vision plus common sense and a bit of...
@gks would that be landfill bins, recycling bins, green waste or empty bottles?
Modern day politicians do seem to fall short of what their electorates deserve these days and not just in the UK. This is one way of letting them...
It's probably the only way to protest peacefully and get a parliamentary debate @pete. Better than riots or a general strike which would also be...
A couple I know who have been here for about 20 years, have never learned much French and always buy their cars in England - son is a motor...
I think you're just a few millennia too late for dinosaurs @lizzie27!
I managed to put off doing the tree till Xmas Eve, tho it was sat in the living room for a few days before. It will come down on 12th night along...
Good morning and happy new year everyone. Blessings be on all our horticultural endeavours as well as families and friends.I'm feeling half...
In sealed plastic tubs on the top shelf of the drinks fridge. I have small plastic sealable sachets I use for my own chilli and tomato seeds and...
@KT53 I quite agree. If you've left your own country for work, love, a different life, it's beholden on you to learn the local ways and language...
Having a cuppa before dinner which will now be minus the hot and sour soup as I can't cope with a 3 course feast. All pottering done and now we...
@Philippa OH spent a couple of years in the Netherlands in the 70s and, tho Dutch and Flemish have the formal U, equivalent to "vous", they are...
Another dull, grey, still day tho we did have some blue bits and sunshine early on. I'm pottering again and hoping to find my white string for...
My elder SIL was from Barnsley and even after 40 years living near Carnforth kept her strong accent and, despite being an infant teacher, dropped...
@Liriodendron For many years in Belgium I was involved in twinning and wrote a potted history of Belgium and Gembloux for the English visitors....
'Evening all.I've had a busy day today, pottering all morning then a raid on the SM in La Roche this pm as I needed spring onions for tomorrow's...
White cars are common here because they supposedly reflect heat better. I've seen many an older non-metallic red faded to pink here by the sun's...
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