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By: Stephen Horsfall Date: February 6, 2023, 8:12 am
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A thread for personal news, and any old cobblers that doesn't
fit elsewhere.
I've just received my first state pension payment. It was over
£11,000! :o Presumably, it's paid once a year. I'd assumed it
was weekly or monthly. I've paid a few bills, and will treat
myself in a modest sort of way.
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Re: Odds and sods
By: guest8 Date: February 6, 2023, 10:43 am
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I think my husband must be having a brainstorm, he is going
through all the 'junk' in his study, which he has had for many
years and insisted that he wanted to keep it. I have pointed out
times without number it is well past its sell by date or
something he will never use again. He actually agrees with me
for once, and is putting it out for the bin, recycling or
offering it to our family. WHOOPEE! ;D
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Re: Persiflage
By: Stephen Horsfall Date: February 11, 2023, 3:05 pm
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I've got another rotten cold. They seem t affect my balance, so
I have to be careful on the stairs.
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Re: Persiflage
By: Lyn Date: February 11, 2023, 5:10 pm
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You take very good care, Steve. You have money to spend, make
sure you will be around to do so! Crawl up the stairs carefully
and bottom travel down again, that's what I did for a while when
recovering from falling downstairs a few years back. It seems
strange when I look back but I was so determined for it never to
happen again.
Lots of water, rest and a hot toddy before bedtime. It's only a
few weeks ago that you had 'flu and probably returned to work
too quickly.
I presume you've tested for covid.
Good luck.
Roses, good for your husband, I'm with him all the way.
Currently having a good clear out. It's amazing what you find
when you do that, it can be quite interesting.
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Re: Persiflage
By: guest8 Date: February 12, 2023, 3:05 am
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[quote author=Steve link=topic=36.msg718#msg718 date=1676149505]
I've got another rotten cold. They seem t affect my balance, so
I have to be careful on the stairs.
[/quote]
Have you checked to see if you have Covid? Having the virus
affected my balance and made my husband's worse.
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Re: Odds and sods
By: Gregory Date: February 12, 2023, 4:02 am
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[quote author=Roses link=topic=36.msg459#msg459 date=1675701784]
I think my husband must be having a brainstorm, he is going
through all the 'junk' in his study, which he has had for many
years and insisted that he wanted to keep it. ;D
[/quote]
I can't bear to part with things I have acquired over the years,
even when many no longer have any useful purpose. I recall an
interview with one of my favourite contemporary novelists, Kate
Atkinson, who said that she sees such things, even silly little
knick knacks, as extensions of herself and is unable to get rid
of them as it would be like getting rid of a part of herself.
She is an only child, like myself, and I think that plays a part
in one's emotional sphere. Moreover, I had a solitary
upbringing, not only without siblings but also no immediate
relatives as both sets of grandparents died when I was an infant
and my only aunt and uncle (mother's brother and sister)
independently moved to the south of England around the same
time, so I grew up in my own little imaginative world.
My wife, like Roses, is a practical, tidy-minded person who
likes to throw things out if they're no longer useful - but not
mine! Hands off this old dreamer's clutter!
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Re: Odds and sods
By: guest8 Date: February 12, 2023, 4:38 am
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[quote author=Gregory link=topic=36.msg722#msg722
date=1676196133]
[quote author=Roses link=topic=36.msg459#msg459 date=1675701784]
I think my husband must be having a brainstorm, he is going
through all the 'junk' in his study, which he has had for many
years and insisted that he wanted to keep it. ;D
[/quote]
I can't bear to part with things I have acquired over the years,
even when many no longer have any useful purpose. I recall an
interview with one of my favourite contemporary novelists, Kate
Atkinson, who said that she sees such things, even silly little
knick knacks, as extensions of herself and is unable to get rid
of them as it would be like getting rid of a part of herself.
She is an only child, like myself, and I think that plays a part
in one's emotional sphere. Moreover, I had a solitary
upbringing, not only without siblings but also no immediate
relatives as both sets of grandparents died when I was an infant
and my only aunt and uncle (mother's brother and sister)
independently moved to the south of England around the same
time, so I grew up in my own little imaginative world.
My wife, like Roses, is a practical, tidy-minded person who
likes to throw things out if they're no longer useful - but not
mine! Hands off this old dreamer's clutter!
[/quote]
My husband is a bit like you in that respect. I tease him that
he would have kept all his nappies given half a chance. :o
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Re: Persiflage
By: Gregory Date: February 12, 2023, 4:41 am
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I don't think I would go that far! :o Well, the unsoiled ones,
perhaps... :)
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Re: Persiflage
By: guest8 Date: February 12, 2023, 5:43 am
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[quote author=Gregory link=topic=36.msg724#msg724
date=1676198481]
I don't think I would go that far! :o Well, the unsoiled ones,
perhaps... :)
[/quote]
Only unsoiled ones? ;D
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Re: Persiflage
By: Gregory Date: February 12, 2023, 6:39 am
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On second thoughts, not even those. As I recall, on emerging
blinking from the womb and with the umbilical cord between my
teeth (I was a premature teether), my breath came out in short
pants, which inspired my parents to put me straight into short
pants rather than the whole unhappy nappy routine. Naturally,
they were all of a uniform colour - brown. I'd soon got fed up
with being bottle fed, so my proto-diet was switched to
Cadbury's chocolate bars, with Mars bars on Sundays, hence the
colour of my, er, deposits... :D
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