Mundane facts about your day...

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Thehooperman

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Lucy said:
Whoever is in charge does well at the oohs when a goal is almost scored.
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I watched the end of a clip on BBC saying that some clubs have employed a theatre sound company to control the fan noises.

The Championship are playing them at the grounds to try to imitate more of a home bias. Must be a bit strange for the players.
 
Gramaisc

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littleme said:
Aggh! Being attacked by a large Gull in the garden is not fun.
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One of these? They are big...

Did you get a picture?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriev_Be-12
 
littleme

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I decided that it would be a good idea to break our vertical blinds today, so I needed to find some weights & chains for them, not wanting to wait for delivery from amazon (4 days) I went to The Range....

It was absolutely horrific in there, no social distancing, people everywhere.... Not the staffs fault, but the customers... What is wrong with people that they can't estimate a 2 meter distance?

I'm lucky to work in a place that has rigorously enforced the rules throughout lock down, although sometimes customers don't appreciate being told what to do, I've found it less stressful than anywhere else...

After, I went to Dunelm, it couldn't be more different to The Range, and while I couldn't buy what I wanted, the staff were amazingly helpful, I really wish I had noticed the lady's name on Habidashary as she was so helpful and went out of her way to find my chains & weights. If anyone knows her please say thank you.
 
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littleme said:
I'm lucky to work in a place that has rigorously enforced the rules throughout lock down, although sometimes customers don't appreciate being told what to do, I've found it less stressful than anywhere else...
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Depends on whos doing the directing......................
 
staffordjas

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littleme said:
... What is wrong with people that they can't estimate a 2 meter distance?
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On our walk last night we were admiring some flowers in a garden and the old lady came out of the bungalow and started talking to us. She kept getting closer and closer to me and I was backing further and further away. I was even in the road and she still kept coming almost touching me (my "Don't forget social distancing" fell on deaf ears) so had to cut her conversation short as politely as we could and make our getaway.

Found quite a few times on our walks that it is the really old people who don't seem to care about the social distancing. When I ventured out to the butchers the other week for the first time, an old bloke I know was outside . I told him it was the first time I was brave enough to go out shopping. He laughed and told me "Don't worry , just carry on doing what you usually do. " He said he stayed in the first week of his shielding, then decided life was too short , and he's carry on as normal. :o
 
staffordjas

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Went to pharmacy to collect prescriptions, leaving hubby to look out for the postie arriving with my parcel.
Got back home to hubbys "Usual postman came down the road, I asked him if he had a parcel for us but he hadn't "
Just sent a message to the sellers saying goods not arrived........minutes later, usual postman turns up with the post and parcel .
How to make me look stupid and having to send another message apologising ,explaining the 'Royal Mail' man who hadn't got anything for us, wasn't actually the Royal Mail man :roll: :embarrass:
 
Thehooperman

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staffordjas said:
Went to pharmacy to collect prescriptions, leaving hubby to look out for the postie arriving with my parcel.
Got back home to hubbys "Usual postman came down the road, I asked him if he had a parcel for us but he hadn't "
Just sent a message to the sellers saying goods not arrived........minutes later, usual postman turns up with the post and parcel .
How to make me look stupid and having to send another message apologising ,explaining the 'Royal Mail' man who hadn't got anything for us, wasn't actually the Royal Mail man :roll: :embarrass:
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Don’t you know the postman always calls twice?
 
Withnail

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littleme said:
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It's big enough to be a pterodactyl...
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Without particularly wishing to be that guy...

If, as is most likely, it was a Herring Gull, it was probably slightly larger than a Pterodactyl, which would have been closer in size to a Black Headed Gull in today's money.

"It's big enough to be a Pteranodon" would probably work better to merge the scientific with the cultural, if we could get that going?

It's not a hill upon which i'm willing to die, but for the sake of verity?
 
staffordjas

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I've got some rather cheeky birds inhabiting my garden at the moment. No longer content with waiting for their offerings to be scattered to share between them, one has just pinched a whole frozen finger roll which I had put on the patio table seconds earlier to thaw out . Hope it made it back to it's nest to feed it's family on without dropping it en-route.
 
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