Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

Noah

Noah

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Today someone gave me a bible.

It was a family bible belonging to my maternal grandfather's family. Goes back over 200 years and to my 4xGreat Grandfather. As the family lived in Hampshire, then London & the Home Counties it is still a puzzle how it turned up in a skip in Helston, Cornwall.
 
Mudgie

Mudgie

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Noah said:
Today someone gave me a bible.

It was a family bible belonging to my maternal grandfather's family. Goes back over 200 years and to my 4xGreat Grandfather. As the family lived in Hampshire, then London & the Home Counties it is still a puzzle how it turned up in a skip in Helston, Cornwall.
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That's lovely, and quite a mystery although both you and I could guess why someone might have gone to Helston.
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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Had a message from son , who's in Liverpool for the victory parade as his mate is a supporter. A car has driven into the crowd 😲close to him but he's thankfully ok. Glad he sent me the message to say he's ok before it's just come on the TV on Sky news , but devastatiing a number of innocent happy people out celebrating have ended up as casualties 😭
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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Just found out how close son actually was when I've seen news photos with him right by the car in Liverpool. 😲

Now loaded hubby's last lot of work equipment and files ready to be collected by UPS tomorrow to be whizzed back to the Germany for 5 others to take over his job of the last 35 years. . Been an emotional day as he's been on the phone all day to customers and German colleagues wishing him well in his retirement .
Car loaded with his tatty chairs , un-needed (in Germany) files etc that he insisted on keeping until the end. :roll: ready for the tip . Got son to help smash it all up to transport it all so that it couldn't be sneaked back into the house 🤣

Now a spare bedroom to attack , I daren't dust or hoover near the wires for 3 years in case I dislodged anything and couldn't get it working again.
 
Glam

Glam

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Anyone who has met me, will know I'm more Hairy Biker than St.Delia or Nigella Lawson. This evening, I have channelled whatever Good Mummy vibes I have, and I've made the youngest some Ginger Bread Cats - about 40 little cats heads. I don't have a cutter for a Ginger Bread Man.
The last time I did these, they didn't last 4 hours between him and the eldest.
I really need to polish up my halo.
 
littleme

littleme

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Things happening at the back of the alstrom.building on glover street...

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The gap on the right was boarded over by the time I finished work... They had a mini digger in there & had been digging up the grounds outside the building...
 
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littleme said:
Things happening at the back of the alstrom.building on glover street...

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The gap on the right was boarded over by the time I finished work... They had a mini digger in there & had been digging up the grounds outside the building...
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Searching for buried Freemasons who might have got stuck in the tunnel between the testing house and the away end

Freemason Hardy and Willis, main contractor
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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After being woken up by our ring doorbell alert at 6am with a man pushing a charity bag through , made me remember to set video for tomorrow afternoons Doorbell Detectives on BBC1.
Features a house in the next road to us that was burgled last October when the owners were on holiday (and the burglar later caught and locked up) . Will be interesting to see if its caught me on camera walking past as that's on one of my regular routes 😂.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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I had a ten mile expedition this morning, to reconnoitre some sections I haven't done before. It was mostly OK and passable easily enough, but one bit was nearly blocked completely in the aftermath of the Big Storm. I did get through, but it was not easily done.

There was about 100m of this sort of thing and it was very hard to get over, under, through or around.

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You can just see the steps that were part of the path there.

Elsewhere, there were nice water features.

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Now, I have to go and open the pub, although he should be back later, which will reduce the length of the stressful evening....
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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Just opened an 18 can box of Magners I bought from Tesco last night , only to find one of the cans is Heineken. 😲

Thought I was going mad 🤣 At least hubby can drink it even though it's not his normal choice , just one less cider for me!
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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Today was the day for the annual recording of the sweet pea hedge, on the way back from Lidl.

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And it looks like I can time it in on the same day as the recording of the wildflower verge that will also be done annually.

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This was only started last year, but seems to have established itself very well.
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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Saw Poppy the cat 😍, who frequents my garden , on telly on today’s ‘ doorbell detecives’

The camera set up inside their house while they were away to watch her , in next road to us , caught a burglar and helped get him convicted.
 
littleme

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staffordjas said:
Saw Poppy the cat 😍, who frequents my garden , on telly on today’s ‘ doorbell detecives’

The camera set up inside their house while they were away to watch her , in next road to us , caught a burglar and helped get him convicted.
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You weren't caught on it though?
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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littleme said:
You weren't caught on it though?
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No 🤣 . Actually quite a good warning not to leave the patio door/ conservatory door key in the lock. He smashed the window , stuck his hand through , turned the key and was in within a couple of seconds.

Also later in program had a copper on showing how easy it is to burgle your home, what are easy pickings and what they are aiming for (passports, banking details which can be sold on , as well as small items easily grabbed ) and an easy escape in the car keys left in sight or in drawers to make their getaway in.
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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Worked out how to speak to son on doorbell while he was checking our house last night,

So tonight started making ghostly howls when I got an alert. Except it hadn’t picked him up arriving , just as he’d left and driving off. So treated the neighbours and anyone walking past in the woodland paths to ghostly werewolf noises 🙈🤣
 
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