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WCMUT....what cheered me up today
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I listen to her breakfast show and I've never found her to be like that but each to their own.
I also like Sara Cox
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Now that is GOING BACK....didn't he do the tv show where humorous clips were replayed? If so, that is from my childhood - a long time ago, but the child in me is still there.
Wikipedia great help.... 'Do they mean us? They surely do!' from early 1980s
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No, that was Graham Norton, usually at Christmas with all the TV bloopers
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It was yesterday but worth a post, I think.
Whenever I'm on holiday, abroad, I'm desperate to see and photograph thunderstorms. I spoke to a local a few days ago who said they never occur here in south west Tenerife or Tenerife as a whole. Yesterday we had a Saharan wind ,called Kalima/Calima and it carries dust from Morocco. All the pool sunbeds were collected into piles and the sun "tents"..called "balibeds"were moved back from the perimeter overlooking ocean and the canvas "curtains" opened and tied back. Like Arab dessert tents. People pay £20 a day to lie on sunbeds inside them. Not for us, neither is lying in the sun all day. At 8.00am guests dash out to put towels on the sun-loungers and hardly a German in sight...lol.
One year, during this high Kalima wind several balibeds ended up in the ocean along with panels of the glass barrier. Anyway, we heard rumbling and thought it was the waves crashing because they never get TSs here do they...lol.. But no., it was distant thunder that didn't stay distant for long. A very short-lived storm,with some fantastic close lightning rattled through over the ocean. Staff from the hotel,mainly young people,were watching it with amazement as they'd never seen lightning before..apart,maybe, on TV. A local told my wife he'd been here 30 years and never seen a TS. The crack of thunder from one discharge, with two bolts, was incredible. Made my wife flinch...Lol.
I could suggest the region of the southern-most canton Tacino, Switzerland as we've spoken about going there...on an Alpine train trip but I'd forget to mention the TSs..Lol.
Here is fantastic but out of the question for my wife.
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Whenever I'm on holiday, abroad, I'm desperate to see and photograph thunderstorms. I spoke to a local a few days ago who said they never occur here in south west Tenerife or Tenerife as a whole. Yesterday we had a Saharan wind ,called Kalima/Calima and it carries dust from Morocco. All the pool sunbeds were collected into piles and the sun "tents"..called "balibeds"were moved back from the perimeter overlooking ocean and the canvas "curtains" opened and tied back. Like Arab dessert tents. People pay £20 a day to lie on sunbeds inside them. Not for us, neither is lying in the sun all day. At 8.00am guests dash out to put towels on the sun-loungers and hardly a German in sight...lol.
One year, during this high Kalima wind several balibeds ended up in the ocean along with panels of the glass barrier. Anyway, we heard rumbling and thought it was the waves crashing because they never get TSs here do they...lol.. But no., it was distant thunder that didn't stay distant for long. A very short-lived storm,with some fantastic close lightning rattled through over the ocean. Staff from the hotel,mainly young people,were watching it with amazement as they'd never seen lightning before..apart,maybe, on TV. A local told my wife he'd been here 30 years and never seen a TS. The crack of thunder from one discharge, with two bolts, was incredible. Made my wife flinch...Lol.
I could suggest the region of the southern-most canton Tacino, Switzerland as we've spoken about going there...on an Alpine train trip but I'd forget to mention the TSs..Lol.
Here is fantastic but out of the question for my wife.
Earth's spectacular and remote 'capital' of lightning - BBC Reel
In a remote part of Venezuela the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo. It's a stunning location, but also home to a unique meteorological phenomenon and a storm chaser's dream - the Catatumbo lightning. With most experts estimating that lightning strikes occur roughly 140 to 160 nights a year...
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WCMUT...and my wife. We need another large suitcase but the Antler shop that we intended to go to here in Gloucester has closed. So many shops we think are there,have gone when we look for them.
My wife looked online at Samsonite this morning and saw a quality suitcase with a 20% discount and,if you sigened up for their 'letter' another 10%. I said to get it ..like now !!.Lol. It cost £239 and we got it for £172..free delivery directly from the company. We saved £67.I expect they still made a profit. I thought Black Friday was,in the main, a rip -off. I suppose it is in many instances but what a bargain. They had an identical case in blue (ours is a mid-green) but that was at full price so it's a genuine deal. My wife also went to town to Boots and had a make-up session buying whatever products involved at a great price.
Why Black Friday ? It came from the US and takes place the day after Thanksgiving.
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Heavy traffic, overcrowding, and increased shoplifting incidents, coupled with the Army-Navy football game, led to a day of dread for law enforcement. Officers, unable to take the day off, referred to the day negatively as “Black Friday” because of the strain it put on their resources, according to the History Channel.
In an attempt to shed its negative connotations, Philadelphia retailers tried rebranding the day as "Big Friday." However, the effort was unsuccessful. By the 1980s, the term evolved into the shopping holiday we recognize today. It took on a more positive meaning as businesses began using it to describe the day their finances shifted "into the black"—indicating a move from loss to profit thanks to a surge in sales.
My wife looked online at Samsonite this morning and saw a quality suitcase with a 20% discount and,if you sigened up for their 'letter' another 10%. I said to get it ..like now !!.Lol. It cost £239 and we got it for £172..free delivery directly from the company. We saved £67.I expect they still made a profit. I thought Black Friday was,in the main, a rip -off. I suppose it is in many instances but what a bargain. They had an identical case in blue (ours is a mid-green) but that was at full price so it's a genuine deal. My wife also went to town to Boots and had a make-up session buying whatever products involved at a great price.
Why Black Friday ? It came from the US and takes place the day after Thanksgiving.
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Heavy traffic, overcrowding, and increased shoplifting incidents, coupled with the Army-Navy football game, led to a day of dread for law enforcement. Officers, unable to take the day off, referred to the day negatively as “Black Friday” because of the strain it put on their resources, according to the History Channel.
In an attempt to shed its negative connotations, Philadelphia retailers tried rebranding the day as "Big Friday." However, the effort was unsuccessful. By the 1980s, the term evolved into the shopping holiday we recognize today. It took on a more positive meaning as businesses began using it to describe the day their finances shifted "into the black"—indicating a move from loss to profit thanks to a surge in sales.
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Tell us more! Was it a photo of Greg Wallace
This one made it on today's show:
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Just cooked my first biryani in ages, and it's really nice, just a little spicy.
My wife ate hers with yoghurt.
Also just had a new wireless router arrive (£10 from Scan) and in 5min it's working, getting WiFi into our kitchen.
My wife ate hers with yoghurt.
Also just had a new wireless router arrive (£10 from Scan) and in 5min it's working, getting WiFi into our kitchen.
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Just something that made me laugh at myself yesterday.
Once a week I take an older person with mobility issues shopping and once I've taken them home I normally go to ASDA to get my own stuff. So, yesterday it was business as usual but once I got out of the car at ASDA and was half way across the car park I thought to myself "What are you doing here? You don't want any shopping." I didn't want to turn around and go back to the car in case anyone saw me so I went inside and bought some butter.
I don't think it was exactly a senior moment, but maybe it was
Once a week I take an older person with mobility issues shopping and once I've taken them home I normally go to ASDA to get my own stuff. So, yesterday it was business as usual but once I got out of the car at ASDA and was half way across the car park I thought to myself "What are you doing here? You don't want any shopping." I didn't want to turn around and go back to the car in case anyone saw me
so I went inside and bought some butter.I don't think it was exactly a senior moment, but maybe it was
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I had the use of an American car, a Mustang.
I called into a petrol station to top it up after I’d driven around in it for a few days.
It was left hand drive and after putting fuel in and coming back from the counter I naturally walked around to the right hand door, when I got there I noticed the steering wheel was missing!
So I adjusted the wing mirror, purely for appearances sake! In case someone saw me
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I called into a petrol station to top it up after I’d driven around in it for a few days.
It was left hand drive and after putting fuel in and coming back from the counter I naturally walked around to the right hand door, when I got there I noticed the steering wheel was missing!
So I adjusted the wing mirror, purely for appearances sake! In case someone saw me
Similar circumstance Alan
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I don't think it was exactly a senior moment, but maybe it was
The real senior moment is when you go shopping and buy all the things you already have. That you bought yesterday. And the day before. Etc.
And then you can't figure out why the fridge door won't stay shut.
We won't mention the melting vegetables on the kitchen worktop.
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The real senior moment is when you go shopping and buy all the things you already have. That you bought yesterday. And the day before. Etc.
And then you can't figure out why the fridge door won't stay shut.
We won't mention the melting vegetables on the kitchen worktop.
I know what the person I took shopping gets so when they said "washing up liquid" I said "We got that last week. Do you want some more?" and of course they didn't. Same thing happened with oats. I think they just brought the same shopping list they had last week.
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So I adjusted the wing mirror, purely for appearances sake! In case someone saw me
Similar circumstance Alan
A gentleman has to keep up appearances
Glad I'm not the only one this happens to.
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It could be worse. I turned out of a side road onto a main road in France and went on the left side,saw a milk lorry heading towards me and quickly realised why, nothwithstanding the short,sharp, (pannicky ?) reminder by my wife,too. You can see that I clearly recall the incident..not any old lorry.....a milk lorry. I'm going back 20-odd years
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We went to a wedding in France a few years ago, beautiful place in Tours. I came out of the car park and drove for a good 5 minutes before I realised I was on the wrong side of the road. Not another vehicle in sight luckily enough.....
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That's three of us recounting our errors. It must be quite common .
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From the article: "While the majority of those who take car trips to Europe do not experience anything untoward or unusual happening, two in five (42%) do. But for more than one in 10 (13%) the frightening experience of driving on the wrong side of the road becomes a reality"
"Six per cent reported they have had an unfortunate encounter with a local policeman".
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"Two thirds of Brits who have driven abroad have run into problems, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) research reveals today. With studies showing that tourists are three times more likely to be involved in a road accident than local drivers,* an FCO survey has shown that when driving abroad, nearly a third (31%) have driven on the wrong side of the road and more than one in 10 have driven the wrong way round a roundabout."
Interesting stat here.
"As the FCO launches a new campaign to encourage British drivers to stay safe on foreign roads, figures show that road death rates in many popular holiday destinations are significantly higher than in the UK, with alcohol often being a contributing factor. For example, you are almost twice as likely to die on the road in Spain than in the UK, almost three times as likely in Greece and more than twice as likely in the USA."
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Less than half (41%) of those who take their own car remember to take their driving license and car registration documents and only a third carry details of their breakdown policy. Only 37% of people check the local driving laws of their destination before leaving the UK and nearly eight out of 10 (78%) people do not carry telephone numbers for local emergency services, breakdown services and the local British Consulate.
When we went onto the Continent I'd set out on an A4 sheet of paper, which I got laminated, the km/h equivalent in mph. I'd heard the French police were very keen on the roads leading from the Channel ports and we always saw them.
More than 10% of Brits admit to driving on wrong side of the road in Europe
13% of motorists surveyed for RAC European Breakdown have had the frightening experience of driving on the wrong side of the road
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From the article: "While the majority of those who take car trips to Europe do not experience anything untoward or unusual happening, two in five (42%) do. But for more than one in 10 (13%) the frightening experience of driving on the wrong side of the road becomes a reality"
"Six per cent reported they have had an unfortunate encounter with a local policeman".
Government Paper.No date ??
"Two thirds of Brits who have driven abroad have run into problems, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) research reveals today. With studies showing that tourists are three times more likely to be involved in a road accident than local drivers,* an FCO survey has shown that when driving abroad, nearly a third (31%) have driven on the wrong side of the road and more than one in 10 have driven the wrong way round a roundabout."
Interesting stat here.
"As the FCO launches a new campaign to encourage British drivers to stay safe on foreign roads, figures show that road death rates in many popular holiday destinations are significantly higher than in the UK, with alcohol often being a contributing factor. For example, you are almost twice as likely to die on the road in Spain than in the UK, almost three times as likely in Greece and more than twice as likely in the USA."
I just found this funny.
Less than half (41%) of those who take their own car remember to take their driving license and car registration documents and only a third carry details of their breakdown policy. Only 37% of people check the local driving laws of their destination before leaving the UK and nearly eight out of 10 (78%) people do not carry telephone numbers for local emergency services, breakdown services and the local British Consulate.
When we went onto the Continent I'd set out on an A4 sheet of paper, which I got laminated, the km/h equivalent in mph. I'd heard the French police were very keen on the roads leading from the Channel ports and we always saw them.
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Since we always rent a car, it's always a left hand drive vehicle I'm driving abroad so it's natural (for me, at least!) to still drive with me (the driver) on the "middle of the road" side. Since I almost always drive an automatic here (but still use Mrs Nod's MX-5 when the weather allows - a manual), changing gear with my right hand is as natural as with the left.
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Last time I drove while abroad many years ago I quickly realised that I should get the bus instead got to a crossroads and I had a panic moment and was completely confused as to who had right of way , luckily it wasn’t busy
Was a long time ago was on in Corfu and haven’t tried to drive abroad since decided it was safer for everyone if I didn’t
Was a long time ago was on in Corfu and haven’t tried to drive abroad since decided it was safer for everyone if I didn’t