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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #225 on: January 27, 2016, 12:41:26 PM »
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« Reply #226 on: January 27, 2016, 01:48:10 PM »
Just for something to do, I looked up torvill and Dean ... and it seems that on Thursday evening on Ch 4 at 9:30 there is the first of a series of 3 programmes teaching 50 Notti ngham youngsters to perform a show. Sounds interesting.
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« Reply #227 on: January 27, 2016, 02:10:28 PM »
Quote from: Outrider on January 27, 2016, 11:33:08 AM
So I have to get it out there, but I can't really tell anyone in 'real' life so - Mrs O. and I are attending a clinic early next month to have a frozen embryo implanted!!! :)

We're going to have another baby  :o ;D

O.

Brilliant stuff, O.  :)
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« Reply #228 on: January 28, 2016, 05:04:25 PM »
Quote from: Outrider on January 27, 2016, 11:33:08 AM
So I have to get it out there, but I can't really tell anyone in 'real' life so - Mrs O. and I are attending a clinic early next month to have a frozen embryo implanted!!! :)

We're going to have another baby  :o ;D

O.

Great news. I'm chuffed for you both. :)
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« Reply #229 on: February 02, 2016, 10:06:08 AM »
((O)))

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3 Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Hope all is a success... :)

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Reminds me of my brother when he was small.
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Actions speak louder than words. It isn't the money but the fact your grandson saw his dad needed a lift.
Sometimes children can lead the way for adults. :)
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #230 on: February 08, 2016, 01:05:34 PM »
Quote from: Floo on February 08, 2016, 12:27:26 PM

Why is it that some people in our area feel impelled to put their rubbish and recycling out well in advance of bin collection day? It is very windy here, and I noticed on my walks today that people have already put their bins out, it isn't collected until tomorrow!  By the time the bin men arrive there will be rubbish blowing all over the neighbourhood, that really annoys me! >:(


In our area this is actually a breach of the local bylaws and can get you a £ 1,000.00 fine.
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« Reply #231 on: February 08, 2016, 01:38:54 PM »
Quote from: Floo on February 08, 2016, 12:27:26 PM
Why is it that some people in our area feel impelled to put their rubbish and recycling out well in advance of bin collection day? It is very windy here, and I noticed on my walks today that people have already put their bins out, it isn't collected until tomorrow!  By the time the bin men arrive there will be rubbish blowing all over the neighbourhood, that really annoys me! >:(
What do you mean by "well in advance"? Most people in my area put the bins out the night before collection day. They're supposed to be outside your property by 7:00am and that's not necessarily possible for everyone, so the vast majority do it late the previous evening.

Additionally they're wheely bins with lids, so rubbish can't blow anywhere.
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #232 on: February 08, 2016, 01:45:44 PM »
Quote from: Shaker on February 08, 2016, 01:38:54 PM
What do you mean by "well in advance"? Most people in my area put the bins out the night before collection day. They're supposed to be outside your property by 7:00am and that's not necessarily possible for everyone, so the vast majority do it late the previous evening.

Additionally they're wheely bins with lids, so rubbish can't blow anywhere.

Our bylaw is the same, but it applies to any rubbish etc placed on the street side of the property line and behind the property line before midnight of collection day. We are supposed to be getting wheely-bins before the end of the month. That should be interesting as they are only allowing one bin per property and ours is a HIMO with five separate 'households"!
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #233 on: February 11, 2016, 01:03:19 PM »
Quote from: Floo on February 08, 2016, 12:27:26 PM
Why is it that some people in our area feel impelled to put their rubbish and recycling out well in advance of bin collection day? It is very windy here, and I noticed on my walks today that people have already put their bins out, it isn't collected until tomorrow!  By the time the bin men arrive there will be rubbish blowing all over the neighbourhood, that really annoys me! >:(

I can understand your irritation if rubbish is blowing about but if the stuff is in bins, why would that happen?  Bins aren't usually that flimsy.  I have known bins to be blown over in the past but that was when there was gale force wind so it was an exception, and it happened to lots of bins and other things.

Loved the quotations your eldest sent to you, they are hilarious.
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #234 on: February 11, 2016, 01:18:02 PM »
Why are people putting bins out two or three days before collection?
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #235 on: February 11, 2016, 02:31:13 PM »
It is daft but really the council should provide bins, it is always a problem when only sacks are available.  Our recycling and food waste are collected at an unearthly hour on a Wednesday morning so bins (blue and green topped) are always put out the night before. If we only had sacks the foxes would pull them apart, I can remember that happening many years ago and it was dreadful.  The general refuse bin  (black top), is collected about 1.30pm so can go out on the day but because we have bins for everything, if people are away they can put them out in advance.

Nothing (don't remember what I was going to say here, I seem to have started a new sentence :-) ).

If it really is a problem floo, why don't you and neighbours ask the council for extra bins?  That's what happened in Greenwich Borough where I live, so long ago that I don't remember;  it wasn't me who complained and asked, I thought about it and by the time I'd finished thinking, others had done it and we had new bins.  They don't have to be great big ones, just up the road the borough is Bromley and they have small, neat recycling and food waste bins.
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #236 on: February 22, 2016, 11:48:32 AM »
Ladies and Gents,

it's been fun visiting, but I'm going to have to disappear for a while, again. I've just got a new job, and I'll be spending quite a lot of my time on the road, driving, so a lot of my spare time will be taken up now.

I'll pop back every now and then to see how everyone is, of course :)

O.
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #237 on: February 22, 2016, 12:20:38 PM »
Quote from: Outrider on February 22, 2016, 11:48:32 AM
Ladies and Gents,

it's been fun visiting, but I'm going to have to disappear for a while, again. I've just got a new job, and I'll be spending quite a lot of my time on the road, driving, so a lot of my spare time will be taken up now.

I'll pop back every now and then to see how everyone is, of course :)

O.

Make sure you do :)

Hope the new job goes well.
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« Reply #238 on: February 22, 2016, 12:48:43 PM »
Dear Outrider,

Good luck in your new job :)

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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #239 on: February 22, 2016, 01:28:17 PM »
Quote from: Outrider on February 22, 2016, 11:48:32 AM
Ladies and Gents,

it's been fun visiting, but I'm going to have to disappear for a while, again. I've just got a new job, and I'll be spending quite a lot of my time on the road, driving, so a lot of my spare time will be taken up now.

I'll pop back every now and then to see how everyone is, of course :)

O.
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« Reply #240 on: February 22, 2016, 01:35:42 PM »
Good luck in your new job, Outy. I've enjoyed reading your posts. Cheers.
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #241 on: February 22, 2016, 09:15:39 PM »
Quote from: Outrider on February 22, 2016, 11:48:32 AM
Ladies and Gents,

it's been fun visiting, but I'm going to have to disappear for a while, again. I've just got a new job, and I'll be spending quite a lot of my time on the road, driving, so a lot of my spare time will be taken up now.

I'll pop back every now and then to see how everyone is, of course :)

O.

Good luck with the new job. Been lovely having you around again - don't leave it so long next time.  ;)
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« Reply #242 on: February 23, 2016, 06:17:23 AM »
I will miss your brilliant contributions, outrider. Please try to visit often! Love, L.
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« Reply #243 on: February 23, 2016, 06:42:46 AM »
I echo above good wishes and compliments.
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #244 on: February 29, 2016, 10:16:30 AM »
Quote from: Floo on February 28, 2016, 04:33:52 PM
This morning I was thinking back to my schooldays. When I was about 13/14 a classmate and I would sometimes walk down to our local town centre during the two hour lunch break and have our lunch in one of the eateries. On the way back to school we often walked passed the undertakers, which had its doors open on a fine day. The coffins which were being constructed were on display. We would dare each other to run in and touch a coffin if there was no one around! We did this on a number of occasions until one day we totally freaked out on discovering one of the coffins was occupied by a body of a man in a suit, YIKES! That was one daft game we didn't play again! :o
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« Reply #245 on: February 29, 2016, 10:46:42 AM »
Back in 1963 when I was six, our family moved to Hong Kong.

We had a wonderful flat on Tai Hang Road with a massive balcony overlooking the harbour. Back then, Hong Kong was nothing like as built up as it is now and our building was surrounded by quite a bit of greenery. 

Me and my younger brother thought of it as jungle and shortly after we moved in we went out to explore.  After an hour or so we came across some large clay urns which, on inspection, were full of human bones.  We grabbed a skull and took it back to our flat whereupon both our Chinese amahs were aghast.  It turned out the bones were the remains of the ancestors of our Chinese landlords.

We nearly got evicted!

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« Reply #246 on: February 29, 2016, 01:02:47 PM »
So ya dug up some bones and kept them for show and tell and then buried them when you moved. Oh and you kept a gravestone on display to boot.  I don't believe that for a second. Oh, and what did the police have to say about it? They will have examined those bones and determined if they were human. Did you tell the new owners of your home about what you dug up and reburied? Do you know they have commented on your stories about their home?

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« Reply #247 on: March 06, 2016, 02:50:17 PM »
Both my sons came to visit me at the same time today, so that was lovely.
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« Reply #248 on: March 06, 2016, 03:27:44 PM »
Ah, so you had a lovely Mothering Sunday then, Susan.  :)
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« Reply #249 on: March 06, 2016, 04:25:10 PM »
Quote from: Rhiannon on March 06, 2016, 03:27:44 PM
Ah, so you had a lovely Mothering Sunday then, Susan.  :)
Yes, it was lucky that it coincided with Mothering Sunday! :)

I've lived here since they were small - nearly fifty years!
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