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on: February 15, 2021, 02:03:24 PM
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Is it a sugar sandwich?
Correct. Ever had one and if so have you ever make your own? The danger with kids making their own sugar butties they use too much sugar and they are prone to getting it into the butter. (A dead give away if you wanted to deny all knowledge). As a young kid, when left indoors alone I made many a sugar sandwich, as unlike, say, biscuits, nobody would notice a bit of missing sugar. The problem, as you say, was tell-tale granules of sugar in the butter, which was impossible to explain away. I tried though, but never successfully. My naivete as a child was astonishing. I recall going into our little toilet & smoking a cigarette thinking nobody would ever know. I sure got away with that. When you're a kid consequences are not what you think about before the deed. Once, when I was about 6 we were stopping at our then regular winter quarters in a small yard next to the railway embankment at Ollerton. We had access to a small shed which my dad used as a workshop come garage. At one end of the shed was a bench with a big vice. One day while out playing I came across what appeared to be a large dog turd so naturally I went and found a brick to throw at it. The brick was duly thrown but amazingly had no effect of the turd, so I went to find a stick. Beating the turd with a stick was equally ineffective, so I manned up and did what had to be done, I jumped on it. This was obviously some kind of super turd put there just to test me, well cometh the hour, cometh the man, I picked the turd up with an old Fab wrapper and conveyed it to the vice. The vice squashed the turd with consummate ease, flattening the whole thing to about the width of a penny. I wagged my finger at it before turning away and striding off in triumph. The next day I heard my dad's angry voice shouting, "Who's squashed a turd in the vice?" Only then did I begin to think about consequences.   |
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on: February 10, 2021, 02:42:38 PM
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I heard on the news this morning that due to gender identification you can no longer use the term "Breast feeding" it has to be "Chest feeding" and breast milk becomes "Human milk"
What a load of bollocks. (I wonder if your still allowed to say bollocks?
Usually those spreading such 'news' are looking to cause such a reaction to turn people against gender identification. That's a good point Rod. I'm absolutely not against gender identification or gender reassignment. What does piss me off is people expecting the whole world to change petty things to accommodate it. And I'm sure you are right, it's the shit stirrers that make all the noise. Oh and those parents who don't assign a sex to their baby until it's old enough to decide for itself. I've a couple of Trans friends (both going the opposite direction) & they've a tough time of it, so I'm a lot more sensitive to it than I was. Unfortunately a lot of the current 'furore' about things is down to a right wing 'think tank' in the states sponsoring groups over here to stir the shit, when the UK was fairly easy going about things in general. |
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on: February 10, 2021, 11:10:44 AM
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I heard on the news this morning that due to gender identification you can no longer use the term "Breast feeding" it has to be "Chest feeding" and breast milk becomes "Human milk"
What a load of bollocks. (I wonder if your still allowed to say bollocks?
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on: February 09, 2021, 09:36:31 PM
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Fray Bentos used to do a boil in the can steak and kidney pudding. I remember my granny used to occasionally do one for her dinner and she would always give me a taste on the end of a knife. (She ate off a flat bladed, flexible knife, a habit I picked up)
Obviously I took no real notice back then, but I can't remember her piercing it before boiling.
I tried to google it but it's difficult because it's been superseded by a modern version.
I had a friend who's go to meal was a Fray Bentos steak and kidney pudding with a tin of new potatoes and marrowfat peas and they kept a tin opener about 4 inches long and an inch wide and one end used to punch a triangle shaped hole in the tins which they said was especially for this job. Come to think of it I can't remember the last time I saw one of these type of tin openers. We had a raffle at a football do, and one of the prizes was a meal for 2. It was drawn & I realised I'd left the box with the Fray Bentos Pie, tin of tatties, tin of peas, bottle of Tizer & 2 individual trifles in the car. By the time I'd got them, and we presented them to the lucky winner, he, (who naturally thought he'd won a free meal out), had phoned his wife to tell her. His face when I handed him the box was a picture, as was mine when his wife saw me on the Main Street & gave me a bollocking for getting her hopes up. Last joke raffle prize we did  . |
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on: February 05, 2021, 05:41:23 PM
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This is like a walk through my subscriptions. Kombi life is getting a bit sad towards the end. Covid hasn't been kind to them. Cheers for recommendations!! Kombi's not one I've seen (been more interested in the actual conversions and imagining being in a position to do similar), looks good, so that's my bedtime viewing sorted for a while . My Vanlife Subscriptions are Van Tours: Van Life: I also started watching SV Delos because they were in a part of the Bahamas I knew: https://www.youtube.com/c/svdelos. |
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on: January 26, 2021, 02:51:47 PM
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This is a two-part post with a question in the middle.
My local health authority put this on their website.
Vaccines at our hospital hubs
Now that we are able to offer 1,000 appointments a day, we want to do our bit to ensure that all eligible people who have not yet had a vaccine invitation to receive their first dose, have a chance to book this week.
We can accept bookings for the next seven days (January 26 – February 1) for any member of the public, registered with an NHS number, who is:
70 years+ AND/OR
Clinically Extremely Vulnerable
I went to their booking page, entered the relevant details and was invited to choose from a list of dates and times to receive my initial dose of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine.
It also said that bookings for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine should be made on a different page.
I went to that page and after entering my details I was again offered a list of dates and times.
Unexpectedly I had a choice of vaccines.
In this situation, which would you choose?
The EU are hesitating at accepting the Oxford vaccine for over 65's at the moment citing lack of testing in older people. AstraZeneca are meant to be addressing it but until they do I'd probably go Pfizer. Although reports that it is only 8% effective are shite, it's just that only 8% of those tested were over 55 & they've questions about it. AstraZeneca’s main trial in Britain started testing on adults no older than 55 because it initially focused on healthcare personnel and frontline workers in active duty.
Elderly trial participants were recruited later so that infections, which are needed to arrive at reliable efficacy data, were also coming in later.
Researchers at Oxford University said in a paper published in medical journal The Lancet on Dec. 8, when details of key vaccine trials held in Britain and Brazil were released, that efficacy data based on infections in the elderly were still limited.
“Efficacy data in these cohorts are currently limited by the small number of (infection) cases, but additional data will be available in future analyses,” they said in the paper. I'd say that I'd take whichever one was offered since until you get the second it shouldn't really change your level of shielding. By the time they are giving the second the data on effectiveness in older folk should be out. |
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