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Oranges and lemons

Molly, you are a regular boy scout, always prepared for any emergency

Oranges and lemons

Emmy, hadn't even thought of the cooling properties of frozen lemon slices, that's brilliant. Slicing will be happening today.

And when I looked, it turned out the oranges were in fact naartjies which I think most of you would know as mandarins, tangerines, clementines or satsumas - in fact who knew small easy-peel fruits of the citrus variety had so many names?? So I will peel and freeze in segments and fingers crossed.

Freezer, brace yourself for incoming

Hugs

Molly, that was totally alien to me and sometimes still is, I tend more to the awkward flip of the hand and the 'well see you round, take care' from a safe distance

And yet I find myself hungering for a friendly hug. I'm a short step away from tackling strangers and confirming I am completely insane in the eyes of my new neighbours.

This too will pass.

Hugs

Eek Viking missed your comment (if it was to me) (if it was, cmere you great galut and gimme another hug)

Oranges and lemons

Got a good suggestion on Facebook, slice the lemons and freeze ready for those huge parties next summer. So that's sorted.

Just the oranges now and I'm about to squeeze myself a glass. Love those huge glasses in Mimi's photos!

Hugs

Cat, now I want to import a Russian man

Funny thing, Russian wives are offered on every website, Russian men are never offered for sale as husbands maybe Ded can tell us how good they really are at hugging.

Hugs

Mimi - try a hug next time you see her? But some people honestly don't like hugging.

You are lovely to hug, I can testify to that, her loss!

Hugs

Aw ta but hold your breath, Rob, I haven't had a bath since August

Hugs

Rob, that's the anxiety and stress reaction and yeah, hugs can get whiffy

I guess they should carry a shower requirement with them, even though sometimes spontaneous is best and I guess if you had liked the person you wouldn't have minded holding your breath for 10 seconds. Comes down to whether you like someone, doesn't it?

Oranges and lemons

Mimi, you're on the crew. Lets go lets go lets GO

Oranges and lemons

Hmmm, 23rd already, do you think if you hop a plane right NOW we can get the juice out by Christmas to our CS friends?

Well don't just stand there, lad, move move move move! We're on the clock here!

RE: She smiled a quick smile with her head cast down!

Ed, that sounds like trouble, keep a friendly but careful distance. It's good that you are watching out for the kids but that guy sounds toxic and very good at lying - you need to cover your back, the stories one hears nowadays are hair-curling, innocent or helpful bystanders being accused of the most awful things and long after they have been cleared of wrongdoing there are STILL curtain-twitchers saying 'no smoke without fire' ...

I rather hate the world we now live in, where truth and decency are seen, and targeted, as weaknesses to be exploited but it happens more and more.

RE: Inventions We Need In Our Lives

Scottish fella won a toilet brush at a quiz night, a week later bumped into someone else from the quiz night who asked if he was pleased with it.

Nah, he said, I managed for a few days but had to go back to toilet paper.

RE: A Politically Correct Holiday

Molly, where I sit is crammed right now with animals and stuff that usually belongs in the rooms being worked on

I have a poinsettia nervously perched above the rubble, and a decal on the door, and next Christmas will be a blaze of colour

Tried to post a photo but it is just too much of a schlep, the page crashed.

Just sayin', CS - the current photo loading is a royal pain in the butt.

RE: A Politically Correct Holiday

Merry Christmas Map

I like this time of year. I can't put out my decorations because of the builders and the rubble, but I like the brightness and silliness of them, the beauty of a few, the sentimentality of others, and the continuity with years past - some of them are 30 years old and have moved countries with me 3 times because I'm not just hanging up ornaments, I'm hanging up memories

RE: Beyond Reasonable Doubt

Good topic, and beyond reasonable doubt, in real life, is catching the perp in the act. Our odd warped reality means that a killer walks free on a technicality and an innocent man rots in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

Let the games begin, and may he with the best lawyer win

Scottish law allows for Not Proven - so a verdict is not just innocent, or guilty, when everyone knows he dun it but it can't be proved 'beyond reasonable doubt' so he walks, but is watched ...

However I do get peevish when someone says an innocent man died. I would be very surprised indeed if anyone who has ever been executed had led a blameless life right up to the minute of being accused. The police throughout the world may seize the wrong guy, but usually because they've been suspicious of him for a while anyway.

The tragedy is when they've watched him (or her) for being an enemy to the state rather than an enemy to the safety of the community. But usually, he (or she) is a bad un anyway.

A Scottish guy a couple of years back was returned to Scotland having served 18 years in prison in the US on Death Row for killing a 2 year-old. Turned out he hadn't, and he was released and told to go to Scotland. But the Scottish jubilation at getting this poor wronged guy back wore off a bit when we found out what we'd got.

JMO and welcome back

RE: Go on,

I just realized, I'm out of the rat race!

Not sure what race I'm in now, there must be one, right? Life is currently a saunter interrupted by periods of strenuous physical labour under the direction of a harsh taskmaster, and lots of coffee.

There are also jackhammers.

we talk too much

Thre's a beer in SA called Castle which used to have the slogan "somewhat dry, somewhat bitter, never sweet". My brother used to call me Castle.

Oh, you meant Molly. Carry on then

we talk too much

Pat, you are so wrong.

Too much garlic, not too spicy

When the builder came back from lunch the other day I nearly passed out every time he spoke to me

we talk too much

Kal, I have a whole box of popcorn here. Details, miss, details!

we talk too much

Cach, I just looked at the books listed on your profile so I could read one of your stories and - er - where?

I have incidentally read all the English books you listed

AND we studied a translation of Man of La Mancha at school

Decided where you're moving to yet?

we talk too much

Oh.

As you were, then. My bad.

we talk too much

Kal, you HAVE to tell!

we talk too much

Wen, so you can see where I'm coming from

we talk too much

Cach, I honestly doubt I have long enough to live to become truly fluent enough to read the greats. I'm a bit of a numpty, you know.

we talk too much

MOLLY!



I was just about to add a pic of a guy walking in a tunnel not unlike the trench stretching through my house but eish, after that comment -

I was talking about real spelunking, potholing to you.

"Caving – also traditionally known as spelunking in the United States and Canada and potholing in the United Kingdom and Ireland – is the recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems."

we talk too much

Oh, and bring your spelunking gear

we talk too much

Yikes Z that's definitely talking too much! Loose lips sink ships!

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

I think the tunnel is heading for Australia

we talk too much

Mimi, he's not joking

RE: Sell-By Date

Mimi, love the way you hire a photographer for the occasion