Wild salmon is red, but I don't know if farmed salmon can be fed with dyes to imitate wild.
I know battery chickens are fed with dyes which compensate for how pale the yolks form compared with healthy chickens. I remember cracking an egg open as a child and finding it had an overdose - it had a lime green hue.
Side on, rounded shoulders, knees bent, making himself smaller, hands covering his groin, but the direct eye contact and smile doesn't suggest a lack of confidence.
That's an inviting, coaxing posture rather than a dominant, or confrontaional one.
I would say I have a fairly decent grasp of the English language, but I balls up with spelling and grammatical errors enough that I'm on first name terms with the online Oxford Dictionary.
I don't think we've been able to be in a group of 50 since before the pandemic, unless you count the police kettling peaceful protesters who were previously minding their social distance.
The changes here aren't anything to do with MP's stepping out of line in England.
Our restrictions are guided by English governance, but our constraints have been harsher all along. Wales generally has been hit hard by covid, the county I live in has been particularly bolluxed by it.
It seems to me that, whether it's central government making the decisions, or the Welsh Assembly, there has been a constant tweaking trying to balance the economy with rates of infection. I get that the NHS and it's employees can't be overrun and I get that keeping people employed is important, too. I get that it's complicated and decisions difficult. I get that some mistakes are going to be made in this unknown territory.
Fining people is always going to be arbitrary unless noone can leave the confines of their home.
I live in the middle of nowhere. There is no routine police presence and people are in and out of each other's houses. I wouldn't be surprised if that's where the bulk of the spread comes from, not from people driving off somewhere isolated for a walk, or a cycle ride in the park.
I found a news report (left of centre bias, uses some emotionally loaded language, rated 'high' for factual reporting) which said one company in Idaho is blocking Twitter and FB for customers who have requested it only.
The change in service provision has come after a number of customers complained to the internet provider about these platforms.
I rang my daughter today to discuss my next visit.
A lot of the news and public announcements are about the situation in England and even going on the GOV.UK WALES doesn't always clarify.
My daughter's family are my 'support bubble' as I live on my own.
Child minding my grandchildren is an essential service and I cover my daughter's extra shifts as an essential worker when she's covering people off sick.
I go to the big supermarket when I visit her village.
I can use public transport if I have a reasonable excuse, but whilst child minding my grandchildren is an essential service, I don't know if visiting my support bubble family, or going to the big supermarket is a reasonable excuse. There is a mini market and a couple of corner shops in my village, but I can't get a lot of allergen friendly stuff here.
A few months back I was restricted to my county borough, which includes my village and my daughter's. Now I'm hearing on the radio and reading online, 'don't leave your village' and 'act like you have covid'. If I had covid I'd be quarantined in my flat and wouldn't even be able to go food shopping. I don't know if 'don't leave your village' applies to Wales, or just England.
I mostly organise my visits around child minding as a matter of course, but I am concerned about getting a £200 fine because a police officer has interpreted the restrictions differently.
My daughter and I pretty much discuss the latest restrictions every time I visit in a bid not to make any mistakes, but as frequently as they change, they are never quite definitive.
I didn't go on a roller-coaster until I was 22 years old.
A friend from uni borrowed a minibus under the guise of the Sikh Society and with some others organised a trip to a theme park. Unbeknownst to me, they very kindly arranged everything and everybody for a day when I wasn't working without consulting me. It meant I couldn't really say, "No thankyou!"
The first ride I went on was a roller-coaster in the dark. I would never have agreed had I been able to see what I was letting myself in for. I was so unfamiliar with this world I didn't recognise what was going on around me...until I was locked into this moving seat and the lights kept flashing on to reveal my fate.
It was fantastic, mind.
Generally speaking, I'm rather shy, retiring and unadventurous.
I can have an ethical stance about only eating plant based food and you can have one where you yaffle the eggs from your own chickens, or honey from your bees.
There's no reason why we can't respect each other"s morals, maintain our own integrity and get married despite our differences.
I suggest we negotiate about whether we let Aragorn watch, mind.
There are many moral stances and truths. Integrity is about being consistent with one's own moral stance, or truth.
I can object to your moral stance, but still have integrity with respect to my own.
You can object to mine without compromising your integrity.
The specific morals are irrelevant to our respective integrities. The integrity of the law of the land which is based upon collective agreement of morals is irrelevant.
It's the consistency between rationalisation and behaviour which spawns integrity.
My daughter once said being vegan isn't about being a saint: if you can't afford unwaxed lemons you just do the best you can. The integrity of a plant based diet interacts with the integrity of the number of coins in your pocket.
All ethical decisions are like that: you do the best you can with the resources available to you.
If your resources consist of a religion, culture and legal system which says women must be stoned to protect society from whatever, then that's what you're going to do until other resources entre into your sphere.
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RE: Is it wrong
Damn social distancing, it ruins all the fun.