I spent a week packing, shifting, gardening and decorating, day and night.
Yesterday I walked to the hardware store got paint swatches, brought them home, walked back to get paint, walked to the next village to get easter eggs for my grandchildren and groceries, dropped in on my daughter, walked home, shifted stuff ready to paint and did some housework. Probably walked about 10 miles.
Today, I'll be unpacking, tidying and cleaning around paint drying cycles and walking up to the next village to give my grandchildren their easter eggs.
What was the death and injury toll from this fight with MACHETES, metal pipes and telescopic batons?
It must have been absolute carnage.
And I'm a little confused: If there were about 50 people involved and arrested, given you can't arrest the dead and seriously wounded, who did they attack with these weapons?
And if the police should arrest and prosecute all people apparently involved without investigation (i.e. releasing no one), doesn't that rather mirror the kind of regime there is in Saudi Arabia at the moment, rather than a democratic European legal system?
I'm moving house and down-sizing, so I've had to say no to lots of stuff.
I had a ridiculous number of sewing machines dating from the turn of the last century to the 70's in varying states of disrepair.
Yesterday I put two of them out for the scrap merchant. My elderly neighbour came and asked me if her friend could have them for a charity. They get reconditioned and shipped to Africa so people can start their own businesses, just like I did many moons ago on an old cast iron hand machine.
My neighbour's friend left with 7 machines in the boot of her car, chuffed to bits.
I'm chuffed to bits they're going to good homes. They're lovely machines which should be used to feed families.
Because you have a dark skin tone, you can wear light-reflective colours, which is kinda bright colours. Being fair, if I wear yellow, or bright, yellowy greens, it reflects off my skin like a buttercup.
The human eye likes contrast: dark hair and blue eyes make these features stand out and easy to see. It's why the Irish are considered handsome.
If you wear blue, it'll 'pick out' your eyes even more. Try to go for blues which are of a similar tone to your eye colour, but maybe a darker blue.
If I wear darkish, mossy greens, it makes my eyes glow like cat's eyes.
I could go on, but men tend not to see colour as well as women and few people see colour as well as I do. I can see the individual pigments in paint and dyes, not just the colour of the mix.
I used to eagerly watch the clothes and toys going round our estate waiting for my turn. It was fantastic. I could barely contain myself waiting for the big girl's to grow.
Somebody had a good source, because I had a mini 1920's sit-up-and-beg bicycle painted a shiny bronze colour and a 1920's cast aluminium rocking horse. I still have the rocking horse for my grandchildren.
My dad had a tortoise he found in the road. He kept escaping, so my dad decided to make him a bigger, more secure run.
While he was doing it, my dad tied a string round his shell and attached the other end to my wee garden chair. The damn thing ran up the garden with me in the chair still attached.
When they get warm, they can go like the clappers.
So much of university is about learning the structure and the language used to describe that structure.
I should have said Admissions Department earlier, instead of recruitment department. In Canada they may call it something else, but you could ask them how to access careers advice and student feedback.
jac_the_gripper Forum Posts (5,363)
RE: A Challenge
Thankyou, Contessa. That's very kind of you.