snowbear

Hehe

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Don't be! It was an excellent story that I freaked my mum out with And now I have the added benefit of feeling at ease when opening my multipack

I had so many free crisps packets  allowed when I worked at the factory I kind of lost my appetite for them.

They are rather fattening though, so beware.

The only person going to see me naked from this point on is the undertaker who puts me in my coffin, so I don't much care if I get a tad overweight at my age.   Now I've reassured myself the actual crisp packets are sealed and safe,  I love crisps again - yummy!

Not as much as I hate accepting huge cookie boxes on every single site.  

Good point Ashley! That gets very annoying too.

Samsung internet browser blocks tracking cookies and uses Google chrome access.

I don't allow any other than essential cookies.

I love cherries. I wish they had no stones in them and were the size of an apple.

How many apple-sized cherries could you eat in one go though?

lol true

It's always the way lol

Thank you Snowbear  

That's great  I always use amazon smile for OCD-UK, and it's even better now that you can use smile on the app  

There was a cake. My favourite cake, carrot cake, delivered by our best local friend and her son and daughter. 

We had a lovely, socially-distanced little mini do in the garden. With cake, and squash in disposable cups. 

On Hal's thread for my birthday party loads of links to you tube videos were posted, and one was of Andre Rieu and orchestra and choir singing happy birthday, then he's a jolly good fellow. 

I played it for us all in the garden, linking my phone to the "aux in socket of a small portable radio so as to get good sound! 

I enjoyed the other videos later, and posted some of my own. 

Now I am 70 I am worried Boris will want to extend my lockdown

Yay! Your own birthday thread - wow, you're practically royalty. You always did say Roy meant king.

Apparently the best place to beat the virus is on the international space station right now. 

Though the new crew just gone there had to go into 14-day quarantine and tests before they were allowed to blast off

 that makes me feel a lot better Gemma, I’m not the only one to have done it 

haha I've done this kind of thing.  And putting "lots of love" at the end of important emails :-/

I have to tackle a robot now to get to speak to anyone - it's almost like the human is only the last resort if the robot has exhausted all his or her avenues to fix you first. 

The robots are taking over - Aaghhhhh. Bring back people. 

It's the neighbour's tree, gorgeous it is. Has ten times the amount of blossom that my winter flowering cherry tree produces. The lawn is literally pink at the moment.  

How gorgeous. Truly blessed.

A little farther south west from where I now reside lies the Vale of Evesham - where you can take the "blossom ? route",  a wondrous drive through marvellous spring colours - our equivalent of the New England in The Fall 

As a family we used to drive this route in Spring, down the roman Road 'Fosse Way ' from Rugby. 

My sister and I absolutely loved it ?. 

Cherry blossom is so lovely ? not everyone is so lucky to have pink grass 

Considering my first thought was that a bomb had gone off (being from Belfast and of a certain age has that effect on your mentality) and my second thought was a neighbour's gas boiler must have exploded I think I was impressively cool calm and collected!  

Gosh what a horrible experience snowbear, but sounds like the earthing systems worked OK. 

Glad you are fine and of course your reaction (from your memory bank)  would be "bomb"  but sounds like you dealt with this really well

That's good so glad everything and everyone is ok 

I know that feeling. But house insurance comes with a deadline and I've paid WAY over the odds by lazily renewing the past 2-3 years instead of shopping around, so this year it was a case of carpe diem, ready or not.  I've already had to phone the broadband people back as the confirmation email added a £50 set-up fee.   (It was supposed to be free.) They refunded it - but the cheek of sneaking it on the end of the bill in the first place!  

We should really shop around every year when our insurance is due for renewal, my sister saves pounds by doing this she does it with everything. She did some of mine last year and I saved over £200 for the year  so it's well worth doing it but it's such a nightmare, endless hours on the phone getting the best quotes.

They are crafty I wonder how many people don't notice or don't even question it, I bet there is a fair few 

Well done snowbear hope the broadband settles down into a better service for you. 

Managed to log in snowbear, but had a few hitches along the way, but all well in the end 

A big Thankyou to Adam, Ashley, snowbear and everyone who made the webinar possible

Glad you made it Lost. Fabulous talk, I thought.  I'm just off to buy his book. 

Yes great talk snowbear some important points mentioned, do you mind if I ask you what its called because I would like to purchase it also

You give an enormous amount here too snowbear, and have definitely helped lots of folks,including me. 

Great sense of humour too, you could factor that into a project 

Keep thinking and planning, that's great.

Thanks, Roy! I hadn't considered my wacky sense of humour as being something to use on these 'serious' projects, especially if writing to charity officials and MPs and stuff, but hey, somebody's got to replace Boris as the public joker, right?   

I think a sense of humour combined with compassion and care is the absolute best way to tackle these issues! Go for it Snowy!

Sorry to hear that snowbear , feel free to wallow or not, sending more hugs 

I am so, so sorry. You are in my deepest thoughts. PM me if you need to talk. Hugs.

Lots of hugs 

Hi everyone. Been a while. Hope you are all kicking butt too. x

Amen to that!

Well done x