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Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 12 Jul

As well as my regular work I sometimes work at events. Often these are things like concerts that I get to enjoy free – well actually I get paid to be there – but recently I’ve done a few ‘fine dining’ events. The first was at a...

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Fleur @xFiacre Not to mention swearing and 'What do I do with this?'

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Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 12 Jul

As well as my regular work I sometimes work at events. Often these are things like concerts that I get to enjoy free – well actually I get paid to be there – but recently I’ve done a few ‘fine dining’ events. The first was at a...

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Fleur Surely it wouldn't pass any hygiene inspection!

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Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 12 Jul

As well as my regular work I sometimes work at events. Often these are things like concerts that I get to enjoy free – well actually I get paid to be there – but recently I’ve done a few ‘fine dining’ events. The first was at a...

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Fleur Best not to think about it probably!

13 Jul

Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 12 Jul

As well as my regular work I sometimes work at events. Often these are things like concerts that I get to enjoy free – well actually I get paid to be there – but recently I’ve done a few ‘fine dining’ events. The first was at a...

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Fleur I can't think how such an arrangement would ever pass a hygiene inspection!

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Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 12 Jul

As well as my regular work I sometimes work at events. Often these are things like concerts that I get to enjoy free – well actually I get paid to be there – but recently I’ve done a few ‘fine dining’ events. The first was at a...

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Fleur It might seem a bit of a come-down to be serving at events like this rather than being a guest, but honestly I enjoy the behind-the-scenes life, at least occasionally (it would be hard to do it all the time).

13 Jul

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Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 12 Jul

As well as my regular work I sometimes work at events. Often these are things like concerts that I get to enjoy free – well actually I get paid to be there – but recently I’ve done a few ‘fine dining’ events. The first was at a...

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Fleur None of the guests knew about the flies, they didn't make it into the dining room so they remained in blissful ignorance.

12 Jul

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Jim Bauer @porwest (103154) • United States 10 Jul

Not that my wife would not believe me, or even that I would necessarily lie to her, but when it comes to money, particularly in the area of spending, she knows just as well as most of you do here that I can be...

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Fleur @porwest Or of course you could have taken the stuff off the shelf before taking the photo!

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Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 11 Jul

As a parent I have found myself doing things I never used to do, or even things I thought I would never do. For example the phrase ‘Just a minute’ was never part of my vocabulary; now it’s something I seem to utter several times...

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Fleur That's the funny thing, they are keen, but only under certain circumstances it seems.

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Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 11 Jul

As a parent I have found myself doing things I never used to do, or even things I thought I would never do. For example the phrase ‘Just a minute’ was never part of my vocabulary; now it’s something I seem to utter several times...

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Fleur I know, and we were careful not to buy a lot this year.

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Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 11 Jul

As a parent I have found myself doing things I never used to do, or even things I thought I would never do. For example the phrase ‘Just a minute’ was never part of my vocabulary; now it’s something I seem to utter several times...

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Fleur Oh if I ask whether they are going to eat it, they say yes most emphatically!

11 Jul

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Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 8 Jul

My partner loves cherries, and was hankering after a cherry tree or two, although we don’t have the best space for them really – all the best, sunny spots are already taken. But then last autumn I came across a special offer of...

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Fleur Onwards and upwards for next year!

11 Jul

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Marie @Tampa_girl7 (52853) • United States 6 Jul

My poor husband broke the bottom part of one of his upper front teeth when he was a teenager. He was swimming and somehow hit it on the concrete pool. It was repaired and lasted until yesterday. I guess after nearly 50 years it...

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Fleur @Tampa_girl7 I hope it is as good as the first time!

10 Jul

celticeagle @celticeagle (176935) • Boise, Idaho 9 Jul

Offering his seat to a lady was not only expected behavior but if a gentleman didn't give up his seat to a lady this social slight could be sent to the local paper and he would be called a bounder (rude and boorish) in the...

gentleman

lady

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Fleur @celticeagle The ladies have to keep up appearances, but they can't really afford to. So they do things like covering the carpet with newspaper so it won't fade in the sunlight (then they have to keep moving the newspaper around as the sun moves during the...

10 Jul

Always smiling @allknowing (149442) • India 8 Jul

She was my favourite star. Audrey Hepburn performed in many classic movies - Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady, and Charade. She also appeared in Sabrina, Funny Face, and Wait Until Dark. I watched most of...

my fair lady

favourite movie

audrey hepburn

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Fleur @allknowing With a better-than-most understanding of the situations women faced in society.

10 Jul

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celticeagle @celticeagle (176935) • Boise, Idaho 9 Jul

Offering his seat to a lady was not only expected behavior but if a gentleman didn't give up his seat to a lady this social slight could be sent to the local paper and he would be called a bounder (rude and boorish) in the...

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Fleur @celticeagle Have you read it?

9 Jul

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celticeagle @celticeagle (176935) • Boise, Idaho 9 Jul

Slouching was a crime. Posture and a straight back in the Victorian Age showed your up bringing and your marriage ability. You could look comfortable or as if you had an opinion. Discipline, moral fortitude, and proper breeding...

posture

victorian age

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Fleur @celticeagle Well that just goes to show I suppose.

9 Jul

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Four Walls @FourWalls (76653) • United States 8 Jul

About a month ago I went to Camp Breckenridge in western Kentucky and raved about the great museum they have there, devoted to the prisoner of war camp that was established there in the 1940s for German (and later, Italian)...

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Fleur @FourWalls That's true, although it's also possible that if he hadn't been a POW he may have been hard at work with no time to paint. We'll never know.

9 Jul

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Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 7 Jul

My mother kept a lot (most!) of the things from my childhood, including many clothes, and then when I had children they had a new lease of life; Big One wore them, and in many cases Little One wore them as well. By then they had...

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Fleur @Ineeddentures

9 Jul

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LindaOH @LindaOHio (194461) • United States 8 Jul

The smallest Post Office in the United States is in Ochopee, Florida in the Everglades. With a total of 61 square feet, it used to be a storage unit for irrigation pipes for an adjacent tomato farm. A fire had destroyed the...

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Fleur @LindaOHio And people must have to travel quite a distance to get there? Or are the counties very small?

9 Jul

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Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 7 Jul

My mother kept a lot (most!) of the things from my childhood, including many clothes, and then when I had children they had a new lease of life; Big One wore them, and in many cases Little One wore them as well. By then they had...

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Fleur @Ineeddentures Wow you really did sweep her off her feet!

8 Jul

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