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CarolDM @CarolDM (201113) • United States 28 Jan 20

We have sunshine again today. Got all my things done inside. Went out to fill up the bird bath. The cats came out in the screen room to watch. When I got it all done I sat out and enjoy the sunshine for awhile in the screen room....

dude

asleep

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jwfarrimond I have three black cats two males and a female. They are all (naturally) sun lovers. (Not that there is much of that this time of the year)

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Janey1966 @Janey1966 (24170) • Carlisle, England 2 Mar 13

I had heard about that unfortunate man being swallowed up by a sinkhole in his bedroom, in Florida so I chose to read a bit more about him on The New York Times website. It's a terrible way to go isn't it? Poor man. I also feel...

sinkholes are scary

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jwfarrimond "I don't understand why developers have to make a subdivision out of this poor foundation." Thats easy. MONEY. PROFIT. Thats all that they care about - not the people who will be living there.

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Janey1966 @Janey1966 (24170) • Carlisle, England 2 Mar 13

I had heard about that unfortunate man being swallowed up by a sinkhole in his bedroom, in Florida so I chose to read a bit more about him on The New York Times website. It's a terrible way to go isn't it? Poor man. I also feel...

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jwfarrimond All of my uncles were miners and one died of silicosis or pnumonicosis as it is called now. In those days, (I'm talking 1920's and 30's) there was little else to do other than the pit workwise. My father, when he lost the job that he had, found that he had...

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Janey1966 @Janey1966 (24170) • Carlisle, England 2 Mar 13

I had heard about that unfortunate man being swallowed up by a sinkhole in his bedroom, in Florida so I chose to read a bit more about him on The New York Times website. It's a terrible way to go isn't it? Poor man. I also feel...

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jwfarrimond It seems that there are a lot of limestone caves in that area and it was one of these that collapsed. In Lancashire, the problem is old mineshafts and workings - there is nowhere in this area that is not underlain by derelict mine workings. I remember...

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Porcospino @Porcospino (31428) • Denmark 28 Feb 13

Some years ago I discovered O Henry's stories. When I had read just a few of them I knew that I had found a new favourite author. I love the twists in his stories. My local library has a book that contains a collection of his best...

arhur conan doyle

o henry

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jwfarrimond You might like his "Professor Challenger" stories as well. I'm not sure if they are short stories or full novels though. It's quite a long time since I read them.

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Janey1966 @Janey1966 (24170) • Carlisle, England 27 Feb 13

This is what a British Gas customer said on the news earlier..as though it was some hardship or something she was experiencing. I realise that British Gas's profits are ridiculously high whilst the gas and...

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jwfarrimond Its usually about 60 F in the living room where the gas fire is and I find that to be quite comfortable. Though I do have a thick wooly sweater on as well!

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Porcospino @Porcospino (31428) • Denmark 28 Feb 13

Some years ago I discovered O Henry's stories. When I had read just a few of them I knew that I had found a new favourite author. I love the twists in his stories. My local library has a book that contains a collection of his best...

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jwfarrimond Conan Doyle was heavily into spiritulism and some of his stories used that as a basis. They were pretty strange and are very little known about now.

28 Feb 13

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Janey1966 @Janey1966 (24170) • Carlisle, England 27 Feb 13

This is what a British Gas customer said on the news earlier..as though it was some hardship or something she was experiencing. I realise that British Gas's profits are ridiculously high whilst the gas and...

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jwfarrimond I usually have 2 or 3 cats on the bed which can get awkward when I have to get up in the middle of the night. However, they are used to it and move out of the way so that I can get out and then back into place after I get back in

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Janey1966 @Janey1966 (24170) • Carlisle, England 27 Feb 13

This is what a British Gas customer said on the news earlier..as though it was some hardship or something she was experiencing. I realise that British Gas's profits are ridiculously high whilst the gas and...

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jwfarrimond Oh yes, I remember feathery frost patterns on the INSIDE of the living room windows when I was growing up. Single pane glass of course. As you say Janey, we weren't soft in those days.

28 Feb 13

Janey1966 @Janey1966 (24170) • Carlisle, England 27 Feb 13

This is what a British Gas customer said on the news earlier..as though it was some hardship or something she was experiencing. I realise that British Gas's profits are ridiculously high whilst the gas and...

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jwfarrimond Having been brought up in a house in which the only heating in the entire house was the coal fire in the living room, I never, until quite recently, had heating on in the bedroom. Now I have an oil filled electric heater in there, but I tell myself that...

28 Feb 13

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jwfarrimond @jwfarrimond (4473) 3 Jan 07

Some years ago I went to Russia for a holiday and I was impressed by the generosity of the people who I met. What experiences have you had on visits to Russia, did you enjoy your trip there and what did you think of the country...

holiday

holiday comments holiday impressions

russia

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jwfarrimond Ah. I'd love to see the Lena, I think that a trip down there by boat must be one of the great river journeys. But once you get to Yakusk, there's nowhere else to go apart from back up the river - unless you are brave enough the try the Road of Bones to Magadan...

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Janey1966 @Janey1966 (24170) • Carlisle, England 16 Sep 12

Mum made me laugh (yet again) today. She's making a habit of it lately lol. Anyway, on the way back from Town yesterday she went on the No.9 bus ("the one that sits there forever before the driver decides to set...

cheap travel

public transport

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jwfarrimond being old!

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Janey1966 @Janey1966 (24170) • Carlisle, England 16 Sep 12

Mum made me laugh (yet again) today. She's making a habit of it lately lol. Anyway, on the way back from Town yesterday she went on the No.9 bus ("the one that sits there forever before the driver decides to set...

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jwfarrimond I'm in the Greater Manchester area and not only do I get free bus travel, but free travel on the trains and trams that run within GM

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SomeCowgirl @SomeCowgirl (32191) • United States 28 Jun 12

I am not sure if it's because I am not working as much as I used to or just what, but the last two times I've worked I've come home with lower back pain. I still feel it today and will probably feel it for the rest of the day. I...

lower back pain

pain

work

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jwfarrimond Since I have lower back pain due to osteo-artheritis and associated sciatic pain and discomfort, I'd be very interested in knowing exactly what the "sciatic stretching" is that you refer to in some of your responses?

28 Jun 12

Janey1966 @Janey1966 (24170) • Carlisle, England 3 Jun 12

A good example of this is fish and chips, the only take-away meal we have during the week. John buys allsorts of crap for his plate but buys me battered fish and chips that costs well over £6. Granted, there are chippies that are...

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jwfarrimond Either too lazy or can't cook or both. I almost never buy takeaway food and always prepare my own food from scratch - never buy ready meals or those bags of rice 'n things that you heat up in the microwave either. That must be the most expensive rice on the...

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musicluv4life @musicluv4life (1867) • United States 23 May 12

If you could have any animal in the world what would you want. an unrealistic animal i love elephants they are so cute if only they were littler lol. when i was a kid a wanted a white tiger i though they were so...

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jwfarrimond Well, since I'm a cat person it'd have to be one of the big cats - a leopard maybe but I don't think that I could fit a tiger into my house And I could put up a sign saying "Beware of the cat - trespassers will be eaten!"

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Janey1966 @Janey1966 (24170) • Carlisle, England 16 May 12

John went to play his snooker match last night and had a very interesting conversation with one of the players in his team. He told him that his Mrs was rushed into hospital a couple of nights ago as she'd just eaten at a...

dodgy chinese food

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jwfarrimond Assuming that they CAN cook Janey. I think that a lot of people think that sticking a ready meal into the microwave is actually cooking...

20 May 12

Janey1966 @Janey1966 (24170) • Carlisle, England 16 May 12

John went to play his snooker match last night and had a very interesting conversation with one of the players in his team. He told him that his Mrs was rushed into hospital a couple of nights ago as she'd just eaten at a...

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jwfarrimond Chang, the microchip is basically a tiny computer chip that is placed under the skin of the back of both cats and dogs. It can be scanned using a special scanner to allow the information on the chip to be read. The information is usually just a registration...

20 May 12

Janey1966 @Janey1966 (24170) • Carlisle, England 16 May 12

John went to play his snooker match last night and had a very interesting conversation with one of the players in his team. He told him that his Mrs was rushed into hospital a couple of nights ago as she'd just eaten at a...

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jwfarrimond scan all chinese food with a microchip scanner!

20 May 12

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