Fiacre Banks (@xFiacre) on myLot

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (5265) • United Kingdom 22h

Kids are funny beings …..but sometimes we are funny to them too. When we moved into our current house the Grandkids were able to have a room set up for themselves. We have them stay with us every other weekend and I wanted them...

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Fiacre Banks @Fleura Oops! Now that would confuse anyone.

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (5265) • United Kingdom 22h

Kids are funny beings …..but sometimes we are funny to them too. When we moved into our current house the Grandkids were able to have a room set up for themselves. We have them stay with us every other weekend and I wanted them...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne Customers still have to pull the chain in a local restaurant here and I’m sure it just baffles younger customers.

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (5265) • United Kingdom 22h

Kids are funny beings …..but sometimes we are funny to them too. When we moved into our current house the Grandkids were able to have a room set up for themselves. We have them stay with us every other weekend and I wanted them...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne I remember asking why some people called the counterpane a bedspread. Life used to be so elegant. I’ll bet your grandkids would look askance at you if you told them not to forget to pull the chain. Or is that just an Irish thing?

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14348) • Ireland 17 Sep

People are actively encouraged to come into our (MY) local library not to read but to CHAT. Did you ever? And in they come of course, looking for friendship and conversation, and the opportunity to make noise. People arrange to...

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Fiacre Banks @fleura Ours has a “knit and natter” club that meets right smack in the middle of things - they do have a separate room for events but they seem to like having everyone together. And those old buddies don’t half know how to natter about the cost of cardigans...

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (5265) • United Kingdom 17 Sep

I think bills are way too high these days generally. Having said that I know we have to pay them and I will always pay for what I use …..thinking gas / electric etc …. However, we do not want a smart meter, we prefer to take a...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne If companies are trying to get us to something we can be quite sure that it’s for their own benefit, not ours. Perhaps if the government didn’t spend so much on RAF fly pasts to entertain American Presidents and to satisfy their own vanity more...

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14348) • Ireland 17 Sep

People are actively encouraged to come into our (MY) local library not to read but to CHAT. Did you ever? And in they come of course, looking for friendship and conversation, and the opportunity to make noise. People arrange to...

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14348) • Ireland 16 Sep

I’m not obsessed with the weather - it is what it is - but I will record the deep satisfaction I feel right now as I lie in bed listening to rain beating against the open window, hissing through trees and gurgling down drains....

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14348) • Ireland 16 Sep

Do you ever just get frustrated with yourself and wish you weren’t you? I’m having one of those moments when I wish I wasn’t me. It’s not that I want to be someone else because when I go down that slippery path I can’t identify...

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (43) • United States 16 Sep

It's crazy. My podiatrist billed my health insurance company $798 for that walking cast boot that I'm wearing for my fractured foot. What kind of "boot" is worth $798? My share of that is going to be $238 which if I had known...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville Whoever made that boot (and hundreds like it) made a smart career move early on. They’ll be able to retire at 40 and live on cruise ships. Where did we go wrong?

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (5265) • United Kingdom 16 Sep

I had to be up early this morning for a zoom meeting about work. I had to set my alarm for the first time in several months. The meeting itself was only about 30 minutes ….i had no idea how long it was going to be...

dehydrating cherry tomatoes

meeting

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne Yet here you are! I’m installed in a cafe with a Greek grammar book. I’d prefer to be in Athens, but grammar will have to suffice.

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Always smiling @allknowing (153680) • India 15 Sep

We have this game KBC (Who wants to be a Millionnaire) This participant was brilliant and she was bold and open at the same time. She seemed to have had a crush when it came to Amitabh Bachhan the conductor of the show and even...

kbc

interesting participant

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Fiacre Banks @allknowing An invitation to Bachhan's house would be a fine prize.

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (43) • United States 16 Sep

People are ridiculous. If you want to have an exotic or unusual pet, fine. But don't call it an emotional support animal. An alligator is NOT an emotional support animal. Some old dude in Pennsylvania says he's been taking his...

emotional support animals

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville It's the people around him who will need emotional support if that thing does what comes natural to alligators. People need to remember that they are part of a society and there's more than just them in the world. This man is clearly not well and...

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (43) • United States 16 Sep

I hate sweaters! They used to be wool and all itchy and stuff. But now they're just too hot. I get hot very easily and prefer a long-sleeve t-shirt. I think sweaters are very pretty but I am not comfortable wearing them. Do...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville The go-to present for an aging gentleman at Christmas and birthdays!! And I hate them. After a decent interval they get donated. I hate pulling clothes on over my head and it's worse pulling them off. Always had a fear of getting stuck. I'm told I...

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (43) • United States 16 Sep

Yesterday was payday here on myLot. I hope everyone made payout for August, which was what was paid yesterday. What do you use your myLot money for? I just keep mine in PayPal and when I buy something online I use PayPal as...

payday

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville Like @porwest, along with a few other bits and pieces mine goes into an investment account - every little bit counts.

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Amber @AmbiePam (103039) • United States 15 Sep

Up until this point, I don’t think I’ve tasted a lot of things that could be called vile (maybe medicine). Then, I got this tea (pictured) to review. I can best describe it as tasting like medicine with cleaning toxins included....

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam A totally rancid coffee in Greece. I kept trying to pour it into a pot plant on the window sill of the cafe in which I was sitting but each time the owner appeared from nowhere. I just can't figure out how anyone could make coffee to taste so...

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NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (124759) • United States 15 Sep

Presumably he was referring to Americans as he was attempting to justify a military attack on a fishing boat from Venezuela which killed 11 people. Um the population of the US is 340 million. Have practically all of us died? Even...

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Fiacre Banks @njchicaa And of course a rather large number of people in the (non white) world died from a LACK of drugs last year and every year. Unfortunately many Trump supporters recognise that he makes it up as he goes along but they seem to think that’s ok.

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (43) • United States 15 Sep

Let me tell you, it's not easy. Stupid me. We were at the restaurant, which is less than a mile from home, and I thought, "I'll just wait until I get home to pee" Well that was a mistake. As soon as I stood up gravity took...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville Every time you see a bathroom just use it, even if you think you don’t need it.

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (43) • United States 15 Sep

I did and I didn't. I was an excellent student, straight A's, all through 12 years of public school. But I was bored. It wasn't challenging. I waited until I was 31 years old to start college and absolutely loved it. I soaked...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville I absolutely school. I was home schooled till I was 10 which was fine, but beyond that it was awful. I seemed to be the only one there who was there to learn. I loved learning but not a lot of learning was possible in school for me. French and...

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (5265) • United Kingdom 15 Sep

People talk about having the Monday morning blues. It’s the day that most people have to get up early to go to work, after having a lovely weekend with family and friends. For retired people obviously, it’s different as they...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne I’m retired and the days kind of blend into each other. Sunday is the only fixed point. Used to be that retirees queued round the block at the post office to lift their pension but now it sneaks into your account in the middle of the night so you...

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (43) • United States 15 Sep

I'm starting to get my EOBs (Explanation of Benefits) forms from my health insurance provider. Just as some examples, let me share with you some of my recent costs. These aren't the amounts that I have to pay, thankfully, but...

healthcare costs

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville Grotesque and over-inflated and they have us by the short and curlies.

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