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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (63) • United States 14 Sep

Sundays are laundry days here in the Looeyville household. Hubby does all the laundry because I accidentally had a red sock in the white load 30 years ago and turned all his work white t-shirts pink. And he likes things done the...

laundry day

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Fiacre Banks @LooeyVille Our daughter’s quite hard on clothes, more so than most.

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Fleur @Fleura (32567) • United Kingdom 13 Sep

Yes, even at my advanced age British people always use the collective name of ‘cutlery’ for knives, forks and spoons – eating utensils in general – while Americans use the term ‘flatware’. Naturally I was under the...

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Fiacre Banks @Fleura The knife is for cutting with, the fork for stabbing with and the spoon is for scooping with - easy.

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Fleur @Fleura (32567) • United Kingdom 13 Sep

Yes, even at my advanced age British people always use the collective name of ‘cutlery’ for knives, forks and spoons – eating utensils in general – while Americans use the term ‘flatware’. Naturally I was under the...

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Fiacre Banks @Fleura My knowledge is now complete.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14337) • Ireland 11 Sep

The BBC tells me, and so it must be true, of a mystery man who appears in the wedding photographs of a Scottish couple, and who has at last been identified four years after the wedding. Neither bride nor groom recognised the...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne I sometimes wonder how many of other people’s holiday snaps I’m in.

12 Sep

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14337) • Ireland 12 Sep

Late last night I pressed the “book now” button and sealed my fate - I’m definitely going to Scotland to stay 5 nights in my brother’s cabin on the west coast. The boat is expensive (but with free coffee!!!) and I could have flown...

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Fiacre Banks @allknowing The coffee is unlikely to be good coffee. One advantage is that the boat leaves from Larne where we live, just a 10 minute drive from our house so we don’t have to sit in an airport for a few hours just waiting.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14337) • Ireland 12 Sep

Late last night I pressed the “book now” button and sealed my fate - I’m definitely going to Scotland to stay 5 nights in my brother’s cabin on the west coast. The boat is expensive (but with free coffee!!!) and I could have flown...

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Fiacre Banks @daddyevil You do indeed have a large and diverse back yard to explore.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14337) • Ireland 12 Sep

Late last night I pressed the “book now” button and sealed my fate - I’m definitely going to Scotland to stay 5 nights in my brother’s cabin on the west coast. The boat is expensive (but with free coffee!!!) and I could have flown...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev Chances of a storm are high here but I like that. Today’s ferries however with their stabilisers etc barely give the sensation of going anywhere unfortunately.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14337) • Ireland 11 Sep

The BBC tells me, and so it must be true, of a mystery man who appears in the wedding photographs of a Scottish couple, and who has at last been identified four years after the wedding. Neither bride nor groom recognised the...

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Fiacre Banks @lindaohio Apparently they got an “internet detective” on the job.

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (362916) • Rockingham, Australia 11 Sep

While we were in the Wyalkatchem Museum, my brother-in-law played a couple of hymns on the pedal organ that was there. I think the instrument could also be called a ‘harmonium’. This one had bellows which were operated by the foot...

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Fiacre Banks @JudyEv our current house is really too small to accommodate a piano but we do have one. It belonged to my wife’s father which is why we held onto it. Got specialist piano removalists to bring it from Larne to Belfast then a year later back to Larne to our...

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14337) • Ireland 11 Sep

It’s decidedly autumnal in my little corner of Ireland today, though summer’s not yet quite defeated. A day of rain, wind and falling leaves like this calls for stewed apples and I can hear a chorus of approval from @traceyjayne...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev Only if I can be bothered making a crumble to go on top Otherwise it’s just stewed apples, though a dollop of ice cream on top would be nice, especially as it melts into the top of the apples.

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Always smiling @allknowing (153564) • India 10 Sep

Sight seeing is best done travelling by bus. I had that experience on all my travels Even long distances are covered by bus The buses I have travelled have all the facilities In Europe all the countries were covered...

bus travel

from one country to another

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Fiacre Banks @allknowing Oh yes, I forgot about Agra, Mathura and Fatepure Sikri.

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Always smiling @allknowing (153564) • India 10 Sep

Sight seeing is best done travelling by bus. I had that experience on all my travels Even long distances are covered by bus The buses I have travelled have all the facilities In Europe all the countries were covered...

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Fiacre Banks @allknowing Yes, those were the days before all the commercialisation of Goa and the beaches were clean and empty and living there was very cheap.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14337) • Ireland 11 Sep

The BBC tells me, and so it must be true, of a mystery man who appears in the wedding photographs of a Scottish couple, and who has at last been identified four years after the wedding. Neither bride nor groom recognised the...

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Fiacre Banks @daddyevil I turned up at a graveside once and another cleric was about to start the proceedings when he saw me and realised he was at the wrong event. He should have been in a different part of the graveyard. He got so flustered!

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Always smiling @allknowing (153564) • India 10 Sep

Sight seeing is best done travelling by bus. I had that experience on all my travels Even long distances are covered by bus The buses I have travelled have all the facilities In Europe all the countries were covered...

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Fiacre Banks @allknowing New Delhi, Amritsar, Kolkata, Ahmadabad, Mount Abu, Jaisalmer …. Long time ago, 1978 & 1980.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14337) • Ireland 9 Sep

The car’s in for a service today so I’m on foot and all the better for it. So much more to notice when one is on foot walking through town. I’ve parked myself in a cafe that actually does a cappuccino that is recognisable as such...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne Some folk just aren’t well. Any time we go to a Chinese restaurant which is rare, for this reason, the waiter always seats us right beside the only other couple in the place. And you can’t ask for a different table because the other couple might...

10 Sep

Always smiling @allknowing (153564) • India 9 Sep

There in no one on earth I am sure will ever say they do not like music Some like only instrumentals, and some choose their own genre of which there is a big list. Some go for certain singers, oldies and modern I belong to the...

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10 Sep

Always smiling @allknowing (153564) • India 9 Sep

There in no one on earth I am sure will ever say they do not like music Some like only instrumentals, and some choose their own genre of which there is a big list. Some go for certain singers, oldies and modern I belong to the...

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Fiacre Banks @allknowing Not as old as those you mentioned, but not all modern and not all alive. The French and Italian ones aren’t widely known in the English speaking world.

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (5251) • United Kingdom 9 Sep

So I am watching week two of The Great British Bake Off ….although the contestants are given challenges , it has made me wonder …. Do you bake ? Would you enter a competition ? What would be your best bake ? For me …… Yes I...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne Oh and a Dundee cake. I like a Dundee cake with a cup of tea. Coffee and walnut - my wife makes that superbly.

9 Sep

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14337) • Ireland 9 Sep

The car’s in for a service today so I’m on foot and all the better for it. So much more to notice when one is on foot walking through town. I’ve parked myself in a cafe that actually does a cappuccino that is recognisable as such...

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Fiacre Banks @rasmasandra First rule of surviving parenthood - DON’T WAKEN THE BABY.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14337) • Ireland 9 Sep

The car’s in for a service today so I’m on foot and all the better for it. So much more to notice when one is on foot walking through town. I’ve parked myself in a cafe that actually does a cappuccino that is recognisable as such...

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Fiacre Banks @porwest My kids were always well supervised when in public and I just don’t get the unruliness of other kids. No need for it.

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