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Judy Evans @JudyEv (367418) • Rockingham, Australia 15 Dec

In our village, there are certain benefits we all enjoy but we pay a fee for these services. One of these is gardening. The community areas are managed by outside contractors but we can do what we like with the small areas near...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev That sounds nice and flexible.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14096) • Ireland 14 Dec

I ate well tonight in my favourite place in Chorlton, a Turkish place where the staff are better than excellent as is the food. A truly memorable evening. The only thing that introduced a less than savoury note was the thought...

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Fiacre Banks @ladydick This is the sensible way to think.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14096) • Ireland 14 Dec

I ate well tonight in my favourite place in Chorlton, a Turkish place where the staff are better than excellent as is the food. A truly memorable evening. The only thing that introduced a less than savoury note was the thought...

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (54) • United States 14 Dec

As you know, I'm a bit of a traveler. Somewhere between 105 and 110 countries so far and all 50 states in the USA. So people often ask me, "What's your favorite place you've visited?" And my answer is easy - - ALL of them....

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville Paris, of course. Having lived there I know the non-touristy bits well and they are far better than the bits they let tourists see. And Kolkata, though if was Calcutta when I was there - mellow jazz clubs and a really cool vibe. Then Athens because...

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14096) • Ireland 13 Dec

We took our granddaughter to Wythenshawe Hall today for a Victorian Christmassy thing - I hated it but everyone else enjoyed it so I just shut up and smiled. I just want to strangle people who dress up as elves and assume everyone...

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Fiacre Banks @thehorse These are what the rich used to indicate that they had money to burn while their servants ran about barefoot back in the day.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14096) • Ireland 13 Dec

I was scandalised today in Wythenshawe Park. There was a place where we could look at cows and pigs - lovely, apart from the smell. And beside it was a stall that sold sausages that the cows and pigs were turned into. All in very...

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14096) • Ireland 13 Dec

We took our granddaughter to Wythenshawe Hall today for a Victorian Christmassy thing - I hated it but everyone else enjoyed it so I just shut up and smiled. I just want to strangle people who dress up as elves and assume everyone...

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (54) • United States 13 Dec

I can only remember back to about 12 years old and falling in love with Nancy Drew books. My parents had divorced and I got forced to move 2 hours away from my Dad and he bought a monthly subscription and once a month I got a...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville I remember starting to read voraciously in my 14th summer when we moved temporarily to a house across the road from a library. Then at 17 I read Crime and Punishment for the first time and have had my nose in a book ever since then. Anything by...

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14096) • Ireland 10 Dec

Kalista was Greek and wrote poems about freedom, or that's what she said they were about: I couldn't read Greek back then in 1974 and I'm not much better now having peaked somewhere around 1993 and travelled only downhill since...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam I loved it - languages are my thing. No-one else I studied with liked it at all.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14096) • Ireland 10 Dec

Kalista was Greek and wrote poems about freedom, or that's what she said they were about: I couldn't read Greek back then in 1974 and I'm not much better now having peaked somewhere around 1993 and travelled only downhill since...

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Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (21990) 9 Dec

In went to Nakki Lake in Mount Abu in Rajasthan during november. In december it freezes. Although the state of Rajasthan is known for sand and deserts, there are hills also there. Due to the altitude it is cold in winter....

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Fiacre Banks @sathviksouvik I was at Mt Abu in November 1979. There was torrential rain and I had to stay at Abu Road for a night because no buses could manage the drive up the mountain in such heavy rain.

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (367418) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Dec

Our neighbour in the village was telling me about the ‘episodes’ she experiences at night. She apparently has very violent dreams and thrashes around in her sleep. I was especially interested as Vince’s elder brother experiences...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev My French brother thrashes about like that and has done some damage to his wife. It is related to his Parkinson’s disease.

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (367418) • Rockingham, Australia 8 Dec

Australians love their cricket and the Ashes series are played out between England and Australia. In 1882, Australia won a match at the Oval, their first Test win on English soil. A newspaper of the time stated that English...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev There are many bears that ought not to be poked!

9 Dec

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14096) • Ireland 9 Dec

It’s windy today, very windy, so windy that ferries and planes are cancelled, parks shut and people’s gardens have been rearranged and not in a good way. On the up side, no heavy lorries can trundle through town to and from the...

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NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (125607) • United States 6 Dec

It has been disgusting to see what Trump has done to the Oval Office. It looks like his gaudy and tacky triplex in NYC. It looks like freaking Mar-A-Lago. Horrific to anyone who has a sense of taste. Well now there is a sign...

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Fiacre Banks @njchicaa What’ll you do if he renames it the Goldhouse?!!!

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (367418) • Rockingham, Australia 6 Dec

Illegal sales of cigarettes and vapes has been steadily increasing in Australia and various criminal elements are making the most of the situation. More and more small stores are opening up under the guise of selling confectionery...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev Illegal cigarettes is a major income source for paramilitary groups here and there is a ready, greedy market.

7 Dec

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (367418) • Rockingham, Australia 7 Dec

It’s been quite a busy week here and last night was the Christmas dinner at the clubhouse. Our social committee did a marvellous job of feeding and entertaining over 100 residents. The photo shows Santa and his helper welcoming...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev That is a most challenging outfit! I’ll have the plum pudding with lashings of custard please. I used to think it was custUrd and spelled it thusly at school till I was taken to task about it.

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NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (125607) • United States 7 Dec

Granted it is a newly made up one from FIFA (international soccer association) and was "awarded" to him during yesterday's draw for next year's World Cup which will be held all around North America. The association and its...

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Fiacre Banks @njchicaa He is so easily played! He’ll suck up to anyone who offers him a trinket.

7 Dec

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (367418) • Rockingham, Australia 6 Dec

I started decorating our Christmas tree today. In 2022, our ‘Irish’ son asked for suggestions for a gift and I suggested an ornament to hang on the tree. In due course, this little box arrived with its nice coloured band. Once...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev So much nicer than a lot of the store bought baubles that I try not to see.

6 Dec

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14096) • Ireland 5 Dec

I don’t often weigh my body - it’s a man thing, and anyway seeing numbers on a scale doesn’t really tell me anything I don’t already know. But over the past few months I’ve been a lot more particular about my intake - amount and...

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