The Untied Kingdom? - the British thread 2021

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  • @Piglet knowing you're built on a similar scale to me, the problem with most commercial backpacks is that they are designed for longer neck-waist lengths and wider shoulders than I possess. The adult backpacks are designed to fit average men with around 17" back length (mine's 13"). I did a mischief to my back carrying a too long backpack on the Pennine Way as it distributed the weight incorrectly. And I had to pad the shoulders so the straps didn't slide off. If you want a backpack it's worth getting properly fitted.

    Do as a shorter friend of mine and go to a school oufitters to get a backpack.
  • Most of what I buy or make is in kids' sizes, currently wearing a jumper age 10, skirt age 13-14, (should have made the size smaller for both these), tights age 12-13, coat age 12-13, backpack is the mini version, all but the tights home-made. There's a pattern here.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I should like to commend to Heaven the lady who let me use the Waverley lift before her this morning, thereby enabling me (just) to catch the earlier bus and avoid a 25-minute wait in the cold.

    In other news, I'm now part of NHS Lothian's Lateral Flow staff Covid testing programme (see the Covid thread).

    First test came out negative, I hope you'll be glad to hear.
  • Result on the bus @Piglet !

    Good news about the test too.
  • Piglet wrote: »
    As for carrying milk, I'd rarely carry more than a pint carton, as I can't use more than that before it would go off

    In my student days, my personal consumption (between cereal, cups of tea, custard, and so on) was somewhere between 8 and 12 pints a week. (Technically some of the tea was drunk by other people, as probably was some of the custard sometimes). These days, my household gets through about a gallon a day.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Teacupful would last me a week. It's Mr F's nightly milky drink accounts for most of our 2L. If I see it accumulate, we then have something in cheese sauce.
  • HeavenlyannieHeavenlyannie Shipmate
    edited April 14
    I use milk for my morning latte and then cups of tea throughout the day. Only one of the 3 of us has breakfast cereal, though my husband drinks copious lattes throughout the day. We use up about 10 pints a week between us. Excess milk is used for sauces.

    Last night Mr Heavenly made Ukrainian stuffed cabbage leaves, using minced beef with rice instead of the usual pork with rice. It was like Greek dolmades but the sauce contained grated carrot and sugar as well as tomatoes so was rather sweet. It was served with soured cream.

    Today is day 3 of marking; today we have essay plans on barriers to accessing health care.
  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    We get through a pint a day, mostly Mr Boog’s porridge and my morning cappuccino. I don’t have milk in tea. I drink redbush black (or should that be red? 🤔). We got through much more when my son was here, he drinks it like water!

    We still have a milkman who brings it in glass bottles. 🥛

  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    edited April 14
    @Heavenlyannie
    Today is day 3 of marking; today we have essay plans on barriers to accessing health care.

    Goodness there are many! Especially post Covid (are we ‘post Covid?)’ I’ve had to work really hard to get seen and referred (nerve damage maybe spinal, numb arms and hands). I’ve been battling for eight weeks now. If I wasn’t articulate and persistent I would have got nowhere! I’m not a fussy patient, I’m a stoic and patient one but I think they are overwhelmed and put ‘non urgent’ cases off as much as they can. Prevention? Seems to be a word from the past.

    Ooops - sorry, rant over. :blush:
  • HeavenlyannieHeavenlyannie Shipmate
    edited April 14
    Milk delivered in glass bottles here too - my father worked in a dairy factory so I’m a big fan of milk deliveries.
    Boogie wrote: »
    Goodness there are many! Especially post Covid (are we ‘post Covid?)’ I’ve had to work really hard to get seen and referred (nerve damage maybe spinal, numb arms and hands). I’ve been battling for eight weeks now. If I wasn’t articulate and persistent I would have got nowhere! I’m not a fussy patient, I’m a stoic and patient one but I think they are overwhelmed and put ‘non urgent’ cases off as much as they can. Prevention? Seems to be a word from the past.

    Ooops - sorry, rant over. :blush:
    That must be very stressful for you. The pandemic has heavily impacted on service delivery and now hospitals are having to catch up whilst still maintaining social distancing. We are definitely not post-covid. Social distancing will be with us for a while and almost half the population is not vaccinated (which won’t solve the issue 100% anyway).
    The barriers we are looking at are not generally related to this side of health care provision you discuss as my first year students are mainly health care assistants. They need choose a service user group (such as those with a learning disability or mental health challenges) to explore the barriers they face accessing health care and how they can be overcome. They will mainly be discussing things like communication, stigma, prejudice and lack of autonomy or choice. Things like the social model of disability, which looks at societal barriers.
  • Penny SPenny S Shipmate
    Our milk use seems to fluctuate oddly. We have a milkman, and I get three pints of semi on Tuesday, three of semi, one of gold top on Thursday, and four semi on Saturday. The gold top is really for me to enjoy sometimes, but actually gets used for milk puddings - not quite creme brulee from a packet last night. When there's a lot left, more milk pudding. When it runs out for some unknown reason, we broach a tetrapak of UHT. He uses most of it for tea, with some for cereal sometimes.
    Eggs have started to build up in quantity now - he used to have them alternate days from breakfast, but seems to have abandoned that. So on Monday, we shared a massive Spanish omelette for the evening meal.
    And we seem to have a backlog of bought scones now - I think that will become a variant of bread and butter pudding, though, as I have used up the egg backlog, it may be using my over purchased pandemic stockpile of egg powder.
  • We mostly use UHT as only Little Miss Feet drinks milk neat and none of us have cereal for breakfast. The primary consumer is yoghurt making, for which UHT is much less faff. After that it's cooking - cheese sauce, pancakes, yorkshire pudding and so on, none of which suffer from UHT.
  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    edited April 14
    Thank you @Heavenlyannie.

    I was thinking about communication difficulties, because communicating my needs to various healthcare professionals was hard - and I’m very articulate. How people who struggle with stigma and communication difficulties manage I can’t imagine.

    There was also the problem of clearly explaining what was wrong, so as not to be referred to the wrong place and waste a lot of health care providers time. My condition still hasn’t been diagnosed but I feel we are getting there, quite a few blind alleys.

    The physios are by far the best listeners. They treat your difficulties as a problem to be solved and keep on asking questions and working out the possibilities until they find an answer/solution. 🙂
  • Neither Mr RoS nor myself take milk in our hot drinks, although he takes it on his cereal and will drink milk if we seem to have a bit of a surplus, In recent years custard has become a regular accompaniment to puddings.

    I have porridge for breakfast every day, year round. I made it with water for years, but crumbling teeth and a few risky falls made me think that I ought to include more calcium in my diet (cheese would have been my preferred option, but I should be keeping the fats down) so now I have a daily half pint of skimmed milk in my porridge, and partake of the custard when it is on the menu.
    And cheese - can't live without any decent cheese at all
  • PriscillaPriscilla Shipmate
    Darllenwr isn’t keen on eggs, so eggs only get bought when a bread and butter pudding is in the offing. It’s also an excuse to experiment with versions of bread and butter pudding, as we always have surplus eggs.
  • I'm not too keen on eggs, and seriously dislike B&B pudding. Sorry.
  • It's only me drinking milk here and only because some comes in proper glass bottles. I get through 4 pints a week, 2 delivered, in cereal and in tea, drinking coffee black. My daughter drinks soya milk and I use that in cooking. The delivery was a bit flaky to start with, but it allows me to only shop once a week and if we were in isolation we could increase the order.

    I am really pleased with the Geocaching Adventure Lab* I most recently set up. It's a 4 mile walk** around an area with the remains of some Victorian defences of London (no, me neither until I researched it), traces of a radio station that was fascinating when I looked it up, a heritage railway, an old airbase, an ancient church with rookery and an additional small cemetery full of Commonwealth war graves and a couple flood defences. Currently the flood defence meadows are full of cowslips and the walk is really pretty, great views. It's had a few people going round it and the comments show that they are enjoying the walk.

    * they are challenges based around an area, need an app on a phone, where the idea is to walk around an area discovering more about it and answering questions on the app. A bit like a Treasure Trail, but only 5 questions for each Adventure Lab. This one has a bonus physical cache because I worked out a way of placing one without forcing a directional AL.
    ** someone has driven and walked the route so the four miles is not totally necessary, it's just pretty (and it takes in a few more real physical geocaches)
  • Boogie wrote: »
    The physios are by far the best listeners. They treat your difficulties as a problem to be solved and keep on asking questions and working out the possibilities until they find an answer/solution. 🙂

    Funny you should say that - I've found physios far keener to help me understand my dodgy knees than doctors (who you'd hope would at least point you physio-ward if that's what they thought you needed) - and it was a physio who told my brother that his hip was shagged. I suspect that the docs simply didn't see the possibility that someone in their late '30s would need a hip replacement (given that Dad had four - not bad for a man with only two legs - every twinge in the groin area makes me nervous!).

  • Physios also generally have more time to spend with patients and lots of practical knowledge.

    That Geocaching route sounds fabulous CK. We used to look for geocaching when out walking when my boys were younger and I love a bit of hidden history.

    I've done my morning admin and prepared my marking plan for the afternoon. I even spent half hour in the garden potting up some dahlia plugs. Now I need to heat up some soup for lunch before getting down to the slog of marking.
  • We haven't found many physios that helpful with hEDS, sadly.
  • Wesley JWesley J Shipmate
    edited April 14
    As I am on another teaching pause - this time the two-week spring break -, I'm taking it rather easy. It's great to read what you others are up to!

    Today was like Christmas - 5 parcels in one single day! 4 from the UK, and one locally, the latter with some mini buffers for my N gauge-ing mini trains. The other parcels contained e.g. the long-awaited Duralex glasses I mentioned in an earlier post, and some other useful items from Blighty (although partially made in China), amongst which the book 'Thing Explainer', which is even more fun to leaf through than I thought it would be! I'm sure I can use parts with some classes, but it is also very instructive to see things described in very simple language. :)

    I'm using my break to tidy up the house, and especially the study, where lots of teaching stuff and documents have been amassed over the past few (ehem..) years, and which definitely needs looking into, sorting out and chucking away. Out with the old, in with the new. Then, will probably visit some friends in the next couple of days, and possibly go for a nice longish walk or two.

    The weather's gone rather chilly again in Continental WesShire too, nighttime close to or below zero degree C, and daytimes max high single digits or low teens, but at least it is often sunny, if blustery.
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    I don't like the taste of milk. I put a tiny spot in my tea, but that's about it, apart from occasional porridge and custard. Captain Pyjamas drinks it, as you would expect for a person his age, but he has whole milk, rather than the semi-skimmed we use, so it doesn't really help on the finishing-it-before-it-goes-off front.

    Tonight's dinner is under way. I am making a proper ragu alla bolognese of the sort that needs to be cooked for four hours. While I wait for it to be ready and time to eat it, I think I can just live off the smell.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Perfectly lovely here, so I took the new mower out for the first cut of the year, then spent an hour or so working round the edges with hand shears. All to the sound of sawing and hammering from next door as they continue to construct their leaning Tower of Babel.

    I noticed as I went out yesterday a couple of vans delivering a summerhouse to a house opposite and the chap unloading confirmed yes, business was booming. (Looked up their website and was gratified to see their equivalent off-the-peg number to our custom-built shed+summerhouse costs £8k more).
  • Penny SPenny S Shipmate
    Something not nearly so light hearted - I have become aware that a foreign country, or a particular party in a foreign country is attempting to interfere in British politics. One attempt is Republican supporters of Trump funding one Tommy Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon), who is involved with a banned party over here and has faced criminal charges. Some of the funding was to support his legal expenses. One of the donors commented "an amusing story for that gutter rag the Commie Guardian". (Guess where I read this.) https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/12/tommy-robinson-asked-wealthy-us-backers-help-claim-asylum
    There is also the intrusion of a university group called Turning Point UK, an offshoot of a US group funded by the same sort of donors. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-47159137 The Conservatives have advised students not to touch it with the proverbial bargepole. They claim not to be confused with the long established addiction charity Turning Point, and so it is OK for them to use the same name (the US group has the same name).
    I'm aware of other stuff. Nothing from Democrats, though.
    I'm sure none of the Americans here need to be told to MYOB. Having opinions about the way other countries are governed is one thing. Interfering is another. Especially on the side of extremists who the security folk regard as a menace.
  • Penny S wrote: »
    I'm sure none of the Americans here need to be told to MYOB. Having opinions about the way other countries are governed is one thing. Interfering is another.

    Anyone remember when the Guardian organized a postcard-sending campaign to try to persuade undecided US voters to vote for the Democratic candidate? (I think it was Bush vs Kerry, but could be wrong.)
  • Penny SPenny S Shipmate
    Hmm. Where did they get the addresses from?
    And that isn't a question of supporting a criminal associated with a proscribed party.
  • Penny SPenny S Shipmate
    Change of subject - the bluetits who are feeding outside the window have now started to turn up with young which they feed beak to beak.
  • Good news, my husband has finally got a vaccine slot - in an obscure bowls club in town next week.
    Today's marking is done and I should contemplate cooking dinner. A box of plants has arrived so I might look at that and sneak in some gardening tomorrow morning.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    As Firenze said, it's been a glorious day in Embra, and it's a beautiful evening in Linlithgow. It's quarter to eight, the sun's still a couple of inches from setting and it was really quite warm as I walked home from the station.

    It does still pose the cold morning/warm afternoon question though. I thought I'd maybe sussed it when I ordered a couple of lightweight, loose-fitting raincoats from the interweb, but they haven't arrived yet (and according to the tracking link thingy, they're still in Guangzhou, so God only knows when they'll get here).
    Supper, for those who are interested in these things, was salmon baked with veggies.
  • I made Thai green chicken curry with kale and udon noodles.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Just tottered in from helping a couple of friends with the leftovers from a wine tasting. Only four bottles, but from a rather upscale Californian winery - one of the bottles retails at c £70 a knock. All very good wines altho' I think 14.5% for any Chardonnay, however good, is too much: to me, it just soured the finish.
  • PendragonPendragon Shipmate
    Today has been Dragonlet 2's 4th birthday. There was a pink unicorn cake. (And several unicorn cards.)

    The most exciting thing this week was a trip out to Monsal Head on Sunday afternoon. Mr Dragon was ringing handbells with a friend just down the road, so I took the Dragonlets through the tunnel and over and under the viaduct.

    Tomorrow I plan to brave the hordes and go shopping in the city centre for summer clothes and books.
  • What a day yesterday was! I Had My Hair Cut (for the first time since October, and as I usually wear it rather short and layered you can imagine what a mess it has been).

    And as if that wasn't enough excitement for one day, we went to the Tip! There was only a boot full of old electrical appliances and paint, but anything for an outing...

    We have TIG#2 for the day very shortly, and I did a 90-mile round trip on Monday to look after his Little Welsh Cousin - it keeps the car battery charged, too :grin: and on Tuesday I got to do the lower part of a high-ropes course with Miss S and TIG#1 <woohoo>

    On Friday we may just collapse in a heap, like the Collapsible Frink!
  • Life is about to get exciting!
    Second Covid Vaccination next week!
    Haircut the week after!
    Dentist a fortnight after that!
  • SarasaSarasa Shipmate
    Everyone seems to be coming out of hibernation. I'm off for my first indoor visit with my mother later today, and I was back volunteering in my local charity bookshop on Tuesday. Apart from that my life is carrying on in its lockdown normal, though I did take part in a brilliant book discussion online last night organised by Elizabeth Gaskell house.
    I couldn't get a hair appointment till early May. I booked it anyway even though at the time (a couple of weeks ago) I thought we might have moved by then. They way things are going I'll be pleased if we move by the end of May.
  • Nothing changing here lockdown-wise, as the decision has been made to keep us in tier 3 so 2nd home owners can travel here rather than allowing those of us who live here to meet friends indoors.
  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    Amazing isn’t it. Everyday things have become exciting. Things we haven’t been allowed for months.

    If we could have read this thread two years ago we’d have assumed there was a lot of sarcasm around!
  • Not out of hibernation much here either. I only had my first jab 3 weeks ago and other half has his next week. Younger son's daily trip to college is the only new feature here. Though we may have to pop to the garden centre on Saturday as we need some compost to pot up the dahlia tubers which arrived yesterday.
    Today should be a study day but I'm still working my way through my marking (which is somewhat tiring as my long covid/post-viral syndrome gives me a dysfunctional breathing pattern if I sit for long periods of time. I have to break it up by periods of walking around and/or breathing exercises.)
  • NenyaNenya Shipmate
    I'm always impressed to hear of how much you achieve, @Heavenlyannie ; my son's a lecturer and I know how much time and effort marking and preparation take, and you have the added complication of post-covid health issues.

    Things haven't changed a vast amount for the residents of Chateau Nen. We had coffee in our garden at the weekend with four friends (two households). I may go walking with more than one friend tomorrow :hushed: or - depending on what we decide to do - have coffee on the patio. Mr Nen went to our local pub yesterday evening with two friends and sat in the pub garden drinking beer.

    It's going to take me a while to get back to a browsing mindset when it comes to shopping. Our lovely, small, independent stationery shop opened this week and I went in on Tuesday intending to mooch about a bit, but it felt too crowded so I bought what I wanted and came straight back out again. The one clothes shop in town had no one in it at all. :disappointed:

    I'm in no hurry for a haircut - I've learned how to cut my own fringe and my hair is straight and unlayered. But Mr Nen has the dentist tomorrow! :wink:

    I have quite an important thing to get started on today and am therefore doing lots of cleaning and laundry.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    I normally have my hair long, so lockdown lack of hairdressers hasn't really bothered me. But, at the beginning of the first lockdown last year I was due to have my hair cut so I could cosplay Crowley from Good Omens (with dark red dye!) for EasterCon.
    That didn't happen, of course, but now I'm booked in for mid-May to have my hair styled like Jodie Whitaker so I can cosplay the Thirteenth Doctor for a Doctor Who event that has been postponed from February to June.
  • HeavenlyannieHeavenlyannie Shipmate
    edited April 15
    Nenya wrote: »
    I'm always impressed to hear of how much you achieve, @Heavenlyannie ; my son's a lecturer and I know how much time and effort marking and preparation take, and you have the added complication of post-covid health issues.
    Thanks - having regular bouts of mania does help! Seriously, having a mental illness has taught me the importance of routine and discipline in time management. But it has also taught me that I can say no to additional work and pressures and that sometimes I shouldn't work and should just take the day off instead. Flexible working from home is great for me.

    Eigon, what great cosplay fun! I've seriously missed my re-enactment dressing up over the last year. Victorian Christmas is always great fun, in my brown round dress and crinoline I look like I've stepped out of a sepia photograph, and I spend my day trying to evangelise the street women who are 'mistletoe sellers'* and trying to convince visitors to sign the pledge to abstain from alcohol.

    *We're a family friendly visit; they don't sell anything else, honest guv'.
  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    Eigon wrote: »
    I normally have my hair long, so lockdown lack of hairdressers hasn't really bothered me. But, at the beginning of the first lockdown last year I was due to have my hair cut so I could cosplay Crowley from Good Omens (with dark red dye!) for EasterCon.
    That didn't happen, of course, but now I'm booked in for mid-May to have my hair styled like Jodie Whitaker so I can cosplay the Thirteenth Doctor for a Doctor Who event that has been postponed from February to June.

    Now that is genuinely exciting! (Tho the Crowley ‘do appeals more!)
  • I take back what I said earlier about the lack of exciting outings here; husband has gone to a village pub garden for dinner with a colleague! Colleague booked the table a few weeks ago apparently and just surprised him with it.
    Dinner at home was going to be white fish in cheese sauce but now younger son and I will enjoy a delivered posh burger with chips, Oreo milkshake and a brownie.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I'm quite envious of all this pub-going and clothes shopping! I understand that non-essential shops are to open in a couple of weeks, and it will be nice to see Princes Street (and the High Street in Linlithgow) open again.

    One of the most depressing aspects of the lockdown has been walking up and down the street past all the closed-up shops, and wondering which of them will open again when they're allowed to.

    It's another beautiful day, and although I didn't win the bus lottery this morning, at least it wasn't quite as cold as it's been, so the wait could have been worse.

    Supper was risi et bisi - someone remind me I need to get more frozen peas next time I'm in Sainz Breeze.
  • Our neighbour has had the fence between our gardens replaced this week. I decided to paint our side as it was a bit too light and, much to my surprise, did the whole thing today. I thought I'd run out of the stuff and have to buy a big tub just to do the last few planks but - glory be - it did an "Elijah and the widow's cruse of oil" and I still have a little bit left over!
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    What is it with fences these days? The adjoining gardens of these houses, when we first moved here, had picket fences or hedges or elderly brick walls - but all in the height range of about 3 to 6 feet. Since the perimeter buildings are all at least two storey, a degree of overlooking is inherent. But in the last couple of years, which have seen a generational turnover in ownership, the fences have soared. I now have an 8ft down one side, and on the other they are constructing a sort of wooden Xanadu which will add about 3ft to the 7ft they already erected.

    There's definitely a MySpace (and bugger your share of the light/outlook) mindset going on.
  • A huge pile of wood has just arrived on our drive this morning so that Mr H can put up a new fence down one side of our terrace garden (our deeds designate responsibility for one side fence to us). It will be a picket fence and we consulted our neighbours about it (they are friends of ours). We have a tall fence right at the end around our decking area for privacy but that is only a few metres long.
    The other side has an 8 foot fence most of the way down with the odd gap around huge conifers where it is lower, and some old sections. I guess some reasons are privacy (they often have friends round), security (not much of an issue in the middle of this terrace though) and because they have children who kick balls around. They also have a large dog so we are quite pleased to have a high fence, when they originally put it up it the dog kept coming in our garden through the gaps.
  • Firenze wrote: »
    What is it with fences these days? The adjoining gardens of these houses, when we first moved here, had picket fences or hedges or elderly brick walls - but all in the height range of about 3 to 6 feet. Since the perimeter buildings are all at least two storey, a degree of overlooking is inherent. But in the last couple of years, which have seen a generational turnover in ownership, the fences have soared. I now have an 8ft down one side, and on the other they are constructing a sort of wooden Xanadu which will add about 3ft to the 7ft they already erected.

    There's definitely a MySpace (and bugger your share of the light/outlook) mindset going on.

    There is an historic "right to light" which covers light reaching windows, but I couldn't say how strict or enforceable it is.
  • There was a lovely article in the Guardian yesterday from Jay Rayner, extolling the joys of sharing things over the garden wall during lockdown. Being Jay Rayner it was mostly ingredients and the resulting food - link.

    I'm not looking forward to this morning's entertainment. Among the shops in town we have an old-fashioned haberdashery and wool shop. It sells the most incredible selection of sewing supplies, including some specialist stuff, some fabric, patterns, kits and loads of wool, repairs and mask-making. If they haven't got it, we're probably heading to McCulloch and Wallis or the fabric stores. However, they are stuck in a much earlier decade, take card payments on a dial up machine, nothing computerised, everything in the owner's head, rudimentary website and Facebook account; although they did take click and collect orders through this last lockdown, it was not a particularly effective system, and they lost a lot of sales.

    The local Knit and Natter has a very pushy woman who is trying to force these guys into the current decade, when they are quite happy poddling along where they are, particularly now we're back out of lockdown and they are busy again. Mrs Pushy is insisting that the Knit and Natter group gets involved in a campaign to save this shop and liking the owners, we offered to dress the shop window she's insisting must be done to tie into the Sewing Bee agreeing on the WhatsApp group that this was our job. The shop has two windows and no, they are not dressed fashionably, but they are in full sun and anything that goes into them is bleached and unsaleable very fast, so I can understand reluctance in putting the more expensive stuff in the windows.

    Now we talked to the husband on Tuesday, and other than getting the strong impression that so long as the shop is not haemorrhaging money, he is happy where they are. His biggest request was we got Mrs Pushy off his back. But we agreed that the dead sewing machine we have would be a suitable window prop. Yesterday we walked the sewing machine down and chatted to the wife, who had had a conversation with Mrs Pushy on Wednesday about the window. Cue me posting a note on the WhatsApp group as to what we are doing and saying I was a bit confused as to whether we were still doing the window? (And giggling at the autofill suggestions that I was annoyed or concerned. Autofill seemed disappointed by my use of confused.)

    So today we're dressing a shop window to shut Mrs Pushy up, at least temporarily.
  • MMMMMM Shipmate
    The last case I read about right to light - a few years back, I’m retired now - suggests that it is alive and well and enforceable (in England at any rate).

    MMM
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