I remember backpacking in Thailand and needing the toilet - a hole in the ground - which filled my delicate sensibilities with horror. Worse still, as I was about to crouch, a frog popped out of the hole. I lost my nerve at this point.
Also remembering holidays where you have to throw the toilet paper in the bin and then coming home and the instinct almost to throw the toilet paper around the room - especially when waking in the night!
Kingsfold - as far as I remember, the bagged up toilet paper just went in with the ordinary rubbish, which was a skip in the street. Households didn't have their own personal bins to put out for rubbish collection.
Those skips were great fun at the end of the holiday season - all sorts of things were left by them by local cafes and so on which were closing down for the winter, so you could get quite decent chairs and so on. The British who lived there called it "Wombling".
My computer which somehow ate the Christmas cake recipe I make every year for a friend. It is so simple, but I may have to make a more complicated one.
[...] That's what my mother says to me ... but she is the woman who walks around the house whilst you are eating with dog poo on a shovel and she thinks nothing of it.
Why are you eating with dog poo on a shovel? Wouldn't it be easier just to use knife and fork and spoon?
Bank customer service lines - esp their hold music. HSBC, you are guilty as charged. We have now spent an hour and a half calling up to do something which should only take 5 minutes. I could cry. The hold music is dreadful.
[...] That's what my mother says to me ... but she is the woman who walks around the house whilst you are eating with dog poo on a shovel and she thinks nothing of it.
Why are you eating with dog poo on a shovel? Wouldn't it be easier just to use knife and fork and spoon?
Haha - bit of eats, shoots and leaves there! Grammar could have been way better!
There was a frog that lived in my parents' toilet in the tropics. It'd swim up the pipes and sing at night. This meant a pre-use flush of the toilet as well as after. Poor little gaffer swam like the dickens and spiralled away time after time. We called him "poopy frog".
Meanwhile, my real visit to this topic is because of seeing someone throw away the center of a jelly doughnut. The center of it! The best part of it! The reason you get a jelly doughnut. This world is full of monsters. Crazy terrible monsters!
Microsoft Teams. Dragonlet 1 has to use the schools version for lessons whilst he is isolating. Got loads of error messages setting it up last night, and discovered this afternoon that it is pernicity about trying to change the piece of work submitted. (He had clicked submit too early on his RE lesson assignment.
I don't think that the school would have chosen Year 1 as their guinea pigs though.
In England that is the second year of school (he is 6 and one of the older ones.) Unfortunately a positive Covid 19 test in his class bubble means that all of them have to stay home for 2 weeks, hence setting up lessons on Teams, with some independent work to submit for other topics. Obviously at his age there will be quite a bit of supervision and support from us. The school had been starting to introduce it to pupils so they were ready in case, but events somewhat overtook that. I have also been given a couple of workbooks tonight for him by "sibling mail".
I believe that if Nursery had to shut they would still do a video phonics lesson and some other activities during the day.
Come, come - doughnuts-with-gravy are excellent Comfort Food, like chips-with-gravy...
I wouldn't entirely deny the possibility this is a thing somewhere. But then I view the use of brioche as a burger bun as a disturbing and unholy mix of sweet and savoury. You know that bit about milk and meat in (Orthodox Jewish interpretation of) the Torah? If I'd been God it would have been mixing sweet and savoury that was forbidden.
I'll put Google Meets, which is what we are using for our suddenly now shielding students who need very high levels of support owing to their complex disabilities, in hell. Or maybe I should just put last week's sudden changes to the Clinically Extremely Vulnerable list there instead? Actually, I'll put both.
We had been slowly trying to get our students used to it in college but me and the parents concerned are tearing our hair out over the suddenness of them having to use it at home with parents who had never used Google Drives at all. Only the fact we know this is helping with the isolation factor is keeping us all going.
Year 1? Are they expecting kids who have just started school to have remote lessons via Teams???
Schools round here (including Kindergarten) have been doing school on zoom since September. There are kids whose only experience of school is zoom on a chromebook.
I'd actually call them either jelly doughnuts or jam doughnuts. Following the lead of others. Any which way you look at it, it's awfully terrible to chuck it out.
Re sweet and savoury: If I'm making a curried something, the masala (spice) rule taught to me by my father (who recently died) is that hot spice needs balance with sweet spice. Thus a curry with land mines (hot peppers) in it, it is good to add some cinnamon.
TICTH the person living in the flat above our Churches Together charity shop. Having been making preparations to finally re-open it next week, he/they have flooded it - for the second time (I don't know how ... overflowing bath?)
I can't imagine running a bath for so long that it would overflow.
TICTH coronavirus* - West Lothian has been put into Tier 4 for the next three weeks.
* I'm condemning the virus, not the Scottish government- I presume they have their reasons - but it's an embuggerance nonetheless.
We had trouble in the previous house with a dodgy pipe joint under the bath that would leak, and the overflow was also prone to leaking if it came into use.
TICTH the person living in the flat above our Churches Together charity shop. Having been making preparations to finally re-open it next week, he/they have flooded it - for the second time (I don't know how ... overflowing bath?)
In my student days, I lived -but-one to someone who flooded the corridor outside his room (fortunately not quite as far as my room) on two separate occasions within a three month period with his shower. Living near him taught me not to underestimate the ability of apparently intelligent people to do ridiculously stupid things.
People who are again buying up paper products. I tried to buy some toilet paper and there were only two rolls on the store shelf. When I asked a clerk he said people are buying it up again for fear of a shortage.
People stop you are the ones making a shortage.
Yeah, there are news stories here (SF Bay Area) about another round of panic buying. I wonder if some of it has to do with upcoming holidays? (Thanksgiving, this month; plus various forms of Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, and other things; and New Year's.) Wanting to make sure they have enough for any in-person meals; and enough to comfort eat to make up for being on their own. And, of course, many people are "food insecure" or even truly starving. So if they're lucky to have a little money and find some good sales, they may stack up.
Plus upcoming winter weather and driving conditions. And wanting to skip a lot of protected trips to grocery stores.
I'm sorry that happened. Sometimes, the problem is with the equipment (pipes, etc.), and nothing the tenant has done. And if the person is away for several hours, they may not see the problem in time to do anything about it. And the problem may well be within walls, floors, and ceilings.
I wonder...if this is a lone apartment over a charity store, has it gotten much in the way of regular maintenance and repair? Is it an old building?
I fear that's going to be a problem here in the not-too-distant future - the combination of coronavirus and the logistical bollocks that is Brexit is likely to produce a total clusterfuck.
Last week I went to Costco (warehouse-type store) and had toilet paper on my list. As soon as I walked in I saw that the end of every aisle had a HUGE stack of 36-roll packages. I also noticed that almost every grocery cart I passed had a package, as did mine.
However, there was a line in one section for bottled water and paper towels, with a limit on what one could buy. (I wanted neither item, so I don't know what the limit was.)
Yesterday I stopped by a "regular" grocery store. I noticed that the toilet paper shelves were just about empty.
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Also remembering holidays where you have to throw the toilet paper in the bin and then coming home and the instinct almost to throw the toilet paper around the room - especially when waking in the night!
Those skips were great fun at the end of the holiday season - all sorts of things were left by them by local cafes and so on which were closing down for the winter, so you could get quite decent chairs and so on. The British who lived there called it "Wombling".
Why are you eating with dog poo on a shovel? Wouldn't it be easier just to use knife and fork and spoon?
Bing, the so called search engine. It may be OK in other places, but for searching NZ stuff it is abysmal.
I Googled and found my recipe in a 2007 article in The Southland Times. Thank goodness for small, provincial newspapers.
Haha - bit of eats, shoots and leaves there! Grammar could have been way better!
Meanwhile, my real visit to this topic is because of seeing someone throw away the center of a jelly doughnut. The center of it! The best part of it! The reason you get a jelly doughnut. This world is full of monsters. Crazy terrible monsters!
Which? The shoes, or the doughnut centre(s)?
(BTW, I think we in Ukland would say *jam*, rather than jelly, no?)
I don't think that the school would have chosen Year 1 as their guinea pigs though.
Gravy-ring? In what universe does gravy have anything to do with doughnuts?
I believe that if Nursery had to shut they would still do a video phonics lesson and some other activities during the day.
I wouldn't entirely deny the possibility this is a thing somewhere. But then I view the use of brioche as a burger bun as a disturbing and unholy mix of sweet and savoury. You know that bit about milk and meat in (Orthodox Jewish interpretation of) the Torah? If I'd been God it would have been mixing sweet and savoury that was forbidden.
No - I don't know why either ...
We had been slowly trying to get our students used to it in college but me and the parents concerned are tearing our hair out over the suddenness of them having to use it at home with parents who had never used Google Drives at all. Only the fact we know this is helping with the isolation factor is keeping us all going.
Schools round here (including Kindergarten) have been doing school on zoom since September. There are kids whose only experience of school is zoom on a chromebook.
Re sweet and savoury: If I'm making a curried something, the masala (spice) rule taught to me by my father (who recently died) is that hot spice needs balance with sweet spice. Thus a curry with land mines (hot peppers) in it, it is good to add some cinnamon.
A well-known doughnut chain here in Australia used to sell doughnut holes - little fried balls of dough coated in sugar.
Dunkin' Donuts* does that (called Munchkins), as do other bakeries.
*I know they've dropped the "Donuts" from their name, but that just doesn't make sense to me.
They also welcome people who just stick their fingers into their coffee and suck them.
In Canada they're called Timbits (from Tim Horton's, the coffee-and-doughnut chain there).
I recall a friend from the UK on first seeing Timbits, remarking, "Poor Tim".
TICTH coronavirus* - West Lothian has been put into Tier 4 for the next three weeks.
* I'm condemning the virus, not the Scottish government- I presume they have their reasons - but it's an embuggerance nonetheless.
Alcohol induced sleepiness and distractibility are often involved when this happens.
We had trouble in the previous house with a dodgy pipe joint under the bath that would leak, and the overflow was also prone to leaking if it came into use.
I think that, or dementia, may well be the cause. But I don't actually know.
In my student days, I lived -but-one to someone who flooded the corridor outside his room (fortunately not quite as far as my room) on two separate occasions within a three month period with his shower. Living near him taught me not to underestimate the ability of apparently intelligent people to do ridiculously stupid things.
People stop you are the ones making a shortage.
Plus upcoming winter weather and driving conditions. And wanting to skip a lot of protected trips to grocery stores.
I'm sorry that happened. Sometimes, the problem is with the equipment (pipes, etc.), and nothing the tenant has done. And if the person is away for several hours, they may not see the problem in time to do anything about it. And the problem may well be within walls, floors, and ceilings.
I wonder...if this is a lone apartment over a charity store, has it gotten much in the way of regular maintenance and repair? Is it an old building?
FWIW, YMMV.
However, there was a line in one section for bottled water and paper towels, with a limit on what one could buy. (I wanted neither item, so I don't know what the limit was.)
Yesterday I stopped by a "regular" grocery store. I noticed that the toilet paper shelves were just about empty.