Will check this out. Trying to figure out how much actual storage (and books) they should hold! I've got time......... 😵‍💫

Currently downloading my kindle library onto my 'old' kindles. wonder how long that's going to take me! and how to easy figure out if I've managed to download ALL the books and not missed any. Shall I manage this before Amazon cuts me off?!

They are dreadful :-(

I'm just assume I'm f***** Been a full-time carer for my parents for a years now. My friends are looking towards retirement. I'm thinking 'how the hell am I going to find a job I'm physically & mentally fit enough to do & actually just capable of doing' when my caring duties end. Work til I drop!

*seriously pissed off my 94 year mother has to sit in the bloody cold; and as much as we'd like a heat pump and solar panels, we can't afford them*

Seriously, which country has been extorting and blackmailing the world recently??

Just f*** off home & stop trying to 'help' the rest of us. We didn't ask for your help and don't want your help.

Britain's shadow workforce is paid as little as 65p an hour. Who cares for the carers? | Frances Ryan Carer’s allowance turns 50 this year, but it’s no reflection of the labour of the millions who cook, clean and nurse behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Today is the 50th anniversary of
Carer’s Allowance.

I wrote about the 6 million people in the U.K. who are unpaid carers - and why it’s time the state stopped asking them to prop up the broken care system whilst pushing them into poverty and ill health. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If it was still under warranty they'd probably send you a new one :-)

Happy Birthday.

But have oranges not clementines, and may not have ginger or honey.... (spice cupboard is a bit poorly right now).

Thinking of:
Steep Peas,
Roast Potatoes.
Roast Duck,
Gravy
Stuffing
& maybe Delia's Braised Celery with Cheese & Onion Sauce.

Pavlova with whipped cream & raspberries & Strawberries

Have the potatoes mashed and the breadcrumbs made (for stuffing), pavlova baked. Peas to steep tonight before bed. Seemingly I bought a duck instead of a chicken. Never cooked a full duck before. Was thinking of Gessingham's 'Festive spiced roast duck with roasted clementines, spices and honey...

Vote for the best of the internet I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.

Just to follow up on yesterday’s post… I’m still kind of amazed Geekstorians is up for a Webby. It’s a small, independent show, very much still growing, and it’s up against some big hitters. If you fancy helping, you can vote here: wbby.co/57464N

#SaveDenby

Art house cinemas in UK/Ireland foreign films have subtitles. Foreign tv shows/films shown on tv for many years. I hate dubbing. Always subtitles. Hate that streaming services default ALL shows to english language rather than native show language+subtitle. Watch our shows with subtitles too!

Anyone had any difficulties porting their number to Lebara?
O2 retentions telling me I can't keep my number!!! WTF.
O2 also not price matching at all any of the O2 offers I see on comparison sites.
Half the amount of GB for the same price, though actually enough for me.... but it is the principle

oooo.. I just added it to my watchlist last night. Looking forward to seeing it

🤣 Yup. Me too. In the middle of the night / early hours, not 9-5.

I really didn't get that. It might have been an all-girls school, but for goodness sake, some of us were going to be engineers! The sock thing only came in when I was in the Upper school. A new rule, that year. Previous Upper school years didn't have it.
(Not that engineers don't wear fashion)

And I hope you manage to brave the weather to get some writng done. That sounds a lot more productive than my coffee excuse 😁

We have a new coffee shop opened up - run by people who had a great wee restaurant in our village. We've all been anticipating it's opening as they make great food. Thought I'd use, 'going for a coffee', as an excuse to get some exercise.....its got a bit cold outside... and wet.....

Lower-Upper 6th we got to wear skirt & jumper again. Then they changed it so we HAD to wear tights instead of socks. I hate tights with a vengeance. I never wore tights!

Can't remember the last time I wore a skirt. Only dress-like thing was that school pinafore. Wore jeans & t-shirts when lecturing

I hated my school uniform at Grammar school. In primary I could wear a skirt or pinafore and jumper or cardigan. Entered Grammar school and HAD to wear a pinafore and cardigan from Form 1-5. I felt like I was a small child again. It was horrendous.

*hugs*

Yes, I hated when I went to Grammar School and my classmates wrote in a script that I could hardly decipher, but that did not inspire me to waste time learning to write illegibly.

Still, I suppose, they copied off me rather than me off them 😜

I did learn 'joined up writing' but it did not include loops and swirls and flourishes. It is basic, but clear and simple and doesn't require me to have major artistic ability. She realised that so many children have bad enough handwriting, why complicate it more with extras that are not needed.

This nitpicking about cursive seems to be a very USA issue. Haven't seen people from other countries complaining about it. I'm Gen X. My mother (now 94) taught me how to write (she was my primary school teacher). She has really lovely flourishy writing.

Connections
Puzzle #1015
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Yup. I'm Irish and don't drink either. Never broke my pioneer pledge! 😆 But it seems impossible to explain this supposed contradiction.

Border poll it is then!