The Round Table

I told you so!

Today I received an email from united utilities asking me to go easy on the use of water, yesterday we were flooded with the risk of further outbreaks to come, however they say that their reservoirs are running perilously low and flash flooding does ...

Express Yourself * photos, etc.

Please Don't Go ~ Barcelonahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7deClndzQw&t=5~

What’s happening?

With the destruction of the Colston statue in Bristol it is reported that along with the Rhodes memorial, Churchill and nelson are in the firing line as well as the following:-The Kitchener Memorial, OrkneyDuke of Sutherland statue, Golspie“Jim Crow”...

The British - What's Good? What's Bad?

Thread title inspired by this video which I came across to-day...

Minor things that bother you

What are your pet peeves? If I get the bus, I find it offensive when people sitting at the back use the seat infront as a foot rest. God knows what they might have tread on outside and other people have to sit there. I don't mind if people eat on pub...

The BBC, again.

They've done it again! They've removed the links to "Local news sites"' That is, the links at the bottom of regional news pages which link to regional newspapers etc. They were there yesterday morning but at night they'd gone. They often remove them ...

Puppy prices

are going through the roof.Apparently puppies are in short supply because so many people have wanted them during lockdown, and I worry that some new owners have not given much thought to the long term and when they are back at work.Some argue that th...

Nationwide adverts?

Does anyone think those looooooooooooooong rambling Nationwide adverts will encourage more people to use the Nationwide? Advertising used to be viewed on a cost-effective basis in that the increased business outweighed the advertising costs so, as th...

A government !! What a joke

So it is alright to drive 260 miles after the lockdown has begun and one of the main rules is, "if you show symptoms you must isolate in your primary residence with your family".Well what they should have said is that is what you must do unless you a...

Anyone in the music industry?

Is there anyone on here involved with the music industry? I was wondering about miming!! You watch an "official video" of an act performing one of their songs and it sounds wonderful, just like the "record" but watching carefully the lip/mouth moveme...

Anyone else seeing more suburban wild life since "Stay at home" started?

Around where I live the council has left the playing fields un-mowed and hedges un-cut. There have been less people walking their dogs, or just walking / jogging on the fields and some parts have turned into seas of wild-flowers, mostly Daisies but w...

Isolating.

A quick question...do you think the public in general have followed the isolation rules? Do you know people who have not followed the rules? Have you kept to the rules yourselves?

Covid-19.

Reading and listening to the news reports about the spread of the virus, the common denominator seems to be travel? Surely if travel was halted until the incidences of the virus have "died down", the spread to other countries wouldn't happen?

The contact-tracing app?

What's the point of it? If you've not got any symptoms, you're told to stay off it? If you have symptoms you shouldn't be out anyway?

Ebay adverts - Trolls and 94 seconds voiceovers??!!

Hi all!It’s really bugging me...does anyone know who does the voiceovers for the new eBay adverts with the trolls and 94 seconds? I keep thinking it sounds like Hugh Dennis but I’m sure it’s not...anyone know?Thanks!

Will she make 100?

The Queen is 94 today. She's knocking on now and has been Queen for 68 years. Amazing? Will she make it to 100? She still seems bright and perky with all her marble so she could well see three figures?

More Empty Shelves??

I went to the local Lidl today. I could understand the empty spaces where S. African grapes, some salad from the Southern hemisphere or tropical fruit should be. But why has medium sliced bread disappeared, or one and two pint bottles of milk? Even s...

Applause for the rest

Yes, the NHS deserves all the applause it gets, but lets not forget the others In particular, our wonderful posties and couriers, who keep our purchases coming and boost morale. Supermarket and other food shop staff who keep us fed Probably a lot of ...

Osprey cams

It's that time of year for Osprey watching.There's a new live webcam at Poole Harbour where the female, CJ7, has been nest building and is waiting for her man.To watch, the link is here and there is also info on the website about the translocation pr...

SpaceX Starlink Satellites

A few opportunities to see the lines of the many SpaceX satellites this week, including tonight.Go to Findstarlink.com and enter your lat and long.For down south it's about 10.34pm but could apparently be half an hour earlier, look from West to NE, s...

Resolved! The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ...

side of humans during this pandemic.Quite an eye opener. Doctors and nurses and other key workers risking their own lives to help people while the selfish care nothing about others or worse try to make a profit from the crisis, and the thugs and vand...

Going to the supermarket ?.BE AWARE !.

It appears that the v can stay alive for quite a while on certain surfaces so i am quite shocked that many supermarkets etc do not quite understand this. I went to 3 top name supermarkets this morning and all 3 had the same system in place. Usually a...

Just witnessed something unbelievable

If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes I would never have believed it. My neighbours cat just took a stroll across my lawn, got to the flower beds, did her business, then dug a hole and buried it !

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Happy birthday Cee Dee xx

Happy birthday, have a lovely day.xx

Happy Easter

Wherever you're in lockdown Great weather eh? Looks like we had all our April showers with the March windsWhat are you lot doing?Astro and marge gimme some of them chocs you are hiding

BBC repeats online

BBC online player is showing repeats of various programmes, but why are they never in order? Father Brown started off OK with Series One, episodes 1, 2 and 3.It then jumped to Series Eight With Eggheads, they missed an episode outWent smoothly to epi...

New Update

A REMINDER ON HOSPITAL VISITING POLICY The Department of Health in Northern Ireland said on Thursday that visiting in hospitals has ended as part of plans to deal with the Covid-19 surge.You won't be able see your family member or friends, except in ...

Recycling Centres, garden centres

After closing recycling centres .....I wondered when the fly tipping would start Places are starting to look like a Spanish cliff (no offence to Spain I just remember a botany trip round Southern Spain in the 90s and every time I look at a view from ...

Porkies, Power and Propaganda

Hmmm, what is Beijing up to?https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-coronavirus-pandemic-is-the-breakthrough-xi-jinping-has-been-waiting-for-and-hes-making-his-move/A longish read, but thought provoking?