And tomorrow is an Shopping Day.
(Gets out extry-warm scarf.)
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Not as long as someâŚ
This is a download from a commercial SW provider. Current estimate 4h 38m. Youâd get faster transfer rates on dial-upâŚ
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Ah, a fibre connection. Jute fibre that is âŚ
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Well, technically⌠[grin]
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Very light sner here. (I mean, it could be rain, only itâs coming down slowly. And in my head-torch of DOOM I can see each individual drop.)
Glorious Ĺ koda gets an overnight battery top-up given how little actual driving Iâm doing at the moment and how nearly-fruz itâll be in the morning.
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Our weather has been cold and misty (1°C when we ventured out this arvo). Ner sner today, but a little bit a couple of days ago. I do hope that the reported 3" has not truly stopped traffic, otherwise Janie might be a tad scathing 
We did an Aldi shop, today. Some people in the store were not taking the full festering message of the season on board. One young woman koffed loudly and exuberantly in our general vicinity and was not wearing a face covering. Two other chaps were koffing, albeit into masks, and while I accept that we are in the season of koffs and kolds I couldnât wait to buzz home. Which I did, having forgotten to buy fresh parsley for our NYE prawn biryani. Bugga.
Soo xx
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[loud sneezity, from a safe distance]
Annoying about the parsley, wee Bee. Bugga indeed.
I have a stupid cold thingy. Protracted sneezing frenzies interspersed with longer (yay!) stretches of more-or-less normal. The frenzies are spectacularly noisy, though. Would be mortifying in a shop - and problematic in a mask.
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Our Aldi is really awkward to get to, & the carpark holds about 15 cars. On the opposite bit of awkwardness is Big Tesco, the largest in the country when it was built. I havenât been in there for 18 months, & am certainly not queuing to now.
The Internetty has been behaving very oddly for a few days now, or perhaps itâs just meâŚ
Carinthia.xx
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I sneezed five times in Aldi, but muffled this - risking whatâs left of the beely brains.
Soo xx
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Our Aldi has a massive carpark with luxuriously wide parking bays, Carinthia. Mr Bee likes this. I used to like their gin, but am convinced that itâs gone a bit weakâŚ
Good nights, Cellarites,
Soo xx
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Goodness Soo
Do have an bottle of full strength to take with you⌠
Carinthia.xx
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Tried muffling a couple of belters just now, and will be using that as an excuse for any ratiocinatory shortcomings for the foreseeableâŚ
[resentful sneezity]
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Before all this Shite, I could clear a shop with my sneezing.
Itizz now snowing
Carinthia.xx
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Doesnât seem to have stuck, here.
Out shoppinâ shortly. Today feels like a day for the little slitty knife (âif you werenât standingâ so close youâd still have your kidneysâ).
Woken by a crow, crowing. In general I quite like crows but I shall have to have Words wiv this one.
yardarm
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Do crows crow? I have always believed that cocks crow but crows caw, which is silly now I think of it but I never have before.
Thought, I mean.
About anything, possibly.
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Corvids are great imitators
Bacon butties ready folk
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To Be or Not to Be.
I sometimes think Iâd rather crow
And be a rooster than to roost
And be a crow. But I dunno.
A rooster he can roost also,
Which donât seem fair when crows canât crow.
Which may help some. Still I dunno.
Crows should be glad of one thing, though ;
Nobody thinks of eating crow,
While roosters they are good enough
For anyone unless theyâre tough.
There are lots of tough old roosters, though,
And anyway a crow canât crow,
So mebby roosters stand more show.
It looks that way. But I dunno.
(Taken from Rosemary Chadwickâs Notebook, 1946; attributed J.M.N.)
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I love that and havenât come across it before, thanks.
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Hedgers the Ripper, eh?
(And guess what I now craveâŚ)
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âPeople donât appreciate the artistry that goes into this. Everybody thinks they can slice up a few tarts and go down in history, but itâs just not that easy.â
Back from shops. Weary.
This crow was definitely crowinâ. There had probably bin eyeballs involved.
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