COVID-19 Day 1 of Remote Working

VickiA said:
Hang about.... how have you managed to keep a Xmas Selection Box til Easter?
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I've only just finished a box of chocs I was given just before Christmas. I still have a Pannetone, 2 bags of special nuts, 2 tins of Amaretti, shortbread and a tin of Gin sweeties...

A gentle reminder - gatherings are FORBIDDEN 😉🤣
 
HeatherW said:
You think that's impressive? It's three years out of date!
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I can beat that - we have a chocolate chess box which is 3.5 years out of date, and a Flying Scotsman tin of mint humbugs 6 years out of date!
I don't really know why we have kept them - the choc especially will be no good :hmm:
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
I can beat that - we have a chocolate chess box which is 3.5 years out of date, and a Flying Scotsman tin of mint humbugs 6 years out of date!
I don't really know why we have kept them - the choc especially will be no good :hmm:
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My OH is a hoarder, so he's using this time to clear out the house. It's not uncommon to uncover receipts from 2013...
 
HeatherW said:
My OH is a hoarder, so he's using this time to clear out the house. It's not uncommon to uncover receipts from 2013...
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2013? That's nothing! As some of you know we moved into my MIL's house last October I found medicine in the bathroom cabinet dating back to 2007, old cheque stubs from 1974 ......
 
Betsy said:
2013? That's nothing! As some of you know we moved into my MIL's house last October I found medicine in the bathroom cabinet dating back to 2007, old cheque stubs from 1974 ......
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When we moved into my in laws house we found no end of stuff, many years ago they used to run the village shop, you can imagine what we found!
 
Spaghetti & Noodles said:
When we moved into my in laws house we found no end of stuff, many years ago they used to run the village shop, you can imagine what we found!
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@Spaghetti & Noodles , I don't know if you have a queue at your door but do you have a spare packet of pasta and a bottle of tomatoe sauce. Just asking:inn:
 
I remember 1976 was a particularly good year. The sun shone from May to October. The only problem then was there was a water shortage and we were told to share a bath. Hard times.
Thanks for the offer but I have just realised I couldn't bike down to Oxfordshire in the hours exercise time we are allowed.
 
worried val of york said:
I remember 1976 was a particularly good year. The sun shone from May to October. The only problem then was there was a water shortage and we were told to share a bath. Hard times.
Thanks for the offer but I have just realised I couldn't bike down to Oxfordshire in the hours exercise time we are allowed.
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Yes, Denis Howell was appointed Minister for Drought. Then we had rain, and more rain, and he became Minister for Floods instead! 🤪 Oh and there was a plague of ladybirds too. Happy days!
 
I was born in 1976, and my Mum never tires of telling me how awful it was being pregnant that summer, the whole neighbourhood had to get water from 1 standpipe tap at the end of the street, and how she should have known I'd be a bit strange due to all the omens and portents like freak plagues of ladybirds! :)
 
I had forgotten the stand pipes. But now remember that half the street had water and the other didn't. So water had to be stored in buckets and bowls and anything else you could find. Luckily there was a pond at the bottom of the garden so we could nip over to gather water to flush toilets. It seems a lifetime away now. But the good thing was that @PigglePuggle was born that year.
 
VickiA said:
Hang about.... how have you managed to keep a Xmas Selection Box til Easter?
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Swissgreys said:
:yikes: :yikes: :yikes:
I am on my way - you can just fling it out the front door at me.
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Betsy said:
I was wondering the same thing! Maybe it's an empty box meant to tempt us? 🤔
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I was trying to work out if it was a cadburys selection box!
Seriously that's impressive!

HeatherW said:
You think that's impressive? It's three years out of date!
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Maybe that's more impressive? How on earth have you managed to resist so long... Or is it really just an empty box? ;)

worried val of york said:
@Spaghetti & Noodles , I don't know if you have a queue at your door but do you have a spare packet of pasta and a bottle of tomatoe sauce. Just asking:inn:
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I have some spaghetti in the cupboard, best before about 2014... I never realised I eat spaghetti so little! It's not me panic buying off the shelf this time, you're welcome to it if you want it? :eek:

HeatherW said:
Day 18 of remote working

I am in desperate need of a haircut.

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Looks like mine, I've been battling it with the tweezers the last few days :yikes: ... This self isolating, isn't all it cracked up to be!
It does look nice, white& soft though-what shampoo do you use on it? 🎅

This threads great :nod: we need some fun&laughter :clap:
 
I remember in 1976 we had to flush the loo using the bathwater and a bucket. We only had a standpipe at the top of the road for a week or 2. Mum had to do all the washing in the sink which she wasn't very happy about especially when it was bed stripping day.
 
Betsy said:
I remember in 1976 we had to flush the loo using the bathwater and a bucket. We only had a standpipe at the top of the road for a week or 2. Mum had to do all the washing in the sink which she wasn't very happy about especially when it was bed stripping day.
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To this millennial, that all sounds vaguely familiar...

 
PigglePuggle said:
I was born in 1976, and my Mum never tires of telling me how awful it was being pregnant that summer, the whole neighbourhood had to get water from 1 standpipe tap at the end of the street, and how she should have known I'd be a bit strange due to all the omens and portents like freak plagues of ladybirds! :)
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Well, if it's of any comfort to your dear old mum , you're a very nice kind of strange!

And as I often say, dare to be different!
 
HeatherW said:
To this millennial, that all sounds vaguely familiar...

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:) Dad's the same, uphill both ways, 10 miles through the snow (it was 2, I checked the map, I know he's ancient but continental drift isn't that fast). But, at least in working class life, things were incredibly hard by comparison, tins baths taken in turns, picking crops in summer holidays to supplement the diet, domestic violence, corporal punishment by teachers that'd been in the war and never quite left it behind (they sent a letter to my Gran apologising for forgetting how many times they'd caned him for the same offence, I think it was 6 in the end). Poulteses to treat anything short of an amputation so as not to bother the Dr.
 
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