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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 35m

Was looking at a thing about elder stereotypes: [carrying cash] 'may be seen as old-fashioned... in fact it’s practical, reliable, and allows them options when cards aren’t accepted.' What about where CASH isn't accepted? Too many Brit shops etc. are trying to force us to become a cashless society!

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 9h

Everybody's different obviously, and I'm not medically qualified. But I'd have thought sitting on such a cushion for long, would increase the risk of prolapse.

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 9h

The only thing I remember was how the characters were floored by every quite mundane thing they discovered. Sorry Dan, having characters overreact, doesn't make a dull story exciting - it's just irritating.

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 1d

We've still got a VHS player! Not sure about tapes. I recall Able committing many of his beloved tapes to a skip we hired many years ago. Know what you mean about cables, old connectors etc., though. I'm sure they breed somehow. Must be why as soon as you turn your back, you find they've tangled up!

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 1d

Yes - unfortunately he'll profit, whoever the new owner is, and whether the land is broken up or bought as one tract, and whether is goes to a conservationist trust, or commercial interests which will ruin it for their own profit.

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 1d

🤔😀Oh my gods. How funny!

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 1d

If you can't be arsed clicking, it's "The 10 'worst' books of all time ranked according to readers...", and the one I'm referring to is Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code. I'm glad I'm not alone in my opinion, anyway. I gave up after about 50 pages. A slow reader, I'll never get that time back!😀

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 1d

Thankfully, the only one I've read at all is #10. It was on a booksheIf where I was housesitting; very popular at the time, so I had a look. It's the only book I remember starting, but giving up on - truly awful.

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 1d

Earwig-oh - forcing some people to get smart meters. Wonder how long before they start coercing the rest of us, on whom persuasion still isn't working?

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 1d

It always amazes me that folk will help fund a stranger's funeral, or getting somebody 'home' who's failed to buy proper travel insurance and fallen ill. They probably wouldn't give to a beggar on the street! Surely the crowd-funding family can't be known to all the Ks of donors? It's weird.

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 1d

Just a suggestion - this might be a more worthy recipient of people's charitable donations, than most of the 'news' articles accompanied by that inevitable GoFundMe link?

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Why David Attenborough wants your help buying the UK's biggest plot of land sold for 30 years

The Rothbury Estate has come up for sale, marking the largest single plot of land to enter the English market in 30 years.

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 2d

In the interests of fairness: www.msn.com/en-gb/news/t...

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 2d

Tbf, households with several women who menstruate and/or have young kids who use nappies, could easily fill a bin with non-recyclables in less than 4 weeks. For a council to claim landfill bins should contain only bread wrappers and crisp bags is condescending, unimaginative and thoughtless.

Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 2d

Scary fellow, that jellyfish! Love the 'bells' as they swim away...

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 2d

Mind you, some households we know of do produce much more waste than one would expect for the number of residents, and seem to find recycling, too baffling to perform. By 'contaminating' loads, these neighbours may negate the work of those like us, who make an effort to comply.

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 2d

Fair point. Cox-y was quite the attractive 'TV friendly scientist', back in the day, and so can still get media attention. But in the end we each choose the theory we want to believe, in the absence of proof, and I just don't think it's aliens.

Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 2d

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The council claim, 'if recycling is done properly, resident’s [landfill] bins “will only contain light, non-recyclable materials such as plastic film”' is bollix. What of nappies, inco pads? And not everybody has transport, to take excess waste to the tip. Assumptions!

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 3d

Do what you feel like doing; the advantage of living alone, is that you can. Your biological clock naturally responds to when it gets dark, which it does earlier now. So you feel tired earlier. Go with that.

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 3d

Our Boots is in the middle of the main street, and is a bigger store than Cohens. Boots has a couple of wide aisles, with lots of different self-service products, plus a big behind-counter pharmacy. Cohens is just a little shop. Assistants are bumping into one another in the busy pharmacy room.

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 3d

I've never tended to read 'fine' novels, classics etc.😀Although I'm an former (science/social sciences) academic, my tastes in recreational reading have always run to what some would call trashy: S. King obviously, lots of horror/paranormal, also sci-fi; adored Ray Bradbury...

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 3d

However, I'm currently rereading Joe Hill's dad's epic 7-book long Dark Tower, and I'll be getting and reading King Sorrow if still alive when I finish Dark Tower. I have Joe Hill's other books, and have read and enjoyed them.

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 3d

Never attempted W&P; not my bag, as used to be said.😀I started on LOTR - have the director's cut movie dvds, love them - and a beautiful hard-back illustrated edn. that I got free, long ago, for joining a book club. But gave up reading after not long, thinking 'life's too short'.

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 3d

To avoid any confusion, this is the sciency 'brainiac' Brian Cox, who knows of what he speaks. As for the 'experts', they're experts only in so-called conspiracy bollox, hence expert in nothing. So no need for panic, or excitement.😀

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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 3d

Brian Cox breaks silence after experts warn to 'brace ourselves' for aliens
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Rosemary Crow @rosemarycrow.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, Cohens is next door to the surgery, there's that. Able avoids Boots as there's always a queue.

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