Preparedness for when

pineapple

mardatha wrote: »

Just looked up the population density of my region and its 23. I'm feeling quite happy about that lol- FEWER ZOMBIES

They are all in my village and congregate regularly in the village hall. They are 'women of a certain age' - aka the WI. I thought the WI had reinvented itself. Sadly not here.....

mardatha

It's not that... not the geographic isolation or the weather... it's the religion part of it. I couldn't live with that. Unless on Barra or South Uist.

Frugalsod

pineapple wrote: »

They are all in my village and congregate regularly in the village hall. They are 'women of a certain age' - aka the WI. I thought the WI had reinvented itself. Sadly not here.....

There is a paramilitary wing of the WI, did you stumble in on their meeting?

RAS

mardatha wrote: »

It's not that... not the geographic isolation or the weather... it's the religion part of it. I couldn't live with that. Unless on Barra or South Uist.

I remember a very sad young woman explaining to me what it was like going away to Stornoway to school; often the weather so bad that there was no way the ferries would get you home and back at half term so you only got to see your family at Christmas and Easter and in the summer. At 4pm school was out, there was limited supervision and apart from supper and curfew little care about what happened.

And being a Catholic was lonely in an environment where the Wee Frees dominate social life and where some people almost literally regard you as being in league with the devil. When Mackay attended the funeral masses of fellow peers who were Catholic it led to a schism from which many communities still have not recovered ( the Free Presbyterian Church retained the assets even if most of the congregation supported the Associated Presbyterians and some families had to manage split loyalties).

Lionacleit School (south end of Benbecula and mixed religion) was created to address the problem (and the ruling that the LEA had to provide 24/7 pastoral care for boarders) and trod a fine line in the early years.

Frugalsod

re BMW drivers.

Frugalsod

Ever needed a card for that event then this prepper has a solution.

jk0

There's some here that you guys might not have seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNfGVE-_rms

jk0

Frugalsod wrote: »

Ever needed a card for that event then this prepper has a solution.

I just realised what 'Wedding regret' means:

It's 'Sorry I regret I can't come to your wedding', not 'Sorry to hear you're marrying so&so.'

Edit: Perhaps you could say the former, when you really mean the latter.

moneyistooshorttomention

I see your point jko :rotfl:

I've certainly attended a friends wedding some years back where I was virtually counting down to the divorce already - but couldn't say anything obviously to effect of "Don't do it Di".

I've lost touch with her over the years and suspect it was basically down to a mutual embarrassment as to whether to raise the subject with her of the newspaper article I'd recently read about what her husband had been up to:eek:. You can't exactly say "Saw the article. Sorry you find you've married someone like that. Are you going to divorce him now you know what he's like (ie the Police now do....)?"

Mojoworking

Does anyone know how to block or ignore someone please. I'm on a phone.

Can't believe how warm it is I'm sure we were promised the coldest Christmas for 50 years!!