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lemonjelly

silvercar wrote: »

Last minute thought was to have family outing to the theatre on boxing day. really angry to find that the theatre in question has a few seats left but wants £152 a seat for tickets that are normally £47. If they were touts or agencies creaming off the top I could understand, but still be outraged. But for the theatre themselves to overprice just makes me mad.

On another forum I frequent, there is some righteous indignation ongoing for a few weeks now regarding tickets, prices, fees etc.

vivatifosi wrote: »

Is this proof that you are a tinfoil hatter after all?

Great minds Viva?;)

vivatifosi

Blimey, I thought virtually every radio station had a web streaming presence now. Who do you listen to lj?

Picking up on your previous post, wishing you the best with your issues too xx

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Having never done this Christmas tree lark, I have to ask: Won't the lights melt the chocolate?

With regular lights you'd have to be careful they didn't touch .... but there are plenty of branches where the santas will fit .. and nowadays they tend to be LED lights, so little heat and, again, they don't touch.

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

I bruise very easily, could you have knocked it in your sleep.

I've sometimes produced bruises that OH says I have to cover up or people will think he is violent.

It's possible, although there's not much within reach of my bed that's hard enough to leave a bruise like that. I probably slammed my arm into a door handle while rushing about being late for something, and promptly forgot about it. Incidents like that don't generally stick in my mind long enough for me to be able to match them to the bruise when it appears.

I will never forget DS (with a suspected broken finger) being questioned a couple of years ago by the triage nurse:

Nurse (to me): I'm sorry but I have to ask, is there any violence in the home?
Me: No.
DS: What does she mean, violence?
Me (to him): She's asking if there's anybody living in our home who beats you up.
DS: Yes there is!
Me: <stunned silence>
DS: She does! <points at 8 year old little sister>
DD: No I don't! I *never* beat him up at home... only at school.
Nurse (to me): I don't think I'll need to report that to social services.

lemonjelly

I'm in a funny mood. PN, spread some of that happiness about will ya?

No idea why, but towards the end of this afternoon I went into a pretty annoyed, foul miserable mood. Feel very dissatisfied with pretty much everything I think about at the mo.

So I'm trying to not think about anything....

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

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When this happens for me, I always think it's the sign the batteries are on the way out - and what I do is pop out the batteries and put them between my thighs for 10 minutes to warm through.

I did this the other week and the remote's still working.

Warming most batteries will fix them.... for awhile.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Be very careful when unwrapping your chocolate santas.

https://twitter.com/ChuckJelly/status/409746231536386048/photo/1

Oh dear.... I hope I don't get some like that!

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Big dog has cancer

ah poor big dog. Sorry to read that.
Am guessing that the other 2 will miss her in as well.

LydiaJ wrote: »

Another NP here who would like to say the right thing to Bugslet and wants to borrow GDB's words. Thoughts and prayers also for viva, fc and big dog

same here for Bugs too.


Tricky situ for us as my mother goes back in for a nasty op on 19th Dec but still wants us to 'do' Xmas at hers (I do all the catering etc) with my brother. She just want's us around.
Last time she went in for 2 days, she was in for 3 weeks so we'll just go with the flow.

PasturesNew wrote: »

It changes when you take a selfie and you see your dad looking back at you on the screen

That's happened to me too......scary isn't it


Hope you all had a fun market day........nice tree BTW.


DD announced that we have the nicest tree we have ever had.....because we have mislaid all the 'Heritage' Xmas decorations....so we had to do one from scratch + all the baubles and stuff have a colour theme (of silver). She likes matching things does DD.

lemonjelly

vivatifosi wrote: »

Blimey, I thought virtually every radio station had a web streaming presence now. Who do you listen to lj?

Picking up on your previous post, wishing you the best with your issues too xx

Any radio station broadcasting commentary of a football match replace that online, as contractually they're only licensed to broadcast it within a specific area, not worldwide.

I listen to the Wolves matches on local radio. As we've (almost spectacularly) fallen from grace across the last 2 years, our coverage has also dipped noticeably.

2 years ago I was able to watch most games online live.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Last minute thought was to have family outing to the theatre on boxing day. really angry to find that the theatre in question has a few seats left but wants £152 a seat for tickets that are normally £47. If they were touts or agencies creaming off the top I could understand, but still be outraged. But for the theatre themselves to overprice just makes me mad.

They price things based on the price point at which they can find the most wealthy idiots.

Everything is being gentrified these days - which just means price increases because there are people who will pay.

You used to be able to get a decent pub lunch for £5, same pub these days is now called a gastro pub and it's £15 and worded fancy.

Slowly ..... you're outpriced on everything. For you, this year, it's a Boxing Day thingy.

I am finding it increasingly difficult to find a big hot dog for £2 at markets ... now they're hand-roasted pulled pork in organic baguettes for £8. No more al fresco hot dogs for me in fields....