MargieH
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I was standing at a bus stop yesterday - all the seats were occupied - and a twenty-something woman stood up and asked if I’d like to sit down.
i was a bit taken aback but I accepted with a smile and thanked her. However, I suddenly felt old
because that’s never happened to me before. I still feel it should be me who gives up my seat for a
little old lady!
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@IAN FINN what a great Christmas present! Best wishes to you and Jill. I just love the word ‘benign’ x
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@letsavagoo so sorry to read that your appt has been postponed. It would have been great to have had the steroid injection before Christmas so you could have enjoyed the time without pain….
It’s such a shame you’ll have to continue with the Tramadol to keep you pain free. My thoughts are with you x
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1 hour ago, notty ash said:
Yes, the fares are all displayed on the screen. The reduced fare is bottom left in the displayed list. You don't actually need to use your pass to buy the ticket, just pay cash or credit/debit card/phone
Thanks for that - we are a bit useless with ticket machines!
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@notty ash- I didn’t know that! Thanks for the information. Is it easy to buy a reduced fare ticket from the machine?
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Nor our Cambs bus passes….. I was only thinking of the people on here who have Notts bus passes when I made my previous part about using the tram. When we are visiting Nottingham we often use the buses and our passes are accepted on them.
Compared with the hourly bus service in our village, it is great not having to wait very long for one to arrive. (And I love the different colours)
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Perhaps they forget the Name of the site or forget their username? Or even think the members on here are too cliquey or too ‘friendly’ and they decide they don’t want to be drawn in to conversations with people they don’t know?
Sorry CT just seen your post
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Playing devils advocate here…
what’s wrong with parking at a tram terminus instead of driving into the centre - free if you have your bus pass.
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@Oztalgian That sounds dreadful - so pleased you are now (slowly) on the mend x
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Well I was known as a cradle snatcher around that time…..
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3 hours ago, mary1947 said:
MargieH Is it dishwasher poof?
yes it is -
@Beekay it’s made of rigid plastic BUT it’s not single use plastic - it’s reusable and will last for years and years.
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We still can get bacon sliced in our village butcher’s (but it then gets put into a plastic bag so not that much better than in a supermarket! I do have a long storage container specially for bacon rashers so I suppose I could take that to the shop to bypass the plastic bag
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@PeverilPeril you speak of a ‘pang of shame’ when thinking of your involvement with single use plastics.
I expect we all feel shame or guilt about some things we’ve done in our lives, whether unconsciously (as in your case) or deliberately…..
Some things we can put right, perhaps by apologising to someone and healing a relationship, but sadly, other things can’t be put right, however much we wish they could be.
All we can do then is to ‘turn over the page’ and try not to make the same mistakes in the future chapters of our life. You and others on here are certainly thinking about their impact on the planet, trying to reduce their carbon footprint and to improve the environment generally. The trouble is, humans are by nature selfish and greedy and have to make some uncomfortable choices if they really want to improve life for future generations.Thank you for introducing this topic x
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There are many charities who would really appreciate the £10 Christmas bonus if anyone reading this doesn’t really need it!
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@Jill Sparrow Hope your birthday has been (and still is) all you could have hoped for x
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At CLW, I had 2 Panoramic photos taken, also one class photo (3rd year) and one netball team photo.
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@Jill Sparrow During my time at Arno Vale, there were definitely no group photos taken at all - only individual ones. Perhaps because it was not that long after the war? Not much money around?
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There was a Miss/Mrs Smith in the top infants class who let the top three children in the class do weaving on a small loom…… and no, it wasn’t the equivalent of sitting at the back doing raffia
I’ve still got the scarf I made. I don’t think it would be allowed these days to show such favour to certain children and not to others.
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@PeverilPeril keep up the good work - it’s very important
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It probably wouldn’t work because, unlike some other schools, we didn’t have group photos to remind us of our classmates!
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@Stuart.C Maybe the portable record player that belonged to my friend was a Phillips….
all I know is that it definitely wasn’t plugged in anywhere as we put it on the grass in the middle of the park! This was 1959 - 1960
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@LizzieM The Dansette belonged to my friend Hilary and no, it wasn’t plugged in anywhere! It must have been battery operated? I never took much notice of it - as long as I could listen to the music that was all I was interested in. It might have even been a different brand of record player?
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Once again, I love this song …. Always remember it playing loudly on the Waltzers at Goosefair. Also I remember playing this record on a Dansette on Woodthorpe Park, where a big group of us met on summer evenings to jive and generally act like teenagers with not a care in the world and our whole lives stretching out in front of us…..
How is it that I can remember this so clearly even after 60-odd years….. I
i can even feel the buzz of excitement I felt as I walked down to meet them all
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@MRS B I love to read of those random acts of kindness. It’s good for the giver and the recipient. It makes the world feel like a much better place…