25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2020 9:14 am
Good morning all. I hope everyone has a good couple of days 
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Re: 25th & 26th December Christmas Day & Boxing Day 2020
Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2020 9:35 am
hello
Re: 25th & 26th December Christmas Day & Boxing Day 2020
Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2020 11:05 am
Happy Christmas to all 
Shouldn't this thread be expanded to take in Sunday 27th and Monday 28th (a holiday) though? Especially since traffic is likely to be fairly light.
Shouldn't this thread be expanded to take in Sunday 27th and Monday 28th (a holiday) though? Especially since traffic is likely to be fairly light.
Re: 25th & 26th December Christmas Day & Boxing Day 2020
Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2020 12:23 pm
Morning and a very Happy Christmas to one and all!
This being 2020, opening presents was via Zoom with us at home and kids in two different places...fortunately everything we sent seemed to arrive safely.
This being 2020, opening presents was via Zoom with us at home and kids in two different places...fortunately everything we sent seemed to arrive safely.
Re: 25th & 26th December Christmas Day & Boxing Day 2020
Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2020 12:25 pm
Good idea. I had a little trouble fitting it all in the boxAnatolyKasparov wrote:Happy Christmas to all
Shouldn't this thread be expanded to take in Sunday 27th and Monday 28th (a holiday) though? Especially since traffic is likely to be fairly light.
Re: 25th & 26th December Christmas Day & Boxing Day 2020
Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2020 2:40 pm
(cJA boldAnatolyKasparov wrote:Happy Christmas to all
Shouldn't this thread be expanded to take in Sunday 27th and Monday 28th (a holiday) though? Especially since traffic is likely to be fairly light.
Not if we start channelling HindleA it won't be
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2020 2:40 pm
Good afternoon, everyone.
Re: 25th & 26th December Christmas Day & Boxing Day 2020
Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2020 2:47 pm
I've long valued delivery infrastructure and the people making it work. We wouldn't have survived this last year without them. Thank you.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2020 3:48 pm
Today it seems we will be mostly cooking.
I have prepared sprouts, switched on the lights on the sylvian landscape and watched last night's Miss Marple.
I have prepared sprouts, switched on the lights on the sylvian landscape and watched last night's Miss Marple.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2020 4:25 pm
Thousands apply to be a Finn for 90 days in migration scheme
Americans, Canadians and Britons among those lured by campaign to attract foreign tech workers
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Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2020 4:29 pm
Merry Christmas all from the frozen North.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2020 4:38 pm
Hope Santa brought you what you wanted.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2020 4:44 pm
for chess afficionados watched innocent moves (the search for famous american chess player) the other night. Came out in 1993 - lot of Queens Gambitishness in parts.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2020 4:45 pm
Vermouth prohibitively expensive in Finland.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2020 4:46 pm
I'd like an advent calendar counting down the remaining days of Trump world.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2020 6:08 pm
Looking forward to the port.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2020 8:41 pm
England records 570 Covid deaths on Christmas Day
Toll takes UK’s total to 70,195, while nearly 33,000 more cases are registered in a single day
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Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2020 10:19 am
Good morning.
Hope everyone had a good day yesterday.
Thursday's snow was still lying so it looked quite festive here, gone now.
Hope everyone had a good day yesterday.
Thursday's snow was still lying so it looked quite festive here, gone now.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2020 10:25 am
Here's everything you might want to know about the deal.
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The EU can take retaliatory action against the UK if we weaken labour standards, weaken pretty firm climate change targets, unfairly subsidise, or just in general seem to be out of line. There are processes to follow, but it looks like the PM did it again...
Final one for now. Quite how Labour gets itself in such a fuss about whether to support a deal with the strongest labour and environment commitments ever seen in a trade deal is a sign of just how far it hasn't moved on from leaving.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2020 11:26 am
Good morning, everyone.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2020 11:55 am
Morning
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2020 11:55 am
Festive cooking day 2. The boxing day curry.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2020 11:56 am
I've been marinating.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2020 11:57 am
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Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2020 12:15 pm
Morning all.
Ah yes, the Erasmus scheme that we're definitely going to participate in...oh.
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Ah yes, the Erasmus scheme that we're definitely going to participate in...oh.
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Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2020 12:18 pm
In what?tinyclanger2 wrote:I've been marinating.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2020 12:20 pm
I suspect its maybe not as big a "fuss" as some are making out.gilsey wrote:Here's everything you might want to know about the deal.
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David Henig
@DavidHenigUK
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The EU can take retaliatory action against the UK if we weaken labour standards, weaken pretty firm climate change targets, unfairly subsidise, or just in general seem to be out of line. There are processes to follow, but it looks like the PM did it again...
Final one for now. Quite how Labour gets itself in such a fuss about whether to support a deal with the strongest labour and environment commitments ever seen in a trade deal is a sign of just how far it hasn't moved on from leaving.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2020 12:40 pm
I was unsuccessful preventing a dangerous liar from becoming PM of the UK a year ago. It's difficult preventing powerful cheats from doing what they want.RogerOThornhill wrote:Morning all.
Ah yes, the Erasmus scheme that we're definitely going to participate in...oh.
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Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2020 12:43 pm
Matt Goodwin lying about non-EU immigration control when we were in the EU? Surely not!
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Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2020 2:19 pm
Great, just what we need...
Having succeeded in getting out of the EU it'll be the Council of Europe next and the ECHR will go.Black and Asian Lawyers For Justice
@BameFor
A little bird at the
@ukhomeoffice
tells us
@pritipatel
has asked Civil Service to scope a policy paper on the restoration of the death penalty in the #NewYear2021 and the #Tories have the majority to do just that. #DeathPenality
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Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2020 2:25 pm
Even if true its pure cynical performative culture war stuff.
There aren't the votes in the Commons (even with a big Tory majority) to approve its restoration or indeed a referendum on that subject.
There aren't the votes in the Commons (even with a big Tory majority) to approve its restoration or indeed a referendum on that subject.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2020 4:44 pm
Another bit of Priti Patel...you need to work through the bits about walking, cake, spending time with kids...but when you get to hers...oh my.
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Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2020 7:32 pm
Warped, dangerous and unprofessional statement for a UK government minister to makeRogerOThornhill wrote:Another bit of Priti Patel...you need to work through the bits about walking, cake, spending time with kids...but when you get to hers...oh my.
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She's demonstrating an immaturity and unfitness for her position
The government and her party are wrong letting her continue without censure
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2020 7:40 pm
Speaking of warped
Trump is just bizarre
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Trump is just bizarre
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Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sun 27 Dec, 2020 12:05 pm
Good morefternoon, all.
Anything happening?
Anything happening?
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sun 27 Dec, 2020 12:34 pm
Morning all.
remember that thing I wrote about schools claiming all kinds of things they were able to do now that they were academies and not tied to those horrid councils?
Well, that'll be Brexit... "look at what we can do now that we're not in the EU!"
By coincidence, I expect most of it come from the same person who was around then now that he is in the Cabinet Office...
remember that thing I wrote about schools claiming all kinds of things they were able to do now that they were academies and not tied to those horrid councils?
Well, that'll be Brexit... "look at what we can do now that we're not in the EU!"
By coincidence, I expect most of it come from the same person who was around then now that he is in the Cabinet Office...
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sun 27 Dec, 2020 12:48 pm
Brexit trade deal means ‘freedom’, but at a cost: the arguments will be far from over
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Deals - like borders - have two sides and you can's assume that just because we want something, that's what we'll get...But whatever the future holds, the difficult decisions will not go away – greater liberalisation of services trade, for example, would at the very least require the UK to accept freedom of movement. And negotiating with the union from the outside will remain an unpleasant experience: just ask the Swiss.
The EU-UK relationship will slip down the news agenda, but it will not disappear entirely. Our proximity to each other, and the fact that the EU remains the UK’s most important economic partner, means negotiations over something or other will continue for decades to come.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sun 27 Dec, 2020 9:43 pm
Scotland is taking a different course on vaccination, my niece is a clinical psychologist in Edinburgh and has had her first dose, all NHS frontline are priority.
My understanding is that the only NHS workers being vaccinated at the moment in England are people who are nearby when there's a spare dose or 2 in the vial.
My understanding is that the only NHS workers being vaccinated at the moment in England are people who are nearby when there's a spare dose or 2 in the vial.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Sun 27 Dec, 2020 9:54 pm
Johnson holding on till the last possible minute seems to have been a reasonably successful political strategy, domestically, so far at least.RogerOThornhill wrote:Brexit trade deal means ‘freedom’, but at a cost: the arguments will be far from over
The idea that the EU would 'fold', however, has been proved to be utter bollocks, as most of us here expected.
We've gained nothing from months of prevarication.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Mon 28 Dec, 2020 8:28 am
Bizarrely, Clive Homage says more red tape with EU will make us “match fit” for trade with rest of world (7,4).
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Mon 28 Dec, 2020 8:41 am
Good morning, everyone.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Mon 28 Dec, 2020 8:42 am
Blanketed in snow here
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Mon 28 Dec, 2020 9:36 am
*ahem*RogerOThornhill wrote:Morning all.
remember that thing I wrote about schools claiming all kinds of things they were able to do now that they were academies and not tied to those horrid councils?
Well, that'll be Brexit... "look at what we can do now that we're not in the EU!"
By coincidence, I expect most of it come from the same person who was around then now that he is in the Cabinet Office...
Good morning...
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Mon 28 Dec, 2020 10:23 am
Better late than never?citizenJA wrote:Blanketed in snow here
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Mon 28 Dec, 2020 10:42 am
No snow here so far. No sleet or rain that was forecast either, though, so a better day than expected.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Mon 28 Dec, 2020 1:44 pm
So are we "following the science" or not I wonder?
Gove said a "staggered" return this morning. We shall see.Alex Wickham
@alexwickham
EXC: SAGE has told Boris Johnson he has to keep schools closed in January and order a stricter national lockdown than November’s to prevent the virus spiralling out of control
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Mon 28 Dec, 2020 2:17 pm
Schools in Scotland not going back till 18 Jan, I'm told.
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Mon 28 Dec, 2020 3:10 pm
damn cold
what sun there was is fading
please help yourselves to the chocolate
I'm making an apple crumble in a little while
what sun there was is fading
please help yourselves to the chocolate
I'm making an apple crumble in a little while
Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Mon 28 Dec, 2020 3:17 pm
woo hoo!Storm Bella helps UK set new record for wind power generation
On Boxing Day more than half the country’s daily electricity came from wind turbines
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Re: 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th December 2020 Xmas et al :)
Posted: Mon 28 Dec, 2020 6:20 pm
Crumble in the oven
Stewed fruit with a very fine port
smells grand
Stewed fruit with a very fine port
smells grand