Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th December 2025

[refitman]

Morning all.

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Apparently you can't work at the BBC unless you're a bigot

[Frog222]

( will catch up on that story later ! )

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Fourth anniversary coming up soon !

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From the Girl Guides protest in London

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[Sky'sGoneOut]

Back in Leeds after my Mum's funeral. I'm pleased to say it all went well organisationally and otherwise, besides me having a panic attack in front of 40 people when I got up to speak. Plus I ordered way too much food for the wake buffet. I'd brought along one of those miniature bottles of wine to calm my oratory nerves but thought it best to wait until after I'd helped carry the coffin before necking it. Unfortunately this meant that upon depositing the coffin I was immediately ushered to sit next to my Dad at the front as the eulogy began and I was still desperately trying to figure out a way of surreptitiously guzzling booze without anyone noticing when the celebrant called me up to speak. The horror. The less said about what followed the better as my larynx constricted along with my vision. I only got through it by focusing on a nice smiley lady who seemed to be willing me on. I had no idea who she was. Turned out to be the care home manager who I thanked afterwards. For everything.

My brother insisted upon bringing most of the excess sausage rolls and quiche back to our Dad's and improbably managed to stuff his face with nearly all of it by the time we left.

So yeah, goodbye to my Mum. Even in death she did good bringing together relatives and old friends for a celebration she would have thoroughly approved of.

[refitman]

Who's sowing the division and hate Lucy? Who?

[Frog222]

when the celebrant called me up to speak. The horror. The less said about what followed the better as my larynx constricted along with my vision. I only got through it by focusing on a nice smiley lady who seemed to be willing me on. I had no idea who she was. Turned out to be the care home manager who I thanked afterwards. For everything.....
So yeah, goodbye to my Mum. Even in death she did good bringing together relatives and old friends for a celebration she would have thoroughly approved of.

Great news Sky that your organisation went so well . We cast my grandmother's ashes from the top of a hill in the South Downs and being likewise panicked I have not the very slightest clue as to what I said

My Ma went mercifully swiftly, then dynamic daughter worked out how we two could fly round the world to be there for the service, but my brother had screwed up the dates so that didn't work.

Two years before she had to leave her home Suzie the cat came to her door, and stayed with her in the home for another two years . Both were very popular, and Suzie went to live with one of the Maori carers who lives just across the bay from where Ma was born . I would have much liked to go just to thank the staff for all their care for her but that's life .

[refitman]

Looks like the new equalities chair is as anti-equality as the last one. Worth bearing in mind that there is actually nothing legal barring people from using any toilet they want.

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[Frog222]

It took the Press a very long time to say that the British Rail hero of the knife attack Samir Zitouni was an Algerian, therefore Muslim. I wondered why, still do !