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Always thought she could eat an apple through a letterbox

We still talking about sheds?

I'm sure I have said this before but when my son was a baby he went to a nursery, and as @thistledo says caught every bug going around. Colds, ear infections (the absolute worst), foot & mouth, stomach bugs, the lot. We burned through a lot of annual leave taking time off with him when the nursery sent him home. Now, he just doesn't get ill. Everyone else in the house can catch a cold and he'll be the one who doesn't. In fact this happened just a couple of weeks ago. He is in fifth year of high school now and hasn't missed a single day of high school through illness. My only advice for @Dons_1988 - calpol and the ibuprofen version. Every 2 hours, alternate what you give the wee one. And when it is the inevitable ear infection, do not take the kid outside at all. A wee gust of wind and the baby will scream like you can't believe.

A fortnight ago my parent's oven door shattered, so they had to get a new oven. Yesterday my oven died*. Now I need a new one. The wife said: "these things come in threes". I don't even know where to go with this. *works fine unless you want to heat anything

My brother went to a dinner where he was the after dinner speaker. It was a sportsman's event so people were hoping for stories about football and the like. What they got was a lecture on faith and sports. Apparently it was a bit dull. The next year they went for Jim Leishman instead.

8 for Wednesday

It's an al fresco outhouse. They are all the rage in Tillicoultry.

Duster. I need the boot space. Cannot fit a decent sized cadaver in the Sandero

Starting to think about a new car. Had a Dacia Duster for 3 and a half years now, easily the best car I've ever had. Never had a problem with it. In 2019 when my wife was driving, someone went into the back of it. Caused £3k damage to the other car and zero to the Duster. Can barely see where the impact was. But...3 and a half years. Time to maybe think about moving on. What worries me is I made this same mistake in 2000, selling my fantastic Vauxhall Cavalier and buying a Ford Orion that was utter garbage.

Sounds like someone is seeking a transfer from twitter to P&B.

This is just gold for Labour. Utter gold, and the longer this goes on the better. Johnson's schemes are so transparent that they are fooling nobody at all.

Picked him on a Vim, shirley?

Fair play the the BBC - headline and a half!

I'll give it a bash.

You should try out some Wilbur Smith if you want some proper misogyny-that-isn't-but-really-is.

This story has been bobbing along for months. There was an interview with some marketing dude from Greene King talking about this and he made two points, only one of which i think is relevant. Firstly, they accept the name isn't racist due to its origins and the local story of the dog taking its master food. However "in these times" people might still get offended. Seemed contradictory. Second was that they tried to add the pub to their social media accounts and the likes and it kept getting filtered out due to bad language. This, I think, is the real issue.

Be fair to RTD, he has gone on to make some big new TV shows since and has matured. I hope we get a better version of his time.

7 for tuesday

I'm always amazed that he managed to get back on TV. People utterly forgetting he spent months in jail for keeping a male prostitute prisoner and beating him with a metal chain. 6 or 7 years later he's a judge on The Voice.

I'm up to date with these books (never seen the show). Yennefer is treated very badly, like most women in fantasy books.

I'll give you one guess what department they all work in...

To think that bawsack Holt had an entire summer, access to the club scouting "infrastructure", and never managed anything like this, speaks volumes of the lost wages to that man.

That is awful. I doubt he has heard the last of this...

My wife is on a Teams call just now. Her whole team are shitting themselves. They had a colleague who left in the summer. She was utterly useless and they have spent the last 6 months fixing all the mistakes she made. When she left they all went out for lunch to celebrate her going. They all liked her as a person but she was just a liability. Anyway, a new job advert for the team has gone up and she has texted one of the girls asking about the job. They are all worried that she'll go for it and get it.