Did anyone watch this on Sunday?
I read that some viewers gave up on it already because they kept moving back and forth in the timeline. But that only happened once at the start when Matthew (Luke Treadaway) is caught up in the Japanese attack on Singapore. Then they go back to 6 months earlier. The episode follows a normal timeline from then.
It's historically accurate as well which upsets certain people.

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Was in the High Street yesterday at around 3pm. Saw a bus pull up with the notice "School Bus". The driver let schoolkids and adults on the bus.

If you wondered, as I did, why ministers and others have been a wearing a wheat sheaf badge on the lapel, Wednesday 9th September was Back British Farming Day.

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-wearing-wheat-sheaf-badge-lapel-today-keir-starmer-british-farmers-campaign-explained-641045

This one almost caught me out as the email is , confirmation @ tvlicensing.co.uk
Also because I have just had to buy a tv licence and the yearly DD payment was only last week. The body of the email says this
Dear michael@email.addy
Today is your last chance to remain licensed.

You won't be covered if you let your licence expire.

As we couldn't take the latest payment from your bank account, this amount will also need to be paid when you set up your new Direct Debit.
Here is a button to "setup your new Direct Debit".
Renew your TV Licence before it expires on 11/09/2020 to remain legally licensed.

It's only when you hover the mouse over that button you see www. jiax. isp. com/ veri and realise its a phishing email.
The other giveaway is a genuine email would start, Dear My Name.

Just so you all know ...as not like it’s confusing !

So funny but also true , just read this ..what you think !

Let's clear all this Bullshit up 🤣🤣🤣

If anyone is having difficulty working out these new Covid rules, I’ve broken them down for you...

You can meet hundreds of people at work🏢or school🏫 you can brush shoulders🙎‍♀️, pick their noses👃and lick their face👅 if you wish?!But don’t meet more than 6 of these people in leisure time as the virus has mutated🤷‍♀️

It now only infects you if there’s 7 or more people in a group and you’re chilling out🧖‍♀️ It can not infect you at school or work, because it’s scared of the huge crowds of people🤔

You can still go to a pub🍻 where you are in an enclosed building breathing in everyone’s germs🧫 because Covid doesn’t drink🚫 so it doesn’t go to the pub of course🤷‍♀️

But scientists have discovered that Covid is quite partial to your parents👫 or friends👯‍♀️garden⚘🌱or house🏠 or in the open air🏞 where social distancing is very easy!

In fact, this is so risky😷that councillors are probably sat🪑 round a table in the local pub, discussing the closure of them right now!

It’s still ok for you to cram into tourists spots🗽🎡🎢🎠 as long as only 6 of you come at once, because 7 might tip it over the edge and make Covid sad🥺

But you are alright until Monday because the Virus must be still on Holiday🥳

Think that should clear things up! 😁

We NEED your help

Following the recent police operation in Orpington, a series of dogs have been found & confirmed or suspected to be stolen, if you know any of these 4 legged friends please get in contact & share,share,share please. Call 101 @MetCC and quote Op Medusa

Just this last hour or so every time I go to groups I get ads come up before the group.

We could all learn from this. What does love means to 4-8 year old kids??

Slow down for three minutes to read this.

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, 'What does love mean?'

The answers they got were broader, deeper, and more profound than anyone could have ever imagined !

'When my grandmother got arthritis , she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore.. So my grandfather does it for her all the time , even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.' Rebecca- age 8 💗

'When someone loves you , the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.'

Billy - age 4

'Love is when a girl puts on perfume

and a boy puts on shaving cologne

and they go out and smell each other.' Karl - age 5

'Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.' Chrissy - age 6

'Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.' Terri - age 4

'Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him , to make sure the taste is OK.' Danny - age 8

'Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and just listen.' Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)💗

'If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate.' Nikka - age 6

(we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet)

'Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.' Noelle - age 7

'Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still

friends even after they know each other so well.' Tommy - age 6

'During my piano recital , I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling.

He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.' Cindy - age 8

'My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.' Clare - age 6

'Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.' Elaine-age 5

'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.' Chris - age 7

'Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him

alone all day.' Mary Ann - age 4

'I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.' Lauren - age 4

'When you love somebody , your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.' (what an image) Karen - age 7

'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross..' Mark - age 6

'You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.' Jessica - age 8

And the final one: The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his

wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old

gentleman's yard , climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, 'Nothing, I just helped him cry.'

Now, take 60 seconds and Post this for other to see. And then be a child again today!

Cake Walk
Nitty Gritty
Blackburn Rovers
Sold Down The River
Whiter Than White
Uppity
Power and Pace
What connects all the phrases, and which is the odd one out.

I can't believe this. Just saw that President Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Can anyone think of a reason why?

Why are the media and protest groups so obsessed with what are happening in the US?

IMO we need to concentrate on the UK and let the USA sort there own problems.

Here in the UK knife and gun crime is escalating and very little hits the headlines.

Not only the Birmingham stabbings also four boys arrested after stabbing in Corby (yesterday), man rushed to the hospital with life-threatening stab wounds and four more men also suffered injuries in the stabbing attack in Bexleyheath (2 days ago), young man stabbed to death in Burnt Oak on Saturday, Stockwell, murder investigation launched after fatal stabbing in Lewisham, victim of fatal stabbing in Barnet (8th), 79-year-old slashed and man stabbed in Nunhead bus attack (5th Sept).

A Year 11 pupil was shot in Ipswich on the way to school, a man has been rushed to hospital after being gunned down in Sheffield on Monday, a 24 year old was gun downed and killed in Kentish Town, on 8 September. In July, there were 40 shootings in London.

The above are only a small snap shot and I’m sure there have been many more.

More needs to be done although on 26 Aug - Fourteen members of a London organised crime gang following dawn raids targeting 'drug gang linked to knife murders' in Camden. Last night several hundred officers raided a travellers' site in Orpington.

https://news.sky.com/story/armed-police-in-high-risk-raid-of-suspected-gun-supply-gang-in-london-12067036

Hi
I'm looking for somewhere to get some good quality pierogi - These are small Polish savoury dumplings that look like small Cornish pasties - Poland's equivalent of ravioli.
My favourite types are the ones with minced meat, sauerkraut or mushrooms and the like. I'm slightly lactose intolerant so the Russian style cheese and potato variety would be off the menu.
The commercially available ones I've tried are nowhere near as good as the home made variety. Making them from scratch is a lot of hassle and I don't have a good recipe.
Any suggestions would be welcome - Ideally somewhere around the Stoneleigh/Epsom/Ewell/Cheam/Tolworth/Chessington/New Malden/Sutton sort of area.

Edward feeling very special today and Pip and friend Liz paying homage to him, lol
It's all gone a bit to his head, hence the crown, he's feeling very 'Royal' and hopes all his 'friends' on Scooploop will give him a bow today, lol

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There's been plenty of advertising for the new Disney + streaming service for which they charge £5.99 a month. Doesn't interest me as no kids here and all the shows are available for free on other channels.
Then the other night there was an advert for the full length Disney film, Mulan. Available soon on Disney +, but only if you pay another £20.
So they are making parents pay twice

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Has this plumber got OCD

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/white-professor-pretended-black-admits-faking-identity-200904065935857.html

What do people think of this

@FranW appears to have found a way of generating threads in one group by linking it to another group.

Could I suggest that if you want to discuss anything then by all means raise the subject. But what individuals write in one group may not be what they want people in another group to see.

I doubt that any permission was given by either group owner to allow this to happen and I would hope that Scooploop would not allow access to a group by individuals who are not members (open or private), otherwise we may as well not have groups and just let this individual show us what to read wherever she finds it!

I will be putting up a post for Scooploop to investigate and hopefully prevent this.

Daylight robbery.. & If you want a yearly visitor permit a mere £680!! Wtf this is crazy money.. just because my car is a certain emission due to its age I have to pay this ridiculous fee.. don’t they realise you only have an older car because you can’t afford a newer one..so how are people who are struggling to make ends meet already manage to pay this & they have a car for work reasons so can’t just get rid or buy a new one... grrrr.. I’m fuming as it’s not a small amount & it’s only going to affect people with little money.. the rich with new cars will only pay £150.. obviously a scheme devised by someone earning a large wage & a new car. 😡😡😡😡

https://www.scooploop.com/thread/a-new-nadir-for-johnson

RULE BRITANNIA

Here is something you are unlikely to learn via the BBC.

In the 17th century the seas around Britain were ruled by North African Muslim Slavers. They stopped British ships and carried off the crews to be sold as slaves in Algiers and Tripoli.

The situation became so bad that fishermen from Devon and Cornwall wouldn’t put out to sea in case they were captured by North African Slave Traders.

Between 1609 and 1616, 466 British ships were captured by Slave Traders in the English Channel, Irish Sea and North Atlantic, and the crews were sold into slavery.

In 1625 a raiding party landed at Mount’s Bay in Cornwall and 60 people who had taken refuge in a local church were dragged out, loaded up and taken off to Africa to be sold as slaves.

On 12 August 1625 the Mayor of Plymouth wrote to London for military help after 27 ships had been seized by North African Muslim Slave Traders in just 10 days. In 1645, 240 people were seized as slaves in Cornwall.

The situation only began to change after the end of the English Civil War when the Royal Navy was built up under Oliver Cromwell. By 1700, North African Slavers generally knew better than to bother the British Isles in the search for slaves because of the Royal Navy.

It was a triumph that Britain was finally able to control its own coastal waters. And it was in commemoration of this that in 1740, James Thompson wrote ‘Rule Britannia’. It is a hymn of thanksgiving rather than a proclamation of aggressive Nationalism.

If you read this far and are interested to learn more, read "White Gold" by Giles Milton.

He was asked to attend a cemetery of US war dead from WW1. He said, "why should I go there, it's full of losers. It's also raining and it will mess with my hair". He also called US soldeirs that fell in one battle, "suckers" for dying.

Buses have notices on the doors saying, "maximum 12 passengers but driver may allow up to 15 if part of family". Does this no longer apply as I was on a single decker bus today at 11.30am, so not rush hour or school time, and all seats were taken and three people were standing. One person was standing in that drivers safety zone.

Thinking of getting a house cleaner.
Never having had anyone to do this for me before, I wonder what would be the going rate for a couple of hours every fortnight and what light housework they would cover.
Any advice would be most welcome.

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https://www.scooploop.com/thread/something-to-think-about

Strictly have caved in to the Wokes and there will be a same sex dancing couple on this years series.
Olympic boxer Nicola Adams will be dancing with a female professional dancer.

Other strictly rumours inclued Katie Price being lined up. Like to see her dance with two broken ankles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNiL9Hv2V5Q

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Hi

I recently had my back garden rebuilt with a couple of raised flower beds, each about 5 metres long and 1 metre wide.

I've added a wide selection of plants but I think I probably need to protect them from frost when the winter arrives.

Do any of you gardeners out there have any suggestions about good ways to do this?

I've seen fleece type blankets on the web but I'd be concerned about these soaking up water and loosing their effectiveness.

Are they effective and if so which one should I buy?

If I was to put some large garden canes around the edge of the flowerbeds and then cover the whole flowerbed with a large sheet of transparent plastic, to make a sort of temporary greenhouse, would that work as a frost protector?

I'd need to allow some gaps for air to circulate and water the plants as they wouldn't get rained on.

Any other suggestions would be welcome.

Cheers

Tony

Morning all. I'm thinking about buying a sited caravan. Do you own, or have owned, a sited caravan? If so, what is the sort of amount per year for all the fixed costs? Did you have any unexpected charges? Did you regret buying it? I'm thinking of the Hunstanton area of Norfolk.

Ten years ago a mailboat was launched from St Kilda to commemorate 80 years since the island was evacuated. It finally ran aground on a beach in Norway this week.
https://news.stv.tv/highlands-islands/st-kilda-mailboat-found-by-children-in-norway-a-decade-later?top

Morning all. I'm thinking about buying a sited caravan. Do you own, or have owned, a sited caravan? If so, what is the sort of amount per year for all the fixed costs? Did you have any unexpected charges? Did you regret buying it? I'm thinking of the Hunstanton area of Norfolk.

I have just been reading on FB in a local group that school children are not allowed to go to the toilet during class time, I'm shocked, have never heard of this before but apparently has been the rule for some time.
Absolutely ridiculous.

Was going to say it's about time this came to an end, but now the US police have shot another black man in the back with 7 shots. So now I'm not sure.

Notice on bus stops about how the buses will operate when the schools go back in September.
Between 7.30 to 9.30 and 14.30 to 16.30 every other bus will be either a schoolchilden only bus or an adults only bus. No requirement to socially distance on the schoolchildren buses.

In Sainsburys yesterday all the self checkouts were being used and there was a queue of about a dozen people waiting. They were stopping other shoppers safely getting to the loose vegetables.
I went to one of the personed checkouts and only had to wait for one shopper to move forward.
Surelly the idea of self checkouts is to get out faster and not have to wait

Would anybody care to hazard a guess whether or not this is load-bearing. I'm thinking of getting this removed - it's the 'wall' between the landing and the eaves which seems to be just a thick hardboard (probably when built in 60s) and had filthy loft lagging attached which has been removed today. Before and after photos attached. I might add it's been difficult enough getting the lagging removed before I start trying to get someone to do the rest. I could try and remove (some of) the hardboard and leave the frame up. I basically just want a sense of space, not looking for an extra room. The other side is the landing.

Or should I get a surveyor in - I don't really want to spend a couple of hundred pounds for one, to be honest, for just a yes or no.

Yesterday I emptied out, cleaned and refilled all feeders - still not seen any birds there atall, even the pigeons haven't come for the spilled seeds.

9 times out of 10 I don't get results from this,
just tried finding one of my posts on my profile - it's not there, searched a friends comments and it says she last commented 2 years ago but she has been on here and commented more than once within the last week.

I have had a PM from a Winston about putting $26 million into my account, anyone else had one. ?.
Scooploop need to know so I have reported it to them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqQgDwA0BNU

This is taken from an article sent to me by Constance Craig Smith about Jane Birkin.
‘If you're too young to remember the Sixties, then you'll have heard of her thanks to the Hermès handbag which is named after her. A Birkin bag costs the same as a small car, and even getting on the waiting list for one is a challenge. Victoria Beckham is said to own more than 100 Birkins in different colours.‘
What a waste of money ! If people earn a lot of money and pay their tax then fine but the indulgence of having at least £10,000 of 1 type of bag let alone all the others. I looked up Birkin bags, the first one that came up was£65.000 , ridiculous, repugnant and immoral.

Imagine if any student wrote an exam paper in the way the government has handled the issue of marking the exams. They’d write "The main cause of the First World War was the Mona Lisa, which was written in 1985 by Catherine the Great". Then they’d insist this was “fair and accurate” following a “robust process”, until 15 million people screamed it made no sense. Then the student would say it wasn’t his fault because his computer was broken.

If the Premier League hadn’t been completed this year, Liverpool should have been given fourth place, because, in spite of them being 137 points clear at the top, that’s where they normally finish.
This is so efficient, no students need to bother learning anything, they’re just given the grades that school got before, so the schools can be turned into flats.
This should be the rule in every other area as well. So to make the justice system fairer, each town has to send the same number to prison every year. If Luton sent less this year than in 2018, the local council takes 40 random people out of Lidl and gives them all six years for armed robbery.

But the way they dealt with these exams seems to fit a pattern. Because this government had the same approach for increasing NHS fees for foreign nurses. A decision the prime minister might as well have responded to by saying: "I am sick and tired of foreigners coming over here and saving my life as a sneaky way of earning money off our health system. If they can’t be bothered to pay for the privilege, they don’t DESERVE to save my life."
Eventually, someone spotted a flaw in this proposal so they abandoned it, and replaced it by announcing an end to the furlough scheme, because we could no longer afford to let people stay at home and not work, just because they’d been ordered to stay at home and not work.
Boris Johnson was probably about to make a traditional Conservative speech, saying: "If someone has been put out of work because I’ve ordered them to stay at home, they should go and look for work somewhere else. Maybe there’s a job in the toilet, or underneath the settee."
Instead, they abandoned that and announced instead that all schools would reopen in June, which would also be when the world-beating, game-changing track and trace would be ready, until they abandoned both of those.
So they announced there was no need to wear a face mask, as they made no difference, until they amended that slightly to "Everyone HAS to wear a face mask". Then every minister said something slightly different, such as: "In shops you must wear a mask and play a flute" or "if you have breathing difficulties you must wear one over your arse."
So these people calling for Gavin Williamson, the education secretary, to resign are being thoroughly unfair. He was simply following the rules of his government, in proposing something mad, sticking to it despite the opposition of everyone, then cancelling it while saying no one could possibly have foreseen the thing that everyone foresaw.
But they seem to get away with it, so they’ll probably carry on like this. Next week they’ll announce prisons will be turned into aquariums, and long-term prisoners have to paint themselves yellow and orange and pretend to be tropical fish.
Then they’ll abandon that, saying no one could have predicted the findings of a report that concluded prisoners don’t have gills.
But never mind, because to save money on expensive training, heart surgeons will be chosen by the national lottery, though you’ll be restricted to liver transplants if you needed the bonus ball.
To save further public money through efficiency, the library service will be merged with the navy, and the romantic fiction D to H section will be used as an aircraft carrier.
And none of them responsible for these schemes will ever resign. Priti Patel could be filmed making balaclavas out of the queen’s corgis to sell to the Continuity IRA to raise money for the Campaign to Fill the Sea with Plastic and Particularly Poisonous Whale-Killing Mercury, and she’d say she’d done nothing illegal, and Johnson would say he’d drawn a line under it, and what the British people wanted was to see her get back to being an incompetent psychopath as soon as possible.
In spite of all this, they remain slightly ahead in the polls, as if around 40 per cent of the population has now forgotten there are any other parties. So you might as well ask them which moon they’d prefer to go round the earth.
We’re now run by a government that’s the equivalent of a car mechanic where, when you take your car for a service, they tell you they’re going to set it alight. You tell them that doesn’t seem right, but they insist this is a well thought out policy, it’s even been approved by Chris Grayling, and "we lead the world in repairing things by incinerating them". Then, one month later, when it’s revealed there are three thousand charred vehicles blocking the entire town, they announce they’re reviewing their policy, but it’s not their fault, no one will resign, and in a poll, 41 per cent say they would still vote for them to carry on "fixing" their vehicles.

Original written by Mark Steel of The Independent.

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If they take the proverbial out of their BAME characters as much as the white ones, they will be accused of racism. So they may as well not have them in the show. But if there are no BAME characters, they will also be accused of racism.