Back to the Premier League for Friday Night Football. Get your predictions in by 7pm.
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A person I know has just been very ill with meningococcal encephalitis. She is fortunately on the mend but urges people to recognise the signs of meningitis which gets more prevalent at this time of year. Whilst we’re so busy thinking about Covid-19 it’s easy to overlook other serious illnesses. https://www.meningitis.org/meningitis/check-symptoms

If you catch the Delta variiant the symptoms can be like having the flu, it iscontageous.
If you catch the Omicron variant it is less severe. Like having a normal cold. But it is more contagious.
This is how viruses mutate, they don't want to kill who they infect but do want to spread easily.
So far nobody with Omicron has died or been hospitalised.We need to start living normally.

We are searching for homes for a friendly long hair about 7 years old.
And a very friendly Blk short hair 9/10 years old. Healthy. Vet checked.
Ideally adoption but will consider fostering.

It irritates me mightily, though clearly there are much worse things about him - and it gave Jed Mercurio, writer of Line of Duty, an opening to have a go: https://twitter.com/jed_mercurio

Baby girl born this morning

I heard about this on tv this morning...didn't even know it existed

https://news.sky.com/story/uk-banks-launch-emergency-hotline-159-number-to-protect-customers-from-scammers-12420345

Tonight is the Europa League group matches. Get your predictions in by 7.30pm
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A new layout - bigger print [ but smaller on notifications] and ' eyes' for loops,

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201014-totalitarian-world-in-chains-artificial-intelligence

An article worth reading. Maybe your future.

What are your thoughts on his latest patronising comment that if you don't like your work or it's getting you down, you should just leave and have a happier life.
Says he with £30m in his bank account.

Another Champions League group match. Young Boys were formally named Young Boys of Bern, but that's a bit like saying Crystal Palace of London. Anyway, get your predictions in by 7pm.
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Just had a really interesting conversation about Covid. It seems we have been battling it forever. Looking back at the first Lockdown, it all seemed very weird and extraordinary to be told to stay indoors and work from home! Then the freedom and then other lockdowns came along and here we are, battling yet another variant that is said to spread fastest.
Suddenly there are rumblings at work at preparations for having to shut down groups and activities and run things virtually, talk of having to work remotely 100% of the time again and the impact on people.
My question is, what do YOU think is next? More rules and restrictions before or after Christmas? another WFH order?
how are YOU all feeling? Mine is a mixture of tiredness and sadness at lost loved ones in our family and circle, frustration at people who still do not take it seriously and just plain anxiety about people being safe.

Received email. Is this based on evidence or just to make people donate? What is your opinion?

8 years. 96 months. Or just short of 3,000 days.

That's how long scientists say we have to cut carbon emissions by more than half, end the extinction crisis, and avoid an all-out ecological collapse.

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A professor of mathematics sent a fax to his wife. It read:

“Dear wife, you must realize that you are 54 years old and I have certain needs which you are no longer able to satisfy. I am otherwise happy with you as a wife, and I sincerely hope you will not be hurt or offended to learn that by the time you receive this letter, I will be at the Grand Hotel with my 19-year-old teaching assistant. I’ll be home before midnight. - Your Husband”

When he arrived at the hotel, there was a faxed letter waiting for him that read as follows:

“Dear Husband. You too are 54 years old, and by the time you receive this, I will be at the Breakwater Hotel with the 19-year-old pool boy. Being the brilliant mathematician that you are, you can easily appreciate the fact that 18 goes into 54 a lot more times than 54 goes into 18. Don’t wait up

The doctor said, 'Sorry, I have some bad news, you have Yellow 24, a really nasty virus. It's called Yellow 24 because it turns your blood yellow and you usually only have 24 hours to live.
There's no known cure so just go home and enjoy your final precious moments on earth.'
So he trudged home to his wife and broke the news. Distraught, she asked him to go to the bingo with her that evening, as he'd never been there with her before.
They arrived at the bingo and with his first card he got four corners and won £35. Then, with the same card, he got a line and won £320
Then he got the full house and won £1000. Then the National Grid came up and he won that too getting £380,000 The bingo caller got him up on stage and said, 'Son, I've been here 20 years and I've never seen anyone win four corners, a line, the full house and the national grid on the same card. You must be the luckiest man on Earth!'
'Lucky?' he screamed. 'Lucky? I'll have you know I've got Yellow 24.' 'Chuffin' 'ell,' said the bingo caller. 'You've won the bleedin' raffle as well....

It's Champions League group matches this week. Get your predictions in by 7.30pm
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On BBC Breakfast the ex Minister for Children, Tim Loughton, said that when in office, on average 28 similar cases crossed his desk every year or in other words one every two weeks.
If I understood him correctly the cases had not become so high profile and had remained under the radar but were nonetheless horrific.
Did anyone else pick up on this?, because if I'm right it makes all the protestations of shock and horror of several public figures so much eyewash.

This should be a "Must Watch" for anyone worried about the Covid Vaccine.
The Richard Dimbleby Lecture. It was on BBC1 last night and is available on Catchup. It told how the vaccine was created in less than a year from the funding, trials, test, safety, manufacturing, distribution and how the press were scare mongers. The ongoing research, other vaccines in the pipeline and the future for availability throughout the world.
I found it informative, interesting and fascinating, it must have been good as I watched to the end.

This article is long, but very informative.
If anyone thinks migrants are badly treated in this country, this EU funded arrangement helps to put things in perspective.
The article can be read without taking out a subscription - just scroll down.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/the-secretive-libyan-prisons-that-keep-migrants-out-of-europe?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10275159/DAN-HODGES-Macron-climb-high-horse-solve-Channel-crisis.html

We don't normally eat doughnuts, but hubby likes a few biscuits of an evening with a cuppa. So thought I'd get a pk of 4 doughnuts on my delivery shop Sunday.
Wish I hadn't as this is what come out of the bag. 2 whole doughnuts and 2 half, looked like they had teeth marks in them.

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If you happened to see a pub named The Black Bitch, would you be offended and start a petition to get the name changed?
If you then found out the history behind the name, that it is the name of a locally famous racing greyhound ( there's even a statue of the female dog outside the pub) , would you change your mind about that petition.
Or would you start the petition anyway even though you have never been to the town and only read about the pub in a magazine, because you want to be offended on everyone's behalf?
The petition has got 6,000 signatures, none are from the town where the pub is located.

Tonight's match on Monday Night Football. Get your predictions in by 7pm.
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This is today's Super Sunday match. Get your predictions in by 3.30pm
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Saturday night football from the Premier League. Get your predictions in by 5pm.
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