I love Worzel and find the new version just as great as the old one.

But there have been complaints about content

What do members think 🤔 petty or a serious misdemeanour?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10352911/Angry-parents-blast-BBC-ruining-new-version-Worzel-Gummidge-littering-innuendos.html

I've not yet obtained any of the newer, rapid LFT kits which only require one to swab inside the nose (as I understand it) but it seems that that system doesn't necessarily detect the Omicron variant of Covid-19, perhaps because its primary symptom can be a sore throat.
So do follow this advice and continue to swab both, to ensure that your test result is as accurate as possible.
https://inews.co.uk/news/lateral-flow-tests-omicron-covid-variant-detection-testing-kits-1374073?ito=twitter_share_article-top&fbclid=IwAR3ZLzKxMXt-wzEDBngeHo6g_ZTH87ZWKFp51k7Icp0oCAwUSMtVhbdyyVc

Would you like nominate someone who should be recognised for service to the local community, or has earned wider public recognition.

These people like to claim they are more intelligent and better informed than ‘sheeple’ who get vaccinated, but yet again, they went to the wrong address https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/29/anti-vaxxers-denounce-covid-testing-centre-in-freedom-march-through-milton-keynes

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10345933/amp/Anti-vaxxer-kickboxing-champion-refused-acknowledge-Covid-discharged-dies.html?fr=operanews

Got a letter this morning - now to make my excuses not to go

As it has been said that we (the UK) do not provide training I thought I’d look into the offers available, for those who do not go into further education or a degree course . Interesting 🧐

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/free-courses-for-jobs

Can anyone else give good examples of training that’s available or that has helped in the past.

In this story people call it twixtmas or even blurgatory
The Norwegian suggestion is Romjul meaning Yule Space and from the Film How to Train your dragon 🐉 “Snoggletog”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2021/12/26/why-do-we-lose-track-of-days-between-christmas-and-new-years-15754725/amp/

What would you say to the children?
Would it embarrass you or maybe make you smile 😊

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17150005/monkeys-mate-in-front-of-kids/amp/

It said I had been in close contact with someone who had tested positive for Covid-19 on 21 December. I have to self isolate for 4 days and take a PCR test which I should get tomorrow or Thursday. I will get sent an antigen test if the PCR is positive.
I did think the app is a bit useless if it took 7 days to tell me.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/27/how-new-normal-of-wild-weather-put-strain-on-uk-nature-in-2021?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I was wondering if anyone remembers the Classics Illustrated comics from the 50s/60s. I used to have quite a few. They were a great way to become familiar with some classic novels which would be a hard read for a child.

Someone posted this online - I think it deserves sharing

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/26/thames-boxing-day-swim-called-heavy-rain-causes-sewage-dump/

Being introduced in Northern Ireland from today.
They have brought back the Rule of Six. Applies to indoor gatherings, including weddings but not Civil Partnership ceremonies.
Outdoor sports can still have capacity crowds but groups of supporters must travel seperately to the stadium.

All suggestions very welcome.

'You and Yours' is just airing a programme about a truly terrifying case, in which a stranger managed to obtain a valid lasting power of attorney entitling them to manage the financial affairs of someone who didn't know them at all (!) and tried using it to sell a house owned by that other person.
An astute conveyancing solicitor, instructed by the supposed attorney, asked for additional proof of the supposed attorney's alleged relationship to the real owner, which stopped that particular attempt - but they may not have been the only conveyancer who was approached to act.
Apparently the fraud began with a Freedom of Information request to identify empty properties in that borough area.
The programme warns that properties held in one person's sole name, with no mortgage, are particularly vulnerable to this fraud. Since it's not been possible to retrieve the valid LPoA document from the fraudster and cancel it, the victim's entire financial affairs may also be targeted as well.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012scr

"It now becomes an almost irrestible temptation for a school leaver to take three years off, largely paid for in the end by the state, to put off starting work to take a degree which often adds little to their employability".

What do you think - and more importantly your ideas what would improve our further education system?

Received this this morning from an old friend of mine who has lived in Cyprus for many years and now has (I think) dual nationality.

I was supposed to have been in the UK now spending Christmas with my family, staying with R* and E* alternately returning home on 29th. A long story but I stayed with J* and his family in Yorkshire returning home on 1st December. I was stopped at passport control and security in the UK on my return journey home. I was told I can no longer use my passport and if I travelled back for Christmas I would be detained and sent back to Cyprus. My passport expires on 11th October 2022, ie late next year but the problem is, my passport is valid for 10 years 10 months and since Brexit, UK travel rules changed 1st January this year which now means my passport has effectively expired. I can only travel on a passport valid for exactly 10 years. I applied for a new passport as soon as I returned paying for “fast track” but as yet, no passport which means I have had to change my flights.

Life is definitely too complicated for me now.

Tonight's Monday Night Football. Get your predictions in by 7pm.
Good luck

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17141395/cruise-ship-mexico-covid-outbreak/?rec_article=true

If you've pulled a few crackers over Xmas, please share those corny, witty and awful jokes in your Christmas crackers this year.

One at a time please, and give a thumbs up feed back if you like it...

Here's a start!

Q. How does Good King Wencelas like his pizzas?

A. DEEP PAN CRISP AND EVEN.

A quickie 😉

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8w8YXRk/

Happy Boxing 🥊 day

We had a power cut at about 9.00 pm on Christmas Day.
It only lasted about a minute, but it turned off all my lights and electrical equipment.

I had to reset my living room clock, electric oven clock, microwave clock and restart my cable TV.
The refrigerator and freezer came back on OK, but the freezer setting was -18C, I had to set it back at -20C.

But it had switched my boiler/heating/hot water off which I did not notice. On getting up on the 26th the house was cold - no heating. I had to switch the boiler/heating/hot water on at the control panel - all OK now.

Has anybody else had a power cut ?

This is tonight's later Boxing Day match. Get your predictions in by 7.30pm.
Good luck

Being adopted, my Granddaughter found my birth Father on an ancestry web site and for the first time I saw him as he had past away in his early years.

So my best gift was being given a framed photograph of him from my Daughter.... plus some dangling earrings with pictures of Ed Shearan on!!!

News just in the great Desmond Tutu passes away aged 90

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/26/archbishop-desmond-tutu-giant-in-fight-against-apartheid-south-africa-dies-at-90

Yes it’s been confirmed it’s officially a White Christmas and there’s more to come

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-59789417

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-launch-nasa-reaction

Whether you love or loathe them LadBaby have again gone to no 1 in the Christmas charts with their 4th charity single raising money for the Trussel Trust Food banks
Well done them

https://youtu.be/YRT5yQrs4bo

Grandaughters hamster this morning

Most people on the tv news are saying "Omeecron" but one of the presenters on GB News say that because it is Greek, the correct pronounciation is "Oh-My-Cron"

SELSEY it’s not much fun having to double up on birthday and Christmas presents is it, especially when you’re a youngster.😖 But then you reach the age when presents don’t really matter and you’re just glad to be up and about and walking Sadie.😊
Anyway thinking of you today. Enjoy yourself. 🥳🍷🍰🍾

Does anyone else here use gluten-free recipes? I just came across this useful blog https://www.glutenfreealchemist.com

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Just dropped on my doorstep in pouring rain.
My fav sweets from daughter as can’t see her tomorrow,
AND top notch Waitrose chocs from my ex osteopath boss.
Now where to begin, especially as I’ve just lost weight.

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My friend has Covid and a chest infection [ is on antibiotics for this]
Just spoken to her on the phone and she is having trouble with her breathing but she refuses to tell her daughter or son because she doesn't want a fuss or them rushing round and calling an ambulance.
She made me promise i wouldn't tell anyone but ....

A word that seems to be used too often simply because one person's view on life is different, or they say something that not everyone agrees with.
The latest example of disrespectful being used out of proportion is a news article my phone downloaded yesterday.
A single mother with a young daughter said she didn't like the traditional Christmas turkey dinner, so they would be having a McDonalds meal on Christmas Day.
Some people have been telling her she's disrespectful.
Disrespectful of who or what?

https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/nhs-employees-arrested-making-fake-22550133?utm_source=mylondon_newsletter&utm_campaign=myeastlondon_newsletter2&utm_medium=email

Putin is a real life Darth Varder.

"The hammer and sickle was lowered for the last time on the night of Dec. 25, 1991, spinning the 15 Soviet republics overnight into independent countries.

What Putin laments about the Soviet collapse is the loss of Russian dominance over the vast Communist-ruled empire, a “sphere of influence” already shrunk by then after pro-democracy revolutions in Eastern Europe and independence proclamations within the USSR.

The 30th anniversary of the Soviet demise has inspired Putin’s provocative buildup of troops and tanks on Ukraine’s border as he threatens once again to retake parts of Russia’s lost empire by armed force."
[Quote from article by Carol J. Williams.]

Will Putin make his move over Christmas, so he can breathe more easily...