I tripped and fell yesterday, at the bus stop, opposite Sainburys, Tooting Broadway, when I arrived home, I realised my wedding ring had come off. Long shot, I know, but sentimental!!, it is a puzzle ring but has been soldered closed. Reward offered!!

Due to a stupid mix up at my GP over a repeat request they told me the only way to resolve this issue was to request an E consult.
What a fiasco that was ... they want a photo of an ID, but i don't have a passport or a drivers licence, and then upload a phot of my face.
Alternatively you have to send 3 different codes from your GP registration, tried that but GP said I can only speak about this from 9am until 12 - so have to leave it until Monday.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10698823/Post-mortem-extraordinary-Greenland-shark-reveals-meningitis.html?ito=email_share_article-top

I'm a bit late with the Friday Night Football due to being at the dentist this morning. Get your predictions in by 7pm.
Good luck

Years ago if you had dressed like this it would have been ridiculed but if you are a billionaire you are praised 😆 and called glamorous . Is it just me that cannot see that?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/18203042/rihanna-glamorous-pregnancy-date/?rec_article=true

Came across this article re: household cleaners.

https://www.choice.com.au/home-and-living/laundry-and-cleaning/surface-cleaners/articles/the-best-and-worst-cleaning-products

According to the Daily Mail many people are being turned down for taking Ukranian refugees due to issues at their homes

Do you know anyone who has passed or failed their inspection

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10693723/UKs-Homes-Ukraine-hosts-rejected-plug-sockets-ponds.html

Name what annoys you with modern life at the moment. Only two things at a time.
I'll start. Cyclists and electric scooters being ridden on the pavement, really irritates me. Being left hanging on the phone because "We are experiencing high levels of calls" winds me up.

I never knew such lakes existed until a day ago my Lockscreen had it as a background picture. Absolutely incredible.

https://www.yourweather.co.uk/news/trending/australia-the-mystery-of-an-incredible-pink-lake-solved-microbes_amp.html

Gary Barlow is their brand ambassador and has a little bit of egg on his face from Christmas 2021

https://m.facebook.com/pandocruises/videos/a-special-christmas-message-from-gary-barlow/632366284571633/

One of tonight's Europa League Quarter Finals 1st leg ties. Get your predictions in by 7.15pm.
Good luck

When people post on SL about their concern re covid there’s at least four people who regularly belittle their fears. They argue that: it’s nothing more than a cold- they’re all ill with something else - people should just get on with their lives - there’s no point in testing, - the figures are all deliberately inflated to scare us. In effect they are suggesting that those of us who have concerns are either stupid, or sheep. But the latest figures quoted widely should concern us all. The prevalence is higher than ever, hospital admissions are sky rocketing and the deaths are creeping ever upwards.
https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o882

I watch “Scam interceptors” BBC 1 10am. Found it interesting and entertaining.

Does anyone know of interceptor groups? Excellent idea. Would have loved to join in in my younger days.

Wasn't expecting that

Just gone on line to order my usual repeat medications but 1 item not on list so phoned surgery.
Was told as of January they don't do them on line or over the phone anymore, you have to request everything from the chemist.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/israeli-booster-study-says-fourth-shot-shields-against-omicron-wanes

Another Champions League Quarter Final 1st leg tie. Get your predictions in by 7pm.
Good luck

According to Professor Karol Sikora the numbers quoted by the MSM of how many positive Covid tests each day are wildly above the true figure.
This is because the ONS can only take a small sample of tests then extrapolate the results. Then they add about 50% to the positives to make Covid seem worse than it is.

Lets see if those grey, long tailed, pointed ears, furry bodied tree rats can get inside these beauties, lol

click on to get the bigger picture

Tonight's match is the UEFA Champions League Quarter Final 1st leg. Get your predictions in by 7.15pm
Good luck

Bees simply make cells made of soft wax that are cylindrical and circular in cross-section.

These circular cells are packed together like a layer of bubbles. The wax is softened by the heat of the bee's bodies and gets pulled into hexagonal cell shape by surface tension, mass and gravity at the junctions where walls meet.

A regular geometric array of identical cells with simple polygonal cross-sections can take only one of three forms: triangular, square or hexagonal.
Honeycomb is constructed essentially as vertical plates which hang down.

Of these only natural hexagons can divide up the space most efficiently. If we interrupt honeybee's by smoking them out of the hive we can find that the most recently built cells have a circular shape, whereas those just a little older have developed into hexagons.

The worker bee's heat the wax with their bodies until it reaches about 45 C and flows like a viscous liquid. Therefore hexagons result automatically as the wax cools from the pressure of each bee trying to make its cell as large as possible, adding internal pressure to mass and gravity.

Hexagons are natures way of resolving all forms of circular bodies under pressure. Examples of this are many.

When first made, the comb cells of the honeybee are cylindrical tubes, but they become more hexagonal in cross section as time goes by.

Therefore this hexagonal architecture is not only because of the simple physical and natural phenomenon of mass and gravity but also due to the active participation of worker bee's providing warmth and internal pressure to the wax cylinder.

I purchased two wooden garden chairs from Ebay, main reason being that they were ready assembled, good price and very good reviews. Arrived last week by very helpful delivery driver who carried into garden.
Then decided perhaps I should have ordered the lift-off table tray that can fit between the chairs and which could have been bought as a set anyway. Emailed the firm directly over weekend asking if they supplied tray separately, came back this morning and said to ring them to order. Which I did, to be told I could purchase directly on website but the tray wasn't there, only the complete set. So went back to them but problem with payment as I couldn't do a Bax(?) on mobile and they didn't take paypal or card over the phone. Anyway, long and short of it - next time they are in the area (from Stoke), will put on van and deliver for £5 and me to pay cash directly to the driver as they use their own transport. No idea when but who cares!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10683581/Alzheimers-breakthrough-major-study-spots-42-risk-genes.html?ito=email_share_article-top

I thought others might like to know this. I have just successfully ordered a free pack of 7 lfts
The info on accessing these has been a bit elusive as a gov website said packs would automatically be sent to those eligible. (Incl over 75s) but no sign of that - you'd think that they would have been up and ready for April 1st, esp as some chemists had run out of them before then ( as people have been buying them up - no rationing, I think - unsuccessful management of activity in a brewery comes to mind!!!)
You can access them through the NHS app, and it's dead easy - well, the order has been acknowledged anyway - remains to be seen when they arrive. Apparently you can order every 3 days.

I have just received a new debit card - gone to PayPal and Amazon etc. to update details and they already knew them !
How does this happen ?

Monday Night Football is a London derby. Get your predictions in by 7pm.
Good luck

A man stormed out of a performance of Shakespeare's As You Like It after an hour and asked for a refund. His reason? All the cast had Yorkshire accents and that's not right.
The play was being performed by the Yorkshire Theatre Company at a theatre in York.

Some tips from the Guardian's personal finance pages - people may already know all of them, but I didn't, eg the big difference made by a washing machine turned down to to 30° instead of 40° https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/mar/29/cheaper-bath-shower-energy-questions-answered-reduce-bills

Just heard that people are panicking to get fuel
Again due to extinction rebellions latest game!

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1590453/Fuel-shortage-petrol-England-Just-Stop-Oil-protest-block-supply-latest/amp

We had our boosters yesterday. We were encouraged to accept Moderna - but I chose to continue with Pfizer. It is just as well I did, as in my husband's Moderna information leaflet it stated that it contained macrogol, which I am allergic to.
The on line proformas you are asked to fill in ask about any allergic reactions to your last Covid 19 vacvinations, but don't ask about other allergies.
Also, although the leaflet says read before having the vaccination, everyone was given it after receiving the vaccination!
Needs to be organised differently - most people were waiting a bit - they could be given the information and directed to the section on contents of the medicine. Or people could be given the on line link to the information leaflets when they receive confirmation of the booking.
If I had accepted the Moderna I could have ended up in A and E.
So if anyone knows they have allergies it would be a good idea to look up the leaflet on line beforehand or ask to read it before the procedure.

Never heard of it.

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/drivers-urged-check-car-potentially-092125122.html

Click on for complete picture

https://medical.awm.com/woman-wants-to-rename-certain-body-parts-because-they-are-offensive-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2/?utm_content=buffer3854d&utm_medium=fb&utm_source=uk&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR3t11zAiw3EJYjfL6r2J7h6ocDd3iKKDUMokpz9xzstFdKtRzJtWeKXrVA

Super Sunday in the Premier League. Get your predictions in by 4pm.
Good luck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6ETkhywzSU

I joined the Space loop but could not post a thread. This is very topical but tends to need some knowledge of Space and UFO's. With 534 members surely a significant number will find it interesting enough to comment. So here we go -

A monumental controversy has existed for more than 50 years on this topic. We get compelling evidence presented on hundreds of TV documentaries and other media that Alien UFO's do exist, countered by numerous Government cover-ups to the contrary.

The answer is simple -

If Bob Lazar is telling the truth, then Alien spacecraft have definitely either landed or crashed on Earth over the past 50 years or so. If he is lying, then the entire issue is one of natural phenomena, is man made, or is just fictional Startrek material.

I have seen countless TV programs on the subject including those about Bob Lazar and read many links on the web about it.

Bob Lazar is ultra-convincing with an astounding degree of intimate scientific knowledge and details of his work at Area 51 on anti-gravity reverse engineering. Nobody else has ever come so convincingly close to the subject in such scientific and 'authentic' detail as he has.

My opinion ?
I believe that Bob Lazar is telling the truth.
What is your opinion ?

Mum had a paper delivered every day when I was child. When I got married I carried on and had my paper delivered. Today is the last day I will get a delivery, as the local shop cant get any boys who want to deliver anymore. Such a shame as my son and his son both were paperboys for the same shop. Looked forward to getting a paper every morning. And of Course treating the boys at Christmas. 😭

Will Smith has resigned from the Academy. No more Oscars.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/shocking-painful-and-inexcusable-will-smith-resigns-from-academy-over-chris-rock-slap-at-oscars/ar-AAVLV79?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=bc01286f1481494a99cd272f741fe9bf

Saturday Night Football. Get your predictions in by 5pm.
Good luck

Its not nice to wish people bad luck, but I really hope that Putin's Thyroid cancer is rapid and fatal.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/putin-has-been-visited-by-cancer-doctor-35-times-in-four-years/ar-AAVMmvX?ocid=msedgntphdr&cvid=4e0753d4aa60426486ee896d2002804d

"Vodafone to offer free mobile connectivity to 200,000 Ukrainian refugees | The Independent" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/vodafone-british-red-cross-b2031005.html?amp
They are also offering donated tech items.

The real one starts in less than an hour, but this website predicts how it could turn out.
https://stattosoftware.com/wc2022/

I was surprised to find that my replacement energy supplier's new rates are so complicated.
They haven't just raised the rates at which they charge per kilowatt hour for electricity and for gas but have also changed the standing charge for each of them - in very different ways.
That makes their charges very hard to compare with the capped rate, which isn't (as I recall) expressed in that way. Meanwhile, the MoneySavingExpert website has (unsurprisingly) crashed as people try to understand how their bills are changing and if they can do anything to minimise the effect.
Does anyone here have a supplier other than Shell Energy which has notified them of changes to standing charges as well as to rates per kWh, so that we can compare what different suppliers are doing?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10674019/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-Cost-contactless-payments-Call-2billion-cash.html?ito=email_share_article-top

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-10673141/RAC-warns-avalanche-wrongly-issued-fines-drivers-1-June.html

https://www.gardensillustrated.com/news/ban-on-slug-killer-metaldehyde/