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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Today I have been married for 66 years and if I could I would live it all over again with the same girl.

I'm looking for pencil pleat curtains for curtain tracks to go around two large bay windows, each about five metres in total length, so the curtains need to add up to around seven or eight metres to allow for them to be gathered up at the top.

The bottoms of the curtains need to hang about 20cm or so below the window ledges.

I'm looking for reasonable quality lined curtains but not blackout curtains.

My living room has a wooden floor, orangey brown rug, orange cushions and so on so I'm thinking of something in some shades of yellow, mustard, orange, light brown or similar.

My bedroom needs similar size curtains but in a pale to mid blue colour.

I've tried the usual stores such as Dunelm, Ikea and John Lewis but I can't find anything suitable.

I looked at the prices of getting some curtains custom made but the prices are in the region of £1000 or more per window.

Do any of you know of a good curtain store somewhere within a reasonable travelling distance of Stoneleigh? - So I could consider Epsom, Ashtead, Kingston, Sutton, Croydon, Guildford, Dorking, Leatherhead, Wimbledon or other towns in that general area.

Alternatively, do any of you know of a good person/company to make me some custom curtains without an eye-watering price?

My ideal scenario would be a mobile curtain maker who could visit with material samples, suggest suitable fabrics, measure up and make the curtains.

Cheers

Tony

Dear little Arthur for what you suffered, no one to hold you, love you, and watch over you in your final moments.
Numerous failings by police and social service, made worse by lockdown.
This story has effected me so badly these past weeks, I would go to bed thinking of what he went through.
Today that evil woman wouldn’t even come up to face her sentence. as I’ve mentioned before how do monsters get away with that. 29 years but more than likely life means life in this case.
His evil father 21 years. No remorse from either of them.
He would have been better off with his drunken mother who wrote a heartwarming memory of him, that beautiful smile, read by his grandmother who was fobbed off by the authorities,
A harrowing case for a juror, even reporters had to walk out listening to audios.
They will face hell in prison now, and she already has. Let her see what it’s like....
So many children go through pain, his was daily...thousands over lockdown, plus mother’s being abused.
Arthur you have broken my heart. I won’t forget you. ❤️

I started paying a monthly amount [twice what they asked for] just 2 months ago and already they have sent me 4 emails asking me to double my donation.
I feel like cancelling it altogether now.

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Local tree planting yesterday.
https://www.facebook.com/HBTreeWardens/

You never know we might end of with these 😃

BREAKING: The Parliamentary watchdog has recommended banning MPs from advising private companies for extra cash.

This is massive - and it’s exactly what more than 73,000 of us have been fighting for, ever since Boris Johnson tried to get one of his own MPs off the hook for lobbying the Government on behalf of a private business.

It’s fantastic news, but the fight isn’t over yet. Whilst the watchdog - called the Parliamentary Committee on Standards - has recommended the change, it’s up to Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg to agree to the ban, and make it happen. That’s where we come in.

If thousands of us sign a petition urging them to accept the proposals - and finally stop MPs taking money from private companies in exchange for political advice - it’ll prove once and for all that we, the UK public, want our MPs to focus on doing what they’re elected to do: representing their constituents.

Will you join me and sign the petition today?
https://bit.ly/3xFyXzx

https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/scammer-who-died-after-ingesting-22330540

Inquest

Just heard one can now send cheques electronically to your bank.

please don’t tell me this is an anagram of no crimbo 😟😟😟

I see they have changed the layout of badges on profiles now.
Things keep changing.

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Have you seen this?

The COP26 climate summit is over, but the environmental crisis is still raging. World leaders - including Boris Johnson - talked a good talk during the summit in Glasgow, but when it comes to tackling climate change properly, the proof is in the pudding!

Countries will return to the negotiating table next year to keep working on solutions to the crisis. And as COP ‘President’, the UK has a really important role in making sure those leaders spend the next 12 months committing to ambitious action.

That’s why we need to let Boris Johnson know that we’re looking to him to lead the way. So we’re teaming up with our friends at The Climate Coalition, alongside other groups, to send a GIANT Christmas card to Downing Street - signed by hundreds of thousands of people from right across the UK. Imagine Boris Johnson’s face when it arrives!

https://bit.ly/3cS1sjG

Have just rung RAC to ask them not to auto-renew cover, had increased from £81 to £121 and wanted to shop around. Immediately went back down again to £81 plus an extra 3 months, so 15 months cover for the same price as last year. You couldn't make it up.

I'm getting very annoyed with people on the freebie sites.

I bought a new rug for my living room so I advertised the old one on several sites including Trash Nothing, Gumtree and Scooploop.

On all the ads I clearly said where I live and on the Gumtree ad I clearly said please don't just send a message saying is it still available (a common response on that site). I'll remove the ad when it's been taken so if you can still see the ad then yes it is still available.

I've had fourteen replies - eleven of them said just is it still available. One gave a phone number but doesn't answer the phone so I sent a text message which he didn't reply to. I contacted two others who then said that I live too far away.

The rug in reasonable condition but needs a clean. I'm trying to help people by giving away stuff I don't need.
Why are people so stupid and/or inconsiderate!
I don't have time to waste so I'm considering taking a perfectly usable rug to the dump.
OK, rant over.

This is today's Super Sunday match. Get your predictions in by 4pm.
Good luck

Been going off here all evening, it's not Guy Fawkes or Diwali or Christmas so what's the excuse this time ? can't be that many birthdays locally.

A happy story of a settled new life

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/retired-dads-joy-after-spotting-22290969.amp

Now we have this new variant here, Brentwood is not far away
Masks to be compulsory in shops and on transport but no further restrictions for restaurants and multi people gatherings,

I try not to get involved online about politics but this caught my attention

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/26/britain-mp-vote-nick-fletcher-doctor-who-jon-trickett

A genie granted me one wish,
I said, I wish I could be you,
He saud, weurd wush bit u wull grant ut

Saturday night football from the Premier League. Get your prediction in by 5pm.
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Your last holiday?

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This morning Jersey States Members voted by a landslide in support of the principle of assisted dying - 36 to 10. This vote paves the way for Jersey to become the first British Parliament to enact an assisted dying law.

Today is a victory for common-sense and compassion. It is also a victory for you, our dedicated supporters, who have enabled us to back campaigns not just in Westminster and Scotland, but across the British Isles.

3 depots have been blocked across the uk. on Black Friday
I know a lot of people don't like Amazon for various reasons but this will obviously delay many orders and disappoint a lot of people.
It is also causing major traffic hold ups.