Went to the Post Office today to send a calendar to a friend in the USA. Postage cost more than the calendar. I was using the self service machine and the screen said to fill in a Customs Declaration Form. There were none there and no staff except for one person at the counter with a queue of at least 10 customers. I waited around for some time, but in the end I just posted the calendar without the CDF.
Will this make any difference to how soon it reaches it's destination?

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/650300

Doesn’t seem like justice

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/08/six-teenagers-convicted-france-samuel-paty-teacher-beheading-2020

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-67654360

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67662158

Listen to the accent guy

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGe8kNJ5o/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12839273/amp/Hugh-Grant-wife-Anna-donate-20-000-Britains-kindest-plumber-says-generous-Christmas-gift-wonderful.html?ico=amp_articleRelated_with_images

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12839509/amp/Elf-safety-21-million-Brits-injure-preparing-Christmas-research-suggests.html

Have you had an accident at Christmas?

Just posting this as some of us (including me) may feel as if we've been trudging about in winter weather a bit too much. The owners of these shoes really would have done a lot of trudging, probably all their lives. https://www.instagram.com/p/C0f0BpLuC84/ It's such a beautiful and apparently simple painting.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-67622511

https://news.sky.com/story/tourists-flip-venice-gondola-after-refusing-to-stop-taking-selfies-13024789

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-67601775

Have you ever walked into someone after many years? Did you recognise them immediately?

Probably best not to

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/slapping-therapy-manslaughter-hongchi-xiao-b2456736.html?utm_term=pos2&utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=embed1

Just been watching live on TNT Sports. Limited overs cricket match between New York Strikers and Delhi Bulls in the Abu Dhabi T10 league. Both teams have international players from many countries, so they are not amateur sides.
Delhi Bulls have finished with a score of 31 All Out. The lowest score ever in the competions history. At one stage they were 16 for 8!

Scotland women play against England women tonight in the Nations league. England have to win to finish top of the group. Which they have to do in order that a Great Britain team goes to the Paris Olympics.
But the irony is that some of Scotlands players would be in the Great Britain team, so it would be to their personal advantage to let England win.
Scotland are bottom of the group so if they win it helps neither country.
So nothing less than about a 3-0 win is need to silence the conspiricy theorists.

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Please continue on the new -diverted subject
With updates as news comes in

Is anyone else watching 'The Couple next door' on Channel 4?
I read the book with the same title and it surely wasn't anything like
that!! 😌😌😃

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/02/philippines-hit-by-earthquake-tsunami-say-experts

just found a great way to defrost my car. I put a warm wheat bag on the dashboard ,after I had unfrozen the locks and 10 minutes later clear car windows. What do other people do?

First day of Advent?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-67545415

https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/athlete-centre-stop-search-scandal-170923831.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABEW5G6uSO3Df00Z5q3b22s_swiY4UAXQrlu5vK1uc6D3ZnMlw1495n6ag-4Vi0mCdWpDRRYDHVFiHiN_ReR5M2eDTrn23d13-VhZ4nxdeuYQ8lKH411rd16eeRAfEnXGZdaGYo2QNxhLE0aP_Q4JJu6f1APf3Fo1_XeAzOrcpQK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67607031

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2023/06/bank-branch-closures-lloyds-bank-of-scotland-halifax/

Homeless man found dead in his car people say isn’t that awful just near Christmas but they knew he was sleeping out there and didn’t offer any help

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/homeless-man-freezes-nottingham-b2457625.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/25/derek-chauvin-convicted-of-george-floyds-reported-to-have-been-stabbed-in-prison

Temu United Kingdom to make purchases. The goods / clothes look good & the reviews are in most parts, positive. However, I am confused by the name, Temu UK. I googled them and they seem to be based in Massachusetts.

If holidaying in Spain (or anywhere else it might be offered), beware of the painkiller Nolotil https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/03/its-not-worth-risking-your-life-fears-over-painkiller-nolotil-grow-for-brits-in-spain

Please watch, it's quite a long video, you can pause it anytime and continue later

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

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/02/two-rescued-after-gas-explosion-destroys-edinburgh-home

Seven ways that could help

I was amazed at the amount of empty houses

https://www.positive.news/society/seven-solutions-uk-housing-crisis/

65,000 on the waiting list

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67511716

Vegan activists at Warwick University have won a vote to ban meat and dairy from all the university's canteens. Even though they make up only 2.7% of the students. Only members of their "Plant based university" society were allowed to vote. But now the result is being imposed on the 97.3% of other students.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12799637/warwick-university-meat-dairy-ban-fury-student-union.html

As crime rises on tubes the new carriages will all have cctv

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/central-line-trains-cctv-seats-moquette-tfl-london-underground-b1120566.html

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/tfl-introduce-20mph-limits-five-050000278.html

He went missing after a car crash in Hoo, Kent

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-66655273.amp

Four months on his body was found washed up in the Netherlands

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-67415630.amp

I dare say most people have got their own favourite ways of sending big files - photographs, videos etc - but if anyone hasn't and wants one, https://wetransfer.com is brilliant. The publishing trade runs on it and no doubt companies pay for the extra facilities you can get, but I've used it free several times a week over many years for sending book spreads back and forth and it has never, ever let me down. You get an email to let you know when the recipient has downloaded what you've sent. If you've got several files, it's quickest to zip them together (highlight and compress on a Mac, no doubt something similar on a PC) so you can upload them with just one click.

Has anyone else had this caller

0331 630 4261

“Hi how are you today”

Me: who are you

“Hi it’s Sarah calling about your housing problem”

Me: yeah right

Her “have you got any damp, mould or leaks”

Me: hang up and block

https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/charity-scams-are-you-donating-to-a-scammer-aCS6E1S0QWiE?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=Supporters&utm_content=Scam+alert+301123+-+A+-+7+ways+to+spot+a+scam+website

https://thestreetlink.org.uk/about

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-67309593

In a council meeting

https://news.sky.com/video/councillor-caught-about-to-clean-windows-during-remote-meeting-13013885

We often hear “nothing taste” the same anymore. I think I found the answer. Watching M & S TV program they only employ mostly young people. If their taste has changed the older generation will never buy a ready made meal saying “that was nice” So it is good bye to an easy way to produce a meal. Certainly for me.

She says “ I live my life the way I want not the way the government tell me” then blames immigrants for her lifestyle of claiming benefits, falling pregnant and not being educated 😂

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeeJ49jB/

“I don’t vote but we need change” 😳

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-67530527

Have a look at this:
https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/Cancel-the-price-hike