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Bee62

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Good morning all.

I really can’t be doing with this Halloween nonsense. It’s not a festival that ever featured when I was young and it’s just become an excuse for shops to sell a load of tat.

I reserve the right to ignore it completely.
Good morning Linda. I totally agree with you. I ignore Halloween too.
 

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good mornooning friends! back to being a gym rat and avoiding the devils nectar! it’s dad’s other leg now [emoji85] same infection again, will be visiting tonight
Best wishes for your father from me. I hope his health problems can be well treated in the hospital that he soon recovers.
 

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It was “Mischief Night” in Yorkshire, not Halloween.

Mischief Night is November 4th - the night before Guy Fawkes night - when tricks are played on other people in honour of local lad Guy Fawkes (he was from York) getting up to no good down in London.

Sort of trick without the treat! I remember waking up one morning to find someone hard carefully sellotaped all the gates closed on our street and having to get scissors out to be able to go to school :D
The Muslims have a similar event called Ashura in which the children are given musical instruments, make a lot of noise and roam the streets throwing eggs flour and water balloons, or these days, burning paper and fireworks.
We stay indoors. :rolleyes:
 

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Most of the children who live around me here get 'trucked' into town to do their trick or treating and mischief making in town. I've kept my gate closed lo these many years I've lived here and, thankfully, there have been no tricksters messing up the outside of my property. This is not a holiday I'm fond of. Well, bah, humbug, I guess there really isn't a holiday I'm fond of. I'm just a grouchy old crone.
 

Tidgy's Dad

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Most of the children who live around me here get 'trucked' into town to do their trick or treating and mischief making in town. I've kept my gate closed lo these many years I've lived here and, thankfully, there have been no tricksters messing up the outside of my property. This is not a holiday I'm fond of. Well, bah, humbug, I guess there really isn't a holiday I'm fond of. I'm just a grouchy old crone.
Good morning, Yvonne, I think you quite enjoyed our Cold Dark Room Christmas stuff last year.:)
It will soon be time to start that again, and I would be very grateful for your help in setting up some group PMs again in a while.
 

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winter blues are trying to get me :( the rush hr comute on the train to survive now the i’m going for a sunbed

Shorter days and darker evenings after the clocks change don’t help.

The UVB from the sunbed should help. Have you thought of getting a full-spectrum lamp for home? They’re sometimes called SAD lamps. My daughter uses one and swears by it.
 

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Oli Khan's coffee is indeed excellent. :)
Oli the Tort won't meet Tidgy until after his quarantine has ended.
He doesn't seem to want to hibernate but seems keen on getting out from under the bed.;)
Good evening Adam.
So, how are the two Olis doing back there? Enjoying the relatively warm weather, I guess.
 
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Shorter days and darker evenings after the clocks change don’t help.

The UVB from the sunbed should help. Have you thought of getting a full-spectrum lamp for home? They’re sometimes called SAD lamps. My daughter uses one and swears by it.

good evenooning mum! i know the ones you mean, i have thought about them but sunbed is more fun:p , i’m now all toasty and smell of coconut [emoji85]
 
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