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Mushrooms
Following on from my garden discussion .. I have mushrooms! Every year loads grow in my garden, all different types, white tall ones, flat brown ones and little kind of button looking ones. I usually just leave them and or they get munched up by the mower but this year there are SO many and some red spotty ones that when I…
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Bucket list for retirement
Do you have a bucket list of things that I you plan to do when you retire? I don't but now regret that ……. I have retired, from work, twice already (medically at age 47 and again at age 57). My health has deteriorated in the last 5 years - so that is it for work - I await my state pension in 5 years !
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Time travelling with mindfulness
Hi! Some 30 years ago when I started mindfulness meditation and mindful living, I went to my first (and only) mindfulness meditation retreat over a weekend. One of the practices they taught was before eating, we were to consider the history of what laid before us in the present moment. For example, the history of the rice…
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Help me garden my garden
I keep seeing that clover is a good alternative to grass, as it's lower maintenance, doesn't really grow tall and is good for the environment yadayadayada I'm wondering if I should just spread clover seed all over my garden?? My grass never grows, my garden is like a giant swamp, would clover work well instead? Has anyone…
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Remembrance Sunday 2025
Remembrance Sunday 2025 - Lest we forget Remembrance Sunday happens on the Sunday closest to 11 November, which is Armstice Day. There will be services across the UK today, laying wreaths and taking a moment of silence to remember those service men and women who fought valiantly for our country and the many others who have…
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Celebrity Traitors
who on here has been watching celebrity traitors ?
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🌻 Stress Awareness Week - 3rd to 7th November 🌻
We've all experienced stress at some point in our lives. Sometimes it can be incredibly overwhelming and it feels too difficult to overcome it. This week I'm going to look at the difference between stress and pressure, and the ways in which we can try and manage them. Stress vs. Pressure It can be easy to confuse stress…
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🎆 Remember, Remember, The 5th of November 🎆
The Gunpowder Plot On this day in 1605 a group of Catholic conspirators were poised to blow up parliament. However, a Lord received a letter warning of this which he passed to the Protestant King's Chief Minister. The plot was foiled, a shoot out took place, and half of the plotters were killed. The other half, including…
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Coffee lounge
I like caramel do u like americano or any other types of coffee
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A&E wait times
This isn't my area but I was looking up A&E wait times online and found some NHS trusts show 'live' wait times and busyness online. I thought that was pretty interesting, did anyone else know they do this? https://www.mcht.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/waiting-times-feed Although I wish wait times were this small in my area…
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Talent that is Taught and that is not
I was having a conversation with my son about comedy and Victoria Woods name cropt up.I used to love watching her amongst others.My late dad used to laugh hysterically at spike milligan,Dudley Moore.The list goes on.My son had no idea who I was talking about and its sad really tgat unless shows are repeated on tv these…
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World Vegan Day - 1st November 2025🍉🍒
Yesterday was World Vegan Day so I thought I would talk a little bit about my own journey with veganism. I’ve been vegan since January 1st, 2018, though it all started as a bit of a whim. I decided to try Veganuary after making an offhand comment about how I thought I could do it. My partner at the time told me I’d never…
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Great British Bake Off Final 🍰
Has anyone been following the bake off this year? It's the final tomorrow! I'm hoping Jasmine might win it, she's had the most Star Bakers this season. But the other two are brilliant as well, and it so often comes down to who's bakes go well on the day. Who do you think is going to win?
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Online Board Games
I have come across and tried these multiplayer capable board games, which are good fun with the on-going lockdown. I hope you enjoy them if you try them out! These games are against guest players online, or your friends. Just enter a Nickname and click find opponent. or play with a friend. Tic Tac toe:…
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Halloween! 👻
We'd love to know about your Halloween plans and see any pictures of decorations and pumpkins. I've got some sweets in and hope we get lots of visits. I love seeing everyone dressed up in their spooky outfits. 👻 Whether your pumpkin carving, or trick or treating we hope you have a great Halloween.
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Could you survive without a mobile phone nowadays ?
Doctors and Hospital appointments, Deliveries, Receipts, Banking, Buying charge for EV’s ……. virtually everything depends on mobile phones. My parents-in-law do not have a mobile and are now discovering that life is virtually impossible without one.
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Andrews fall from grace.
Who feels sorry for Andrew Mountbatten Windsor ? Kicked out of his home – without a penny to his name He’s going to be living on a park bench for a while……
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I'm not sure if this is in the right place or not
Hi everyone, my youngest sister has been having problems with the place where she gets my niece's wheelchair from as my desperately needs a new one as her current one is broken and far too small for my niece now, but the place where she gets it from is refusing to give her a new wheelchair even though you can clearly see…
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It's Bat Appreciation Month!
October is often called "Spooky season" by those on the internet, so it makes sense that one of natures creatures that is often linked to spookiness gets a month of their own. The beloved and often misunderstood bat. There are eighteen species of bat living in the UK (which is nearly a quarter of native mammal species) and…
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What's for tea tonight!
I have jacket potatoes in the oven, cant wait im starving.
