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Outpourings / Re: TBR pile?
« Last post by Roger Kettle on November 18, 2025, 09:36:45 AM »
I thoroughly enjoyed the "Slow Horses" series of books by Mick Herron (now on TV with the wonderful Gary Oldman in the lead role). I read all eight in the space of about three weeks. VERY funny and gripping at the same time. If you don't mind some spectacular swearing, I heartily recommend them.
I've just started a book called "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" which looks very promising indeed.
All this sounds like I've been doing nothing but read for the last month but, in fact, things have been a bit hectic. We've been looking after our granddaughter  quite a lot and my sister (you may remember her on this site as Diamond Lil) has broken her hip and is currently recovering in hospital. My son and his lovely partner are expecting their first child in a couple of weeks.
It's all go.
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Outpourings / TBR pile?
« Last post by Diane CBPFC on November 17, 2025, 05:44:49 PM »
What books have you squirreled away to read this winter?

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Outpourings / Re: Bucket list...well. sort of.
« Last post by Diane CBPFC on October 09, 2025, 03:32:18 PM »
During the war, my dad climbed up a pyramid. In those days they had a pole on the top to show the original height. He shimmied up that and hammered a British penny in the top with the butt of his gun.
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Outpourings / Re: Strawberry Tea
« Last post by Diane CBPFC on October 09, 2025, 03:30:36 PM »
I was inside with the door ajar. 

My daughter is a Land's Officer and had to leave a job due to two bears just the other day. They (2 of them) decided to do a helicopter inspection instead LOL 
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Outpourings / Re: Bucket list...well. sort of.
« Last post by Diane CBPFC on October 09, 2025, 03:28:50 PM »
A good place to start is to buy a really NICE bucket, perhaps stainless steel.
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Outpourings / Re: Bucket list...well. sort of.
« Last post by Mince on October 08, 2025, 11:45:28 PM »
ZERO added sugar. ZERO alcohol. ZERO processed food.

EVERY DAY: nuts, berries, fruit, cruciferous vegetables, other vegetables, ground flax seeds, turmeric and other spices, beans, whole grains.

EXERCISE and STRETCHING.

Hug a tree every now and then.

You won't live forever but it will seem like it.

As for things to do, look up into the sky at the constellation of Orion, where you will see the star Betelgeuse. Born ten million years ago, and giving off every second 100,000 times the energy of our sun, Betelgeuse will - tomorrow or some time in 10,000 years - come to the end of its life, and will go supernova. When it does, it will give off in ten seconds far more energy than it ever did during its lifetime. You'll certainly notice the difference in the night sky.

The supernova happens because during the last day of its life, Betelgeuse fuses some of its heavier elements into a gravity-crushed ball of iron about the size of our Earth but heavier than our own sun. This ball of iron then collapses under gravity. In the next four-thousandths of a second, the iron accelerates inwards to a quarter the speed of light (168 million miles per hour). In the one thousandth of a second after that, it is decelerated to a standstill.

So, eat well, get out, get running, and look at the stars.
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Outpourings / Bucket list...well. sort of.
« Last post by Roger Kettle on October 08, 2025, 08:12:23 PM »
All going well, next year I will reach the age of 75. Three quarters of a century. As a famous comedian once said, if I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have looked after myself better. Anyway, what better time for a bucket list. I have decided that my list will consist of things that I have absolutely no intention of doing. Sky-diving, para-gliding, wind-surfing...let's cut this short. I have no desire to do anything that has a hyphen in it. I will NOT be reading the entire works of Shakespeare. In fact, I won't be reading a single word of his. I know full well that he's regarded as a genius but, let's face it, he's no Barbara Cartland. I won't be visiting the pyramids. Okay, if they'd been built next to my local Co-op, I might have stopped for a look but I'm certainly not travelling 4.000 miles to get bitten by mosquitoes and fall off a camel. I have absolutely no desire to swim with dolphins. I don't trust them. I reckon half the so-called "shark attacks" are down to these smiley-faced sneaks. People see a fin and shout "Shark!". Dolphins are not only responsible but find the whole thing hilarious.
And then there's.....I won't go on. I could but I won't.
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Outpourings / Re: Strawberry Tea
« Last post by Roger Kettle on September 12, 2025, 09:46:25 AM »
I take it these are black bears, Diane? From what I can gather, they're not quite as aggressive as grizzlies but have certainly been known to attack people. That last photo of the bear staring at you is more than a little unnerving. I hope you were behind a thick glass door when you took it!
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Outpourings / Re: Strawberry Tea
« Last post by Diane CBPFC on September 11, 2025, 10:15:38 PM »
I bought two air horns today and my daughter has given me some bear spray - I really am hesitant to do the things in the garden and outside that I would like to be doing. 

This is the first year we have had troubles with bears. Not just these two but there is a mum and two cubs and perhaps two others out there as well.  I stopped throwing out stale bread to the birds after they first showed up and had no idea that tomatoes would be an attraction. 
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Outpourings / Re: Strawberry Tea
« Last post by Roger Kettle on September 11, 2025, 09:48:03 AM »
That's scary, Diane. I mean, REALLY scary! It must be hugely disturbing to have animals around that will actually attack you and not just as a defensive, last resort. As I've mentioned before, the only dangerous creatures where I grew up were adders and they had no interest in you unless you stepped on one of them. I'm not sure how I would handle 800lbs of teeth and claws coming at me. It would certainly involve an expensive laundry bill.
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