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Mar 2021
10:22pm, 14 Mar 2021
8,527 posts
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WA
Crowthorne, Berkshire. On the Google map it doesn't look that far from Sandhurst which I think is an army training place. They are completely unrelated but I found their apparent proximity mildly interesting.
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Mar 2021
10:39pm, 14 Mar 2021
71,414 posts
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Hanneke
Oh, that is interesting. From my poor memory, there is an army training camp near there as well...
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Mar 2021
10:45pm, 14 Mar 2021
8,861 posts
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BaronessBL
I knew that Palm Sunday was the start of Holy Week and I knew that Palm Sunday was 40 days since Lent started so I had assumed Lent finished on Palm Sunday - but I had also heard that Sundays and in particular Mothering Sunday didn't 'count' which I always took to mean that if you had given up (say) chocolate for Lent you had 24 hours on a Sunday to eat as much as you possibly could before having to give up again for another six days.
As you might be able to tell - I'm not much of a church-goer!
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Mar 2021
10:59pm, 14 Mar 2021
31,589 posts
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
Our magnolia is in bud but not flowering yet, an orchid is in flower though, first this spring, talking of flowers I treated myself to some tulips for Mothering Sunday as my last lot were right at the very end, I love tulips, even when they are dying off they are still beautiful.
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Mar 2021
11:13pm, 14 Mar 2021
13,809 posts
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geordiegirl
What a day I’ve had. I did Mother’s Day gift drop off, being very fortunate to have 2 amazing mums in our life and we dropped of SD gifts today.
I then had the pleasure of a MD run with my mum (Geordiemum). 6 weeks of injury she had ran almost 12m this week. A 76 year old ledge!!!
Steak and chips tonight for a (non) Mother’s Day, I don’t have kids, not by choice, and lockdown makes me sad that I’m losing contact with the kids I was there for. Hope it comes back.
But this is a day to celebrate the mums. The mums who became teachers the mums who have kept their shit together.... you are all bloody hero’s.
And I will still be the crazy auntie at the end of this shit.
Mothers, grans, sisters, aunties celebrate your awesomeness
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Mar 2021
9:12am, 15 Mar 2021
71,418 posts
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Hanneke
GG 🧡❤️🧡
Mrs Jigs, lovely orchid!
I love tips too, funny enough especially when they are going over.
I am about to drop my Newt-ish car into the bodyshop for a repair caused by a "friend" bumping into it, saying they'd sort it, that is why we have insurance, only to find that several months later they refuse to sort it, tell me to pay (£1400) and to not do it through insurance as that is THEIR prerogative??? They used to be my best friends. They were my Covid bubble. I am grieving the loss of the friendship. It is what covid and its restrictions do to people. Let's just say they have gone down the Q-anon, Trump worshipping rabbit hole. I have not...
It is very very sad!
I have never lost friends before, especially not like this.
Right, going to get the car sorted on MY insurance. Costs me my no claims and my excess, but I do have legal insurance so they say they will claim it all back... Very unpleasant!
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Mar 2021
9:15am, 15 Mar 2021
14,152 posts
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Ness
That is very sad, Hanneke. 
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Mar 2021
9:17am, 15 Mar 2021
4,199 posts
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CC2 Speedy Goth
Sharkie, the white frock was for First Holy Communion. You don't get to wear anything special for Confirmation. Well, we didn't anyway. First Communion at age 7 and Confirmation in my school at age 10, which was frankly far too young to know what we were doing. I think that my Catholic secondary school may have had some rule about only accepting confirmed Catholics. Wouldn't be allowed these days!
Newt for the day - I have an appointment with a dental hygenist for the first time >10 years. It's going to hurt. There was talk of 'deep root cleaning'.
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Mar 2021
9:21am, 15 Mar 2021
34,381 posts
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halfpint
So today is the first day of trying my new tiny habits.
1. whenever I put the kettle on I will take a sip of water and say 'nice!'
2. when I switch my computer off for the day, I will close my eyes and take 3 deep breaths and say 'OK!'
3. When I sit down for breakfast I will put my device aside and just listen for 30 seconds, then pump my fist and say yes.
The idea is you find a habit you already have to hook your new habit onto and you celebrate each time - hence the format above.
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Mar 2021
9:25am, 15 Mar 2021
58,429 posts
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Diogenes
[whoa, that is a weird way to behave, Han. Has something 'happened' to them to make them that way, I wonder?]
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