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Feb 2020
11:12pm, 25 Feb 2020
15,787 posts
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Sharkie
I'm starting this now because I have to be up and out of the house early tomorrow to catch - or indeed jingle - my first Newt of the year.
This is the ANTI 'What are you giving up for Lent?' thread, and we are now entering a fifth glorious year.
The rules are simple: instead of giving up something, instead of self denial and hair shirts... DO SOMETHING NEW!
It can be anything, big or small - a whole new career or at least a pastime, a haircut, eat something you've never tried or cook/bake something different. A new book, music. Take up the drums! Rediscover a love of piano playing, learn to tango.
Or just notice something new - the first daffodils, hawthorn blossom... ducklings in the pond. Sit in a different chair, sit on the floor! Sing a whole song right through ...LOUD!
There are loads of possibilities and Fetchies amaze and delight me every year with the Newts they Jingle*
*Newt Jingling was the result of a mis-typing by Gimme Medals of 'new things' that I seized upon as an apt description of what we do ... somehow it stuck.
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Feb 2020
11:50pm, 25 Feb 2020
6,510 posts
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WA
Whoop whoop! It's back  Thanks Sharkie
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Feb 2020
5:58am, 26 Feb 2020
5,826 posts
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TeeBee
My first newt is getting on the newt thread on page 1 this year
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Feb 2020
6:18am, 26 Feb 2020
45,364 posts
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Diogenes
My first newt is to change my snacks from biscuits and chocolate and buns to fruit. (I shan’t be giving up the HXBs)
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Feb 2020
7:18am, 26 Feb 2020
15,788 posts
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Sharkie
And we're off - great start from Dio.
Snacking on fruit instead of bics and chocs demonstrates that you can - if you want - re-imagine (correct word eludes me) a traditionallish Lent give up for ... just DO something positive and life enhancing instead.
Hurrah!
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Feb 2020
7:33am, 26 Feb 2020
45,366 posts
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Diogenes
I think it is going to be more challenging than giving up alcohol.
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Feb 2020
7:38am, 26 Feb 2020
15,789 posts
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Sharkie
Just don't see it as some sort of penance, Dio. I couldn't do it because I don't like enough fruit or fruit enough. But I could do cheese, or pickled cabbage, or peanut butter and plain bread or something (if I was actually hungry).
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Feb 2020
8:19am, 26 Feb 2020
8,060 posts
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BaronessBL
I'm in. I met five new Fetchies (ie ones I hadn't met before) on Saturday. If I could have arranged it so I was meeting one a day from today then that would have got me off to a good start - but I'm giving it some thought.
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Feb 2020
8:26am, 26 Feb 2020
16,485 posts
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GimmeMedals
My newt jingle is being at home on the first day of Lent on a school day. The governors will today decide who my successor is (interviews taking place is why I’m staying at home today) and so this will be the first time of many.
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Feb 2020
8:26am, 26 Feb 2020
15,790 posts
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Sharkie
I’ll give you your Saturday exploits, Baroness - especially considering the whole Archers Adventure was your idea and your organisation.
And just to show a new thing can be quite mundane in itself... on my way to my big Newt today I’ve had to use a contactless card for travel. First time for me - it’s usually me codger’s bus pass.
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