The infirmier comes to my house between 8.00 and 8.30 am once a month to do mine. We are spoiled down here.
19.11.2025 11:48 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@donaldah.bsky.social
Scottish/French/socialist/retired/married/musician/drawer and painter/dog lover/wine drinker/ gardener/doonhamer living in south west France
The infirmier comes to my house between 8.00 and 8.30 am once a month to do mine. We are spoiled down here.
19.11.2025 11:48 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I was a bus conductor on the 2/12 out of marine garage, Portobello in the early 70's. You only got the beer cans on the pub run at 10 o'clock to be fair.
17.11.2025 15:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A school in Scotland has been criticised for introducing the โmeatbox challengeโ where pupils are tasked with purchasing a lamb and helping a butcher. ๐๐
#lamb #scotland #animals #sheep #meat
Horrified to read this, particularly as it was the school I attended until I was 14. Has there been any response from the school to the criticisms?
16.11.2025 14:40 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I read that as the collie is blocking access to a bedroom but wanting to make it look innocent. The cat; with the ears back, is not happy about it but will wait till the collie gets bored or distracted. It wouldn't like the collie to think it was in charge.
16.11.2025 11:16 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Why did you sell this guy?
20.10.2025 14:15 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 06 tattie scones please.
20.10.2025 12:23 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Zack Polanski is the leader of the UK's Green Party.
These are the leaders we need.
Its the first time we've seen it grown in the fields in our area. There has been corn for cattle feed but not sweet corn.
15.10.2025 12:35 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My morning
03.10.2025 19:08 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The clouds are annoyed at the suns reluctance to rise this morning
03.10.2025 07:54 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is a fascinating and scary little video. And what South Korea is experiencing is only slightly ahead of where the UK and many advanced economies are.
Without immigration, we are FUCKED. I mean TOTALLY FUCKED. Yet all parties compete to stop migration. It's madness.
youtu.be/Ufmu1WD2TSk?...
Dawn this morning
27.09.2025 08:50 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The boys are resting after the early morning walk.
25.09.2025 08:09 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0And to you.
21.09.2025 11:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Made 1.5 kilos roma tomatoes
into soup yesterday.
The first time I flew in an aeroplane was a DC3 flight from Aberdeen to the Orkney Islands. I had a summer job working in the Stromness hotel and met Dougal Hasten who was climbing the Old Man of Hoy. 1967.
28.08.2025 16:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The dying prune trees dancing at dawn.
25.08.2025 08:28 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Happy Toma. Couldn't resist. Childish I know. I blamed it on the dogs.
21.08.2025 08:26 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Same in Lot et Garonne.
27.07.2025 07:25 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0On the Cunliffe review into the water sector in England, co-leader of the Green Party, Adrian Ramsay MP, said:
"Expecting a different form of regulation to fix the water industry is, frankly, rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." They're calling for the sector to be nationalised
'Government has lost control of this industry'
Campaigner Feargal Sharkey spoke to #BBC after the publication of a major report into the water industry in England and Wales including replacing the water regulator Ofwat and introducing mandatory water meters
And you.
29.06.2025 09:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The worst thing for us as vegetarians is eating out.
I agree with Duncan, the healthcare is fantastic. We got an appointment with our doctor last Friday at midday when I phoned at 9.30am. Then went with our ordinance for a test in a laboratory later that afternoon no rdv required.
๐จ โNot For EUโ Label. Check your asparagus.
๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexican asparagus in @sainsburys may be grown with pesticides banned in the EU, including carbofuran and paraquat.
๐ฅต No EU label = No EU safety standards.
๐ฌ๐ง Post-Brexit, UK rules are weaker.
๐งช Lower testing. Less traceability. More risk.
I do wordle when I wake up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep. In the wee sma' 'oors.
It's more sad than impressive as that's 149 nights in a row. There's quite a few"phews" in there.
I'm on 102 at the moment. I'd prefer a whole nights sleep than a record score personally.
149
11.06.2025 11:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I got it in three.
27.05.2025 19:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 021.05.2025 12:08 โ ๐ 71 ๐ 23 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1