lowlandslady.bsky.social
Unapologetic Boomer. Ticks all the usual boxes: books, crosswords, theatre, Elizabeth Line, cop shows, Dylan...
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Horrid
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Do you have to clamber across the bed to get to the other side? Looks v stressful
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I'll check they're still there.
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I retried when I moved here. No less tortuous than previously. Perhaps you should try when you're in the US. I think it must look better there.
Have you seen the cardboard cutouts in the upstairs window of the police station?
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...and absolutely nothing on Oxford traffic.
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Mostly boring I'm afraid. And a bit self-righteous at times.
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Not directly relevant, but a good read
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlem...
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Green amendment passed with Lab, LibDem, Green for, independents against. We are now moving onto the final, main budget debate.
(Your Clarion reporter is reconsidering their life choices sitting watching a council meeting on a Thursday evening typing up tweets about garden waste bins.)
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What would @dionnewarwick.bsky.social say?
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Nice
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You must be in Oxford - ah yes. I must be psychic
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I wasn't joking! news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england...
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I heard pulped Mills and Boon novels. Or maybe that's just motorways.
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Spooky. I've just watched Shadowlands.
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Is that real?
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It's a bit like The Masked Singer. The depth, the insight - my money's on Jeremy Clarkson
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No idea. I suspect one person of my acquaintance might have an inkling but they're not saying
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Have you ever been down to the Temple of Mithras under the Bloomberg building in London? As you go down the stairs the ground levels through the ages are marked on the wall. Fascinating, and a bit mind-blowing.
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Oh that's easy. It's never fine.
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Hinksey Hill and Kennington are always red because of the various lights. I usually use the state of the approach roads to get a clearer picture. Or just look out of the window...
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No. Put (very) simply a concave lens will always diverge light rays, and a convex lens will cause them to converge, regardless of direction.
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As a rookie, I once made a nice window display of magnifiers and low vision aids on a wooden windowsill.
3pm on a June afternoon there was a smell of smoke...
The scorch marks were still there ten years later.
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People who are longsighted, or presbyopic have convex lenses, which might in theory start a fire. They'd have pretty awful vision if their lenses were as strong as the average magnifying glass though
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Retired optician here. If Piggy was nearsighted (ie shortsighted) his lenses would be of minus power, effectively concave. The sun's rays are deemed to be parallel for all intents and purposes and his lenses would diverge them. They would never reach a point focus in air, and would not start a fire.
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Kids films ...
Although I was dragged to the Dylan against my better judgement and I thoroughly enjoyed it. (Me, the original Sad-eyed Lady! 😉)
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Far too subtle. Try this youtu.be/V2L3UzM_FfE?...
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The glorious, chaotic, improvised architecture of an English allotment.
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When we bought our first house I fancied blue paint.
I'll do it said my dad.
Ended up with this. Enamel. Bugger to get off.
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We only get music in M&S at Christmas. I'm quite grateful tbh.
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I saw that. Mind you, the applicant can't spell Gloucester either, but the other thing is a bit of a leap.
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Pronunciation has gone all to pot.
I promise you nobody said ha-rass until Frank Spencer did, as a running joke.
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Glad there was a decent turnout, I couldn't make it in the end. And you found a piper! Hope people got the pun.