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    Great!
  • Martha at any age...

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  • Weather where you are thread

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    Rained all day again, our lawn is mud, so have started hosepiping the dogs' legs before letting them back in. On a positive note, after the driest summer since 1893 they just lifted the last hosepipe ban in the south of England.
  • Soup can be anything

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    The sweet pepper soup is even better today. I added a shot of Espelette pepper for a little heat. Yum.
  • Women's Olympic figure skating team

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  • Why the Queen Mother was my least favorite except Andrew

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    It's too bad for William. All reports are he's furious at basically everyone except Princess Anne. He, Catherine, and his family are essentially doing everything right, are able, charismatic, and popular. Meanwhile, the family is behaving badly, starting with Charles, who unlike his sister, was never fit the role. He was too slow to take action against Andrew, too late to take action against Andrew's less the useful ex wife, who has her own ties to the scandal, and the same story with Harry and Meghan, except worse, because he's done nothing, while they have the emotional development of four year olds, and have dragged the he family through the mud for seven years and counting. His own wife is less than useful. Charles' public annocement she would be given the title of Princess Consort was obviously a lie when he announced it. Queen Elizabeth's consent to elevating Camilla to Queen Consort was an own goal. Watch the coronation ceremony. The family walked by her and ignored her. This was an extraordinary, if not unheard of, dramatic, and deliberate breach of protocol. This is aside from the fact he refuses to act like the head of the Church of England. This is aside from the fact he is a climate hypocrite to extent that is mind boggling, when you look at not only his constant speeches, the usual travel you would expect, and the large toxic dump next a residential neighborhood that he won't pay a penny to clean up and although that's the law, his ducal property is except from it. He's a hypocrite, the laws don't apply to him, and he doesn't care if his toxic causes people to drop dead. It would be a shame if William didn't have a chance to ascend to the throne and at least have a chance to get this circus under control because his family has acted reprehensibly and incompetently. The latest bombshell pictures of are of Andrew with a grin on his face leaning over a woman on the floor who is clearly either unconscious or dead.
  • Laughter is the best medicine

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    @jon-nyc I remember loving this one. When I lived in Queens, this was about what my co-workers thought when I told them I was from Portland. They only knew Seattle and Los Angeles.
  • These people don't live in reality

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  • Little known provision in spending bill signed this week

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    Yeah that’s awesome. They’ve been a huge problem for years. I know Crapo’s brother who is pulmonologist. I wonder if he helped lobby him.
  • Fab house for sale near me (UK)

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    The shades are a modern Tiffany imitation, 3 bulb. Bedroom 2 has dragonflies [image: 1770305103935-20260204_154832-resized.jpg]
  • The Strangers' Case speech ...

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  • After New START, what's for breakfast?

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  • Living out of a suitcase at age 80

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    Reminds me of one of my favorite books. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85622.Tales_of_a_Female_Nomad
  • Icebreakers (A New Yorker documentary)

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    Nice. I liked ice skating. My body wouldn't tolerate it now.
  • What do you think of this house?

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    It looks very comfortable. My grandparents' house had wall to wall carpet except the bathrooms and a screened in (and second) Florida room (the first was on the front of the house and was an enclosed office). The screen room had the washer and dryer and led into the fenced backyard. You weren't allowed to wear shoes. The carpet was vacuumed once a day. I wouldn't mind it!
  • ICE in Portland OR

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    AdagioMA
    And will they follow it? We shall see…
  • CA gets to keep it's new congressional map

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    I'm guessing that the Virginia Supreme Court will soon allow us to vote on an initiative to redistrict Virginia for 2026, overturning a rural district court's injunction.
  • guilty movie comfort

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    RontunerR
    Our current "together" watch is Gilmore Girls. I never watched it before!
  • Let's talk miso

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    @Mik said in Let's talk miso: Shiroley you jest.
  • Just asking questions

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