WTF-Beta

It's only a few seconds/minutes of slow walking & waiting.
Anyway, I prefer to go aboard last and spend the least amount of time in such an uncomfortable place.

Slumming it in a huge house worth, what, 2-3 million? With a private park around?
A retirement all paid for.
My heart bleeds.

Looks like a rather nice farm on the Sandringham Royal Estate in Norfolk, one of many large expensive properties with outbuildings & land that the King's subjects contribute to, unwillingly.

Does it mean you've never been anywhere cold?

I guess greenlanders don't buy swimming shorts.

Yeah that one was unbelievable. But there are videos that appear real of people jumping out of high windows onto massive snowdrifts for a slide down.

I can't believe you don't have a winter coat. I can recommend as excellent quality and value for money:
Pategonia
Mamut

Here it's been wet and is forecast to continue.
Heavy driven rain two days ago again found a crack in our area of flat roof.
So a tarpaulin is on until fair weather gives a chance to repair. Thought I'd try Siramico liquid rubber this time, instead of old school bitchumen.

Aldi won the cheapest UK supermarket award and the big four use their prices to match.

Yet of the two I prefer Lidl, and not because of the app and points that generate prizes like a free croissant; though I use ASDA most, going early and raiding the 40-70% reduction areas and freezing as necessary.

Starlight sets off to
distant telescopes before
they are invented.

(The Universe 2. Liz Barnes)

Probably a mix of nobody knows or cares about her, nobody likes Trump, and it sounds like an infectious disease

This is probably not much help but...
You need a holiday, couple of weeks away, like on a cruise.

So do I. Five hours on my knees laying carpet today, the fun only interrupted by an 80 year old friend wanting advice about getting a deposit back on a £35k Lexus because his insurance quoted £6000.

We all got problems. Whether freezing in Ukraine or living in a tent in Gaza, poverty destroys the spirit.

For me, the antidote to the doom with which we are now bombarded (mostly people doing and saying stupid & nasty things) is these words:
Everyday the soul is again as good as new, and again we offer it to our brothers and sisters in life.

And, I'm looking forward to you writing in a few months how you're moving into a new home.

Interesting, thanks

This last flat looks quite nice on paper. Is it under a busy flight take off?

You seem to be at the point to take a deep breath, a notepad and pen in hand, and go start viewing places if possible.

If I may say...
It's exciting, tiring, disappointing, frustrating, exhilarating, expensive and incredibly time consuming, in fact its almost full time job.
You could make an excel spreadsheet of potential places with essential and desirable features if you're super-organised. Rate the online area, style, rooms, grounds, price etc.

However in my limited experience, visiting a place for sale is usually far different from the sunny, tidy, photos presented online. You suddenly know the reality.

The UK estate agents say all sorts of crapola, basically exaggerate and often blatently lie.
You decide to make the effort to view and go on an investigative trip: just getting there may be a deal breaker, why is the place now on the market, what's wrong with the house, the grounds, the immediate neighbours, the neighbourhood at night...?

We travelled and viewed about a dozen houses around the UK before buying (3 visits to the one we bought), and ten flats in the local area of London before buying one for the kids.
It's a helluva lot of money so you'd expect to put some effort in to get what you want.

As I say, take a deep breath...

Meanwhile I'm off out to buy a lottery ticket for my dream place:
https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gblhchlac240061

I was taught to strike a match and hold the small flame to the end of a frayed shoelace for a second or so. Melts the plastic threads together.

Wow. I need to rewatch the second half, fascinating.

The first half reminded me of my daughters using a couple of early photography books for their art, one dedicated to various human motions with multiple photos of for example us jumping, another book of animals in motion eg horses galloping

I'll try, my way on my Samsung mobile:

1 Take photo on phone
2 Edit it nicely on phone and importantly also resize to 80 or 60 percent using the three dot menu options lower right.
3 Here in the forum on the quick reply option, click the two diagonal arrow next to quick reply that gives you the full reply screen with all options at the top of your reply screen.
4 Scroll right on those options and choose the vertical portrait photo option 4th from end.
5 Then at the bottom of your page click on choose file.
6 Find and choose the photo you just edited, which will likely be first up on your screen.
7 Double click on the photofile and it ought to upload, taking you automatically back to your full reply screen to continue writing your message.

If it is red text uploading the photo is containing too much data you need to resize it.

The whole process is easy once learnt. 10 secs to take & edit photo, 5 to upload.

Let me know...

So I was in the Range, do you have that shop in the States? Getting a few bits&pieces, checking their post christmas sale and came across...

(pen is for scale)

Cute, £8 down to an irresistible £2 so got a couple.
Get home, MrsA likes them and wants to go buy more (I think for Chinese New Year presents 🤪)

@wtg said in US Treasuries

So what will his response be? A 200% tariff on Danish blue cheese?

Cheese, bacon and pastries

80%acrylic, produced in Chine

The UK 'specials' link didn't actually show all the wool on offer, or this dispenser which she got

That Aran was only 99p a ball, cheaper than charity shops.