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Fleur @Fleura (31025) • United Kingdom 6h

I was just listening to a radio programme, on the topic of the fate of cities dealing with industrial decline. The presenter was in discussion with a couple of authors who had written books on the subject. The first had described...

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Fleur Or sometimes they say 'Yes, no' at the start of a reply! (when they don't really mean either yes or no!)

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Fleur @Fleura (31025) • United Kingdom 6h

As I said a little while ago, every now and then I have a look through a few things that I have lying around, inherited from my parents, to try and decide what to do with them. So I looked in some paper bags and found several...

Fleur @Fleura (31025) • United Kingdom 6h

I was just listening to a radio programme, on the topic of the fate of cities dealing with industrial decline. The presenter was in discussion with a couple of authors who had written books on the subject. The first had described...

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (346763) • Rockingham, Australia 17h

@DaddyEvil wrote about a phrase his father used that made no sense to him. I can remember some phrases which adults might use if a child asked a question they didn’t want to answer, or simply couldn’t be bothered explaining. My...

western australia

odd sayings

phrases

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Fleur What do you mean by 'something else'? I always explained (and still do) everything to my children, and I wasn't too young!

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (346763) • Rockingham, Australia 17h

@DaddyEvil wrote about a phrase his father used that made no sense to him. I can remember some phrases which adults might use if a child asked a question they didn’t want to answer, or simply couldn’t be bothered explaining. My...

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Fleur So did he just say that to shut you up and get you out of his hair?

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Four Walls @FourWalls (71565) • United States 22 Feb

That’s a sunset from a trip to the Smokies a few years ago. The sun has set on this week, and yesterday was a most productive one. In an earlier discussion I mentioned waiting for Social Security to call me back. They did, and...

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Fleur Oh well done, what a great day!

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Judy Story @jstory07 (141944) • Roseburg, Oregon 22 Feb

Every time I go for a walk by the river. I used to see all kinds of wild animals and if you stand still you can watch them. But lately when I go for a walk by the river there are no wild animals anywhere. Which makes me sad...

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Fleur Has anything changed in the area? Or in the river? Like more development, more industry, more pollution?

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (346763) • Rockingham, Australia 23 Feb

Our son gifted us a rain gauge for Christmas. We’ve only just got it installed on the garden wall but that’s okay as we’ve had next-to-no rain since Christmas. I’m glad it’s up as now we won’t have to squirm guiltily when our...

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Fleur Oh gosh I was given a Christmas gift of a log basket-making kit about 10 years ago - it's still in the garage!! One of these days I really will do it

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Fleur @Fleura (31025) • United Kingdom 21 Feb

I get up in the morning and fold the covers down to air the bed - one of those old-fashioned pieces of wisdom that turns out to be backed up by modern science. Making the bed – i.e. putting the covers back in place right away –...

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Fleur @JudyEv When I first left home I had just a bottom sheet and a duvet - if it was really cold I would add another duvet. Nowadays I prefer a top sheet as well, because it gives us more options as you say, and also because it protects the duvet cover so I...

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Fleur @Fleura (31025) • United Kingdom 10 Feb

I have a lot of things I inherited from my mother, and many of those she inherited from her parents. Every now and then I will attempt to sort through a few of them but it all takes so much time! Here is one thing I would like to...

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Fleur I guess they are more than 100 years old. My mother was born in 1924, and she was the second youngest of five children, the eldest was born about 1918. And before that her father had given up his work travelling the world as a ship's engineer so he could stay...

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Fleur @Fleura (31025) • United Kingdom 21 Feb

I get up in the morning and fold the covers down to air the bed - one of those old-fashioned pieces of wisdom that turns out to be backed up by modern science. Making the bed – i.e. putting the covers back in place right away –...

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Fleur It might benefit one's mental health, but it is detrimental to physical health unless you allow the bed to air for at least an hour or so first.

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Fleur @Fleura (31025) • United Kingdom 21 Feb

I get up in the morning and fold the covers down to air the bed - one of those old-fashioned pieces of wisdom that turns out to be backed up by modern science. Making the bed – i.e. putting the covers back in place right away –...

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Fleur I'm totally with you on this. I remember when Big One was a baby, when I was at home on maternity leave. Some days I just spent the whole day hardly achieving anything, and I remember when my partner came home at the end of the day and I explained I hadn't...

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Fleur @Fleura (31025) • United Kingdom 21 Feb

I get up in the morning and fold the covers down to air the bed - one of those old-fashioned pieces of wisdom that turns out to be backed up by modern science. Making the bed – i.e. putting the covers back in place right away –...

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Fleur Yes it is much easier with a fitted sheet and a duvet, there's really no excuse! Do you have a top sheet as well, or not? That's a whole other debate!

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The Horse @TheHorse (223447) • Walnut Creek, California 21 Feb

My music buddy Michael's daughter just exploded. Her new baby was due in two-and-a half-months, but her water broke, and it was an emergency. The baby was born in the hospital, weighing under 3 lbs. It was born by c-section....

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Fleur 'Michael's daughter just exploded.' Sorry but that's a horrible way to describe what she has been through. Glad mother and baby are doing well. These days so many babies survive extremely early births but suffer major life-long problems as a result.

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celticeagle @celticeagle (171578) • Boise, Idaho 21 Feb

I am an Irish girl through and through. I found some interesting facts about the holiday and wanted to share them: * Almost 12% of Americans claim Irish ancestry. There are said to be more people of Irish ancestry living in the...

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st patricks day

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Fleur I think St Patrick's day celebrations are much more of a 'thing' in the US than in Ireland. I have Irish friends and none of them would ever dream of contaminating their beer by dying it green, for example!

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celticeagle @celticeagle (171578) • Boise, Idaho 21 Feb

I have always enjoyed Sigourney Weaver's acting ever since I first saw her in "Ghost Busters". I often wonder about her first name. I had never seen it before. Come to find out that at the age of 14, she changed her name of...

name

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Fleur Having a distinctive name can get you noticed!

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Fleur @Fleura (31025) • United Kingdom 21 Feb

I get up in the morning and fold the covers down to air the bed - one of those old-fashioned pieces of wisdom that turns out to be backed up by modern science. Making the bed – i.e. putting the covers back in place right away –...

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Fleur @Fleura (31025) • United Kingdom 16 Jan

I’m not an indoor person. There’s only so much time I can spend shut inside before I get ‘cabin fever’ – and in my case most of one day is about the limit. By then I’ll be looking for any excuse to go outside; to take something...

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Fleur Basically a grid is drawn on the ground - not sure if you can make it out in the photo - with numbers arranged like this, each within a separate square of the same size: 10 9 78 6 45 3 2 1 ___ You can have as many players as you want but...

21 Feb

Jim Bauer @porwest (96431) • United States 14 Nov

When will the unions ever learn that more often than not, they are simply fighting Peter to pay Paul? Boeing machinists have been on strike fighting for higher wages and more benefits, at the same time that Boeing is struggling...

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Fleur @porwest 'The average Boeing worker makes $115,000 a year.' Wow, do they have any jobs going??

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (346763) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Feb

Kununurra is an isolated town in Western Australia. It’s 3,000km (1,889 mi) north of Perth and approximately 45 kms (28 mi) from the Northern Territory border. It’s at the far north-eastern end of what’s known as the Kimberley...

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Fleur @DaddyEvil I just thought it was worth asking (about the area) because I know I got confused before when talking about gallons and finding they were different.

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