Humbug25

@Humbug25 (12540)

Age 53

Joined myLot 16 years ago

He who laughs last, doesn't get the joke!!!!

Humbug25's Responses

Pressie for a woman

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 14 Dec 12

Next week I am visiting a very good and dear friend who lives a couple of hours drive away from me. She has let me know that a friend of hers will also be visiting for Christmas. I will be taking my friend a present for Christmas...

presents

token

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Humbug25 Hey there p1key!! I don't think you can go far wrong with some choccies, fererro roche is normally a safe bet and she doesn't have her own teeth she can just suck 'em hahaha Depending on her age you could get her some handkerchiefs, they still like that...

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ocd

Anne18 @Anne18 (11029) 6 Apr 12

If you could choose an OCD to have what would you choose? and why? I would choose ot have an OCD in cleaning my own house, I clean other peoples houses for a living, my house is clean and tidy but I could do more and would...

questions and answers

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Humbug25 Hi ya Anne18 I worry about things a lot too and so wished I didn't, but I do. I wish I was obsessed with cleaning then maybe it wouldn't feel like such a chore like it does now hahaha I think it would just make cleaning easier if you were to be obsessed by...

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.... And you ask "WHY"?!

Rocketj1 @rocketj1 (6955) • United States 30 Mar 12

I DO NOT understand some people. A fellow mylotter has posted about having been physically abused recently by her husband. She really wants to know what to do about her situation. What really surprised me about the comments on her...

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Humbug25 ... and there is no excuse for it either!!! Hi ya, hows you? All well I hope xx

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I am cold!

Anne18 @Anne18 (11029) 2 Feb 12

Hello there my friends, trust that you are all well and 2012 is being good to you all. I'm doing fine, been very busy away from mylot, just everyday things, nothing exciting. Fallen off the diet a few times and eaten rubbish food...

friends

hobbies

questions and answers

weather

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Humbug25 Hi ya Anne I haven't even started my diet yet this year, might well be March before I do haha. I never feel like dieting in the colder months so I will wait til it gets a bit warmer before trying! Yesterday I turned the page over of the calendar from...

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National days

Anne18 @Anne18 (11029) 5 Feb 12

Next week is National apple Week, espically for Brambly (cooking) apples. I was wondering how they make National days/weeks etc and where I could find a list of National Days /weeks for England. I know some can be very funny...

things i have done with my life

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Humbug25 Hi Anne We have apple day here in October and I would have thought that tied in with apple week or maybe it is just down here we are different hahaha. Around the 30th of October we have a special day and where we have our farmers market is all full of...

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My Diary for today

Anne18 @Anne18 (11029) 29 Dec 11

29th December Stayed home all day, spent the day tiding the lower part of the house. Packed away all the christmas items, tree back inits box and all ready to go back into the loft with the other christmas box. Had a very good...

life

people

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Humbug25 Well let me see now Anne18 I am staying at my mums at the moment awaiting the New Year so after getting up, having breakfast, getting washed and dressed we headed out to some ruins of tin mines, monument and castle. Had a walk about, battling against the...

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Third time this year (sigh)

TheRealDawn @dawnald (85146) • Shingle Springs, California 29 Dec 11

So I'm going through things... Yesterday I cancelled a couple of joint credit cards, and cut up a bunch of others that I had never activated. today I was going through things in the bathroom, tossing meds that had expired, etc....

cary

cut his hair again

sigh

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Humbug25 Hey there Dawny Oh dear not again! Hahaha, I would get the clippers out and cut it so short he has no hair left to cut himself hahaha

29 Dec 11

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Making soup

Anne18 @Anne18 (11029) 29 Dec 11

I've found this brill recipe for creamy broccoli soup and hopefully I will be able to use my broccoli up that sits in the bottom of the fridge! I need 300g broccoli and it says 250g spinach! You know what I am going to say .......

cooking

friends

questions and answers

to cook

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Humbug25 Hey Anne18 All I can tell you is how I make my soup! haha I put all the veggies I can find that are left over and stick them in a saucepan with enough water to cover them. I then add a couple of veggie stock cubes and a few pinches of mixed herbs. Boil it...

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Gift Tags

Anne18 @Anne18 (11029) 28 Dec 11

I'm all on top form tonight, have taken down all my christmas cards, recylced the backs of the cards and have got my zigzag sissers out and have just finished cutting out the pretty pictures, used the hole punch to make a hole and...

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Humbug25 Hi ya Anne18 and a belated Merry Christmas to you and your family. I too do the same as you with my Christmas cards but I am elsewhere at the moment awaiting the New Year celebrations so I will have to crack on and get it done upon my return haha. A friend...

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Which room did you last decorate

Anne18 @Anne18 (11029) 28 Sep 11

Which room in your house did you last decorate and what colours did you use? The last room we decorated was the downstairs bathroom. We painted the ceiling light blue, the walls yellow at the top and a darker blue on the...

house

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Humbug25 Hi there Anne18 Blimey you sure are hard at work here in mylot at the moment, I can't keep up haha Which room did I decorate last? I am still decorating my house hahaha. No room has been finished, some have not even been started and some are half done...

30 Sep 11

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How do you combat procrastination?

Andyvil @Andyvil (793) • Philippines 28 Sep 11

I have a lot of things that I would like to accomplish but I really have a big problem with procrastinating those things. I have a lot of magazine and books that I wanted to read but whenever I reach home I always get tired and...

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Humbug25 Hi ya Andyvil I too am a great procrastinator and if there was an exam in it I would get an A+ hahhaaha I think that when I procrastinate it is because I am tired or am just feeling lazy which is down to not getting enough sleep or not eating...

30 Sep 11

Over 50 topics within an hour?

Always smiling @allknowing (136525) • India 29 Sep 11

I was flabbergasted to see my inbox flooded with notifications from one user who had posted more than 50 topics on different subjects within an hour? What would be your reaction? Would you go through all of them, or delete them,...

too many topics at one go

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Humbug25 Hi ya allknowing Wow that is a bit accessive don't you think? I don't think I could even think of that many discussions in one week let alone on hour. When someone starts that many discussions in such a short amount of time then the quality of the...

30 Sep 11

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Very disturbing ! Drunk woman smashed toddler's head against a sidewalk

APasserBy @LittleMel (8742) • Canada 29 Sep 11

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/winnipeg-woman-smashed-babys-head-against-sidewalk-gets-145905534.html I can't believe what I read. Angry when drunk? and she will be set free soon. If she is ever drunk again, no toddler or even...

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Humbug25 Hey there LittleMel long time no see! This is absolutely awful and it is happening more and more these days without the parents being drunk or having mental illness, it is so wrong that she should be out so soon too, so wrong and makes me so angry...

30 Sep 11

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Michael Jackson trial

MandaLee @MandaLee (3764) • United States 27 Sep 11

I am watching the Michael Jackson trial. Opening statements were today. What is your opinion of the trial? What about having cameras in the courtroom? What impact if any, will cameras have on the trial? Please share your thoughts....

michael jackson trial

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Humbug25 Hi there Mandalee We don't get to see it all here in the UK, we just get snippits. It sounds like the doctor is gonna go down for it after hearing what the body guard had to say. I have no idea what a difference it makes if you can view what is going on or...

30 Sep 11

Have you been in Brighton, UK?

sblossom @sblossom (2168) 27 Sep 11

Now I'm on holiday in China. Three months later I will back to the United Kingdom. One of my friend suggested me to Brighton. I have been in Brighton once in my life, but it didn't give me strong impression. I would like to get...

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Humbug25 Hi there sblossom I live in the South West of England and don't know Brighton very well at all I am afraid. I think I have been there just once in my life, for about an hour and was about 20 odd years ago. I do hope you have a great time there and make many...

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Would you want to wear a lachrymatory?

ShannyBananny @shaggin (72141) • United States 28 Sep 11

Ive heard of a tear holder necklace before but I didnt know what it was called. I am almost at the end of the book I am reading called "Divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood" and the daughter gives her mother a lachrymatory....

lachrymatory

tear holder

tears

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Humbug25 Hi ya shaggin Ermm, nah I don't think so. I understand what some say about holding their childs tears close to them if something had happened to them but then I would find it more acceptable to carry a lock of hair and anyways wouldn't the tears evaporate...

30 Sep 11

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You see a mosquito on someones face what do you do?

ShannyBananny @shaggin (72141) • United States 28 Sep 11

This morning while I was at the bus stop waiting for the bus to pick my daughter up for school a mosquito landed on the side of my face near my eyebrow. My sister slapped my face so hard to kill the mosquito. I was like oh my god...

mosquito

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Humbug25 Hi ya shaggin Ouch that must have hurt ! If I know them then I will flick it and that usually gets rid of them. We don't have a huge problem with mostiquoes in the UK, it doesn't get hot enough haha. If it was someone I didn't know then I...

30 Sep 11

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I enjoyed a lot MYLOT yesterday...

Sanjeev @sjvg1976 (41281) • Delhi, India 29 Sep 11

Hello MYLOTTERS, After so many days i had been so active here on MYLOT.And really it was great pleasure to talk to great people out here. I was missing this fun from long time but really the FUN...

enjoy mylot

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Humbug25 Hi ya sjvg1976 Some days I am like you and enjoy mylot very much and get involved with many discussions but there are some days I just feel like coming on mylot at all. There was a time that I wasn't on here for a year and it was good to have a break. Then...

30 Sep 11

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Find it difficult to start discussions!

Sanjeev @sjvg1976 (41281) • Delhi, India 26 Sep 11

Hello MYLOTTERS, I have seen many people who find it difficult to start a discussion here on MYLOT as they don't find relevant topics to start with.But i say its not difficult to start a discussion as there are lot of incidents...

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Humbug25 Hi there sjvg1976 I quite often can't think of a discussion to start with a subject that hasn't been discussed already in one way or another. Sure a lot happens to me in one day but that I think would be intersting enough to make a discussion about. I...

30 Sep 11

How do you keep from falling asleep while waiting?

Barbara Radisavlejvic @bagarad (14283) • Paso Robles, California 24 Sep 11

I have just finished scanning six book covers to go with some new listings for consumer math workbooks, and I'd have to wait first for the prescan to finish, click a couple of buttons, and then wait a few seconds more for the...

how do you stay awake

keep awake

sleepy

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Humbug25 Hi ya bagarad I get myself some fresh air or wash my face over with some coolish water, cold water can be too much of a shock to the system hahaha

27 Sep 11

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