Fiacre Banks (@xFiacre) on myLot

celticeagle @celticeagle (165954) • Boise, Idaho 30 Oct

I don't think of myself as 'elderly'. To me, they are very fragile, shrunken, and delicate. I think of myself as about 30-40 cognitively speaking. Physically I feel 80+. But I just read somewhere online that those over 65 years...

elderly

cognitively

physically

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Fiacre Banks @celticeagle I’m nineteen but my passport says 66.

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Sharon Elton @sharonelton (28449) • Lichfield, England 30 Oct

Today's Welsh word is:- Shwmae This is one way of saying hello in Welsh, and is pronounced shoo-mai I was listening to Wynne Evans radio show from 15 October on BBC Radio Wales on the BBC Sounds app last...

welsh word of the day

wynne evans

radio show

bbc radio wales

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Fiacre Banks Shwmae @sharonelton sut wyt ti?

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Shavkat @Shavkat (139374) • Philippines 29 Oct

It may sound weird, but I sometimes dream in English. It cannot be denied that English is not my first language. But then I teach it to my non-native speaker students. In my mind, it is inevitable that I dream of speaking English...

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Fiacre Banks @shavkat I remember dreaming in French for the first time and that’s when I realised that speaking French was becoming second nature for me. I was living in Paris at the time, using French every day, but that was the first time I felt relaxed and natural about...

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (338657) • Rockingham, Australia 29 Oct

We took photos of the horses and riders who were competing in a marathon event at the weekend. Most of the riders were entered just in the 16 km horse-ride but a few had already done an 11 km run, a 6 km paddle (canoe) and a 1 km...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev Bottom right does make me not just admire horse and rider, but wonder where this horse is coming from, what’s going on out of sight. It’s like reading the opening paragraph of a well-written story and wanting to know what happens next. Leaves a lot of...

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Amber @AmbiePam (91942) • United States 29 Oct

How long could you happily watch nature? Would animals keep your attention, or would it have to be the ocean for your focus to be captured. This photo was taken at Arbuckle Wilderness in Oklahoma. I love gazing at animals, no...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam I could stare at mountains for years.

29 Oct

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Sharon Elton @sharonelton (28449) • Lichfield, England 29 Oct

I've been to the little Tesco this morning. My Mum gave me her shopping list, club card, TV magazine voucher and £30. She said she didn't know why she was giving me £30 because she thought £20 would be enough, but she gave me the...

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Fiacre Banks @sharonelton Few years ago we had to move house because of extreme traffic noise and awful gardening activities. Oh it’s stopped now!

29 Oct

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Sharon Elton @sharonelton (28449) • Lichfield, England 29 Oct

I've been to the little Tesco this morning. My Mum gave me her shopping list, club card, TV magazine voucher and £30. She said she didn't know why she was giving me £30 because she thought £20 would be enough, but she gave me the...

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Fiacre Banks @sharonelton Already got it!

29 Oct

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Fleur @Fleura (30159) • United Kingdom 29 Oct

I have learned a great deal from people of MyLot so I am sure someone can solve this mystery for me. Does anyone know who these people are? This photo was among other family heirlooms, but obviously doesn’t feature my family...

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Fiacre Banks @fleura The one on the left is one of the shepherds in a school nativity play. He is the headmaster filling in for a little boy who started vomiting just before the play started. no idea about who the other one might be

29 Oct

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Sharon Elton @sharonelton (28449) • Lichfield, England 29 Oct

I've been to the little Tesco this morning. My Mum gave me her shopping list, club card, TV magazine voucher and £30. She said she didn't know why she was giving me £30 because she thought £20 would be enough, but she gave me the...

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Fiacre Banks @sharonelton The Sun is shining here so the neighbours are out with their whining lawnmower - again.

29 Oct

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (338657) • Rockingham, Australia 27 Oct

We’ve been away for two nights taking photos at the Blackwood Marathon in Bridgetown, Western Australia. The marathon has five sections, one of which is riding a horse for 16 kilometres. We take photos of the horses and riders....

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Fiacre Banks @JudyEv Today we are suffering the noise of lawnmowers. Surely the neighbours grass couldn’t have grown that much since Saturday?

29 Oct

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Fleur @Fleura (30159) • United Kingdom 28 Oct

I have heard Americans talk about stone fences, for example when describing the countryside of Yorkshire which is well known for its miles of dry-stone walls, so I understood the term ‘stone fence’ to be American for ‘wall’. But...

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Fiacre Banks @fleura No, and it doesn’t look all that stable. We have miles of dry stone walls all over the countryside too. Great places for hares on our west coast.

28 Oct

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (12912) • Ireland 28 Oct

Not much can beat a dander along Carnlough beach in the late afternoon sunshine at the end of autumn. The world is held in a gentle quietness, the retreating tide leaving the sand wet and gleaming under the benign influence of a...

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Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (36707) 28 Oct

Evidently, this is a ''thing'' now. I got this card in the mail. It's not the first one I've received, but it's the latest one. I stopped and thought it over. And thought some more, so I did a google search on it. Evidently it...

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Fiacre Banks @MarieCoyle and I’ve never seen an underfed undertaker - believe me, I’m minister of a church so I know a lot of them!

28 Oct

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Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (36707) 28 Oct

Evidently, this is a ''thing'' now. I got this card in the mail. It's not the first one I've received, but it's the latest one. I stopped and thought it over. And thought some more, so I did a google search on it. Evidently it...

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Fiacre Banks @mariecoyle Sick, and in very bad taste. Once you're gone you're gone anyway. I don't intend having a funeral - just direct cremation once I'm declared to be no longer. I've also stopped going to funerals.

28 Oct

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (338657) • Rockingham, Australia 27 Oct

We’ve been away for two nights taking photos at the Blackwood Marathon in Bridgetown, Western Australia. The marathon has five sections, one of which is riding a horse for 16 kilometres. We take photos of the horses and riders....

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Fiacre Banks @judyev That sounds peaceful.

27 Oct

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Sharon Elton @sharonelton (28449) • Lichfield, England 25 Oct

I was hoping to go shopping today. I was going to go to the Vodafone shop to ask them why I can't vote for someone on Strictly Come Dancing, I was going to go and get a Start Art magazine from WH Smith, and I was going to get my...

not shopping

rain

watching telly

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Fiacre Banks @sharonelton How rude of Vodafone to prevent you from voting. I went to Belfast today to take my daughter to the dentist and got to go to Sainsbury’s. I saw this cow just outside.

25 Oct

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (338657) • Rockingham, Australia 24 Oct

I learnt something interesting today and thought you might it so too. Bees get drunk. Did you know that? I certainly didn’t. I’ve seen bees that certainly seem woozy but it never crossed my mind that they were drunk. When...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev Now that is interesting. I wonder do they get hangovers? Suppose they must, and next morning ask “where are my wings?” when they wake.

24 Oct

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Always smiling @allknowing (135315) • India 23 Oct

There was never a year earlier, that we did not have marigolds in our garden but this year we have none. It is all because of rains that have still not subsided. It is October and it is raining cats and dogs. Rain is not...

marigolds

seasonal flowers

heavy rain

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Fiacre Banks @allknowing When I think of India I always see marigolds.

23 Oct

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (338657) • Rockingham, Australia 23 Oct

I was reading through the news items on my computer and found that Geoff Capes had died. He was an English shot-put record holder and twice designated as the World’s Strongest Man in 1983 and 1985. His shot putt record has stood...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev Hard to imagine such a macho hero breeding budgies. Of course there is the temptation now to pass comment on the budgie smugglers he sometimes wore when performing feats of strength.

23 Oct

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NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (119361) • United States 23 Oct

What's going on the dinner table tonight? Share with us! Tonight I'm having a roasted boneless skinless chicken thigh rubbed with Tajin, spaghetti squash, and some roasted broccoli topped with lemon zest. Yum. I will have the 2nd...

whats for dinner

home cooking

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Fiacre Banks @NJChicaa It was, and it’s all gone.

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