Fiacre Banks (@xFiacre) on myLot

NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (122394) • United States 17h

I went to Cozumel, Mexico every year for spring break for 11 years. I should be there right now honestly but circumstances in the family have changed so the formerly-annual trip isn't happening. I hope one day it will resume....

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Fiacre Banks @njchicaa In 2 weeks I’ll be on a Greek island that is not on the cruise route! First I’ll spend a night in Piraeus where the big boats squat when calling in Athens. I can’t think of anything worse.

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NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (122394) • United States 19h

If you don't get the head of lettuce reference it is about former British PM Liz Truss's extremely short tenure when one of the newspapers started a countdown and live video cam of a head of lettuce. They wanted to know which...

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Fiacre Banks @njchicaa That lettuce could have done a better job as PM than Liz Truss. How do these people float to the top?

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Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30333) • Lichfield, England 21 Apr

I went shopping down town again on Friday. My Mum didn't want anything, so I just went to get things for myself. I checked my weather app before I went, because it looked dull out, and it said there should be rain but not until...

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Fiacre Banks @sharonelton Congratulations on a toilet-free outing. Well done for holding on.

21 Apr

Amber @AmbiePam (97295) • United States 19 Apr

So yesterday morning I went downstairs to leave for my appointment. There is a box to the side of the bottom of the stairs that was not there as late as 11:45pm the night before. And I just knew it was one of the things that had...

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Fiacre Banks @AmbiePam I often get packages sent to my post office round the corner.

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (45) • United States 19 Apr

I ruminate sometimes when I can't sleep and I play all of my mistakes and sins and embarrassments over and over again in my head. And let me tell you, there's quite a few. I just remembered one this morning from 1994 that I...

mistakes of the past

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville Yes, but I’m not going to share!! Thank goodness for forgiveness.

19 Apr

Amber @AmbiePam (97295) • United States 19 Apr

So yesterday morning I went downstairs to leave for my appointment. There is a box to the side of the bottom of the stairs that was not there as late as 11:45pm the night before. And I just knew it was one of the things that had...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam I’d have mixed feelings about that! Let’s hope there’s no repeat performance.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13459) • Ireland 19 Apr

With a number of trips coming up in the next few months (Greece, France and England) I’ve been getting confused, perhaps because I didn’t book them in the order in which they will happen. So I checked the diary on my phone to...

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13459) • Ireland 17 Apr

Yes, I’m off on the trot again and it wasn’t planned. Hot on the heels of my May sojourn in Athens I feel the need to visit my brother - he’s just moved permanently into a care home due to the limitations brought on by Parkinson’s...

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Fiacre Banks @JudyEv No fun at all. My mother had it for the last 5 years of her life. She and my brother were diagnosed around the same time as each other when she was 80 and my brother was 50.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13459) • Ireland 17 Apr

Yes, I’m off on the trot again and it wasn’t planned. Hot on the heels of my May sojourn in Athens I feel the need to visit my brother - he’s just moved permanently into a care home due to the limitations brought on by Parkinson’s...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev We’ve found an apartment quite near the tapestry museum. I’m glad I’m able to get over to see him and his wife at short notice - they’ve just moved to near Bayeux recently so don’t know many people. There’s not much I will be able to do practically to...

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (351012) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Apr

In about ten days’ time, we start house-sitting at our niece’s place. She, her husband and four sons are heading for England and the continent. The boys are aged from about 14 to 21 and three are on the autism spectrum. One is...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev brave lady indeed.

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Amber @AmbiePam (97295) • United States 18 Apr

Yesterday, I heard the Amazon delivery guy set packages in front of my door. I went to get something, came back literally a minute later, opened the door, and the packages were gone. Some of you know I receive free things in...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam That sucks. You need to come and live with us. The Amazon guy, even though none of them know us, just open our front door (which we never lock) and walk on in and give us our parcels. I’m waiting for the day they walk on in to the kitchen and make...

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NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (122394) • United States 17 Apr

Mission accomplished Sir! Great job Sir! During a press conference with the Italian PM today he was asked about immigration and deportation. Trump decided to demonize Africans rather than Hispanics this...

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Fiacre Banks @njchicaa Sadly you haven’t a hope of getting rid of him - no concept of shame or embarrassment. If a sane person said such things (which she wouldn’t) she’d be ashamed to be seen in public. No so Donald.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13459) • Ireland 17 Apr

Yes, I’m off on the trot again and it wasn’t planned. Hot on the heels of my May sojourn in Athens I feel the need to visit my brother - he’s just moved permanently into a care home due to the limitations brought on by Parkinson’s...

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Fleur @Fleura (31474) • United Kingdom 17 Apr

The other day I visited a friend who I sometimes get together with to play music. Then as I was leaving, her husband arrived. He turned out to be a retired town planner and he is now writing a book about planning for ways to...

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Fiacre Banks @fleura Yes, I like it. And you can stop to chat with people, but you said that.

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Fleur @Fleura (31474) • United Kingdom 17 Apr

Maybe @JudyEv can help me here… At a country show recently we enjoyed seeing various animals, especially horses but also cattle, sheep and various smaller livestock as well. There was a class for guinea pigs, and there were...

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Fiacre Banks @fleura I patted a dog on the head once that looked like that and its other end barked and confused me.

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Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30333) • Lichfield, England 16 Apr

We've been to the big Tesco again this afternoon. My Mum came with me today because she wanted some Easter eggs and she wanted to choose them herself. So we took a trolley each. My Mum said she'd be quicker that way. I got both...

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Fiacre Banks @sharonelton My sentence was clumsy and inelegant. Puncture occurred on the journey to the north coast.

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (351012) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Apr

We all had problems with the site yesterday. I kept going back and forth trying to get on. I was very surprised when one discussion ‘took’. I thought at that point that it was all good again but no – still couldn’t read or...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev An Easter getaway sounds good.

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (351012) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Apr

The photo has nothing to do with the discussion. I am reading an intriguing book called ‘Too Close to the Falls’ by Catherine Gildiner. At one point, she manages to get the better of a bully by stabbing him in the hand with a...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev Communication is a strange and marvellous thing.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13459) • Ireland 16 Apr

Whoever thought it would come to this? Among all the silliness that people visit upon us, today a British Court ruled on the definition of what a woman is. Now I’ve known for quite some time what a woman is, but nobody ever pays...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam Some sensible people around then - good to know!

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Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30333) • Lichfield, England 16 Apr

We've been to the big Tesco again this afternoon. My Mum came with me today because she wanted some Easter eggs and she wanted to choose them herself. So we took a trolley each. My Mum said she'd be quicker that way. I got both...

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Fiacre Banks @sharonelton We drove up north, got a puncture and to have it repaired.

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