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General => The Stay Safe Board => Topic started by: louisa maud on Monday 23 June 25 15:45 BST (UK)
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Good afternoon Folks
It has cooled down considerably but inside the house is still very warm, hoping to have rain.
Viktoria, hope you get an outfit you like, dress in what you feel comfortable with.
Gillg, pleased to hear you are coming along nicely, before you know it the time will have passed and you will be back to near normal but still taking it easy.
Take care, keep cool.
LM
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Aggressive squirrel or squirrels in the garden. Lst week I had to but a new bird seed holder as the original which had been hanging on the pergola for the past three years had just about given up, not helped by said squirrels who knocked it off its hook and made a "forced entry" to get at the seed.
So a trip to the pet shop for a replacement. Three days it lasted and so another trip to the pet shop to get something, hopefully, a little stronger and more "squirrel proof"./
Picture shows the sad remains of the last one.
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Little monkeys!
LM
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This might be quite a silly thing to ask, someone has asked me to come up with a team name from these 3 surnames, anyone prepared to have a go just for fun, sorry, no prizes
BRAGG, WELLARD and CLARKE.
Hope they don't belong to RC.
LM
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Can anyone please help? i am trying to find a sheet music copy (either Piano/Vocals or Band arrangement.) of the song LAZY DAYS AND MOONLIT NIGHTS. I have tried all the ususal music outlets on line without success.
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Can anyone please help? i am trying to find a sheet music copy (either Piano/Vocals or Band arrangement.) of the song LAZY DAYS AND MOONLIT NIGHTS. I have tried all the ususal music outlets on line without success.
A Google search turned up:
https://sonoton.com/kr/track/SCD024908
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Thanks for that. I'll have a look and see if it fits what I want..rj
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Cooler today and the Professor was advising us this morning. By the time dinner is done the afternoon has usually gone, so a light lunch of buttered wholemeal toast and a tin of sardines, a drink of water, shorts on and a bottle of water to take and a local walk. I only got 200 yards before the knee support went on, but carried on.
Here are a few views.
Stroide Piece, Strod - Saxon for Marshy land, or Strudan - plundered.
"The Burrough" field is the other side of the fence (hiding a farm track) and the Wood in the distance is Bretts Wood, once a small Manor in its own right 100s of years ago.
The Burrough field gently rises to the middle and this is depicted as a raised piece with an earthwork on 3 sides on an OS Drawing of 1817.
I can't help but wonder if it was an ancient settlement. An Iron Age Terret was found in a nearby field and a Monus settlement with worked flints in fields less than half a mile away.
The area is historically criss crossed with public rights of way, even though some field boundaries were lost before the 1842 Tithe Map survey.
Mark
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Nice photographs.
Wet ,cold and overcast today ,so carried on with the sewing .
Son at head office for the week, so a quick tea for a change.
Daughter will phone soon , she never misses .
Son who lives in Bolton,coming in Thursday as I have a blood test due mI also need to speak with the Pharmacist,re Atorvastatin and another of my prescribed medications, they ought not to be prescribed together.
It makes you wonder ,I know everyone is very busy though, however all will be sorted when I get my drugs review, in 2023!
Yes 2023, it says on my prescription forms ——— so not long to wait!
Hope all are alright, at least we are warm and safe and being treated for our ailments
Cheerio folks .
Viktoria.
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Aggressive squirrel or squirrels in the garden. Lst week I had to but a new bird seed holder as the original which had been hanging on the pergola for the past three years had just about given up, not helped by said squirrels who knocked it off its hook and made a "forced entry" to get at the seed.
So a trip to the pet shop for a replacement. Three days it lasted and so another trip to the pet shop to get something, hopefully, a little stronger and more "squirrel proof"./
Picture shows the sad remains of the last one.
Ours is squirrel proof, if one of the varmints manages to climb the pole and get to the seed entries, a wire portion is pulled down by the weight of the little critter and covers the access. No success for squirrels for several years, and has not been knocked off its hook, either.
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I've tied my bird feeder to my washing line. Comical watching them do their high wire act and falling off just as they reach their goal. I feel really cruel but they were costing me an arm and a leg in nuts.
When I fill the feeder up I do put a few nuts and seeds on the grass for them though.
Welly x
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I don't feed the birds anymore, didn't like what they did to my washing
LM
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Sadly I also have had to stop feeling the birds I can no longer reach up to the feeder, my balance is so precarious I would almost certainly end up having another bad fall, I have to keep both hands on my zimmer, especially outside.
I never replaced the bird table either, the small birds never got a look in because the pigeons saw them off, then the gulls came down to investigate and made a terrible mess.
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Although we are about 30 miles inland from the sea we still get flocks of gulls. I try not to encourage them and do not put food out. They find their food from the refuse bags put out for collection. They assemble along the ridge lines of the adjacent houses watching and waiting.We have about four "regular" pigeons who prance around picking up the dropped seeds from the seed feeder, but are generally not a nuisance.
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Although we are about 30 miles inland from the sea we still get flocks of gulls. I try not to encourage them and do not put food out. They find their food from the refuse bags put out for collection. They assemble along the ridge lines of the adjacent houses watching and waiting.We have about four "regular" pigeons who prance around picking up the dropped seeds from the seed feeder, but are generally not a nuisance.
We used to have a terrible problem with the gulls ripping the rubbish bags open, that problem ended with the change to bins some years ago.
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Although we are about 30 miles inland from the sea we still get flocks of gulls. I try not to encourage them and do not put food out. They find their food from the refuse bags put out for collection. They assemble along the ridge lines of the adjacent houses watching and waiting.We have about four "regular" pigeons who prance around picking up the dropped seeds from the seed feeder, but are generally not a nuisance.
We have gulls here too, must be about 2000 km from the Atlantic. Fortunately they don’t hang around our suburban area much. No pigeons either, just mourning doves.
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Jebber, yes the introduction of suitable bins to store the food waste has been helpful to a great extent, but sadly, there are still some folk who need educating in how to use those facilties and who continue to put food waste out in such a manner which will instantly attract the gulls.
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Jebber, yes the introduction of suitable bins to store the food waste has been helpful to a great extent, but sadly, there are still some folk who need educating in how to use those facilties and who continue to put food waste out in such a manner which will instantly attract the gulls.
By-laws here state we must use bins with very secure tops. Raccoons are very adept at opening things, so sometimes one does see garbage strewn around on pickup mornings. Crows like to partake as well, though not very talented at opening the bins!
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Well a very dark wet day ,I have the gas fire on.
Turned the heating off when we had Summer —— feels like Autumn now!
Gosh things are topsy turvey .
Gas fire needs a service but the person who usually does it has just disappeared,last time made the excuse the parts were not available and the fire was obsolete.Installed in 2017.
I phoned the retail outlet who had sold and fitted it ,they said it was nonsense, so came and did it themselves.
I phone the manufacturers who confirmed it was nonsense and said they would send a list of gas engineers in this area who were registered with
them ——-As far as I remember it is a condition of the insurance that it is serviced every year.
Not arrived yet so something else to chase up !
Chat tomorrow re my current medications, with Health Centre Pharmacist ,some if my medications don’t really mix, Atorvastatin ( cholesterol lowering ) and Entresto, a heart medication.
There are others too so hopefully all will get sorted.
Our Health Centre seems to be in a mess , prescriptions always a problem needing phone calls almost every time re things needed not sent , unwanted ones sent and new ones not included .
It seems some delay between the hospital and the health centre and then between them and the pharmacy .
A big chase up every month ,so frustrating.
A big fire in Manchester, at the Hotspur mill.
Wonder if it was where the boys’ comic was printed.
Can’t remember who the main characters were.
Nearly finished my dressing gown alterations , pocket set back in ,but better size now. Enough taken from the sides to make a belt ,much cosier.
Rain all morning but has cleared up now. Ooooool Fish not fed so Cheerio .
Viktoria.
fed!
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Only 30 miles from the coast and suffering from gulls!!!! We (Tamworth) are 75 miles from the coast and we too have a large number of gulls in the area!! AND as for the magpies and pigeons :-X :-X :-X. At one time we had visits from the swallows, but I can't remember the last time that I saw any in the area.
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Just got an email from “ North West Electricity” ???
I am with Utilities Warehouse ,previously with EDF and many many years ago with NORWEB .
They wanted to know any disabilities I might have “ To update their records!”
It would not delete so it is in the bin .
I have no idea about this so called electricity provider, will try to delete it again .
Well—- Donald Trump!!!!! :o
Before I put the sewing machine away I will look to see if there is anything more I need to attend to .
I have a lot of nice things much too big for me now, some never worn, will have a bash at altering them, if not satisfactory I must undo the alterations
and take them to a charity shop ,they are just taking up room in wardrobes.
Trouble is as soon as I give them away, I will put weight on!
Well kitchen to tidy , then a bath and early to bed .
A phone call tomorrow re my medications, some not really compatible with others like Atorvastatin and Entresto !!!and prescribed Vitamin D supplements for bone density and my heart condition which is not a good mix!
Not a nice day today ,not a bit like Summer.
Hope everyone is alright , we are not in a war zone and for that I am very thankful.
Cheerio.Viktoria.
heart medications
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Viktoria
Sometimes I think the pharmacists are a bit gung-ho with our prescriptions. Ours always warns you about potential side effects and sometimes it really puts you off taking them. One of the medications I was prescribed was Bisoprolol - the pharmacist told me that it might make me feel a bit lethargic and boy, was he right! I felt as though I was walking through treacle and suffered from brain fog. Couldn't remember a thing! When I told the cardiologist about this, he told me to drop it, which I did straight away, so now I'm back to my normal self, whatever that is. :D
My wound dressing is now off and I'm looking at a neat fine scar. Well done, surgeon! I have to return to the hospital in 6 weeks time for a check-up and then, maybe, I will be allowed to lift up my left arm high. I had no idea that I used it so much.
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I don't like to talk about medication but one I took for my BP gave a cough for 9 months till my husband checked it on line, an xray showed nothing at all, so it was changed, good result, then statins, well the cramp and muscle pains were unbelievable, my mobility has been badly affected, so, having been off them for 3 weeks I have decided I don't want to take them again, my muscle pains and cramp are easing, I want more if my mobility back, I am not prepared to sit around because my legs are in pain.
I don't think we are told enough about side effects, yes there is a list but if you read it you probably,y wouldn't take any of them.
Take care everyone
LM
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I spend quite a bit of time these days writing. I have limited mobility, awaiting some form of medical aid for my arthritic hip.
I enjoy my writing, most of which is confined to my own pleasure , but sometimes I venture to an external source for possible publication, if the topic and circumstances fit the bill. I can readily accept that not all the content is perhaps of the quality required and may not be acceptable. What does irk me is the often lack of response to either say thank you for sending the article or to tell me it is not acceptable.
So often these days, it seems, that manners, have become a thing of the past.
Rant over!
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I've been taking statins for a while now but have not experienced any of the joint pains that are often mentioned, I'm glad to say.
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No one prepared to have a go at my friends quiz team with names of
BRAGG, WELLARD CLARKE,
can anyone form a team with these names.
LM
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No one prepared to have a go at my friends quiz team with names of
BRAGG, WELLARD CLARKE,
can anyone form a team with these names.
LM
The Craggy Larks :-\
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Wow, that's a good one will pass it on, sorry no prizes.
Thank you
XXX
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Hopefully it will encourage others to think of some :-\
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No one prepared to have a go at my friends quiz team with names of
BRAGG, WELLARD CLARKE,
can anyone form a team with these names in order.
LM
How about using letters from their names in order?
Bragg,Wellard Clarke
B from Bragg, E from Wellard, A from Clarke ,G from Bragg, L from Wellard and E from Clarke.
In order you get BEAGLE ,so THE BEAGLES .
Not as good as the first one though.
Viktoria.
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Really annoying, because one is a Clarke they have gone for Nobbys nuts, how common!!
Thank you for your suggestions, much better than their's
LM
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They obviously did not want to be original :). I hope they are not contravening any type of copyright thingy using a trade mark ;D. Anyway LM it got the grey matter working for a bit. Have a good weekend
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Well it was fun for awhile
Enjoy your weekend everyone, LM
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Now: how did I manage to miss this entire week?
Viktoria - and others, now you've set me off wondering about all the different medications "they" have piled onto me over the last year or two.
Gillg glad all is going well with the scar healing!
I'll try not to get left behind next week!
TY
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Phew, it's hot here in Devon this weekend, though not as hot as in the south-east, I believe. Washing put out this morning was ready for ironing after an hour. Sadly I had planned to roast a chicken today, so the oven is groaning away and the roasties will be going in soon. Tomorrow we will eat the leftovers in what Leon calls a fruity chicken salad with bits of fruit and our own lettuce. My neighbour has just given me some courgettes from her veg patch and some beautiful sweet peas which smell gorgeous. My husband picked some carnations and phlox this morning, so the place looks like a florist's shop. I will use the courgettes in a kind of lasagne with thin long strips of courgettes instead of pasta. My husband loves potatoes but it has taken 50 years to get him to eat rice, however he draws the line at pasta.
TY, thanks for your good wishes. The dressings are off and there's just a thin scar to see. It's not painful, but this business of not raising the left arm above shoulder height is proving quite difficult. Enjoy your weekend, folks. Stay hydrated and in the shade. ;) I'm glad I'm not at Glastonbury!
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Wish it was hot here!
16C - 17C today; overcast; some drizzle this morning.
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I spent 4 hours at the local churchyard, was quite humid, sun just came out now and again, it was ideal in my opinion even though I was glowing, I had put out a request for helpers to tidy up the churchyard, pleased to say 6 of the helpers are villagers and not church goers, but you never know.
Gillg, are you left or right handed?
Nice to hear from you TY
Have a good weekend folks
LM
LM
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Well given the dire warnings yesterday of hot weather today —- cold ,grey and wet here!
I had a thick cardigan on this morning but warmer now with some sunshine.
Captain Sir Tom rose full of blooms , it really has come back thanks to “ Top Rose” plant food.
My son took a cutting from the lovely “ Queen Elizabeth “ roses in his garden.
They have been neglected but were lovely nevertheless .
He wants to get rid of them so took the cutting as a little memory of my lovely neighbour .
It is growing O.K. Still in a plant pot .
Well a chicken curry made but son returns tomorrow, also have a big piece of salmon , we will see how hungry he is after a long drive home .
Well some filing to do, bank statements etc and the receipt for the Ground rent.
The staggering amount of £2-25 ,each year!
Such rents are very prevalent up North, small sums but need to be paid .
The land houses are built on does not get sold even after houses are built on
it.Much hereabouts now belongs to Peel Holdings .
Well it is considerably warmer now than this morning .
Very pleasant .
Just cleaned the stairs,my what a fiddle fiddle with the lift which of course creates static electricity ,need another gadget for the vacuum .
I have a few from old vacuums ,one might get in all the corners.
Never throw anything away!
Well ,hope those unwell are alright, it is no joke being in pain and discomfort for most of the time ,life is difficult enough in our later years without constant
pain.
Cheerio, I miss The 1% club ,enjoyed the brain teasers .
Viktoria.
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Well some filing to do, bank statements etc and the receipt for the Ground rent.
The staggering amount of £2-25 ,each year!
Such rents are very prevalent up North, small sums but need to be paid .
The land houses are built on does not get sold even after houses are built on
it.Much hereabouts now belongs to Peel Holdings .
My old house in North Somerset was in a terrace of 4 houses.
A "Farmer's Compensation Fee" of £5 had to be paid by the four houses £1.25p each! Or 25 shillings in old money.
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Cheerio, I miss The 1% club ,enjoyed the brain teasers .
Viktoria.
I have downloaded the app which gives one question a day to answer
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LM I am right-handed. :)
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That must make life a little easier.
LM
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Just watching the programme about Diana’s wedding dress———
What a horrible over fussy mess it was,all creased ,not really her style at all, it looked like something worn in the time of Charles the second.
I liked Princess Anne’s ,the sleeves were so lovely.
Well Tesco order all away ,two omissions and the Uncle Ben’s rice I ordered is pre cooked in sachets , not the dry boxed sort I ordered.
Not as efficient as it usually is.
Son back tomorrow.
Hope no one was seriously affected by the forecast of extreme temperatures .
Well bed calls.Night night .
Viktoria.
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Cheerio, I miss The 1% club ,enjoyed the brain teasers .
Viktoria.
I have downloaded the app which gives one question a day to answer
Thanks Rosie . Viktoria.
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Just watching the programme about Diana's wedding dress
What a horrible over fussy mess it was,all creased ,not really her style at all, it looked like something worn in the time of Charles the second.
I liked Princess Anne's ,the sleeves were so lovely.
Viktoria.
I'm glad I'm not the only person to think Diana's dress was terrible. She looked like a little girl who had been let loose in the dressing up box. I switched over and didn't watch the programme. It looked even worse when viewed closely, I saw the dress at a local museum when it did a tour of the country after the wedding, If it was me I would have been embarrassed for anyone to see it close up. Most other Royal brides have looked lovely, some really elegant.
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The Emmanuels were not the right designers for such a traditional occasion - mind you many of Diana’s later outfits were dreadful ,she looked like a reformed pirate in one!
I think she chose the Emmanuels though .
Ah well , all water under the bridge now.
Viktoria.
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Had Mark and Erica down from London for the weekend (my birthday!). They came Friday evening and then yesterday spent a lot of time tidying up the back garden area.
I had ordered a skip and thought, when it arrived, we will never fill that! But we did- and more besides.
They did a jolly good job and made the place much more pleasant and presentable. I have not been able to do much in the way of physical work in the garden of late. I get a chap in to cut the grss and keep the flower beds tidy, but this was a major exercise.
We then went up to the local Garden Centre and bought some more plants for the various pots. Job very well done and looks so tidy.
I did manage to pot up some tomatoes which I had grown from seed into pots outside so I hope they will survive.
All in all a lovely weekend.
I think next time it will be the garden shed which gets "the treatment!"
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Well done,Jeff, it is such a good feeling when a big job like that is behind you.
I sorted out some clothes which are much too big for me now.
Not yet gone to the charity shop and gradually one or two are making their way back into wardrobes! ——-it is not me! ::)
Well we have certainly not had a heat wave up here in the frozen North!
Mild and cloudy mostly .
At Rochdale Hospital tomorrow early, for an iron infusion.
Quite painless just a fag .
Daughter phones every Monday ,so will get more news of Flash Harry and Kyra and baby Lily who has discovered the delights of a baby bouncer thingy — like a sling seat so no weight on her legs but her toes just touch the floor and she pushes up with her toes and bedoing bedoing bedoing , loves it- shrieks with delight.
Eating a very wide selection of food and can feed herself with a spoon ,it seems very early to me ,but I can’t remember when my three managed that.
She us eight months now .
Must ask if she has started crawling yet
Her Daddy’s Birthday this week so I will be speaking to him and can ask?
Well no news really , so good to read other’s posts.
Cheerio.Viktoria.
I am fed up with Glastonbury !
I must be getting old or something .
Viktoria.
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Belated cheers and best wishes for your birthday Jeff, an ideal gift of time and labour by family too 8)
I did expect to see more gulls since we moved so close to beach but haven't really in any great numbers and only a brief visit or two around home so far. Last Sunday while visiting one of several beaches on way home I noticed a few sparrows on the sand below the bank I was viewing from when a lively young dog ran up to them frantically called back by owner, no sooner had they moved away when it broke free and came running back. I had to see what it was after and saw a pile of bread crusts dumped there and was trying to scoff, surprisingly not a gull in sight! As we don't have really harsh winters in my neck of the woods really no need to have a bird table or feeders. No squirrels either, though other vermin attracted by any food source and there are some rats around the rocks of some of the beaches. I have a bird bath or two and enjoy the birds visiting, just the odd scrap out for them now and then that I know will be quickly taken :)
Day closing in NZ Monday afternoon, all the best for a new week all round :)....
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I didn't watch the Royal wedding "that dress" was designed for - actually had very upset innards that day, slept all day, apparently - but when I saw a news programme, my thought was that the woman had accidentally put on the crumpled tissue paper from the box, and that the actual dress had escaped somewhere!
Never changed that view of it.
TY
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At the time I worked in a material shop part time, suited the hours with my daughter, as Diana got out of the coach my first words were, "Michael my boss could have sold her material that didn't crease like that" it was such a shame.
Off to the new week
LM