I've found 2 jars of (shop bought) chutney dated bbe June 2024. Eat or chuck?

I suppose I ought to get dressed rather than sitting in a dressing gown with a blanket on my knee but I don't want to. It's cold

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Oh my goodness. How can she say stuff like that with a straight face?

@mrjamesob.bsky.social A fortnight in Filey is really nice James. The huge holiday camp has gone.

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Best Photo EVER!

On Friday the metrolink line was closed between Whitefield & Bury. (We were told it would take "most of the weekend" to fix) The notice on the website still says it's "closed until further notice" That's all.

@wombat37.bsky.social just saw an ad for Pandora jewellery. Is this *actually* a luxury brand or have they just got a marketing department that's done a bang up job of persuading us plebs that it is?

Taking 9 and 11 to The Netherlands and Belgium. Flying into Amsterdam then taking trains from there. Must see/eat/stay/dos?!

Just fuck off then. No need to tell us about it. Self-important twat.

If nothing else the responses here are a reminder that you should read existing replies to a post before replying.

Sorry, say that again? Wtf!!

#SundayPixPictures A @hilliatfields.bsky.social masterpiece hanging in our vestibule.

I've had many, many dealings with the NHS recently. Almost all the health workers have been wonderful. Apart from one I don't know anything about their origins (One said he'd been in the country 5 years) and I don't ask, but many were not stereotypically white British. And I'm glad they are here

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Is this a satirical account?

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

Saturday afternoon & it's weirdly quiet in A&E

But back in A&E with a blocked catheter again. Was about to get grumpy because someone got in just ahead of us but the man seems in a bad way so obviously more in need

2 parcels arrived for Michael at lunchtime. One with a selection of lovely cheeses & chutneys & one wooden toy. Thanks to Daisy but I couldn't find anything to tell me where the cheese was from. Thanks anyway

Looked up local cobblers. Found one in a nearby town. Drove there to do my shopping, parked, found the shop & saw this 🙄

It's just not my day

Waiting for a district nurse in the hope that we can avoid another visit to A&E because I don't think Fiday night is the best time to end up there

#totp This might be the worst recording of a Santana performance I've ever heard.

I don't like the BeeGees & this dancing is a kind of Dick Van Dyke/Mary Poppins knockoff but I really like that Fairisle wIstcoat #totp

#totp This version of Stand by Me is so bad I didn't even recognise it. I had to be told.

A mysterious parcel from Amazon has just arrived for Michael delivered by a very harassed driver. (We are quite difficult to find) We used to have a regular Amazon delivery person but they must have moved on to something better

This means it must be 10 years since we visited American friends. We were there when we heard about this

Horrid, horrid weather. Trams not running to Bury because of a fallen tree. Roads gridlocked when I went to collect K. Now exhausted so getting sausage butties for tea instead of veggie stew I'd planned

On today's Bargain Hunt they found an item priced at £180 and the seller just accepted an offer of £89 without even blinking. Will they do that for anybody or only when they're on the telly?

Having to answer all calls just now as it might well be related to Michael's illness which means I just picked up a ridiculous tax scam call with an obviously generated voice with an American accent.

I hate modern instruction manuals that come in 15 languages with a poorly translated english version And I dislike modern controls that you have to press varying numbers of times to access specific functions Press once to set temperature, Press twice to set clock Press two short & one long to.....

I don't think it's raining as heavily here as further south but it's very windy 😒

It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"

Millionaires group urge Reeves to introduce wealth tax to ‘lift kids of out poverty’. But Govts listen to the City type. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population. Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. Can't grow economic by squeezing the bottom 50%.

This is ridiculous. Who exactly is lobbying about this? Why not tax those ridiculous executive bonuses instead. That will just hit the very rich. And companies will just double them to compensate anyway

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I didn't even realise there was a Starbucks. So many good independent coffee shops in Bury www.burytimes.co.uk/news/2561353...

Watching an old Bargain Hunt while eating lunch. Makes you realise that most things have no intrinsic value. It all depends on what people are willing to pay

Does this mean Americans shouldn't take either ibuprofen or paracetamol? Should they jump straight to fentanyl?

When facing the death of someone you love it feels impossible & extraordinary. You wonder how on earth you are supposed to cope with this exceptional situation because to you it is extraordinary and exceptional but then you remember it's something that happens to almost every body, at least once

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Dumpster diving for art? Naaah, will pass, thanks. Be more Leslie, be a normal human. Don’t be the tech-bro.

And my lovely goose-shit green boots have started leaking. Is there something I can use to seal the join between the sole & the uppers?

There's a big hole in one of the main routes through town for "emergency gas works". It's been like that for over a week & is now expected to finish on the 18th. Mucks absolutely everything up.

For the hard of thinking, because I resent being g called irresponsible, the problem isn't the equalizing of the pension age, though there are issues with that, but with the sudden ramping up of the transition period by Cameron with little notice

You know, I was fine with the moving of the pension age gradually from 60 to 65. I thought that was fair. I wasn't happy though with the way Cameron ramped it up to be much steeper. My friend who is just over 3 months older than me got her pension a full year earlier

Ages ago, when asked to verify my age for Bluesky, all I did was confirm my email & it was happy. So I can see DMs on my old phone. However. I cannot on my new phone & when I confirm my email it doesn't just give me access, it wants a face scan or my credit card which I'm not going to give them