Cait
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Snowploughs do too
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Love the fire engine’s name
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We have smoke from the moorland fires, 5 miles away. This is looking in the opposite direction, away from the fires and towards the vale of York. As you can see, it’s pretty bad. We have to keep doors and windows closed. The fire is not accessible by fire engines easily, on the moorland, and it jumped the main road yesterday, the A171. It’s currently burning on an area owned by the MOD, and some unexploded ordinance went off yesterday, meaning the firefighters have had to back off. What a mess it all is.
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What did you do with it? I have two old but working Berninas to part with but don’t know where to start with them. I thought about Facebook marketplace but not sure about strangers rocking up when I’m here alone
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I’ve binned a lot of ‘could be handy’ bits of wood and chopped down cardboard boxes that he had stashed - actually filled the large paper recycling bin with those - it was quite cathartic wielding the Stanley knife to reduce them down to flat bits that would fit tidily in the bin
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Newark air museum and Elvington air museum have been fabulous. The former took a load of books and well over 250 unmade aeroplane kits - many no longer produced. Elvington took a bomb rack, the machine gun rack from a Lancaster, various cockpit instruments from wartime planes and loads of books and ancient magazines. Cumbrian Railways association have taken a van load of track chairs, signs and signalling boards and diagrams, and North Yorkshire Moors Railway have taken railway track maintenance equipment, signal levers and the like, so the big stuff is largely gone. It’s down to books and research paperwork mainly now, well over 100 full ringbinders of research on the various old railways of Cumbria. They will go to the CRA eventually - there’s folk rubbing their hands to get hold of it, but our son very much wants to go through it all first.
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I take your ‘declutter’ and raise to you my late husband’s workroom, still to be tackled almost a year on 😕. There’s a double garage like this too, an attic and a loft, although that’s largely sorted except for the humongous LP collection. IMG_1693.mov
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Erm, because to get into government you actually have to be clueless about your given area 🤭
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That sounds a good idea if it’s do-able. We operated 9-3 and charged if children stayed for lunch time. This meant we had some children staying all day and others for morning and lunch and different children for lunch and afternoon. Is this not allowed under the new funding?
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Ah, the old TDL, bane of our lives
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Well I’ve treated myself to a Brother sewing machine and I’m looking forward to spending some time with it! So now I just need to sell my two vintage Bernina’s. Oh and my bike, as it doesn’t get used - might as well get rid. I’m thinking start of the school holidays could be a good time to sell it.
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It was for our local dentists who missed out as most scrubs went to hospitals. Private dentist is still in huge debt as he had to remortgage to get all the extra filtration equipment and apparatus he needed as well as paying full staff with only one or two actually working. He’s wanting to sell the practice and retire, but because of the remortgaging he’ll walk into retirement with hardly anything to show for it. So sad.
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I’m thinking of getting the sewing machine out of the attic. It’s not seen much action since scrubs and mask making - do you remember those times? Anyone else sewing scrubs?
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I loved those books! But I seem to be one of the few who hated the Beatrix Potter ones! Yuk.
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Term times? What are those then? 🤭🤭🤣 half way scan - very exciting. Do they know gender?
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Oh that’s wretched news, Sunnyday. I’ve had my tiny girl to the vet again this week with her itchies and lack of appetite. She did mention euthanasia if I thought her quality of life was impacted 😳😳. Hugs to you and the family, will there be another in their future? Are they going round rescue places to test the waters? Ugh, shingles, soooooo painful. I hope you’re getting all the meds and they’re helping! Scottish granddaughter breaks up for the summer in just a couple of weeks, but they’re back in August of course. I remember working those hours all too well! The 10.30 at night computer switch offs and weekend admin. It felt like I was going into work for a rest sometimes! And yes, the rest of the staff definitely thought there were admin fairies.
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I do hope you ask very loudly where the ‘tapestry’ is, and point out that the display piece is just an embroidery 🤣🤣🤣🤭
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Thank you all! My son came down from Fife, and my daughter up from York, and my brother and sister-in-law came from Leeds and we had a lovely day at Filey.
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That’s really lovely news! Are you ‘allowed’ to do traditional colours? I had to do orange and green 🤢
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Sounds perfect. I wonder if we were in York at the same time?! With the help of a very good friend, I’ve been decorating the living room - something that’s seriously needed it for a few years, but Mike wouldn’t have coped with the upheaval of it all. I’m going slowly as I don’t want to feel I’m eradicating him from this space, but it will look very different and calm when it’s finished.
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Wishing you all a really happy Easter. Xx
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They really do look fabulous! So smart.
