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Thanks Eggy! I'm sure I'll manage the Thursdays and Sundays but I think I'll give Tuesdays a miss!
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I'd be very happy if anybody can tell me the dates when these programmes are about to go on air.
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No, only Coach Road leading to Bells Place, Hi Carly! I don't think this is St Cuthberts (the village school). I agree that the brickwork is similar but windows are very different. St Cuthberts had windows with 16 panes of glass - 2 rows of 4 in the upper half and the same in the lower half. Your photo shows only what I think are windows with 4 large panes - 2 up, 2 down. I think there are two other possible schools: Whitley Memorial School in Vulcan Place. It was there from at least 1856 and only a couple of hundred yards from Coach Lane. WM had some 4 pane windows as you can see in this photo of the football team taken in 1920 and the brickwork bears a striking resemblance: This type of window was very common in East End of Bedlington in the earlier dwellings and you can see them above in the photo of Bell's Place. The other possibility is the private (Presbyterian) School that Eggy mentions above. Unfortunately, we have no phototos of that school.
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Mine Workers Rescue Group - 1960s
Canny lass replied to Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)'s topic in History Hollow
Don't you forget to make time for yourself! Caring for a loved one can be hard work at times and you need time for rest and relaxation if you're going to cope and keep your health intact. -
How's the weather in Alberta Vic?
Canny lass replied to Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)'s topic in Chat Central
"and Lord help anyone who taketh the tree I've had my eye on since early October" Book of CL (CL 1:1) -
How's the weather in Alberta Vic?
Canny lass replied to Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)'s topic in Chat Central
It's a very small percentage of trees that are exported and we import from Denmark to make up the deficit. There are about 4.5 million households in Sweden and about 3 million of them buy a tree. About 2.8 million of them are Swedish the rest are Danish. Of course, there are plenty of families who don't buy a tree as they own plenty themselves. Funnily enough it's not really acceptable to chop down one of your own so there's a lot of stealing in late December. It usually evens itself out. You take one of somebody else's trees and somebody takes one of yours. Not that I'd ever do anything like that 😇 -
How's the weather in Alberta Vic?
Canny lass replied to Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)'s topic in Chat Central
Which "rising temperatures" would that be? Coldest summer I've experienced in almost 40 years here! -
How's the weather in Alberta Vic?
Canny lass replied to Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)'s topic in Chat Central
The weather is mainly COLD and WET! The forests are also mainly COLD and WET! Nine out of ten forest fires here are caused by people rather than climate so this year there have been much fewer forest fires as people haven't been outdoors BBQing and leaving 'single-use BBQs' to smoulder in anywhere near the usual amount - because of the weather Of the attached maps the first, mainly blue, shows July rainfall this year. The second, mainly green, shows rainfall this July as a percentage of July rain in the years since 1991. July 2023 must have been, literally, a gift from heaven for the fire brigade! We did have four days of 'proper' summer weather in June and then the BBQers, and the fire brigade, were out in force. -
It's not looking good!
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I prefer the word ’notion’ myself because the idea that women are better than men, when it comes to multitasking, hasn’t been proved either one way or the other. ”Myth” rather suggests that it has. Studies have shown a great deal of inconsistency, to say the least with results ranging from: they are, they aren’t, they sometimes are, they might be and they are in some types of multi-tasking – yes there are several types apparently, including even a type where the tasks involved ”do not need to be carried out simultaneously ” (Sorry can’t remember the researcher but it was quite recently, Bergen University, I think) - but you're right, we really shouldn't knock it and just be grateful that somebody can (she says while rocking the youngest great grandchild's 'bouncer' with one foot, scratching her lower leg with the other foot, reading a story to his brother, trying to write this and planning dinner!)
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Now, if you had said that Mal, I would have thought ”Now there’s a sensible man who really understands the complexity of the female’s cognitive functioning. A rare animal indeed!
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..... only female drivers then?
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Quote: ”North Tyneside and Wansbeck will cease to exist, while new constituencies will be created elsewhere to reflect population changes. The BCE is under a legal obligation to propose constituencies within 5% of the electoral quota, meaning the number of registered voters for each constituency in the country must be between 69,724 and 77,062” (my underlining) Procreation! That’s the problem! There’s clearly not enough of it in Wansbeck. Get that improved and we can swing this the other way in 18 years!
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Well, you're probably getting Sweden's share of the 'heatwave'! Coldest July I've ever experienced with temps between 9 and 17, and this is usually our hottest month! I've had to get the winter duvets out of storage.
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covid vaccinations - for everyone
Canny lass replied to Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)'s topic in Chat Central
Don't let anybody tell you it's over! It's still running amok. Despite five vaccinations and still rigorously hand washing, I am now recovering from my second dose pf Covid in 3 MONTHS!! Feeling, and probably looking, like a half wrung out floor cloth at the minute. Trying to catch up on the reading but don't expect any real input from me for a while. Stay safe!!! -
I can't remember it either, as we didn't have a TV then, but I do remember the street party and the coronation mugs we were given in school. The street party was great fun with everybody in their Sunday best. There were egg & spoon races and sack races for both children and adults. Esther and Bob Rochester, from the corner shop, rode around on an adult-sized three wheeled bike dishing out a 2oz sweets to every child. They were dressed for the occasion in red white and blue and so was the bike. There were tongue sandwiches - which I loved, until I found out what it was - strawberry jelly and blancmange and Tizer. What a day!
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Mine Workers Rescue Group - 1960s
Canny lass replied to Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)'s topic in History Hollow
OMG! That is horrendous! There should be a national 'Miner's Day' when we pay homage and give thanks to all miners for their efforts. -
That was very thoughtful of you. Thanks.
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Thanks Eggy! I don't know why that link doesn't work here and I didn't think to check it. It works fine for me, saved as a bookmark.