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BBP
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Nasty when that happens, huh? One bankrupcy store here once bought a stack of Le Piaf merchandise - then a rare thing here and I loved that little
guy, I cycled quite far to get a shirt from him and within a day it had a tea stain. >
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Don't talk to me about stains on shirts. I hate that. I've lost many a favourite shirt with an unremovable stain. Cotton is very stainable in
particular.
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It very rarely happens to me cause I pay extra attention when I eat, but well, not in this case.
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BBP
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Good luck getting it out!
I managed to land myself a 7-day work week... pfffff
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BBP
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My apologies about the spammer... he's been deleted.
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polydigm
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I must have missed the spammer. I thought you'd switched off auto join up?
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Switched it back on again. I think we miss several new members because of the signup barrier.
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I had a great track record of well over 15 years of perfect teeth at the dentist, but now he's diagnosed me with paradontitis.
Gotta go back on Oct 5th 10AM, then get treatment with narcosis and full root cleaning.
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It's my sister's b-day today. Baked a Scandinavian bread that's stuffed with dates, walnuts and sugar. Looks great, tastes nice...
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Sorry to hear about your teeth Bonny. Happy birthday to your sister. How's the seven day work week going?
With the stains on shirts thing, I just often get carried away when I'm doing stuff. It could be with cooking food and not bothering to put an apron
on and getting splashed with cooking oil, or doing a quick job in the garden with the chainsaw and getting a bit of chain oil on my shirt, not having
changed into an old one. For someone who's supposed to be intelligent I'm a bit of a goose.
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Quote: Originally posted by BBP  | | It's my sister's b-day today. Baked a Scandinavian bread that's stuffed with dates, walnuts and sugar. Looks great, tastes nice...
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I bet it does.
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| Quote: Originally posted by polydigm | Sorry to hear about your teeth Bonny. Happy birthday to your sister. How's the seven day work week going?
With the stains on shirts thing, I just often get carried away when I'm doing stuff. It could be with cooking food and not bothering to put an apron
on and getting splashed with cooking oil, or doing a quick job in the garden with the chainsaw and getting a bit of chain oil on my shirt, not having
changed into an old one. For someone who's supposed to be intelligent I'm a bit of a goose. |
Ha, one of the
first things I got when I started cooking last year is an apron, cause I know what oil, tomato sauce, etc, can do, and strangely enough these things
always seem to jump in your dirtection.
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^Yeah! Unfortunately one of the few times a dough stain did hit my garments just over where the apron is, it stained one of my Zappa shirts.
Work is exhausting Poly... I'm lucky I got Friday off so I can visit my bf. We spent a long time on the phone yesterday after I texted him about my
teeth.
I got special toothpaste and mouthwash today, need to floss as well... spent five minutes doing all of that. I hope I'll get used to the taste...
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Off to a short weekend in Barneveld, land of chickens and church towers to jump off of.
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Base jump is too dangerous. Stay on the ground.
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So I bought these contact lenses to give it a try, but the problem is I can't manage to make 'em stick to my eye, it really, really annoys me.
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Careful Aqua!
Haha no not base jumping. One of our folk heroes is Jan van Schaffelaar, who was an army captain. Cutting a long story short, his troop was at one
point encircled in the tower of the church of Barneveld - since the tower only allowed access for one person at a time, the troop couldn't be brought
down. They shot cannonballs at them, but the people of Barneveld didn't like that their pride was being shot at, so they set an ultimatum that they
had to surrender their captain, then they could go free. The captain cut discussion short by jumping off the tower to save his troops.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Schaffelaar
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| Quote: Originally posted by BBP | Careful Aqua!
Haha no not base jumping. One of our folk heroes is Jan van Schaffelaar, who was an army captain. Cutting a long story short, his troop was at one
point encircled in the tower of the church of Barneveld - since the tower only allowed access for one person at a time, the troop couldn't be brought
down. They shot cannonballs at them, but the people of Barneveld didn't like that their pride was being shot at, so they set an ultimatum that they
had to surrender their captain, then they could go free. The captain cut discussion short by jumping off the tower to save his troops.
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Schaffelaar |
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Wow, quite an interesting story.
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When nationalism rose after the French invasion, local heroes like Van Schaffelaar got on the rise. They now named the local castle after him and have
a statue in his honour, and every year they reenact one of the better-known books on him.
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Church tower, the one he jumped off. Barneveld still has a strong religious community and is located in the Dutch Bible Belt. I didn't stand at the
front at the time I had my camera with me - there was a wedding going on.
Castle Schaffelaar (named after the folk hero) dates to the mid 1800s.
Orangery at the castle. Now an expensive restaurant with Michelin star.
Large sand ground, largest of its kind in north-west Europe. These sand grounds are caused by over-grazing heath grounds. Oddly this environmental
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