malumbu

Planning to get the old family snaps digitalised. They are maybe three and a half inches square, colour, but not the quality of today's most basic cameras. I'd like them slightly enlarged and if possible improved. Don't want to do it myself.

tomdhu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hey, relax, hold on a while. I admit I may be a > bit of a dinosaur. I go back to before the > EU/EEC/ECSC existed and no doubt way before you > were even a glint in your mother's eye. > > I don't do social media. Don't read the Daily Mail > or the Hufington Post and I can honestly say Katie > Hopkins has not appeared on my radar. But now you > have flagged her up, I shall do a Google. Quite refreshing. Of course we do do social media as we are on this site, but so often it is who gives a frigg what is trending on Twitter

Nice article following George Clarke showcasing the estate in his series about the need to build quality social housing https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/tv-architect-calls-on-government-to-build-100000-council-homes-a-year/10043905.article

Sadly we have lost sight that the UK punched above their weight in negotiating EU Law. It's easy to knock, such as urban myths like the banning of bent bananas, Not everything was right, for example the banning of Incandescent light bulbs before LED ones on the shelf. Bit do you remember those dreadful things, bloody hot, the smell of burning plastic from the fitting, blowing every few weeks.

A good life and not known well enough among anyone under 60 for her fine voice (beyond the war singalongs). Totally over the top media though. Credit to Robert Elms for playing a Nightingale in Berkeley Square.

Waited for two months before using Sainsbury for delivery, multiple items not available, lots of substitutions and first two deliveries multiple broken bottles (and 12 cracked eggs, packed in a bag with glass containers). Don't think they are good at scaling up, and they do not have depots, rather use big stores - certainly Savacenter. Getting a bit better.

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As a vegetarian the very idea of eating a horse > repulses me. Not eaten meat for decades but why does this repulse you? Unless you are repulsed by eating all flesh. I'd add grey squirrel to the list that meat eaters should consume. Rat, dog but probably not cats.

Yep, used a train from Wealdstone to Clapham Junciton, quiet and all with face masks. Good social distancing at both stations.

Sorry, joining the debate a little late. I was surprised about the reaction to the meme. It is only right that we question our beliefs and motives from time to time. I've jumped on ever bandwagon for decades - whether this was being trendy, a reaction to my fairly conservative upbringing and lack of local diversity, or innate being has become rather blurred. I'd rather be a shallow thinking stereotypical liberal that some others in our society. Obviously I hope I am not shallow thinking. But I live in a place that is less and less diverse, driven greatly by economics. A bizarre opposite of the white flight from central boroughs in decades after the war, as those not from money or not able to earn it can no longer afford to live in my manor. And with all the talk about diversity in my work place, we generally recruit sh.. hot Oxbridge graduates and that tend to be drawn from a relatively narrow section of society. Whether the meme stuff was to provoke discussion, challenge beliefs, or just trilling is irrelevant in my view. That said things have got so much better in my lifetime......

Do PM me with ready prepared quizzes - not circumcision though as we do have kids who may be involved. Actually do send me that as it would be amusing to look at. Or better still copy-rite it.

Thanks Alan, we did an earlier one where it was the first names of the next generation of the family shared with celebrities Others, suggestions please, not critiques

Funnily enough we did that one, the initials eg FTC (there's a more interesting one for you). I've thought of famous Belgians but it is a struggle to get ten questions.

Have two woodpeckers that call to the garden. Interesting about the swifts. Why are we not making nest boxes? I have six spectacularly unsuccessful ones for blue and great tits - great in the first summer but since then.... Something has happened in our area, not sure if the neon lit house puts them off. Worryingly where have all the blue tits gone? - although perhaps they only do invertebrates at this time of the year and aren't hanging around gardens Swift nest box project for next year https://www.rspb.org.uk/globalassets/downloads/activities-pdfs/swift-nestbox-plan.pdf

Cummings didn't jump off a cliff. He did something that benefited him. Some will see this as a signal to do similar. Or a justification. Or whatever, consciously or unconsciously. Whether that is .2 % 2% or 20% I cannot tell. Hearing someone today say "things are returning to normal". No they aren't. They that added that there is less anxiety on the streets. Yes there is. How much of this is the media long since tiring of showing some of the real impacts ie people struggling for life, medics and other responders in difficult circumstances, or a general feeling from the government's messages, I don't know. Another 1000 to 2000 will die over this week. There is of course positives on the decline of the number of infections. It just doesn't seem the right time to celebrate, not quite yet. And to drop our guard.

Cummings behaviour is relevant. Progressively more were ignoring lock down but he has accelerated things. How significant I don't know. We will be in this daft situation where we will not be allowed to do some things (mass entertainment), compulsive social distancing (office, galleries and the like), partial (shops, public transport) and no social distancing (for many, both in public and in private). I believe that the government has managed this so badly.

There is a squawk off every evening in Nunhead cemetery, one parts crows roosting the other part green squawaky things

Yes beautiful creatures. We have the occasional visitor to the garden. The Crows and Magpies were kicking off the other day, crows asserting their dominance and then a jay joined in. A right corvid rumble.

Some of the Zoom family quizzes we have done have worked best with some daft rounds - eg pasta or composer, Trump tweets or not (most of the barking ones being Elon Musk), close ups of ever day household objects, law or no law (in France it is illegal to name a pig Napoleon - spoiler alert this is an urban myth!). Has worked better than more serious questions. What themes have you used?

In deed, and perhaps the agenda should be extended to American foreign policy as a whole, treatment of indigenous Americans, and screwing up the planet as a whole. Serious comments by the way. And there are many good people and organisations in the US and could be so much a force for good.

No strange overnight events, no poking squirrel with sticks, but very excited to see about 20 swifts over the Horniman this morning. Only had swifts pointed out to me last year and tend to see the odd two or three. Oh and the Great spotted woodpecker having a drink from the pigeons toilet aka the bird bath.

It's the difficult third series. They should have killed Eve after the second one, albeit a disappointing ending. All dramas should go out with a bang as the second series of Homeland should have. Some of the recent ones have even managed to end after one series (Devs (surely...), Twins, the Nest) and all the better for it. A long winded way of saying I wont be watching it. A colleague from New Malden thought the parts filmed in New Malden were the only bits worth seeing.

In deed, I tried to get someone on Openreach, got told there was a long wait, but answered fairly quickly. But line appalling, thanks BT. And then to another number to be told that I would have to pay for an engineer to come out. Thanks again BT. And thanks for putting up a general thread for me to offload on.

To your earlier post, even Cummings didn't use the excuse that he was following Kinnock's lead. Shocking that your are even suggesting that a back bencher has as much importance as the bloke who de facto runs the government. A bit of a play ground argument, nah nah nah nah. As for lefties in East Dulwich, a Labour government would come under stick too if and when they get into power. Not as much as the Cummings government as there will be less things to dislike. But would still be subject to scrutiny and criticism from us champagne socialists.

Love to but I'd need night vision and wont fund that. But (a) if anyone fancies doing that or (b) a night under the stars in my back garden doing it in person that would be great. Ironic that there is another thread about feeding foxes. Go over to those gardens please. I'm not a fox hater BTW, just grey squirrels and ring necked parakeets. I managed to push a baby squirrel off the hedge as it is small enough to feed from the bird feeder. Howls of protest go round SE London. Oh and the wood pigeons are a pain, but I do drop them some pellets from time to time. Saw a mouse last week, said hello, but it cleared off. Really big (the ones we got in the house were much smaller). Fortunately the cats in the area are pretty useless. Much smaller than a rat and not a baby one either.