The Breakfast Club

[LilyLangtrey]

Good afternoon, Clunkers!

Welcome to the Breakfast Club where the kettle is permanently on, the drinks flow and the snacks are both self-replenishing and calorie-free.

We start each day with a look at history and a tribute to a brave or inspiring woman. Mostly though, we just chat randomly about current affairs, recipes, life in lockdown, literature, music and anything else that comes into our heads.

Veteran Clunkers welcome. Anyone else who wants to join in the chat - sense of humour essential! - welcome.

Kettle's on

thegcatsmother Thu 15-Oct-20 11:05:57

^^ Very interesting post, thank you !

Nice article Nessa. Now if only one of our BC stitchers would take his trouser hems down.

So sad about your Dad Nelly, but nice that you had time with your daughter to make you smile again.

His trousers remind me of teenage boys that have taken on a growth spurt.

I have had a walk too. I have been in the garden doing Norman Wisdom impressions with a wheelbarrow. What a mess !

Lunch has been salmon and avacado salad.

@BakedCam , what an image !

@Nelllyyy , glad you have had a good day .

I unpacked another box yesterday, and it was treasure trove. 3 massive bottles of fairy liquid, 125 dishwasher tablets, lemon creme cleaner, Barkeepers Friend. and finally, all my missing bars of Wrights Coal tar soap for the kitchen (reminds me of my Grandmother), and similar handwash.

I also found my stash of IKEA washing up scrubbers which they have ceased making...I bought the last 12 or 15 in the shop, and kept some and gave some to Mum. My cleaning cupboard in the futility room, and in the kitchen are overflowing. Won't need to buy anything cleaning wise for ages now.

John Redwood's Diary

The Great Reset

Posted: 14 Oct 2020 10:06 PM PDT

I have no problem with the idea of building better or investing in a better future, but I do have problems with some of the agendas drawn up in the name of the Great Reset.

The problems of the past were not brought on by taxing enterprise too lightly or by being too generous to the self employed. We did not have too many large companies offering better new goods and services, and we did not have too many people working hard and investing their time, energy and capital in serving us better. We needed more of both, a need that has just been intensified by the damage done to both by the lockdown measures. Taxing work, enterprise and success more is a bad idea.

Many of the great advances in living standards and quality of life have come from the innovation and enterprise of the private sector. It was not government effort that launched billions of smart phones and electronic pads on the world. It was not government which provided the cars to liberate many more people with flexible personal transport, or supplied the great entertainments of stage, screen and events. It is important that as we build back from lock downs these gains are banked and enhanced, with broadening of reach to ever more people.

When the agenda proposes taxing and regulating the very products of the digital revolution and the transport revolution that have offered to the many the freedoms and advantages that used to be the preserve of the few I worry that build back better just becomes a cover for more state control over our lives.

[quote NessalovesSmithy]Look - the Guardian are highlighting the differences between cold/covid/flu. I do hope that this gets pushed from central government to ease the pressure on testing in the short term.

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/14/coronavirus-symptoms-how-to-tell-if-you-have-a-common-cold-flu-or-covid[/quote]
Oh well, from reading that, it looks like mine is flu. Ten days on and I still feel rotten.

Today I have mostly been gazing out of the window and watching Men At Work.

Cones appeared yesterday on both sides of the street for about 100 yards in both directions and this morning the council workmen arrived mob-handed. A lorry, two flat bed trucks and two vans, with about 8 assorted burly chaps in fluorescent jackets. They spent about 5 hours on the job and have just left.

All that manpower to replace two cracked kerbstones

@AnneKipanki

Thank you, all good here, daughter said she will bring the grandsons over in the morning, they want Nana’s sausage muffin, god help me, they are none stop when here.

😂😂😂at you and the wheelbarrow. 😁

Thegcat excellent article thank you.

Lilylangtry talking of Gorbachev I highly recommend a series called Weissensee about life before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It’s a bit complicated getting hold of a copy with subtitles - no problem, obvs, if you speak German - we got a dvd from America and my extremely techie dh bought a gadget which enables US dvds to play on British DVD players.
Anyway, it’s absolutely brilliant and maybe those on mumsnet who post about the wonderful state care of the former East Germany would think again if they watched it. Actually they probably wouldn’t - anything regime that calls itself ‘socialist’ can’t be faulted by them.

Baked, please do NOT give us any more information about your shinanickins (?) on a bookcase with your legs straddled. It is too much at this time of the morning

Sorry, Yellow.

Great article, @thegcatsmother - thank you for that.

Afternoon all, and thank you, Andante. When I have time, I will look that up. Maggie, Ronnie and Mikhail took quite some risks to bring the Cold War to cessation. It's just a shame that the peace didn't hold forever.

Dizzy update: he spent last night cuddled around my feet (which made turning over a mite tricky as he whinged). He is currently playing with a pen cap he found under the footstool.

We are being fully trained as cat slaves. Abandon all hope now!

Just moogling in for some snacks. Feeling fairly crap today if I'm honest.

Andy Burnham is soon to make an appearance on the news.

'Lily'

Has Dizzy gone out yet?

Utter bold fail

Will these help Teflon or did you have something else in mind?
Apparently, vegetable crisps are less healthy than ordinary crisps

Tracy

Isn't that something to do with absorption of the fats. The vegetables absorb more?

Mayor Burnham is very cross.

TeflonTits, so sorry you are feeling low. I hope the butlers don’t mind that I sneaked in some Swedish cookies I made earlier today. They are my late grandmother’s recipe, from her childhood home (19th century recipe). I make them when I feel a bit low and I have found that if combined with a cup of tea, they do take the edge of things...

We are being fully trained as cat slaves. Abandon all hope now

Resistance is futile

Andy really has just thrown a paddy.
"I have been working with the government all along"
"I refuse to work with the government"
"Give me money, I demand money"
"I said more money, even more".

Thanks for the OTD Lily and great article GCat

Is that why Cam? That sounds feasible. I only saw the caption to the website for the pic. I always feel I'm being more healthy choosing the salt and fat ridden veggie crips

It's a right mess isn't it Cam? Just reading it on Sky news.

Had to go into the office in person today. 2 people had positive tests, others therefore self isolating, doesn't really affect me as I mostly work from home. But the paperwork I had to get through to get in the door was horrendous, this virus must be killing a lot of trees.

And whilst in the office the news that another person had been sectioned (not connected to Covid) came through. I didn't even ask.

Hippo, they look a bit like macaroons?

Blimey Zombie, you need danger money going there.

Tracy Its likely they didn't spread it in work as they hadn't been in for a week but possible with 14 day incubation.

Would be nice to have 'danger money', sounds pretty cool. 😁