Blethering, havering and general Scotsnet style chit chat....

[ElephantOfRisk]

I'm in the car reading a few threads where folks are fed up with the misery and fighting so thought I'd start a new thread. Not for politics or covid or fighting , just general stuff 🙂

I've had a nice day, off work on hols so we took a wee drive down to Peebles and had lunch, bought a few pies from lovely butcher and now heading home.

I'm feeling rubbish so we're not going to church. DH is about to run me a bath.

Took dd for her 2nd covid vaccine. Appointment was at 8.50am on a Sunday .

Traffic was terrible as there was roadworks and then loads of cars going to Ravenscraig for other events. Cars everywhere so we were late. Vaccination centre was practically empty so she was seen straight away.

Home for breakfast and another cup of tea

Sorry you're feeling rubbish GrouchyKiwi. Enjoy your bath.

I've finally got some satisfaction on the Covid status front. Cake in the oven and will watch Remembrance service on TV as don't want to go to town parade on my own.

Hope you feel better @GrouchyKiwi

I'm watching the remembrance Sunday stuff. My dad was in the war. He'd be 100 soon. I couldn't ask him much about the war as it always upset him. He had ptsd in later life. And i was a late baby. And there's no one left to ask his stories. I'd like to find out more but i don't know where to start. I've been on ancestry and tried Scotlands people but i feel i need help with it and i don't know who to ask. And records from the war are so hard to access and figure out. I've got so much of my mum and dads stuff in my house and i can't get rid of it.

That's a shame @GrouchyKiwi, hopefully just an off day. My church hasn't started Sunday school back, limited numbers inside plus mask wearing so I haven't bothered going back (except for baby ds christening in the summer). They're not having a Christmas Eve service which I'm very annoyed about.

@dementedpixie that's an early start. I once had an MRI at 8am on a Sunday. I was surprised they even had appointments at that time on a Sunday 

@RaraRachael that's funny, I finally managed to get mine too which is good as I need it to take ds1 to the panto.

@ssd I can't watch it, it makes me cry. So many servicemen in my family and it makes me think of my dad who died less than 2 years ago so it's still too raw. The Mitchell library in Glasgow is meant to be the place to go to look up old records, you might find staff to help you too.

Baby ds only napped for 30 minutes so there went my relaxing hour or so. Maybe I'll let him watch baby tv while I iron.

Thanks, I'll try to look into that.
Just watching bbc1 from the cenotaph. Im as anti royal as they come but i was quite moved watching Charles, he looked upset. I wonder what the men who fought would make of it. My dad said those that wear the medals and parade about never seen anything. He said those that did never spoke about it as they couldn't bare to. Dhs dad was in the first troupe of Scottish soldiers who liberated auschwitz. He barely mentioned it. Both of them young men very early 20s. So much history has gone. And the world never learns, does it? Look at Afghanistan. It depresses me. Boris Johnson laying a wreath. Makes me sick.

Best to turn off the tv.

@ssd do you know which regiment your dad was in?
The Argyll and Sutherland highlanders museum in Stirling castle was excellent for gaining some insight, and a bit of the social history aspects too. I think they have done records that you can access by appointment but I’m not totally sure.

DHs dad fought in North Africa and on his return to their village, the local kids were pestering him to hear all about it and he just turned and said "what was it like? It was hot boys, it was hot". He apparently never said any more but would angrily discipline the boys if he felt they were glorifying war in their games. He was apparently quite a gentle soul who normally left all discipline of his 5 boys to his wife.

Hi guys, i'm not a regular on this chat, just popped on to ask what issues some of you have had with the covid status app. On mine, both vaccines show in the ✈ section but not in the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 section. The latter section says your covid status is no longer valid. Hoping this is easily sorted! Thanks 😊

Mine shows the QR code in the Scotland tab, but I have a vague recollection that the first few times I opened it up, it would briefly show "This Covid status is no longer valid" before changing its mind and coming up with the QR code.

There's a "help" number to call - maybe try ringing that?

Same experience as Prettybird. But it works fine, not that I've needed it since our wee trip to Spain.

Glad to know I didn't just imagine it

Thank you @prettybird and @lidlfix. I'll ring the helpline during the week so - hopefully it'll just be a simple tweak 🤞

I dont know @Tiredoftiers

Recruitment to regiments was dependent on where you lived. Might be a point to start from @ssd. All things I learnt at that museum.

I rang the helpline after trying unsuccessfully to get the app to work. I managed to download the certificate which has QR codes on it.
The lady at the helpline was great.

I seem to remember reading that a lot of ex soldiers had a pact of forgetting - that phrase coined about the Spanish civil war. My grandpa was in the siege of Kohima and had nightmares for the rest of his life about it but didn't talk much about it until he was an old man.

Yes, my dad had nightmares about Northern Ireland until he died. He never mentioned it, his widow told me.
He only told us funny stories about the army. Except one time when he was about to go in for a heart operation and said he was terrified as he'd seen someone bleed out from the artery they were operating on.

I have to say (and this is probably a Me problem) that I really struggle with how Remembrance Day etc are done over here. Perhaps it's because NZ's commemoration is on a day when Command completely failed our men so it's always been a sombre, sad affair, whereas Remembrance Day is based on the day a major war ended, which obviously was celebratory at the time. I'm thankful for the sacrifices that were made for our freedom, it's just that something feels a little off about it to me, and I can't quite put my finger on it.

Thanks for your wishes above; I feel better now than I did earlier.

Your poor dad should. A lot of us can appreciate the sacrifices without seeing it as any broader endorsement of the state and its actions - goodbye to all that etc.

I don't like the word sacrifice. They hadn't a choice.
But i want to keep this thread light, so thanks for the advice re records.

On another note...went to lidl today in a stroppy mood and bought my body weight in crap. Had half a big bar of galaxy with salted caramel ...YUMMY..had to throw the other half Straight in the bin or I'd have had it too. Couldn't risk putting it in the cupboard. Was too good.

Fair, ssd.

Tesco has a lovely tray of chocolate nuts. It's a really good mix and I have eaten far too many this evening.

@ssd you did to that chocolate what I always know I should, but never seem to have the willpower to do. Always put it away and think for another day, and within 30 minutes its back out the cupboard and eaten.

Well done on the chocolate @ssd, both the eating and the getting rid

Day off tomorrow and DH is off too so we are planning on going into either Glasgow or Edinburgh shopping - I want to get some things for his birthday and some general Christmas shopping. DS1 is unreasonably giving me no ideas! DH also wants to do his shopping for me and I am perfectly reasonably giving him no ideas....

It's at times like this that I realise how boring I am and how easily pleased. So far my list that he is demanding only has slippers on it. How should I know what I'd like?

Im the same, all i ask for is nice soap🤣🤦‍♀️