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[gelders pie]

Sometimes you just get what you deserve

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These people should be banned from owning animals. Who would get a friend to hit their dog so that they can film it. Pricks !

Two men can’t stop it. Perfect example of why the strength of these dogs is so dangerous

 

[John Wick]

Sometimes you just get what you deserve

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These people should be banned from owning animals. Who would get a friend to hit their dog so that they can film it. Pricks !

C**ts, F**k them

 

[FellTop]

Sometimes you just get what you deserve

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These people should be banned from owning animals. Who would get a friend to hit their dog so that they can film it. Pricks !

I would jail them both. Most dogs just want you to love them a little bit while they love you unconditionally.

 

[FellTop]

So, Picalilli, good or bad. Made a batch of my own a couple of months ago. Just had it with some ham and cheese. So lovely.

 

[Snaggey]

So, Picalilli, good or bad. Made a batch of my own a couple of months ago. Just had it with some ham and cheese. So lovely.

Good.
Love a bit decent piccalilli. Mind, when it's crap, it's bloody awful....will take the skin off your teeth.

I had some nice stuff (Calders) my son gave me, along with some Northumberland Nettle cheese and crackers. Tremendous.

 

[FellTop]

Good.
Love a bit decent piccalilli. Mind, when it's crap, it's bloody awful....will take the skin off your teeth.

I had some nice stuff (Calders) my son gave me, along with some Northumberland Nettle cheese and crackers. Tremendous.

Nettle cheese is one of lifes real treats. My sister in law gets me cornish yarg as a present when I see her. Lovely stuff. What is the Northumberland cheese mate, never come across that.

 

[Snaggey]

Nettle cheese is one of lifes real treats. My sister in law gets me cornish yarg as a present when I see her. Lovely stuff. What is the Northumberland cheese mate, never come across that.

This is it....
My son got a Country Hamper sent to his house from work and this was in it. There was chutneys, Picalilli, jams etc in it. Most of it he wouldn't eat, so I end up with it.
Made from hard cows apparently....

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[rooch 3]

So, Picalilli, good or bad. Made a batch of my own a couple of months ago. Just had it with some ham and cheese. So lovely.

Xtra good especially on a chip butty

 

[rooch 3]

This is it....
My son got a Country Hamper sent to his house from work and this was in it. There was chutneys, Picalilli, jams etc in it. Most of it he wouldn't eat, so I end up with it.
Made from hard cows apparently....

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I’ve just gave a nettle soup to a vegan friend and she’s just text me to say one of the best soups she’s ever tasted.

 

[Ozzymac]

So, Picalilli, good or bad. Made a batch of my own a couple of months ago. Just had it with some ham and cheese. So lovely.

Missing it for the past few years, Used to ge able to get Crosse and Blackwell over here but not anymore. Might have to make my own as haven't found any decent substitutes.
At least i can still get Branston Pickle

 

[polyphemus]

Sometimes you just get what you deserve

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These people should be banned from owning animals. Who would get a friend to hit their dog so that they can film it. Pricks !

I do hope that the dog had meatballs for tea.

 

[Row 3]

I know every generation thinks the one following them is a downgrade, but events over the last week have really given me pause for thought.

I bought a poppy the other day from a Legion stall in the shops. I asked if they had a lanyard too, I needed a new one for work. The old lad apologised and explained they have a reduced range of products this year due to people not having much money.

Now I'm not into poppy shaming, if anyone doesn't want to buy one that's their personal choice. Having seen the amount of Halloween tat outside houses though, and listening to what must be thousands of pounds literally going up in smoke tonight, I seriously question where people's priorities are.

 

[cumbrianmackem]

I know every generation thinks the one following them is a downgrade, but events over the last week have really given me pause for thought.

I bought a poppy the other day from a Legion stall in the shops. I asked if they had a lanyard too, I needed a new one for work. The old lad apologised and explained they have a reduced range of products this year due to people not having much money.

Now I'm not into poppy shaming, if anyone doesn't want to buy one that's their personal choice. Having seen the amount of Halloween tat outside houses though, and listening to what must be thousands of pounds literally going up in smoke tonight, I seriously question where people's priorities are.

About 10 years or so ago a young lad knocked on my door late one dark evening and in answering found a charming young lad asking for donations to the British Legion Poppy fund.
Now normally anyone door stepping me get short shrift but I asked this kid in and ended up signing for a monthly standing order, the amount isn't relevant, and we've been paying this ever since.
I was just saying to her indoors yesterday that there seems a dearth in places where you can buy a poppy this year.
I have two enemal badges, one a SAFC, the other my old constabulary badge each bearing a poppy, and wear them each year with great pride.
At a time when charity donations have been getting a bad press this is one organisation I would urge anyone to support.

 

[gelders pie]

I know every generation thinks the one following them is a downgrade, but events over the last week have really given me pause for thought.

I bought a poppy the other day from a Legion stall in the shops. I asked if they had a lanyard too, I needed a new one for work. The old lad apologised and explained they have a reduced range of products this year due to people not having much money.

Now I'm not into poppy shaming, if anyone doesn't want to buy one that's their personal choice. Having seen the amount of Halloween tat outside houses though, and listening to what must be thousands of pounds literally going up in smoke tonight, I seriously question where people's priorities are.

For so many priorities lay no further than the words me, me, I want and now. And having spent a load also on Xmas tat , they’ll be the ones in January bemoaning that the govt aren’t putting £60 a month into the electric account

 

[rooch 3]

I see the latest charity donation at the supermarket check out is coming under scrutiny, another trouser pocket job I would imagine.

 

[Blond Bombshell]

Commercialisation of Halloween is American, but the day itself is pagan and way older than the USA.
https://www.wildernessireland.com/blog/origins-of-halloween-ireland-samhain/

Thanks for sharing

 

[Blond Bombshell]

On November 7th, 1920, in strictest secrecy, four unidentified British bodies were exhumed from temporary battlefield cemeteries at Ypres, Arras, the Asine and the Somme. None of the soldiers who did the digging were told why.

The bodies were taken by field ambulance to GHQ at St-Pol-Sur-Ter Noise, and once there, the bodies were draped with the union flag. Sentries were posted and Brigadier-General Wyatt and a Colonel Gell selected one body at random.

The other three were reburied. A French Honour Guard was selected and stood by the coffin overnight of the chosen soldier.

On the morning of the 8th November, a specially designed coffin made of oak from the grounds of Hampton Court arrived and the Unknown Warrior was placed inside.

On top was placed a crusaders sword and a shield on which was inscribed: "A British Warrior who fell in the GREAT WAR 1914-1918 for King and Country"

On the 9th of November, the Unknown Warrior was taken by horse-drawn carriage through Guards of Honour and the sound of tolling bells and bugle calls to the quayside. There, he was saluted by Marechal Foche and loaded onto HMS Vernon bound for Dover.

The coffin stood on the deck covered in wreaths, surrounded by the French Honour Guard. Upon arrival at Dover, the Unknown Warrior was met with a nineteen gun salute - something that was normally only reserved for Field Marshals. A special train had been arranged and he was then conveyed to Victoria Station, London. He remained there overnight, and on the morning of the 11th of November, he was finally taken to Westminster Abbey.

The idea of the unknown warrior was thought of by a Padre called David Railton who had served on the front line during the Great War, and the union flag that he had used as an altar cloth whilst at the front was the one that had been draped over the coffin.

It was his intention that all of the relatives of the 517,773 combatants whose bodies had not been identified could believe that the Unknown Warrior could very well be their lost husband, father, brother or son.

This is the reason why we wear poppies. We do not glorify war, we remember with humility the great and ultimate sacrifices that were made, not just in this war, but in every war and conflict where our service personnel have fought, to ensure the liberty and freedoms that we now take for granted.

Every year, on the 11th of November, we remember the Unknown Warrior.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.

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A tear in my eyes here. Thanks for posting.

 

[samwise_new]

About 10 years or so ago a young lad knocked on my door late one dark evening and in answering found a charming young lad asking for donations to the British Legion Poppy fund.
Now normally anyone door stepping me get short shrift but I asked this kid in and ended up signing for a monthly standing order, the amount isn't relevant, and we've been paying this ever since.
I was just saying to her indoors yesterday that there seems a dearth in places where you can buy a poppy this year.
I have two enemal badges, one a SAFC, the other my old constabulary badge each bearing a poppy, and wear them each year with great pride.
At a time when charity donations have been getting a bad press this is one organisation I would urge anyone to support.

i am all for the tragedy of all wars being remembered, hollywood is the only place that celebrates war, but it seems a lot has been hampered by those who claim we should not remember...when everyone stops remembering they forget how many died from all races around the world.

i remember every newsagent, pub and especially the clubs always made a big 'thing' about the poppy, many shops would have a good supply on the counter, sadly, most will order online, pubs and clubs are closing rapidly and cannot remember the last time i saw a 'newsagents' as such, mostly monthly magazines in some corner of a different shop.

history should never be forgotten, especially the parts we got wrong so they are never repeated.

 

[gelders pie]

i am all for the tragedy of all wars being remembered, hollywood is the only place that celebrates war, but it seems a lot has been hampered by those who claim we should not remember...when everyone stops remembering they forget how many died from all races around the world.

i remember every newsagent, pub and especially the clubs always made a big 'thing' about the poppy, many shops would have a good supply on the counter, sadly, most will order online, pubs and clubs are closing rapidly and cannot remember the last time i saw a 'newsagents' as such, mostly monthly magazines in some corner of a different shop.

history should never be forgotten, especially the parts we got wrong so they are never repeated.

We have a younger generation who have time to march , protest and pull down statues because of what happened a long time ago - but cannot find just one hour a year to go to the local cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday

 

[Montysoptician]

About 10 years or so ago a young lad knocked on my door late one dark evening and in answering found a charming young lad asking for donations to the British Legion Poppy fund.
Now normally anyone door stepping me get short shrift but I asked this kid in and ended up signing for a monthly standing order, the amount isn't relevant, and we've been paying this ever since.
I was just saying to her indoors yesterday that there seems a dearth in places where you can buy a poppy this year.
I have two enemal badges, one a SAFC, the other my old constabulary badge each bearing a poppy, and wear them each year with great pride.
At a time when charity donations have been getting a bad press this is one organisation I would urge anyone to support.

Like you Cumbrian, I have an enamel poppy from my place of work and an enamel SAFC poppy, both of which I wear.

Every year I give £10.00 to the first poppy seller I see and explain about my enamel poppy. This year the bloke thought I was daft and tried to give me anything he had on display, in the end I took a paper poppy to appease him and had a long chat about his career in the forces.

I was never in the armed forces but my Dad was a regular soldier before and during the war and I have access to his experiences through the DLI website. I have the utmost respect for everyone who served and especially those who gave the ultimate sacrifice.