Morning all.    It's sunny, then raining, then windy,  funny old day.

I planted some Hyacinths in bowls for Christmas  yesterday.
Today I have three Amaryllis to plant up. 
I like to see a bowl of bulbs flowering when everything outside is hibernating and dreary.   

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Quote from: klondike on Yesterday at 09:43:26 AMMilder this year than last. My heating schedule is set but it only comes on for short periods first thing and again some days at teatime when it is programmed to be a tad warmer for the evening.

Yes, although ours is usually set at 20 degrees (or 22), once the room the controller is in reaches that temperature it turns off, of course.  The dining room next door, which we rarely use, is usually noticeably cooler, but then I suppose that's to be expected as it only has one working radiator which is much smaller than the one in our living room.

Quote from: Scrumpy on October 12, 2026, 05:57:26 PMThe boys used to call people by their surname..
Even recently one of the Driscoll twins called me by my surname when I saw him in the Co-op..

Yes, come to think about it, surnames only were used at Grange Boys' Grammar School (which I left with three 'O' levels).  My fault, not theirs; I was a lazy bugger.  First names somehow seemed far too personal and friendly.
Incidentally, whereas it used to be one of the best schools in Bradford, it has now become an 'upper' school, also on a different site and in a trendy modern building.

Quote from: GrannyMac on Yesterday at 06:42:55 AMI'm sure all we long lasting wives feel the same. 😉

I'm sure that long-lasting husbands feel exactly the same, though I don't know how much longer I'm going to last.

Milder this year than last. My heating schedule is set but it only comes on for short periods first thing and again some days at teatime when it is programmed to be a tad warmer for the evening. Just as well as  thing the unit price is a fair bit more this year. I'm glad I took the fix offered. Increase of 25% to 30% year on year forecast according to AI. Aren't we lucky we now have  our Net Zero policies bringing us all this cheap renewable energy - what would it cost if we didn't 

A naughty young fella called Vic
Got arrested and taken to the nick
He wrote nasty slurs
For not calling 'hims' 'hers'
Especially one he called Dick

Tim recalled his happiest day

Head of First Year was known to be a leg fondler and first years had to wear shorts in my boys grammar. I only had him for Religious Education and there must have been prettier boys in my class. He missed his calling. Many of the teachers seemed to have odd idiosyncrasies. 

The ancient Latin teacher who probably had it as a first language hated Fridays. I had him first period Friday. Lots of detentions handed out Friday mornings. If he could be got going about his strawberries that could take a sizeable chunk of a period and some seemed quite adept at starting that.

Another RE teacher could be turned to tears by some pupils just with questions.

Another ancient taught history. The ceiling at the back of his room was coated with wadded blotting powder. Chewed to the right constituency and launched with a ruler wedged under a desk lid it could be made to stick. He never heard the loud boings. On one occasion somebody brought in one or two of those square flashcubes that could be set off somehow by hand. After several flashes he was looking out of the window saying looks like thunder boys.

Physics teacher who regularly included "thuswise" in his explanations but put a red line through it in my homework with the comment ENGLISH!

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Quote from: Dextrous63 on October 12, 2026, 10:48:36 PMAnyway, moving on and kinda vaguely related to the thread title... have any of you heard about the benefits of spinning?  Not riding a gym bike, but more of a whirling dervish thing.

I recall reading about it years ago, and that Bruce Forsyth was a strong advocate of it.

Never heard of that.. Dextrous..

 I stand on one leg (daily).. I'm getting much better..

Spinning !!!!!!!  I've just worked it out.. What a bloody fool I am..