Wade in, why don’t you?
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World’s only alpine parrot may have moved to the mountains to avoid people | New Zealand | The Guardian
Sounds like a good plan. Covid lockdown was heaven, now all the idiots & chancers are back on the streets.
KPMG’s Bill Michael resigns after telling staff to ‘stop moaning’
He resigned, after these eminently reasonable words to the over-salaried snowflakes at KPMG? Sad world we live in.
New names2
Here in the UK there’s a favoured dish for using leftover vegetables and potatoes from Xmas, and frying them into a savoury ‘pudding’ nick-named “Bubble and Squeak”.
Lendita may well have misheard the family’s original conversation, past Boxing days – so announced today she was preparing “Bubble and Squeeze”.
And you know she’s right, because you mash it all down -effectively you squeeze it all together.
So there it is – feel free to appropriate – Bubble & Squeeze.
What doesn’t he tell us?
So a lot of the world has decided we can’t go there, and they won’t come here. And our nearest neighbours, France, have closed their borders to us.
One can’t help wondering, what do they know – or what aren’t we being told, about the Covid position in the UK?
New names
We were watching a Liam Neeson movie last night, but neither of us could remember his name.
After several false starts Lendita came up with “Neil Armstrong”. So that’s the moviestar’s new name now.
UK could face shortage of trainers and leisurewear as Covid fuels surge in demand
Guardian headline today.
What a lovely thought eh? Leisureware guys & gals, from 15 to 65, forced to wear something decent. Of course they might not have anything. But what a super thought.
Doogee S88 Pro Review – 4 days in, haven’t recharged yet.
God it’s a brick. I mean it’s HUGE – and very, very heavy. There is no way you’d keep this beast in a trouser or jacket pocket – seriously, you just would NEVER.
This isn’t a review – just a few notes, some of the specifications of this phone are truly exceptional – so please go and read them!
- CAMERA
Dreadful. Sorry, it’s horrible. Download the free Open Camera App and use that. It at least makes some sense of the 21Mp available. - SOUND
Actually very good, especially since there is just one loudspeaker. - PORTS
USB – C, no headphone jack (but an adapter comes supplied). - Android 10 – fine I guess, as long as you want to do ‘Gestures’ to go back, or release a page or App from the screen – otherwise a rather naff option quite honestly. One number ‘up’ never always means ‘one number better’.
- Programmable buttons (“quick access”) buttons – don’t use them!
Whatever thing you assign to these buttons will unfailingly be there waiting for you to dismiss once you can read the screen – as you just cannot help pressing these things when you pick up the phone. - Side-Mounted fingerprint reader – patchy performance.
Actually, because of its positioning – it’s more likely to be a thumb-print reader. When it works it’s fast. But it doesn’t always work – honestly – sometimes – it’s . . just . . . nothing.
Shopping
Lovely sentiments Suzanne.
And hundreds of thousands of us agree. Also Millions won’t read this, won’t believe it, and can’t wait to ‘get back to normal’.
I’m afraid it would take an astonishing shift of power, and brave power, to change anything now.
Tweet from Gemma (@Gemmapolyglot)
Gemma (@Gemmapolyglot) Tweeted: The Sun newspaper is experiencing a downturn in circulation. It costs less than a cup of coffee. So, please give journalism a much needed boost every day. Buy that coffee. https://twitter.com/Gemmapolyglot/status/1294713119055519745?s=20
