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A simple solution to trouser injuries...........wear a kilt. "traditional dress" not yet banned altho perhaps not recommended for Boxing Day attire when the Hunts are out and about

Hope your friend had a not entirely wasted journey and tied his balls to the flag post - celebrity status ensured with the first strong breeze

 

This year’s Ghost Story for Christmas. Not so much “ghost” as “horror”. Joanna Lumley as you have never seen her before.

A Ghost Story for Christmas - The Room in the Tower - BBC iPlayer

 

Not the finest, in my opinion. Why does the Christmas season have to have a ghost story? I know it's winter, dark nights, and all that, and Dickens probably had something of a hand in it, but it seems a bit odd to me. I usually watch them, love Gatiss, but I didn't really thrill to this offering.

 

Tradition. From the earliest times at coldest lowest point of the year people have gathered around fires to keep warm and told stories of odd events to amuse each other. There is also the association with the death of one year and the birth of the next, so it was believed that the barriers between the living and the dead were thinner.

 

Just the mention of Joanna Lumley stopped me even investigating. Her awful smug Radio4 "comedy" was the end for me.

 

So you’ll be glad to know that her role was limited to two sentences.

 

These days Joanna Lumley looks better on the radio than on the TV, years ago it was the other way round.

 

Speaking of injuries, I remember reading that people who took part in sponsored skydives for charity actually cost the NHS more money than they raised. From a quick Google it was as high as £14 of medical care for ever £1 of sponsorship.

 

I've got a sore throat and chesty cough, and it started on Christmas eve, so I looked at the NHS website to see if there are any pharmacies open near me today, so that I could buy something to ease the condition.
It wanted to use my 'location' so I allowed it to do so, just this once !
and it told me the nearest pharmacy to my village (in Carmarthenshire Wales) open today was Boots in Minehead, and that it is 45.7 miles away
It's more than that as the crow flies !
There must be one nearer than that, so I did a google search and found one just 3 miles away open from 2 - 6 pm.

 

Well she is 79 years old. Women are always berated for actually ageing, men not so much.

 

You're better off going to a supermarket, they have plenty of cold remedies.

 

A good plan to keep a small stock of patent meds at the ready as well @Michael Hewett