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El Loro posted:

Summer, I'd be surprised if I saw a lamb on my lunch break as that would mean one has wandered into my house

 

Years ago I had been in the back garden and came back in the house via the kitchen (I'd left that door open as I had come in to get something and was going back out). I had gone into another room, When I came back I saw a woman with her dog standing in the kitchen. She was someone who went to the same church and she lived in a house further down the road so she wasn't a complete stranger. She claimed that her dog had run off and had wandered into my kitchen. I didn't challenge her but I knew she wasn't being truthful, She was notorious for being nosy and just wanted to see inside my house. She left after a couple of minutes. where I live, people don't just wander into other people's houses.

 She was nosy and rude, El. 

Yogi19
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Lovely picture of sweet peas, Squiggle

 

Summer, the incident with the woman coming in to my kitchen happened many years ago. I doubt that she's still alive as she would be very old - she must have gone into a home as the garden at her bungalow became overgrown before it was sold and the new owners restored the place - that was quite some time ago. The people I spoke to at church about her said that she was known for being a snoop.

El Loro

Re the music used on the current KFC advert. It's noticably Italian, sweeping and darkly romantic. It's by Nino Rota, one of the major Italian composers of film music (Ennio Moricone is another). It's from The Godfather which is a film I've never seen as I'm not a fan of gangster films. I'll post an audio only clip of it as it's likely that if you haven't ever seen the film you probably chose not. It's described as the love theme.

El Loro
El Loro posted:

I've just finished doing the first lawn mowing of the year. I would have done it a couple of weeks ago but left it due to the rain during the first half of the month so gave it a chance to dry out. It was more grass than normal as a result - effectively a double quantity.

Well done, El. Our grass is still a bit wet but the first cut will need done soon 

Yogi19
El Loro posted:

Re the music used on the current KFC advert. It's noticably Italian, sweeping and darkly romantic. It's by Nino Rota, one of the major Italian composers of film music (Ennio Moricone is another). It's from The Godfather which is a film I've never seen as I'm not a fan of gangster films. I'll post an audio only clip of it as it's likely that if you haven't ever seen the film you probably chose not. It's described as the love theme.

Not my kind of film either, although I have seen little snippets when MrY watched it and I was I the room.

Yogi19

Sometimes on a Friday the PM programme on Radio 4 includes something a bit different unconnected with news. Today it included a reading by members of the public of Wordsworth "To My Sister" and in the background there was some music though they didn't say what it was. To me it sounded like someting of Frederick Delius and I was able to identify it - On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring:

And the poem:

To My Sister

It is the first mild day of March:
Each minute sweeter than before
The redbreast sings from the tall larch
That stands beside our door.

There is a blessing in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field.

My sister! (’tis a wish of mine)
Now that our morning meal is done,
Make haste, your morning task resign;
Come forth and feel the sun.

Edward will come with you—and, pray,
Put on with speed your woodland dress;
And bring no book: for this one day
We’ll give to idleness.

No joyless forms shall regulate
Our living calendar:
We from to-day, my Friend, will date
The opening of the year.

Love, now a universal birth,
From heart to heart is stealing,
From earth to man, from man to earth:
—It is the hour of feeling.

One moment now may give us more
Than years of toiling reason:
Our minds shall drink at every pore
The spirit of the season.

Some silent laws our hearts will make,
Which they shall long obey:
We for the year to come may take
Our temper from to-day.

And from the blessed power that rolls
About, below, above,
We’ll frame the measure of our souls:
They shall be tuned to love.

Then come, my Sister! come, I pray,
With speed put on your woodland dress;
And bring no book: for this one day
We’ll give to idleness.

El Loro
El Loro posted:

Sometimes on a Friday the PM programme on Radio 4 includes something a bit different unconnected with news. Today it included a reading by members of the public of Wordsworth "To My Sister" and in the background there was some music though they didn't say what it was. To me it sounded like someting of Frederick Delius and I was able to identify it - On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring:

And the poem:

To My Sister

It is the first mild day of March:
Each minute sweeter than before
The redbreast sings from the tall larch
That stands beside our door.

There is a blessing in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field.

My sister! (’tis a wish of mine)
Now that our morning meal is done,
Make haste, your morning task resign;
Come forth and feel the sun.

Edward will come with you—and, pray,
Put on with speed your woodland dress;
And bring no book: for this one day
We’ll give to idleness.

No joyless forms shall regulate
Our living calendar:
We from to-day, my Friend, will date
The opening of the year.

Love, now a universal birth,
From heart to heart is stealing,
From earth to man, from man to earth:
—It is the hour of feeling.

One moment now may give us more
Than years of toiling reason:
Our minds shall drink at every pore
The spirit of the season.

Some silent laws our hearts will make,
Which they shall long obey:
We for the year to come may take
Our temper from to-day.

And from the blessed power that rolls
About, below, above,
We’ll frame the measure of our souls:
They shall be tuned to love.

Then come, my Sister! come, I pray,
With speed put on your woodland dress;
And bring no book: for this one day
We’ll give to idleness.

Lovely, El 

Yogi19
Yogi19 posted:
El Loro posted:

Re the music used on the current KFC advert. It's noticably Italian, sweeping and darkly romantic. It's by Nino Rota, one of the major Italian composers of film music (Ennio Moricone is another). It's from The Godfather which is a film I've never seen as I'm not a fan of gangster films. I'll post an audio only clip of it as it's likely that if you haven't ever seen the film you probably chose not. It's described as the love theme.

Not my kind of film either, although I have seen little snippets when MrY watched it and I was I the room.

have seen it but not really my style-was much younger

Rocking Ros Rose
Yogi19 posted:
El Loro posted:

I've just finished doing the first lawn mowing of the year. I would have done it a couple of weeks ago but left it due to the rain during the first half of the month so gave it a chance to dry out. It was more grass than normal as a result - effectively a double quantity.

Well done, El. Our grass is still a bit wet but the first cut will need done soon 

did ours last weekend it was desperate

Rocking Ros Rose

You may have seen this on the BBC news:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-47756250/

Criminals selling purchase invoices to people to use to claim tax relief and reclaim VAT.

 

Obviously illegal and those caught will get sent to prison, both those selling the invoices and those using them. Those using them when caught would have to explain how they paid for the invoices - what was the source of the cash used to pay them - that's how HMRC would challenge people as their declared income wouldn't explain it. Those using the invoices would, besides a prison sentence, would have to pay the underpaid tax + 100% penalties + interest. Those selling the invoices would, besides a prison sentence, face money laundering offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act as would thise using them, and the penalties would also include cash seizure.

El Loro
El Loro posted:

You may have seen this on the BBC news:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-47756250/

Criminals selling purchase invoices to people to use to claim tax relief and reclaim VAT.

 

Obviously illegal and those caught will get sent to prison, both those selling the invoices and those using them. Those using them when caught would have to explain how they paid for the invoices - what was the source of the cash used to pay them - that's how HMRC would challenge people as their declared income wouldn't explain it. Those using the invoices would, besides a prison sentence, would have to pay the underpaid tax + 100% penalties + interest. Those selling the invoices would, besides a prison sentence, face money laundering offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act as would thise using them, and the penalties would also include cash seizure.

People who do this, deserve to get caught.

Yogi19

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