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as you get older your find out things you never knew. Or u learned something which will always stick with u.
This fred is to discuss what you learned and how it benefited u
as you get older your find out things you never knew. Or u learned something which will always stick with u.
This fred is to discuss what you learned and how it benefited u
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You ask a fine question, sir, and 'tis one to which I shall cast my mind.
You shall have my answer forthwith.
You shall have my answer forthwith.
Deceptively hard question.
One particular potato, papa pastusa, is much better for making chips with than other potatoes. This may explain the variability I've experienced in quality of homemade chips to date.
One particular potato, papa pastusa, is much better for making chips with than other potatoes. This may explain the variability I've experienced in quality of homemade chips to date.
thats it!
My mum always uses new potatoes fos the sunday tea Fcukin delicious
My mum always uses new potatoes fos the sunday tea Fcukin delicious
I had a dream last night that I had broken my left leg and I couldn't get any help from anybody, it just got worse and the bone was disintegrating.
leaves of chickweed boyled in vinegar and salt are good against mangines of the hands and legs, if they be bathed therewith.
If you need to buy a new landline phone and you're with BT buy a new one with a built in answering machine, as BT now charges £1.75 per month for its previously-free 1571 voicemail service.
To make sure the kitchen window is closed tight before using the Karcher pressure washer on the concrete outside. 
If you want to hide the annoying arrows when using filter in excel this simple macro hides them...
Sub autofilter ()
With Range ("a1:d1")
.autofilter field:=1,visibledropdown:=false
End with
End sub
Excel is pretty the best thing ever. I would get out more but I'm building a macro to automate my weekly Tescos shop.
Sub autofilter ()
With Range ("a1:d1")
.autofilter field:=1,visibledropdown:=false
End with
End sub
Excel is pretty the best thing ever. I would get out more but I'm building a macro to automate my weekly Tescos shop.
Nothing ..... but didn't wake up till 5pm so still time yet 
Garners get paid £20 an hour, two of them turned up and it cost me 80 sovs. What a racket that game is.
*Gardeners* I'm lobbing this laptop out of the window. All they did was pull a few weeds up and drink tea.
Today I learned not to bet on Wimbledon if you have hardly been following the tournament so far. 
Today i learned that life is so much more peaceful without the World cup to rob you Blind
My garden isn't that big McM, they did a tidy job though but £20 an hour each cash in hand is a bit fierce I thought.
I've not had a bet on Wimbledon Hank, I don't really like the sport.
as long as they did a tidy job , i guess the minimum would be £15 hour
I'd love a house with a nice tidy little garden , may a pond with some koi carp , but i know i'd be lazy as hell when it comes to the nitty gritty , takes enough time just to get washing , cooking , cleaning etc all done
I'd love a house with a nice tidy little garden , may a pond with some koi carp , but i know i'd be lazy as hell when it comes to the nitty gritty , takes enough time just to get washing , cooking , cleaning etc all done
I've ended up with a bet on Kvitova to save my Sharapova bacon Hank
Had a nice trade on Sharapova so bought Kvitova at 4's too , think she's a def for the final at least
Had a nice trade on Sharapova so bought Kvitova at 4's too , think she's a def for the final at least
Remembered that the integral of 2x is x^2 + C but realised that it's no effin use to me at my time of life.
he had to leave the last garden job cos he only got £20 an hour and the owner kept appearing at the window in nothing but a pinny.
I've learned I can still be a nasty piece of work on the telephone, poxy insurance company trying to rip my wife off.
I have learned that when it comes to buying a birthday card for his dad, my son always gives the same answer, when I ask where's my card, I will wish you a happy birthday face to face
I learned today I can leave about 10 oven chips in the bag and not eat them just to finish them off.
the four quid bottles of wine from asda arent too bad
result
result
The morning will come when the world is mine. Tomorrow belongs to me.
Or some other slacker.
Pay attention. It's all becoming less benign.
Or some other slacker.
Pay attention. It's all becoming less benign.
That the BBC, in their race to get news on the telly first, are useless.
that you're never to old to enjoy a rocket lolly or a callipo
Don't leave your Driver in your locker when playing golf
I didn't realise until yesterday that you can use Kitchen Roll in other rooms.
They don't sell Lucozade in boots any more.
It runs out of the laceholes.
It runs out of the laceholes.
If you sit in the smoking section of a restaurant, you don't have to smoke
Polytetrafluoroethylene is a synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene
The local mosque is being rebuilt because it's facing L@dbrokes.
If your employer puts you on gardening leave and you live in a third-floor flat - don't tell him.
If your employer puts you on gardening leave and you live in a third-floor flat - don't tell him.
Actor Joe McGann suffered severe depression while starring in 90s hit sitcom The Upper Hand
He says low moods run in his family but that he is now depression free after moving to the country and using naturopathy
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Better: Actor Joe McGann is free from depression
As a kid, I always knew my father was in one of his black moods because you could feel it in the air as soon as you came through the front door.
When he was at his lowest he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, although we were never sure if he had it or not.
There are theories that depression can be learned behaviour but I also think there’s probably something genetic. All of my family have been touched by it in some way or another at some time in our lives, and had horrible low, illogical moods.
If I had them as a kid, I shrugged them off – you’re more easily distracted when you’re younger and your inner dialogue isn’t so in-depth.
I used to lose myself in books and that would be my quiet time. But later in life things become different and you look for other ways to deal with it – in my case I self-medicated.
I’d try to drown my sorrows with alcohol, which never works.
I’ve had several very low times but the worst was probably when I was starring in the BBC1 sitcom The Upper Hand in the 90s.
I had this horrible situation where I was more successful and recognisable than at any time in my life but felt the most wretched I’d ever felt. I couldn’t go anywhere and hide as people would recognise me all over the place.
That’s when I really started to address my problems as an adult. I started visiting various therapists and found cognitive behavioural therapy very helpful.
It gives you a set of tools by which you can alter your reasoning with yourself and stop the dialogue that constantly demeans you – the voice that sits on your shoulder and tells you that you’re worthless and that there’s no point in trying.
I stopped drinking, too, and don’t drink at all any more as it’s a depressant and I know what happens. It’s fair to say that I’ve had my share and I became dependent on it for several years to the extent that once I’d started I couldn’t stop.
It’s not easy to give it up. I did four-and-a-half years sober then thought I’d be fine to go back to social drinking – but it got worse than ever. So I stopped completely and I’ve been sober for nearly a decade.
When we were growing up in Liverpool, I used to look across to the mountains in North Wales in the distance and wish I was over there looking back. I remember the first time I went to the hills with the Scouts, I found a joy and freedom. The scale of nature makes me feel comfortable and to feel like a very small person in a very big place makes you realise that your problem isn’t really all that big, which is very humbling.
However big the inner dialogue is – it’s all you hear sometimes when you’re depressed – you can stop this notion of being absolute master, judge, jury and executioner in your own world and nature has always helped me put everything into perspective, to recognise that there’s something bigger than you.
Realising I really needed to live in the countryside came at a great point in my healing. My wife Tam and I moved to rural Hampshire and we now live in a little cottage surrounded by 5,000 acres of forest, which has been a life-changer. When I was at my lowest I couldn’t get out of bed – the black dog would sit on my chest and I wasn’t able to get up. But now to be able to roll out of bed, go downstairs and out into the most magnificent nature makes me want to get up in the morning.
For a little while I was on Seroxat anti-depressants and they definitely gave me a level playing field that provided a breakthrough. But because I’d taken the route of self-medication before, I didn’t want to be narcotised into health.
I wanted to be well and with the help of my wife, who’s a naturopath, I realised that nutrition and the right kind of diet can give you all the supplements you need. It can alter your body’s chemistry to an extent and stop you slipping into serotonin depletion so you crave the wrong things as comfort.
Diet has become incredibly important to me now. It’s about fuel but also nourishment and being connected to the seasons, which has a real grounding effect.
Every morning Tam and I take the dogs for a walk with a basket to forage for green plants that we then juice. We pick things like nettles, which are a source of vitamin C, cleavers – or sticky weed – which cleans the lymphatic system. Wheatgrass and barley grass are superfoods and the latter has protein and chlorophyll to aid the digestive system and alkalise the body.
I drink purified water and add things like maca – a Peruvian root – to smoothies as it’s very good for mood balancing.
The outcome is that I’m 55 and as fit and well as I’ve ever been. I can’t remember the last time I even had a common cold.
I can measure my happiness by my weight and for the first two series of The Upper Hand I was about 18st – but my natural weight, which is what I am now, is about 15st. My depression was the weight I was carrying around, metaphorically and physically.
All of those things combined have led me to a place where I don’t know whether I’m free from it for ever, but should an episode arise I know I have the tool kit to dispel it – and I’m not scared of that.
I haven’t had a depressive episode for more than eight years and it’s like having a new life sometimes. I have a better sense of self and self-worth, I have confidence now rather than the attitude that I’ll fail.
He says low moods run in his family but that he is now depression free after moving to the country and using naturopathy
88 Shares
Better: Actor Joe McGann is free from depression
As a kid, I always knew my father was in one of his black moods because you could feel it in the air as soon as you came through the front door.
When he was at his lowest he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, although we were never sure if he had it or not.
There are theories that depression can be learned behaviour but I also think there’s probably something genetic. All of my family have been touched by it in some way or another at some time in our lives, and had horrible low, illogical moods.
If I had them as a kid, I shrugged them off – you’re more easily distracted when you’re younger and your inner dialogue isn’t so in-depth.
I used to lose myself in books and that would be my quiet time. But later in life things become different and you look for other ways to deal with it – in my case I self-medicated.
I’d try to drown my sorrows with alcohol, which never works.
I’ve had several very low times but the worst was probably when I was starring in the BBC1 sitcom The Upper Hand in the 90s.
I had this horrible situation where I was more successful and recognisable than at any time in my life but felt the most wretched I’d ever felt. I couldn’t go anywhere and hide as people would recognise me all over the place.
That’s when I really started to address my problems as an adult. I started visiting various therapists and found cognitive behavioural therapy very helpful.
It gives you a set of tools by which you can alter your reasoning with yourself and stop the dialogue that constantly demeans you – the voice that sits on your shoulder and tells you that you’re worthless and that there’s no point in trying.
I stopped drinking, too, and don’t drink at all any more as it’s a depressant and I know what happens. It’s fair to say that I’ve had my share and I became dependent on it for several years to the extent that once I’d started I couldn’t stop.
It’s not easy to give it up. I did four-and-a-half years sober then thought I’d be fine to go back to social drinking – but it got worse than ever. So I stopped completely and I’ve been sober for nearly a decade.
When we were growing up in Liverpool, I used to look across to the mountains in North Wales in the distance and wish I was over there looking back. I remember the first time I went to the hills with the Scouts, I found a joy and freedom. The scale of nature makes me feel comfortable and to feel like a very small person in a very big place makes you realise that your problem isn’t really all that big, which is very humbling.
However big the inner dialogue is – it’s all you hear sometimes when you’re depressed – you can stop this notion of being absolute master, judge, jury and executioner in your own world and nature has always helped me put everything into perspective, to recognise that there’s something bigger than you.
Realising I really needed to live in the countryside came at a great point in my healing. My wife Tam and I moved to rural Hampshire and we now live in a little cottage surrounded by 5,000 acres of forest, which has been a life-changer. When I was at my lowest I couldn’t get out of bed – the black dog would sit on my chest and I wasn’t able to get up. But now to be able to roll out of bed, go downstairs and out into the most magnificent nature makes me want to get up in the morning.
For a little while I was on Seroxat anti-depressants and they definitely gave me a level playing field that provided a breakthrough. But because I’d taken the route of self-medication before, I didn’t want to be narcotised into health.
I wanted to be well and with the help of my wife, who’s a naturopath, I realised that nutrition and the right kind of diet can give you all the supplements you need. It can alter your body’s chemistry to an extent and stop you slipping into serotonin depletion so you crave the wrong things as comfort.
Diet has become incredibly important to me now. It’s about fuel but also nourishment and being connected to the seasons, which has a real grounding effect.
Every morning Tam and I take the dogs for a walk with a basket to forage for green plants that we then juice. We pick things like nettles, which are a source of vitamin C, cleavers – or sticky weed – which cleans the lymphatic system. Wheatgrass and barley grass are superfoods and the latter has protein and chlorophyll to aid the digestive system and alkalise the body.
I drink purified water and add things like maca – a Peruvian root – to smoothies as it’s very good for mood balancing.
The outcome is that I’m 55 and as fit and well as I’ve ever been. I can’t remember the last time I even had a common cold.
I can measure my happiness by my weight and for the first two series of The Upper Hand I was about 18st – but my natural weight, which is what I am now, is about 15st. My depression was the weight I was carrying around, metaphorically and physically.
All of those things combined have led me to a place where I don’t know whether I’m free from it for ever, but should an episode arise I know I have the tool kit to dispel it – and I’m not scared of that.
I haven’t had a depressive episode for more than eight years and it’s like having a new life sometimes. I have a better sense of self and self-worth, I have confidence now rather than the attitude that I’ll fail.
I learnt that BF moderators pull posts of cockney rhyming slang, with no swear words in them. 
I don't Adam and Eve it either 
Coursera.org and you will learn something new every day. I'm doing courses on Python, Android and from today C#.
Coursera.org and you will learn something new every day. I'm doing courses on Python, Android and from today C#.
I learned today that no matter how often I get my cash in ahead shanghai9 will always outdraw me.
guy in the pub today said he is struggling to pay his leccy
i said that he should apply for the warm home discount which the energy providers are doing these days
guy was over the moon and said thank you
nice to help folk
i said that he should apply for the warm home discount which the energy providers are doing these days
guy was over the moon and said thank you
nice to help folk
what did i learn?
old folk dont know of these ventures - the guy will be warm for winter now
old folk dont know of these ventures - the guy will be warm for winter now
While taking Mrs S to the airport at 5am, I learned that I still love driving in the early hours.
Hughie Green was the father of Paula Yates. (Is that a well known fact?)
Today I learned that I didn't really like this years W'don
Today i learnt that learned is american english and learnt is british english.
Today i learnt that Carol Kirkwood is just as hot doing the weather forecast in a winter jacket 
Today i learnt that you can pay in a cheque with just your debit card and also you can take a picture of a cheque and pay it into Barclays without leaving home.
.
http://www.barclays.co.uk/MobileBankingservices/MobileChequeDeposit/P1242668620764
.
http://www.barclays.co.uk/MobileBankingservices/MobileChequeDeposit/P1242668620764
That the UK muslim population is 4.8% of the total.
And that Newham's percentage of muslims is 7 times higher at 31.97%
It was 23% in 2001.
And that Newham's percentage of muslims is 7 times higher at 31.97%
It was 23% in 2001.
DartsnBooze - my wife is American - I get so mixed up with what is US English etc now
went for a walk on a pebble beach today and near the edge among the shrub found over 50 stunning flay agaric fungi. Never seen these outside a wood ans particularly near birch trees. Never realised they'd grow in a marine environment. Remarkable scenes.
Have brought some home.
Have brought some home.
Radio 2 is running a YOUNG BRASS AWARD 2015
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