Need a new bed. Can not make my mind up. Should it be a double again or opt for single or between.
When you changed sizes how did it affect you? Thank you

Another night of Champions League action. I think this match will be more unpredictable than the other English team playing tonight. Get your predictions in by 7pm.
Good luck

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10156463/Heart-breaking-moment-Afghan-father-forced-sell-daughter-aged-NINE-55-year-old-man.html

Had a respiratory specialist appt today. She told me a very interesting fact.
I was explaining that I was suddenly ha ing allergy type symptoms when my daughters dog came to my house. She said they have been finding that people who have had covid suddenly have their allergies change or new allergies suddenly come on! How weird is that! She said they have been reporting it back as nobody has done studies or realised until now

I am placing this post one day early so as to give members the opportunity to read it in advance rather than later.

Images from the left -

Photo 1 - Laika, The loving little Moscow Stray who thought she had found a good and caring home.

Photo 2 - Laika's training capsule. She probably thought it was a nice cosy bed they had given her.

Photo 3 - Laika in her space helmet, probably thought it was a game, like we dress our dogs up, she never knew they intended to make her suffer and kill her.

This is the 64th Anniversary of Laika's first and last space flight, I feel I must post this disturbing end to a poor little stray dog's life as a personal tribute to Laika. I hope you will all join me in this tribute of remembrance to a loving stray dog, albeit very sad.

Laika was born in 1954 and died on 3 November 1957 - a young, loving, little family pet with all her life in front of her.

On 3 November 1957 the USSR launched Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika) on board, the first living creature to orbit the Earth. Laika was a homeless Moscow stray. The Russians looked for stray dogs to take part in their horrific experiments. The Americans were no better, they used monkeys. Humans are extreme cowards when facing unknown high risks and use animals as test subjects. Animals do not know the risks we enforce upon them and trust us to look after them, not to torture and kill them.

It was initially planned that Laika was to return to Earth, but Khrushchev wanted to beat the Americans in the propaganda space race and there was no time to perfect the re-entry system, so they botched the job and decided Laika must die.

Laika was then never going to return to Earth. The satellite they built wasn't equipped for re-entry. Laika would spend a few days in orbit above the Earth. Then she would be euthanized with poison in her dog food. She was launched on a one-way trip.

To prepare her for the flight, Laika was put into smaller and smaller cages. She would be left locked up in claustrophobic conditions for up to 20 days, becoming constipated and off her food. Then she’d be pulled into an even tighter space.

The launch was delayed and Laika was not launched on schedule. For the next three days, she was grounded inside the spacecraft, strapped in her tiny cabin, helpless. So Laika was sent on a one way journey. For her, those last weeks of her life were a terrifying and heart-breaking ordeal.

As the spacecraft blasted off and into space, Laika panicked. Her heart rate and breathing increased to three times their normal rate as the small, confused dog tried to understand what was happening to her.

When Laika became weightless, she started to calm down. Her heart rate slowed, and she began to relax, but she would never again calm down to the heart rate she had on Earth.

Laika, did not live anywhere near as long as Soviet officials led the world to believe, neither did she die a painless death from poisoned food as planned.

She died in panic and agony just a few hours after blast-off on the 4th orbit when the capsule cabin overheated to 40 C (104 F). She panicked, her breathing and heart failed. She was terrified throughout the flight, confused and afraid.

Over five months later, after 2,570 orbits, Sputnik 2 including Laika's remains, disintegrated during re-entry on April 14, 1958.

My immoveable attitude is that if the Russians and Americans at that time wanted to put man into space, then man should have died doing it, NOT innocent and trusting animals.

So when you see those news photos of happy smiling and waving "brave" astronauts and cosmonauts on their return to Earth after their extra-terrestrial joyride, think of Laika and all the other poor animals that were made to suffer and horrifically killed in the name of scientific progress.

Many interesting and revealing links on the web deal with Laika's story, if you wish to know more, just Google Laika Space Dog.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/30/capitalism-is-killing-the-planet-its-time-to-stop-buying-into-our-own-destruction?

It's back to the Champions League for tonight's match. Get your predictions in by 7.30
Good luck

CAPTAIN JAMES COOK SAID......

'Never underestimate the incompetence of Government'

It's time for Monday Night Football. Get your predictions in by 7pm.
Good luck

A friend of mine had her third covid jab yesterday. She was given a leaflet to say she had to go back in 28 days time to have the second jab of this vaccine Moderna. . Its bad enough having the third one with out having to have a forth a month later.

This is today's Super Sunday Premier League match. Get your predictions in by 4pm.
Good Luck

Has some very good write-ups.
What do you think?
Where is it regularly available at a sensibled price please?

Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Do you feel this coming into your life now?
If so, how much does it affect yuou, and how do you cope?

A very long but interesting report on where Covid 19 came from

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10146091/amp/Is-finally-proof-China-created-Covid-MATT-RIDLEYs-new-book-probes-hotly-debated-theory.html?fr=operanews

It's back to the Premier League for some Saturday Night Football. Get your predictions in by 5pm.
Good luck

Has she been out to China yet?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1513373/London-protest-live-news-Greta-Thunberg-speech-fossil-fuels-COP26-Boris-Johnson-latest

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10143199/NJ-professor-says-got-motherf-s-talking-white-people.html

https://news.sky.com/story/government-accelerates-planning-for-collapse-of-big-energy-supplier-bulb-12453948

The madman that murdered those two sisters Bibaa and Nicole was allowed to sit with his back to the judge today, feet up on chair. The total disrespect. Like the killer of Millie Dowler and other young women, who never came up from his cell to hear his sentence, also the hook handed terrorist, and many others. Sorry but they should be dragged up and made to hear their fate and also face the family members and hear whatever they might want to say to these monsters.

Still on the recycling theme, this map shows where to take used medicine blister packs if you so felt inclined -

https://www.terracycle.com/en-GB/brigades/medicine-packet-uk

https://news.sky.com/story/amazon-more-than-one-million-uk-households-may-have-fallen-victim-to-brushing-scam-12446228

Never heard of this before. It's scary what people dream up.

I suppose there's no chance they will send me an i-Phone.

Love it: -

Anybody get stressed about Christmas Dinner ? Read this from a Sheffield butchers .
I’ve pinched this, but it’s fab!!
Patterson’s Butchers Sheffield
😂Just in case anyone is stressing about Christmas Day..............! 😂
Here's my top tip
🎄Christmas Dinner....
I have concluded that the inevitable stress of Christmas dinner is created by adverts, supermarkets and TV chefs...
It's a Sunday dinner for goodness sake!!!
The only difference is that you are allowed to open a bottle of wine before you open the kitchen curtains. 🍷🍷🍷
🙄We do it quite happily 51 weeks of the year but can we the consumers be trusted to manage by ourselves on one day of the year...apparently not!
Here goes...💓
1. Turkey... It's a big fecking chicken that's all, 20 minutes per lb plus 20 minutes at 180 degrees - jobs a good un! Get yourselves a meat thermometer £3 off the Internet poke it in the offending bird if it says 75 degrees or over its cooked!👏🏼
2. Stuffing - regardless of what Jamie Oliver says you do NOT need 2lbs of shoulder of pork, onions breadcrumbs,pine nuts and a shit load of fresh herbs to make stuffing....( no fecking wonder he's bankrupt if thats what he spends to make stuffing!)😜
What you need is Paxo and a kettle!! If you wanna liven it up squeeze 3 sausages out of their skins and mix that in with your Paxo before cooking 😉.
3. Gravy - Jamie Oliver is copping for this one aswell....
Bisto Jamie.... All you need is Bisto!
I ( nor anyone else I know) has got time on Christmas Eve to piss about roasting chicken wings and vegetables, adding stock and flour,cooking it for another half hour, mashing it all up with a potato masher and then straining the whole sorry mess to make gravy 😠😠😠
4. Vegetables...🍆 Never mind faffing round shredding sprouts and frying them with bacon and chestnuts to make them more palatable... If you don't like them don't buy and cook the fecking things!! If your family only eats frozen peas then that's good enough!
5. Roast potatoes... Yes I par boil mine then roast them in goose fat but Aunt Bessie also does the same 😉.
6. Trimmings /Christmas pudding and the like.... Aldi or Lidl!
(oh and while we're on the subject of pudding- if birds custard is what your family likes on the wretched thing then that's fine - you do not need brandy butter /rum sauce etc or anything else that costs a fecking fortune and takes 2 hours to make!)
7. Family....
Children.. Feed the little blighters first separately, if they only want turkey with tomato sauce - fine leave em to it, it doesn't matter. Once they are fed bugger them off to play with their Christmas presents so that YOU can enjoy your dinner in Peace!
Adults... Anyone that can manage to get their sorry arse to your dinner table is also capable of helping to serve up/ sort the kids out/ clear the table /wash up /dry up etc.
And Finally.....
NO ONE.... And I mean no one APART FROM THE COOK IS ALLOWED TO GET PISSED AND FALL ASLEEP BEFORE THE WASHING UP IS DONE!!!
Rant over 😂
🎄Merry Christmas!🎄
Cheers 🍷🍷🍷

I am Sam, and I love black cats, Daenerys from GoT, photography and hanging with my family.

is anyone watching this?
Is it me or does anyone else have problems with how the actors today gabble? especially D S Rafferty.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59067915

And the death toll in the UK from Covid reaches more than 140,000

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/gardener-warned-police-over-obscene-21901500.amp

Seems a shame after almost 20 years

My first impression is that inflation is up by 4% but pensions only up 3.1 %, and we won't get that until next April - so not too good.
What do you think about it ?

Another Carabao cup tie to predict between Preston from the Championship and Liverpool from the Premier League. Get predictions in by 7pm.Good luck

Has anyone had messages or seen posts by @Garydave? I received a friend request and it looked a bit dodgy to me. Has anyone else had any interactions or thoughts about this?

Did anyone watch this show on Mon night, or now on BBC iPlayer?
The pollution that this company has created since turning to plastic is really depressing,
and not just in Coca Cola bottles but other soft drinks they churn out. Even more sad when
you see the poorest families in Uganda collecting and returning to recycle for about 4p a day
- if that, and very young children not able to go to school.

Tonight's match is from the Carabao Cup. It could go to extra time and penalties but your prediction is for the score at full time. You have until 7pm.
Good luck.

it does not respect all genders.
Yes the trans activist and non-binary nutters have got their way again. The birthing body, chest feeding cervix owners have been cancelled.
https://www.gbnews.uk/gb-views/mercy-muroki-brands-oxfam-spineless-for-removing-inspirational-women-game-for-not-respecting-all-genders/147071

Young babies/children (mainly girls of course) are being sold in Afghanistan (by men/fathers of course) to make ends meet as so many people are starving. God help them where they end up. However it may help if the men didn’t keep making their poor wives pregnant . What a world we live in.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10127261/Londons-new-ultra-low-emission-zone-comes-force.html

I did something last night at home I've not done since 2013...I got absolutely RAT-ARSED on Irish Cream Liqueur! I had 1/2 a bottle, drank from a large mug & drank it as if it was tea! I was well blotted, blokey was killing himself laughing and I have no hang-over!

Did anyone get battered by Storm Ciara in Birmingham City Centre recently? Hubby and I had booked into a hotel for a business meeting but I hate meetings that go on for hours so he went, brave lad he is, and I just went out to the Birmingham Grand Central for a bit of shopping. I got absolutely SOAKED through and loved it! I love storms! Couldn't see where I was going because of buckets of water in my eyes! Got back to our hotel room freezing cold with my shopping bag as wet as I was!

Powerful.. Joshua Dyer (aged 14) was tasked at school to write a poem for Remembrance Day.

An hour later (without any help) he produced this..

ONE THOUSAND MEN ARE WALKING

One thousand men are walking, Walking side by side Singing songs from home, The spirit as their guide, they walk toward the light milord, they walk towards the sun, they smoke and laugh and smile together, no foes to outrun, these men live on forever in the hearts of those they saved, a nation truly grateful for the path of peace they paved, they march as friends and comrades but they do not march for war, step closer to salvation, a tranquil steady corps the meadows lit with golden beams, a beacon for the brave, the emerald grass untrampled, a reward for what they gave, they dream of those they left behind and know they dream of them
forever in those poppy fields, there walks one thousand men.

Joshua Dyer 2019 (aged 14)

Lest we forget