Hi
I'm looking for somewhere to get some good quality pierogi - These are small Polish savoury dumplings that look like small Cornish pasties - Poland's equivalent of ravioli.
My favourite types are the ones with minced meat, sauerkraut or mushrooms and the like. I'm slightly lactose intolerant so the Russian style cheese and potato variety would be off the menu.
The commercially available ones I've tried are nowhere near as good as the home made variety. Making them from scratch is a lot of hassle and I don't have a good recipe.
Any suggestions would be welcome - Ideally somewhere around the Stoneleigh/Epsom/Ewell/Cheam/Tolworth/Chessington/New Malden/Sutton sort of area.

Edward feeling very special today and Pip and friend Liz paying homage to him, lol
It's all gone a bit to his head, hence the crown, he's feeling very 'Royal' and hopes all his 'friends' on Scooploop will give him a bow today, lol

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There's been plenty of advertising for the new Disney + streaming service for which they charge £5.99 a month. Doesn't interest me as no kids here and all the shows are available for free on other channels.
Then the other night there was an advert for the full length Disney film, Mulan. Available soon on Disney +, but only if you pay another £20.
So they are making parents pay twice

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Has this plumber got OCD

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/white-professor-pretended-black-admits-faking-identity-200904065935857.html

What do people think of this

@FranW appears to have found a way of generating threads in one group by linking it to another group.

Could I suggest that if you want to discuss anything then by all means raise the subject. But what individuals write in one group may not be what they want people in another group to see.

I doubt that any permission was given by either group owner to allow this to happen and I would hope that Scooploop would not allow access to a group by individuals who are not members (open or private), otherwise we may as well not have groups and just let this individual show us what to read wherever she finds it!

I will be putting up a post for Scooploop to investigate and hopefully prevent this.

Daylight robbery.. & If you want a yearly visitor permit a mere £680!! Wtf this is crazy money.. just because my car is a certain emission due to its age I have to pay this ridiculous fee.. don’t they realise you only have an older car because you can’t afford a newer one..so how are people who are struggling to make ends meet already manage to pay this & they have a car for work reasons so can’t just get rid or buy a new one... grrrr.. I’m fuming as it’s not a small amount & it’s only going to affect people with little money.. the rich with new cars will only pay £150.. obviously a scheme devised by someone earning a large wage & a new car. 😡😡😡😡

https://www.scooploop.com/thread/a-new-nadir-for-johnson

RULE BRITANNIA

Here is something you are unlikely to learn via the BBC.

In the 17th century the seas around Britain were ruled by North African Muslim Slavers. They stopped British ships and carried off the crews to be sold as slaves in Algiers and Tripoli.

The situation became so bad that fishermen from Devon and Cornwall wouldn’t put out to sea in case they were captured by North African Slave Traders.

Between 1609 and 1616, 466 British ships were captured by Slave Traders in the English Channel, Irish Sea and North Atlantic, and the crews were sold into slavery.

In 1625 a raiding party landed at Mount’s Bay in Cornwall and 60 people who had taken refuge in a local church were dragged out, loaded up and taken off to Africa to be sold as slaves.

On 12 August 1625 the Mayor of Plymouth wrote to London for military help after 27 ships had been seized by North African Muslim Slave Traders in just 10 days. In 1645, 240 people were seized as slaves in Cornwall.

The situation only began to change after the end of the English Civil War when the Royal Navy was built up under Oliver Cromwell. By 1700, North African Slavers generally knew better than to bother the British Isles in the search for slaves because of the Royal Navy.

It was a triumph that Britain was finally able to control its own coastal waters. And it was in commemoration of this that in 1740, James Thompson wrote ‘Rule Britannia’. It is a hymn of thanksgiving rather than a proclamation of aggressive Nationalism.

If you read this far and are interested to learn more, read "White Gold" by Giles Milton.

He was asked to attend a cemetery of US war dead from WW1. He said, "why should I go there, it's full of losers. It's also raining and it will mess with my hair". He also called US soldeirs that fell in one battle, "suckers" for dying.

Buses have notices on the doors saying, "maximum 12 passengers but driver may allow up to 15 if part of family". Does this no longer apply as I was on a single decker bus today at 11.30am, so not rush hour or school time, and all seats were taken and three people were standing. One person was standing in that drivers safety zone.

Thinking of getting a house cleaner.
Never having had anyone to do this for me before, I wonder what would be the going rate for a couple of hours every fortnight and what light housework they would cover.
Any advice would be most welcome.

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https://www.scooploop.com/thread/something-to-think-about

Strictly have caved in to the Wokes and there will be a same sex dancing couple on this years series.
Olympic boxer Nicola Adams will be dancing with a female professional dancer.

Other strictly rumours inclued Katie Price being lined up. Like to see her dance with two broken ankles.

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I recently had my back garden rebuilt with a couple of raised flower beds, each about 5 metres long and 1 metre wide.

I've added a wide selection of plants but I think I probably need to protect them from frost when the winter arrives.

Do any of you gardeners out there have any suggestions about good ways to do this?

I've seen fleece type blankets on the web but I'd be concerned about these soaking up water and loosing their effectiveness.

Are they effective and if so which one should I buy?

If I was to put some large garden canes around the edge of the flowerbeds and then cover the whole flowerbed with a large sheet of transparent plastic, to make a sort of temporary greenhouse, would that work as a frost protector?

I'd need to allow some gaps for air to circulate and water the plants as they wouldn't get rained on.

Any other suggestions would be welcome.

Cheers

Tony

Morning all. I'm thinking about buying a sited caravan. Do you own, or have owned, a sited caravan? If so, what is the sort of amount per year for all the fixed costs? Did you have any unexpected charges? Did you regret buying it? I'm thinking of the Hunstanton area of Norfolk.

Ten years ago a mailboat was launched from St Kilda to commemorate 80 years since the island was evacuated. It finally ran aground on a beach in Norway this week.
https://news.stv.tv/highlands-islands/st-kilda-mailboat-found-by-children-in-norway-a-decade-later?top

Morning all. I'm thinking about buying a sited caravan. Do you own, or have owned, a sited caravan? If so, what is the sort of amount per year for all the fixed costs? Did you have any unexpected charges? Did you regret buying it? I'm thinking of the Hunstanton area of Norfolk.

I have just been reading on FB in a local group that school children are not allowed to go to the toilet during class time, I'm shocked, have never heard of this before but apparently has been the rule for some time.
Absolutely ridiculous.

Was going to say it's about time this came to an end, but now the US police have shot another black man in the back with 7 shots. So now I'm not sure.

Notice on bus stops about how the buses will operate when the schools go back in September.
Between 7.30 to 9.30 and 14.30 to 16.30 every other bus will be either a schoolchilden only bus or an adults only bus. No requirement to socially distance on the schoolchildren buses.

In Sainsburys yesterday all the self checkouts were being used and there was a queue of about a dozen people waiting. They were stopping other shoppers safely getting to the loose vegetables.
I went to one of the personed checkouts and only had to wait for one shopper to move forward.
Surelly the idea of self checkouts is to get out faster and not have to wait

Would anybody care to hazard a guess whether or not this is load-bearing. I'm thinking of getting this removed - it's the 'wall' between the landing and the eaves which seems to be just a thick hardboard (probably when built in 60s) and had filthy loft lagging attached which has been removed today. Before and after photos attached. I might add it's been difficult enough getting the lagging removed before I start trying to get someone to do the rest. I could try and remove (some of) the hardboard and leave the frame up. I basically just want a sense of space, not looking for an extra room. The other side is the landing.

Or should I get a surveyor in - I don't really want to spend a couple of hundred pounds for one, to be honest, for just a yes or no.

Yesterday I emptied out, cleaned and refilled all feeders - still not seen any birds there atall, even the pigeons haven't come for the spilled seeds.

9 times out of 10 I don't get results from this,
just tried finding one of my posts on my profile - it's not there, searched a friends comments and it says she last commented 2 years ago but she has been on here and commented more than once within the last week.

I have had a PM from a Winston about putting $26 million into my account, anyone else had one. ?.
Scooploop need to know so I have reported it to them.

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This is taken from an article sent to me by Constance Craig Smith about Jane Birkin.
‘If you're too young to remember the Sixties, then you'll have heard of her thanks to the Hermès handbag which is named after her. A Birkin bag costs the same as a small car, and even getting on the waiting list for one is a challenge. Victoria Beckham is said to own more than 100 Birkins in different colours.‘
What a waste of money ! If people earn a lot of money and pay their tax then fine but the indulgence of having at least £10,000 of 1 type of bag let alone all the others. I looked up Birkin bags, the first one that came up was£65.000 , ridiculous, repugnant and immoral.

Imagine if any student wrote an exam paper in the way the government has handled the issue of marking the exams. They’d write "The main cause of the First World War was the Mona Lisa, which was written in 1985 by Catherine the Great". Then they’d insist this was “fair and accurate” following a “robust process”, until 15 million people screamed it made no sense. Then the student would say it wasn’t his fault because his computer was broken.

If the Premier League hadn’t been completed this year, Liverpool should have been given fourth place, because, in spite of them being 137 points clear at the top, that’s where they normally finish.
This is so efficient, no students need to bother learning anything, they’re just given the grades that school got before, so the schools can be turned into flats.
This should be the rule in every other area as well. So to make the justice system fairer, each town has to send the same number to prison every year. If Luton sent less this year than in 2018, the local council takes 40 random people out of Lidl and gives them all six years for armed robbery.

But the way they dealt with these exams seems to fit a pattern. Because this government had the same approach for increasing NHS fees for foreign nurses. A decision the prime minister might as well have responded to by saying: "I am sick and tired of foreigners coming over here and saving my life as a sneaky way of earning money off our health system. If they can’t be bothered to pay for the privilege, they don’t DESERVE to save my life."
Eventually, someone spotted a flaw in this proposal so they abandoned it, and replaced it by announcing an end to the furlough scheme, because we could no longer afford to let people stay at home and not work, just because they’d been ordered to stay at home and not work.
Boris Johnson was probably about to make a traditional Conservative speech, saying: "If someone has been put out of work because I’ve ordered them to stay at home, they should go and look for work somewhere else. Maybe there’s a job in the toilet, or underneath the settee."
Instead, they abandoned that and announced instead that all schools would reopen in June, which would also be when the world-beating, game-changing track and trace would be ready, until they abandoned both of those.
So they announced there was no need to wear a face mask, as they made no difference, until they amended that slightly to "Everyone HAS to wear a face mask". Then every minister said something slightly different, such as: "In shops you must wear a mask and play a flute" or "if you have breathing difficulties you must wear one over your arse."
So these people calling for Gavin Williamson, the education secretary, to resign are being thoroughly unfair. He was simply following the rules of his government, in proposing something mad, sticking to it despite the opposition of everyone, then cancelling it while saying no one could possibly have foreseen the thing that everyone foresaw.
But they seem to get away with it, so they’ll probably carry on like this. Next week they’ll announce prisons will be turned into aquariums, and long-term prisoners have to paint themselves yellow and orange and pretend to be tropical fish.
Then they’ll abandon that, saying no one could have predicted the findings of a report that concluded prisoners don’t have gills.
But never mind, because to save money on expensive training, heart surgeons will be chosen by the national lottery, though you’ll be restricted to liver transplants if you needed the bonus ball.
To save further public money through efficiency, the library service will be merged with the navy, and the romantic fiction D to H section will be used as an aircraft carrier.
And none of them responsible for these schemes will ever resign. Priti Patel could be filmed making balaclavas out of the queen’s corgis to sell to the Continuity IRA to raise money for the Campaign to Fill the Sea with Plastic and Particularly Poisonous Whale-Killing Mercury, and she’d say she’d done nothing illegal, and Johnson would say he’d drawn a line under it, and what the British people wanted was to see her get back to being an incompetent psychopath as soon as possible.
In spite of all this, they remain slightly ahead in the polls, as if around 40 per cent of the population has now forgotten there are any other parties. So you might as well ask them which moon they’d prefer to go round the earth.
We’re now run by a government that’s the equivalent of a car mechanic where, when you take your car for a service, they tell you they’re going to set it alight. You tell them that doesn’t seem right, but they insist this is a well thought out policy, it’s even been approved by Chris Grayling, and "we lead the world in repairing things by incinerating them". Then, one month later, when it’s revealed there are three thousand charred vehicles blocking the entire town, they announce they’re reviewing their policy, but it’s not their fault, no one will resign, and in a poll, 41 per cent say they would still vote for them to carry on "fixing" their vehicles.

Original written by Mark Steel of The Independent.

He has probably written more than two, but you have to name the two that are written on my question

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If they take the proverbial out of their BAME characters as much as the white ones, they will be accused of racism. So they may as well not have them in the show. But if there are no BAME characters, they will also be accused of racism.

I would tell you my favourite corona virus joke but.........It would take you 2 weeks to get it. 😁

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A magical journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Are9dDbW24
To download to keep, click: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AtxiPFXpEKB_gadO8N8We1fL5zAQ1A?e=feDydo then click Download at the top.

Very clever animated graph showing world-wide car production 1950-2019: https://para-rigger.posthaven.com/top-ten-car-producing-countries-1950-2019

Hello! Is this Gordon's Pizza?

No sir - it's Google Pizza.

I must have dialed a wrong number. Sorry.

No sir - Google bought Gordon's Pizza last month.

OK. I would like to order a pizza.

Do you want your usual, sir?

My usual - you know me?

According to our caller ID data sheet, the last 12 times you called

you ordered an extra-large pizza with three cheeses - sausage -

pepperoni - mushrooms and meat balls on a thick crust.

OK - that's what I want .

May I suggest that this time you order a pizza with ricotta - arugula

- sun-dried tomatoes and olives on a whole wheat, gluten free, thin

crust?

What? I detest vegetables.

Your cholesterol is not good, sir.

How the hell do you know?

Well, we cross-referenced your home phone number with your medical

records. We have the result of your blood tests for the last 7 years.

Okay, but I do not want your rotten vegetable pizza! I already take

medication for my cholesterol.

Excuse me sir, but you have not taken your medication regularly.

According to our database, you only purchased a box of 30 cholesterol

tablets once, at Drugsale Network, 4 months ago.

I bought more from another drugstore.

That doesn't show on your credit card statement.

I paid in cash.

But you did not withdraw enough cash according to your bank statement.

I have other sources of cash.

That doesn't show on your last tax return unless you bought them using

an undeclared income source, which is against the law.

WHAT THE HELL? ! ! ! !

I'm sorry, sir, we use such information only with the sole intention

of helping you.

Enough already! I'm sick to death of Google - Facebook - Twitter -

WhatsApp and all the others!! I'm going to an island without

internet - cable TV - where there are no mobile phone service and no

one to watch me or spy on me !!

I understand sir - but you need to renew your passport first. It

expired 6 weeks ago

Nice cooler day to bake some lovely Simon Hopkinson's delicious cheesy biscuits and the reward, to get to eat one with a lovely cuppa.....what a great day!

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Maybe see them over London 5.30 ish

https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/red-arrows-schedule-route-flypast-4425782

See your old car, your garden before the new owner paved over it, or in my case when it was neat and tidy, etc. Here's how:Type address into google search.
Click on map that appears.
Zoom in to address on map using plus sign bottom right.
Click on menu top left next to address.
Click Street View.
Click and hold on the yellow person bottom right, and drop on your house location.
Now swivel the view by clicking on the page and moving the mouse with the button held down until you see your point of interest.
If the timeline feature is available for the location you have chosen, you will see a clock in the bottom of the black box top left, click that to see a timeline slider. Click the plus sign bottom right of the preview window to see a full page view.Enjoy.

When the astronauts went to the Moon for the first time, a speech was prepared in case they didn't make it back home. To highlight the threat of misinformation being spread online, experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spent more than six months creating a video of an event that never happened. Artificial intelligence was used to recreate his facial movements: https://moondisaster.org/

My dual fuel energy tariff with Shell Energy finishes at the end of the month, so I've had a look round. The cheapest appears to be a company called Outfox The Market. They are quoting me £65 a month. I'm paying Shell £85.
The only very slight downside is my Smart meter will no longer be smart and I will have to manually submit meter readings by email. That's not a problem.
I believe its only the electricity meter that has a working display when you have a dual fuel tariff.
Is anyone else with Outfox The Market?Any issues with them?

Edward and Pip expecting the storm to come while sheltering under some very fine Tits!

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Several of the threads in different groups don't have the helpful option now.