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Christmas is coming and present buying is in progress. If you are buying anything through Amazon then please remember the Luxor4u shop. The costs and discounts are exactly...
Seeing shanghai is in lockdown and over 200 hundred million Chinese are also in lockdown...
My mind turned to airplanes to and from Shanghai, 8 times a week. How is that possible ?
Anyhow not to...
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We came back last Monday on EgyptAir, and we're OK. (So far!)
I love technology, I love having a positive outlook on life, and mixing the 2 can reap amazing rewards.
The other day, I was going through all my old photos which I have access to wherever I am, and...
Its too hot at the moment to go shopping for certain items that I know I can t get in the village and being Ramadan I never know when the shops are going to be open anyway, so Im buying quite a few...
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Nothing wrong with vaseline. I used it all the time in my younger days, working on cars and scrubbing one's hands with swarfega to get the oil and grease out 3 times a day, My hands would be dry and...
Interesting article about the ethics of using Egypt’s historic monuments as a party venue or backdrop for rock bands.
“ Neon lights bring alive the eyes of statues, and the opaque shadow of a column...
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Hardly new news!
I didn’t imagine there would come a day when renting out a temple was a viable option - when Egyptian heritage sites became party venues for the brutally affluent.
I live in an ex totally unique police block and am a Londoner. By choice not by birth.
There's a lot of us.
And having reviewed our city's 4 main correctional institutions and the workings of our...
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I have books by Howard and Bruce in my collection. 😎
I have enjoyed many wonderful experiences on illegal substances. I have manage to avoid addiction, as I have taken what I needed from those...
Hard to believe this brilliant, and apposite, description of our PM is 2 years old!
….or a drunk, albino, walrus always groping women’s thighs…. :)))
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Well, just before he became P.M., I warned everyone on here that this character was a central player in the Bullingham Club along with Cameron and Osbourne. Neither of them could accept defeat then,...
Good ol Miss's Queen, we have a history.
On Tuesday 2nd June 1953 it was sunny, I was hanging out of a window watching them roast a deer
on a bombed out house opposite in Swanage.
From this house to...
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Several of the extant European monarchies have a female heir apparent….Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden. And Spain’s heir presumptive is a girl.
But I doubt any of them will surpass the success, and...
Good ol Miss's Queen, we have a history.
On Tuesday 2nd June 1953 it was sunny, I was hanging out of a window watching them roast a deer
on a bombed out house opposite in Swanage.
This house to be...
Top Tip : 1st..'Scroll down and click on link for accompanying sound:
It's quite easy to slip back in London and it's 'quirkiness.
Iv'e given up trying to find a decent pub round here.
There's a...
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The Yard,
'our yard is the interior designer's dream.
Standing on my balcony just now spotted an indoor bit of green foliage and a grandfather clock.
Down in the recycling center.
New Year’s Eve saw a veritable Egyptofest of programmes on TV….featuring the pharaohs, pyramids and lots and lots of mummies.Some stuff was the usual repeats…but there was quite a lot of new...
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]I suppose wondering whether you might be “ taken” whist still alive….but in a catatonic state….is a recurring nightmare for many.
I’m not sure whether being cremated, dissolved or buried would be...
Now here's a useless bit of trivia that I came across when searching online. Nothing of course to do with my own family tree but fascinating nonetheless...
Probably along with the rest of you
I’m in some doubt about twenty two.
I’m hoping that the future’s brighter
(Getting rid of this COVID blighter)
But whatever awaits it's down...
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@Hepzibah
Life’s like a LFT test kit. You never know what you’re gonna get! :lol:
Well no one has said it so I will.
A Very Merry Christmas to one and all.
Hope everyone has a wonderful day tomorrow and Santa brings you all you desire.
A Happy New Year too, let's hope this coming...
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:D :D :D Just what I needed on a miserable post Christmas day. :up :up
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE
PS: We are still RECEIVING Christmas cards, some posted on 16 December.........Bl**dy Snail Mail :xx
I always enjoyed reading yours and other people's posts on E4U. I read your recent post there, but as I looked today, there is still no response, that is quite sad to learn those other interesting...
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A-Four
Yes I read a bit about the new release of 1921 census. Apparently Findmypast is associated with the National Archive. I found a few facts, interesting and annoying, about the census.
The...
So....from Tuesday the hoi polloi of Britain will...by law...have to wear masks in shops and on public transport . What was common sense, and adopted by a dwindling few, is being resurrected as a...
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A-Four says....
Many older people on the south coast wear a full face screen rather than masks, in my opinion this gives the best possible protection.
A quote from some poor guy trying to get to the UK. I'm surprised no one has commented on here about the untimely deaths of 27 people in the Channel this week.
I really do feel sorry for these...
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I’m reluctant to get into discussions about why this immigration issue exists, or what to do about it.
Then again.....following my own advice has never been one of my strong points.
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