@keggesaid Shops in second hand items had a field day during the lockdown. Many people cleaned up their attic, garage and storage room. Stuff that was hidden from view for decades resurfaced and ended up in the second hand stores for a second chance at life. Not all stuff was so lucky because lots of it ended up at recycling centres to be reused and made into different stuff. I went twice ...[text shortened]... re waiting lines of over an hour and during those hours I contemplated my own second chance at life.
At the bottom of the surprisingly robust and still clompy staircase was a damp smelling low-ceilinged space 12 foot square with a decrepit but familiar red-bricked servant’s oven and a couple of wooden shelves. The lath and plaster ceiling bowed precariously. A large toad still lived its lives in the damp of the far corner. My breathing shortened as I stood at the oven and an Edwardian smell of baked bread and cakes reached me from somewhere...I pointed to the wall to the left; “I hid the body there” I blurted at the patient but incredulous detective, “115 years ago”.
@divegeestersaid Gill tightly clenched his toes and his fists as these seemed to him to be appropriately affirming additions to the foetal position his body had involuntarily assumed in deep dank darkness. He lay there permitting but not encouraging the chills to dance on his lower spine; their prosaic prickly pirouetting an unpleasant but welcome distraction from the withering winding wi ...[text shortened]... g sweat stench...”lockdown’s a bitch when you’re coming down, ain’ it?” his fellow prisoner sneered.
"Nevermind that", he croaked. "Is there anything NEW on Netflix?"
@petewxyzsaid You may be at the epicentre of the goat thing. No sign of any goat activity by us as yet but I am now on the alert. Guards will be posted on the A55. Keep us informed.
I remember a conversation in a pub away back - The only good thing to come out of North Wales is the A55🤷♂️🚬
@hells-caretakersaid Ah yes.... I've heard of this M4, the connection between individuals that own 'second homes'🤔 and those that need to queue at a food bank [geddit]🤣👍🚬