To the river,hunting for pixies and walking round a church
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Smurf Stu is shrinking?
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I like the AstroTurf jacket, @Wayward would be impressed
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To hell with the day.
Iâm off to the gym then for a cheeky round of the golf.
Oh yeah.
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Poxy actors leading the good life
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Iâve been having a gentle discussion on Facebook.
Itâs with an American, who has a similar disease to me. She is currently faced with huge uncertainty over her medical costs for necessary infusions. These cost $16k every six months, which she says she can in no way afford. Her insurance will pay something, but the co-pay could be a lot.
Having looked into it, healthcare costs per capita in the USA are around 50% more than pretty much anywhere else, and more than double what we pay; yet their outcomes are not much better than average for the developed world.
And yet my American disease-friend thinks that socialised healthcare is a ridiculous idea. Even though her medical bills could bankrupt her.
You really canât make it up.
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Yep, a friend of mine got cancer and eventually died, but not after trying all sorts of crank medicines and treatments offered via healthcare in Florida. The result was no improvement and their condo equity was used up, so the surviving partner was left effectively homeless and broke.
Helping out a couple of mates with some holiday childcare. Consequently, spent the day looking after 7 kids aged under10. Fussy, fickle, ungrateful little darlings have left me exhausted and seventy quid poorer. 
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Sure you didnât host a bake off?
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You got off lightlyâŚ
Cleaning elderflower champagne off the ceiling, floor, walls and any other surface I can find in the kitchen.
The Wench had started some home brew stuff going just before we went away and several of the bottles exploded rather ahead of schedule, so we hadnât had chance to release the pressure in them.
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My mother-in-law used to make elderflower champagne. Hers exploded unpredictably too.
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You ainât seen nothing until a self-sealing marrow rum grenade goes off in your kitchen at 3am.
A mate of mine made that once. It didnât explode though. It just oozed. Surprisingly alcoholic given how much sugar seemed still to be in it when we finally got around to drinking it.
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Thunderstorms are forecast.
Is this another Jim euphemism?
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Iâve been bug hunting with the kids today. This entails standing barefoot in a stream with a net, churning up the stones with your feet to disturb bugs.
One of them caught a leech; now I have psychosomatic tingles on my lower legs caused by phantom leeches.
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Cycling from Bath to Bristol with my daughter (7 years old). She managed the 16 miles no problem. Proud Dad.
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