Good Morning all from Foxy’s World…
Happy thanksgiving for yesterday LF, sorry about the late call…
A bit warmer today so It was shorts weather…still 3 degrees C though and had to do quite a bit of running to keep warm. I thought I saw a patch or two of frost through the wood, but apart from the piles of leaves everywhere the paths were dry and not too slippy.
Mrs Fox is due at the church hall later so I’ll taxi her down and save her the walk on her poorly knee although she is making good progress after seeing the physio on Wednesday.
Too early for the mile walk to the church hall though. I’ll while my time away doing sudoku puzzles and pottering about in the workshop, but it does get alarmingly cold in there…I certainly won’t be wearing my shorts… 
Hey, I’ve been sacked, bad attitude!
Glory be, no more agency work for the foreseeable future!
Good morning from the arctic land of Florida!
Someone moved this continent in the night! Winds are blowing a blue streak and the temps had me head down in my dresser, tossing out tights and layers over my shoulder. Move over, Australia, I am headed your way! 
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Glad to hear that your are squared away, @mart and Mrs. @OldGreyFox is having success with her physical therapy appointment. Did she learn anything from the scan?
We still have some coin dollars floating around but the only places one usually sees them is dispensed in change at car washes and road tolls. @Bruce, if I ever decide to have a coin minted, remind me to use an image before the age of jowiliness. That is a familiar condition, but I am not sure it is a word :rofl.
@Chilliboot Chili, I am sorry to read that you are not having the best of days . I am sure you will figure things out from here, and I am glad you are taking the news well.
Time to put all the accoutrements of Thanksgiving back in the cupboards and start hauling out the Christmas decorations. On the news last night, they were interviewing people in the airport about their holiday travels. My favorite, the most intelligent of the lot, said that he intentionally plans his yearly vacation to Cancun, Medico to avoid all of the hullabaloo of the season. He calculated with confidence that he breaks even every year by avoiding the costs of Thanksgiving and Christmas. Hmm…he might be on to something… 
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For now, I am on the hamster wheel! 
Have a good day!
The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who travelled to North America on the ship Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The holiday traces its roots back to 1621, when Pilgrims and Native Americans came together to share a feast and give thanks for a successful harvest.
now known as thanksgiving day
Although Thanksgiving may originally have had religious significance, the day has become a mostly secular holiday. Most Americans consider the holiday a day to gather and express their thanks through food, family, and football
Isn’t it about time the USA paid us back in the UK billions of dollars in thanks for being able to celebrate this occassion?? 
Oh, absolutely 
. While we are at it, a bunch of us are of Native American decent and feel slighted that a slew of English cruise vacationers dropped by in 1620, took up the guest room for a couple-hundred years, and still haven’t pitched in for groceries.
Let’s meet half-way, say Bermuda(?) to take care of those slights and have a nice little ancestral victimhood party. Bring cash, so we can all avoid credit card fees. 
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Glad I’m a Scot !
But in return for the guest room we taught Native Americans how to speak English without charge. How to use a knife and fork properly, still something not yet quite managed. How to flush the toilet instead of using a pit. Just a couple of the hundreds of things we taught as well as how to dance properly instead of just Jigging around and up and down. Not to mention wearing proper clothes instead of coloured sack cloths
Actually it is so nice these traditions are still being inacted I love watching them
Scotland was just a few decades late to the party, slipping in once the muscle work was done. Apparently, many wanted to come sooner, but their wives kept putting it off to avoid the extra responsibilities of grimy shirt collars and cuffs.
(My first of many ancestors from Scotland was a minister/doctor who arrived in 1660).
Maybe, maybe…but you also forced calculus and James Cordon on us, so there’s the good with the bad.
What’s a fork?
(Great video!)
Our lowest value note is $5 and the lowest coin is 5cents. I am surprised we still have 5c and 10c coins that because a lot of people throw them away or refuse them as change. We also have a $2 coin
Our notes are pretty though
If you ever tried to use a $100 note I think they would call the police!
The monarch will not be featured on the next $5 note apparently, also I am told that it is the only currency to feature a woman on every note.
I have to admit I find it irritating in US TV shows how Americans appear to swap the fork into their right hand and eat food with it. Even in Asia where they use a spoon and fork the latter stays firmly in the left hand. Perhaps it is only actors that do that?
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Irritating is the wrong word, it is just very noticeable is probably better.
I must say Bom is good.Just had a look at the radar image for our area and there’s one massive multi coloured blob coming our way.Walkies are on hold.
I mainly use cards too but am the same for small purchases, the trouble is I tend to use a note each time so end up with a pocketful of shrapnel, all the 5c and 10c coins I usually throw in a charity box or refuse.
I’m sorry to hear that Chilli, is it a serious issue or have you got other plans and be okay?
James Cordon and calculus should never be used in the same sentence Surfer…
That must be the first time ever.
Good grief, have I inadvertently thrown the entire balance of the universe out of alignment? Hang on!
(Please send that return address for James, if you would be so kind.)
Quite the irritant to counterfeiters who are out there somewhere mumbling about the price of ink.
I don’t think ink is the problem, they are made of some type of plastic and have lots of laser holograms (?) on them. (Australian invention apparently)
Perhaps we could change it to calculating before anyone notices?
Thanks Foxy
It’s annoying rather than serious. I’m actually looking for full time work now, something more concrete. I’ll be hammering out applications on the laptop. Living in a busy airport town something will come up although the situation has changed since COVID.
Basically I had to cancel a few shifts recently in a rather remote location due to family circumstances which is why they gave me the push.
It’s just a case of getting on with things as ever!