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"Squander"? "Capricious folly"?

According to that previous thread, there won't be any Christmas tree sellers on Goose Green this year, as the council agreed not to allow it again.

I don't remember that at all! But then my memory is crap these days. Maybe it was the same people who sell trees outside the EDT, if it was at that end of Goose Green? Was it an "official" Winter Wonderland?

Do you mean there was a fair in the middle of Goose Green one year solely for the purpose of selling Christmas trees? In which case, no 🤣

Please could you give a link to the petition? Not sure if it has already been posted on here, but if it has it is on a previous page, so not everybody reading this may see it. Thanks!

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, etc etc

I always thought it was an upright piano. Maybe it was grander when it was on stage in Wimbledon rather than on my grandparents' telly. Was the penguin there? I like the penguin. I like the way he clacks his beak 🤣

No, it's Muffin the Mule and Annette Mills. The Muffin Man lives in Drury Lane. Do you know him? 🤣

Ooops wrong link. Trying again Take a look at this video, 'muffin the mule song' https://share.google/mlZhQpPNAPpYwCoGY

No. They are muffins. Or Muffins.

"May" be different? The current indications suggest otherwise, don't they? "The child is father to the man". Wordsworth.

Inappropriate bit?

Have you seen the email?

I've just had an email from Anatomy about this, with another follow up survey asking for opinions on three different possible campaigns. The email says "We’d love you to take a short follow-up survey to share your thoughts on the visual concepts for our new campaign." Anybody else? They clearly haven't listened to any of the feedback on here, because they are still asking how proposed publicity posters (I presume) make you feel by giving a variety of options using mainly negative words like "fear" and "disgust". There is no "other" option so that you could suggest things like "excitement" (not that any of them did make me feel excited). Even the children in the pictures don't look very happy. One of them is clutching a tree trunk that has fairy lights wound round it (they aren't even on) . One of the posters has the line "it's in our nature" for a campaign aimed at introducing children to nature, which basically makes no sense in that context (in my opinion) because it's a different use of "nature" . Maybe someone thought it was a clever pun, but it isn't (in my opinion). Some of the other wording was quite meaningless, though I can't now remember what. Something about "together". You have to say which of the three possible approaches you like best. There is no option for "none", so in my case it was which one I disliked least. They ask if you have children of various ages, completely ignoring grandparents or carers of children. I don't know how this company came to be chosen, but I can only assume because it is relatively local. I think the Horniman would have done better to have had a competition for local schoolchildren to come up with ideas and posters for this project/campaign/initiative/whatever it is. It would have been win win all round and would have been really good publicity for the Horniman. I should think the local schools and local press would have loved it.

Yes, thanks, evidently I have had both! Yes, thank goodness (though I have been feeling a bit sick, but I suspect that may be due to oat milk past its use by date which I stupidly used to make hot chocolate last night). Sorry to hear you are ill too. Sounds different to mine, I haven't been feverish, and my throat wasn't scratchy, just very sore on the first day. Though I did sound a bit hoarse when I spoke on the phone this morning. Definitely feeling sorry for myself though, got a lot to do and not up to doing it, just lying around in bed. Commiserations to everyone else in the same boat!