General Chat

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Oooo good for you having me time :-D :-D <3

I had to take little one to nursery, they were stuck so I obliged, got a great
pic of her and Freya pretending to be me with glasses on so cute...they
sent me it on WhatsApp do you have the app :-D <3

Not like you Mersey :-D ;-)

Am in me fave library now sitting in the Gladstone room having another Cappuccino, it's a me day today :-D :-D :-D

Exsqueeze me Ann I was out at 8oclock :-P :-P :-D :-D

I noticed that Ann but didn't want to be rude :-D :-D ;-)

Have just realised Mr M has developed a lisp :-D :-D

Afternoon Miss Lazybones :-D <3

Back out in to the cold now :-(

Good morning or should I say afternoon now :-D :-D ;-)

Sorry I am late :-D

~~~~~s to all who I have missed posting :-D

Afternoon all from a toasty Costa :-D :-D <3 <3

Wholemeal toast and Cappuccino with strawberry jam of course :-D :-D

mornin' all [just] from a lovely sunny Cardiff :-D :-D <3 <3

Flossy and Footie <3 <3 <3 <3

And now for some awfully sad bird news:-

French authorities have started slaughtering ducks in the main foie gras-producing region to try to contain a dangerous form of bird flu.

Operations to destroy birds got underway Thursday in three departments of south-western France where an outbreak of the H5N8 virus hasn't stabilized.

Morning all :-D <3

Blue sky, sunshine and cold out here, not bad
for January :-D

Morning Everyone <3

Very cold here but sunny :-D

Off out now so catch you later~~~ <3

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Poultry deserves a better place in the pecking order. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Bye Joy ;-)

Bye MR M :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Joy i hope you got dressed before speaking to Dermot :-0

Best China out Fly and now I'm off. Back soon. :-D

Right.........see you later. :-D

Stop scaring the life out of us, Dermot. It's too early in the day for it. :-D :-0

Morning Dermot :-D <3 ok :-S

And now for something different & educational:-

Over their meagre rations and in their overcrowded pens, a race of slaves may be plotting humanity’s overthrow even now. They have mastered the dark arts of spin. They have learnt to bide their time in the service of higher goals. Their way of life is a pitiless rollercoaster of subjugation and dominance. Cockerels will sometimes make a call indicating food in order to lure females.

Chickens, according to a new review of the scientific evidence, have been grossly underestimated. Where most humans see lumbering pairs of uncooked drumsticks or, at best, smelly egg factories, the animal cognition researcher Lori Marino sees a species that rivals mammals and very small children by some measures of mental ability.

(The Times 05.01.17) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~