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Greetings, young Albert!

Thanks for the kind words. As for the sore arm... I didn't actually have one. Although some tell me the second shot can often be worse than the first. Possibly because the first one has trained the body how to react...

Thanks, Chris!

If I have understood "quéquette" correctly, maybe they need one of their own because of the English saying: Men don't make passes at women who wear glasses. (Of course, I just don't make passes at women.)

And you, Gary. Well, mine are only for reading, but... What about us?

Cheers, Gary! I know it doesn't totally help, but I can't help but feeling for the people in those countries in the world where vaccinations haven't even really started yet...

As school restarts after a 3 month pandemic enforced lockdown...

All secondary schoolchildren to return to school in Ireland next Monday. They've been doing online classes from home since Christmas. I'm not sure whether every kid will be pleased, but I reckon most parents probably will...

Thanks, Val. By mid-May I should have full protection. Which will mean I could have real human contact again. Fingers crossed you don't have to wait too long...

Pfizer BioNTech... First shot of vaccine in arm... Fog starting to lift.

Welcome, @Serelec!

Albert shared something yesterday about thinking outside the box... So here's a story from back in the 1960s about a homesick Welsh teenager who put himself inside a box and posted himself home from Australia... ______________________________________________________________________ The Crate Escape (Or: "Thinking Inside The Box") The Welsh teen who tried to post himself home from Australia Homesick and unable to afford the airfare, Brian Robson embarked on a crate escape to Wales. Now he’s looking for the two Irish men who nailed it shut. Source (#1): https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/the-crate-escape-two-irishmen-who-helped-mail-friend-home-from-australia-sought-1.4529448 Source (#2): https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/08/thinking-inside-the-box-the-welsh-teen-who-tried-to-post-himself-home-from-australia I notice he was in the Australian state of Victoria. Perhaps all he had really needed to do if he wanted to get back to Wales was to travel a short distance north, and he would have been in New South Wales... Stiff and limping, home-sick Welsh man Brian Robson (19), who tried to send himself back to Cardiff from Australia arrived at London Airport stiff and limping after his 96 hours in a crate. He had been given a seat in a Pan American jet airliner from Los Angeles, May 18th, 1965, after being grilled by the FBI in Los Angeles. File photograph: Tom King/Mirrorpix/Getty

After midnight.... Goodnight friends! I'll leave you with the latest offering from the Marsh Family... Seems the schools are reopening for the kids....

Seriously ? Now even the hail is out to kill us?!? Australia really is a dream destination... It actually looks as though it might be corona-hail...

Hmmm... I think you could possible be right, bro... After all, he has gone on to talk about unclogging something... And he also mentioned his back door... Hmmm...

She doesn't actually have to eat any of them, Albert... I might send her some dried ones and a pea-shooter. That way, she can fire them at people who make fun of her. (Oh wait... That would probably mean that I'll get most of them back... )

Silly lassie! Didn't you know it can snow more than once in a single day.

Doing good, thanks. Preparing ground in the vegetable plot for this year's peas and beans. You keeping well?

I have a Dutch friend who has clogs just inside his door. Quite a collection of pairs. He always insists I take my normal outdoor shoes off whenever I visit, and wear a pair of the clogs.

Great news, Gary!

Here's something that I found whilst Googling different meaning of the word ''snow' (and 'box' ) that might interest @dughlas (and maybe even some of the rest of you: Scots Have 421 Words For Snow Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-34323967

Greetings, Mr B

Sounds.... erm.... ... intriguing.

Greetings, bro. All good in Garyville?

Greetings, young Albert! How did the visit with the dietician go?