I'm also Buckinghamshire-ish! Everywhere is near me.

I am sorry.

I was born in the East End.

Can all counties and places be followed by -ish?? :P

I live in Scotland-ish!

Yes they can!

See, Scotland-ish describes your location as far far north, although that is technically a country and could be the equivalent of me saying I'm France-ish. Maybe there are rules to this after all.

Jenna, how many miles from you is the Scotland sign? If you tell me, I can work out if I live in England-ish!

I was born in Paisley, but I’ve lived all over Scotland including Thurso which is near the very top of Scotland and is only a couple of miles from John O Groats. Favourite place where I’ve lived was Inverness though, its such a beautiful city.

I live a 40 min train ride from London
Is that London-ish??
I wouldn't live in london again if you paid me tbh

Me neither.

No I think 40 mins is too far. Close but not close-ish. =P

I wouldn’t live anywhere else in the UK if you paid me tbh, I love living here but the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon has dampened my enthusiasm a bit!

Yeah probably!
It's longer driving too, according to google maps!

I love where i live. Except for the crap bus service!

I live in Sussex and it's beautiful :)

I lived in Eastbourne for a bit.
Saw a seagull literally snatch a woman's sandwich as she was bringing it to her mouth. Brutal!

Oh i have just discovered that Horsham is in Sussex?
That's the end of the line on the thameslink train from mine! I thought it was like surrey or something because it also goes to gatwick

I think I went to a work conference in Horsham once. I stayed in a country House hotel place.

I live 30minute drive from the seaside in the south west. The seagulls are savages and regularly mug people. My partner's grandma once had two ice creams stolen in one day. I have also seen an old r gentleman fighting off seagulls from his lunch using his walking stick.

Oh and a seagull bit my partner trying to steal his sandwich once. And I saw someone sausage stolen from their roll!

I know nothing about geography, I just know I live in Scotland and that's mostly all I need to know geography wise except my address.

Jenna, I am part of a positive pen pals group on Fb.

Ohh had no idea!
My geography is terrible tbh XD

Seagulls are reckless. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Seagulls are a menace! They can be funny to watch though. On flying ant day they eat as many flying ants as possible and a chemical in the ants makes them drunk they fly funny and waddle around wobbling.

That's actually hilarious XD

I've never personally been a victim of a seagull related crime. Yet.

Seagulls should be reported for their crimes. They can't just be allowed to get away with it.

My dad used to give seagulls some human medicine to kill them but I hated him doing it because it was incredibly cruel, no matter how annoying they are. I also hated him using mouse traps, I used to kick them closed whenever I saw one in the house. Still do if I’m at home and I see one.

Seagulls got in your house?

There was a video where a seagull went into a shop and stole a bag of crisps, routinely, maybe that's what video you saw, Tash.

Seagulls also seem to really like stealing ice cream off cones.

They absolutely should lindsay!

I remember that video!
Was a bag of crisps.

They are super annoying but killing them is a bit much i think!
We used humane mouse traps in London and just released them in a faraway park

Yes, they used to come down our chimney. It was pretty common to find some sort of bird in my parents living room growing up, we had all sorts. Should probably have blocked it up because it was never used, but we never did.

Reported to who though?

I have no idea!

In H hospital there was a courtyard with a seagull and some people used to feed it which I disapproved of because it made it cheeky.

All gulls are protected species under law in the UK. Maybe that gives them some sort of diplomatic immunity??

There are signs everywhere along the seafront forbidding people from feeding seagulls. So now noone feeds them they have taken matters into their own beaks!

And they will eat absolutely anything!

I have! One stole an entire untouched jumbo battered sausage out of my hand!

Granted I was walking along Brighton beach eating fresh chippy like a complete n00b and therefore absolutely asking for it, but still... =(

TELEPHONE THE AUTHORITIES!!!

Trying to enforce the law on seagulls sounds a thankless and nigh on impossible task.

Check in, for accountability:

Fruit shop (I forgot about it yesterday)
Batch cooking for the week (I've done the fruit boxes x5, the salmon is in the oven so I need to wait for that)
Dye my hair
Washing
Washing up (3/4 done, I ran out of space)
Vacuum my bedroom.
Transfer at least 1 week of my gratitude journal into the journal and off my phone! I was meant to keep up with writing it down!

If I get it all done, I may get Chinese food.

I would be SO angry if a seagull took my untouched battered sausage!
That is a bit of a n00b move though tbh XD

Yeah i can't see how they could be regulated

Oops, don't get me started on France! I have a strong belief that any mass of land that I see off the south coast of England in France :P

Just 'cos you don't want to come watch Toy Story 3 at my house again??

When I was in Cornwall I saw a man eating a pasty telling a seagull to 'bugger off' which felt quintessentially Cornish to me!

:fredgeorge:

I once had a packet of red doritos (which were the only thing I could eat from the vending machine), still sealed, in my half closed backpack next to me while I was sitting at Ramsgate station. A seagull divebombed me, stole it, flew over to the opposite platform, ripped the bag open and ate the doritos. I swear it never broke eye contact the whole time.

Jenna, one day I will make good on my threat to take you to Dover to show you Actual France.

Ahimsa, how on Earth do you get so much done every week?

I love that Doritos story!
Also I've seen Actual France a ton of times, no big deal.

In my defence jenna, when i cried at toy story 3, i was pregnant and hormonal! (That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!)

They are vicious and clever!

I'm not a fan of france.
I have no idea why. Maybe similar to my irrational hatred of the shard.

I really don't! You should see the list of things I don't get done! Also, a lot of this most people would do during the week, I haven't done any washing up in 10 days because I've been so exhausted after work once I've eaten dinner. So it builds up.

Things like batch cooking - if I don't batch cook for lunches, I wouldn't eat lunch at work. Which when I finish at 8pm, means a LONG time hungry. I either do early shifts, which means leaving the house at 7am, or late shifts where I get home at half 8, eat, have a shower and go to bed and wake up at 10am, and leave at 10:30!

I also live alone, so if I don't do these things, no one will.

I keep meaning to batch cook because i usually just end up eating at work which is not cost effective! Even with the 50% off!

Just remembered how old that sprog you were pregnant with is now. Guess that really was quite a long time ago!

Speaking of cooking, I'm off to start preparing a Grand Roast Dinner so farewell!

Sprog is a grotty word.

Preparing to eat today?

*waves*

Sorry :crying:

I think you're still doing a lot more than I manage :') I'm terrible with food prep - I either make too little or too much, or I declare that what I've prepped isn't what I want. I once tried HelloFresh which was an unmitigated disaster. I just vacuumed my room for the first time in months. Def give yourself some credit.

Sometimes my phone thinks I'm in France if I go too close to Dover!

Wow I missed a lot while typing

No cry! I'm sorry. *hugs*

Why was it a disaster Lio? Keep meaning to sign up because I eat absolute ***** and could do with a few ideas. Feedback from people has not been good, what was your experience?

I struggled because it still involved cooking and washing up. It was all portioned out but the smallest box they did was three meals for two people a week, which meant that if I hadn't managed to prep it all in a week the meals started piling up. I didn't really have the 'spoons', essentially.

The other issue was that they didn't do a specific vegan option so it was very limited - that probably wouldn't be an issue now since there are other companies who do offer vegan menus.