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Lambie Pie is VERY happy to have mama back. She never goes far from her any more, she doesn't want to lose mama again. In case you're interested, Lambie Pie is white with a silver dollar sized red spot in the middle of her back.

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Heidi:
I know food is expensive but I have not yet resorted to eating dog-food and chicken-feed

I think USA food prices are just about one half of UK prices. And petrol - well the skies the limit - in UK more than UKP1-30 per litre

Rayray - Out of curiosity, what do you pay for rack of lamb in the UK? At a regular grocery store we pay about $15 a lb. (7.51 British pounds), and at a discount store (Costo), it's about $10 a lb. (5 British pounds)

all - looks like the same darling border collie pup as yesterday. Do we want to play or what?

Caught a little bit of the Beach Boy Concert last night - left after Brian sang "God Only Knows" (one of my favorites & what was featured on my U-tube yesterday). More...

Eve I would love to have been there. If I need cheering I often play The Beach Boys and sing-s-long. I think I just gave my age away!

I didn't walk this morning - I went to a 2 hour pool class --

the skies just opened up here - dark and rainly this summer day - watching
sweeny todd with johny depp

Just as interesting a comparison as current and past prices is to compare current and past salaries. When I first started to work, minimum wage was $1.25 an hour. You could work full time and make a whopping $10.00 a day.

My first take home was 28 shillings that is 1.40 GBP and for that enormous sum I had worked a 48 hour week

Dear Friends, We had a special event this morning! My 7 YO grandson caught a 9" perch off the end of the dock using a bobber and a worm which he cast out 20 yds out into the little cove that we are staying on. He brought it in; grandpa scaled and filleted it and I sauteed it and we each More...

My mother always insisted on one third for your roof so I gave her 10 shillings (50 pence) bought a pair of stockings 4 shillings and eleven old pence (25 pence). I walked to work and home.

Aiden!

Up hill both ways.

Jane:
Lamb varies in price in UK. One needs to shop around. The NZ lamb tends to be the cheapest but it is frozen. I need to think about the price. In the supers it is horrendously expensive but it is cheaper in the locals. I can't remember how much just now.

In China a mighty big quake,
caused forests to vibrate and shake.
The Pandas awoke,
when their bamboo got broke;
so they're now on a holiday break.

I have been thinking about the price of lamb, and I think UK prices are about the same as yours.

Pork is the cheapest meat here (and chicken).
Beef is pricey but not as much as lamb/mutton.
Locally I can buy halal lamb (for Moslem guests) at about 5 pound/lb - of variable quality. That price is based 'on the bone'.

Jane - regarding comments yesterday on the sentencing on someone who would intentionally starve their children or child to death - here is my suggestion:

Small dark cell: 3 meals a day of 8 oz glass of water a dozen salten crackers a celery stick & a carrot stick. A TV on with only More...

Yea Aiden! Must have been Yummy!
Oh Keith! It's harder to go down hill. You strain not to start a run! Once you start a run it's very difficult to slow down. And if you drop, well try to stop when you're tumbling head over heel! Been there, done that!!! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!

A lawyer and an engineer were fishing in the Caribbean.
The lawyer said, "I'm here because my house burned down, and everything I owned was destroyed by the fire. The insurance company paid for everything."
"That's quite a coincidence," said the engineer. "I'm here More...

Carol - Congratulations to Aiden! Bet he's "hooked" on fishing now!

Keith - I remember when we were paid 50 cents an hour for babysitting. I don't know what the minimum wage was then, but babysitters didn't earn anything close to it!

Eve - how do we get you a judgeship????

Rayray - thanks for the price info. Although we complain about high prices here in the US, food is still a bargain compared to so many other countries.

Wages comment:

when I first went to work, I worked for $1 an hour, minimum wage for hospital workers and resturant workers. I worked in hospital as unit secretary. I transfered orders from the chart (had to learn to read doctors writing) to medicine and treatment cards, ordered all the More...

Rayray, just googled halal food, kind of like the Jewish kosher food. Why not both worship the same God and have quite a few of the same prophets as does the Christians. But of the three Christianity doesn't have the same dietary demands as does the other two.

When I started as a new teacher for a private school my pay was about $500 a month. Then a year and a half later went to teach for LAUSD which doubled my pay! Thought I was rich! I could have bought the student lunch for less than a dollar but chose to bring my own instead.

My first day as a bona fide teacher, I was kicked in the shin on both sides by two boys. All I could think of besides ouch was 5 years of college for this?

I had a summer job in 1957 (between my sophomore and junior years of high school) that paid $1.50 a hour! Of course, I had to take a commuter train into Chicago every day (about 50-60 miles each way) and had to buy "grown-up" office attire, so that cut into my take-home pay. But I thought I was going to get rich!

Everyone

Jane, that was a good wage for a part time job in 57, at least here in the South. My $1 a hour was for full time work in 1960, and the minimum wage for all other occupations was $1.25 an hour. Almost all entry level jobs for females started at minimum wage.

I guess we graduated high More...

I remember baby sitting for 25 cents /hr....but then loaft of bread was 10 cents..now this is too much of showing my age!

price for berries in Australia is enormous.... 5.00$ for the smallest container of strawberries and that is the lowest. I have seen 7.00$

1:59 Hi to all.

Thought for the Day:

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

Blueberries are the berries that are so high here, and second, blackberries. I want blueberry bushes, but dwarft ones, cause we get late frosts and then no berries that year. with dwarft ones, I can put in containers next to house and cover them from house wall to floor, keeping them frost proof. More...

Danstell, I would baby sit for 35 cents, not an hour, entire afternoon! usually why my neighbor went to buy groceries, when she could spare 35 cents! I was 12 or 13, and that is what it cost me to get in the skating rink, and I loved to go. Dad would take me, IF I had the price of admission, it was More...

That would look very nice Miztricia... a wall of berries... and very handy....
Blueberries are about the same price here ...but smaller container...rasberries and blackberries even smaller.. 2 mouthfuls size....I find it very hard... I use to go and hand pick them as well as eating .... well more eating than picking...

It is quite simple , I do not buy blueberries very often, if ever.