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It has gone up by 54%.
Has anyone noticed, in any of the news reports or what is said in Parliament or in official announcements anything making it clear that it is a CAP on the price, not an obligatory price rise.
It seems implicit in the reporting that 54% will be the price rise.
William
The linked article explains:
Forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku, is a wellness trend for relaxing and reconnecting with nature.
Google Translate tells me that shinrin-yoku is a transliteration of 森林ーよく, which is translated as “forest-well”.
I tried that but could not get exactly the same result.
Can you explain what you did please?
I am thinking of trying to produce a prtrait format picture with the characters in the upper-left corner, as there ar some fonts that might contain the characters bundled with Windows 10.
William
Well, I suppose if there is a family with one or more children, the main could be split up so that everybody gets a bit and pad it out with some vegetables, such as carrots.
William
The other major UK supermarkets seem to prefer to get Valentine’s Day out of the way first.
Tesco has a special offer of a meal for two.
Though I suppose someone alone could have a good feed.
William
The thing is, if people buy Easter eggs now, will they need to buy replacements later?
Apparently some people buy boxes of chocolates early ready for Christmas then need to buy a replacement box because having them in the house they cannot resist the temptation to "just have one".
But recursively.
Tesco has some Easter eggs on a Clubcard price until 8 February 2022.
William
I have just logged onto the Tesco grocery site.
There is a feature on Easter eggs.
What?
Lent this year does not start until 2 March 2022.
William
Thank you.
Yes, I keep a daily food diary
For kilocalories I usually consume between 2000 and 2500 each day.
For sugars I keep within the recommended 90 grammes each day, often only having around 50 grammes.
I use an A5 size notebook delivered with the grocery by Tesco. I use one page each day. The notebooks are not expensive and I need a new one every few months.
As most things have a unique kilocalories number within the range of foods that I eat it is only for a few things that I need to write down what it is in words, I usually write just the number. Thus 358 kilocalories 0.2 grammes of sugar for the rice that I mentioned and 153 kilocalories and 19.0 grammes of sugar for the chocolate drink. I keep running totals throughout each day so as not to overdo the sugar intake.
I find keeping a food diary very useful, it may sound like a lot of work and inconvenience but for me it is just writing a few lines for each of my three main meals each day and a quick note if I have something extra between main meals.
William
Here is a really quick recipe, useful anytime but particularly useful if coming home on a cold day, or at work with just a microwave cooker available. Contains soya, is vegan, no gluten.
Heat a pack of white long grain microwaveable rice in a microwave cooker, 2 minutes typically. I use Tilda white Basmati, 250 grammes.
Empty the heated pack into a bowl or a pyrex jug.
Add 250 millilitres of Alpro chocolate drink. They are supplied in packs of 3 units each of 250 millilitres.
Eat and enjoy.
Going from cold and wanting something tasty and warm to eating in about 3 minutes if one has the ingredients ready for use.
Just over 500 kilocalories.
William
Some dreamy German instrumental music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZojLzy1y08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhygZSjTA9M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PglKPp5mRg
William
A rather fine video, an instrumental cover of a German pop song with what appears to be a dashboard camera recording of a journey on a road. Only 19 views so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi2ljfUjI2M
I hope you enjoy the video.
William
William wrote:How about changing
Include
to
On including
please?
Still shorter than my original suggestion but removing the imperative of ordering someone to do it.On reflection, I wonder if ‘Include’ here isn’t really just shorthand for ‘To include’, rather than being an imperative. That aside, I see nothing wrong with changing ‘Include’ to ‘Including’.
Thank you.
William
For goodness sake, after means following.
(1) Following: in time - "Henry V was after Henry VI"
No.
William
William wrote:the rudeness accompanying the altered version
I believe the KISS acronym is too much of a cliché for most people to read it as rude.
William wrote:Your version uses an imperative verb and the abbreviated title could imply breaching someone's copyright.
I don’t think the imperative mood implies anything that wouldn’t be implied by the use of a gerund, but I take your point about the omission of the word “original” and I’ve edited the topic title accordingly.
Thank you. How about changing
Include
to
On including
please?
Still shorter than my original suggestion but removing the imperative of ordering someone to do it.
William
William wrote:jackneve wrote:I just realised, William's thoughts were of a can of apricots, so it's better that I chose another fruit - no plagiarism there!
Ah, not plagiarism as you acknowledged your poem as after my thoughts.
So, a poem by Jack after some thoughts by William
Maybe pastiche, though not quite.
Though is after only used for paintings and prints and the like?
William
Doesn’t “after” in this sense simply mean “in the style of”? (I find myself thinking of Gerard Hoffnung explaining that he was named Gerard after an uncle, “and Hoffnung after Gerard”.)
After reading your post I found the following.
https://www.lexico.com/definition/after
Use as a preposition, section 5 and 5.1 are not the same.
Wiliam
William:
On the possibility of producing a greetings card that displays the text of an original poem
William can't you KISS - keep it stupid simple?
A simpler title:
Include a poem in a greetings card.
Ah, but the rudeness accompanying the altered version has curtailed discussion by using offensiveness.
Your version uses an imperative verb and the abbreviated title could imply breaching someone's copyright.
I was most careful in the precision of my wording.
Your sub-editing has distorted the meaning of my suggested title.
Hopefully the administrator will use my suggested title rather than the edited lesser version.
William
I just realised, William's thoughts were of a can of apricots, so it's better that I chose another fruit - no plagiarism there!
Ah, not plagiarism as you acknowledged your poem as after my thoughts.
So, a poem by Jack after some thoughts by William
Maybe pastiche, though not quite.
Though is after only used for paintings and prints and the like?
William
A title - how about "Fuzzy Thinking", or "A Beach Too Far"
How about a competition, one week timelimit?
Memories of January nights
William
jackneve wrote:I had the notion that we could have a thread devoted to the literary arts - more the literature rather than the mechanism.
A good point well made, as they say! I’m afraid I’m all too prone to following a thread where it leads. Perhaps I should split the off-topic posts to a new thread.
Yes, a thread with a title such as
On the possibility of producing a greetings card that displays the text of an original poem
and in the first post you could provide a link to the thread that contains Jack's poem and say that the new thread is a spin-off thread that commenced by moving some posts that were originally made in the poem thread.
William
William wrote:I worked in pixels at 2171 pixels high by 1571 pixels wide at 300 dots per inch; that gives a bit of sideways play.
The size is, mixed units, 7 inches tall by 5 inches wide, with a 3 millimetre wide bleed area on each edge, though only three of them get chopped off.
If the document size is specified in inches, the standard bleed amount is 1/8 inch: the 3 mm quoted here is the metric equivalent. If you’re adding 1/4 inch to the overall dimensions, that’s 75 pixels at 300 ppi, so the finished size in pixels should be 2175 by 1575.
However, if you really need a bleed area, you might as well let the program handle the details for you! (Spoiler: You don’t need a bleed area for plain text on a white background.)
Well the document for a Papier card is not specified in inches but miliimetres, yet it is the equivalent of 7 inches by 5 inches. A 3 millimetre bleed area is advisable, yet the Papier system is quite tolerant of what is uploaded and will scale and crop if needed.
The Tesco oak effect frame for a 7 inches by 5 inches photograph that I bought about a year ago is no longer available (but there is a replacement type, though I have not bought any of them), had the aperture in the mount a bit smaller so that a bit of the picture goes behind the mount.
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/p … /308622501
The Papier card mentioned is said to have dimensions of
127mm x 177.8mm
However I tend to use the larger frames and have a white area behind the card, so the mount is more like a decorative border.
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/p … /308622478
William
I have noticed that your poem does not have a title.
It is an author's choice not to have a title for a poem.
But just wondering if you might like to consider adding a title.
[Moderator note: Remainder of post moved to new topic.]
In my opinion, that is very good.
William
What about literature topics?
Poetry etc.I have just posted a poem in response to a post by William, in the old Lounge, in the Video thread. It's the wrong place, like off topic, and with permission I'll post it here.
The poem is, in my opinion, really good.
So in which category, and in which thread within that category, would it be posted in this forum?
Posted as just forum text like this, or in an image produced using Serif software?
If the latter, which font would be a good choice?
Would the poem be the same regardless of the font or would the font nuance its meaning?
William
Well, the study of subjects such as French as a language is regarded as an "Arts" subject.
William
It has to happen.
I was driving along old sixty-six
And I stopped for a bite to eat
I'd been driving along for quite a while
I thought I'd rest my feet
But when I left the diner
What did I surely find
My semi gone to Los Angeles
Leaving me behind
William
Yes, that was good advice and got it going on Windows 8.1
However, if I remember correctly, when I installed it on my old computer, which ran on Windows 10, I think that it worked straightaway without any need to do that process.
It is not installed on this machine.
William
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