Looking forward to a year of world peace 
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Definitely winning the CL. We can’t even have peace in the forum, not to say the world 
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Our fireworks were preceded by gunfire and police sirens from a nearby neighbourhood where this type of thing has become depressingly common , and also where our Ukrainian refugee friends have been settled. No injuries thankfully.
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I stayed up to watch the fireworks. I thought the London fireworks were spectacular:heart_eyes:
this year.
My nephew popped in and watched abit of tv with me. He was trying to escape a neighbour’s NYE’s party.
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Bonne santé et bonheur en 2026
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In work!!!
Leak detection system triggered alarm,
2" pipe sprung a leak,
1500L of water now under the fab floor!
Plus an air line split, and CDA was hissing out of the line at 4.5B pressure!
Happy new year!
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Good luck with all that!
My Plantar Fascitis has decided to make a comeback after 2 years.
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Jaffod,
I feel for you. I have been having Plantar fasciitis on and off for 6 years now.
Get a frozen water bottle and roll it under your foot.
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Thanks Maria, I’ll give it a go.
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Do you have exercises to hand for PF?
If not, i can send you them.
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Thanks Maria but I got some from my doctor when I first got it.
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Well we are finally having carp tonight. At least I hope that’s what it is. Big ugly bugger. The size of Moby Dick with an accusing stare.
I’m not really a great seafood aficionado. There’s sardines, fish fingers, tuna butties and that’s about it.
In fact once you get beyond that, it’s usually things that I am actively terrified of.
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my father had issues stemming fron plantar , bone spurs etc (long story, wont go into it), extremely painful later in life, came from the generation of taking too long to diagnose and insufficient physio to correct.
the knock on effect of that and getting quarterzone (spelling?) injections which eventually lost their pain killing impact were, virtually, crippling.
hes OK now through a very long trial and error of alternative medicines, custom innersoles and other things, but it was quite a journey and if he wasnt such a tough person mentally it could have really been quite the spiral.
moral of the story; do the physio.
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Carp is a fresh water fish, perhaps it’s Bass. Send a photo. 
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Central and Eastern Europeans like to eat carp at xmas/new year for some reason. Personally, I’m not keen on the idea of something that basically eats mud.
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My wife got it from the Russian supermarket so that is a possibility.
I think I’m going to be sick.
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In Australia Carp is a pest and used for fertiliser. It’s an insult to fish.
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Carp is one of the noble fish that was eaten by the nobles. Commoners couldn’t catch or eat it legally, it was considered poaching. Commoners were essentially restricted to fish from the oceans as rivers belonged to the landlords.
Few eat Carp and the like now but they were prized.
I heard a while back that the monarch owns the sea-bed. Must have brought that one in to stop the peasants eating fish.
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