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Christmas 2023 and into 2024

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  I'm not feeling like Christmas right now. My Dad's woman friend, Tel, passed away, she was found by Police yesterday, after Dad hadn't heard from her in a few days. I'm feeling less than perfect. He's not told my sister yet, but she couldn't care less! She's said as much in an email basically washing her hands of it all and has more or less told me to take sides. Now I'm going to have to confront Dad about his house, there's no way I can set foot in there as the smell makes me want to throw up, didn't want to do that til new year. Oh what a Christmas this will be, damn it. I feel like I'm trapped between two dead end roads with no right of way. My downstairs neighbour said if my sister isn't talking to him she won't know I've been there. I can see where she is coming from though. I can't set foot in the house as it is anymore, it turned my stomach the other day, even a face mask don't help. I've decided to send my Da

On the 'UK' Green List

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On the UK's 'green list' is South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. According to Wikipedia.... South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote and inhospitable collection of islands, consisting of South Georgia Island and a chain of smaller islands known as the South Sandwich Islands.  There is no permanent native population on the South Sandwich Islands, and a very small non-permanent population that resides on South Georgia. There are no scheduled passenger flights or ferries to or from the territory, although visits by cruise liners to South Georgia are increasingly popular, with several thousand visitors each summer. Ok, so how do people even get there if they are inhospitable? ....just asking 🙄 FACTS Sovereign state = United Kingdom Separation from Falkland Is. = 3 October 1985 Capital/largest settlement = King Edward Point Official languages = English Currency = Falkland Isl