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I'd need a Royal wedding type special, 16 page pullout, in Malone Times to cope with this morning's lot, Rusty! I've contacted Norah (site manager).

Good morning, Elle!
Lovely morning here.
The foodbank is to help folk with no money for food.
My Asda, for instance, takes donations of food, mainly tinned food, to help them.
They have a couple of trolleys for folk to donate a tin of something.
La Bamba helps with collections and helping the friends she has who are more involved.
Now, "loon" and "quine" are mainly Aberdeenshire words.
Not used in the rest of the country.
"Quine" is in my old Chambers, and in my Chambers app, and it comes from Old English "cwen", which became "queen".
Amen.

Rusty, you and I have both filled Elle in on 'quine' - she'll need to drop the word into conversation to make full use of it!

Hello, Malone!
Yes, Elle has plenty opportunities to use her "new words" when she is at the park doggie walking and chin wagging with her neighbours !

Hello again, Malone.
I have never seen so much spam!
There's about 6 pages of the stuff...and counting!

Rusty, an inundation, an infestation, a plague... all of these! I've had enough spam so went off to have some toast instead, along with today's Times crossword.

Hello, Malone!
Norah to the rescue again!
You are ahead of me, no puzzle yet.

Good morning, Rusty!
It is a glorious morning here, too.
It is good to see the sunshine!
Sainsburys has a Foodbank, too.
Customers are invited to donate food for the needy, as they leave the store.
The Cats' Protection also has a similar scheme in the supermarket.
Good ideas both.
I owe my ill-fated Chambers an apology....I did not look properly!
"Quine " is indeed in there.......although it simply says "See quean".
You say there were six pages of "Spam"?
My goodness!
Poor Norah...as though she doesn't have enough to do!
What are you up to today?




Hello, Malone!
Yes, I have the original 13th edition of Chambers; the one with the five hundred words missing!
I was initially led to believe that this would eventually be replaced.
But that didn't happen...all that transpired was an online list of the "missing" words to be printed out, and added to the back of the dictionary!

^^^ Bump!

Good morning, Elle!
Great day here!
Your Sainsbury has the same system as ASDA about food donations.
Yes, I agree, very good ideas!
Now "quine"!
I remember many years ago at Hogmanay time, there was an Aberdeenshire schoolteacher who did a comic song on television.
It was "I'm the quine that did the strip in Inverurie."
Think it may have been June Imray, but not certain.
It was yonks ago!
No firm plans today.
Taking it canny!