....and what else, dazzlenation?...well, you're looking at the wrong 'canned' response....whilst i'm looking at 'oyster shuckers'...something that oscar used to do quite easily with a knife....never cut himself etc etc....go figure:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shucking-Resistant-Protection-Shucker-Seafood/dp/B09D7JNX7N/ref=sr_1_5?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.akX7_49P2XLH4jlNt_lqU_aD1vsgqKPWCxwJEfTfXesW6BxyoToDVISgCJWhq461e7i6sRilzT4zhC9Muhpxejn7WhcejNeEbwjiswnHT6BANgZ_RuaBN6YRZ-kxoYCx3tQssR77XHflB6fY_24rqgmPmnK9MQiX2_SJRW5NuJc9gzWTf9xdNb5sQSF3igkKkvsuATRIrrX9t2KORvXiVFEUsgggWKi8JRY1JXUNU1kQhpKWPBUEutSd8z8DTe71fW7mITl-G_gGogFtrkATkd0bPhE4PP3pwfAHr0xMm1c.X_bcojVQSngf_PCRgF_Cm87VBvr8C7SoLu0HXq9qF-w&dib_tag=se&keywords=oyster+shucker&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1732149048&sr=8-5

https://mary2point5.tumblr.com/

comments have reservations:

and if we're still on the 'prince harry' thing:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mayoii-Handguard-Ergonomic-Shellfish-Restaurant/dp/B0CSZ11J6M/ref=sr_1_12_sspa?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.akX7_49P2XLH4jlNt_lqU_aD1vsgqKPWCxwJEfTfXesW6BxyoToDVISgCJWhq461e7i6sRilzT4zhC9Muhpxejn7WhcejNeEbwjiswnHT6BANgZ_RuaBN6YRZ-kxoYCx3tQssR77XHflB6fY_24rqgmPmnK9MQiX2_SJRW5NuJc9gzWTf9xdNb5sQSF3igkKkvsuATRIrrX9t2KORvXiVFEUsgggWKi8JRY1JXUNU1kQhpKWPBUEutSd8z8DTe71fW7mITl-G_gGogFtrkATkd0bPhE4PP3pwfAHr0xMm1c.X_bcojVQSngf_PCRgF_Cm87VBvr8C7SoLu0HXq9qF-w&dib_tag=se&keywords=oyster+shucker&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1732149358&sr=8-12-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9tdGY&psc=1&smid=A38ZRF77ZP5BMW

anyway, that wooden thing doesn't look safe at all...mixed comments....hmmm...losey used to use something like that with a teatowel bound around the hand holding the shell, folded many times so as to make it impenetrable with the knife etc etc....anyway, something like the following looks a bit better....although the first UK comment states that it is pretty useless too:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Convenient-Oyster-Opener-Seafood-Shucking/dp/B09NRMY12Y/ref=sr_1_49?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.akX7_49P2XLH4jlNt_lqU_aD1vsgqKPWCxwJEfTfXesW6BxyoToDVISgCJWhq461e7i6sRilzT4zhC9Muhpxejn7WhcejNeEbwjiswnHT6BANgZ_RuaBN6YRZ-kxoYCx3tQssR77XHflB6fY_24rqgmPmnK9MQiX2_SJRW5NuJc9gzWTf9xdNb5sQSF3igkKkvsuATRIrrX9t2KORvXiVFEUsgggWKi8JRY1JXUNU1kQhpKWPBUEutSd8z8DTe71fW7mITl-G_gGogFtrkATkd0bPhE4PP3pwfAHr0xMm1c.X_bcojVQSngf_PCRgF_Cm87VBvr8C7SoLu0HXq9qF-w&dib_tag=se&keywords=oyster+shucker&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1732149358&sr=8-49

and if we were to go upmarket, dazzlenation?.....well, no UK comments but the first one is in french and they appear to like it (and it is a french christmas tradition, isn't it)....anyway, perhaps ed can buy oscar one, for christmas...seeing as it is quite painful to see somebody do something that dangerous, in the kitchen - no matter how skilled they are in doing so etc etc....go figure:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Neyomid-Shucker-Adjustable-Stainless-Anti-corrosion/dp/B09TT8VXKY/ref=sr_1_59?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.akX7_49P2XLH4jlNt_lqU_aD1vsgqKPWCxwJEfTfXesW6BxyoToDVISgCJWhq461e7i6sRilzT4zhC9Muhpxejn7WhcejNeEbwjiswnHT6BANgZ_RuaBN6YRZ-kxoYCx3tQssR77XHflB6fY_24rqgmPmnK9MQiX2_SJRW5NuJc9gzWTf9xdNb5sQSF3igkKkvsuATRIrrX9t2KORvXiVFEUsgggWKi8JRY1JXUNU1kQhpKWPBUEutSd8z8DTe71fW7mITl-G_gGogFtrkATkd0bPhE4PP3pwfAHr0xMm1c.X_bcojVQSngf_PCRgF_Cm87VBvr8C7SoLu0HXq9qF-w&dib_tag=se&keywords=oyster+shucker&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1732149048&sr=8-59

but not snails?....lol:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9veillon

anyway, i can see why if you buy them already opened up - the price goes up steeply:

 ....and what else, dazzlenation?...well, to my surprise...having had a look at an old email from 02 regarding that O2 £52.27 amount....ms whyte was entirely right to question where that amount had come from and why etc etc....in relation to a second account being set up in error....in short, a third account had not been set up....02 had instead simply linked that £52.23 DD payment, to my old account number....go figure:

and her reply:

 ....and what's new this wednesday morning, dazzlenation?...a rather interesting autobiography by prince harry - far more entertaining than I had thought it would be and if the half of it is true etc etc....anyway, having read through a few chapters....i came across a recurrent nickname for prince harry which had apparently been 'harold'....hmmm.... and seeing as he had been christened 'henry' etc etc...a rather odd scene, at the beginning of the book - where he meets up with charles 'n' william...who are calling him 'harold'....now, i am not good at history, to say the least...but the very idea of calling him 'harold'....recalls king 'harold' shot in the eye...bayeux tapestry....conquered by william of normandy....no other king named 'harold' afterwards and for obvious reasons, i would have thought....and so what was really going on, behind that nickname then?....if it is true, that is...because as far as families go....nicknames can be pretty nasty....lol....half-blind and selling us all off to the french?...hmmmm.....not quite....remember jeffrey archer and his sister, joining bobby's mob - not to mention rodway's gang..."the crime scene dressing gown" replies BI online...well, that had been his sister's idiotic idea of framing me up...oh and remember lisa's son shooting me in the thigh, with a bow and arrow - from an arrow-slit in that french chateau - during one of those templar 'functions' let us say...and so anyway, i  began to wonder etc etc....go figure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Spare/dp/B0BKQXJM8L/ref=sr_1_1?crid=12W3K3QGNFPXH&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.6DCxT5o1OzIKxGDbWlojD-MdxOx9z2ZO9sOY9Cca8OLbGBl_3tQ0EqDGB-kWrx6W5Cnasook1O7TQuN0J_8ZS3bzQYuWVg_sSybG8tDRhUFweVgcjTLJBZOUvR0JWbnWtzD4mFhhR_Z0s9E_uf9XzNNP62_yFaFzJWczM5cZ0a_IDWcWyQeK_zdmWm0mlfbO1QEWzUOFyo6B5igfJqOmzez1Oj73mkOMBXBUfb8V-pI.FAmVJez47_IG7a24umYBlAfN8WHb4aIhYI2D6HZ9gXk&dib_tag=se&keywords=prince+harry+%27spare%27&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1732089982&s=books&sprefix=prince+harry+%27spare%27%2Cstripbooks%2C161&sr=1-1

https://mary2point5.tumblr.com/

 ....and what's new upon my youtube frontpage, dazzlenation?...well, browne had wanted to use 'the fall of the house of usher' in connection with what she'd been up to at high wycombe etc etc....oh and ros had stated that it was her favourite story....anyway, pat andrew might like to have a look at the following etc etc....go figure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_the_House_of_Usher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmEbH7mZ8Vk

browne's boyfriend 'dave' (who later on, was to double up as 'bo' in winnie's gang etc etc)....well, he was to say "that looks a bit like me"...to which browne had replied...that it was supposed to be her 'real dad'...remember that russian sailor (best friend of her stepdad?) who lived in the 'dairy flat' - west street, harwich etc etc....go figure:

anyway, if we go back to the original...a dragon was involved....lol...replayed in 'green label' beer boxes:

https://fallofthehouseofusher.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/harry-clarke-the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher-1923.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QaApmxrOVk

oh and there is an aside to what browne had known about....and no doubt 'dave' too....regarding royal succession, let us say...queer theory, anybody?....go figure:

https://spookybooky.com/2022/05/30/queer-theory-edgar-allan-poe-the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher-1839/

....and what's new this tuesday evening, dazzlenation?...well, remember how O2's system had mistakenly created two accounts....well, ms whyte appears to have got the wrong end of the stick regarding etc etc....and in relation to that £52.27 amount taken....perhaps I should send her a snip (without too much detail) of my bank statement.....nota bene, in 02's reply - they have already mentioned how they would like to refund that immediately (my bank took it back - months ago now)...."direct debit fraud" replies BI online....yes and so not about 'accounts' at all....just pure fraud eh?...oh and i'd better send another email just to make it plain...something along the lines of...the first two amounts were linked to two accounts - the second account was made in error, as 02 have admitted, a computer system error - however, the £52.27 amount doesn't appear to be linked to either account and so why was that amount taken from my bank account?....go figure:

anyway i can remember - in that clacton o2 store - quite some time ago now before they all did a 'runner' - owing money, according to donna etc etc.....anyway, a customer had got rather angry with rodway's blond adoptee.....told him that he wouldn't leave the shop, until he had sorted it out....which he then did....precisely the same situation regarding O2's computer system....the setting up of a second account in error....which was easily cleared up, during that phonecall upon 'blond adoptee's mobile to whoever controlled etc etc....although once that shop had closed down and i then had to either ring up or email 02 to sort it out....i was repeatedly stonewalled...for months and months...until i eventually got the ombudsman to intervene etc etc...o2 then sent her an email - admitting to the second account having been set up in error....offered to repay that £52.27 and also a 'goodwill' gesture of £75 regarding those overpayments in relation to that £30.13 amount etc etc....and so on the whole, all good - eh?....go figure.

 ....and now for something entirely 'crazy', dazzlenation..and a bit 'sci-fi' in relation to foretelling the future or not as the case, maybe - regarding recent 'rainfalls' worldwide...something that helen browne and her boyfriend 'dave' had thought up at that high wycombe biznez college, all of those decades ago, now....lol....in short, browne had intoned "the rain in spain falls mainly on the plain"...to then to code in etc etc.....afterwards and as a memory aid....she had coded in the following:

ROC - republic of china

ROE - republic of england

ROW - republic of wales

ROS - republic of.....well, they had all laughed, in the end - browne's gang at that college....the republic of the CIA....in relation to the republic of scotland.

ROI - republic of 'paddy fields' which had made browne laugh so much etc etc...the republic of ireland....as it goes, eh?

oh and immediately after i had posted the above....'prestige' was to hit my phone, again, whilst claiming to be working on behalf of chelmer housing  - with another of their 'pest' calls (obviously, i didn't answer) and then whoever-it-was then left a text upon my ansaphone....not the same  telephone number, i might add, as to what i had formerly found out was 'prestige's' real telephone number....anyway, this is the number that had called my mobile today: 07538 495577....and the text?....'hello this is prestige calling on behalf of CHP' etc etc....see previous posts....and so let me see...are numbers beginning with 07538 also becoming 'credit card scam' numbers etc etc?....and having checked the ansaphone message - it had apparently been 'christine' from 'prestige' again....anyway, having emailed CHP barry about 'christine's persistent calls - I've had to do so again, today....hmmm....let me guess...she doesn't really work for 'prestige'?....and well, it's up to CHP to sort it out, isn't it....i'm not going to ring up etc etc....see previous posts....go figure.

https://who-called.co.uk/Number/07538134577

 .....and the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle - this morning, dazzlenation...if you are attempting to piece it together because i'm certainly not...sick to death of all of it.....is ronnie scott's - birmingham...rodway's gang used to go there...along with gill - who ended up borrowing money from some of the male clientele....which he never paid back etc etc....go figure:

https://mary2point5.tumblr.com/

https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/directory_record/138093/ronnie_scotts

https://www.google.com/search?q=ronnie+scott%27s+birmingham&rlz=1C1SLLM_en-GBGB1123GB1123&oq=ronni&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j46i10i175i199i433i512i650i654j46i433i512l2j0i433i512l2j69i60.1256j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#lpg=cid:CgIgAQ%3D%3D,ik:CAoSLEFGMVFpcE5hZk5HNFJ5Z0lkYzFvN0Z5Q0pIWjlpeHl4WmJGRnZKV0M0Um14

anyway, back to 'green wing' - regarding 'caroline' and her two competing beaus.....hmmm.....whalley must have been reminded of andrew trig - regarding 'guy'....and the blond one?....funnily enough - a bit stenson, let us say....go figure.