Early Risers.

[Tony_S]

2 minutes ago, tigerburnie said:

Calorie counting is now part of my life, even though I'm not on a diet lol.

My weight isn’t really responsible for my lung condition but the consultant said it was a good idea anyway. I just eat less rather than calorie counting. 
Tony

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. A bit late on parade this morning as I found over 100 e-mails in my in box. Most of them were for a Facebook group I administer. I have to be very careful with admitting new members to this group, a local history group as there is a rather nasty piece work who tries to muscle in on such groups and take them over, mainly to promote his own photography business. I have had to check each of nearly 90 applications for anything suspicious, a tedious but neccessary task in the circumstances. Chris, I wouldn't expect you or anyone else to explain Farmageddon or any other comedy film as such films rely on complicated plots and sub plots. I'm a great fan of Tom Sharpe and Carl Hiaasen but I could never explain the plots of their novels.

[Barry O]

Chuckinitdarn here!

 

Luckily no parcels to post today..yet..

 

Hope the train arrives on time Dudders!

 

Back later

 

Baz

[34theletterbetweenB&D]

1 hour ago, grandadbob said:

Back from Sainsbury's and in puzzled mode... The once very busy and excellent store we use (and where The Boss worked) is a shadow of its former self...

Matching observation. I very rarely use Sainsbury (simply not so conveniently located as four competitors) but had occasion to go in on Monday, probably over a year from the last visit. Well, they could have livened up the store by having the dead march playing. I have never managed in retail, but demoralised employees are instantly recognisable.

[The Lurker]

Greetings all from LBG where it is cloudy and cool but forecast to be dry.

 

Lot's of work but not a lot to report on.

 

have a good day all

[Coombe Barton]

Was chuckinitdarn, isn't now

 

Post today was that Sandy's insurance is now paid. Still waiting for the scaffolders. 

 

Also trying to get Sandy taken off mailing lists. Conversation with sender:

 

Me: "Could you take Sandy off your mailing list, please. Her funeral was on Tuesday."

 

Them: "Does that mean she's passed away?"

 

Me: "What do you think?"

 

Where do they find these people?

[PhilJ W]

5 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

 

Where do they find these people?

Probably the Zoo, you pay peanuts you get monkeys.

[Coombe Barton]

Just now, PhilJ W said:

Probably the Zoo, you pay peanuts you get monkeys.

That's not very fair on the intelligence of monkeys

[bbishop]

5 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

Was chuckinitdarn, isn't now

 

Post today was that Sandy's insurance is now paid. Still waiting for the scaffolders. 

 

Also trying to get Sandy taken off mailing lists. Conversation with sender:

 

Me: "Could you take Sandy off your mailing list, please. Her funeral was on Tuesday."

 

Them: "Does that mean she's passed away?"

 

Me: "What do you think?"

 

Where do they find these people?

 

John,  they will just amend the envelope to S..... C..... Decd.  Apologies for my black sense of humour.

 

Bill

[Coombe Barton]

Just now, bbishop said:

 

John,  they will just amend the envelope to S..... C..... Decd.  Apologies for my black sense of humour.

 

Bill

If they do I'll send it back to them "Current address unknown"  

My sense of humour is a darker black than yours.

 

And Sandy would have approved

 

[bbishop]

28 minutes ago, 34theletterbetweenB&D said:

Matching observation. I very rarely use Sainsbury (simply not so conveniently located as four competitors) but had occasion to go in on Monday, probably over a year from the last visit. Well, they could have livened up the store by having the dead march playing. I have never managed in retail, but demoralised employees are instantly recognisable.

 

Dire,  the Bromley store didn't have any soap last weekend.

 

Bill

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, bbishop said:

 

Dire,  the Bromley store didn't have any soap last weekend.

 

Bill

We went into the new Nisa Extra supermarket today. It is the old CoOp store rebranded and with new tills.  However the assistant wanted to draw our attention to the  Indian and Polish products they have added. One customer seemed a bit agitated at the lack of super wide turkey foil. 
We were just buying milk as I think it was quite far enough for our healthy walk. 
Tony

 

Edited November 7, 2019 by Tony_S

[tigerburnie]

We keep having squally showers and quite heavy too, I have just realised a down side to moving the l-y*t to the old summer house down the garden, ya get wet. Now clambering up and down a loft ladder was a pain in the butt(and a few other places too), but as least my cuppa was warm and un diluted, don't think I'll mention moving back into the house after the upheaval of moving out lol. 

[Coombe Barton]

9 minutes ago, tigerburnie said:

 l-y*t 

Don't think she spotted it.

Edited November 7, 2019 by Coombe Barton

[Barry O]

1 hour ago, Coombe Barton said:

Don't think she spotted it.

not currently but she may just be awl sharpening just ready to fling at a moments notice...

[AndyID]

2 hours ago, Tony_S said:

We went into the new Nisa Extra supermarket today. It is the old CoOp store rebranded and with new tills.  However the assistant wanted to draw our attention to the  Indian and Polish products they have added. One customer seemed a bit agitated at the lack of super wide turkey foil. 
We were just buying milk as I think it was quite far enough for our healthy walk. 
Tony

 

 

A Winco supermarket opened here a few years ago. It seems to be giving the other outfits a run for their money. Their prices are always very competitive particularly for essentials like beer and wine. The only snags are they don't take credit cards and you have to do your own bagging. They probably don't offer to take your purchases to your car either like some other establishments but I'm not in the habit of asking for that assistance (yet).

[AndyID]

Speaking of wine, MrsID doesn't usually have any so I just buy the stuff that comes in boxes. Some of it is quite reasonable and it has the advantage that very little air gets in after you crack the seal.

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Just got the last of the boxes out of the car. Now separated into three lots, full of 'stuff', fitted out as stock boxes and empties. As some of the first mentioned are so full that the lids will not shut the last mentioned should come in useful.

[Happy Hippo]

Debs will see this and create a CNC variety of the throwing awl.

 

 

[Ozexpatriate]

5 hours ago, tigerburnie said:

Sadly all the supermarkets are going the same way, self checkouts and people thieving is cheaper than paying staff seemingly. I was asked recently if I'd like to leave a queue for a till and self serve, I replied "no thanks, saving peoples jobs here"

A trend across the English speaking world.

 

I really try to avoid self checkout - I find them extremely frustrating particularly if you have produce (fresh fruits or vegetables) which can be hard to ring up, or alcohol (an alcohol purchase requires an attendant to verify the age of the purchaser).  Ironically, the other day the self-checkout attendant pulled me out of a regular queue to personally ring me up at a self-checkout till. He was standing around because no one wanted to use the self-checkout.

 

And it's not just supermarkets. Airlines can be just as bad. Air Canada in Brisbane insisted that I use the kiosk. This failed the first time, (and a second time for good measure). My particular combination of travel documents was too complicated for their software. In Air Canada's defence I will say that they deployed helpful staff to help people for whom the kiosk was not working. The agent who assisted me went straight to the 'old school' terminal to process my reservation.

 

I encountered a wrinkle in an Australian supermarket a couple of weeks ago. Many US credit cards still require a signature (mine does). When the transaction was rung up at an attended till, the search for a pen began. There wasn't one at the till. I later went back to the same supermarket and used the same till. There still wasn't a pen.

[Ozexpatriate]

21 minutes ago, AndyID said:

Speaking of wine, MrsID doesn't usually have any so I just buy the stuff that comes in boxes. Some of it is quite reasonable and it has the advantage that very little air gets in after you crack the seal.

The box and bladder wine cask - an Australian invention patented in 1965. Penfolds patented the tap welded to the bag in 1967. It is a very good solution for the reason you note - plus the packaging is much lighter leading to cheaper transportation with lower greenhouse gas emissions.

 

The glass and cork traditionalists have always resisted it. I will stipulate that there is drama with the presentation of a glass bottle and the sound of a cork being popped (and the uncertainty as to whether it will be tainted). For non-cellaring wines, screw tops are a good alternative but most US winemakers still insist on the more posh appearance of a cork - even for inexpensive, ready-to-drink wines.

 

I am seeing an increase in wine packaged in aluminium cans*. This of course is anathema to the glass and cork crowd, but I find a 375ml can to be a convenient size for one. Usually when I open a bottle I try to drink no more than half of it. I use vacuum stoppers to preserve it for the next day. There are also very fancy Nitrogen storage systems as well but this is a lot of mucking around compared with popping a can.

 

* These are rapidly taking over craft beer packaging in the US. Cans are cheaper and are easier to recycle than glass bottles. 

[TheQ]

Well. We're back,  out side it has stopped precipitating,  but we had lots most of the day.  That with the mud left over from many tractors moving sugar beet,  means the road is eminately suitable for hippos. 

 

We were only at the hospital  an hour,  after which we headed for a shop wanted by SWMBO..  Just as I started turning the wheel to turn in I noticed something.. Height bars..  So  I rapidly turned the other way,  and that shop has lost our business if we are in the landrover. So, b+m  lidl Tesco,  and the local farm shop visited.                                                                                                             

    Home for an hour then off to the garage to collect the car,  other hub replaced, along with sensor bearing,   fan belts adjusted,  lamda sensor removed cleaned and refitted. A can of engine/ catalytic converter cleaner put in. With a recommendation of having a couple of tanks of BP or shell used to clean the system..  The problem with that is finding one near here,  I'll have to search for them online in a minute....   

 

      The search will be after I've reset this tablet  the editor is playing up again.. 

Edited November 7, 2019 by TheQ

[AndyID]

The back-up generator for our community water system badly needs a service/overhaul. I was hoping the service shop would come and pick it up but they declined. I'll have to put it on my truck and take it in. Should be interesting. It weighs 260 pounds!

 

(I'll lift it with my tractor.)

[JohnDMJ]

5 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

If they do I'll send it back to them "Current address unknown"

 

That's what I did from the start; didn't even waste the cost of a pone call but cost them the return postage!

 

5 hours ago, bbishop said:

 

Dire,  the Bromley store didn't have any soap last weekend.

 

Bill

 

Been cleaned out had they?

[Kingzance]

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

Debs will see this and create a CNC variety of the throwing awl.

 

 

I'm sure it has been a long day for The Great Awl Wielder and I hope they are back home recuperating.

The KZWagen has been retrieved from its agent with an assurance from a rather attractive young woman in the service department that the EGRC will not fail again. Of course the less than charitable may say "not in your lifetime at least" but who knows whether I will still be driving at the next instance. The drive there and back across central Beds this afternoon in sunlight was rather pleasant and there were a myriad of foliage colours on display. Had it been earlier, I could have been tempted to venture there again with my camera and tripod but the light was failing and wetness is predicted for the morrow.

 

In case I break a leg or something, I am ordering some plaster bandage and chicken wire. This may of course be misconstrued as a requirement for railway modelling but one must be prepared for all eventualities.  I also have an early start tomorrow as I must complete the 3 s's well ahead of my digital inspection timed for mid-morning. I have stayed off the flax seed, liquorice, chillies and garlic just in case - Marigold, the screens!