Mundane News

[Andy in Germany]

I'm surprised they're open. Everything looked pretty much shut down for Christmas last night.

Good luck and good morning.

All open from 0730. Unfortunately a queue forms quickly, so I try and get there early to avoid half the morning standing about.

Still, paperwork given, usual grumpiness when I asked for a receipt*, then I got some coffee and chocolate for Beautiful Wife's Christmas present. One excellent thing about Beautiful Wife, is that she's very simple to buy Christmas presents for...

*Currently being sanctioned for not notifying the Job Centre about something I had notified them for, but couldn't prove it, because I trusted the staff to not lose the piece of paper, so now I insist on written confirmation of every piece of paper I hand in and every interview I attend.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Morning.
I thought I had run out of porridge ! . I looked in the cupboard but couldn't see any , so I had toast instead .
I mentioned it to my wife who couldn't believe it !
She found 3 boxes elsewhere .

My word, how do you stand these levels of drama in a morning?

 

[EltonFrog]

OK, I concede. @CarlP

You have the edge - when it comes to dullness

it has been my life’s work.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Jeeeezuz h titty christ! Sainsbury’s at 7.15 am! Ffs!

But he's not due till the day after tomorrow!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

All open from 0730. Unfortunately a queue forms quickly, so I try and get there early to avoid half the morning standing about.

Still, paperwork given, usual grumpiness when I asked for a receipt*, then I got some coffee and chocolate for Beautiful Wife's Christmas present. One excellent thing about Beautiful Wife, is that she's very simple to buy Christmas presents for...

*Currently being sanctioned for not notifying the Job Centre about something I had notified them for, but couldn't prove it, because I trusted the staff to not lose the piece of paper, so now I insist on written confirmation of every piece of paper I hand in and every interview I attend.

Of course, I would have been less surprised if I hadn't woken up thinking it was already Christmas Eve....

 

[mybike]

One more day of harvesting packing and delivering veg boxes.

And teaching in the evening.

Oh the joys of self employment,... No one can force me to wear a Santa hat, or listen to carols

I've got a couple of these, in fact, just put one on.

 

[Gravity Aided]

One more day of harvesting packing and delivering veg boxes.

And teaching in the evening.

Oh the joys of self employment,... No one can force me to wear a Santa hat, or listen to carols

Me neither, they just know better. I've been accused of being Rutterless.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa9OHZGa9Rs&list=PLXpQCRhZw2lb4G6O0qZH7OV2J2FRW7PW3
@mudsticks , looks like your chicken has been doing some modeling for stained glass on the side.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I have just figured out an old Vistalite problem. It doesn't recharge well. I finally took it apart, to find 4 AA batteries. These will be replaced with rechargeables. It's an old light, but it will work perfectly with my recumbent.

 

[Illaveago]

My word, how do you stand these levels of drama in a morning?

I have been conditioned to it by watching Acorn Antiques !

 

[EltonFrog]

I’ve just replaced a load of ball bearings in the freewheel of the old Scorpio wheel.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Food shopping this morning. I knew it was going to be busy, but it’s either go and get it over with or go without food

So my daughter and I queued for fuel for the car, queued to get into the car park, queued for a trolley, battled our way through approx. 2000 people doing their food shopping, queued for the till, waited nearly 5 minutes to reverse out of the parking space, queued for 15 minutes to get out of the car park then drove home.

I wish I had a bakfiets so I could do the run without the car. It’d probably take the same amount of time, but I would be constantly moving, it would be cheaper (no fuel or refilling), far more environmentally friendly. Unfortunately, I don’t have the money to buy a cargo bike (the car serves more than just me, on the plus side we have just the one - every other house on our street has a minimum of two cars (where’s the ‘superior’ emoji? ))

 

[Andy in Germany]

Of course, I would have been less surprised if I hadn't woken up thinking it was already Christmas Eve....

One thing I never got used to in Germany is that Christmas Eve is half a day, so everything is normal in the morning, and then it all stops at midday.

Weird foreigners.

 

[Andy in Germany]

We've just been to Stuttgart Christmas shopping.

I went on an Escalator.

I also discovered that 40k of cycling is less exhausting than 2k wandering around an airless shopping centre with artificial lights and the entire population of southern Germany.

 

[slowmotion]

I've been practicing the pigs' Christmas dinner. They seem to like the menu so far.

 

[biggs682]

Afternoon all how's it going ?
Are we all ready for Christmas ?