Mundane News

[Reynard]

Mild, grey and a bit damp here chez Casa Reynard.

I slept well but had some *very* strange and disjointed dreams. Feel rather meh, so decided I'd rather have a lie in than clear off into town to have a mosey around the market. I had planned on going to the butcher, but I've got more than enough in and no space in the freezer, so it can wait till next week when I have to take the parental for an eye test thingy.

I have had a gentle morning. One of the things I've done is sorted through the remaining trays of apples and wanged the manky ones into the garden. I still have three and a half trays of dessert apples left and two trays of cookers.

My laptop has also downloaded a windows update, but I haven't yet installed it. I shall get it to do that momentarily.

It is ham time for the girls, and luncheon time for me.

 

[rockyroller]

did you ever bend down to change your shoes at the office & wind up with your head resting on your desk & wonder, why should I pick it up?

 

[postman]

I can still remember my mum's number .

108318.

 

[tom73]

Four Tesco Expresses currently in the wider conurbation with Knaresborough.
God knows how many Co-Ops. They seem to open without a quibble.

As do all supermarkets chains "connivance store" formats. One common tacit is opening in closed down pubs a oddity in planning means no permission is required. Co-op (co-operative group) is the largest connivance store operator approx one in every post code. This was reinforced with buying Nisa a few years ago. Though the smaller store focus has come with a cost to the wider group. Many co-op stores are not the coop people think of which also adds to impression they have more store than some think.

 

[tom73]

It always amazed me that a Co op in one town would accept your members card but other stores within a 5 mile radius wouldn't as they were part of a different branch of the Co op .
I can remember having a conversation about it once with a lady at the check out and she was as confused about as I was .

It's simple basically your only a member of the society you have a card for. Other smaller societies can choose to sign up to access to cooperative group systems and allow others cards to work. But most won't pay or who fell out with the then CWS moons ago. ones who do allow it tend to be societies that historically have a seat on the main cooperative group board.

 

[Gwylan]

Hi

Well! The two clips that hold the bases together on our bed have become dislodged for some reason!
Next bed-stripping day (probably Saturday or Sunday, I think) will see us up ending the mattress and the bases to re-clip them.

Hold the front page!
Can I wait that long to know if the mattress has been upended? And not know until Saturday, the news might not get through until Monday
Another tense, nervous headache on the way.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

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[Speicher]

Sounds excellent.

But now it would be seen as one of those 15 minute communities we are supposed to dread?

I am twenty minutes brisk walk from:

Lots of independent shops, small cinema/theatre, leisure centre with swimming pool, indoor sports hall etc, library, and a very large indoor market with a wide variety of established vendors.

It is to be noted that not all shops are open every day. Some are closed on Mondays or Thursdays or both, and very few open on Sundays, eg about two plus the Tesco Express and a smallish Asda.

There are lots of small business, furniture makers, printers etc who between them must employ lots of people.

However, as with lots of small market towns, lot of new housing has been built on what was the outskirts, and they are thirty minutes walk from those facilities.

If I wanted to go further afield, there is a railway station which goes to London or Hereford.


Oh yes, for the clever clogs, the railway station stays where it is, the set of coaches and a locomotive go to London or Hereford.

 

[Speicher]

I forgot, there are no night clubs or disco techs for the younger peeps. But plenty of live music in the many and various drinking establishments.

 

[Gwylan]

Re

My laptop spent most of yesterday downloading and installing the Windows update.

Today, I found that lots of settings have been changed back to default, so I'm having to reset them to how I like them. In particular, the touchpad was turned back on. I can't get on with a touchpad because I catch it by accident all the time. The only place I could turn it off was Device Settings, because the disable option in Action Centre Settings has disappeared.

Bloody Microsoft, and their "The customer is never right" attitude!

Rest assured that Google never works is every bit as hormonal.

 

[Grant Fondo]

When I lived in Stonesfield years ago my phone number was 606. Always kept forgetting it

 

[postman]

I was invited out for breakfast paid for,you dont turn those kind of offers down.

 

[Gwylan]

I am significantly bored

Think I have to resort to the caffeine and chocolate therapy.

 

[biggs682]

And that's another working day completed

 

[Reynard]

Had a lovely luncheon of two slices of wholemeal toast, one with pate, one with Epoisses cheese, plus a Chivers Delight apple, a pear, some raspberries and two

Sliced up the monster red cabbage I bought on Sunday (was nearly 2 kilos!), and it's now slowly braising away in my largest cooking pot along with two red onions, three Cottenham Seedling apples, a chunk of root ginger, a couple of bay leaves, ground coriander and Chinese five spice. Oh, and a good glug of cider.

Also went and had a girly pamper session, and am now sat by the fire with a and some Lindor.