Mundane News

[Illaveago]

I was just looking at a post about a combined rear light and camera and thought it might be handy if you could play back the video in case you got lost.

 

[Speicher]

Sounds like a pretty neat greengrocer, Wol...

Whatever kind of gardening you do, you have to put up with the vagaries of the weather, but if you choose your varieties and planting spots wisely, you do minimise the risk. And that includes growing dwarf varieties in containers...

And have to say, that home grown fruit tastes so much better than the shop bought equivalent.

There are some lovely shops in this market town. Most of them are independent shops, with only a few Franchises. I may have mentionned this before: some shops are closed all day on Monday and/or Thursday, and some have a half day closing. On Sundays all, or very nearly all, shops are shut. Tesco Express being one of the exceptions.

There is a teeny weeny Boots, Express Tesco, and Bolland and Harrett, but that is about it for Franchises.

I am planning to put some low hedging at the end of the garden, but it cannot be more than about three feet tall, or I will miss seeing the magnificent sunsets.

 

[Speicher]

Virtue signaller?

Do you have to work in a wooden box, ten foot above ground level, and pull levers? Who is going to be your Controller?

 

[petek]

40-mile round trip to our bank today one of the very few setbacks of remote-coastal-hamlet life.
Every cloud etc...
It was market day in Louth so I stocked up on local pies n sausages.

 

[potsy]

I am not going to post on any of the threads about driving. I hate driving. I love cycling.

BTW if this is virtue signalling....then I'm happy to be called a virtue signaller.

I hate driving, and cycling

 

[Speicher]

40-mile round trip to our bank today one of the very few setbacks of remote-coastal-hamlet life.
Every cloud etc...
It was market day in Louth so I stocked up on local pies n sausages.

I am sure I could live with that setback. I very rarely need to venture inside a Bank. The last time that I did (because their ATM had eaten my card) I had to wait to see the Bank Supervisor. I did not mind that wait, but I did very much mind that she insisted on doing some Account Review, about personal financial situation, before attempting to solve the problem with my card, and my being able to get some cash. Why did she need to know all the minutiae of my account when I have been a customer for about ..... twenty years?

 

[summerdays]

Potsy will be the SHORT controller.

FTFY

 

[potsy]

WIMPY!! They are bullying me again

 

[Gravity Aided]

I hate driving, and cycling

Yet, you love kebabs.

 

[midlife]

I've just found out that the clocks go forward on Sunday night!
My 6am get up will suddenly be 7am, so in going to lose an hours sleep.

I thought they went back. "Spring forward and Fall back" and all that so extra hour in bed ?

 

[potsy]

I thought they went back. "Spring forward and Fall back" and all that so extra hour in bed ?

She's in Australia, they do everything backwards

 

[Reynard]

There are some lovely shops in this market town. Most of them are independent shops, with only a few Franchises. I may have mentionned this before: some shops are closed all day on Monday and/or Thursday, and some have a half day closing. On Sundays all, or very nearly all, shops are shut. Tesco Express being one of the exceptions.

There is a teeny weeny Boots, Express Tesco, and Bolland and Harrett, but that is about it for Franchises.

I am planning to put some low hedging at the end of the garden, but it cannot be more than about three feet tall, or I will miss seeing the magnificent sunsets.

Ely has lost a lot of its independents, it's nearly all chains. Most indy shops that are left cater to the tourist types, though there are a couple of reasonable butchers, a good little white goods place, a couple of craft places and cycle shop. For fruit, veg & eggs, you get a lot of people selling stuff by the roadside.

Mmmmm, low hedging... Box, perhaps?

 

[Speicher]

Ely has lost a lot of its independents, it's nearly all chains. Most indy shops that are left cater to the tourist types, though there are a couple of reasonable butchers, a good little white goods place, a couple of craft places and cycle shop. For fruit, veg & eggs, you get a lot of people selling stuff by the roadside.

Mmmmm, low hedging... Box, perhaps?

I think what makes a difference to this town is that there is a small (or possibly medium-sized) Asda in the centre of town, with a very large surface car park. This means that people can do the boring bulky purchases in Asda, and then support the local shops. For people short of time, Asda sells fruit and veg, but for more unusual items, or with less food miles, there are stalls in the market, or shops on the High Street.

We have an old-fashioned ironmonger whose prices are very competitive with say, BomeHase. We also have butchers, and baker but sadly no candlemaker. There is a knit and natter/knitting shop, and some crafts shops which run day courses on a Saturday.

Just a shame then, that we are not nearer to the seaside.

 

[Reynard]

We've got a Waitrose, Tesco, Sainsbos, Aldi *and* Iceland, all within walking distance of each other. And they are building a giant Lidl as well... When I first came out this way, Ely had a Co-op and a Tesco and that was it - the rest was independent traders in the High Street and on the market place.

There is one baker left in town, but it's s***e. The bread in there is awful.

 

[Reynard]

Lexi is fast asleep in the laundry bag, cuddling my dirty undercrackers. Goodness knows why...

Then again, who am I to second guess a cat?