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Mike_P

Guru
Location
Harrogate
All supermarkets do this and the theory is that while you are searching for whatever you came in for you will see items you had no intention of buying but pick them up on impulse.
Got this from the horse’ mouth aka a supermarket manager.

Trouble with the local big Sainsbury's is it has to shut whilst the Great Yorkshire show is on so they have a few days in which to play battleships with the shelves.
 

biggs682

Itching to get back on my bike's
Location
Northamptonshire
Working day completed
Manic last hour
 

tom73

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
Why do they shut?
We used to go to a wholesale show in end of August to buy and sell but never noticed any closing anywhere.
It's only at Great Yorkshire Show time it closers.
It's built on land once part of the show ground parking with the amount of footfall using the show ground access point at the bottom of the store car park. Plus the show traffic both using the main road and the side road up to one of the parking areas and another access point. it's pretty impractical to open. As it's at one end of the show ground it effectively becomes landlocked at show time.
The Yorkshire Agricultural Society owned caravan site opposite the show ground also effectively closers too becoming exhibitors only.
 
Had a lovely luncheon of two slices of wholemeal toast, one with the last of the turkey & stuffing, one with sliced avocado, plus a banana, a pear and two :cuppa:

Ended up spending the afternoon lumberjilling instead. Some of the downed bullace branches were much bigger than anticipated, necessitating the use of the loppers and chainsaw. This stuff has to be dealt with as I can't cut the grass in that part of the garden until it's cleared up. If I leave it any longer, I won't be able to see it!

I've made some really good inroads into that, and stacked the resulting logs, along with some mulberry that also needed cutting up in the log store for green wood. There's also one stack of small wood that's been put aside to be cut up and stuffed in the green wheelie bin, and another stack that is going to be turned into kindling as it's nice and dry.

Now sat down with a nice :cuppa: and a biskit.
 
My favourite is "The Day Before You Came". It is "slower" than most of their others. This is also one of Pete Waterman's favourites, and I recall him saying he wishes he had written it.

That was the last single they released, IIRC.

I don't have any particular favourites tbh. Although one of my all-time favourite songs is "Man" - written and sung by Agnetha after she went solo again.
 
Time to feed the cat, and then it will be time to feed me.
 

MikeG

Guru
Location
Suffolk
Had a lovely luncheon of two slices of wholemeal toast, one with the last of the turkey & stuffing, one with sliced avocado, plus a banana, a pear and two :cuppa:

Ended up spending the afternoon lumberjilling instead. Some of the downed bullace branches were much bigger than anticipated, necessitating the use of the loppers and chainsaw. This stuff has to be dealt with as I can't cut the grass in that part of the garden until it's cleared up. If I leave it any longer, I won't be able to see it!

I've made some really good inroads into that, and stacked the resulting logs, along with some mulberry that also needed cutting up in the log store for green wood. There's also one stack of small wood that's been put aside to be cut up and stuffed in the green wheelie bin, and another stack that is going to be turned into kindling as it's nice and dry.

Now sat down with a nice :cuppa: and a biskit.

It must be a day for bullace. I pruned a couple of ours, and lopped off 3 big dead branches from the old greengage, which was complicated by the fact that one of them was overhanging the greenhouse. I'm not silly enough to use a chainsaw up a tree, so I took a bow saw up and did it by hand, then chopped up the bigger stuff on the ground with the chainsaw.
 
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