Mundane News

[Ming the Merciless]

cold toes?

No, wasn’t out for long enough for that.

 

[Jenkins]

Bacon rolls for tea

 

[biggs682]

I can't put it off much longer, I'm going to have to go out and do battle with the food shopping crowds.

We have just done the same it wasn't too bad but bad enough.

My working day is completed

 

[tom73]

I’ve noticed two things today, 1 you always join the longest queue and 2 Poinsettias just last one week, still we have a nice new expensive pot added to our collection.

Poinsettias are very picky and need a very careful handling. They come for Mexico so not exactly our Christmas weather. The 1st big rule is never buy from a supermarket. They just see them a seasonal cash maker, also never one that outside like some shops do. By the time they have moved all over the place and left on shelves. The damage will have been done long before you got it. When you do buy one always get it wrapped or cover it over. Before you take to the car or home. That short bit of cold is more than enough to do it in.
The hardest thing is to find a UK grown one , we only have one left the supermarkets have like so many others have bleed them dry.
They are expense to grow last time I checked with the trade anything under £7 meant selling at a loss.

 

[tom73]

Today's advent chocolate Santa head is now no more.

 

[PeteXXX]

I'm back from the Panto! 😋

 

[PeteXXX]

Poinsettias are very picky and need a very careful handling. They come for Mexico so not exactly our Christmas weather. The 1st big rule is never buy from a supermarket. They just see them a seasonal cash maker, also never one that outside like some shops do. By the time they have moved all over the place and left on shelves. The damage will have been done long before you got it. When you do buy one always get it wrapped or cover it over. Before you take to the car or home. That short bit of cold is more than enough to do it in.
The hardest thing is to find a UK grown one , we only have one left the supermarkets have like so many others have bleed them dry.
They are expense to grow last time I checked with the trade anything under £7 meant selling at a loss.

When I was transport manager at Sainsburys we had hourly temperature checks on stand trailers for poinsettias (+12 to +15 iirc) & -22 for frozen turkeys.. God help the person in charge if anything went wrong 😂
Mind you, as soon as the plants were delivered, they were put right by the front doors so they got alternately freezing & hot (and dead)