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Jenkins

Legendary Member
Location
Felixstowe
This evening has been mostly spent with Greater Anglia timetables as, if the weather turns wet midweek, I may have a day out later in the week just riding trains on a Ranger Ticket. Cambridge is a bugger for connections to or from Norwich as there's either a long wait, a cross platform sprint or having to use Great Northern & East Midlands Railway instead.

Time for the evening's hot chocolate.
 

postman

Squire
Location
,Leeds
Asus chromebook 15.6 size,playing with settings and now altered text sizing,with the bigger screen i have made the text bigger,what a difference eyes are loving it,still think it's a bad design to have white lettering on grey keys.The sizing has stopped the slight blurring.
 

tyred

Squire
Location
Ireland
I rode to the official start of the Hebridan Way before checking into the hostel. It was a nice but cold day. The forecast isn't so good for tomorrow.

Relaxing now...

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Gravity Aided

Legendary Member
Location
Land of Lincoln
Yes, usually it's free for a limited time, often 90 minutes, and after that it functions like a paying car park. There's a car park at a shopping centre in Charlton where the free parking time is reduced on match days when the local Charlton Athletic are playing at home. I managed to learn this by rather expensive experience. It can be a bit of a trap at big spread out shopping centres which can take a while to get around and, after all, who makes a mental note of what time you entered the car park when you're out for a shop?

That is antithetical to a good consumer experience.
 

Gravity Aided

Legendary Member
Location
Land of Lincoln
Yep.. Most supermarkets have time limits, as do retail parks, especially in town centres. As @deptfordmarmoset says: free, then a ticket if you don't follow the time based rules ie: longer for disabled if you give your car reg number to them.

Having become quite handicapped/physically challenged since I have been on this forum, I have a space by the door, no time limits, as they want me to spend as much time there as I can. I am usually yellow stickering . Many Muricans also shop online and pull up outside the store to get their groceries loaded in their car. As long as I have life and breath, I probably will not do that.
 
It's been a chilly day here chez Casa Reynard, with a mixture of drizzle and bits of sunshine and a biting northerly breeze.

Slept well enough, though still short changed by about an hour. Went downstairs, fed the cat, took a :cuppa: back upstairs and did a couple of hours of writing.

The basic chores where then done. I had intended doing some gardening, but just wasn't in the mood, so prepared a car load of stuff to take to the tip instead. I do not need moth-eaten clothes that belonged to my grandparents - mum had high hopes of selling them, but that kind of stuff is deeply unfashionable. So it was all stored in my utility room - where the moths then had a bloody field day.

I have so much crap to shift, it's depressing.

Annoyingly, I tripped and took a tumble while hefting the bags, and so banged the knee that I banged on Saturday and have done something to my right bicep. So feeling a bit meh.

Had a lovely luncheon of a cheese & chutney roll, an orange, the last of the strawberries and a pot of tea.

I did think about doing some gardening and a tip run in the afternoon, but a friend of mine does some acting (proper stuff, not amateur dramatics) and needs part of a costume altered for next Monday. So I spent the afternoon and part of the evening sewing instead.

Turned the last of the ma po tofu and a few other bits and bobs into a bowl of ramen for supper, and i've just had a :cuppa: and some marmalade on toast.

A quiet remainder of the evening is planned.
 
Supermarket car parks here in Ely are a bit pot luck.

Waitrose is 2 hours, Aldi is 90 mins and Tesco is 3 hours. No idea what the time limit for the Sainsbury's car park is.
 
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