Ravenbait
Someone's imaginary friend
- Location
- The Seventh Level of Hell
By wriggling up the inside, one supposes?
That's a peculiar habit for a member of the RCMP.
Sam
Tea? (Part 2)
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By wriggling up the inside, one supposes?
That's a peculiar habit for a member of the RCMP.
Sam
Ravenbait
Someone's imaginary friend
- Location
- The Seventh Level of Hell
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
I tend to bite their heads off! 
Very therapeutic, figuratively speaking.
Very therapeutic, figuratively speaking.
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
Morning! Errr, Afternoon.
Definately in need of tea.
Got a banging headach starting up, I think I tried to go to bed too early last night and spent the night with bad dreams. Then couldn't wake properly this morning at all but have finally dragged myself into work on a 'not paid for this' day.
I want to go home but have some marking, staff development and teacher training to do.
Definately in need of tea.
Got a banging headach starting up, I think I tried to go to bed too early last night and spent the night with bad dreams. Then couldn't wake properly this morning at all but have finally dragged myself into work on a 'not paid for this' day.
I want to go home but have some marking, staff development and teacher training to do.
potsy
Rambler
- Location
- My Armchair
Morning! Errr, Afternoon.
Definately in need of tea.
Got a banging headach starting up, I think I tried to go to bed too early last night and spent the night with bad dreams. Then couldn't wake properly this morning at all but have finally dragged myself into work on a 'not paid for this' day.
I want to go home but have some marking, staff development and teacher training to do.
Don't come into the Tea thread complaining about your ailments NT that's not what this place is for
ok then carry on.
Damn it looks like I've missed the Gingerbread men handouts
Some one mention Mince Pies.. oooh.. they are in my list of fave foods.
From the Standard
Cold weather makes the simple mince pie a piping hot property
Lucy Tobin
14.12.10
The mince pie's position as the nation's favourite festive treat has been crumbling for decades. But now it is making a Christmas comeback.
Coffee shops, bakers and supermarkets are reporting soaring demand for the pastry-based snack, with sales up 70 per cent from last year.
Costa Coffee has sold 200,000 mince pies since they hit the shelves three weeks ago — the equivalent of more than 9,500 every day. Tesco has sold 15 million, with sales of its Finest range up 41 per cent.
Despite numerous attempts to reinvent the treat, including renaming it the Christmas pie and an ill-fated departure from the traditional shortcrust pastry recipe, recent arctic weather appears to have driven demand.
Tesco's mince pie buyer Andy Simpson said: “Sales are very much governed by cold weather, and once the temperature drops in the run-up to Christmas demand starts in earnest.
“Other areas of our business keep a keen eye on mince pie sales because they know that they are a good barometer for the start of Christmas shopping.”
Andy Harrison, chief executive of Costa-owner Whitbread, added: “It's cold outside and while people are Christmas shopping they are warming up with a Costa mince pie.”
This year retailers started putting mince pies on the shop floor earlier than ever, with Sainsbury's selling packets on September 1 — more than 100 days before Christmas.
Ingredients of the mince pie are traceable to the 13th century, when European crusaders brought the recipe back from the Middle East.
From the Standard
Cold weather makes the simple mince pie a piping hot property
Lucy Tobin
14.12.10
The mince pie's position as the nation's favourite festive treat has been crumbling for decades. But now it is making a Christmas comeback.
Coffee shops, bakers and supermarkets are reporting soaring demand for the pastry-based snack, with sales up 70 per cent from last year.
Costa Coffee has sold 200,000 mince pies since they hit the shelves three weeks ago — the equivalent of more than 9,500 every day. Tesco has sold 15 million, with sales of its Finest range up 41 per cent.
Despite numerous attempts to reinvent the treat, including renaming it the Christmas pie and an ill-fated departure from the traditional shortcrust pastry recipe, recent arctic weather appears to have driven demand.
Tesco's mince pie buyer Andy Simpson said: “Sales are very much governed by cold weather, and once the temperature drops in the run-up to Christmas demand starts in earnest.
“Other areas of our business keep a keen eye on mince pie sales because they know that they are a good barometer for the start of Christmas shopping.”
Andy Harrison, chief executive of Costa-owner Whitbread, added: “It's cold outside and while people are Christmas shopping they are warming up with a Costa mince pie.”
This year retailers started putting mince pies on the shop floor earlier than ever, with Sainsbury's selling packets on September 1 — more than 100 days before Christmas.
Ingredients of the mince pie are traceable to the 13th century, when European crusaders brought the recipe back from the Middle East.
potsy
Rambler
- Location
- My Armchair
Having read Gaz's thread about his weight loss and joking a few weeks ago about how he was nearly down to my weight, well he now is so all talk of food is banned
Time for a brew and maybe a power nap
Time for a brew and maybe a power nap
potsy
Rambler
- Location
- My Armchair
Last night/this morning it was 4am at least before I fell asleep.
Pots, are you still not managing to eat chips and pies etc?
Time for me to say good night - busy day tomorrow, cards to write and parcels to wrap.
Oi cheek!! Appetite is getting better today, though I could only manage mashed potato with my pie-no chips
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
Potsy, I was concerned about your welfare. 
I am trying to resist the temptation to open a box and start eating some of the chocs that I am supposed to be wrapping.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
<bangs head repeatedly on table>
All the council had to do is produce some letters. Two sets, headed week 1 and week 2, corresponding to the two alternate weeks of refuse collection, with a calendar showing which weeks were collection weeks for the year ahead. Then hand them over to us, to match up the letters to the right streets, include a leaflet with our recycling info for the holiday, and deliver.
What could possibly go wrong?
My colleague had already delivered the Monday and Thursday area letters, and I was seconds away from being out of the door with the Tuesday and Friday set (we delivered the Weds ones on the round this morning) when I was asked to take a call from someone at the council.
The person who'd written the letters in fact.
The person who'd printed the week 2 calendar on the week 1 letters, and vice versa....
So having spent hours folding the letters and inserting our leaflets, I had to unfold them all and take the leaflet out.
Our stuff is more time critical (obviously, it's Xmas info, so has to be delivered this week, so that folk know we'll be collecting next week, but not the week after....) so that had to go out today - I got home an hour and a half later than normal.
And we'll have to rematch the council letters to streets (reversing what it says on the list), and deliver them next week...
Until today, we thought that the worst mistake on the letters was the bit that said "There will not be no collection in the week between Christmas and New Year"...
Tea?
All the council had to do is produce some letters. Two sets, headed week 1 and week 2, corresponding to the two alternate weeks of refuse collection, with a calendar showing which weeks were collection weeks for the year ahead. Then hand them over to us, to match up the letters to the right streets, include a leaflet with our recycling info for the holiday, and deliver.
What could possibly go wrong?
My colleague had already delivered the Monday and Thursday area letters, and I was seconds away from being out of the door with the Tuesday and Friday set (we delivered the Weds ones on the round this morning) when I was asked to take a call from someone at the council.
The person who'd written the letters in fact.
The person who'd printed the week 2 calendar on the week 1 letters, and vice versa....
So having spent hours folding the letters and inserting our leaflets, I had to unfold them all and take the leaflet out.
Our stuff is more time critical (obviously, it's Xmas info, so has to be delivered this week, so that folk know we'll be collecting next week, but not the week after....) so that had to go out today - I got home an hour and a half later than normal.And we'll have to rematch the council letters to streets (reversing what it says on the list), and deliver them next week...
Until today, we thought that the worst mistake on the letters was the bit that said "There will not be no collection in the week between Christmas and New Year"...
Tea?
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
Sit and relax Arch, while I make you and Pots a restorative pot of tea.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Sit and relax Arch, while I make you and Pots a restorative pot of tea.
Oh yes please!
I did decide that the occasion warrented a chip supper, nom nom nom....
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