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Dirk

Dirk

If 6 Was 9
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Watchet
Some people shop as if they are expecting armageddon to arrive within the next 3 hours. I often wonder how much food is wasted at Christmas due to people shopping till they drop and then can't possibly eat everything before it goes off.

Know what you mean.
We have a very frugal Christmas. Don't buy anything that we wouldn't normally buy - it's just another day.
We have Egg and Chips for Christmas dinner and have done so for the past 25 years - no fuss.
The sheer profligacy of some folk astonishes me.
 
Right - final things time

Went to the butcher's in the market to pick up the pie and Turkey Crown that I had ordered
Bit of a panic when the Turkey appeared to have not been ordered - but it turned out the owner's brain was a bit frazzled by people sending confused husbands to pick stuff up but giving without telling them what name it was ordered under - he seemed to be having to ask people for a list of family members and their nicknames in order to track down a couple of orders

Anyway out turkey was eventually found in the fridge (which is comforting!!!) after a few confused and worried looks
I had reached the point of making backup plans!!!


Anyway - that's that sorted

Saw this on the BBC website this morning
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64083802

Hmm - looking forward to that - wonder what they can do to persuade me back to the workplace

Bet they want me to go back to schools as I used to be a teachert - possibly as a TA - vastly underpaid and often treated as 'little people' by senior teachers - bit of a difficult sell that one

still - might see what they say if only for comic value!!!
 

Tenkaykev

Guru
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Poole
Back from Christmas parkrun at Potternewton park in Leeds. Three hilly laps and really struggled, dut there was cake at the finish line 🎅😀
Off to Roundhay park for a walk with family followed by a bit of lunch.
 

Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
Some people shop as if they are expecting armageddon to arrive within the next 3 hours. I often wonder how much food is wasted at Christmas due to people shopping till they drop and then can't possibly eat everything before it goes off.

I agree, the amount of stuff I have seen people buying is quite astronomical.
I too wonder how much of it gets wasted.
For us it's just a slightly bigger than normal sunday dinner with a few extras. But we probably won't eat again until breakfast on boxing day.
 
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