Just come back from a supermarket shop ... decided to try to avoid the worst of the roadworks at the only junction into/out of the village so went to T*sco rather than W'rose .... haven't been there for ages ... it's been rearranged ... I asked one assistant where the buttermilk was ... she looked confused and said that I could make butter out of any milk ... bless, not out of skimmed I couldn't ... anyway when I explained that it usually comes in a carton like yoghurt the light dawned and she found it ... and no, it wasn't near the yoghurt ............ later on, while standing in the baking aisle I asked for Cream of Tartar ...... the nice lady said that she knew where it was and started to march off in another direction ... I said 'Oh, I was looking in the baking aisle near the Bicarbonate of Soda' .... she stopped as light began to dawn there too ... she'd been heading towards Tartare Sauce ............... we found it in the baking aisle of course, but it wasn't with the bicarb
On the way home I found that the way back into the village from the ring road has been totally blocked off for the weekend because of the roadworks ....... I had to go down the A11 to the roundabout and back up into the village that way so had to go past W'rose anyway ..... when I got to the area where the roadworks are there was no work going on at all ... not a roadman/woman in sight anywhere ........ apparently these roadworks are going on until September ... and that's if it goes according to plan
Gosh, it's jolly breezy here!!! 23.4C and sunny with white fluffies.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Dovefromabove. That reminds me of Hubby going into Somerfield when we lived "up country" " Can you tell me where I'd find Basil please?" "there's nobody called Basil working here" " I don't suppose there's anyone here called papaya either is there?" blank look......
After much time online , I've just got the AA to halve their renewal. It seems threatening to leave them after 35 years of memberships pays dividends.
I left them @Hostafan1 ... I'd tried to get them to reduce the membership to a reasonable amount but they wouldn't. Then I phoned up and told them that I was cancelling and going with Green Flag ... suddenly they promised to match the deal I'd found with Green Flag ... I said blow that! You wouldn't reduce it before even tho I was a loyal member for years and years and years 'cos you thought I was bluffing ... well I wasn't ... and I left. I've been with Green Flag for three years now. I might go back to the AA some time, but not until they offer me one of those wonderfully low new member offers
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They've told me I'll have free "home start " for life which isn't a bad starting point. They're still dearer than Green Flag, but Hubby does such a high mileage in a 10 year old car and, most importantly, he says he'll pay 2/3 and I only have to pay 1/3. In the words of our favourite diminutive Antipodean chanteuse " better the devil you know"
@Hostafan1 ... some years ago I was in another T*sco and was buying some fresh peas in their pods. The very young lad on the checkout looked puzzled and asked me what they were ... I told him they were peas .... he told me they weren't ... he knew that peas were round
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They've told me I'll have free "home start " for life which isn't a bad starting point. ...
That's not bad I suppose ...
I think the AA's turn up target times are supposed to be better than Green Flag, but given that I'm usually a female on my own I'm prioritised anyway so I've never had to wait long
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It seems threatening to leave them after 35 years of memberships pays dividends.
On the way home I found that the way back into the village from the ring road has been totally blocked off for the weekend because of the roadworks ....... I had to go down the A11 to the roundabout and back up into the village that way so had to go past W'rose anyway ..... when I got to the area where the roadworks are there was no work going on at all ... not a roadman/woman in sight anywhere ........ apparently these roadworks are going on until September ... and that's if it goes according to plan
Gosh, it's jolly breezy here!!! 23.4C and sunny with white fluffies.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
" Can you tell me where I'd find Basil please?"
"there's nobody called Basil working here"
" I don't suppose there's anyone here called papaya either is there?"
blank look......
I left them @Hostafan1 ... I'd tried to get them to reduce the membership to a reasonable amount but they wouldn't. Then I phoned up and told them that I was cancelling and going with Green Flag ... suddenly they promised to match the deal I'd found with Green Flag ... I said blow that! You wouldn't reduce it before even tho I was a loyal member for years and years and years 'cos you thought I was bluffing ... well I wasn't ... and I left. I've been with Green Flag for three years now. I might go back to the AA some time, but not until they offer me one of those wonderfully low new member offers
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
They're still dearer than Green Flag, but Hubby does such a high mileage in a 10 year old car and, most importantly, he says he'll pay 2/3 and I only have to pay 1/3.
In the words of our favourite diminutive Antipodean chanteuse " better the devil you know"
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think the AA's turn up target times are supposed to be better than Green Flag, but given that I'm usually a female on my own I'm prioritised anyway so I've never had to wait long
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.