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🦀CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 9 🦀

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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    edited August 2020
    No neighbours who would bake it for you? I've done similar for neighbours in the past (sorry, I realise you may not have any - can't remember how rural you are).
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Next door one side are away (they’ve got a boat on the Broads)  the other side is empty and opposite are shielding ... very vulnerable. 
    It’s no real problem ... I’ve got lots of starter ... I’ll make some flatbreads on the crepe pan tomorrow. 
    The gas hob works just fine and we have a slow cooker ... we’ve managed before, we’ll manage again 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    You may remember that I had to order new valves for my kitchen taps at a very high cost recently. They came, I fitted them and all was fine. Then I was sorting the packaging for recycling and found a note in with it saying they'd supplied longer valves because a lot of customers order valves that are too short. My valves were expensive because they were an odd size so I checked the website and found the longer valves were cheaper by about £20. This seems to be because they use a 1mm longer rubber washer to make up the difference. They'd fitted fine so rather than send them back I emailed the company and asked for my £20 refund. They're now insisting that they'd sent the most expensive valves they had which were only £8 cheaper but didn't offer the refund as the valves had fit as required. It makes me wonder how much profit they're making by supplying people with cheaper valves, adding a note to say they're doing you a favour and hoping no one checks the price difference. I've no way of proving what valve they sent me as the valves have no marking on them. Since they've admitted the supplied valves are cheaper though I can't see how they can get out of refunding the difference. :/
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • You may remember that I had to order new valves for my kitchen taps at a very high cost recently. They came, I fitted them and all was fine. Then I was sorting the packaging for recycling and found a note in with it saying they'd supplied longer valves because a lot of customers order valves that are too short. My valves were expensive because they were an odd size so I checked the website and found the longer valves were cheaper by about £20. This seems to be because they use a 1mm longer rubber washer to make up the difference. They'd fitted fine so rather than send them back I emailed the company and asked for my £20 refund. They're now insisting that they'd sent the most expensive valves they had which were only £8 cheaper but didn't offer the refund as the valves had fit as required. It makes me wonder how much profit they're making by supplying people with cheaper valves, adding a note to say they're doing you a favour and hoping no one checks the price difference. I've no way of proving what valve they sent me as the valves have no marking on them. Since they've admitted the supplied valves are cheaper though I can't see how they can get out of refunding the difference. :/
    Bah HUMBUG to them! Maybe ask Citizen's Advice? I would write a very .... letter.  
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    One of those tiny things that look like silverfish bit me again😠 I've got two maddeningly itchy blisters now😡 .Really dry part of garden so I doubt they're related but silver 'glitter' when squashed and scraped off your skin.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Silver fish love dry, they live on dry rot so could have been the same. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Thanks for info @Lyn. I wish the buggers would leave me alone. Live  and let live and all that.
    Apparently if you get a reaction, it's not necessarily a bite but contact with the surface. Well it certainly felt like a nip to me! Its gone to silverfish heaven and I'm still itching
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It's sickening how quickly the conspiracy theorists shoot out of the woodwork whenever there's a tragedy.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    It’s human behaviour to never accept anything on face value, they have to look for a complicated reason,  a conspiracy is always more exciting.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Incompetence is often in greater supply than the foresight necessary to conspire.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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