@Lyn you seem to be missing the point of this thread. To have a gripe about things that aren't necessarily that major just irritating. We only do on line shopping as the rates are so high here. We have been cooking for the wider family since August & buying more than usual but even cooking for 7 we can't use 4 bags of green beans all dated for the day they arrived . Our freezer is full of Allotment produce we are saving for real winter use.
I suppose the minimum wage would be considered generous if we were still living in 1920. I'm not sure but was it Tony Blair or someone else of that era who, when questioned, couldn't say what a pint of milk cost ? I doubt whether much has changed since then - well, except it could be the cost of a litre of milk
I think it was Tory MP N Dorries who said, David Cameron and George Osborne are two posh, arrogant
 boys who don't know the price of milk.
I don't know the price of milk either and i'm not at all posh. OH likes it on his Weetabix and I occasionally use some in cooking so I just buy 6 packs of HT semi-skimmed from local farmers as and when we run low.  Even tho Pasteur was French they've never understood how to keep pasteurised milk except for making cheese.
There was ani interview on the news yesterday, I think, about the real living wage going up and the head of the Real Living Wage Foundation has all sorts of statistics about better productivity, lower absenteeism, better loyalty rates from employees of businesses who signed up to honour the RLW.
A pox on anyone who thinks exploiting their employees with zero hours, poor working conditions, sexism, racism and all the other negative isms. Let there be enlightenment for people who happily use products and services from companies known to be exploitative yet have the means to choose better.
Well, things could always be worse, as my old ma used to say.Â
Here is where my grandfather grew up. The photo dates from just about a hundred years ago.
How is this worse? Kids are all fairly warmly clothed, have shoes, toys, can play and run freely about the streets. Adults are neat, tidy and appear to be part of a well populated community. Yes, they have tiny houses (they also don't have huge amounts of possessions) and outdoor facilities (my great grandparents refused an indoor lav because it would be unsanitary).
Today, that'd be a bad way to live. Back then, they look to be doing quite well.
Now if you were talking the 1300s at the height of the Black Death...
he point of this thread. To have a gripe about things that aren't necessarily that major just irritating. Exactly @Allotment Boy😊 you have perfect understanding ( that's a quote from somewhere. I hope it's profound)
I don't drink milk and I have no idea what it costs. I eat spuds but I'd have to guess at the price. Any company that can't afford to pay its workers a living wage shouldn't be in business.. Any company that pays its shareholders a dividend out of money that should be used to pay workers a living wage should be out of business.
Adorable: my least favourite adjective.😡 Why would I adore a puppy or or a cuddly toy or an ornament or a cottage or a precocious child? I don't do adorationðŸ˜
Good morning all, a lovely sunny day here by the look of it. Nothing planned especially, we normally do our SM shop on a Wednesday morning but because it is Armistice Day LeClerc is closed. Perhaps i should do some h*******k but there again it's too nice to be indoors. Â
My motto is:Â "Gardening for ever; housework whenever."
Sad day...nature at its worst. Went down to feed my chickens/ducks to find my beautiful Aylesbury girl with her throat ripped out, Ed the drake and another girl covered in blood and injured. Rocky, the handsome bantem cockeral dead in the corner of the pen and 2 other hens missing. The pen is made up of Herras fencing buried 1 foot; no evidence of digging. Feathers were on top of one of the houses. I heard screeching in the middle of last night. We have a family of buzzards in our plot..could they be the killers?Â
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I may well be wrong though!
There was ani interview on the news yesterday, I think, about the real living wage going up and the head of the Real Living Wage Foundation has all sorts of statistics about better productivity, lower absenteeism, better loyalty rates from employees of businesses who signed up to honour the RLW.
A pox on anyone who thinks exploiting their employees with zero hours, poor working conditions, sexism, racism and all the other negative isms. Let there be enlightenment for people who happily use products and services from companies known to be exploitative yet have the means to choose better.
Today, that'd be a bad way to live. Back then, they look to be doing quite well.
Now if you were talking the 1300s at the height of the Black Death...
Exactly @Allotment Boy😊 you have perfect understanding ( that's a quote from somewhere. I hope it's profound)
Any company that can't afford to pay its workers a living wage shouldn't be in business..
Any company that pays its shareholders a dividend out of money that should be used to pay workers a living wage should be out of business.
Why would I adore a puppy or or a cuddly toy or an ornament or a cottage or a precocious child?
I don't do adorationðŸ˜
My motto is:Â "Gardening for ever; housework whenever."