Garden centres and hyper markets here are full of summer goodies so the Suez canal thing and shortage of shipping containers seem to be a red herring. Can't remember the last time I needed a vacuum flask.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Has anyone else noticed how much prices of lots of things have gone up? Even gardening items. My real gripe today is I spent (wasted) half the morning washing the car 😱. When I came back from the Allotment the other day the NDN had visitors again so I had to park on the other side under a tree. Lord knows what the birds have been eating but it was stuck like chewing gum to a train seat. 😡
Obelixx, we're off to Scotland shortly and cafes are likely to be in short supply so we plan to take a flask with us so we can stop for a cuppa whenever we feel like it. There are lots of laybys on the single track roads. Yes, I am joking before anybody chokes on their chosen libation.
I have a thermos mug when I'm cutting the grass , working in the tunnel, out delivering, all sorts of places. I've even been known to throw the last breakfast cuppa in there and drink it on the way to work
Other than fetching Possum from Namur last September I haven't been on any journey long enough to need a pit stop since I met up with Possum in Toulouse a couple of years ago and there are coffee machines and outside picnic table even in motorway services that are otherwise closed for the pandemic. In between we just drink water.
Being at home all the time means there's coffee on tap if needed. We do have 2 large insulated coffee jugs for when we have gatherings but I haven't used either since we moved here. They'll be handy one day tho.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
For some reason a post originating with Nigel Farage appeared on my timeline on Facebook. It was about the England team taking the knee at matches. I made the mistake of reading some of the comments and they were quite vile. It saddened me so much to realise that there is still so far to go to eliminate racism in this country - or even for people to recognise it. Many of the commentators were planning on booing the players as they take the knee.
Back last November, my dear dafter returned my 'other' car that she'd been driving for 'n' years (that we'd bought for her to use whilst learning). So now I need to weed the block paving under the car - and yep - me like an idiot hadn't touched the clapped out, paint faded bit of tat since she dumped it. Battery not even flat - concave. Simple job methinks - I bought a charger for the other car - but it doesn't reach. No problem - whip the battery out and charge it in the garage. Yeh - right. My toolkit consists of a hammer whose head falls 'orf and a rusty saw. But I managed to get the teminal connectors off with a socket set from a Christmas cracker - but then the battery clamp isn't an over-battery type, but one that grips the battery base - so I find a socket extension from the next year's crackers - and the bloody holding nut thingy just keeps on 'undoing' but not coming undone. Bum. Bum and thrice bum. Why is life not simple? I nearly did a John Cleese on the stupid heap of rust.
After years of working on cars I've got drawers full of sockets, extensions, wobble bars, spanners of all different shapes and sizes, long bendy things, a breaker bar four feet long and yet I still find a nut I can't undo on every job.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I clicked on a page number link on this thread and got a popup for an adclick website page start to come up. Shut it down before it did anything. I once had one of those and no matter how many times you backspace you never get out of the ad links. Backspace once and it goes forwards a few ad link pages. Ended up closing everything down to stop it. I thought I'd got one of those!!
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My real gripe today is I spent (wasted) half the morning washing the car 😱. When I came back from the Allotment the other day the NDN had visitors again so I had to park on the other side under a tree. Lord knows what the birds have been eating but it was stuck like chewing gum to a train seat. 😡
Being at home all the time means there's coffee on tap if needed. We do have 2 large insulated coffee jugs for when we have gatherings but I haven't used either since we moved here. They'll be handy one day tho.