I write letters. I've had pen pals for years. One year I decided to give to charity water aid, donkeys,then read the people couldn't afford to keep the donkeys. The folk still haven't got clean water. I have friends of 40 years,we send cards with newsy letters. My Tesco haven't got second class stamps.
One of our outside cctv cameras stopped working, annoying as we use them to spy on the garden wildlife visitors. We had assumed that the recent heavy rain had seeped in and ruined it. I finally got round to retrieving it from the garden, only to find that the lead to it has been heavily nibbled and chewed through in places. Obviously we could see what was happening in front of the camera, but not behind it!
Do Royal Mail workers get paid on an hourly basis then? I had rather assumed they do a set number of hours each day/week and get paid accordingly.
I would also have assumed the workload is fairly even as well, why would it be slacker on a Tuesday rather than a Wednesday or Thursday, I'm puzzled.
They are on fixed hours. The use of Tuesday was simply an example. Workloads can fluctuate and I suspect there will be some sort of pattern to that. Plenty of work when the strike is over!
With regard to wash instructions, I wish manufacturers wouldn't go to such lengths to cover their backsides. I had a chair cover that needed washing. Checked the instructions. Don't wash don't dry clean. Don't iron. Don't do anything at all! "Bggggr that", says I. " If I'm going to have to buy a new one anyway, I might as well wash this one." I washed it on delicates. It's come up fine apart from a small stain. It would've looked less creased if I'd ironed it before rather than after refitting but I can't be bothered to wrestle it off and on again so I'll see if the odd crease drops out
Our sofa has washable covers but the first time we went to take them off all the metal zips fell to bits. They also taped big bags of silica beads inside the body of the sofa to keep it dry inside but used biodegradable plastic for the bags so tens of thousands of beads all came loose inside and turned the thing into a giant maraca.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Oops! The opposite happened to me. I spoke to the manufacturers ( back in the day when They were in England and you could) and asked them about how to clean it . They told me to just bung the covers in the washing machine despite the fact the label said don't wash. They were fine too.
We've had 10 consecutive nights well below freezing, with the daytime temperature not rising above 2C. The hoar frost behind the bungalow has remained frozen for the past week. Then last evening as it went dark, it started to rain... night-time temperature was 0. The ice which formed on the frozen ground, including the gravel drive, has barely shifted even with sunshine and 3C today. Feeding the birds this morning was a challenge! And we decided to err on the side of caution and withdraw from our choir's planned carol singing engagement this afternoon... I doubt if we'd have got the car out of the drive.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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They are on fixed hours. The use of Tuesday was simply an example. Workloads can fluctuate and I suspect there will be some sort of pattern to that. Plenty of work when the strike is over!
I had a chair cover that needed washing. Checked the instructions. Don't wash don't dry clean. Don't iron. Don't do anything at all!
"Bggggr that", says I. " If I'm going to have to buy a new one anyway, I might as well wash this one."
I washed it on delicates. It's come up fine apart from a small stain. It would've looked less creased if I'd ironed it before rather than after refitting but I can't be bothered to wrestle it off and on again so I'll see if the odd crease drops out
The opposite happened to me. I spoke to the manufacturers ( back in the day when They were in England and you could) and asked them about how to clean it . They told me to just bung the covers in the washing machine despite the fact the label said don't wash. They were fine too.