We went to the Garden Club meeting last night which is held in our local parish church. The loos were unavailable because some toerags had pinched the lead off the roof again. I blame not only them but the CofE who refuse to allow lead substitutes for church roofs.
Surely you don't expect such organisations to allow common sense to prevail.
Alright. Gas prices are back down to the level they were at this time last year when my bills were half what they are now. It's been a very windy winter and all my electricity comes from wind power. But my bills aren't going down and the government is still having to pay my supplier to make a ridiculous profit. Can anyone explain how this works? Apparently my bill will stay the same but the government can probably stop wasting my taxes on paying the extra by about June. Why can't they demand the energy companies stop profiteering and spend the money on insulation grants and helpful things like that instead?
The standard argument for the reason prices take so long to fall is that the companies pay for gas or oil months in advance. On that basis prices shouldn't increase for months after OPEC or whoever announces a price increase, but that doesn't happen. I've never heard anybody ask that question when price rises are being discussed. I wonder why?
Please convince me I'm being paranoid but the recent outages with American flights and post office computers smacks of someone trying out their cyber attack systems. Most of our technology has elements of cheap Chinese software / hardware/ whatever.
My supermarket is still poorly stocked (and seems to be 'run down' - shoddy, understaffed...) - I know were on the verge of recession and Covid had and is having an impact - but does anyone else notice this or is it just my local store (or chain)?
Maybe it's the gloominess of that twixt and tween period after Christmas and before Spring - but everything just seems so drab and run down this year.
I noticed in the cereal aisle at Sainsbury's there were whole shelves of cardboard pictures of cereals but very little in actual cereal. Luckily I was only there for my one treat of a box of Darjeeling tea and would never dream of being able to afford shopping in such an expensive store.
Maybe they're just short of things I don't buy. Our local one is a superstore so perhaps that makes a difference. I did notice that there were a lot of rotten vegetables. Now They don't date them, nobody checks them I suppose.
How can they? Dropping dates was the most insane thing they've done in ages. How on earth they manage their stock their end I don't know - and how families manage their food once bought. I used to work timing of meals based on the dates (I'd buy for meals during the week and then cook the food based on date so I didn't have waste). Now I haven't a clue which items are close to dates or even beyond - as I may have already bought old stock.
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The standard argument for the reason prices take so long to fall is that the companies pay for gas or oil months in advance. On that basis prices shouldn't increase for months after OPEC or whoever announces a price increase, but that doesn't happen. I've never heard anybody ask that question when price rises are being discussed. I wonder why?