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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited March 2023
    Not curmudgeonly but curious. I've noticed a small bollard on the kerb outside a house in our road. It looks like it might be a car charging  charging point. Are private car charging points on the pavement a thing now or is it something else? I think it had a Siemens label .
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    KT53 said:
    The biggest problem I have with Jaffa Cakes is working out which pack option is the best value.  Our Co-op will have single packs with 12, double packs with 20, and triple packs with 27, and/or variations on those numbers.  I've seen offers of 2 x single packs for £2, double packs for £1.80 and triple packs for £2.50, all at the same time.  Next time in the pricing will have changed, and they no longer seem to have the price per 100 grammes or similar on the price tag on the shelf.  Fortunately I'm good at mental arithmetic, or i'd simply go mental trying to work things out.
    Ahh, school maths lessons. If it takes three men two days to dig a trench 4’ deep, 5’ wide and 12’ long, how much would a white loaf cost? Or something like that.
    Rutland, England
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    BenCotto said:
    KT53 said:
    The biggest problem I have with Jaffa Cakes is working out which pack option is the best value.  Our Co-op will have single packs with 12, double packs with 20, and triple packs with 27, and/or variations on those numbers.  I've seen offers of 2 x single packs for £2, double packs for £1.80 and triple packs for £2.50, all at the same time.  Next time in the pricing will have changed, and they no longer seem to have the price per 100 grammes or similar on the price tag on the shelf.  Fortunately I'm good at mental arithmetic, or i'd simply go mental trying to work things out.
    Ahh, school maths lessons. If it takes three men two days to dig a trench 4’ deep, 5’ wide and 12’ long, how much would a white loaf cost? Or something like that.
    what are these strange " ' " measurements? Metres surely?
    Devon.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    No. These were British workers not Frenchies. They’d have had a baguette.
    Rutland, England
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I stopped being taught about feet and inches when I was about 7 years old
    Devon.
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    I recently measured a space in a bungalow we were viewing.
    3ft x 80xm

    Confused the wife no end!!
    But it was the best rounding.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2023
    The ex used to order “7 metres of inch by four”  … ‘cos that’s how it was sold back in the day …

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





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    instructions for my polytunnel. 
    " take the 2" x1/4" batten and fix with a 45mm nail "
    Devon.
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    edited March 2023
    rowlandscastle444 said:
    I recently measured a space in a bungalow we were viewing.
    3ft x 80xm

    Confused the wife no end!!
    But it was the best rounding.
    Oops. That should have read
    3ft x 80cm.
     :) 
    That's what comes of posting up before 6am!!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I was wondering what you were going to do with that space🤔
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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