I want to complain about a radio program but I know it will just descend into unpleasantness so I'll complain about inflation rising due to salad instead. Salad We need fuel for obvious reasons but did anyone ever need salad in winter enough to force up the costs of mortgages?
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Not just salads @wild edges but any fruit, veg, fish, meat, dairy and/or factory processed foods requiring heat to grow and/or process it and/or refrigeration to keep it fresh and then packaging to keep it safe for transport and then, of course, the transport itself.
It really does pay to grow your own, eat seasonal foods and buy local where possible.
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)."
'Eat seasonal' and 'buy local' seem to be unknown concepts to many people. Society today seems to expect to be able to purchase whatever food they want, whenever they want it.
I also wish clothes shops would sell seasonal produce. We tend to go abroad on holiday in September. If we realise after about May that we need any new clothing items there is no chance. By then they all seem to be stocking winter clothes. Similarly, my nephew's birthday is at the end of October, by which time the card shops are full of Christmas cards.
...and how can it push up inflation when there's none in the shops anyway?....Or is the virtual inflation shopping basket exactly that and they could easily buy inflated price salad 'stuff' in their virtual shop...?
On the way home today we came across a truck, parked at the side of the road with the lights for temporary road works on the back. Both sets of lights were still active, and set at different points in the sequence. As we arrived one set turned to green as the other set changed to amber and then red. The bloke with the truck was making no attempt to either cover or switch off the lights, and there was no evidence of any roadworks either just finished or about to happen. Just this idiot with a disco on the back of the truck!
I took an item into the main Post Office on Monday morning and, on their recommendation, paid over 7 quid for 'Guaranteed 24 hour delivery'. It arrived 72 hours later, and only had to travel 150 miles. In the first 48 hours it had only travelled as far as Bristol, which is actually 40 miles in the wrong direction.
Yes, I'm aware that sorting has been centralised to a few large hubs.
Have you asked for your money back @KT53? You are surely entitled to it after they broke their contract.
France has simplified letter postage - one rate for France and one rate for the rest of the world. To speed up sorting, and presumably delivery, post offices have two posting boxes - one for local and one for out of region and abroad - and that does seem to work.
Haven't tried posting a parcel lately.
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)."
@KT53 If you had a receipt for the guaranteed 24 hour delivery and proof of the actual delivery date, did you attempt to get at least some of your £7 plus back ? I seem to remember reading/hearing recently that in fact RM was being slated for concentrating on parcel deliveries whilst letters were deemed 2nd class - literally !!
I watched the post box outside our local post office being emptied the other day @Obelixx, the local and out of region ones were dumped in the same box and taken inside, so I don't know how that works!
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It really does pay to grow your own, eat seasonal foods and buy local where possible.
France has simplified letter postage - one rate for France and one rate for the rest of the world. To speed up sorting, and presumably delivery, post offices have two posting boxes - one for local and one for out of region and abroad - and that does seem to work.
Haven't tried posting a parcel lately.
I seem to remember reading/hearing recently that in fact RM was being slated for concentrating on parcel deliveries whilst letters were deemed 2nd class - literally !!