About 15 years ago I bought some loose peas in their pods from Tesco. The young lad at the checkout looked in the bag and asked what they were so he knew what to scan them as. When I said ‘They’re peas’ he looked at me as if I was an idiot and said, ‘but peas are round’.
Fortunately the assistant at the adjoining checkout heard the people in my queue laughing and helped him out of his embarrassment by explaining. 😂
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Love the story about the peas, Dove! I had a similar experience at a greengrocers with a bag of manges tout. The young assistant shouted across the shop to her colleague, “How much are the mang towts?”
I just had an email from my energy provider giving me great news about the price cuts they're now offering. I guess this means that rates are back to being competitive and they're worried about people jumping ship after being treated like cash cows for the past 12 months
Fuel prices have gone strange as well now. In some garages diesel is the same price as petrol and we've been told for years that diesel costs more to get to the pump than petrol. Now diesel car sales are dropping off and petrol is becoming dominant again and suddenly the prices are equal. It looks to me like we've been lied to again in the name of profits.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
At 10am today the Met Office was forecasting a 90% chance of rain in Liverpool at 4 to 5pm. timeanddate.com forecasts 0% and 1%. At the BBC you might as well toss a coin, as the forecast for 3pm is 52%.
They reduced my electric bill from £48.00 to £26.00, now they say I must have a meter fitted! No, I mustn’t if I don’t want one.
@wild edges we are lied to over everything, we are only told what we want to hear, and what they want us to hear, we’ll never know what really goes on, that’s why I never read newspaper links that people chuck about like confetti at a wedding.
I’m feeling nice and curmudgeonly today, especially as there’s been a sensational story about a few millionaires lost at sea, 4 days on the news and headlines of the newspapers, 2 minute mention on the news last night of 150 men, crammed in the hold of ship like slaves, all for money, all dead.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
That's the problem with the 'instant' society. Do you remember when you go the weather the day before from the late news? You took a coat or not based on that.
Now, the met office updates its forecast every few minutes and even a local 'next hour' forecast goes from <5% to >80% chance of rain between refreshes. Fine, weather isn't predictable, but the update frequency (and if you look at the forecast that often) makes it basically useless. Too much information means less.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
“How much are the mang towts?”
We're just not very good at working together. I do my thing and he's an idiot who puts his hand in front of my fork! Twonk!
With this dry weather you're probably lucky that's all that caught fire.