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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I've lost the plot here but carry on. I'll catch up sooner or later.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    pansyface said:
    It's amazing the billions companies have to spend to break Amazon's stranglehold on the tat market now.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    pansyface said:
    It's amazing the billions companies have to spend to break Amazon's stranglehold on the tat market now.

    most of the ads I've seen for temu , seem to be selling stuff destined for landfill
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited October 2023
    KT53 said:
    @Dovefromabove these things take months of planning.  It's certainly not just a case of looking on Google Maps and thinking "That looks like the best route".  There have been a number of programmes about moving abnormal loads.  You look at the route and think they can't get through, but they do.
    Oh I know that .., my tongue was in my cheek when I said that .., but I am puzzled as to the reason they’re going via the congested centre of the old part of Ipswich rather than the straightforward route taken by all other very large loads from Ipswich Docks straight onto the 6 lane A14 and then to  interchange with the A140  … very puzzling. 

    🤔 Maybe someone in charge of Very Big Loads reads the GW Forum … now who was it who said that the A14 would be a better route?  …. Let me think …. 💡 

    😇

    I wonder how many folk
    contacted them and said they were ‘going the wrong way’ 
    🤣 🤣 🤣 

    For the rest of that discussion see page 864 😂 

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





  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    That's brilliant @Dovefromabove!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I'm a cynical person as you may have noticed but if you googled 'King Charles Capercaillie' before today you would have been shown a lot of results about how the King's Scottish estates still prioritise sporting interests over the survival of the species. Now however you get a lot of results about the new coins with the bird on them instead https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/12/royal-mint-unveils-new-coin-design-inspired-by-king-charles
    More news about how Charlie is a lifelong conservationist and nothing about the continuing illegal persecution of wildlife on his estates. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/02/sandringham-royal-estate-linked-to-many-deaths-and-disappearances-of-protected-birds
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • I know it's an age/health thing, but embarrassingly, I forgot my credit card PIN. Trying to get through to the right person who can send me a replacement, has been a hassle.
    I know that they have to check my details for security, but all I wanted was for them to send a new PIN, or reminder of the old PIN, to the account holder, at his home address. What could be so difficult?!

    Ironically, they said I wouldn't be able to use my card in the meantime. Well, I can't anyway!!

    Of course, it would have been easier to drop into my local branch of xxxxxxx bank. But I can't. They've closed the branch.
    Sigh!!
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    When you get your replacement PIN @rowlandscastle444, visit your nearest ATM and change it to something memorable.  As a reminder, I incorporate mine in a false telephone number (eg the last four digits, reversed if you like a challenge!) which I keep in a contact list of real contacts!
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Oh dear, looks like my clever scheme isn’t quite as original as I thought! Might need to at least add a few more contacts to my address list, it’s quite short so wouldn’t take very long for a thief to check them all out! Maybe I should change my PIN to the last four digits of a real contact number!
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited October 2023
    For a card that I very rarely use and so would struggle to remember the PIN, I have it incorporated into a slip of paper kept in my wallet which purports to show an account balance written on it: £1,324.17 (PIN 7142).
    Rutland, England
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