I was sitting in bed this morning watching the News when my wife came up and said "There's a bird in the house. I need you to get rid of it". Once I realised it was of the feathered variety I went to investigate. A Great Tit was sat on a light fitting in our living room. I wondered how on earth I was going to catch it, then I had a brain wave. The living room is a large through room and opens onto our conservatory. I opened the door to the conservatory and switched all the lights on. Switched the lights in the living room off and the bird flew straight into the conservatory. It was still dark outside so I dimmed the lights and closed the door, leaving birdie happily perched in there. Once there was a bit of light outside I opened the outer door and he was out in a matter of seconds. Great result with little or no hassle.
Was just in Sainbury's and the sheer relief when The Power Of Love came on was enormous. All those bouncy, excessively loud Xmas songs are so intrusive. This was a chilled oasis of calm in comparison.
And I got through the self-checkout process without one single item requiring staff intervention. Result! 😁
Managed to register with our local library. The last time I did that, was as a teenager. RTBC though, is I was chatted up by the good-looking librarian, who told me she was only three years younger than me, and lived in the next road. Back home, my wife laughed!!
That is a very good question. The conservatory hasn't been open to the outside for several weeks, and no windows have been open in the living room either. Most likely entry point would be the kitchen as my missus often leaves the door open when cooking. How it got from there to the living room is a mystery as the obvious route on leaving the kitchen would be upstairs, not along the hall and into the living room. It's possible it had done a tour and then been attracted to the light in the living room at some point in the evening.
My wife was complaining about the lack of staff on the checkouts in Matalan. Apparently only self-checkout tills were operating but several staff were standing around chatting. I've said to her that next time she's in there she needs to say she wants to pay cash. They have to open a till for that. Once they've put the items through say she doesn't have enough cash and will have to pay by card after all.
Tell her to buy alcohol @KT53, then they have to come to the self-service till to check that she's old enough! When I use those things they almost always need someone to come and do something to it. I've found they're not so picky if I just dump the shopping in the "bagging area" and then pack it into my bags when I'm done - I think it's arranging things properly in the bags rather than just chucking it in any old how that upsets them. But then it takes twice as long.
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@JennyJ I didn't know Matalan sold booze, but it does explain why my missus likes going there so often. A couple of weeks ago my brother-in-law actually did walk away from his full trolley in one supermarket when they refused to open a staffed till. The attitude is totally counterproductive. On a staffed till I can pack the bags as items come through in less than half the time it would take for me to find each bar code and then pack each item before scanning the next.
I'd missed that it was Matalan (oops!). I've not been in there for donkeys ages, and I don't think they had e-tills then.
I agree it's much quicker to use a staffed till in the supermarket even if there's a queue, unless I only have a few items (maybe up to 5 or so) and no booze, medicines or anything else that needs age verification.
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So true!
RTBC though, is I was chatted up by the good-looking librarian, who told me she was only three years younger than me, and lived in the next road.
Back home, my wife laughed!!
That is a very good question. The conservatory hasn't been open to the outside for several weeks, and no windows have been open in the living room either. Most likely entry point would be the kitchen as my missus often leaves the door open when cooking. How it got from there to the living room is a mystery as the obvious route on leaving the kitchen would be upstairs, not along the hall and into the living room. It's possible it had done a tour and then been attracted to the light in the living room at some point in the evening.