Mundane News

[grumpydad]

This cold is getting a bit tedious now, 8 days of festering around the house🤧🤧

 

[classic33]

2c outside

Minus 2°C, outside, round these parts.

 

[classic33]

The Co-op has been going downhill for years, at one time they owned factories and farms for instance in Enderby (where I'm from) there was a boot and shoe factory that employed hundreds, there was also a department store that sold pretty much everything from carpets to washing machines, stereos, televisions, menswear/ladies wear, haberdashery wool (and patterns) with also a separate set of shops including a bakery, greengrocers and a butchers even a bank. all gone now.
Mind you it is possible to stand outside one Co-op (part of the old department store) and look across the road and up the hill a bit to see another Co-op that was formerly a Summerfields but they won't shut that for fear of Lidl/Aldi moving in as competition.

We'd a "Co-Op Arcade in the town centre. There you'd find their travel agents, chemists, opticians and their main shop.
All gone now, along with the arcade which has been built into. Gone is the view of the ironwork supporting the glass roof.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Minus 2°C, outside, round these parts.

We have skyrocketed up to -13C here. Maybe cook out tonight.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The weather has gone dark again

 

[tyred]

I enjoyed that, pleased I went. They used to do half-price on Tuesdays but doesn't seem to be the case any more.

It was raining on the way there, and raining on the way home. Good job I took my umbrella.

 

[tyred]

I seem to get a monthly newsletter from the physio I had been seeing for my back.

 

[classic33]

We have skyrocketed up to -13C here. Maybe cook out tonight.

Why not!
You'll be wearing your shorts and T-shirt no doubt.

 

[classic33]

Tuesday could be the coldest January night since 2010, the Met Office has warned.
Temperatures may drop to freezing lows of -15C in parts of Scotland, according to the forecaster.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68001525

 

[biggs682]

Dark outside

 

[Mo1959]

Baltic here and not to get above freezing all day. All change by the weekend though.

 

[biggs682]

13c in the kitchen
There goes yesterday
Another day another drive along the A45 to Numpton later

 

[PeteXXX]

I'm very almost up.

 

[PeteXXX]

It's ♻ Bin & Garden Waste Bin Day today. No doubt the lids will be frozen shut but I'm sure the chaps can deal with that!

Peculiarly, there's no ice on the car windscreens. Must be the right sort of freezing. ❄

 

[PeteXXX]

Footnote: my brother told me that he was taking 2 pairs of socks with him to Sri Lanka. In case of sunburnt toesies.

Footnote:
I see what you did there 😂