Mundane News

[carpiste]

...... The Spar lorry could not get on a ferry yesterday because the one it was booked on was cancelled and so booked cars were taken on but no room for a perishable food lorry.......

Funny that recent reports about lack of haulage drivers and food shortages are all over the news yet they allow people to go on holiday rather than feed people!
I was at the supermarket yesterday and there were some gaps on the shelves but amazingly the fizzy pop and cake/ biscuit aisle were unaffected!
During WW2 (well before my time) there were horrendous food and labour shortages, far worse than today, but with government intervention we managed ok. So today we could similarly organise all drivers to deliver essential goods only and food deliveries will always take priority over tourists! Oh I know it would be a pain for the fizzy drinks and junk food industries but a boon for healthy eating and, of course, the added bonus of keeping the Islands free from tourists

 

[Reynard]

Cool and overcast here chez Casa Reynard.

I am having a plumpitty day, although I have made a start on a new piece of artwork.

Will be raising a in honour of Derek Warwick later, as it's his birthday.

But first, luncheon...

 

[Reynard]

How are the deck bearings? If you don't mind my asking...

They seem ok. The more rubbish I unravel, the more freely they move.

Blades could do with a bit of a sharpen, tho...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Right, I've done a load of laundry, tidied up the kitchen and been to Iceland. Well, one of those ''Food Warehouses'' rather than a proper Iceland. I'm now having a sit down and a listen to cricket while I digest my potato salad brunch.

 

[oldwheels]

Funny that recent reports about lack of haulage drivers and food shortages are all over the news yet they allow people to go on holiday rather than feed people!
I was at the supermarket yesterday and there were some gaps on the shelves but amazingly the fizzy pop and cake/ biscuit aisle were unaffected!
During WW2 (well before my time) there were horrendous food and labour shortages, far worse than today, but with government intervention we managed ok. So today we could similarly organise all drivers to deliver essential goods only and food deliveries will always take priority over tourists! Oh I know it would be a pain for the fizzy drinks and junk food industries but a boon for healthy eating and, of course, the added bonus of keeping the Islands free from tourists

Calmac is now run I think by remote management who impose rules regardless of common sense. The large ferry was out of action all day due to a crew member having a positive covid test and contacts had to isolate so they had not enough crew to run the boat.
The lorry driver also had a problem in that his tachograph would not allow him to do extra hours on the road. Don't know what happened there.
I lived through the war years but my father ran a market garden so we always had plenty veg and exotica like figs and peaches. Living in the country we also had some hens and rabbits could be caught as well as [say it quietly] game birds.

 

[Illaveago]

A railway bridge near to us made the local news when a lorry tried to squeeze through it !
It looks like it was a hired lorry which tried to fit through a 10 ft high tunnel . It took the rear body off .

 

[Reynard]

A railway bridge near to us made the local news when a lorry tried to squeeze through it !
It looks like it was a hired lorry which tried to fit through a 10 ft high tunnel . It took the rear body off .

Ah, sounds like the railway bridge outside Ely Station. Barely a week seems to go by without it being walloped...

 

[Reynard]

Anyways, luncheon consisted of two slices of toast, one with smoked pork loin, one with gruyere, plus a banana, the last of a bunch of grapes and two

 

[Reynard]

Spent the afternoon unpicking some writing I wasn't happy with.

Time for a break. This calls for a and two jaffa cakes.

 

[woodbutchmaster]

Calmac is now run I think by remote management who impose rules regardless of common sense. The large ferry was out of action all day due to a crew member having a positive covid test and contacts had to isolate so they had not enough crew to run the boat.
The lorry driver also had a problem in that his tachograph would not allow him to do extra hours on the road. Don't know what happened there.
I lived through the war years but my father ran a market garden so we always had plenty veg and exotica like figs and peaches. Living in the country we also had some hens and rabbits could be caught as well as [say it quietly] game birds.

I've got no grouse with that .

 

[Reynard]

Right, almost time to feed the cats, and then it will be time to feed me.

 

[oldwheels]

Our town clock has not been working for a long time since the guy who looked after it retired. Due to the persistence of one person the council have got a specialist to come to fix it.
Unfortunately he cannot get a booking on a ferry until the end of September.

 

[carpiste]

Had a lovely 22 mile ride, got home and had a lovely cup of tea made by the lovely MrsC!
After that had a lovely dinner of fresh Tuna chunks, mixed veg and bulgar wheat and chickpeas.
Lovely

 

[pawl]

Funny that recent reports about lack of haulage drivers and food shortages are all over the news yet they allow people to go on holiday rather than feed people!
I was at the supermarket yesterday and there were some gaps on the shelves but amazingly the fizzy pop and cake/ biscuit aisle were unaffected!
During WW2 (well before my time) there were horrendous food and labour shortages, far worse than today, but with government intervention we managed ok. So today we could similarly organise all drivers to deliver essential goods only and food deliveries will always take priority over tourists! Oh I know it would be a pain for the fizzy drinks and junk food industries but a boon for healthy eating and, of course, the added bonus of keeping the Islands free from tourists

We can allow high paid footballers into the country but not foreign nationals who drive the lorries and plck onthe vegetables from the fields I know which one is more important in my humble opinion and it ain’t the footballers

 

[carpiste]

We can allow high paid footballers into the country but not foreign nationals who drive the lorries and plck onthe vegetables from the fields I know which one is more important in my humble opinion and it ain’t the footballers

Whoops... I was just making a mundane observation on the plight of some UK Islanders not a political statement.