Mundane News

[classic33]

They managed to get it through the letterbox (ironically, a new packable rain jacket) and didn't bother to ring the bell. I'd already checked the doorstep and letterbox after reading the email and was just looking up how to contact customer services when I heard it arrive.

Ask for a copy of the signature.

 

[slowmotion]

I ordered a plastic hard-shell wallet/card holder from Amazon. It cost £1.09 including postage. They tell me that it might arrive before May 27th.

 

[Reynard]

Our Tesco doesn't reduce things by much.

Bum Does depend what time you go though, and sometimes you've got to be prepared to hang around.

It does vary from store to store, but a good rule of thumb is first reductions for chilled, fresh counters, pre-packed bread and fruit & veg is 10 am. That's not usually worth is as may only be 10 to 15% off, if that. Second reduction kicks in at around mid afternoon and that's around 30 to 50%. Then you get the final markdown (between 75 and 90%) in the evening on what's left. ISB only gets marked down once at tea time and that's a straight 50% off. Likewise the cooked chicken counter, 50% off unless there's a lot of stuff that's not sold.

During the week, best times are in the evenings for the big markdowns but it can be very pot luck. Sometimes there's loads, sometimes there's very little left. On Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays, from around 1pm onwards, though depends a bit on closing times. If there's a lot of something and they need to shift it quickly, you can get up to 95% off...

And if the weather is hot, you know it will be all casserole meat, tatties and root veg. If it's cold and wet, it'll be burgers, rolls, soft fruit and lettuces...

 

[classic33]

I ordered a plastic hard-shell wallet/card holder from Amazon. It cost £1.09 including postage. They tell me that it might arrive before May 27th.

Did they say what year?

 

[Gravity Aided]

I saw this on Twitter and it made me laugh......presumably there's a similar sign for banjo players in Leicester, @The Velvet Curtain

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What is Buglery? Where someone breaks in your home seeking a trumpet?

 

[slowmotion]

Did they say what year?

Who knows? It's on a slow boat from China.
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]View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui_JwKRkxbY[/media]

 

[lutonloony]

I saw this on Twitter and it made me laugh......presumably there's a similar sign for banjo players in Leicester, @The Velvet Curtain

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Suspect it was written by bunglers

 

[lutonloony]

2 hrs til Getty up time

 

[summerdays]

2 hrs til Getty up time

More like 20 mins... I've already downed my coffee..... I could almost have a second cup.....

 

[TVC]

Early start today, I'm off go play with a 7m long oven.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Early start today, I'm off go play with a 7m long oven.

I shall be doing much the same in Italy tomorrow, and a 10m fryer, a freezer as big as a small house and lots of other large toys :-)

 

[Fab Foodie]

Preparations for our holiday road-trip to Piedmont in a few weeks time are going well....

 

[TVC]

Travel blankets, fold away chairs, empty Tupperware boxes 'just in case'....

 

[Katherine]

Ask for a copy of the signature.

You can see a digital copy of the signature. We didn't recognise it. We think that the postman must have signed for it as he was unloading the van with the post for our road.

 

[TVC]

Proper tea bags, because foreign tea just isn't the same.

Someone we work with takes her own bacon on holiday, because she doesn't like Spanish bacon