The Retirement Thread

[Paulus]

Mrs p has just told mr that M&S are advertising Marmite flavoured hot cross buns.The people that think Marmite needs to be mixed with other products should be made to work in in Ken Dodd jam butter mines
PURE MARMITE FOR EVER

I have just tried to add a large jar of Marmite to my next Sainsburys order. Shock and horror, they don't have it, only there own branded stuff, which may or may not be the real thing

 

[welsh dragon]

Just had a good row with the council. I didn't get anywhere but didn't expect to......just gave me a chance to have a rant.
Green bin renewal......£36.00. OK, don't like it but OK.
Their system won't speak to my lap top or phone so I had to do it by phone.
Day 1......90 SOLID SODDING minutes hanging on.
Day 2 60 SOLID SODDING minutes....then got an answer.
"No problem sir, I will do that for you". bish bash bosh.......5 seconds.
"That is £40 sir.... £4.00 admin charge".
I saw red....I was blazing.
I said "OK, £4.00 for 5 seconds.....I have spent 150 minutes trying to get through....HOW MUCH ARE YOU GOING TO PAY ME FOR THAT!!!!".
I eventually got through to a manager and got nowhere (as expected).

Typical of the council I am afraid. Quick to take your money, non existent for anything else including service.

 

[Sterlo]

Mrs p has just told mr that M&S are advertising Marmite flavoured hot cross buns.The people that think Marmite needs to be mixed with other products should be made to work in in Ken Dodd jam butter mines
PURE MARMITE FOR EVER

Is this a new devils incarnation, jam butter???

 

[classic33]

Is this a new devils incarnation, jam butter???

Maybe the Diddy Men did it!

 

[Paulus]

Ken Dodd used to go on about the Jam Butty mines in Knottyash,

 

[pawl]

Is this a new devils incarnation, jam butter???

No Mana from heaven👍👍👍

 

[Sterlo]

Maybe the Diddy Men did it!
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Dey do doh don't dey doh

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Lol, it was very spring like at the weekend, now it feels like winters back

 

[Sterlo]

No Mana from heaven👍👍👍

Maybe they could make a jam cream, then it might stop the age old Devon/Cornwall argument about what goes on first.

 

[Dirk]

Maybe they could make a jam cream, then it might stop the age old Devon/Cornwall argument about what goes on first.

But would you spread the jam cream on the top, or the bottom of the scone?

 

[BoldonLad]

Just had a good row with the council. I didn't get anywhere but didn't expect to......just gave me a chance to have a rant.
Green bin renewal......£36.00. OK, don't like it but OK.
Their system won't speak to my lap top or phone so I had to do it by phone.
Day 1......90 SOLID SODDING minutes hanging on.
Day 2 60 SOLID SODDING minutes....then got an answer.
"No problem sir, I will do that for you". bish bash bosh.......5 seconds.
"That is £40 sir.... £4.00 admin charge".
I saw red....I was blazing.
I said "OK, £4.00 for 5 seconds.....I have spent 150 minutes trying to get through....HOW MUCH ARE YOU GOING TO PAY ME FOR THAT!!!!".
I eventually got through to a manager and got nowhere (as expected).

This is the problem when there is no competition, no need to offer decent service.

Just to make you even more annoyed, out green bin charge is “only” £32, and, you get £4 discount, if you sign up before end February.

Personally, I think the charge is disgraceful. The reason given in our area was “not everyone has a garden”. But, that is true of many services.

 

[classic33]

No Mana from heaven👍👍👍

Why's it mined, bringing it up to the surface then?

 

[numbnuts]

I've bin shopping, 9 two finger KitKat only a £1
if they can sell it at half price why is it not that price all the time

 

[ColinJ]

Awake and feeling very groggy again...

I came round in an awkward position and can see from my pillow why I have a stiff neck again. I had been having awful problems with turning my head on rides until I found that it was due to poor head positioning in bed. I must have been so tired that I conked out instantly without getting comfortable first.

I just discovered that I had somehow turned down the volume on my alarm. I could just hear it, but only because I was already awake. I am fairly sure that I would sleep through it. Now restored to an alarm-ing level, but not an ALARMING one!

I am off to do my good deed for the day. I have been given a wireless mouse and a Garmin GPS by CC members recently. It is time to start 'paying forward' so I am passing on an unused iPhone case that I won in a competition. (I don't have an iPhone because I won the case rather than the phone - ha ha!)

 

[Paulus]

This is the problem when there is no competition, no need to offer decent service.

Just to make you even more annoyed, out green bin charge is “only” £32, and, you get £4 discount, if you sign up before end February.

Personally, I think the charge is disgraceful. The reason given in our area was “not everyone has a garden”. But, that is true of many services.

£32,, cheap at half the price. Ours is £70, same as last year. It was free up until April 2020, but it looks like many local authorities got together and started to charge.