Sterlo
Early Retirement Planning
- Location
- East Riding of Yorkshire
What's that old joke, what do you call a sheep tied to a lamppost in Wales...a leisure centre
The Retirement Thread
- Thread starter Dirk
- Start date
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It’s almost certainly a marketing strategy. The crisp manufacturers do a similar thing from time to time but the new flavours rarely become a staple.
Looks like I’ll have to stock up while they’re available. 😁
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
Just received a letter to say I am having my second Covid jab on March 25th and then that's me fully protected against Covid. 
classic33
Leg End Member
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Has someone just decided to add Marmite to everything and try to sell it???
was it some kind of business target - and if so was it set in a pub??
has anyone checked if it is some kind of Tik Tok prank thing???
was it some kind of business target - and if so was it set in a pub??
has anyone checked if it is some kind of Tik Tok prank thing???
numbnuts
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
New tenant above and one over, carpet fitter's could be banging all day, but sounds travels in these flats
He's gone so all quiet again
classic33
Leg End Member
With no patio to use, they've buried him under his carpet!He's gone so all quiet again
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Lined a ceiling for a friend today. My arms are aching.
I forgot to explain what 'doing a Dibnah' is! Here is Fred illustrating how to revive aching arms...Did you have to 'do a Dibnah'...?
When I first moved to Yorkshire I rented a house in Hebden Bridge. I thought that there was a slight smell of gas there too, but I couldn't tell where it was coming from. So I just ignored it...!With our first house, a mate always reckoned there was a slight gas smell in the back room, we couldn't smell anything. When I decorated the back room for the first time I was tidying up the ceiling before painting it, I hit a lump close to the wall, a lump of newspaper fell out exposing a pipe and a strong smell of gas started wafting round, I called the emergancy gas and they made it safe. What someone had done was take out a gas appliance, cut the supply pipe just inside the ceiling, crimped the end shut, wrapped it in newspaper and then plastered over it.
A few months later I went to the local pub with a group of colleagues. We went back to mine with extra beer at closing time. One lad said that he could smell gas in the kitchen so I told him that it always smelled like that. He (justifiably!) looked at me as if I were mad and started sniffing around to locate the source and eventually decided that the smell was coming from behind the fridge. The fridge was located where the gas cooker would normally have been, only I didn't have a gas cooker. I just had a small electric cooker that I had used as a student.
We pulled the fridge out and saw a gas cooker outlet pipe on the wall behind it. The pipe had been closed off with a screw cap. My colleague got hold of the cap to check that it was tight and it just fell off into his hand! That could have happened at any time in the months that I had been there!!!! Gas came hissing out...
We rushed down into the cellar and turned off the gas supply. Clearly, whoever had capped the pipe had got distracted before tightening it. Either that, or they were as stupid as me!
BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
- Location
- South Tyneside
Pretty effective... it is getting lots of coverage, almost as much as Harry and Meghan in fact
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Rolled into Tesco for my usual click and collect, and as usual the staff wheeled my shopping straight up to the boot without having to speak to me.
I asked the ladies if they recognised my car, and they do - they know the bright red Volvo with the big aerial on the roof (2/70 ham antenna) is my car, and make sure my shopping is ready by the time I reverse in.
Fair play, makes for a very quick and painless visit.
I asked the ladies if they recognised my car, and they do - they know the bright red Volvo with the big aerial on the roof (2/70 ham antenna) is my car, and make sure my shopping is ready by the time I reverse in.
Fair play, makes for a very quick and painless visit.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
Mutton is better tasting. Lamb is bland.
derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
- Location
- On the edge of London
Not far of it, the scaffold board was not long enough so had to clamber onto another pair of steps.Did you have to 'do a Dibnah'...?
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
Loch na Keal again but freezing cold with ice on the pools by the roadside.
Gribun on left and island of Eorsa on right then small cliffs where a raven nested two years ago. Pressure of numbers using the better sites forced them down here which is an unusual spot for them.
This road is useless to me in the summer due to volume of tourist traffic and lines of motorhomes and campers last year. Could not even find a parking spot if I wanted.
More birdlife pairing off for mating by the looks of it and a pair of black back gulls sussing the nest raiding possibilities. Too much shore disturbance now from tourist to make this a good nesting site.
Gribun on left and island of Eorsa on right then small cliffs where a raven nested two years ago. Pressure of numbers using the better sites forced them down here which is an unusual spot for them.
This road is useless to me in the summer due to volume of tourist traffic and lines of motorhomes and campers last year. Could not even find a parking spot if I wanted.
More birdlife pairing off for mating by the looks of it and a pair of black back gulls sussing the nest raiding possibilities. Too much shore disturbance now from tourist to make this a good nesting site.
