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Post by borchester on Dec 28, 2023 23:34:28 GMT
A small sample I know, but I have just bought a set of 7 wood drill bits for £4.77
And a 90 Litre garden incinerator for £17.99
And 2 kilos of Lavazza coffee for £27.00
Drill bits don't last 5 minutes and incinerators burn out in less, but if the government can keep coffee prices under control, then little Rishi will have my vote
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Post by Red Rackham on Dec 29, 2023 0:03:34 GMT
A small sample I know, but I have just bought a set of 7 wood drill bits for £4.77 And a 90 Litre garden incinerator for £17.99 And 2 kilos of Lavazza coffee for £27.00 Drill bits don't last 5 minutes and incinerators burn out in less, but if the government can keep coffee prices under control, then little Rishi will have my vote Not that I have noticed, although I've never bought any of the items you list. Coffee, there's a funny thing. I've always been a tea drinker, still am, always have two cups of tea first thing. But in recent years for some reason I have started to drink coffee. Not all the time, three or four cups a week perhaps, I had a cup this afternoon. But it must be with cream, it makes all the difference. |
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Post by borchester on Dec 29, 2023 0:22:15 GMT
A small sample I know, but I have just bought a set of 7 wood drill bits for £4.77 And a 90 Litre garden incinerator for £17.99 And 2 kilos of Lavazza coffee for £27.00 Drill bits don't last 5 minutes and incinerators burn out in less, but if the government can keep coffee prices under control, then little Rishi will have my vote Not that I have noticed, although I've never bought any of the items you list. Coffee, there's a funny thing. I've always been a tea drinker, still am, always have two cups of tea first thing. But in recent years for some reason I have started to drink coffee. Not all the time, three or four cups a week perhaps, I had a cup this afternoon. But it must be with cream, it makes all the difference. Well obviously. And that does raise a point. I need about two pots of coffee to get me started and that requires a 300 ml pot of double cream, which is the exception to the rule, because that has crept up from less than a pound to £1.40 in the last year.
It can't be much fun being a cow and I don't mind paying a few extra bob for their welfare. But if push comes to shove, I might start drinking my coffee black  |
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Post by Red Rackham on Dec 29, 2023 0:50:21 GMT
Not that I have noticed, although I've never bought any of the items you list. Coffee, there's a funny thing. I've always been a tea drinker, still am, always have two cups of tea first thing. But in recent years for some reason I have started to drink coffee. Not all the time, three or four cups a week perhaps, I had a cup this afternoon. But it must be with cream, it makes all the difference. Well obviously. And that does raise a point. I need about two pots of coffee to get me started and that requires a 300 ml pot of double cream, which is the exception to the rule, because that has crept up from less than a pound to £1.40 in the last year.
It can't be much fun being a cow and I don't mind paying a few extra bob for their welfare. But if push comes to shove, I might start drinking my coffee black I have no idea how much a pot of cream costs, I buy a small pot a week and usually it's not all used, as I said I don't drink coffee regularly. Mrs R only drinks coffee and she drinks it strong and black. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Dec 29, 2023 3:29:35 GMT
Borchy, too much coffee isn't good. My mum bless her was a coffee drinker for most of her life but she had to be weaned off it. Doctors orders. She was addicted to it, it took about a year to slowly wean her off it. It was like going cold turkey.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2023 4:43:53 GMT
Prices are still going up but by less than yesterday.
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Post by jonksy on Dec 29, 2023 7:15:57 GMT
A small sample I know, but I have just bought a set of 7 wood drill bits for £4.77 And a 90 Litre garden incinerator for £17.99 And 2 kilos of Lavazza coffee for £27.00 Drill bits don't last 5 minutes and incinerators burn out in less, but if the government can keep coffee prices under control, then little Rishi will have my vote They are not falling in the lefty run parts of the UK.
Welsh Labour council moves to reintroduce tolls on the Severn bridges which critics say would have a 'devastating' impact on families and businesses
Council hopes to bring back levy and reduce traffic between Bristol and Wales
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Post by Pacifico on Dec 29, 2023 7:40:45 GMT
Borchy, too much coffee isn't good. My mum bless her was a coffee drinker for most of her life but she had to be weaned off it. Doctors orders. She was addicted to it, it took about a year to slowly wean her off it. It was like going cold turkey. I'm addicted to coffee - I find it balances out the addiction to alcohol. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Dec 29, 2023 8:28:07 GMT
One glance at the till receipt from LIDL and the ease by which a trolley holding the result of spending the whole week’s state pension is bagged and loaded into the back of the car says NO they bloody well are NOT.
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Post by johnofgwent on Dec 29, 2023 8:30:49 GMT
Borchy, too much coffee isn't good. My mum bless her was a coffee drinker for most of her life but she had to be weaned off it. Doctors orders. She was addicted to it, it took about a year to slowly wean her off it. It was like going cold turkey. I'm addicted to coffee - I find it balances out the addiction to alcohol. at risk of sounding like one of those miserable bar stewards who want you to go dry in january and drink only water in february i feel obliged to say even if that is in jest, having spent years studying how they tick, i mourn for your hepatocytes….. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Dec 29, 2023 8:47:09 GMT
Borchy, too much coffee isn't good. My mum bless her was a coffee drinker for most of her life but she had to be weaned off it. Doctors orders. She was addicted to it, it took about a year to slowly wean her off it. It was like going cold turkey. I have discovered the pleasure of a cheap (less than £40, currys were dumping the product in favour of one half the size and five times the price) ‘barista’ style coffee machine. It can take as much as 15 minutes to prepare coffee if you include grinding the beans. Yes this is the absolute opposite of the normal ‘spoonful of instant’ When shit starts getting real and live software plays up i have found a three pm ritual essential to retaining sanity. Until buying this thing, that ritual included a white teapot with gold polka dots which sits on top of and slightly inside a matching cup and saucer, £5 from Tesco, and a packet of black assam, or even better if i could get it, large leaf darjeeling from whittards or the ultimate, Keith’s Tea Shop in Cirencester. For the past few months it has been a keith’s kenyan bean mix. It is not really the drinking. That part is almost an anticlimax. On the subject of quantity, back in the late 90’s at Welsh Water / Swalec the BA running the team confessed to suffering irritable bowel syndrome. Or so he thought. The conversation with his GP - which several of us demanded he endure or we leave, because whatever the hell he had wrong with him it wasn’t just his bowels that were irritable - was apparently very short indeed. In answer to the GP’s questions on eating smoking and alcohol drinking habits nothing particularly remarkable emerged. When asked how much coffee he drank, his answer of ‘about fifteen large mugs each a heaped spoon of instant’ drew the reply ‘tell you what, you get that down to three a day half that size and after a month if you still have these symptoms call me again’ …. Needless to say he did not need to make that further appointment. |
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Post by borchester on Dec 29, 2023 9:16:11 GMT
Borchy, too much coffee isn't good. My mum bless her was a coffee drinker for most of her life but she had to be weaned off it. Doctors orders. She was addicted to it, it took about a year to slowly wean her off it. It was like going cold turkey. Red, nothing you enjoy is good for you and most doctors operate on the principle that their patients are only really happy when they are being glum.
And I don't know what my hepatocytes are doing, but if they are swinging the lead then sod them.
Dunno about Wales. Nice place and people, but it is usually shut, so I don't feel inclined to pay to visit
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Post by jonksy on Dec 29, 2023 9:33:42 GMT
Borchy, too much coffee isn't good. My mum bless her was a coffee drinker for most of her life but she had to be weaned off it. Doctors orders. She was addicted to it, it took about a year to slowly wean her off it. It was like going cold turkey. Red, nothing you enjoy is good for you and most doctors operate on the principle that their patients are only really happy when they are being glum.
And I don't know what my hepatocytes are doing, but if they are swinging the lead then sod them.
Dunno about Wales. Nice place and people, but it is usually shut, so I don't feel inclined to pay to visit
It hard to find a true Welsh man in Wales they are mostly unwanted imports. |
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Post by borchester on Dec 30, 2023 20:06:11 GMT
Red, nothing you enjoy is good for you and most doctors operate on the principle that their patients are only really happy when they are being glum.
And I don't know what my hepatocytes are doing, but if they are swinging the lead then sod them.
Dunno about Wales. Nice place and people, but it is usually shut, so I don't feel inclined to pay to visit
It hard to find a true Welsh man in Wales they are mostly unwanted imports. You mean Yorkies ? True enough. Before WWII a lot of men and women walked from Yorkshire to Wales in search of work. Half of today's valleys men have family that originally came from Wakefield.
And most Welsh speakers are English accountants at PriceWaterHouseCooper who took a course at Cardiff Met
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Post by jonksy on Dec 30, 2023 20:13:17 GMT
It hard to find a true Welsh man in Wales they are mostly unwanted imports. You mean Yorkies ? True enough. Before WWII a lot of men and women walked from Yorkshire to Wales in search of work. Half of today's valleys men have family that originally came from Wakefield.
And most Welsh speakers are English accountants at PriceWaterHouseCooper who took a course at Cardiff Met
Yes the imports I am talking about are a different colour mate. |
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