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suzysunshine7
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Dec 07, 2020 01:26AM
I keep an Eye on the old Ercol Furniture that turns up on eBay as M&D still have several original pieces that they bought for their very first House back in the 60's and 70's - and I've just come across a large Cabinet in near perfect condition that looks like it could be a very close colour and wood-grain match to our Priory Dresser and the Dining Room Table & Chairs? ... and it's not that bad a price either? ... Hmmm? ...
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9.48 ... two and a half Mugs of very strong Coffee and no sign of Iceland yet ...
I could have done with longer in bed myself this morning, Suzy. D had a dodgy belly and spent half the night in the loo, each time waking me up in the process. Then I remembered the doorbell batteries had died yesterday, and Hermes pick up from 8am...
... an apology Text saying that they are running late today ...I hope our usual Delivery Guy hasn't gone and hit a nearby Bridge again? - as he's already done this twice now in the last 3 months! ;oO
Collette wrote: "I could have done with longer in bed myself this morning, Suzy. D had a dodgy belly and spent half the night in the loo, each time waking me up in the process. Then I remembered the doorbell batter..."Munchy box midnight mayhem?
Speaking of lying in which is but a dim, distant memory, I was up and out with the prime Minnie-ster at 7.45. Jeez but the paths and roads were super-slippery - I had hiking boots on but had to shuffle along any tarmac to avoid slipping; any pavements with a amber meant I ended up walking in the road. Still feeling dreadful, streaming nose, sore throat and achy but I can still smell and taste, ain't coughing and the fever's not too high. Thing is I haven't been anywhere to catch it so must've been brought in by the missus. Grrrrr.
Collette wrote: "I could have done with longer in bed myself this morning, Suzy. D had a dodgy belly and spent half the night in the loo, each time waking me up in the process. Then I remembered the doorbell batter..."Awww, poor D and poor you ... x ;o<
Early mornings are proving a real challenge for me just at the moment as I'm often still up until around 4 to 5am (like I was last night) and then, no sooner had I finally dropped off, I suddenly woke up in a right panic at 10 to 7 when I remembered that Iceland were coming and, because my Mum is ill in Bed with a Chest Infection at the moment, it would all be down to me to have to deal with it.
Luckily the Guy that usually comes very kindly delivers everything to just inside of the Garage Door for me - so I don't have to lift in and carry everything through the House and out to the Garage where the Freezers are.
I just hope that we get no Substitutes sent as they don't always list them on the Dispatch Receipt and so the first that you sometimes know about it is when you start more thoroughly going through and unpacking the Bags.
Last time instead of Prawns we were unexpectedly sent Scampi and it wasn't ordered for us either ... so I quickly rang up our Neighbour and said ... "No Prawns, Sylvia, do you want Scampi instead?" ... to which I got the very slurry and sleepy response ... "Ohhh I'll just have some Scrambled Eggs on Toast, Darling" ... ! ;o>
Well, I had completely forgotten that it was only quarter past 6 in the morning and she doesn't normally get up until around 10am! - LOL!!! ;o>
Brass Neck wrote: "Collette wrote: "I could have done with longer in bed myself this morning, Suzy. D had a dodgy belly and spent half the night in the loo, each time waking me up in the process. Then I remembered th..."Th munch box was Saturday night. Maybe it was my sausage casserole. 🤨 Either that or he was allergic to the vodka he opened...
Did he only OPEN the vodka or did he neck a load of it?
We only had 4 each with cream soda. Funnily enough my Saturday night wine gives me the slight squits on a Sunday morning. FTMI, I know. 😇
Collette wrote: "We only had 4 each with cream soda. Funnily enough my Saturday night wine gives me the slight squits on a Sunday morning. FTMI, I know. 😇"Fkn ell. thanks for that. C.
He certainly is! ... but what did I do to get to know that?! - LOL!!! ;o>
My punnet of Cherry Plum Tomatoes have unfortunately been flattened and crushed into a sticky gooey mess but the rest of our Order is fine and all there, thankfully ;o>
Collette wrote: "Waiting on Hermes to collect a faulty dehumidifier..."Aaaargh! You said the H word.
How the hell did you get them to deliver something to your address anyway? I'm surprised it wasn't delivered to me, because everyone else's stuff seems to be. It's pretty unusual for anything I've actually ordered myself to arrive here if it's supposed to be delivered by them, though: I've no idea where that all goes. I now refuse to order from eBay sellers who admit to using Hermes. Trouble is, most of them don't admit it.
After a week of trying to work out who a parcel dumped on my doorstep was actually for, I finally handed it to its correct recipient yesterday. Hermes insisted the parcel was mine and had been delivered to number 4, and that the courier had spoken to the person at number 4 and she had agreed to this. The parcel was actually for number 4 and had been delivered to me (it had my address on the label, but a name I'd never seen before), and the person at number 4 had never heard anything about it. All this after several weeks of Hermes couriers interrupting video meetings to try to deliver stuff that isn't mine.
It would be a gross insult to Virgil Earp and Ike Clanton to call Hermes a bunch of cowboys.
Gordon wrote: "Collette wrote: "Waiting on Hermes to collect a faulty dehumidifier..."Aaaargh! You said the H word.
How the hell did you get them to deliver something to your address anyway? I'm surprised it w..."
Not had too many problems with them Gordon. We usually get the same wee woman each time. She has made a couple of boo-boos in the past though... giving me someone else's parcel then having to come back for it, and putting a boxed Charlie Bear into a 3/4 full grass bin when the blue one was sat there. My main grumble this past week has been over Royal Mail. They e-mailed on Tuesday to say they were delivering a Tracked 48 parcel on Thursday...and I didn't get it until yesterday. Didn't realise they also did Tracked 120!!!
Collette wrote: "Gordon wrote: "Collette wrote: "Waiting on Hermes to collect a faulty dehumidifier..."Aaaargh! You said the H word.
How the hell did you get them to deliver something to your address anyway? I'm..."
Never had problems with Hermes (so far!). Now, Yodel on the other hand.... Thankfully people seem to have stopped using them.
yodel are as much use as a chocolate ashtray.
No probs with Hermes here, as long as it's my same little man who addresses me by name. Their admin's not been too good lately though, giving me the wrong days or times occasionally.
Well my parcel's been picked up now, so pretty plain sailing.
...buying a kevin the carrot as part of my grand-daughter's birthday tomorrow. please see photo in profile for the full story...........
We have rarely ever have any problems at all with any of the local Courier Services here - DPD, Hermes, Yodel, DHL Express, UPS, etc ...The Royal Mail though have consistently given nothing but an absolutely appalling nightmare of a Service around here over the last decade and I actually dread reading in Dispatch Emails that they will be the ones carrying out any Delivery to us these days.
I'm not even joking when I say that there must be a special Warehouse somewhere in the Greater Manchester area that is entirely dedicated to the complete and utterly wanton destruction of every single Parcel that ever passes through the Royal Mail! ;o<
Tech XXIII wrote: "...buying a kevin the carrot as part of my grand-daughter's birthday tomorrow. please see photo in profile for the full story..........."Oooh? - what a naughty Girl! - LOL!!! ;o>
... has she got bored with her Pineapple already?! ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "The Royal Mail though have consistently given nothing but an absolutely appalling nightmare..."Funny, isn't it? I generally find the Royal Mail good for anything that's delivered by a postman/woman, but ParcelForce is just as bad as the other couriers. The one advantage of Royal Mail is that if they don't deliver something I can pick it up from the sorting office. The couriers' depots are mostly 40-odd miles away (Stoke or Wrexham); I can walk to the Royal Mail one.
In the days when we were allowed to go to work I would only order from sellers who used Royal Mail, as that's the only way I would ever get anything as I was never at home to receive deliveries. Now I'm working from home almost all the time, that's not such an issue. An awful lot of deliveries seem to arrive on Saturday, though, which is the only day of the week I'm never at home.
It's really sad, Gordon, something went very very wrong with the Royal Mail here around about a decade ago. Now we mostly just have temporary Postmen who apparently travel to work here from many miles away - they don't know the area, don't have time to waste on Deliveries, and seemingly don't get paid enough to care either - and so we regularly get large Mail dumps on our Doorstep for several other Roads, Avenues, Closes, Crescents and Streets all with vaguely similar names to ours - and other folk also get our Mail at least once a month and have to go out of their way to bring it round to us as well.
EVERY single Parcel turns up squashed or crushed - many with actual dirty Boot Prints on them?! - and they are also soaking and dripping wet at the moment because they seem to be sluicing out their Vans with Cleansing Products (which is great to know as well as totally understandable) but are clearly not giving a damn if all of the Parcels also end up in getting drenched as well.
Having 'Fragile' or 'Live Plants' in large letters on the Boxes makes absolutely no obvious difference either to the terrible way that they are processed and then dropped off in the Porch.
The Drivers never ring the Doorbell, often throw things into our Porch with such force that they actually hit our glass panelled Front Door with such a bang ... and then they always do a runner and are off at top speed before you can even get the Door open.
You get such a sinking sickening feeling every time because you already know full well what a total and utter mess of a Box and it's contents will have crash-landed onto the Door Mat and be waiting for you to clean up before you've even got to see it ;o<
in to work to be tested, as they refuse to recognize the nhs test i took on sunday (neg, btw) - it's the same test, same kit, but it's 'required' to be registered with the work - ****ing clowns! might be getting a vaccine shot next week - we'll see!
If you score a double negative do you win a Prize?YAYYY!!! - for the first one coming back negative by the way ;o>
hmmm, prize for managing to remain even tempered, mibbe!
Not even another Kevin the Carrot for Lux to destroy? ;oOIt doesn't seem right that you shouldn't be rewarded in some way.
it is the wee yins b/day today (and lux's), so (replacement) kevin has left the building.don't worry, i'll get my reward in hell!
Awww, Happy Birthday to your sweet little Grandaughter! ;o>And Happy Birthday to the lovely Lady Lux as well ... woof-woof! ... x
Does everyone realise that getting the vaccine does not prevent you contracting Covid 19? It just alleviates the symptoms so you hopefully won't need hospitalisation. I haven't read anywhere whether you can still pass on the virus once you have it. I don't see it as a magic bullet yet.
I'd really like to believe that most folk do, Val? - but I'm not sure that everyone does?What I find so scary as well as annoying is that we have all seen in the Media that some of the Vaccines have reported efficacy rates of well over 90% ... and the first Vaccine in Stockport was apparently given today to an 86 year old called Ted ... and he got given the Oxford Vaccine.
On the same day just several hours later we get to read this ...
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronav...
... and I am wondering now whether folk will understand that not everyone in every age group having different Doses of different Vaccines administered to them in different ways will find the Vaccine given to be as effective and as beneficial to them as it might be to others?
All some will continue to think is that it's a miracle solution to Covid-19 and they will probably also be expecting for each Vaccine to have a 90%+ efficacy for everyone.
Val wrote: "Dare I ask? What is Kevin the Carrot?"It all started up a few years ago, Val ;o>
Each year, the Aldi Supermarket Chain releases versions of Stuffed Toys that have been created as Cartoon Characters for their TV Christmas Adverts - and they all add to the ongoing story of Kevin the Carrot and his family! ;o>
As well as the Carrot family, this year's Toys include a Hedgehog and a Turkey - and people queue up to get them until they have all sold out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp3yg...
(I can't seem to find the Ads shown in the right Order and so here they are from this year's one through to the beginning one for some reason!)
https://admascots.fandom.com/wiki/Kev...
xmas is proving to be hazardous to my health and well being - apart from multi-testing and kevin the ****ing carrot! - upon getting xmas boxes (decs, cards etc) down from the loft, i opened up my thumb on a shard of broken plastic lid, followed shortly by smashing my wee toe off corner of kitchen unit whilst porting boxes to 're-cyc' (everyone loves a 2000ad ref.!) - apart from the searing pain, my toe stuck out about 45 degrees more than usual, so i 'poked' it back into place with a satisfying/worrying click. since then it's been ****ing agony, but mrs tech (tbf, she knows her stuff) says 'suck it up, the nhs ain't gonna be bothered about your broken toe'! starting to darken now, best just to strap it to next toe and ..er........suck it up, i suppose! and that was just sorting thru' decs, there's still the application ahead - oh globbits!
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Val wrote: "Dare I ask? What is Kevin the Carrot?"It all started up a few years ago, Val ;o>
Each year, the Aldi Supermarket Chain releases versions of Stuffed Toys that have been created as Car..."
Sad to see Brussels spelt incorrectly. Again.
Lez wrote: "suzysunshine7 wrote: "Val wrote: "Dare I ask? What is Kevin the Carrot?"It all started up a few years ago, Val ;o>
Each year, the Aldi Supermarket Chain releases versions of Stuffed Toys that ha..."
I thought Brussels sprouts was spelled E-V-I-L?
Brass Neck wrote: "Lez wrote: "suzysunshine7 wrote: "Val wrote: "Dare I ask? What is Kevin the Carrot?"It all started up a few years ago, Val ;o>
Each year, the Aldi Supermarket Chain releases versions of Stuffed ..."
I love them and have never had any side effects!
Lez wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: "Lez wrote: "suzysunshine7 wrote: "Val wrote: "Dare I ask? What is Kevin the Carrot?"It all started up a few years ago, Val ;o>
Each year, the Aldi Supermarket Chain releases v..."
The more sprouts the better as far as I'm concerned. Yum yum.
broughsell sprouts? shove them up yer poopchute! i'd rather eat my eyes!
Tech XXIII wrote: "xmas is proving to be hazardous to my health and well being - apart from multi-testing and kevin the ****ing carrot! - upon getting xmas boxes (decs, cards etc) down from the loft, i opened up my t..."Oooh? ... mrs tech gave you one tiny little job to do and you just had to go and spill Blood all over the Kitchen and almost amputate a Toe?!!
I bet poor Lux and Bob Z went into hiding behind Sofa because of all the shouting and swearing and in case you also decided to throw yourself off the Loft Ladder as well! ;oO
(I hope your Toe heals nicely and you feel better soon ... x)
Val wrote: "Love Brussels sprouts!!!!"Me too! - but not so much at Christmas time as I tend to prefer them when they first turn up on sale here around September/October.
My mum would search out sprout tops, the leafy bit at the top, much better than cabbage, etc she swore. Irrelevant to me as I pretty much only eat frozen peas, maybe a few baby carrots and sweetcorn, although if it's in a stir fry mix I'll eat what's there (mini-broccoli and 'shrooms excepted). I make up for it with lots of fruit, muesli, etc. I think, more than anything else, the off-putting thing about sprouts is the smell as they boil; like Beelzebub's own phal-induced flatulent pootings.
Hanging around in the hopes that my new passport is going to turn up. It amazes me that the Passport Office charges approx. £20 to deliver it to me in France by courier but you don't even get a Tracking Number!
Being as we've already been discussing the Covid-19 Vaccines on here I thought I'd flag this up here - just in case anyone has missed seeing this warning today about the Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine ..."The UK’s medicines regulator has advised people with a “significant history” of allergic reactions not to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine.
It comes after two NHS workers who received the jab on Tuesday – the first day of the mass vaccination programme – suffered an allergic reaction"
... http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronav...
Roast them sprouts, seasoned, sliced up with slivers of bacon, in the oven.Transforms em, and no cooking smell :0
Just found out there's a Jameson IPA Whiskey.I need this in my life.
The Whiskey is finished in IPA barrels.
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