What have you been doing today?

[Justin Passing]

I can understand your point, but it is a large concession and there were about 5-6 other people in there. 3 of them were young mums with buggies and there was an old chap with one of those walk along/sit down on type of aids. My wife had pushed the trolley against the wall behind her chair, out of the way of everything and everyone. this woman just seemed to be on a power craze. If she had asked politely things may have been so different. But to march over, speaking in a loud voice and making an attempt to grab the trolley was way over the top. Her whole demeanour was totally unnecessary.

None of your arguments about the specifics of the trolley position/other people yada yada yada do anything but dig your hole deeper.
They show your lack of objectivity brought on by your thinking that you're special.
You aren't.
She probably gets people thinking much the same, all the time.
She's a coffee shop worker. She probably showed restraint in not expressing her thoughts on what sort of a person you were being. You got off light.
I suggest you ask first, next time.

 

[Justin Passing]

Went over the allotment to just turn one bed over that I am going to grow sprouts in this year and…..a bonus crop of spuds! I must have completely missed them last year when I was digging them up. Some of 'em are already peeled and roasting as I type.

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My mother used to grow spuds. I'm sure I remember that happening to hers. Easy to miss bits, perhaps.
Why anyone would go to the effort escapes me, but.... I'm happy that you are amused.

 

[Brigadier]

Spent a very uncomfortable afternoon watching second-born playing football.

More so than usual, as it was his first game back after a double leg break in September.

He did OK, although was blowing a bit, and they won by a comfortable margin.


Before that, went for my usual 11km walk-run over the Chase

 

[crystal ball]

Shucking oysters, then ate them watching England v Italy

 

[Mottie]

Shucking oysters, then ate them watching England v Italy

I like mine with just a drip of Tabasco or shallot vinaigrette. I had half a dozen only last week. I was going to go back and complain - only five of them worked!

 

[Mottie]

My mother used to grow spuds. I'm sure I remember that happening to hers. Easy to miss bits, perhaps.
Why anyone would go to the effort escapes me, but.... I'm happy that you are amused.

Can’t beat your own grown veg. From ground to plate in a couple of hours. Totally organic.

 

[crystal ball]

I like mine with just a drip of Tabasco or shallot vinaigrette. I had half a dozen only last week. I was going to go back and complain - only five of them worked!

Never had oysters until we moved to Australia, went to a Chilean wedding and they were laid out on ice, we then used to go to Sydney fish market for them as well as lobster& crab

 

[Dork Lard]

Promised to pop 'round & replace a shower unit for one of the elderly lady spinsters of t'village. We have spoken a few times on the saga of her shower & I thought that we had agreed that she should buy a specific unit from Screwfix as it's the nearest 'fit' to that what is broken.

So I turns up don't I, to find a shower head in a box that has obviously been opened several times & travelled great distances during its lifespan thus far. To not only discover that she didn't buy it at Screwfix, she bought it off eBay, which instantly identifies it as a faulty shower once sold by Screwfix, returned to Screwfix & then sold on to some 'chancer' who sells faulty returns on eBay but conveniently forgets to mention that they might not work.

Guess what ! It was faulty.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

That'll teach you to try and wheedle your way into the old dear's will.

 

[Mottie]

We looked after our grandson while our son went to a Ford dealers to pick up his new motor. Traded in a Fiesta ST for a Puma ST. I had a little blast in it when he brought it back. 200hp from a 1.5 three pot engine. Had all sorts of gizmo's on it including a sport and track mode! It was a bright green metallic colour and when I looked under the bonnet I noticed it had colour coded coolant!

Highlight and heart melting moment for me today though was when my 4 year old grandson was eating his tea and he whispered something to me. I didn’t hear him so I asked him again. "I love you Grandad" he said. My heart nearly exploded!

 

[securespark]

Similar moment years ago when middle lad was 5. He doesn't vocalise affection, although he is very tactile and cuddly. We were snuggled up in bed and he said "Love you Dada."
I was so happy, I cried!

 

[Mottie]

Firestick 4K Max that I ordered yesterday arrived first thing so I set it up, jailbroke it, installed Kodi and a few addons and I’m currently halfway through Top Gun Maverick. Again.

 

[Mottie]

After watching a film this morning on my new firestick, I decided to go and check my drains to see if it was still clear. All okay but ever since I’ve been checking it there has been a constant flow of fresh water into the manhole from someone else's drain since December. I decided to investigate and went lifting up covers and checking meters. Anyway, I found one spinning like a top so I turned it off and after a minute or so, the water stopped coming down the soil pipe so I knocked in the door. It was an old lady well into her eighties 6 doors down from me. I didn’t really know her to speak to although Mrs Mottie knows her. I told her she must have a leak. She told me "I"m all alone and dont know what to do - can you do it for me?" of course, I’m lumbered now so I went in, checked her toilet and taps and…..nothing! When I turned it back on at the meter it was all fine so feck knows what I did. Anyway, as I left, I felt a bit hypocritical but I told her she shouldn't be so trusting and let anybody in and go upstairs while she's downstairs etc (she did have one of those chairlifts so she wasn't too nimble on her pins) and she told me she has not long had a hip operation. She thanked me and I left. Anyway, not an hour later, I was going past her house and she was letting some bloke in who was showing her what looked like a mobile phone! She waved at me and I asked her if she knew who it was that she'd just let in. She said it was the meter reader and I did notice an ENGIE van parked across the street. I waited for a bit and he came out and walked to the van and got in so he was who she said he was.

Between sorting that out and taking the dog out I had a knock on the door. I have been having an ongoing dispute with Thames Water about my drains and was getting the right royal runaround what with them not returning calls or telling me when they will be replacing my drains that have partially collapsed. In frustration I emailed the CEO only yesterday and tried my usual trick of complaining right to the very top about getting nowhere with their 'customer service' and mentioning that I will be calling in on her sometime next week to discuss the problem I'd been having. I gave her the case numbers etc and told her to have the information to hand for when I called. (I had no intention of doing that but she didn’t know that) That usually gets a response and blow me if the head of customer service wasn’t in the area today and decided to call in on me! Had a chat and she said the work to replace my drains and half a dozen of my neighbours had received the go-ahead although it could be a few months as they have to organise things, carry out surveys, get permission from local authority to dig up roads etc so it may be a few months but at least somethings happening at last!

 

[Brigadier]

After watching a film this morning on my new firestick, I decided to go and check my drains

Livin' your best life eh, Mottie

 

[Dork Lard]

Trying to get my £1000+ image stabilising binoculars back from the light fingered thieving scumbag I raised as my No' 1 son. I don't mind the power tools that constantly go missing & I don't mind then being hassled to buy the consumables to feed the power tools he liberates, but today I really wanted to go out n about with them.

Aaarghhh.