22 Foxhole East

OpalGirl

Can't help you with treacle but can tell you that here in Aus Xmas puddings have now appeared in the supermarket and it's only September!!

Liverpool_Anne

Treacle available here in all 4 major supermarkets, do you want me to send you a tin 😁

Jessy103

Can confirm that South Lincolnshire has treacle! Morrisons online even shows 4 tins for the price of 3, that's a lot of treacle 🤣

f0xh0les

Maybe the Leicestershire WI has launched a gingerbread offensive while I was busy working, or maybe the Wiggly Nigella had a treacle toffee bonfire recipe repeat on last week?

 I have never, ever,  not been able to just walk into a shop and buy it, it is just there, always!   Will try again -at least if it is in such demand, they will not stop stocking it. 

DH and DS's 1, 2,& 4 have all succumbed to the mancold. DH was dizzy and lightheaded from it last night - The Test That Shall Not Be Named- was deployed, apparently 1:167 people in the UK are positive right now. Much weaker variant though.  Since getting The C Word, every single cough and cold incapacitates DH now 

DS2 is 21 today. Now he just has to grow up.....

DS1 has 'work' restocking shelves and deboxing in the warehouse,  4 hours a day, four days a week, for the next 4 weeks. Him and 8 other people. All from the job centre, none of them will get paid. That is a lot of free labour for the Bargains of Madness Store. He will  still get his £70 a week from the Job Centre instead of the £48.84 a day, or £195.36 for the 4 days it would cost to employ him.  It is a saving of £1,562.88 a week for the 8 of them.   The Job Centre will reimburse the bus fare though!

  Unsurprisingly, there is no job at the end of it, but it is 'experience', just like the H0mebase 'experience', and the days working in the Cocktail Bar 'experience', and the 'barista experience' week and there still is no job at the end of any of these 'experiences' because they can get 8 people a week in from the JC to work shifts for free. It is a racket.  Train them up, let them go, save on the wages bill,  train up the next group, let them go, save on the wages bill... repeat til fade. 

Cynical? moi? pah!

carolbee

Loads of treacle down here in Kent

beanielou

That’s dire. I diden’t realise the job centre did this. 

slm6002

Do you think it is encourage them to get a job so they get paid for the work, rather than working for not a lot.  Kind of if you had been employed you'd have got £x rather than this smaller amount.  Either way we are going to make you do the work.

f0xh0les

Why would they employ someone when the JC will happily provide them with 8 people doing free labour 4 days a week for 4 weeks?? If there was a position available at the end of it, great! But there isn't.  

f0xh0les

This is the 5th not paid 'work experience to gain employment'  experiment he has been on. 

badmemory

slm6002 said:

Do you think it is encourage them to get a job so they get paid for the work, rather than working for not a lot.  Kind of if you had been employed you'd have got £x rather than this smaller amount.  Either way we are going to make you do the work.

Why would they pay say 6 people to do a job when they can get 8 people to do it for free.  They just have to pay someone to supervise.