The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

PasturesNew

B4lls... just remembered - I meant to get round to buying lightbulbs.

Three + P/P is nigh on £30.... grrrrrr.

Can't avoid it any longer, got to pick/choose one and order ASAP/in the next hour.

Choices so far are:
£8.78 each, plus £2.95 P/P
£6.29 each, free economy postage...

Those £6 ones are clearly winners at present...

EDIT: Ordered. Should arrive Fri or Sat. I'd have preferred Click/Collect for those, but it wasn't an option...

Jackmydad

LydiaJ wrote: »

My mother had a delivery in the 70s when I was little. It was from a local independent corner shop kind of place. She wrote what she wanted in a notebook. I can't remember the details of how the notebook got to the shop by I do remember "helping" her when she was checking through the things in the boxes to check everything had come.

We had a delivery for years. I think mum used to write the order out in a book, and one of us would drop it in at the shop in the week. When the delivery bloke (the shop owner) turned up on a Friday, the book would be with it, and we'd check it as you say.
It worked fine. When he retired, he still sent mum a calendar every year until he died

PasturesNew

I can remember going into the greengrocer which was about 400 yards from our house. There was a wall of potatoes - directly behind the wall was the shop's store - and they had a "display" of about 12 differently named spuds stacked two high and about six across. You/they scooped them out of the front of that - and, behind, when they were getting low, a man could top them up by tipping the spuds in from the other side/behind the display.

They'd be weighed out, then mum'd hold open her shopping bag and they'd be tipped in directly from the scales.

All done by asking for named potato varieties - none of this annoying "reds" or "whites" so often seen these days.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I can remember going into the greengrocer which was about 400 yards from our house. There was a wall of potatoes - directly behind the wall was the shop's store - and they had a "display" of about 12 differently named spuds stacked two high and about six across. You/they scooped them out of the front of that - and, behind, when they were getting low, a man could top them up by tipping the spuds in from the other side/behind the display.

They'd be weighed out, then mum'd hold open her shopping bag and they'd be tipped in directly from the scales.

All done by asking for named potato varieties - none of this annoying "reds" or "whites" so often seen these days.

Talking of potatoes, whatever happened to King Edwardses? I can't remember when I last saw them
They were the Rolls Royce of potatoes, weren't they? They were always more expensive than the other varieties.
Otherwise, I can remember Reds, Whites and Maris Piper., that's all.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Talking of potatoes, whatever happened to King Edwardses? I can't remember when I last saw them
They were the Rolls Royce of potatoes, weren't they? They were always more expensive than the other varieties.

I can - I dug some KEs up only the other week :T

This year I've had Sharpe's Express first earlies, Carlingford second earlies and King Edward, Maris Piper & Valor maincrop tatties.
When I dug up the maincrops I planted Duke of Yorks and Pentland Javelin summer planting seed spuds which should give me more new potatoes around November/December.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Talking of potatoes, whatever happened to King Edwardses? I can't remember when I last saw them
They were the Rolls Royce of potatoes, weren't they? They were always more expensive than the other varieties.
Otherwise, I can remember Reds, Whites and Maris Piper., that's all.

I know I've seen them.... but then bought the 2.5Kg £1.60 bag close by

But I've definitely seen them.

Jackmydad

chris_m wrote: »

I can - I dug some KEs up only the other week :T

I'd be expecting complaints from Westminster Abbey. . .:p

Pyxis

Jackmydad wrote: »

I'd be expecting complaints from Westminster Abbey. . .:p

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Arf! Arf!

(And no jokes about seals/sea lions, if you please! Arf! Arf!)

Pyxis

How big a fire is it? And is it open or in a container?


It might just be papers, in which case it will be over soon.

If in a container, it should be ok.

Has the wind dropped? If so, then it'll probably be ok.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

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Couldn't see what it was. There's a square of space behind 6' high wooden fences, the square is about 6' ... and whatever it was, it was in that space...but I could only see the top of her head, not what she was doing.

I just heard a fire extinguisher fired off, twice... good job they had one of those then!

No idea what happened ... I just heard the noise - and you can't mistake the noise of those....

Panic over

I really do appear to be ..... surrounded by idiots.

Close/modern living isn't for me is it.....