The Edcawber Principle

edinburgher

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

I've got two medium priced packs of coffee lurking in the cupboard alongside our usual preferred brand (which we buy in Italy, every year - only in the supermarket but it is definitely different, if only 25% cheaper than here - and only because we drive, so bringing it home is not an issue). When it runs out I really must try one of the economy packs, if only to get it out of the cupboard!

Wow, driving to Italy!

I am currently fascinated with the idea of driving to Greece Basically drive to the Chunnel, drive across Europe, then ferry from Italy. Works out like a 3k km+trip :eek: How much do you buy?

beanielou wrote: »

Great gunns on the gardening.
I love lavander.
Reminds me of Provence.

Boo to another sleepless night.

Thanks Beanie, I was on fire today :T

Planted the lavender, the hydrangeas and fitted the hose. It was a !!!!!! - 4 5cm holes into a brick wall and completely self-assembly. I got two nasty burns on my fingers when a red hot drill bit sheared off and I tried to take it out of the chuck without gloves

Also managed to spend 5 hours on a cooking project - pressed pork belly braised in a ginger and chicken broth :drool: Even got DD involved in making the HM stock

beanielou

Eeek to the burns.

edinburgher

I owe CC £3.99.

rtandon27

edinburgher wrote: »

I owe CC £3.99.

...go on then, tell us why!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Loving the thought of you little one helping in the kitchen!

Karmacat

rtandon27 wrote: »

...go on then, tell us why!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Loving the thought of you little one helping in the kitchen!

Seconded :T both parts

themadvix

SL - re the coffee (and bearing in mind I don't drink coffee *at all* and am no expert) would it be worth mixing the mediocre stuff in in a very low ratio with the nicer stuff? I've been doing this in risotto with 1oz of quinoa to 5oz of rice and you can't taste the difference and it slowly uses it up/bulks out the good stuff. I have no idea - this might be a ridiculous idea, so feel free to ignore!!

Goldiegirl

edinburgher wrote: »

I feel for T5B, the task they were attempting was absolutely massive and having worked for an IT company in the past, it was obviously fraught with risks from the moment they decided to change systems.

I'm confident they'll do the right thing by all the people affected, they genuinely do seem to be one of the "nicer" banks, all things considered.

Having worked for banks the whole of my working life, I feel for the TSB staff. The front line staff in the branches and call centre will be dealing with all the irate customers. The staff will be putting up with all sorts of abuse from angry customers.

As a customer, I haven't even attempted to access the TSB web site yet, but TSB isn't my main account. For me, the increase to 5% interest on the current account is good news. The TSB will pay for any customer losses, but it will cost them millions. A nightmare for all concerned

edinburgher

rtandon27 wrote: »

...go on then, tell us why!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Loving the thought of you little one helping in the kitchen!

It really wasn't that interesting

Unfortunately I spent another £67.99 on an electric scarifier after spending 20 minutes scarifying a square meter of lawn :eek: It is a fantastic tool and I managed to fill our wheelie bin and pull 9 bin bags worth of thatch out of our back garden this afternoon!!! The bad news is that that's perhaps only 60% of the moss... I sprayed some moss killer and am now inside after 6 backbreaking hours. Feeling virtuous, but like I've had the !!!! kicked out of me. Ibuprofen should help :rotfl:

shangaijimmy

Good luck walking downstairs in the morning!

AlexLK

Sounds like you're getting on well with the gardening, Ed. As for driving to Greece, have you seen how crazily they drive on the continent and the state of their cars? :eek:

I miss drinking coffee; often leave here craving it, though. :rotfl: