Must try harder!

jwil

Well done on the weightloss!

beanielou

CRANKY40 said:

WinterWarrior said:

CRANKY40 said:

Yay for the weight loss and thumbs down to the work call. I'd just get a bit of the cleaning stuff at a time. When someone invents a cleaning product that jumps out of the bottle by itself and does the cleaning for me I'm in (thinking maybe a genie from a lamp but he appears with a duster in one hand and the spray bottle in the other).

I'm trying to make sure everything is organised for at least the next week when moving around will probably be a bit difficult. I don't have very high expectations of being "looked after" by the HT 🤣

Is it Monday you get your knee replaced/fixed? Extra good luck Cranky xx

No, tomorrow is "knee day" 😨 and thank you. I should be home tomorrow evening but they may keep me overnight.

Hope all goes well CRANKY40 

Elisheba

I saw Dr van Tulleken on Twitter earlier responding to Guardian Opinion piece which had called for all Highly Processed Food to be banned. He said he didn't think that would be a good idea at all, and apart from the fact it would include things like baby milk and nutritional supplements for the sick, it would unfairly disadvantage people on the lower end of the economic spectrum. I got his book on a Kindle Daily deal last week so I'm looking forward to reading it. 

Sun_Addict

Good luck for the knee op tomorrow, hope it goes well. 

jokono

Elisheba said:

I saw Dr van Tulleken on Twitter earlier responding to Guardian Opinion piece which had called for all Highly Processed Food to be banned. He said he didn't think that would be a good idea at all, and apart from the fact it would include things like baby milk and nutritional supplements for the sick, it would unfairly disadvantage people on the lower end of the economic spectrum. I got his book on a Kindle Daily deal last week so I'm looking forward to reading it. 

That's what he was saying in the video as well. No banning food, but clearly marking products as UPF and then having stricter regulations for conflicts of interest AND banning lobbying/involvement of UPF producing corporations in policy making/ research.

WinterWarrior

I am here to update you all on the saga of WW and the beauty bag 🤭 The tracking said Evr1 had it, but it was delayed…and no movement on the tracking for over 7 days. So I went to online help and chatted to a frustrating bot that said it was with the delivery agent. I told it I could see that, but why wasn’t it being delivered? The bot panicked and sent me to chat to real person. Hurrah, I thought, now I’ll get an answer. The person unfortunately told me the bag was still in the warehouse! No explanation as to why Evr1 said they had it, but I should receive it in 7 days. I asked why it would take so long and they said it would take 3 days to locate it. Why do they need to locate it when they say it’s in the warehouse? I asked why it couldn’t be sent sooner and they said because I didn’t pay for nominated day delivery, but I could cancel the order and get my money back. Why would I do that when I’d purchased (and received) a £30 blouse just so I could purchase the bag…it’s like being tricked into buying something! So I left the chat very disgruntled, but expecting a 7 day wait. I then received an email saying my order had been sent out…so the 3 days to locate it must have been make believe. Anyhow we had tea, did the house jobs, settled in for the evening, all locked up, curtains closed and the doorbell went. Yes, you guessed it…there was Evr1 with the beauty bag 😅 So that was fun! Will I receive another and then have the rigmarole of trying to get them to take it back? I will let you know in 7 days (or 3 weeks) 😬

On the UPF food maybe they should add it to the traffic light labelling, so we can see at a glance what’s bad..although when shopping for price alone it really doesn’t help 😖 I guess the genie is out of the bottle and it’s very hard to push it back in. 

beanielou

You could not make it up!!

jwil

A lot of the time these timescales are given to manage expectations so you don't get loads of people chasing too soon.  At work the delivery time we give people is longer than the time it should actually be delivered within.

On my ebay I give a despatch time of 5 working days but nearly always post the same or next day.  It's stopped the silly 'where is my item' emails, and most people are pleasantly surprised as their item turns up a lot quicker than they expected.

WinterWarrior

That’s so true, but sadly the business I work for is such a large machine everything takes twice as long as expected. I sent a message asking them to stop the replacement order and tonight I got an email saying they can’t stop it, but I can keep it 😁 that will be a lovely result if it turns up. I’m loving the perfume in the bag.
Today was my Friday, so it was a long day, but tomorrow I am freeeeeee.
It was a horrible, but expected interest rate news today, but Monzo increased their savings rate a touch. So that’s something. And the poor people in the submersible 😢

jwil

Oh that will be great if you get a freebie!

I feel for those people's families, but I think the disparity in the coverage between those 5 people and the 750 people on the boat near Greece says a lot about our humanity.