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Entertainment / One of my all time favourite shows
« on: February 10, 2024, 07:50:32 PM »
Whilst channel hopping the other night {no cancel that...channel hopping means something entirely different nowadays!!!}

Whilst watching tv the other night I glanced through the schedules for late evening and found one of the best comedy shows ever been on tv being repeated........Up Pompeii I loved it.
I loved Frankie Howerd, I loved the saucy seaside postcard humour, yes the scripts were lame and very predictable, especially the ode's but it was good wholesome fun.
What I do find amusing is that at the beginning of the show there is a warning caption along the lines of this programme was made in a different age were customs and language differ from today, compared to what's on nowadays U.P. is tame by comparison, it's very refreshing to find a comedian, and a show, on the box that can keep you laughing without resorting to effing and blinding.

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Entertainment / Re: James Martin
« on: February 10, 2024, 01:51:47 PM »
If I have to watch a cookery programme, then it is Rick Stein, who goes to some great places to cook, and he isn't one of those over-enthusiastic wannabe gobby celebs...

Yes Rick Stein has come along way since his debut on one of Keith Floyds cookery shows, unfortunately he's not one of my favourites and as it turns out he is not very well liked amongst the people living in Padstow either {or as it's referred to now Padstein}. I remember visiting Cornwall in the mid 80's with friends and the four of us had booked and visited R.S. restaurant in Padstow, along with a couple of drinks each the bill came to just shy of £160 and that was almost 40years ago so what's he charging now? I have also found out he now has competition in Padstow, another "chef" has set up camp and opened up a restaurant there and he's just as expensive.
 

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Entertainment / James Martin
« on: February 03, 2024, 12:06:20 PM »
James Martin has been in the news recently not just about his cancer scares but it appears he has been taking his frustrations out on the crew that film his touring shows and his Saturday morning kitchen show.
It would appear that on the Sat morn shows at one point his house became flooded, apparently this was the fault of the crew, and he "lost his rag". This is what comes of turning your home into a virtual film set, Anthony Worrall Thompson did the same thing when he did the show as apparently you get more money if you use your own house, therefore {because of greed} there is a certain amount of risk involved.

I used to look forward to J.M. cookery shows but I've gone off him as his "recipes" seem to cater for the more affluent in our community and I have it on good authority by someone who met him he's a bit of a miserable sod.
Obviously a real fine dining cook {I call them all cooks as you don't chef food you cook it}

Give me Jamie Oliver every time, plain simple recipes plain simple food, no faffing about............   

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General Discussion / Re: Part time posties!
« on: January 30, 2024, 12:36:46 PM »
Every time they put the stamp prices up it's another nail on the R.M.'s coffin.

Lets face it the vast % of what drops on your doormat is junk nowadays, but good or bad this is what is helping keep them afloat.
I was a latecomer to technology {computers mobiles and the like} not till I was in my 60's and I still haven't fully grasped all it has to offer, this is why I still insist on hard copies of my bills etc. by post, even though I can usually look it up on line. There are some companies I deal with that tell me they will charge me for a postal bill, for example EE charges £3:80 per posted bill and it probably costs them 50p tops to send it out, but I work on the principal of while ever I need a posted bill delivering there's a need for a postman/woman.


 

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Chesterfield Discussion / Re: Ravenside
« on: January 30, 2024, 12:17:38 PM »
I have missed Curry's the most as I get my ink cartridges from there since Tesco stopped selling them.
I've been ordering online but prefer local shops.
If I can buy electrical goods from Euronic ( Marshalls in Clay Cross) I will but Curry's is my next port of call  if not


I always get mine on line from the Cartridge people, never been disappointed yet and reasonably priced.
It's one of the very rare occasions I order online although I usually get my daughter to order them as her company deals with them and she just puts my address in for the ones I want and I give her the money when I see her.

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Rants / Re: Pothole repairs!
« on: January 25, 2024, 08:44:19 PM »
Latest on Hagg hill....... the potholes must be breeding, there's new ones every time I go along that road.

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General Discussion / Part time posties!
« on: January 25, 2024, 08:42:29 PM »
Another brilliant idea thought up by the suits.......

There is talk of cutting down the number of days you will receive your mail, could be down to three days a week if the P.O. have their way.
I cannot see how that would work {let alone save money} if postmen have only 3 days to deliver six days worth of mail they will most definitely require more staff on those days which will undoubtedly cost more, granted the amount of letters posted nowadays pales in comparison to years ago {a good % of all mail is now emails and courier sent} but every address has to be covered. There has been a steady decline in the postal service as we can see as the vast majority of people now get their mail in the P.M., me included. I used to get my mail at 7 o'clock in the morning now if someone wants to send me an "urgent" before noon letter they have to pay extra and still no guarantee.
A classic example will be what will happen to those people who have prescriptions through the post?

Unless they have a plan B that I am not aware of {baring in mind I was in a very similar delivery industry for nearly 40 years} then my opinion is it's doomed to fail, that means more taxpayers money down the drain, lets see what they come up with.

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General Discussion / Made in England
« on: January 17, 2024, 10:12:36 AM »
Most of this countries woes can be attributed to the fact we no longer have our own manufacturing base.

The troubles with cargo ships in the Suez canal...the troubles with Russia are just part of why we are struggling. We no longer manufacture goods here for our own internal market, we have to rely too much on imports and that isn't good.
Once upon a time we and our products were the envy of the world, we exported far more than we imported safe in the knowledge it was top class merchandise, and what we did import was vital, when was the last time you shopped and picked a product with the British kite mark on?
We are now relying on cheap Eastern imports, most of which {especially electrical goods} are turning out to be cheaply made and dangerous the vast percentage of our gas and electric comes from abroad especially with electric we are pumping millions into a French electric company to build nuclear power stations here and very little building work is being done, one site I believe is 15 years in the making and is still far from complete, even the solar panel farms we erect in our fields are made abroad.
Even our national bus company {Stagecoach} is German owned, same with the water companies owned by foreign companies.

We need to go back to manufacturing our own goods and start showing the world we can still be a force to be reckoned with. The British brand has been diluted so many times over the past sixty odd years it's no longer recognisable.

Start producing BRITISH cars, white goods other electrical goods etc. stop relying on foreign imports, if it could be produced here don't import it.

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General Discussion / Losing weight
« on: January 13, 2024, 07:42:55 PM »
I have had occasion to watch adverts for a well known weight loss club on t.v. Whilst the advert is on, along the bottom of the screen is obviously examples of individual weight loss and time taken and the one that caught my eye was "2 stone in 220 months".

In English that's 28 lbs in just over 4 YEARS!!! you do the maths but I've lost more weight than that just wiping the sweat from my brow.
 
 It seems there are people out there with absolutely no willpower of their own, this is why slimming clubs pop up and people pay to be told the obvious to eat healthier and exercise more, same with gyms.

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Politics / Re: Mr. Bates versus the Post Office
« on: January 13, 2024, 07:15:24 PM »
Update There is now a petition for Alan Bates to get a recognition for his hard work over the years to get thus sorted out

Apparently O.C. he WAS going to be given an honour but turned it down because of Vennells having one.

As I pointed out about what's happening in Europe mainly between Israel and Gaza and Ukraine, a certain thing will only stay to the fore until another "incident" takes it's place. I guarantee that within a couple of months the Horizon scandal will be relegated to a small paragraph on page 20 of your local rag and another "scandal" will have taken it's place.


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Politics / Re: Mr. Bates versus the Post Office
« on: January 09, 2024, 08:05:30 PM »
At least Paula Vennells has returned the CBE (y)

A small triumph indeed, but to those involved I suspect little comfort.

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Politics / Mr. Bates versus the Post Office
« on: January 09, 2024, 11:05:37 AM »
Firstly that was one hell of a fine drama...and obviously true.

This drama brought to the forefront the biggest miscarriage of justice seen in modern times. This four hour drama highlighted what did,or more importantly what didn't happen, over the past twenty some years. The millions spent by the P.O. on fancy expensive lawyers to get convictions using any means at their disposal {i.e. mainly lying}.

What's going to be the outcome.......when compensation is finally paid the taxpayer will automatically foot the bill as the P.O. is owned by the Government. It looks like Fujitsu will walk away from this scot free as no one seems to be haranguing them for compensation let alone an apology, not only that since this debacle began Fujitsu has secured many more contracts with H.M.G. including the tax and pensions departments.
Trying to understand the P.O. to a degree when all this kicked off and the length of time involved, my guess is once they had started the ball rolling with all these postmasters/mistresses they were going to see this to the very end, and they had the resources to enable them to do that. I believe their aim then {and still} is to dig and dig till they can actually find someone who could possibly be seen to have been "dishonest" and that would then be the catalyst that would exonerate them, a sort of "We told you so moment".

As ever we shall have to wait and see.......still safe in the knowledge that Fujitsu is looking after our pensions!!!!!!

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Rants / Re: Pothole repairs!
« on: December 30, 2023, 01:42:15 PM »
Hagg hill update............potholes being filled in yesterday, not sure if all have been done as yet.


They've missed a couple.

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General Discussion / Travelling home for Xmas
« on: December 30, 2023, 01:41:24 PM »
I don't know if this is fake news or what but.......

According to a presenter on G.B. news they have found out from a reliable source in border security that quite a few so called asylum seekers claiming asylum who are hoping to be allowed to stay here {having fled war or persecution, or both, in their own country} were caught at airports trying to fly home to visit their families over Christmas.......EH!!!!!!



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Chesterfield Discussion / The green green grass of home
« on: December 30, 2023, 12:57:32 PM »
Read in this weeks D.T. Chesterfield Borough Council are considering putting forward a proposal to charge an annual fee to people for their green bin collections {garden waste}.

Whether this will spill over to include N.E.D.D.C. or not {of which I am a tenant} remains to be seen but, if it does, I and others like me shouldn't have to pay mainly because the bin collections are already calculated in the yearly Council tax and I shouldn't have to pay twice.

This could cause a few problems, basically if I HAVE to pay I { and others} will just stop using the service which means I will stop tending my garden by not mowing the grass or cutting back the hedges, this in turn will lead to the Council getting on to me for not looking after the property as per tenancy agreement, so the only alternative, apart from fly tipping, is to sneak the garden waste into the black bin.   

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