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General Discussion / Re: Christmas Plans
« on: December 24, 2023, 07:13:39 PM »
If I don't get the chance tomorrow.........

Merry Christmas and lets hope a happy and better new year {for everyone wherever you may be}

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Entertainment / Re: Crich Tramway
« on: December 19, 2023, 12:46:25 PM »
Hey, you were sat right behind me then!


You must have been the guy who spoke to me prior to me leaving, sorry I had to rush off.

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Rants / Re: Pothole repairs!
« on: December 19, 2023, 12:39:22 PM »
Hagg hill update............potholes being filled in yesterday, not sure if all have been done as yet.

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Politics / Re: The Russians are coming...
« on: December 19, 2023, 12:37:25 PM »
I feel for the people of Gaza...but it seems every time a conflict arises in the world everyone forgets about the previous one.

I refer of course to Ukraine. It appears the military aid being given and promised has now been reduced to a trickle, so much so Putin is upping his game {with serious military weapons help from Nth. Korea}
Putin must have thought all his Christmases had come at once when the Gaza business kicked off, in the space of a few weeks he's gone from getting his ar*e whupped to virtually overrunning the Ukrainian army and retaking ground lost and the U.S. and other countries {us included} are literally turning their backs on Ukraine.

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Rants / Re: Pothole repairs!
« on: December 15, 2023, 08:32:15 PM »
I'm a regular user of Hagg hill {Grassmoor to Tupton} and I've never seen so many pot holes on one stretch of road for ages.
It's like whacky races watching people dodge the holes. I was heading to Grassmoor last week, when there was still water on the road, and I didn't see this particular pothole just over the bridge, it's a good job I was slowed down by a learner driver in front, I checked the tyre when I got home and luckily no {visible} damage.

It comes to something when councils would sooner pay out compensation than fix the roads, obviously it's cheaper.

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General Discussion / Re: My friends tv blew up
« on: December 11, 2023, 11:32:06 AM »
I don't watch any reality shows {which means I don't watch much telly}. I.A.C.G.M.O.O.H. is cringeworthy to say the least.
I mean from what I saw of this years line up we have gone past even Z list celebs, last year was Scarlet Moffatt and she was billed as the celebrity from gogglebox {eh!} this year there was a you tuber??? talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Drivel like that should have it's own "reality" channel so people like me are not bombarded with this dross on the main terrestrial channels.

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Entertainment / Re: Crich Tramway
« on: December 08, 2023, 12:30:00 PM »
I was there too O.C.
I was going to have a word but you seemed very busy and unfortunately had to go elsewhere, I was sat right at the back on the right. Will definitely have a word if the occasion arises again, I echo smithy's comments very interesting talk.

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Rants / Re: Don't wee in a layby!
« on: December 07, 2023, 06:19:23 PM »
Blimey, what are you meant to do when you are on a long journey? I thought that was why laybys were out of town with grass verges, hedges and trees...

As a delivery driver for a number of years and in rural areas that's the only places you could "go". Suffice to say it was sods law I would pull up on a quiet country lane that possibly has 3 vehicles a day down it and as soon as I "started" to relieve myself there would be nuns on bikes girls on horseback ramblers you name it.......every time.

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Chesterfield Discussion / Re: DON'T mention the weather!!!
« on: December 06, 2023, 07:40:15 PM »
Just come back from town Storforth lane is starting to flood again!!!....so beware.

It appears we have gone full circle, Storforth lane seems to be now back flooding on a regular basis and has now been joined by Horns bridge which makes travelling from junction 29 impossible at times.
I've driven in all weathers over the past seven decades and I can't remember a time Horns bridge was impassable, so called road improvements usually tend to make matters worse.

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Chesterfield Discussion / Re: Parking charges increasing...
« on: December 04, 2023, 11:31:10 AM »
According to my daughter Tesco Clay Cross has now put up signs in their car park basically about length of parking and how long before you return, so quite obviously they must be having the same trouble as the Royal did a few years ago where people were just using it as a car park whilst going elsewhere.

Not seen them myself but no doubt there will be penalties for the miscreants.

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Chesterfield Discussion / Re: DON'T mention the weather!!!
« on: December 04, 2023, 11:26:10 AM »
What's betting the schools will be shut tomorrow!!!


Well it's certainly got warmer as the snow starts disappearing, and the schools are open which surprised me as they usually use any excuse not to.

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Chesterfield Discussion / Re: DON'T mention the weather!!!
« on: December 03, 2023, 12:46:54 PM »
What's betting the schools will be shut tomorrow!!!

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Chesterfield Discussion / Re: DON'T mention the weather!!!
« on: November 27, 2023, 12:23:54 PM »
Just come back from town Storforth lane is starting to flood again!!!....so beware.

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Rants / Re: Things that really annoy me
« on: November 22, 2023, 02:44:39 PM »
Supermarkets have without a doubt caused the demise of the "local shop". Everyone nowadays has become accustomed to buying in bulk and shopping maybe once or twice a week but no matter how much stuff they get from the supermarket they will inevitably use their local shop during the week for one off items.
When I was a lad there were at least 32 shops and businesses in our village, 3 pubs and a club and no one had even heard the word supermarket, now there are 2 pubs a club {only just} and less than a dozen shops and businesses.

I often wonder if supermarkets would benefit by going back to the old shop system. Basically walk into say Tesco C/C and be met with one long counter with manned tills evenly spaced along it and all the goods behind the counter {a bit like Argos} give them a shopping list, sit back and wait for someone at the rear to pick your order and wheel out your goods, then pay and leave, with a few tweaks here and there I reckon that could work.
   No more shelf stackers, or delivery van pickers, getting in your way, no more constantly asking people to move because they are stood talking blocking the aisles no more prices going up because they have to recoup losses through shoplifting......no more shoplifting which also  means less spent on security.




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Rants / Re: Things that really annoy me
« on: November 15, 2023, 08:21:31 PM »
Anyway back to my favourite topic........shopping!

I went to Sainsburys at Whitt moor yesterday and I was literally ripping my hair out. stood at a checkout with two others waiting, and waiting because the couple being served kept disappearing into the store picking things they had "forgot", so decided, against my better judgement, as we only had half a dozen items to go to the self service tills. These tills are not me friendly, and we couldn't figure out what we were doing wrong as we couldn't scan stuff so I asked one of the staff to help and she just shrugged her shoulders and said "I'm not on this section" in the end I said to the wife look just leave the stuff and we'll go to Tesco when another member of staff offered help and asked why we didn't ask, I said we did and was basically ignored {we only went in there because we needed Argos}.

There might be changes afoot in stores, it appears a lot of them are starting to scrap the self service tills. I'm not surprised, they must have lost millions to people only scanning half of what they've got in their baskets and it serves them right too.

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