LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME 2017

I once made a Beetroot Cake for Mr "M" knowing he doesn't like beetroot (unless pickled ... the beetroot that is, not Mr "M"). He scoffed the lot! Mainly because he thought he was eating a standard chocolate cake

 

There is a food store I go to, where I observe some young couples shopping together. It is quiet humorous to have one of them show the other a can of soup before putting it into the basket. And then there is the older gent who just looks drugged following around his wife as he moves the cart. And of course the mom with her baby, as she yells at it for grabbing stuff off the sides. Like ---she expects the child to just sit there ---put something in its hands already. Then you over hear a person discuss with the other if they should get garlic salt, versus garlic powder. SMH. Shopping alone is fine with me, I get to sneak a peek at other lives for some humor for my day.

 

No @shiney as the old Bosch one is eighteen years old and had started playing up with parts of the fridge getting quiet hot inside and when Mr Kandy pulled it away from the wall ready for the new one I touched the motor on the outside and it was red hot and I burnt my finger so as it is in a dangerous condition we are taking it to the tip.

I would hate to have it on my conscience that I let someone else have it only for there to be a fire like that in that Grenfell disaster so it is going for recycling even if we have to saw it up to get it to the tip

 

"rushing around the shop returning each time with an armload of what he wanted, dumped it in the cart and continued on his foray."

That's me that is. I hate shopping. The sooner we can get home the better. I don't mind as much if I intend to cook something creative and am looking for ingredients.

G.

 

now to the cereal discussion. I buy natural cereal, for the quick cold bowl in the morning type. Husband will say complain and say--- the same stuff. I tell him you go look, there is a whole row of stuff to select find what you WANT.

 

@ARMANDII . Can you tell me why transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life?

G.

 

Now, I'll admit I'm not very good with technology, it seems that to me that many devices which were once simple to operate have now become baffling in their complexity.

But the prize for 'most baffling and frustrating' appliance in our house (in my opinion), has to go to the infernal 'smart' TV acquired by Mrs Trunky a few months ago.

When you switch it on, it takes about a week (I may be exaggerating here, but only slightly) to even get started. A simple thing such as changing channels (if you can find them) seems to baffle it so much it has to think about for a while before it performs the operation.

At various intervals during the process it will ask you a series of baffling questions, most of which mean nothing to me.

Just a few minutes ago, I settled down in the vain and optimistic hope that I would be able to watch a particular programme on 'catch up', whereupon it immediately began a series of diversionary tactics to prevent me from even finding, let alone viewing said programme.

Mrs Trunky valiantly tried to guide me through the process, but after a couple of minutes I found I was losing the will to live and gave up in despair.

I'm now happily installed in another room, with Marc Riley on the radio and GC on the laptop.
I'll probably read a book later. Keep it simple I say.

 

As I haven't been grocery shopping for a while for reasons previously mentioned, we used to laugh at families shopping ... being in a touristy area, the entire family goes shopping. Now a box of Corn Flakes is a box of Corn Flakes wherever you are so why do the entire family plus cart have to block the aisle for all to attempt to read out loud the Portuguese version of the box?

It is also the same that for unknown reasons here they all walk in the street xxx many abreast ... I don't remember doing that in the UK.

 

@Trunky Our catch up tv is through a BT top box. You have to coordinate the 2 devices to get it to work. My wife struggles with it. My 6 year old grandchildren however ...

G.

 

@ARMANDII I vaguely recall solving simultaneous equations using the inverse of a 2 x2 matrix. It's not something I've had to use very often.

G.

 

Did you have to put that piccy up Armandii. I'm sat here now drooling over an enlarged version

{ That's the bar not the ship. Mind you I wouldn't mind having a go on that either }