Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

fARMERS Time to buy a few Shire Horses and some cattle

 

So, not a moan as such, more a puzzlement! Where do unsold Easter eggs go? My Sainsbury's was packed to the rafters with them on Saturday. They could not possibly have sold them all, and yet, today, they have vanished, with a very unappetising aisle of pet food in their place. (Is it just me bothered by the smell of pet food? But I digress ... ) So ... where are the left over eggs, bunnies, etc? Do they get returned to the manufacturer and melted down to make something else? Or sent to food banks? Normally the eat-by date is around July, so they can't be kept for next yr.

 

You cant get shire horses for love nor money.
These is none on E bay.

 

Now you mention it, in the small town I worked there was a shop, known locally as "the cheap shop", they sold all kinds of stuff, they did a big line in broken biscuits, I think that was their biggest seller, but I can visualise that kind of place selling easter eggs in June.

 

Only a fool breaks the two second rule.

On part of the M2 they have chevrons marked on the road, the signs say "keep apart two chevrons ", if that is the case, why didn't they miss out every other chevron and just say "keep apart one chevron"?

It always sounds like bad English to me as well.

 

Belgian motorways have the chevron thing too. Not seen any in France but now we've stopped the Namur-Vendée run we don't use the motorways much.

 

I was taught two seconds as well, after having had to learn the minimum stopping distances at various speeds from the highway code in case the driving test examiner decided to ask for any of them (no separate theory test back then).

 

Two seconds on a crowded motor way is unrealistic, a bit like the one now that says dont sit in the middle lane, yeah just keep trying to dodge in and out and avoid getting sandwiched by HGVs.
Also, what is the point of 4 lanes, and using the hard shoulder if we are all expected to just use lane one, its the one with the biggest potholes.

 

What's a motorway?

 

@shiney they were only introduced in Belgium in 1977. Couple that with having to give priority to any traffic joining a road or roundabout from the right - except on motorways but even there they had traffic exiting and entering from the same gap......

Scary stuff for ex pats - unless you'd learned to drive in London and had a company car.