LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME - 2021

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  1. gks

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    With our e-commerce site all parcels are sent out in used cardboard boxes. I normally get them from Glasgow and will get our lad to bring a full load back when he has delivered to one of our customers in Lanark. Also get some from our local Spar, most cardboard boxes need to be able to hold 25kg though. We state we are using used cardboard boxes and apart from the odd customer who has rejected the parcel because they think its sex toys (joking), we will always continue to go that route.
     
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      portugaC35b[1].gif :cry3: :cry3: :cry3::cry3: :cry3:
       
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        If you, as a member of the public, was to find some Ministry of Defence papers at a bus stop where would you take them?


        Oh of course, you would give them straight to the BBC??:biggrin:
         
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          Hold an online auction :whistle:. The government wouldn't even notice. :doh:
           
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            I would tear them in to strips and hang them up in our toilet save a fortune in toilet rolls:heehee::heehee::heehee:
             
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              That takes me back to my younger days :rolleyespink:. Our toilet paper was torn up newspapers and torn up old telephone directories (we were posh and had a phone - and I still remember the number :heehee:). The 'toilet paper' hook was a bent piece of wire.
               
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                  There are many things which are not as good as in years gone by, toilet paper is definitely NOT one of them. I preferred newspaper to Izal which my mother insisted on buying:rolleyespink:. As for the phone @shiney yup we were posh too:) and yup can remember the 3 digit telephone number. I was forbidden to even touch the phone far less make calls. The phone was made of thick Bakelite and reckon it was bordering on the indestructible, despite this it was treated as tho made of bone China.
                   
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                    I remember Izal but we used to call it 'rough grease proof paper'. :rolleyespink:
                     
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                      :roflol: I think they were one of the same thing really...just cut into different widths!!
                       
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                        Izal made quite good tracing paper from memory. I’m sure I remember tracing the outline of The British Isles for some Geography homework and mother asking why the hell I had sheets of it lying about:).
                         
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                          Izal was medicated and tasted foul (don't ask).
                           
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                            Yes we used it for that too :biggrin::dbgrtmb:
                             
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                              All this to read on the morning that I have just done the bowel cancer screening test.:biggrin:

                              Still cant find a simple way of doing it.:redface:
                               
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                                Good morning everyone now you know me I don't moan much :heehee:but I have just had to do a kidney test which they sent me by post because we no longer get an annual diabetic review done the test which I had to download an App for and then follow the instructions and then scan the results back to the GP how on earth do they expect the more mature generation :heehee:to deal with these new ways there must be thousands of people who haven't got a smart phone or don't understand the phone they have got (like me):heehee:
                                 
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