Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

I too have been boycotting Amazon for a while. Not quite as long as you. Maybe since 2020 for me.

 

Surely after lifting them you know how heavy they are.
I use a barrow for all bags these days, its not just the weight its the route that I take, cant get them up on my shoulder any more.

 

I've always said that when the day comes that I can no longer lift a 70l bag of compost, hop! off down to the reservoir with a rope and some concrete blocks

 

Do you know what I find funny about Amazon ? Look up Peyronie's Disease and the curve usually goes up ... just like their logo - naughty Lori...

 

Yes, I now have enough for this spring and summer - 600 liters of the stuff so I guess it was worth the struggle. And I got the whole lot at a special price. oh wait, that's not a moan..

 

@noisette47 I'll just shift to 60litres and then 40 litres if necessary or get th eunder-gardener to help me shift them. I've recently bought some dumb-bells to add to my exercise routine to do at home when I finish physio for the new knees in a couple of weeks' time.

Planning to stay strong and flexible for a good while yet.

By the time I can no longer shift weighty stuff we'll either have moved to a smaller house and plot or the local stores will have cottoned on to the delights of customer delivery services.

 

Doesn't sound very environmentally friendly.

 

Change of topic - American baking and dessert recipes!! Why are they so sweet?

I made some raspberry and white chocolate biscuits for Possum last night - her idea, not mine - so she could share them with the team at work. tried one with my post lunch tisane just now and could almost feel my teeth dissolving.

Note to self - halve the sugar content in future.

 

You certainly are @Fat Controller !

With you on the reservoir/rope scenario @noisette47 , although for me, my daughters have been instructed to lay me down behind the car and put it in reverse...'help, help - there's been a terrible accident....'

 

Every little helps!

 

I'm on borrowed time then! To get a 40l bag, I attach a hot water bottle to my lower back, proceed to Homebase, check the pile is tall enough so I can manoeuvre a bag onto one of the waist-height trolleys without bearing its weight, wiggle it from there into the car boot, drive home, wiggle it from the car boot onto a boot-height trolley table with wheels, roll it into the garage, push it off the table, lie down on the sofa till recovered!