Minor Rant thread 2016

[JanieB]

Now when I were a lass the bakeries opened for about 2 hrs on Good Friday just to sell Hot Cross Buns. Nowadays they are cold cross buns and warm them up yourself and sold from Chistmas onwards. My rant is that I nipped down to the local supermarket on Good Friday for my buns and there weren't any. On enquiry I was told I should have bought them earlier ie before Friday as they had been taken off the shelves as no longer in season. Also all the easter eggs have been removed before Easter Sunday (don't get me on the subject of Easter Day which doesn't exist) as out of season.

[Lumpy]

The council who provide a letter to say that the rent comes out by D.D on the 4th of every month and then pull it today on the 29th which left us overdrawn.

[muddled]

The Doctors surgery that tells me and my disabled daughter to come in for a fasting blood test at 12 noon so I've been awake for five hours without coffee or breakfast.

The same doctors surgery that tells me, 45 minutes after our appointment times, that the blood test woman has car trouble and will be late in.
"so you'll have to come back same time tomorrow"

The lid@ls checkout girl who was scanning my shopping before I had got the trolley emptied onto the conveyer belt...
Even though this was clearly stressing out my autistic daughter with Downs syndrome...
...Thus preventing me from allowing an elderly lady buying ONE orange the chance to go in front (I had over a hundred quids worth in the trolley)...
...and then continued to scan (despite repeated requests to wait) before the trolley was empty to put the shopping back into, just piling it up ever highter at the till until, inevitably, stuff started falling on the floor and, just as inevitably, I shouted at her in front of dozens of bemused shoppers

And finally...she said my car registration wasn't my car registration...and the machine and camera don't recognize it and therefore I should keep my receipt because I am going to get a parking fine through the post

Today has not been a good day

[greenishfing]

Northern Gas Networks who seem to think it is acceptable to dig up the central reservation and half a lane of road on a very busy dual carriageway in the city but close 2 lanes for the duration of the works thus halving the roads capacity. They did this before Easter and despite the fact very little work is going on (and very intermittently) the lanes still remain closed. The traffic back-up is horrendous. These companies should have to work 24/7 when they want to disrupt life for so many people.

Also the "blind"??? bi*** with headphones in who decides to pull in front of me onto a roundabout and block my exit causing me to hit the brakes hard. I really should just have carried on and hit her as she was completely in the wrong (not giving way to traffic already on the roundabout)

New resolution. Plug the dashcam in so that I have proof next time!!!................and carry on.

[JanieB]

New cooker, new kitchen, felt the urge to bake. Recipe I've relied on for years looks like 2 crispy (although rather thick) pancakes. Not the big fluffy cream sponge I was expecting.

I just wasn't used to the new cooker. OMG did I get it right this time. Big fluffy cake, better than anything in any shop (except our local bakery, which is only open for a short time each day).

My new rant, I dropped a big lump of very creamy slice down between my pinny and my clean top. Grrrh.

[greenishfing]

A birthday present............well not the actual present but my inability to use it.

A Hula Hoop..........bruised shins and ankles and toes.

Obviously Hula Hooping is not like cycling...........you do forget how to do it (in 50 or so years)

[Vickilou]

Rain nothing like the wet stuff to scupper your plans. Majority of the garden still has standing water on it
While I'm here...... Stooopid doggy sitting on my new cold frame and squishing my sweet peas she just doesn't listen when I tell her it isn't for sitting on!!
Yes she's a lump of a doggy

[Hazel at the Hill]

Obviously Hula Hooping is not like cycling...........you do forget how to do it (in 50 or so years)

Sorry to chat, but do persevere! It's the single best core exercise there is - you will have a midriff of plate steel in no time!

[Vickilou]

My rant is .... Pots, pans, cutlery! I realise some of you have a dishwasher
I don't , my hands are sore and I'm fed up

[JanieB]

I went to the GC yesterday. I wanted 4 vines because the theme for my new shed is Greek Taverna. It has got even worse. The inside of the GC has virtually nothing gardeny and the outside that used to be plants as far as the eye can see, now has them relegated to a small area at one end and the rest is stuff that can be left outside much of which used to be inside.

I got my 4 vines, but there wasn't much choice as there were only 6 there anyway. and it's not because they've had a run over Easter although I know they did 'cos I tried it and left without attempting to park. There's no more room for plants!

It's called a Garden Centre, shouldn't it be for gardens? :-(

[SusieG]

Sun is out and I'm on holiday - and we've got to go visit parents in law !!!!!! - I'm itching to get back in the garden
They're sweet really, and I do love 'em ....

[Lumpy]

TV weather forecast................

One side tonight it will be between 1 and 3 degrees................prepares to toddle outside to fleece and plastic like a loon...................othere side it will be between 5 and 7 degreess............sighs deeply and wishes they would talk to each other, go into a bout of fisticuffs and then both sides might agree!

[Dorothy rouse]

Digging up stuff that had died down during the winter, so I had forgotten it was there, was preparing a bed for my sweet peas!

Other people must do this? Or is just me?

[Lisasbolt]

Seeing pretty little photos of lambs that look so happy but was probably eaten last week for Easter

[Jay22]

^^^A certain person who has made me feel sad this morning!