Random Irritations

I love chocolate, I love cake. Thorntons have just announced that when lockdown lifts they will not open any of their shops, they will close permanently. I love a Thornton's cafe, I love their chocolate and I love the fact that many of them are hand finished still (check out the Greg Wallace factory programme for confirmation of that). We don't have a sad thread so irritating is the nearest I can get.

It is, of course, more than irritating for another group of people who will be losing their jobs. The high street is going to get emptier and emptier unless something dramatic happens regarding both rent and rates.
 
Texans.....funny story.....When I first came to the UK I ran CC/track for Wycombe. We had a girl (a bit lovely) that got a scholarship to a college in Texas. Some people met her at the airport (rightly so) and asked her if she needed help. She said yes.....could they please help hump her bags to the car. Texas....hump......rather amusing.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
I love chocolate, I love cake. Thorntons have just announced that when lockdown lifts they will not open any of their shops, they will close permanently. I love a Thornton's cafe, I love their chocolate and I love the fact that many of them are hand finished still (check out the Greg Wallace factory programme for confirmation of that). We don't have a sad thread so irritating is the nearest I can get.

It is, of course, more than irritating for another group of people who will be losing their jobs. The high street is going to get emptier and emptier unless something dramatic happens regarding both rent and rates.
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We lost our local Thornton's but there is a Hotel Chocolat sprung up in the same town, which we consider an upgrade. :)
 
Lord Tyrion said:
I love chocolate, I love cake. Thorntons have just announced that when lockdown lifts they will not open any of their shops, they will close permanently. I love a Thornton's cafe, I love their chocolate and I love the fact that many of them are hand finished still (check out the Greg Wallace factory programme for confirmation of that). We don't have a sad thread so irritating is the nearest I can get.

It is, of course, more than irritating for another group of people who will be losing their jobs. The high street is going to get emptier and emptier unless something dramatic happens regarding both rent and rates.
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Unfortunately, almost everything that is bad for me....I like. Beer....cheese....candy.....hmmmmm melted cheese on candy, cover with beer???? Right before golfing.....
 
Blue in Munich said:
How can they put 100% worn on an advisory yet still pass it? :unsure:
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Exactly what I thought but a pass was a pass and I never planned to go back to them to get the work done. Someone did say that they can be pretty well down but if the car stops properly when the pedal is pressed it'll pass the MOT
 
Paying the dentist to do.a filling two weeks ago and having to go back today with toothache and him grinding out most off the new filling as it was too proud for the bite ?
 
chrisd said:
Exactly what I thought but a pass was a pass and I never planned to go back to them to get the work done. Someone did say that they can be pretty well down but if the car stops properly when the pedal is pressed it'll pass the MOT
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As long as there is enough pad material and the discs are lipped they're fine, the fronts do most of the work anyway, but that just doesn't sound right.
 
So today I'm in a properly fed up frame of mind. Not like me at all and think the sense that normality is close but yet so far away. So to add salt to the wounds I have just hit my elbow really really hard on the corner of the cupboard. Air was blue and both dogs retreated to their beds and kep their heads down!
 
Blue in Munich said:
As long as there is enough pad material and the discs are lipped they're fine, the fronts do most of the work anyway, but that just doesn't sound right.
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That's what I understood, and todays mechanic said the same as you regards the front brakes. In the past I employed mechanics who worked on my cars (when out of warranty) but clearly drivers are being ripped off as there is no way to check the things these garages/mechanics erroneously report.
 
Crazyface said:
Lee Westwood.

"I hate to say it but age is catching up with me," said the 47-year-old.
"I didn't quite have my game - on Saturday I felt like my legs were just getting a bit tired and weak, [on Sunday] I didn't feel like I had my legs under me. I was hitting shots I don't usually hit.

Really? All you've got to do is walk. Walk and swish a club a few times, about 30 times actually. If this is tiring you out, which it shoudn't be at 47, you can come and have a go at my job, humping crates full of bottles of water and fizzy pop up 30 yard driveways....at 55.

All respect now gone.
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For a few weeks in a row tour pros play probably 5.5 to 6 rounds in 6 days, plus hours on the range warming up and warming down.
 
Estate agents again!!!

So friday afternoon we phone an agent and arrange a viewing for Saturday lunch time. On our way to the viewing (having driven half an hour) we get a phone call to say that the vendor has accepted an offer and our viewing is cancelled. That in itself was frustrating enough, to be emailed the details for the property this morning with "heres one we think you would like" properly tipped me over the edge!
 
Proof readers :mad::mad:... I've been thumbing through a book about London... And, I am finding myself getting angrier each time it's wrong... eg... Describing a part of the old London docks and calling it Silverstone... Really :unsure::unsure:... Find myself shouting at the book SILVERTOWN!!!
 
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