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  1. Plymborn

    Plymborn Well-Known Member
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    I haven't come across any noticeable shortages around this area....regularly use Sainsbury's and Waitrose.....and other than the panic buying in the early weeks of the pandemic of toilet rolls etc... we have been well stocked from what I see in the south east.
     
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    Surprised condoms are not in short supply, or should I say eardrops because of the earaches from the missus
     
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  3. notDistantGreen

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    Definite shortages here. Meat, fresh fruit & veg, herbs & spices and most disastrously, wine!
     
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  4. sensiblegreeny

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    There have been shortages of fresh veg at times in the Stores I use but not all of the time. However, one thing that I have noted is that prices have risen a bit. This is after the Supermarkets making major killings during lockdown. They really need to hike prices don't they.
     
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  5. Plymborn

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    A lot of Beige cars around here at present.

    There might not be much chance of a foreign holiday this year.....but we are having a touch of the Sahara.....the rain recently has left a deposit of sand blown in from N Africa on the cars.....happening more often in recent years.
     
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  6. Plymborn

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    Very sad sight in our garden this morning......we have two large Magnolia trees in the back garden... that for the last two weeks have been in magnificent bloom with hundreds of beautiful white with a slight pink tinge flowers on.

    This morning they have all turned brown....because of an overnight frost....and the sight is very sad to see.....it just ' hit on the head' that lovely feeling of spring and new life bringing us through a miserable 12 months of Covid.....just nature at work I guess....showing us whose in charge....not us for sure..
     
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    The PM is "deeply concerned" over the violence in Northern Ireland currently. People should use dialogue to sort out differences he says. Who created the excuse for the violence in that Province is what I would ask. He did because despite dialogue about people not being happy with the place being treated differently to the rest of the UK thereby marginalising it he chose to ignore it and carried on anyway. So Boris, dialogue didn't work therefore what do you prescribe after that? If ever there was a person so hard of understanding and deaf to anyone else's words I have yet to meet them. I wouldn't mind if he had a couple of brain cells but sadly they are missing in his case.
     
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    Second Pfizer vaccine dose today for Mrs Plym and myself....just arrived home from a trip to Guys.....so come next Tuesday we should be as protected as possible....one thing that Boris and his scientists have got right.....good job we're not in a EU queue system.....we would have been lucky to have had one jab by now.
     
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  9. sensiblegreeny

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    Sorry no brownie points for Boris on that one. Whilst he is directly responsible for the debacle over the borders in NI by his panic to get Brexit through at any cost he has had nothing whatsoever to do with inventing a vaccine. Given his track record he would probably think a test tube was a fancy drinking glass and nothing more. I think you may find that the queue in the EU for a jab is dependant on which country you live in rather than the EU itself.
     
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  10. notDistantGreen

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    As he carried on to sell the fishing industry down the river (pun intended, decided it was better than the "all at sea" route) and to massacre the thousands of small businesses who'd built a business selling to Europe in return for what.... short term protection for car production.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56441829

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56666000
     
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    12th April....8am

    Being a well domesticated husband I have done a coloured wash... for her who is still in bed....and I've sorted my pegs out.....and was on the verge of opening the back door.....when I noticed that it was SNOWING really hard with large flakes laying quite quickly.

    Not having a piece of seaweed....or my once broken leg telling me the weather....or a multi-million pound weather detecting computer in the spare bedroom....I am rather taken aback....because there is no talk of anything falling out of the sky today on the Met Office or BBC weather charts.....I expect in 30 minutes time there will be no sign of snow and Mrs Plym will not believe me and tell me not to make such ridicules stories up....and get that washing out....and why haven't I got the second wash started yet.....nearly as impossible as predicting football results.
     
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  12. notDistantGreen

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    Impressive domestication Plym but I seem to remember the forecasts talking about showers in the SE (or Up North as we call anything the other side of Taunton down here).
     
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    Got a phone call from our GP today and our second jab is set for 23rd April. I will just be glad when it's all over and sorted. Made an error of going into the Town today as her indoors needed to get some shoes. Don't know what is wrong with her flip flops but still needs must I suppose. It was a bit on the chocker side in the streets. Debenhams about to shut their store permanently and a sale now taking place for a few weeks to get rid of stock. The queue outside was just mad. There is no chance I would stand in a queue like that apart from getting a Wembley ticket of course. There is always one exception. The Cafe people were out in force. Why would you sit outside in the street to eat your Omlette. It would be cold in minutes. Needless to say we were not in there longer than absolutely necessary. Her indoors has now decided she can't wear the shoes she bought so I have to take her back in tomorrow to return them and get something else. It's a perfect example of why women should not be allowed in shops.
     
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    Talk of people queuing outside some shops at 6am this morning....and I assume many have not had one jab yet.

    With barbers booking in people for the next four weeks....I'll just waiting until the rush is all over.....sneaked in a haircut last July....so nine months since my last cut.

    Haven't seen many footballers with long hair recently.
     
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    Great to see that renowned patriot Sir James Dyson on the news this morning having popped back from his HQ in Singapore to tell us how grateful we should be for Brexit. He is a reformed character of course having once berated the UK Government for not joining the Eurozone when exchange rates were adversely affecting his business. When they failed to do so, he moved his operations to Malaysia which then enabled him to become a prominent supporter of Brexit. No hypocrisy there at all. Dyson now employees as much as a quarter of its workforce in the UK.
     
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  16. sensiblegreeny

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    We all know what the modern expression "Friends with benefits" means where something is provided between parties for mutual benefit without strings. Well the latest Borisism should read "Cronies with Benefits" given the contracts etc passed between friends in high places and buddies on the outside for mutual benefit. "We have ordered an enquiry" the PM spouts which is political speak for shut up and move on we have kicked it into touch and can't talk about it until you have all forgotten. These people just can't resist putting their snouts in the trough can they. It doesn't matter how rich they already are there is always room for more at the expense of the ordinary folk. I get more and more disillusioned as time goes on.
     
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  17. notDistantGreen

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    The media have made Greensill sound like some kind of rogue operation selling bogus financial products. In fact, invoice factoring, which is what this is, is a common business practice. From my business experience, you have to worry about the companies who are factoring their invoices, not the factoring agent, because it means the former don't have enough working capital to operate normally. As soon as I saw a company start to factor, I'd do credit checks and think about reducing their credit limit.

    Obviously the unprecedented downturn due to Covid meant that companies were selling less, invoicing less and factoring less, so in the short term they converted their working capital into cash. That cash came from Greensill who, with nothing coming in at the other end as the economy nosedived, started to collapse.

    Given the money the Government spent saving the banks in 2008, who'd actually precipitated the crash by uncontrolled lending, I can't imagine why Greensill wasn't given help when it ran into trouble it could not have predicted and didn't cause. In not supporting Greensill, the Government has put as risk Greensill's clients such as Liberty Steel, who were still owed money by Greensill when it went down. The absence of Greensill will probably also limit the ability of their previous clients to climb back out of the Covid hole they are in.

    Please note my comments above about it being companies who factor you need to worry about, not the factoring agents, who are just doing their essential jobs.

    So, then there is the question as to how Greensill used Cameron to try to get the same help the Government was providing to other businesses. I'm less concerned with that than why the Government refused to help and in doing so have put a large part of the British steel industry at risk again, together presumably with other businesses as well.
     
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  18. sensiblegreeny

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    Good to see old Dommy Cummins making a comeback in the news. There is nothing like a spurned previous Advisor. This time I hope he dishes all the dirt on Boris and his chums. My feeling is there is plenty of it to dish. They are a total bunch of sleaze balls. If ordinary folk did half of what they do they would never get out of jail in a thousand lifetimes.
     
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    Generally, I have a better opinion of politicians than seems to be norm. Maybe that's because I think the country should be run by the best people and so if they all went to public schools and Oxbridge, all well and good. I also think they are grossly underpaid if we are to have the best.

    That doesn't apply to the present bunch of Tory politicians. They are liars and incompetents.
     
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    I agree....if you want the best people running the country...you have to pay them the going rate for the job....but what is that rate.....would they be worth more or less than a Premier League player earning £350,000 per week.....if that was the going rate you'd get the Queen swapping her red boxes for the PM's red boxes any day.

    The problem is politics/parties gets in the way of good government....but how can we get rid of it ?
     
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