I have a tendency, albeit a diminishing tendency to ignore people who are doing simple jobs such as cleaning, road sweeping etc. This morning I had my usual breakfast at Wetherspoon's. I've got my order down to a fine art. 'table 37, freedom breakfast, hot drink' I like going to this establishment before about 9:30 in the morning because the place is always quiet except for one or two very...
I have a strong independent streak and will do any venture on my own if I can, but any alternative needs to be looked at quite carefully and comparing benefits can be quite tricky. For example if you're going to a new country and you know nothing of it, it might be preferable the first time around to be at least shown the basics and thus avoid waste of time and possibly waste of money through...
So we are off today Monday 17th March 2025 for a five-day break in the Lancashire area including visits to Manchester, Chester and Liverpool. We are traveling with 'Just Go Holidays'. We were based in Bolton at the Britannia Hotel. This time I'm not going to write so much by chronology but by themes and the theme for this first day is as indicated above. The traffic system is grossly overloaded...
The lunch date that never happened We were looking forward to meeting with the friend in Coleford at a community facility called The Hub where a group of good people produce lunch every Wednesday Thursday and Friday. You don't have to book up, you just turn up the meals are supposed to be very reasonably priced and I'm sure cooked with love. We arrived at the place at the agreed time of 12:15 to...
I so much did NOT look forward to this call Today I had to call Sky to remove an element from my package and also to order a new sky Q box because the Sky Plus box is now redundant. I hesitated for two weeks before calling because my antipathy to Sky as a system is so great I really had to fight to overcome it. Basically the website has been dumbed down so much that outside certain lowest common...
The price of prescriptions for eye glasses Today was one of those days when I was relatively free from appointments but the day fills up as it always does. I went for an eye test to my local optician in Radstock. They are always very kind and helpful and the consulted found that I needed an alteration in my prescription I have got used to varifocals so I hope it was not going to be too expensive...
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