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lonelymom wrote:

NEILL THE NOTORIOUS wrote: BTW I have a first edition of "Three men" but was there a dog," to say nothing of ? " in Arjan's encounter ? (again " of which to say nothing" ) Englishangel lurks !!!

You've completely lost me there, Neill. I can't make out what that is supposed to mean.

But you have reminded me of a 'conversation' I was having with my 18 year-old half-sister the other day. I was taking the mick out of her for something by email, and she said 'I'm cool allow'. I had to ask her if that was actually meant to be a sentence or just three words that she had thrown together! Apparently it was a sentence...

Probably the 'Vino' he smuggled back from holiday !!

In that case, please pass the bottle over Neill, I need some of that!

You don't need to smuggle vino, we are in the EU, unless he brought a tanker full, and I have absolutely no comment on Neill's verbiage as I did not understand a word. I can spell, my gremmar is appalling.

Was that a gremlin?

Probably

Why do shops employ staff with no common sense? I've just got back from Tesco, and was served by a young girl who wittered on and on and on about her handbag collection, her shoe collection, the £200 wardrobe she had to buy to put them all in, etc. She was chatting so much that she didn't get round to telling me how much I needed to pay so I glanced across at the display and said '£243.99! I don't think so!!' She said 'It is, it is that much' and I showed her my 8 bags of shopping and said 'there is no way that lot costs £243.99!' and she was just saying 'yeah, it is!' Eventually I leaned over and looked at the receipt still in the machine and noticed my Tesco Value smoked mackerel was £185.10!!! I told her that's where the mistake was and she said 'oh yeah'. It should have been £1.85. Maybe if I'd been buying shoes or handbags she might have had more of an idea of how much things cost, but surely anyone with an ounce of common sense would know that unless I'd bought copious amounts of caviar, 8 bags of shopping doesn't come to nearly £250!

Occasionally I also wonder who they employ to make up online orders. If you order something which is out of stock they normally send a substitute which you are at liberty to accept or decline. Classic recent example of stupidity - I ordered lightbulbs with an Edison screw fitting; they substituted lightbulbs with a bayonet cap fitting!

Sainsburys are usually quite good at their substitutions, but I do recall once ordering a pack of mixed cheeses (about £4) and them sending a swanky wooden cheeseboard with cheese knife - and some cheeses - for about £15! And recently I ordered some 100 cm laces for my trainers, and they substituted with 75 cm ones.

Where on earth did the shopping references come from??

To be fair to Notorious Neill, he was referring to an earlier reference to "3 Men in a Boat".

Cross stitch - Mrs Ajarn has recently taken to having photos converted into a cross-stich pattern (not cheap in itself even here). Earlier this year she finished one of my two granddaughters. She was advised to turn this into a little "cottage" industry for tourists, but it takes her so long to finish one that I don't think it would be worth her while! (But I'll consider any offers on her behalf... )

Ajarn Philip wrote:Where on earth did the shopping references come from??

To be fair to Notorious Neill, he was referring to an earlier reference to "3 Men in a Boat".

The shopping references were from me - they were a 'glimpse' at my bizarre shopping trip today.

And re Neill, I'm sort of getting it now, I think...

All these threads have an interesting habit of going off at a tangent.. and then sometimes coming back on theme!

as in cross-stitching?

Somewhere I have software for converting pictures into cross stitch charts, but I never got the hang of using it. Maybe I should fish it out and try again. Thanks for reminding me. As for the jumbled 'threads' - surely a vague title like 'Just a glimpse' can safely be used to cover a multitude of topics?

Ajarn Philip wrote:Where on earth did the shopping references come from??

To be fair to Notorious Neill, he was referring to an earlier reference to "3 Men in a Boat".

Cross stitch - Mrs Ajarn has recently taken to having photos converted into a cross-stich pattern (not cheap in itself even here). Earlier this year she finished one of my two granddaughters. She was advised to turn this into a little "cottage" industry for tourists, but it takes her so long to finish one that I don't think it would be worth her while! (But I'll consider any offers on her behalf... )

Buy her a computer program for doing the conversion. It will also give the code numbers of the threads needed.!!

lonelymom wrote:Why do shops employ staff with no common sense?

Because they pay minimum wage?

One of my gripes is people with laden baskets going through the "10 items or less" (sic) checkouts and the staff doing nothing about it. I complained one time and they more or less said they didn't care, and they seemed to think it was very odd that I did