First-World Problems.

[Mr Larrington]

Our spaghetti jar has disappeared....

Have you accidentally re-purposed it for storing cable ties?

Cable ties should be stored inside the drops, behind the bar-end plug.
Trufax.

Only on one side, though.  I'm sure there is an entire generation of cyclists who honestly believe that the rearward-point bit at the bottom of a set of drop bars really is called the "stash".

[Paul]

Our spaghetti jar has disappeared....

In my experience, missing jars can often be found in the shed with chains/brushes in white spirits.

If yours isn't in your shed, it's probably in mine.

[Jurek]

Our spaghetti jar has disappeared....

Have you accidentally re-purposed it for storing cable ties?

Cable ties should be stored inside the drops, behind the bar-end plug.
Trufax.

Only on one side, though.  I'm sure there is an entire generation of cyclists who honestly believe that the rearward-point bit at the bottom of a set of drop bars really is called the "stash".

The hollow part of the bar-end plug should be stuffed with Blu-Tack, and the pointy part of the cable tie inserted into this, before shoving the ties into the bars.
Makes for easier retreival. Dontcha know.

[Beardy]

There is some question over whether or not the garage will service my car because the computer while not saying, it doesn’t say yes. This maybe down to me bringing in the car when it says service me in 1500 miles but Then when I booked it their computer didn’t say no either.

[Andrij]

Listening to Il Trovatore on from the Met, on BBC Radio 3.  The 'anvils' are drowning out the Coro di Zingari.

[Basil]

Clunk! 

[Tim Hall]

Nipped to Waitrose this evening, looking for eggs. What's this? Eggs in boxes of four, nine and fifteen.  The world has gone mad.

[hellymedic]

Subtle downsizing/shrinkflation to challenge the innumerate...
Torture by squares...

[Kim]

To be fair, we're well overdue for metric^[1] eggboxes.  Shouldn't there be an EU regulation or something?


_{[1] By which I mean decimal.}

[Auntie Helen]

We have eggs in 10s here in Germany, and also 6s (but they are less often seen)

[phantasmagoriana]

I always buy the nine-egg boxes. I just like the squareness of them! My Waitrose branch does have plenty of six-egg boxes, though.

[Gus]

Eggs are very complicated here in Danish supermarkets :

6, 10, 15, 20 or 30 in a package.

You have to check eggs for size, we have 4 different sizes.

Then you need to decide how you want the chickens life while laying the eggs, I think we are down to 4 types there too.
Only Aldi sells Battery eggs now, all other shops have been persuaded to stop selling them.

I prefer to visit the local farm shop and just buy 15 ecological produced eggs in different sizes but laid the same day.  so Tasty

[Pingu]

Nipped to Waitrose this evening, looking for eggs. What's this? Eggs in boxes of four, nine and fifteen.  The world has gone mad.

Yes, it should be 4, 9, 16.

[hellymedic]

Nipped to Waitrose this evening, looking for eggs. What's this? Eggs in boxes of four, nine and fifteen.  The world has gone mad.

Yes, it should be 4, 9, 16.

Would make a neat pyramidal stack!

[Kim]

How about Fibonacci sizes?  Would make for some interesting stacking options...

[ElyDave]

Eggs are very complicated here in Danish supermarkets :

6, 10, 15, 20 or 30 in a package.

You have to check eggs for size, we have 4 different sizes.

Then you need to decide how you want the chickens life while laying the eggs, I think we are down to 4 types there too.
Only Aldi sells Battery eggs now, all other shops have been persuaded to stop selling them.

I prefer to visit the local farm shop and just buy 15 ecological produced eggs in different sizes but laid the same day.  so Tasty

by the dozen or 18 from my farmers market, from a chicken farm I regularly ride past.

[spesh]

How about Fibonacci sizes?  Would make for some interesting stacking options...

 

[clarion]

How about Fibonacci sizes?  Would make for some interesting stacking options...

A bit of a downer for anyone purchasing the 0 eggs box

[Kim]

How about Fibonacci sizes?  Would make for some interesting stacking options...

A bit of a downer for anyone purchasing the 0 eggs box

Got to cater for the vegans somehow...

[clarion]

Perfect!

Although that would open another can of worms box of eggs

6!
28!
496!
!!!

[Greenbank]

When I used to order eggs the options were 60, 180 or 360 as they came on trays of 5x6 that stacked nicely. 360 was a 'box' of 12 trays.

[Cudzoziemiec]

5, 6, 10 were the standards in Poland. Here we get them from a shop which sells them individually, but gives a slight discount for 6. Or 12. Presumably also for 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Oh and for 13...

[essexian]

It's spring....well our neighbour things it is as he is out with his chainsaw, something he does nearly every week during the tree/ bush growing season.*

It's very irritating while I am trying to work but he does have some nicely trimmed wood. I suppose being retired, he needs something to do.




* We do our trees once every two years and our bushes three times a year which is about right!

[pcolbeck]

I can't decide which loose leaf breakfast blend tea to order.
I've finally decided on a Darjeeling and an Assam that I really love so can just repeat order those but breakgfst blend I am sill wavering on.

[andyoxon]

Overheard in Tesco yesterday 'I really hate our champagne glasses, they're far too thick'.