The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.

[lisat]

My local bike shop is taking ages to do a few bits to my bike. I was supposed to get it back earlier this week as I had a ride planned for today. No phone from them and when I called the dopey lad, (who I try to avoid asking taxing questions like "when is my bike going to be ready"), he could not find the paperwork, the bike and then didn't ring me back.  Usually they are really good. 

Also I had to hang around in town Wednesday evening and went for a coffee in McDonalds. All the sugars and milks etc were now behind the counter to stop people nicking them. Ffs surely they make enough profit that they can bear a little sugar loss. 

[Templogin]

Also I had to hang around in town Wednesday evening and went for a coffee in McDonalds. All the sugars and milks etc were now behind the counter to stop people nicking them. Ffs surely they make enough profit that they can bear a little sugar loss.

As a cyclist you should be aware of the risks of low sugar!

[Templogin]

Why does everyone think that they are a comedian - ahem!?

The butchers usually have sensible names for their sausages like pork, beef, cumberland etc.  Today they have decided to call one welsh dragon pork, so I ask what's in them.  A smartarse female customer, not actually part of the conversation, pipes up with welsh dragons.  What they lack in intelligence around here they make up for in wit, just not today.

[Peter]

What did you expect?  Then, I'm a vegetarian.....

[ian]

I spent yesterday clambering over the broken stiles of East Sussex yesterday. Which is fine, I can clamber, and pretty much expected. Then we got to the last bit of our walk just outside Uckfield. A big 'footpath closed' sign. Apparently the staircase by the train track crossing was in a bad way. But it was getting dark and past beer o'clock so what the hell, we've clambered this far, let's ignore the notice.

Glad we did. The footpath was closed because of one slightly broken step. A man with a replacement bit of wood and a few tools could have fixed it in 30 minutes. Instead, it's taken both East Sussex CC and National Rail all the effort (and cost) of getting a closure in place (one with no defined end point). Bejeebus, I've just clambered over 30 km of broken stiles, I'm not likely to come a cropper on one slightly sloping step.

[Basil]

I'm in the supermarket and, of course, my list is on the kitchen table.
Bugger.
Let's see how I do.

[Pickled Onion]

I predict you'll come back with a bottle of wine, a piece of stilton, a large several of items that were on special offer, and you'll have NO milk for your coffee tomorrow morning. Or coffee.

[Basil]

I predict you'll come back with a bottle of wine, a piece of stilton, a large several of items that were on special offer, and you'll have NO milk for your coffee tomorrow morning. Or coffee.

 
Actually, I did quite well.  The only thing I forgot was the turmeric, and we're not actually completely out of that.  No wine or special offers.

[Canardly]

Local farmer (presumably) or someone not too far away has sprayed their fields/gardens with shhh manure and it stinks to high heaven. This is not a normal earthy/country smell but rank and unpleasant. Hopefully rain tomorrow am will tone it down a bit. 

[Ruth]

We've been getting the same thing, intermittently, for a couple of weeks now.  It's muck spreading season.

It's worrying how much like human faeces it smells.  I hope it's just sileage they're planning to grow in that.

[nicknack]

It's worrying how much like human faeces it smells.

That's probably because it is.

[Tim Hall]

It's worrying how much like human faeces it smells.

That's probably because it is.

Sewage sludge or something.  There was a pile in a field down thus way. The tomato plants sprouting out of it gave a clue as to its origins.

[mcshroom]

IIRC Thames Water had a fertilizer arm (called Terra Eco I think) when I worked there. I think that looked after composting waste as well but it also used digested sewage to make some of the product.

[Jasmine]

Yes, quite a few farms here use sewage sludge (where else do you think it goes?).  There are regulations on how long you have to leave it before planting food for human consumption, or putting animals out to graze on it.

Other strong smelling fertilisers include chicken shit, which is arguably a worse smell than human shit (high ammonia).  It makes you positively enjoy the smell of cow shit.

[essexian]

"They" are using dried human waste byproducts to build the new part of Stafford Castle Golf Course, so it is said:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/STOP-the-smell-coming-from-Stafford-Castle-Golf-Club-construction-Site/356785437807747?fref=nf

When the wind is in the wrong direction, it smells to really badly.... when the winds in the other wrong directions, we get the pong off the fields 200m away. 

[andrewc]

What I thought was regular milk with a blue top is actually Buttermilk. A whole litre of the stuff:-(

[Andrij]

What I thought was regular milk with a blue top is actually Buttermilk. A whole litre of the stuff:-(

Make some biscuits.

[Mrs Pingu]

Or scones

[CrinklyLion]

Pancakes!

[jsabine]

Soda bread.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Whizz it in a blender with raspberries, blueberries or whatever soft fruit you fancy. It makes a delicious and filling milkshake.

[andrewc]

I'm camping! It may do on porridge but I don't fancy drinking it.

[CrinklyLion]

I'm camping!

Precisely!

Pancakes!

Can be cooked on a Trangia

[Andrij]

It's September, Summer is over.  Tourists - go home!  The people of London would like their city back.

[Mr Larrington]

In the time it took me to upload today's photos to flickr I could have got a carrier pigeon to take them to Sunnyvale.  Frontier Motel of Lone Pine, CA, your Pipe is clogged up with Fluff.