The town that was eaten by T***o

ina · Post: # 14748Post **ina** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:03 pm

Lots of good stuff in today's Sunday Herald:

More oil on my, ergh, strong dislike of everything supermarket: http://www.sundayherald.com/54688

Also on the subject of T***o - seems that they are moving into the funeral business now, too. Buy your coffin along with the pot noodles and plonk; or, if you shop online - "You drop, we get you..."

In other articles, same paper: Dounreay is leaking http://www.sundayherald.com/54715; Funding for cycle lanes cut by 30% http://www.sundayherald.com/54711.

Did I say good stuff in the paper? More like one disaster after the other!

The only really quite funny stuff is not online: I think it was in Norway where a woman found she had beer coming out of her kitchen tap... The workmen connecting up the pipes in the pub below had made a mistake.

Shirley · Post: # 14756Post **Shirley** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:51 pm

I'd heard about the tescotown bit before - but not to such a depth.... I know that no matter how hard up I am I will not resort to working for T***o - they are opening two more stores within 30 miles of me.

T***o doing supermarket funerals.. oh boy, that really is shop til you drop isn't it.

I would like to have beer coming out of my tap please.. pretty please...!! Only 4 miles to my local.. do you think it could be arranged??

ina · Post: # 14760Post **ina** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:02 pm

I think you need to have a word with the local plumber!

My "local" is also 4 miles away, and I've never been there. Sad, really, isn't it. And that although I'm always eager to support local businesses.

Shirley · Post: # 14763Post **Shirley** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:13 pm

Ina... will have to sort that out... I'll come and visit you and we can visit your local.... and then you visit here and we'll visit our local....

A rural pubcrawl

ina · Post: # 14864Post **ina** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:19 pm

If we want to do any drinking, it'll really end up being a crawl - us crawling the 4 miles back up the hill!

When I lived on Loch Lomond, my "local" was 15 miles away. I cycled. Quite hilly, most of it single track. Oooh, oooh - not so good after 6 pints...

woolcraft · Post: # 14867Post **woolcraft** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:06 pm

Hey Ina, I think you discovered calorie free drinking.

Shirley · Post: # 14872Post **Shirley** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:14 pm

sounds good to me - I could do with some calorie free anything!!!

ina · Post: # 14992Post **ina** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:12 pm

I think we'd better wait for what passes as summer around here - it's just too b***y cold to go walking or cycling in the middle of the night!