Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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Is that in a factory with an 600 domestic cookers, dormer windows and chimney pot stuck on top?rick_chasey said:Home made is a style of baking usually
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Clue is in the "style" bit.pinno said:
Is that in a factory with an 600 domestic cookers, dormer windows and chimney pot stuck on top?rick_chasey said:Home made is a style of baking usually
Nothing wrong with food being made in factories.0 -
No, it's 'like Mother used to make' nonsense that is annoying. Unless of course your mother used to run a pie factory.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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in Fleet Street?rjsterry said:No, it's 'like Mother used to make' nonsense that is annoying. Unless of course your mother used to run a pie factory.
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It won't be, the shelf life would be too short.rick_chasey said:
What if it is the same recipe just on a very large scale?rjsterry said:No, it's 'like Mother used to make' nonsense that is annoying. Unless of course your mother used to run a pie factory.
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Shirley the term 'home made' applies to food made and consumed on the same or connected premises, so a pub cooking food from raw materials counts as home made, while the microwaving of Brake Bros ready meals does not qualify.0
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Ah, but that's not 'home made'.rick_chasey said:
Clue is in the "style" bit.pinno said:
Is that in a factory with an 600 domestic cookers, dormer windows and chimney pot stuck on top?rick_chasey said:Home made is a style of baking usually
Nothing wrong with food being made in factories.
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So that's not always the case....especially with modern packaging.Pross said:
It won't be, the shelf life would be too short.rick_chasey said:
What if it is the same recipe just on a very large scale?rjsterry said:No, it's 'like Mother used to make' nonsense that is annoying. Unless of course your mother used to run a pie factory.
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Amuses me that people are happy to make some super healthy home made "from scratch" food and stick in the freezer for weeks or months or fridge for several days, but if they buy something that is frozen and ready made, the only way that is possible is for it to contain deadly preservatives.0
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Doesn't apply to me, I eat pretty much anything - the 'all additives are bad thing is ridiculous. I suspect most people who cook 'from scratch' are using something in their ingredients that has additives. My point is there's no way supermarket stuff is being made to someone's grandmother's recipe.0
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What is trivially annoying me today is having a cut finger with a bandage.
Not the pain or anything, but it is my fingerprint ID finger. 🤬The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.1 -
National Trust. I have free tickets to any site excluding a lengthy list which combined with terrible search features and hard to find public transport information means I may just let it expire. Also, some sites require advanced booking whereas others I can show up with a barcode.0
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They piss me off when, as a paying member, I turn up to find they are doing free entry for everyone.TheBigBean said:National Trust. I have free tickets to any site excluding a lengthy list which combined with terrible search features and hard to find public transport information means I may just let it expire. Also, some sites require advanced booking whereas others I can show up with a barcode.
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I can see that would be annoying - some of the sites seem to be permanently free as well.Pross said:
They piss me off when, as a paying member, I turn up to find they are doing free entry for everyone.TheBigBean said:National Trust. I have free tickets to any site excluding a lengthy list which combined with terrible search features and hard to find public transport information means I may just let it expire. Also, some sites require advanced booking whereas others I can show up with a barcode.
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Pross said:
They piss me off when, as a paying member, I turn up to find they are doinf free entry for everyone.TheBigBean said:National Trust. I have free tickets to any site excluding a lengthy list which combined with terrible search features and hard to find public transport information means I may just let it expire. Also, some sites require advanced booking whereas others I can show up with a barcode.
I'd have also been pissed off, had I paid for entry into Castle Drogo (I didn't pay, as I was caring for my mum, who was a member), only to find that half the castle was out-of-bounds that day, as they didn't have enough volunteers. There was no notice at the ticket counter, and had we paid the £4.50 for parking, and £27 for two of us to go in, I'd have been mightily cross.
I think they are in a bit of a mess at the moment in any case - I think that recovering from covid disruption has been very rocky for them.0 -
Yeah the one garden we go to when at the in-laws caravan, which is where we originally decided to join, has been free entry every other time we've visited. We ended up avoiding it the last time we were down as the car parks were all full and it is no fun walking around when it is crowded.TheBigBean said:
I can see that would be annoying - some of the sites seem to be permanently free as well.Pross said:
They piss me off when, as a paying member, I turn up to find they are doing free entry for everyone.TheBigBean said:National Trust. I have free tickets to any site excluding a lengthy list which combined with terrible search features and hard to find public transport information means I may just let it expire. Also, some sites require advanced booking whereas others I can show up with a barcode.
The gardens at one nearest me has always been free (they took it on from the Council about 10 years ago) but at least we don't have to pay to park there when we take the dogs now.0 -
We were members during 2020 and the enforced online booking, combined with quite a bad website and the fact that you were going to large outdoor spaces was intensely annoying.- Genesis Croix de Fer
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There seems to be lots of focus on parking and booking a space on their website with little focus on public transport which is always a shame to see.Pross said:
Yeah the one garden we go to when at the in-laws caravan, which is where we originally decided to join, has been free entry every other time we've visited. We ended up avoiding it the last time we were down as the car parks were all full and it is no fun walking around when it is crowded.TheBigBean said:
I can see that would be annoying - some of the sites seem to be permanently free as well.Pross said:
They piss me off when, as a paying member, I turn up to find they are doing free entry for everyone.TheBigBean said:National Trust. I have free tickets to any site excluding a lengthy list which combined with terrible search features and hard to find public transport information means I may just let it expire. Also, some sites require advanced booking whereas others I can show up with a barcode.
The gardens at one nearest me has always been free (they took it on from the Council about 10 years ago) but at least we don't have to pay to park there when we take the dogs now.
They have this webpage, but it comes with the disclaimer that they haven't bothered to update it due to covid. It surely can't be that difficult.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/days-out/south-east-places-to-visit-near-public-transport0 -
Basildon Park is doable by train.TheBigBean said:National Trust. I have free tickets to any site excluding a lengthy list which combined with terrible search features and hard to find public transport information means I may just let it expire. Also, some sites require advanced booking whereas others I can show up with a barcode.
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TheBigBean said:
There seems to be lots of focus on parking and booking a space on their website with little focus on public transport which is always a shame to see.Pross said:
Yeah the one garden we go to when at the in-laws caravan, which is where we originally decided to join, has been free entry every other time we've visited. We ended up avoiding it the last time we were down as the car parks were all full and it is no fun walking around when it is crowded.TheBigBean said:
I can see that would be annoying - some of the sites seem to be permanently free as well.Pross said:
They piss me off when, as a paying member, I turn up to find they are doing free entry for everyone.TheBigBean said:National Trust. I have free tickets to any site excluding a lengthy list which combined with terrible search features and hard to find public transport information means I may just let it expire. Also, some sites require advanced booking whereas others I can show up with a barcode.
The gardens at one nearest me has always been free (they took it on from the Council about 10 years ago) but at least we don't have to pay to park there when we take the dogs now.
They have this webpage, but it comes with the disclaimer that they haven't bothered to update it due to covid. It surely can't be that difficult.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/days-out/south-east-places-to-visit-near-public-transport
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Their website says it is 40 mins walk along a main road or you need prebook a taxi. Obviously no local taxi companies linked to.rjsterry said:
Basildon Park is doable by train.TheBigBean said:National Trust. I have free tickets to any site excluding a lengthy list which combined with terrible search features and hard to find public transport information means I may just let it expire. Also, some sites require advanced booking whereas others I can show up with a barcode.
There is one in Sevenoaks that looks doable.0 -
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I was going to say Ham House but see it is temporarily closed.TheBigBean said:
Their website says it is 40 mins walk along a main road or you need prebook a taxi. Obviously no local taxi companies linked to.rjsterry said:
Basildon Park is doable by train.TheBigBean said:National Trust. I have free tickets to any site excluding a lengthy list which combined with terrible search features and hard to find public transport information means I may just let it expire. Also, some sites require advanced booking whereas others I can show up with a barcode.
There is one in Sevenoaks that looks doable.
When i was a member everywhere I went seemed to be English Heritage0 -
The George Inn in Southwark is NT I believe....until I had kids, it was my favoured NT property.
Osterley Park/house is NT and walkable from a few west \London train/tube stations if you are on that side of town. I've never been though so don't blame me if it's rubbish.0 -
If you mean Knole House then its a long-ish but doable walk from the train station. Usually plenty of taxis hanging around the station as well.TheBigBean said:
Their website says it is 40 mins walk along a main road or you need prebook a taxi. Obviously no local taxi companies linked to.rjsterry said:
Basildon Park is doable by train.TheBigBean said:National Trust. I have free tickets to any site excluding a lengthy list which combined with terrible search features and hard to find public transport information means I may just let it expire. Also, some sites require advanced booking whereas others I can show up with a barcode.
There is one in Sevenoaks that looks doable."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Yes, that was my thinking.Stevo_666 said:
If you mean Knole House then its a long-ish but doable walk from the train station. Usually plenty of taxis hanging around the station as well.TheBigBean said:
Their website says it is 40 mins walk along a main road or you need prebook a taxi. Obviously no local taxi companies linked to.rjsterry said:
Basildon Park is doable by train.TheBigBean said:National Trust. I have free tickets to any site excluding a lengthy list which combined with terrible search features and hard to find public transport information means I may just let it expire. Also, some sites require advanced booking whereas others I can show up with a barcode.
There is one in Sevenoaks that looks doable.0 -
Osterley House is definitely worth visiting. I've drunk in the George a lot without realising it was NT.monkimark said:The George Inn in Southwark is NT I believe....until I had kids, it was my favoured NT property.
Osterley Park/house is NT and walkable from a few west \London train/tube stations if you are on that side of town. I've never been though so don't blame me if it's rubbish.0
