Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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Halloween in my neck of the woods.0
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Very much vicariously enjoying the height. https://m.youtube.com/shorts/J_o-zpeslPA?si=opsqwjnL9bdtV8EY1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Not me, no chance! 😱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 -
Still having a roof this morning
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JimD666 said:
Still having a roof this morning
Just a shame it's in the garden, where the trampoline used to be.1 -
A bit of a damp squib here. Just a rainy breezy day, and the rain's actually stopped here now... might even got out for a bit of a ride later rather than being resigned to the turbo.ddraver said:Day off this morning. All the Snow Day feels...
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Speaking of the weather. A trivial thing that cheers me up, that I thought I should share.
On Youtube there is a channel that has 16 live webcams from various airports and heliports in Greenland. Now if you’re interested in plane spotting, people watching, wildlife, it may not be for you as not a lot happens (sometimes the odd explosion Nuuk North). But if you like things meteorological then its interesting. You get aurora displays, amazing sunsets/sun rises, rapid season changes and a few ice bergs for good measure.
Linky - https://youtube.com/@mittarfeqarfiit1?si=GYibibYg8kSfX9yz (select Live).
and here is an example of a typical view of a heliport all lit up.
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Forgetting to turn off my ambient mic while doing a video on trombone of 'Here's That Rainy Day' (having memorised the toon for a rainy day challenge), and then realising I can hear the rain on the Velux in the video.0
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freshly baked or in packets? please be more specificrick_chasey said:New range of M&S pastries. Can recommend.
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Freshly baked section; very premium prices (£2.something).surrey_commuter said:
freshly baked or in packets? please be more specificrick_chasey said:New range of M&S pastries. Can recommend.
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Cheer? Or relief?
Scaffolders just taken away all their kit, on a truck they'd been allocated which is too small for the amount of gear. Well dodgy looking load. And they now have a c. 2.5h drive to return to Glasgow.
The relief / cheer part? That they managed to back it down the driveway slope into the street without an unscheduled offload. Thank F.
Though I expect a polis soshul meejah post a-comin' highlighting unsafe transporting...0 -
Gails just opened in Epsom and now M&S feels like the Lidl of bakersrick_chasey said:
Freshly baked section; very premium prices (£2.something).surrey_commuter said:
freshly baked or in packets? please be more specificrick_chasey said:New range of M&S pastries. Can recommend.
£1.20 for a pain au chocolat is very good value without even comparing to Gails at £2.700 -
I think the British Library café is the current record holder for most ridiculous pastry pricing.surrey_commuter said:
Gails just opened in Epsom and now M&S feels like the Lidl of bakersrick_chasey said:
Freshly baked section; very premium prices (£2.something).surrey_commuter said:
freshly baked or in packets? please be more specificrick_chasey said:New range of M&S pastries. Can recommend.
£1.20 for a pain au chocolat is very good value without even comparing to Gails at £2.70
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Surely no-one is actually paying that price and they just get binned at the end of the day?0
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Lidl bakery is pretty solid though...surrey_commuter said:
Gails just opened in Epsom and now M&S feels like the Lidl of bakersrick_chasey said:
Freshly baked section; very premium prices (£2.something).surrey_commuter said:
freshly baked or in packets? please be more specificrick_chasey said:New range of M&S pastries. Can recommend.
£1.20 for a pain au chocolat is very good value without even comparing to Gails at £2.70
Best (least worst) pain au chocs of the UK supermarkets by farWe're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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ddraver said:
Lidl bakery is pretty solid though...surrey_commuter said:
Gails just opened in Epsom and now M&S feels like the Lidl of bakersrick_chasey said:
Freshly baked section; very premium prices (£2.something).surrey_commuter said:
freshly baked or in packets? please be more specificrick_chasey said:New range of M&S pastries. Can recommend.
£1.20 for a pain au chocolat is very good value without even comparing to Gails at £2.70
Best (least worst) pain au chocs of the UK supermarkets by far
I just don't get PaC's... raisins, amandes or beurre, but not chocolat.0 -
M&S by far the best, the rest are much of a muchnessddraver said:
Lidl bakery is pretty solid though...surrey_commuter said:
Gails just opened in Epsom and now M&S feels like the Lidl of bakersrick_chasey said:
Freshly baked section; very premium prices (£2.something).surrey_commuter said:
freshly baked or in packets? please be more specificrick_chasey said:New range of M&S pastries. Can recommend.
£1.20 for a pain au chocolat is very good value without even comparing to Gails at £2.70
Best (least worst) pain au chocs of the UK supermarkets by far
Gails are very good0 -
Lidl is now the nearest supermarket to us, pipping a small Co-op, pastries are very good imho.ddraver said:
Lidl bakery is pretty solid though...surrey_commuter said:
Gails just opened in Epsom and now M&S feels like the Lidl of bakersrick_chasey said:
Freshly baked section; very premium prices (£2.something).surrey_commuter said:
freshly baked or in packets? please be more specificrick_chasey said:New range of M&S pastries. Can recommend.
£1.20 for a pain au chocolat is very good value without even comparing to Gails at £2.70
Best (least worst) pain au chocs of the UK supermarkets by far0 -
These bleepin' furrins, comin' over 'ere, takin' over our pain au chocolats. Shirley Spaffer's 'oven ready Brexsh1t deal' should have covered that?veronese68 said:
Lidl is now the nearest supermarket to us, pipping a small Co-op, pastries are very good imho.ddraver said:
Lidl bakery is pretty solid though...surrey_commuter said:
Gails just opened in Epsom and now M&S feels like the Lidl of bakersrick_chasey said:
Freshly baked section; very premium prices (£2.something).surrey_commuter said:
freshly baked or in packets? please be more specificrick_chasey said:New range of M&S pastries. Can recommend.
£1.20 for a pain au chocolat is very good value without even comparing to Gails at £2.70
Best (least worst) pain au chocs of the UK supermarkets by far
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GET. OUT.briantrumpet said:ddraver said:
Lidl bakery is pretty solid though...surrey_commuter said:
Gails just opened in Epsom and now M&S feels like the Lidl of bakersrick_chasey said:
Freshly baked section; very premium prices (£2.something).surrey_commuter said:
freshly baked or in packets? please be more specificrick_chasey said:New range of M&S pastries. Can recommend.
£1.20 for a pain au chocolat is very good value without even comparing to Gails at £2.70
Best (least worst) pain au chocs of the UK supermarkets by far
I just don't get PaC's... raisins, amandes or beurre, but not chocolat.
Pret chocolate croisssants are pretty high up there, but quite messy.0 -
Chocolate has its place, just not in or on a breakfast pastry for me.0
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Goes well with a coffee after your proper breakfast.Munsford0 said:Chocolate has its place, just not in or on a breakfast pastry for me.
Think of it as desert. 😉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.0 -
I know that you know the difference but people who do not know the difference between pain au chocolat and a chocolate croissant is the ultimate trivial issue that annoys me.shirley_basso said:
GET. OUT.briantrumpet said:ddraver said:
Lidl bakery is pretty solid though...surrey_commuter said:
Gails just opened in Epsom and now M&S feels like the Lidl of bakersrick_chasey said:
Freshly baked section; very premium prices (£2.something).surrey_commuter said:
freshly baked or in packets? please be more specificrick_chasey said:New range of M&S pastries. Can recommend.
£1.20 for a pain au chocolat is very good value without even comparing to Gails at £2.70
Best (least worst) pain au chocs of the UK supermarkets by far
I just don't get PaC's... raisins, amandes or beurre, but not chocolat.
Pret chocolate croisssants are pretty high up there, but quite messy.
Trebly so when it is a shopkeeper who sells both0 -
Getting out two tiny thorns by digging with a sewing needle, one in a thumb, and another in a finger, that had been festering for a few days. The little pleasures...0
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Oddly, out of the 4 Co-ops I have frequented in this region, they all had croissant priced differently from each other.
IIRC, I paid 90 odd pence for their croissant and the same in Lidl was 30 odd pence each but the more expensive Co-op one's are worth the extra.
I did a placement in Dieppe and Nesquik chocolat and croissant was my staple breakfast. Their croissant was as fresh as and far better than anything you get in the UK unless you go to a decent bakers on London or... what used to be Lincoln's patisserie but that's another story.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
This cheered me up.
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Although slightly annoyed at giving in and turning on a bit of heating tonight, I'm cheered up by getting to 5 November without any discomfort, and that my cycling friend who also holds out as long as possible also gave in tonight.0
