The Canary Dave

Does make one wonder....

 

Popped into the local Spar supermarket to buy some bread, and found that the floor was covered in taped on arrows directing me around the shop. Down the first aisle, back up the second one and so on, a proper one way system. All designed to stop people getting too close to each other. Arriving at the only cash desk a mass of tape that did look a bit like a hopscotch that you see in a school playground. Maybe it was the shop trying to get us to take our daily exercise. Still I ignored it all, went straight to the cash desk where they keep the bread, and demanded in my best French a loaf. I was the only customer in the whole store.

 

This is not too distant future Tory policy.

 

True. It's why they are intent on getting rid of the old, poor, lame and sick first - not a decent feed between them.

 

Holy ****. My brain is fried. Still loads of Physics and Computing to do. It’s English Lit in the form of MacBeth add the end of the day, not Maths. We’ll be read for old Mackers by about 10pm, I reckon.

 

Has poor nutritional education just been a case of fattening up the poor?

 

I remember it well... For three years of gcse, as and a2, days were spilt into four, three revision slots and one free choice slot.
We spent several half terms in a remote cottage in Donegal and at the vineyard... In this way, I was the specialist in Psychology and Religious Studies and my wife in English language, literature, geography, science and drama. We both spluttered through maths GCSE.. And Mlle got a B second time and now works in finance.
Was a consuming time.. With lots of shouting on all sides!

 

That's pretty normal here.

 

Normally that is not the case as it is a small supermarket that serves the needs of the population of 525 people. Generally going in there gives you plenty of time to relax as you wait for the little elderly ladies to have a nice gossip with the lady on the till, then pack their purchases, then search their handbags to find their cheque book that has vanished somehow into the depths. Others who are really with it want to pay with their nice bank card, but usually seem to have completely forgotten their pin number. Slow but friendly is the norm.

 

it's one of the most infuriating things when you're in a rush, but nice to see. I've waited ages sometimes while the checkout lady has a bit of a chat with the customer, then produces a handful of coupons or counts out their eurocents very meticulously.

I wish I was over there in quarantine right now, my Mum and little brother are in the garden enjoying the sun while I'm stuck in an overpriced flat looking out of veluxs that don't get the sun

 

OK you lovely people, I'm off to bed!

Night all

Night H

 

Good morning all from a cold and dry Weston-super-Mare!

Have a good day

 

Morning all. A lovely bright sunny morning, but a cold blustery wind. We are venturing out today to do our weekly shop that we put off from last Friday. It is not that we are short on food, just little things like milk for the cups of tea and coffee, and the wine store needs to be restocked in case I am restricted further. Hopefully it will be a very quick spin around the near empty supermarket as shopping is not one of the things that give me great pleasure. Have a good day whatever you might be doing.

 

Morning, Dave; morning, all.

Our supermarket is pretty much back to normal. No queuing to get in. We have fully stocked shelves (with the exception of pasta). I suppose the selfish bastards’ only have a finite about of storage space, and the people who need more than one hand to count their brain cells can now purchase what they need.

 

We are supposed to be lunching with French friends in Limoges today.... booked months ago.
I must say we really considered getting over there three weeks back... but Mme is attached to the grandkids ( of course) and we thought it might be better with our networks here...

I hate to think too what our garden will be like when we eventually get there!!!

Have a good day folks......

 

Sad that you missed out on that dinner Yorkie. One of the joys in life! It is maybe a good thing you stayed put as the British Embassy is advising people who live in the UK to return home as soon as possible. Although there are still some transport links it sounds as though they expect that they will be closed before too long.
My monthly dinner group have been sharing daily emails so that we can make sure all are well. No one goes far from home, but they have plenty to see in the hedgerows, and some of the birds that went away for the winter have now started to return. One message received was offering free spaghetti to anyone who needed some. They had seen a special offer in the supermarket just before Christmas, and having bought it realised that they would never get to eat it all.

 

Has anyone seen this? I know it's April Fool's Day tomorrow, but it's a bit over the top for that.
The internet and all phones are going to be down for three days of 'darkness' ending on Good Friday - during which Trump's army will visit all corners of the world to rid us of the 'bad guys' (presumably he'll be the first to go) and then take over the world. Some Yanks will believe anything...

 

OK you lovely people, I'm off to bed!

Night all

Night H

 

Am feeling rather smug this evening because of this - and thought I'd blow my own trumpet...



It probably doesn't mean much to anyone - although possibly to yorkie?

Around 13 years ago I joined a site called TES - the website for a weekly publication aimed at education professionals. As well as giving access to various journals and teacher forums, it also had a thriving resource sharing section. After a couple of years, I decided to become what they call a TES author, and started submitting my own resources for others to use - and carried on doing that until around 2015. During that time, I was even invited down to London for their annual 'Author of the Year' Awards - was on the shortlist, but missed out. Also during that time, my resources were downloaded over 250K times by teachers around the world. Since retiring a couple of years ago, I haven't paid much attention to the website, but this evening I received an email from there, telling me about an update for authors which allows them to track how many of their resources are being dowloaded and where from - possibly important to those who do it as a business on the side I guess.

The little map above shows how many and from which countries they have been downloaded - just since January this year. I was totally gobsmacked to find that they are still popular and still relevant - and even more gobsmacked to find that the downloads now total over 321K. I'm now half regretting that I made them freely available rather than put a price on them as others do.

Will stop blowing my trumpet and boring you all now - but just had a little flutter of pride after investigating that email & thought it worth sharing.

 

Fantastic BB. Any idea why the seem to be so popular in France? Were they all on related subjects?