Recent content by andya700

I may have to try to find that one, judging by the reviews it is what I am used to when in France.

I think the quality of English butter has gone down, the same as most English cheese. I am only basing this on my own taste buds, when I go to France and buy Normandy or Brittany butter, which is more yellow and is easier to spread and the taste is richer. https://obviouslyfrench.com/french-butter/

On our drive down to the coast yesterday, we saw several stations where diesel was £1.979 to £1.999, so, right on the cusp of the £2 a litre.

We have just had a road opened near us after Southern Water had a go at it, also around 14 weeks. The thing is, it was closed all that time, but the Highways/LG, whoever is responsible for potholes, didn't take that opportunity to work on it.

As we are both recently retired, we went for what we thought would be a nice, calm drive through the Kent countryside, via Headcorn and Tenterden to Rye. The harsh reality was potholes everywhere, lots of roadworks and loads of traffic.

I am still amazed by this, hours after I first read it. Waitrose sacked a worker who had been with them for seventeen years, for confronting a shoplifter. https://www.mylondon.news/news/uk-world-news/waitrose-defends-sacking-worker-who-33720506

I use this one, it would seem that the supermarket prices are currently the highest, which is quite unusual in these crisis. https://www.petrolprices.com/app/map

Just brimmed up with diesel this morning, £50 worth at £1.879 litre. We don't use the car very much as we are retired, so may use our bus passes for the first time. That should be an adventure.

Total killjoys, I always thought Bob Monkhouse was clever, funny yet quite tame by the standards of the time. The same people would probably "cancel" Monty Python, Rising Damp, It aint half hot mum and Fawlty Towers.

I was looking at that option yesterday, may even stay in Vienna and use it as a base. The trains are very reasonable and I have seen a nice hotel in Vienna which we stayed at in 2019 and it is only £130 a night.

I am looking to go for one to two weeks at the end of April, flying from either Gatwick or Heathrow. I don't want the hassle of driving/parking, so will be looking at taxis. I initially thought Bratislava for one week, but direct flights are from Luton or Stanstead. Other thoughts are Prague...

Why on earth should we need to justify ourselves? Have you heard of something called a "purity spiral"? I suppose we shouldn't use MS products (Bill Gates). Tesla (Elon Musk), anything made in China, Russia, Iran etc. Maybe we shouldn't buy bamboo socks and underpants (crikey, they must be...

Blimey John, that was heavy handed, I feel sorry for your poor wife as well. Back in 2006, my wife went on a business trip to the US (Carlsbad, near San Diego) for a couple of weeks. I managed to get time off so went with her. The trip there was uneventful. We got to San Diego for the return...

I agree about restaurant prices in France, but we did notice that the standard of the hypermarche ready meals was very high, although to be fair, the last few times we have booked apartments with kitchens and I quite like cooking, particularly given the quality of French fruit, veg, meat and...

Their system seems to work really strangely, because I get an extra £40, per month and my wife gets an extra £15.