Monday 15 August 2022

Waiting

 So thats all the curtains shut for the day , woke up to fog again this morning , yet more plums picked for the freezer the top of the tree has a swarm of bluetits pecking away , who knew that was a thing or is it just the weather conditions? i was however forced to quality check a few of the plums for breakfast and the one great think about the weather very few wasps this year . I have bought a single item for 1.32 at auction this week a nice singer hand machine , i need to pick up . And the carboot yesterday yielded a giant spider plant and a planter to put it in . This was incorporated with a skip run for fuel economy . There are frequent local complaints that you have to queue for hours for the skip but if your there 10 minutes before opening its straight in and out . I even called in at the chicken factory on the way home 18 plain chicken drumsticks for one pound  that was tea for everyone and a pile in the fridge , plus a couple of the stuffed breast roll things in a foil tray at 2 quid a time , nearly witnessed a fight as a woman who obviously has a cafe and already had a trolley full proceeded to jump on a cage of southern fried breasts they had just fetched in , she wanted all of them theye were full boxes at 2.50 each maybe 50 boxes in the cage 100s of chicken portions . Several customers had a right go at her for her greed ...Ho hum not something i would want but i could see their point . 

You can see that people are becoming more and more worried on the food front , the empty supermarkets are getting more obvious , its not that there is no food just that theres not much choice of food at the moment and winter may well bring its own problems , im hoping the promise of thunderstorms will play out then i can chip some potatoes out of the ground not that they are very big due to the drought but better then nothing , still planting bits and bobs you never know if you will get a second crop but always worth a try 


5 comments:

  1. The media are partly to blame I feel - ramping up the warnings and hype to bring worried people to fever pitch. If everyone just took a breath and looked at their own needs rather than what the news is saying , things would not be as panic stricken on the shops. Look at when the fuel crisis happened. The news talked and talked about panic buying, tild everyone not to go panic buying - but the minute you mention panic buying it is exactly what happened! Yes, things are bad, but I have stopped watching the news etc because I can see with my own eyes the prices going up etc. Must dash - I've eleventy billion bags of flour to go pick up!! haha

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    1. meanwhile im hatching a plan to invest in onions

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  2. People are used to having a lot of variety and choice. I remember as a kid that I was dragged all over by my grandmother to pick up the various different bits for the family. It's going back to the days of 'They didn't have any x so I picked up some y instead'. And people are getting nervous about food. If you're used to always being able to feed your family breaded chicken, and then there's none on the shelves, it can make people unsettled.

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    1. it is the silly things that get to me ...the price of pot noodles wtf is going on there?

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    2. Well. There’s the pot. And the noodle….

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