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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26522

    Sometimes the things on the side of buses are accurate....

    https://www.facebook.com/DRNyheder/v...7577538292767/ - click play to see the bus move!

    Ah, our Danish cousins
    Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 28-10-16, 17:43.
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • BBMmk2
      Late Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 20908

      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      Sometimes the things on the side of buses are accurate....

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      Ah, our Danish cousins
      Danishhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......................... . :)
      Don’t cry for me
      I go where music was born

      J S Bach 1685-1750

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      • teamsaint
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 25192

        Originally posted by Pianorak View Post
        Waitrose - As of 1 Nov you have to spend £10 Mon-Fri (instead of the current £5) to get your free copy of The Times - other papers are available.
        This makes me suspicious of both Waitrose and the Times, actually.

        I suppose you can at least light a fire with the Times.
        I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

        I am not a number, I am a free man.

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        • teamsaint
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 25192

          Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
          Danishhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......................... . :)
          I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

          I am not a number, I am a free man.

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          • vinteuil
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 12778

            Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
            This makes me suspicious of both Waitrose and the Times, actually.
            .
            ... but, teams, is there anything of which you are not suspicious?

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            • teamsaint
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 25192

              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
              ... but, teams, is there anything of which you are not suspicious?
              Got to wonder exactly why you are asking that, Vinny.......

              Anyway, This guy usually got his man.....

              Clouseau:
              I believe everything and I believe nothing. I suspect everyone and I suspect no one.
              I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

              I am not a number, I am a free man.

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              • Zucchini
                Guest
                • Nov 2010
                • 917

                Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                This makes me suspicious of both Waitrose and the Times, actually.
                I don't see this. You go in a big shed. You get a basket and fill it up. The girl tells you they don't accept payment by bus pass, AA rescue, library card - but you sort that. You go to your car, drop the bottle of whisky, sit on the multi-pack of crisps & drive away.

                It would only be suspicious if you bought £30 worth of stuff & were charged £9.99 thus depriving you of a free newspaper. Won't happen.

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                • Bryn
                  Banned
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 24688

                  The choice of 'free' newspapers is Guardian, Telegraph, Times and Mail (Weekdays and Saturdays), and Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday (Sundays). One curious aspect I find is that the Guardian/Observer is normally only on display at the main checkouts, and not in the main newspaper display area, which means I have to reach over other customers to get my copy, then take it to the express kiosk (I usually shop and get my coffee during my meagre 30 minute meal break, 8 minutes of which is taken up walking to a from Waitrose). The coffee is not great, but passable. No chocolate sprinkling for the 'cappuccino'. I you prefer tea to coffee, it's Twinings. I have asked why they do not use their own brand (which I prefer to Twinings) and was told it was due to Twinings having been an early sponsor of the scheme.

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                  • BBMmk2
                    Late Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 20908

                    I do rather like "proper" coffee but at the moment can not take it due to chemo interacting with the caffeine!
                    Don’t cry for me
                    I go where music was born

                    J S Bach 1685-1750

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                    • Serial_Apologist
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2010
                      • 37580

                      Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                      I do rather like "proper" coffee but at the moment can not take it due to chemo interacting with the caffeine!
                      That's the rotten reward for being allowed to stay alive, BBM! It's the same for me with alcohol and statins: more than a half of an evening, or a small sherry before lunch on Sunday, and my stomach reacts violently - in the downward direction, "thankfully".

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26522

                        Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                        I do rather like "proper" coffee but at the moment can not take it due to chemo interacting with the caffeine!

                        I've discovered a pretty good decaffeinated alternative (I've cut down/out, sleep so much better these days without!):

                        Shop the finest whole coffee beans and freshly ground coffee, Whittard of Chelsea's selection of light, medium and dark roast luxury coffees has something to suit your tastes.


                        I buy beans so can do the whole grinding / espresso-making / milk steaming ceremony, but you can get it ground of course. The taste isn't quite the same as my preferred 'heavy' blend of beans, but it's not bad - and can be enjoyed at night without staying up till 4am....
                        "...the isle is full of noises,
                        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        • BBMmk2
                          Late Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 20908

                          That looks rather good Cali! Will investigate further! An aunt of mine gave me and MrsBBM a selection box of their hot chocolate drinks. Very nice indeed! :) They're worth a try?! :)
                          Don’t cry for me
                          I go where music was born

                          J S Bach 1685-1750

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                          • Petrushka
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 12232

                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                            I've discovered a pretty good decaffeinated alternative (I've cut down/out, sleep so much better these days without!):

                            Shop the finest whole coffee beans and freshly ground coffee, Whittard of Chelsea's selection of light, medium and dark roast luxury coffees has something to suit your tastes.


                            I buy beans so can do the whole grinding / espresso-making / milk steaming ceremony, but you can get it ground of course. The taste isn't quite the same as my preferred 'heavy' blend of beans, but it's not bad - and can be enjoyed at night without staying up till 4am....
                            I usually end the day with a pre-bedtime cup of coffee and have never had any problems whatever in being able to sleep, rather the reverse if anything. Now hot chocolate will have me asleep in seconds, so much so that I long ago had to stop having it from the machine at work, despite it being rather better than usual machine fare, as my head would have hit the desk and I'd be out like a light.

                            I have a My Waitrose card but have never had either coffee or newspaper but can save money on the 'pick your own' offers. Waitrose wines are very good and can I recommend the Markus Huber Grüner Veltliner which I get all the time?
                            "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                            • Dave2002
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 18008

                              Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                              I usually end the day with a pre-bedtime cup of coffee and have never had any problems whatever in being able to sleep, rather the reverse if anything. Now hot chocolate will have me asleep in seconds, so much so that I long ago had to stop having it from the machine at work, despite it being rather better than usual machine fare, as my head would have hit the desk and I'd be out like a light.

                              I have a My Waitrose card but have never had either coffee or newspaper but can save money on the 'pick your own' offers. Waitrose wines are very good and can I recommend the Markus Huber Grüner Veltliner which I get all the time?
                              Re Waitrose - definitely good for some things, but rather selectively. They quite often have bread and other similar things significantly reduced, if you can figure out which day(s) to go. I mean significant, not just 10% off. They usually start off with a low reduction, then as the sell by dates loom, slash the prices.

                              For going to sleep try putting on an audio cassette of spoken word material - if you have a player and some cassettes ... charity shops can usually supply those. For some people music might work, but round here we find music can have the opposite effect. Spoken word cassettes usually work like a charm.

                              You don't have to use cassettes, and indeed now we have new iPads, we find that setting a programme to run, such as Ed Reardon's week on iPlayer, usually works pretty well. In the morning we often comment that they don't work properly, as "obviously" something went wrong with the iPad and it cut out during the night.

                              A quick reminder, since I can't find previous threads on the subject - the clocks went back in the UK today. I wondered why the night seemed so long, but I've done some of the clocks now. Just a couple more to do, I think.

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                              • visualnickmos
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 3609

                                Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                                I do rather like "proper" coffee but at the moment can not take it due to chemo interacting with the caffeine!
                                When I had chemo in 2012, I went right off coffee and chocolate - just repulsed by the idea. A few moths after the chemo finished,
                                my liking for the aforementioned aliments returned! Bizarre, I know...

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