Quote from: Moonglum on December 12, 2025, 03:25:13 PMA thumbs up for Marillion Mick @Newportnobby but sadly not for The Manic Street Preachers!

Tim

Can't really "Tolerate" those Preachers I'm afraid 

A thumbs up for Marillion Mick @Newportnobby but sadly not for The Manic Street Preachers!

Tim

Quote from: Bealman on December 12, 2025, 07:10:36 AMYeah, I remember those I think Binns in Sunderland or Newcastle had em.

Sad thing - the last Binns was in Darlo and indeed I took Mam shopping there not many years back however it seems it finally close its doors, after 100 year, at the end of 2024   

Many, many years ago I used to do temp work at Post Office sorting offices for Christmas money and it seemed the general rule was do what you want and at the end of each day pack things up and send them to another town/city

Being a retired postie it is sad to see how far they've fallen apart; I hear many stories from my ex colleagues about lack of staff etc and staff not being bothered anymore because their bosses aren't.
I'd not seen our postie for days then on Wednesday received 11 letters which for us is about 2 weeks worth. Not even Christmas cars but letters that had been hanging around.

Quote from: thebrighton on December 12, 2025, 01:20:25 PMDid some manly angle grinding yesterday wearing full safety gear, goggles etc and survived.
Got home, had a shower, washed a metal splinter out of my hair into my eye, A&E at 2am then back this morning to have the splinter removed with a follow up next week to remove the rust.
The moral of the story is don't wash!

Or keep the goggles on while doing so.

Another Royal Mail moan I'm afraid. No mail, parcels etc received all week even though I've had notifications that there will be 3 deliveries made. The one below was posted on Monday on Tracked 48 so they 'aim' to deliver by Wednesday. On Tuesday it arrived at the Swindon sorting centre around 20 miles away so it looked hopeful. Then it sits in Swindon for 2 days and today they've sent it off to Greenford which is 85 miles away! It may magically arrive tomorrow 120 hours afterwards rather than the 'aim' of 48 I suppose:



It's supposed to go from A to D. It looked good when it was at B but why on earth is it now at C? 

Did some manly angle grinding yesterday wearing full safety gear, goggles etc and survived.
Got home, had a shower, washed a metal splinter out of my hair into my eye, A&E at 2am then back this morning to have the splinter removed with a follow up next week to remove the rust.
The moral of the story is don't wash!

Merry Christmas everyone!  I hope you all have a good time and that nobody is having to work. 

...and Merry Christmas to all from Sussex's frozen muddy wastes!

Thank you to @Tank for running the Forum like clockwork, all the mods for keeping us in order, and everybody else for good company, sound advice and fascinating information (with special mention to @Train Waiting and his excellent 'Coarse Guide' which was so brief you may have missed it).

All the best for 2026.

    

Chris