Same with pasties down our way, some do a good one, but not many.
A good steak pie at new year is a big thing up here with folk queueing at the best butchers for their pies. Several weeks before the event, Mrs J's elderly auntie (now deceased) would order it from Saundersons Butchers at Toll Cross https://www.johnsaunderson.co.uk/ and we'd go and pick it up. The queue, if you hadn't pre-ordered in those days was way back down the pavement! My oldest boy in particular used to really look forward to it. By the way, we're talking a BIG pie here, enough to feed the whole family!
Im going to have to do some local research and see if Norfolk has a decent pie maker. All this pie thought has made my mouth water!
Davy st caff in holbeck Leeds was great for home cooked stuff…big trays of pies cut into huge squares…sadly, this is the last year it will be operating. The area is now arty farty offices with few garages, dealers, mills, factories and workshops and, although the food was still good, some of it was poncy and the increased costs, rent food, power, have killed another Leeds institution
YEhhhh Get up esrly on boxing day and eat the lot before anyone else is up,Morrison's around Christmas time used to do a really good sort of game pie, but mostly chicken turkey and pork for around £2 a slice, one time they had an offer and I bought the whole pie for £11, kept it in the fridge for a treat, bit at a time.
No even on a good day I couldn't scoff the lot!
Though as an apprentice we used to park our cars in the local Pub car park, one morning they had a tray of pasties disappear and the other mechanics joking said it was me, as when I drove to our local bakery for the whole garages order of pasties and loaves etc. before our morning tea break I used to buy three pasties and have eaten two before getting back to the garage as I was a growing lad.
Brays Cottage out at holt, they are pork pie specialists,
www.perfectpie.co.uk
Thanks for the reminder. I think you've mentioned them before, and despite them being only 6 miles from me, I keep forgetting to go have a look. Passed by hundreds of times in the last 37 years. About time I stopped.
Dash cam - good idea, I'll mention it next time I see her
I reckon this is probably straight forward and not sinister. Poles are mega Fiat enthusiats it probably no more than this. If he asks again say its worth £3500!
It will definitely go missing then and into a Polish container!
Just over a couple of years ago I reviewed Becky's tyres - as opposed to just quickly checking the condition and pressures. Took them all off and closely looked all round at treads, both sidewalls, bead area, etc, etc. Chose the best two and put them on the front, as you do, and got Steven, my mobile tyre man, to fit two new Falkens to the other rims which went on the back. Becky never wears her tyre treads out because of the very low annual mileage she does so I like to periodically have a close look at them. Just the other day Mrs J had parked her with the steering on hard right lock. It annoys me when she does that as it means the car is likely going to sit for a couple of days at least with the N/S rack boot fully extended and the O/S fully compressed - to say nothing of the CV boots. I'm sure she (Becky) would cope with this for years but, eventually, it must have some implication for the longevity of these rubber components? I went out to centralize the steering wheel and as I approached her noticed there was something just "different" looking about the tread groove. Closer examination revealed cracking at the base of the tread grooves. To be honest, I had noticed this around last years MOT time but I'd forgotten about it when she passed. Took a look at the date stamp and it's a 2016! also it's a Goodride and was on the car when we bought it. Went round to look at the other old one on the other side and remembered it's a Rovelo. To be fair to it, still looking in good nick and is date stamped 2018. It'll be Ok tootling down to Lidl/Aldi, which is what it will be doing most of the time, so I may leave it but definitely time for another Falken, Avon or other good quality mid range product. If Steven makes me a good deal for the two I'll probably replace them both as I really do like to have matching tyres on an axle.
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To be fair to it it's one of the original front tyres from when I put on a set of 4 in 2020 all the others got taken out by punctures..
It's taken a lot of tactical swapping to get 4 tyres on about even tread, the fronts are 5 and 6 the rears are both 3.5 there's about 4 years in ages between all the tyres.
Thankfully the building site down the road has finished and touch wood not collected anything since.
I'd imagine standing on full lock would only really present a problem if the components are already dried out although naturally the C3 has had 3 cv boots in the last 2 years for other reasons (a front anit rollbar attached with Bluetooth kept popping them...) so not an issue
Glad Im not the only one. I putthe least worn on n/s front. Roundabouts soon level the wear. Here we are in June and I have still do do the winter tyres and wheels. It will soon be time to put them back and that mean de-stoned, washed, polished painted were needed and tyre dressed ready for winter. I single handedly cause winter weather to be warm and dry!To be fair to it it's one of the original front tyres from when I put on a set of 4 in 2020 all the others got taken out by punctures..
It's taken a lot of tactical swapping to get 4 tyres on about even tread, the fronts are 5 and 6 the rears are both 3.5 there's about 4 years in ages between all the tyres.
Thankfully the building site down the road has finished and touch wood not collected anything since.
I'd imagine standing on full lock would only really present a problem if the components are already dried out although naturally the C3 has had 3 cv boots in the last 2 years for other reasons (a front anit rollbar attached with Bluetooth kept popping them...) so not an issue here
When I had the gardening squad we took on a new contract - large house with extensive grounds. The lady who owned it told us the previous gardener had been disposing of grass cuttings and other garden detritus behind some bushes at the bottom of the property and she didn't like it, could we remove it. I took a look, guessed at about two trips with the pickup and quoted her a price which she accepted. Next time we were there we started, all six of us, digging it out with forks and shovels. Suddenly one of the lads started shouting and running away over the lawn. We'd dug into a pretty substantial wasps nest. Two of the lads were badly enough stung - multiple times - that I drove them round to the A&E at the hospital where they recieved emergency attention and were off work for best part of a week. I was lucky and didn't get stung, then again, back in those days, I was quite quick on my toes!I have had wasp nests in a pile of earth in my garden a few years back and another time my daughter and grand daughter who was about one at the time were out on a dog walk got badly stung when a dog disturbed a nest , she managed to get home and rang 999, both were badly stung, I came over from several miles away, no sign of ambulance, hours later we just cancelled them. Good job neither went into deep shock!
Partner fell out of bed this morning, around 2:30am. Got one arm tangled in the bed frame. When trying to help her, she pushes against you, so a few minutes of trying to extricate her, and my heart was racing. Called an ambulance at 2:37, it arrived at 6:35. Now that arm won't straighten, probably temporary, as there's no pain, and her one leg is struggling to support her when transferring from loo to wheelchair, having been bent under her for four hours.
Quite a few years ago, at a bowls match, one player took a swig from his tin of drink, and got a wasp to the back of the throat. Someone had to take him to A&E a bit sharpish as it swelled, threatening to suffocate him. Returned about 4 hours later, very sore, but otherwise OK. Beware opened fizzy drinks.
