It's been a fun news week - NOT! and even though I rarely watch much news on TV - all I've heard this week are warnings ........................
Not enough turkeys for Christmas }
Shortage of fresh pre-packed meat } } these all due to a shortage of CO2
Shortage of bagged salads }
No toys on the shelves for Christmas
Not enough gas to supply everyone for winter
Electric and gas prices shooting up
People waiting 8 hours for an ambulance
And then the fuel thing - NOT a shortage of diesel or petrol, just slow deliveries due to shortage of lorry drivers. If people just carried on filling up as usual there wouldn't be a problem but Media Hype means that when I went out with DiL and the grandchildren yesterday and we needed fuel to get where we were going, the queues were crazy. Sainsbugs had run out of diesel and at the next garage DiL put in ¾ tank full before that too ran out.
It's official......................the world has gone mad. Do you know what I'm going to do next week?...............................Stay at home and read all those library books on yesterday's post!
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The October Parish Magazine has landed through the letter box this week and with things re-starting I've discovered this is a village of Coffee mornings....................
Every Monday there's one in the Old School room - all for free!
Tuesday mornings every week - in the Church - donations for the church
Then on the First Saturday of the month coffee morning and lunches as well- in the Old School Room again, not sure who that's raising money for.
The Rural Coffee Caravan calls on the first Friday of the month - they bring information as well as coffee for free but you have to take your own chair and mug (bit chilly outside)
Then there's an extra one on the first Saturday in October which is a fund-raiser for animal charity.
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Here's a small glimpse at where we were going when we needed to fill up with diesel ....... all the way to the Suffolk /Essex border.
Just as two years ago Son, the archaeologist, was in charge of the volunteers and digging at this site.
More about this on Monday
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Today
Youngest Daughter was going to visit but she daren't as she couldn't
get any fuel for her car in Leiston. She said the queues were down the
road all day! I have to go for a flu jab this morning and annoyingly
they're not doing them at the doctors in the village due to building
work so I have to go to the other surgery.
Then there's the village yard sales tomorrow, I shall haul my
junk out of the garage and see if I can make a few pennies.
I'll leave you with photos of youngest granddaughter,
"Take a photo of me posing Nanna" she said. "Posing?" I said "Yes" she said "like this". 3½ going on 13!!
Whatever you are doing this weekend I hope you don't run out of petrol! Have a good weekend.
Back Monday
Sue
And her we are worried about CO2 emmissions... capture some from the atmosphere. We are of have become a news sensationalist culture are are the victims of our own disaster fascinations - and anyone wanting to 'sell news will of course report in ways that feed it. Enjoy your reading week.
ReplyDeleteGas price increases have caused closure of 2 fertilizer plants which have CO2 as a by product.
DeleteYes you would think there was plenty of CO2 everywhere!
I hope you like drinking coffee :)
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your trip! X
I'd better not go to too many if I have the cake as well!
DeleteWe shall all have to find positive news Sue, your blog provides plenty of course. My family are trying to get me to 'do things' in the wider community but the choice is wide - spiritual enlightenment (this is a place full of hippies) or history?
ReplyDeleteDo Both!
DeleteI shouted at the radio when listening to Ken Bruce when someone from the BBC interrupted the show "there is no need for panic about petrol but we're going to discuss it in half an hour, please email or text us". I shouted, "too late, you've just panicked everyone". Madness. Who do they think they are helping? Nobody. Thank God for Pop Master.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy Ken Bruce on Radio 2 and my 35yrold GS told me on Saturday that the men at work they stop and have coffee with Radio 2.
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I started doing Pop Master with my builder 6 years ago and discovered Ken. I enjoy his show too Hazel x
DeleteMy average score on Pop Master is 3 - which means a lot of the time I score 0!
DeleteAbout the same as mine. I get really excited if I get a bonus question right.
DeleteI really enjoyed this post Sue and hope you do well on Sunday. I smiled at the photo of your GD reminded me when I went to dancing classes with my young sister I never like going on I want to learn the piano but she wanted to dance, I did love ballroom dancing when I was a teanager.
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It's amazing the things they seem to know about. I'm sure at age 3 I wouldn't have known what posing for the camera even meant.
DeleteLoved the photo of your grandaughter, a real delight. The media circus is causing all the panic and then criticising the queues and the overbuying.
ReplyDeleteIt's a Mad Mad World - as someone else once said!
DeleteThe media I feel now sees themselves are the leader of information, not news, so much conjecture, what if's, they are causing all the issues, and idiots with the me first attitude, are causing the shortages.
ReplyDeleteSo true
DeleteOh the hand on the hip pose!
ReplyDeleteVery sweet.
Sorry, my eyesight, its not on her hip; gorgeous just the same.
DeleteShe certainly is a cutie
DeleteLoving the poses! I'm convinced that little girls today are born with that posing instinct; my youngest granddaughter as a mere baby in arms, used to do 'the Diana look', where she tilted her head down and looked up through her lashes at her Daddy! Not to Mummy or any ladies. Just Daddy!
ReplyDeleteI think you are right
DeleteThey are so cute at that age aren't they? My youngest grand-daughter (aged four) loves dancing and gives us a 'show' every time she comes here. My daughter is looking into dancing classes for her which I'm sure she will love.
ReplyDeleteEldest granddaughter went to ballet class for teenies for a while but then went off the whole idea!
DeleteThe media turn everything into a calamity! People need to calm down!
ReplyDeleteI love the photos of your granddaughter - so cute! It is great to be able to spend time with family!
Telling everyone that garages were running out of fuel is a sure way to make people panic when nearly everyone has to drive to get to work
DeleteStories like this make me pleased I have sold my car.
ReplyDeleteI hope your taxi driver can get fuel without problems next week
DeleteYou must be so proud of your son! We've watched several shows about archeological excavations in the U.K. and I've wondered if he was involved in any way. His daughter favors him a little; she's adorable.
ReplyDeleteIt's easy for me to remember the (U.S.) odd/even day gasoline lines of the Carter years, because I was hit by a car pulling out of a station while on my bicycle at the time. Taken by ambulance to the hospital. Worried my mother would be angry about the demolished bike and the hospital bill. I'm hoping those long gas lines won't return to the U.S. this winter, but expect they could. We've already been warned home heating bills will be much larger. --Elise
I'm just so glad he has managed to keep working as an archaeologist ever since finishing Uni.
DeleteHe's not been involved in any of the digs that have been on TV - they tend to favour the companies with well known archaeologists who've been on TV before,
The only TV he did appear on was the local BBC - several years ago now, when he was working on the Old USAF air bases on a Lottery funded project called Eighth in the East.
We filled up as we do (nowhere being local in Wales) but at least if I really had to I could walk to town and back for anything I might run out of - but it's uphill all the way back!
ReplyDeleteThat looks an interesting Dig and well done to your son for his involvement.
Apparently there were families trying to get home from Cornwall holidays and the garage at Wadebridge was only letting cars buy £20 worth of fuel and they were worried they wouldn't find more on the way.
Crazy about heating our homes this winter. Selling your utilities to someone who can put you over a barrel on supplies and prices is just about the stupidest thing ANY Government can do.
The wholesale energy market controls energy prices. It is a free market as far as supply and demand theories go but if Russia wants and Russia does it can control supplies.
DeleteA bit like 1973 and the oil price rise. Arab countries decided to punish a few countries by withholding supply. Nothing governments could do. Same as miners strikes in the 1970s and the three day week here. Electricity cos were state owned but still nothing could be done.
DeleteI agree with you, the world's gone mad! I love hearing about your son's work! It must be interesting to visit his digs. Your sweet granddaughter is adorable! She could be a future model. Enjoy those coffees!
ReplyDeleteOne thing that really annoys me is how the Press manipulate their broadcasts with, seemingly, the sole intent of panicking people or making them fearful about something. Whatever happened to Common Sense?
ReplyDeleteThank goodness for the distraction of cute Grandies and lots of good books to read :)
Isn't it amazing how the slightest news release that there could be a shortage of something causes people to run out and purchase said item, even if they have never used or want that item (talking bread machine yeast, bread and regular flour as here people who had never baked before started grabbing those items).
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
So many thing have gone haywire. No wonder that everyone is feeling disconnected and stressed. As for the news, it is sound bites that do not give a full and balanced story. As the world goes mad, at least we have family, gardens and good books...and they are all very reliable. Your granddaughter is adorable with lots of panache.
ReplyDeleteSorry I have missed a bunch of yours posts, didn't log on much whilst away.
ReplyDeleteOn the way home I stopped and filled up the van (which is my normal behaviour) and now feel guilty for doing so. How insane is that? 🤣 But the massive diesel tank has a range of about 600 miles so that would keep me going for months if all I did was use it to pop to the grocery store!
Agree with all your other comments - the media create half of the problems which they then spend hours gleefully reporting on.
We filled our car up because it was down on empty and we needed to. Besides that I too have been to the library and found other free things to keep me amused. Arilx
ReplyDeleteI've been reading about your shortages and have been praying for you all in England. I hope things level out soon. We've been filling the pantry since summer, here on the farm. I've told the sons & families I want Christmas lists now so I can do my gift buying before it gets too crazy. Guess I better really get started.
ReplyDeleteYour shortages do seem scary. How much would be avoided if people bought sensibly I’m not sure. There must be people over here still using up the ridiculous amount of toilet paper they hoarded last year! How crazy. Your granddaughter is so sweet - that smile! Those eyes! Those gestures! My smile for the morning, thank you!
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