Pointless just about sums up the greens

Mary, my SIL has now left for home, she will be back in three weeks or so. The first few days after anyone leaves always seem particularly empty, but from today my carers will call four times a day rather than two, so that will help break the day up

If 20 were rigidly enforced drivers would be spending more time looking at their speedos than at the road in front. 20 is a very dodgy speed to maintain without setting a speed limiter and even that wouldn't work it it was on any sort of hill. If not rigidly enforced then it's pointless. 

Maybe the mobile phone prohibition should be applied to pedestrians as well as drivers. That would improve road safety for sure as would enforcing the rules on cycles and electric scooters on pavements.

They should make all the roads within half a mile of schools pedestrian only other than for residents - that would improve road safety no end and judging by the traffic jams around here at school times a lot greener too.

Quote from: klondike on April 07, 2026, 08:43:27 AMI doubt that store policy could include instant dismissal for a first issue. There have to be all sorts of warnings and notifications these days before somebody can be sacked. I don't think we can have the full story. Actually I don't have any story apart from what I've seen here. It will doubtless all come out when the unfair dismissal claim gets processed.

Just nipping up to Waitrose for a nice joint for Sunday. Might pick up an few other bits and bobs while I'm there. Better go early to miss the rush. So much cheaper than Lidl 

I agree.    As I said in the beginning,  I won't be surprised if there is more to this.

I doubt that store policy could include instant dismissal for a first issue. There have to be all sorts of warnings and notifications these days before somebody can be sacked. I don't think we can have the full story. Actually I don't have any story apart from what I've seen here. It will doubtless all come out when the unfair dismissal claim gets processed.

Just nipping up to Waitrose for a nice joint for Sunday. Might pick up an few other bits and bobs while I'm there. Better go early to miss the rush. So much cheaper than Lidl 

Much talk of this on the news..
I believe that local MP pleaded his case..
 I don't think Waitrose will back down.. They are sticking to their Policy .. Staff Safety ..

If the Green Party get in they want to change driving and make it more difficult to be a motorist 
They apparently  want to reduce motorway and dual carriageway speed limits to 55 mph and  impose Welsh-style 20 mph limits in towns .They would would raise fuel taxes,and make parking more difficult .( as if it's not difficult enough already ) even outside one's own home, and bring in a more demanding driving test including such things as knowledge of how a car works, and impose it on drivers every five years. 

Freedom of the road would be no more .

Your day sounds lovely Mups.  I'm so glad now that we only have a small garden. It's pretty full of perennials, so not a great deal of work.  I need to get some plants for the tubs now the bulbs have almost finished.  

It's a beautiful day today, I volunteer at an Age UK drop in session most Tuesday mornings. A friend is trained to do checks for things like Pension Credit, Blue Badges, Attendance allowance etc.  I do a bit of admin, make people drinks, or just chat while they're waiting.  Sometimes the main reason people is to just talk to another person. 

I had a girl with a Polish father in my class, no black or Asian children. That was Scotland, 1950s & 60s.  My expedience when we moved to South Yorkshire was quite different. We rented in a poor area at first, we had neighbours from Jamaica, Pakistan, India, West Africa and Ireland.  That area is nearly all Eastern European now. The first house we bought was in a pit village, all white. A few years later we moved to an area where we had some friends, and the schools were better. There were a couple of Asian families on the estate, one black family that I remember, the rest were white.  

My children had friends from different ethnicities in primary school, my daughter is still in touch with an Indian girl from her year.  The Indian kids were academic, the boys were consistently at the top in my son's class. 

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