What have you bought today?
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Bought a new iron for Mrs Mottie as the other one went pop a few days ago. I collected it from Waitrose this morning and gave it to her when she got in from work. I nearly got a punch in the throat from her when I gave it to her and said in my best northern accent "I'll not have any wife o' mine go without the proper tools t' do her job properly".
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A painter I worked with actually bought his wife an ironing board cover for Christmas
Soppy old romantic.
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Another workmate bought a bungalow and turned it into a house?? Part of the renovations included an office for himself (local councillor & magistrate) and with a straight face he showed me his wifes "Ironing Room" a windowless corner of the loft conversion, I occasionally ask Mrs CB if she would like one when she brings up the subject of an extension
Mrs Mottie has said before that she would like a laundry room. Washing, drying and ironing. She'd be in her element. Seriously!
Three bed, three bath house in a small hamlet in Limousin with small lake and large barn.
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A couple of tickets to see the moonwalkers next week.
Some satsumas - and like to think my purchase pizzed off both lefties and tree huggers at the same time. I could have gone for the Spanish mandarins, but no, I thought Israeli (in big letters above the price) satsumas will do me. As if that wasn't rebellious enough, I helped myself to a plastic bag from the roll to put them in . Remember when we had the luxury of having free, disposable, polar bear murdering plastic bags to put our supermarket fruit in, rather than trying to juggle with it loose in the trolley? Well planet saviours, other countries are selling un-pc fruit and giving you plastic bags to take it home in.
. Remember when we had the luxury of having free, disposable, polar bear murdering plastic bags to put our supermarket fruit in, rather than trying to juggle with it loose in the trolley? Well planet saviours, other countries are selling un-pc fruit and giving you plastic bags to take it home in. 
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You take the Mick (polar Bear murdering), but we can't just carry on regardless.Well planet saviours, other countries are selling un-pc fruit and giving you plastic bags to take it home in.
Just because others are doing it, doesn't give us carte blanche to go on wasting and polluting.
Don't you agree with being less wasteful?
Buying loose fruit does not mean buying bagless. Paper bags are much better because everyone can recycle paper, but plastic bags, films and wraps are not so convenient to recycle.
Plastic bottles can give way to glass. Put a deposit on them and kids would become litter pickers for the community, keen to cash in.
Carrier bags can be paper too.
If we put our minds to it, we can virtually eliminate plastic, if not completely eradicate it as a form of packaging. There are plastic alternatives that are plant based that break down in the soil
We need to be kinder to our world. There are more and more people in it and unless we change our ways we won't have a world.
The trouble is, if there's money to be made, many have the mindset of "Well, me and my immediate family are not going to be here in 100 years, so I don't care what happens after I've gone."
But we need to start caring now.
That's all very well, but the evidence is despite all the hype we're less green than past generations because of our increasingly consumer based lives. And why should I worry about consuming less and being greener, when every year the population of The UK grows at an alarming rate (750, 000 extra polluters just this year)? Isn't it self defeating?
But no one stops to think about such a ludicrous situation of government on one hand emploring us to be greener but swelling the population so we'll always be polluting and using more resources. A government that emplores us to respect the environment but has let the sewerage system become so outdated and overloaded that sewerage is now being dumped in rivers. A government that emplores us to consume less, but on the other hand if we do, they will panic that the economy isn't growing.
Have you thought about the ludicrous situations above? I'm guessing not. So until the government actually stops being hypocritical and acting AGAINST the environment I don't give a to$$ about it either. Because they certainly don't. Our lives are built around consuming, waste, oil, plastics, road transport, etc, etc - and it's not going to alter any time soon. Obsessing about plastic fruit bags is just a diversion to keep people under an illusion and also feel righteous because they are playing their part, when governments and other countries just carry on regardless.
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I refuse to consider the concept of individuality, if I'm the only one doing so.
Actually these were sweet with a nice taste, a really deep orange colour which is usually a good sign. Lots in UK are a pale yellow and insipid. No doubt by the time they've waited at Calais for Brexit checks before crossing The Channel, a lot of the flavour and moisture content has been lost.
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