Snapshot taken from the back bedroom window yesterday. Shown to prove that even in December some autumn colours remain.
This morning we drove into Ipswich where Ann had to have a test in our local hospital. Test went off alright, but as it had been a 'fasting test' Ann was very thirsty and hungry so we went off after the test to the hospital canteen and had a hot drink and bun apiece, and very refreshing they were. The bill however came to £9.10, yes nine pounds and ten pence!!!!!!! We then did a bit of thinking and worked out that about two years ago, a decent, light, hot lunch could have been eaten by the two of us (and was occasionally when I was in hospital there) for the same sum, or slightly less, that I'd just paid for a very restrained elevenses. The moral of this is that when you read the official figures on inflation rates -
DO NOT BELIEVE A WORD OF IT.
Goodnight all.
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Another moral, Mike, is when going to any government establishment take a flask of tea and some home made comestibles and save youselves £8.50!
Or if you have plenty of time, simply state. "Your price is unreasonable, I will offer you £2.10 or I will leave without concluding this purchase." There is no duty upon you to complete a purchase of food or drink unless you have consumed it.
Your weather looks divine! And the color in your garden..... We had a little snow today and now the temperature is below freezing.
Hello Crowbard. I wasn't being grudging about buying the necessary sustenance. What shocked me was that over the over the last year or so the rate of inflation had gone up somewhere between thirty to fifty percent per annum by my reckoning - (although I always was, as you know, rotten at doing sums).
Hi Mike you weren't being grudging, you were being robbed!
You can make a hundred cups of tea for less than a fiver and cakes and buns from pennies to £1 each depending on size and content; which indicates you were charged about £8.50 for the use of the table and chairs. I think that is awfully steep. In such places, fasting is particularly nourishing to the soul!
Don't forget, though, that Ann had already had a twelve hour fast.
I would personally pay double their exhorbitant fee to ensure Annie was relieved from further fasting.
But since you've already paid...
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