LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME - 2021

and this popped up on my facebook - talk about timing!

 

Hmm, I guess buying lots of white granulated sugar whilst it is on offer could be stockpiling.. but I got my punishment right away.

It was $1.47 per bag - less than one of your pounds. So I bought a bunch of bags which will hopefully get me through to 2022 as Christmas uses a lot too.

They had the sugar on skids, and many of the brown paper wrapped multipacks from the manufacturer were still not opened so I grabbed one of those.

#1 son has my van so I had to load it in the trunk of my Mustang and the punishment came into play when I went to get it back out. Bit of a struggle-how could 20 lbs of sugar seem so much heavier than the 10 kilo bags of flour I usually buy in a single bag? I thought I was getting weak!

Well maybe because it was 10 bags with 2 kilos of sugar in each... doh, next time I will do the math

 

Hit the nail on the head, supermarkets could also have done more to stop stock pilling, just lock all the large trolleys for starters, but NO, they wanted to cash in. It has been reported in Italy for some months now regarding a shortage of tinned tomato's, not the fruit but tin is in high demand, some producers even wrote to the large retailers telling them to stop doing promotions.

The shortage of drivers is a world wide issue, but the media still keep pushing, "it's all down to brexit" The shortage of drivers goes far deeper than brexit and covid, trouble is, the hauliers politicians, RHA etc etc don't, won't listen to the drivers. The shortage of drivers is not a new phenomenon, the warning signs were there 2 decades ago, what did they do, lowered the age limit for driving a HGV.

The real causes of the HGV driver shortage and why we can’t blame it all on Brexit | Analysis & Features | The Grocer

20 reasons why there is shortage of drivers in the UK – orynski.eu

 

Yep:

Petrol panic buying spreads across UK as some greedy forecourts spike prices

 

R sole on ITV has just mentioned Warburtons and said they are struggling to get drivers.
So basically the excitable idiot it trying to start a bread shortage as well now.

 

There is one positive coming out of the explosion in gas prices (pun intended ) and all the other inflationary pressures.

My annual pension increase is calculated using the September CPI - so lets hope there is a massive leap in CPI this month and then an equally dramatic fall shortly after .

 

The MD of Iceland - always complaining - so far:

- food shortages due to Brexit;
- food shortages due to lack of CO2;
- massive price increases due to expensive C02;
- food shortages due to lask of lorry drivers;
- food shortages due to zombie apocalypse.

I just ignore him now.

(I made that last one up)

 

Well, we are up the creek without a paddle then ... thankfully T'other Half went last week!

 

Others are inciting panic bog roll buying

 

I allways thought the fuel tanker drivers were the best payed for all drivers, as other said drivers shorage is not new, when i worked for a very big company(10 years ago) they had problems getting drivers, when a new driver would start some other drivers would get them to leave and then join an agency and then go and work for the company they just left, the agency had lots of power so if driver didn't like the lorry he was to drive he could ring agency and he would get another one to drive

 

No worries for me on the toilet roll, got one of these.





On our last trip to the far east we had one of these beauties in our apartment. I told my Mrs I was going to invest in one, she wasn't so pleased when I said it would save her a small fortune on going to the hairdressers for a wash a blow dry..

 

I think they have run out of excuses for doing bugger all as covid is now becoming less.
So they are now inventing all kinds of reasons why nothing works or is happening as it did before covid.
There was some prat on the lunchtime news, I think in the Welsh government, stating everyone should now be only working a 4 day week with no loss of wages.

 

A footbath, for getting the sand out from between your toes.

Did you try the Enema button???

 

No, if you look closer there is water droplets all over the tiles. I was like Mick Dundee from crocodile Dundee trying to suss it out...