test please delete

[ladymuck]

Hmm… maybe not. JustEat looks like it’s accepting orders until you try to start one, whereupon it tells you it isn’t

Maybe he was just in there checking the place hadn’t been burgled or something

That's a shame! To have lost a major food group must be rather unsettling.

Here's hoping the chippie stays open

[ladymuck]

Drive over there, get them to put the barometer outside and retreat back into their lair, and drive back with it

Or just get them on Zoom and have them prop the barometer in front of their webcam. Then you can call it when you want to know what the atmospheric pressure is where they are

My Dad has only just about mastered Skype for his guitar lessons, I'm not introducing more complexity.

I wonder if a 120-mile round trip could be justified to pick it up? People have certainly come up with more tenuous excuses.

[BR14]

My Dad has only just about mastered Skype for his guitar lessons, I'm not introducing more complexity.

I wonder if a 120-mile round trip could be justified to pick it up? People have certainly come up with more tenuous excuses.

can't he just post it? -courier services are mostly what's keeping everything glued together at the moment.
if he can wrap it, you can arrange pickup, delivery and payment online.
jist a thought like.

[NickFitz]

My Dad has only just about mastered Skype for his guitar lessons, I'm not introducing more complexity.

Good point

I wonder if a 120-mile round trip could be justified to pick it up? People have certainly come up with more tenuous excuses.

If nothing else, people like seeing a good story on the news starting “Police fined a driver who said they were going to collect a barometer”

can't he just post it? -courier services are mostly what's keeping everything glued together at the moment.
if he can wrap it, you can arrange pickup, delivery and payment online.
jist a thought like.

I’m not sure I’d entrust a valuable antique barometer to one of those companies that throws people’s brand new china dinner services up on a garage roof then says it was put in a “safe place”

[BR14]

I’m not sure I’d entrust a valuable antique barometer to one of those companies that throws people’s brand new china dinner services up on a garage roof then says it was put in a “safe place”

use a better company then

[NickFitz]

use a better company then

I think I’ve seen complaints like that about all of them at one time or another

[DoctorStrangelove]

Entertainment:

YouTube

For AtW:

YouTube

And this appeared on my playlist to start it all off:

YouTube

[BR14]

I think I’ve seen complaints like that about all of them at one time or another

yes? where?
i've used loads of couriers with no problems at all over the years.

[BR14]

outside a chinese.

and very nice it was too.

now, a nice chablis and midsomer murdurs. - <och, jean ;-) >

[ladymuck]

outside a chinese.

and very nice it was too.

now, a nice chablis and midsomer murdurs. -

Did you go inside or are you just conducting reviews of shop exteriors?