Christmas lecture

[damduck-egg]

to one.

Coupling communities together as the buses fan out into the countryside.

G.Harman

[Tim Streater]

A 'viscous' circle eh? Not one you want to get stuck in then!

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Do you mean need or want?

1000 years ago people would have been delighted with your once an hour bus service. ;-)

[Dave Plowman (News)]

If it is before its sell by date I'd expect it to be usable. When you do your own shopping you can pick the ones with the latest sell by date. Can make a difference to those with small families etc that don't get through a vast amount of food each day.

[John]

The reason that happens is because stupid women feel safer in them.

The alternative normal cars have just as good a range.

[harry]

Get on the train.

[harry]

Yes it is. Widespread car ownership has only existed for forty years. We have had millenia without.

[tim...]

no I didn't

dim - wit!

tim

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[tim...]

Oh I am sure that you can send back stuff that is short dated, or overripe

but that doesn't get your cupboard full of your week's food, does it?

so you have to:

a) accept everything that is delivered. b) make a special trip for the things that they c*ck up. c) over order in the hope that you get to reject some stuff and then find you throw stuff away if you have to accept it all.

Now I am sure that a family of 4, who need 2 or 3 shopping loads per week can work around these issue

but a family of 1 or 2 who needs a large shopping load only once a fortnight can't

tim

[tim...]

we even had a fully grocers van come round (even though we had three grocery shops within a short walk)

tim

[tim...]

1000 years ago people could barely pay for what they needed

what I meant was that every village would have all of the "trades" that you could need

you didn't have to travel 30 miles to find someone to buy a replacement for a broken bucket, because that was where the nearest DIY store was. The smithy in the village would fix it for you.

tim

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I'm not sure they do. A neighbour's one was bought by the husband who hardly ever drives it. His wife preferred her previous small estate car.

Most Chelsea tractors use a great deal more fuel than a car big enough to take the kids to school.

[Richard]

Oh yes you did, by incorrectly stating the minimum purchase requirement.

It was dim...wit actually. 'nuff said.

[John]

Plenty of them do. I did say stupid women.

Range was what was being discussed, not fuel economy.

[tim...]

but not because I lied

I said that I genuinely thought it was the rule

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Didn't realise I was replying to Wodney.

Range isn't a problem in the UK for taking kids to school in towns.

[John]

Pity its what was being discussed and you carefully deleted that from the quoting.