Christmas lecture

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

Do you mean need or want?

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.

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

The alternative normal cars have just as good a range.

Get on the train.

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

no I didn't

dim - wit!

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

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

tim

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

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.

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

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

Plenty of them do. I did say stupid women.

Range was what was being discussed, not fuel economy.

but not because I lied

I said that I genuinely thought it was the rule

Didn't realise I was replying to Wodney.

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

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