Well OT - sparkling water shortage?

Didn't this happen last summer too? The explanation was that food-grade CO2 is a byproduct of ammonia manufacture, and the plants usually close in summer for annual maintenence as there's no demand for ammonuim nitrate agricultural fertiliser.

Anyway, we have a Qooker Cube.

The modern equivalent is the SodaStream, and that was mentioned.

We had a Soda Stream until a few years ago when it became difficult to get the cartridges.

Just ordered another and it's been delivered today. Should drastically cut down on our plastic waste, that's been bothering me for some time.

I read (i've not fact checked it) that Australians might get offered free lottery entries if they get the jab.

In my case, it was the other way round. Liverpool has famously soft water (the main reservoir is at "Lake" Vyrnwy).

The first time I ever rinsed my hands under a cold tap in London, the water felt like iron filings.

Doesn't their range depend (largely) on what they can get cheap from time to time?

Possibly. But for general crap it's OK.

A Lidl opened up near me just before Covid and I find many of their products better than Aldi.

However I have a cat that only likes Aldi cat food and can eat 6 pouches a day.

As I told him yesterday. ;-}

PA

my cat has 1 pouch in the morning and then dried food in the evening....

My cat only eats dried food. Oh, and fresh mouse, too.

I used to have a SodaStream, and some shops got really confused when I bought the CO2 cylinders, as they had two bar codes on them, one for exchange and the other for new. Sometimes the exchange one coded for the exchange price (about £3), sometimes the difference with the new price and the exchange; some shops added it rather than subtracting it until I pointed out their error.

It was quite useful as I didn't have to cart the water from the shop as it came out of the tap. Eventually it broke, and, though I could have got a replacement cheaply, using the same cylinders and bottles, I chucked the whole lot away. Bought fizzy drinks from supermarkets are probably cheaper anyway.

though that'll only be a relative soft

I'm pretty sure that I have been served highland spring on a airline

it wasn't "Manchester" undrinkable

Too much of a faff.

You can actually buy domestic taps that can output carbonated water. Unfortunately, the taps are expensive and the CO2 bottles work out far more expensive than just buying bottled, sparking water!

Two in a morning or I do not get out of the house alive, two when I get in from work to stop my legs from getting scratched to bits.

I leave dried food down after his second morning pouch when I leave for work and more dried food after his second evening meal.

At a weekend he demands extra pouches throughout the day.

I always know as he leaves the tail:-)

Perhaps you need to get the lesbian nearby to give him a worm pill ?

Why does it need a lesbian?

After all that, you must have a huge pussy!