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Chit Chat / Re: What book are you reading?
« on: February 16, 2025, 06:13:40 pm »
My Kris Kringle last year ... We'll prescribe you a cat by Syou Ishida. An interesting concept, a bit like an assistance pet.
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Chit Chat / Re: What book are you reading?« on: February 16, 2025, 06:13:40 pm »
My Kris Kringle last year ... We'll prescribe you a cat by Syou Ishida. An interesting concept, a bit like an assistance pet.
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Chit Chat / Re: What's for Dinner Tonight?« on: February 16, 2025, 12:48:59 am »
That sounds good, Chookie - I like toasties.
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Chit Chat / Re: New thermomix« on: February 16, 2025, 12:48:13 am »
I've seen quite a few posts on this on FaceBook - it looks very snazzy and can do heaps - but will the extra functions be useful for small time cooks like me - I'm not sure?
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Chit Chat / Re: What have you been doing today?« on: February 16, 2025, 12:46:04 am »
Lots of catch up cooking, prepping our bedroom for painting, SIL rang from Scotland so had a good catchup, elderly neighbour popped in for a gossip, accounts ... back to work tomorrow for a rest!
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Chit Chat / Re: What are you been cooking today« on: February 16, 2025, 12:43:43 am »
Stock concentrate, vege stew, Cranberry Glazed Roasted Butternut, Brussels Sprouts & sweet potato and Creamy Cajun Pasta with Breaded tofu
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Chit Chat / Re: New thermomix« on: February 15, 2025, 10:12:58 am »
I'm not sure about that solid black of the jug. It will be interesting to hear the feedback once it comes onto the market.
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Chit Chat / Re: What have you been doing today?« on: February 13, 2025, 05:20:33 pm »
I'm like you Mab, I much prefer to go through a "manned" ... or "womanned" ... checkout. I see it as keeping people employed as much as anything and I always make it a point to say that I appreciate having a person serve me. The sad thing is, though, there are fewer and fewer checkouts available that have checkout girls on them.
I believe that there is a chain of supermarkets in the UK that are reverting to manned checkouts due to customer resistance to the self checkouts - I should imagine it actually costs them less doing that in the long run, when you factor in theft as well as all the extra tech required for the self checkouts. 8
Chit Chat / Re: What have you been doing today?« on: February 12, 2025, 06:01:52 pm »
That happened to me once as well, Cookie. It seems that you HAVE to put the item onto the shelf with everything else until you get the green light then after scanning it, I think, you can then safely put it into your bag - the system is designed to pick up irregularities - although how she knew about your tomatoes specifically is anyone's guess and, I would think, once an item has been scanned it would be OK to simply put it straight into your own bag. It is certainly intensely embarrassing to be pulled up like that.
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Chit Chat / Re: What are you been cooking today« on: February 09, 2025, 05:15:59 am »
I have been given a lot vegetables this weekend so I cobbled something together with lentils, tomatoes, sunflower seeds, hemp seeds, broccolini and loads of other things in it, with potatoes on top (I am calling it a vegan shepherds pie, but that is a stretch of the imagination) and a green bean casserole.
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Chit Chat / Re: What have you been doing today?« on: February 09, 2025, 05:13:01 am »
It's the annual Melbourne Pride day down our street today. I really enjoy it - seeing so many people out on the street, all colourful (some outrageously so!), happy and smiling and no aggro. It really is a fun (if not loud near the big stage) day - and probably night as well!
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Chit Chat / Re: What have you been doing today?« on: February 06, 2025, 07:12:09 pm »
Credit card surcharges are a real cost to businesses, but I believe that the charges laid on customers are inflated in many cases. We do not levy surcharges at our shop nor do we include a surcharge percentage in the RRP of any of our items, i.e. we don't hike up the price of an item to cover these charges and we pay many hundreds of dollars every month to the bank in merchant fees, so I can understand why businesses have this surcharge. HOWEVER, the percentage they charge does not necessarily reflect what the bank charges them to process the sale. It is very complicated. With us we have something like 10 different levels of charges, depending on the type of card presented, so it is hard to calculate what is a realistic percentage at the point of sale. There is some legislation on how a business charges for a credit card but I do not think any one polices it.
I recently saw, probably an urban legend, a story about the value of cash vs card and it went along the lines of if you pay $50 cash for an item, the supplier has $50 to spend, the supplier then buys something for $50 and the next supplier then has $50 to spend and so on, whereas paying by card the supplier then has $50 less a merchant percentage for their next purchase and so it goes on to the next merchant with the original $50 having (theoretically) less and less value with each succeeding transaction - it is very interesting reading but I won't try to go further with the story because I will not be able to write it out clearly and will only succeed in confusing everyone. The crux of the story is that the original $50 payment by credit card has less and less value with every succeeding card purchase, whereas the cash used for the original payment remains $50 ... does that make sense? Having said all of that, I very much prefer to use cash but for larger purchases will revert to my credit card and, of course, you have no choice when making internet purchases. 12
Chit Chat / Re: What have you been doing today?« on: February 05, 2025, 07:16:40 am »
Went up to Guildford for our neighbour's mother's funeral. Hot, but well attended. A lovely send-off.
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Chit Chat / Re: What's for Dinner Tonight?« on: February 03, 2025, 04:13:31 pm »
Swabian potato salad with beans cauliflower and broccoli in rose sauce and a few left over leaves of green salad
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Chit Chat / Re: What book are you reading?« on: February 02, 2025, 06:50:13 pm »
I am half way through the third of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo et al). I had read all three books some years ago, but am thoroughly enjoying reading them again.
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Chit Chat / Re: What have you been doing today?« on: February 01, 2025, 01:40:09 am »Thanks Cookie and Judy. Did miss everyone.Don't force yourself, Chookie - everything has its own time and you will relax when you feel the time is right and you are ready to let it go ... small steps - don't push it. |
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