Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.

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A friend went to Lidl today so I tagged along. Very glad I did - REALLY good cheddar at a really good (for here) price!! LOL Need to go back and see if they still have it next week :D

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Even better, it's Wyke Farms :D :D :D

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Your Lidl doesn't have e-paper SEL's.

Is the UK actually more advanced than Fronch?
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Tickled by "Cheddar de Somerset" though :D
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 3:35 pm Tickled by "Cheddar de Somerset" though :D
It proper made me laugh!! :lol: :lol: I've got two FB groups now searching all the Fronch Lidls to see if they can get the same Cheddar de Somerset!! :lol :lol:

KungFooBob wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 3:27 pm Your Lidl doesn't have e-paper SEL's.

Is the UK actually more advanced than Fronch?
Can't imagine so! But, I don't know what e-paper SELs are?!
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Found a place to do my christmas shopping...

https://www.wankersstore.com/
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Noggin wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 5:21 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 3:35 pm Tickled by "Cheddar de Somerset" though :D
It proper made me laugh!! :lol: :lol: I've got two FB groups now searching all the Fronch Lidls to see if they can get the same Cheddar de Somerset!! :lol :lol:

KungFooBob wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 3:27 pm Your Lidl doesn't have e-paper SEL's.

Is the UK actually more advanced than Fronch?
Can't imagine so! But, I don't know what e-paper SELs are?!
I had to Google but I suspect SEL is 'Shelf Edge Labels' and e-paper is LED stuff so they can rip you off electronically by changing SELs and the price as you approach or after you've bought something.

Oh, brave new world. :(
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But think of the trees!
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 6:03 pm But think of the trees!
Yebbut think of the environmental impact of all that pixel-mining... :)
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I'll take a punt at 'Electronic Shelf Label' and bank on a typo further up.

On the making happy front - youngest daughter started her first proper part-time job about three weeks ago in the clothing dept. at Sainsbury's. Yesterday evening's shift she found herself alone in the dept. the whole time but just got on with it.

Very proud of her.
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Count Steer wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 5:45 pm
Noggin wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 5:21 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 3:35 pm Tickled by "Cheddar de Somerset" though :D
It proper made me laugh!! :lol: :lol: I've got two FB groups now searching all the Fronch Lidls to see if they can get the same Cheddar de Somerset!! :lol :lol:

KungFooBob wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 3:27 pm Your Lidl doesn't have e-paper SEL's.

Is the UK actually more advanced than Fronch?
Can't imagine so! But, I don't know what e-paper SELs are?!
I had to Google but I suspect SEL is 'Shelf Edge Labels' and e-paper is LED stuff so they can rip you off electronically by changing SELs and the price as you approach or after you've bought something.

Oh, brave new world. :(
Aaaaah. Ok.

Well, @KungFooBob the Fronch supermarches most definitely have electronic shelf label thingies. I suspect that, since Lidl can't seem to match the products with most of the labels, they don't trust anyone to enter the correct details for the electronic pricing :lol: :lol: :lol:

I've given up trying with their 'systems' - if the price label doesn't match what I'm looking at, I don't buy it cos you can guarantee that even if I think I've found the right label nearby, the price will be wildly different at the till!!

Who needs SELs to stitch up customers :angry-cussingblack: :angry-cussingblack:
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The first time I ever saw Electronic SEL's was in France (probably a good 10 years ago), they were LCD (like calculator displays ) and quite bulky, the e-paper ones in my local Lidl look brilliant. If you weren't an SEL geek, you'd never know they were electronic.
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KungFooBob wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 7:01 pm The first time I ever saw Electronic SEL's was in France (probably a good 10 years ago), they were LCD (like calculator displays ) and quite bulky, the e-paper ones in my local Lidl look brilliant. If you weren't an SEL geek, you'd never know they were electronic.
I will make some effort to remember to take a photo of the non-offer price tags! Not much effort TBF! I generally have the memory of a squashed goldfish! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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KungFooBob wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 7:01 pm The first time I ever saw Electronic SEL's was in France (probably a good 10 years ago), they were LCD (like calculator displays ) and quite bulky, the e-paper ones in my local Lidl look brilliant. If you weren't an SEL geek, you'd never know they were electronic.
These technology innovations have completely destroyed the pricing gun industry :(
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Remembering my bike has heated grips! A welcome extra for tonights ride home for sure!
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I have a savoury tooth rather than sweet tooth, but once or twice a month a buy a couple of bars of choc to put in freezer.
Farking lovely it is.
Got my 2 fave bars on way home tonight, then saw a mega sized strawberry cheesecake bar. Well, it's bloody scrummy. And HUGE

Got a right sugar buzz :D
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I have finally been paid.... for september!!

Hopefully this means that thr rest is coming too :)
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And another from me !!


Barclaycard have refunded the £93 I paid Aliexpress for that instrument cluster for my KTM that wasn't !
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I'm on a roll, I just bought a replacement dashboard from ebay for £150!!
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So, I'm sure I mentioned that last winter my boss and I had a difficult few weeks and end of season. But, I have been chuffed that we were able to get past it as recently we've been back to laughing and joking at work again.

Today - I've just had a phone call from him. Not about work. But to sing me happy birthday!!

Not just happy birthday but happy birthday in English!! He and his wife called just for that!! How cool :D :D
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It's a little known fact that French people shouting 'You're fired, you useless twazzock!' down the telephone repeatedly sounds remarkably like the English rendition of 'Happy Birthday to You'.

Fact.
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