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    It was one of those Mondays...

    I had a doctor's appointment, which I thought was 8am. I went to work early and took an hour off to pop into the surgery. It was packed out at 7:45. While waiting in the queue I toyed with the appointment card and noticed it said 16:00 not 08:00. The latter was for the blood sample I had to give on Friday. Today was a late appointment because the results needed to be delivered in the morning.

    So I drove back to work and ended up in a meeting that went through the rest of the morning, lunch, and almost to 3pm. Went to the Doctor's again only to find that my doctor had taken the day off sick...had to hang around for the partner (who is a nice guy). Five pm before I am seen and then I find that all is good, no problems with liver, kidney, cholesterol, thyroid or anything else for that matter. I only went in for a repeat prescription the other week. It was the bladdy doctor that ordered I have these tests!

    Still I'm relieved all is good, now I can finish off the bottle of wine in peace....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    my doctor had taken the day off sick...had to hang around for the partner (who is a nice guy).
    This 'partner' thing is getting confusing.

    Almost as bad as noggin the nog's 'travelling companion'

    Were you waiting around for a doctor or your boyfriend?

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    ^ Oh, I see, yes, confusing nowadays isn't it.

    I meant the other doctor in the surgery, run as a partnership with two doctors, one male and one female, but I don't think they are in a relationship.

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    How can a council demand 13k for rates annually . . . nice place, NZ, some not so nice things about it.
    Last edited by panama hat; 25-08-2020 at 08:06 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    There is nothing better than hand slicing a loaf of bread on the breakfast table. Select your preferred thickness for toast and sandwiches; warm in the oven to get the mouth watering aroma; easy to make croutons or breadcrumbs for stuffings; hollow out to make a house for the pet mouse... There are so many things that you are missing by having that bread sliced.
    I get that, but for me it's remove from bag, drop in toaster, liberal with the butter, a combo of anything and it's good to go. When wifey makes me a snack there's no consulting and I'm good with her toasted choice, whatever she fancies usually with a light spread of Marmite, then cheese, cream cheese, salmon/tuna, pastrami, olives, nutella (that's right, not with Marmite), anchovies, potato salad, or yesterday's leftovers.

    No offence to anyone that buys the bleached white stuff, but imo they miss out by placing importance on what to add, rather than the bread itself which is crucial, like any pizza base or curry sauce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    How can a council demand 13k for rates annually
    Da faq... That's like x4 more than I pay, it can't be right surely??

    And where you live they should be paying you.


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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    Da faq... That's like x4 more than I pay, it can't be right surely??
    You're sharing a place with LatinKaren?


    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    And where you live they should be paying you.
    New Zealand?


    (That's for the Akl place - our other/normal place it's about 1/3 of that.)
    Last edited by panama hat; 25-08-2020 at 08:48 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    BREXIT thread, BREAD thread...

    Don't tell me ... let me guess ... they need you more than you need them, right?
    Well done, good guess, but as expected for the wrong reasons. They do need me and other customers more than we need them, which is why they spend a fortune drawing us into their stores; it's called competition, which includes producing fresh baked goods that are attractive and exclusive to their stores.

    The cost of the slicer and service is priced into the bread, just as the bag that goes with your bun or cake, so no doubt that the 290/loaf will rise to 300/310 when the new slicer arrives. No big deal, and I don't expect you to understand, though more reasonable others will, that I want my bread sliced because that's the way I like it, not because I'm paying for the option anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    That's for the Akl place - our other/normal place it's about 1/3 of that.
    Ah OK then that explains it... Auckland's fucked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    Ah OK then that explains it... Auckland's fucked.
    Yup . . . luckily that's covered, though. 1/3 of that here still sucks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    It was one of those Mondays...

    I had a doctor's appointment, which I thought was 8am. I went to work early and took an hour off to pop into the surgery. It was packed out at 7:45. While waiting in the queue I toyed with the appointment card and noticed it said 16:00 not 08:00. The latter was for the blood sample I had to give on Friday. Today was a late appointment because the results needed to be delivered in the morning.

    So I drove back to work and ended up in a meeting that went through the rest of the morning, lunch, and almost to 3pm. Went to the Doctor's again only to find that my doctor had taken the day off sick...had to hang around for the partner (who is a nice guy). Five pm before I am seen and then I find that all is good, no problems with liver, kidney, cholesterol, thyroid or anything else for that matter. I only went in for a repeat prescription the other week. It was the bladdy doctor that ordered I have these tests!

    Still I'm relieved all is good, now I can finish off the bottle of wine in peace....
    I am seriously suspicious of Mondays and I go out of my way to not schedule anything or start any big projects on Mondays.

    Mondays are gods way of crushing your spirit at the start of the week..Sometimes you sorta actually feel like getting down to work after a weekend. But Mondays solve that problem.

    By the end of Monday , after taking shit left right and sideways , you just want the weekend to come again. So you end up toiling through the rest of the week with no spirit

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    Ah OK then that explains it... Auckland's fucked.
    Other than the legalized prostitution, Auckland is a boring city

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    How can a council demand 13k for rates annually . . . nice place, NZ, some not so nice things about it.
    Baht or dollars?

    Do you own the whole friggin block?





    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Other than the legalized prostitution, Auckland is a boring city
    Have you been there?

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    I'm going to pre-load my Daily Moan for the next month or so:

    We're* in the process of moving and it's a fucking utter ball-ache, I hate moving!





















    *Disclaimer: by 'we' I mean my wife has done most of it so far, packing up shite, but it's still annoying.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheRealKW View Post
    Baht or dollars?
    Dollars
    Quote Originally Posted by TheRealKW View Post
    Do you own the whole friggin block?
    It's Auckland, near the water One building. Lawn.

    Quote Originally Posted by TheRealKW View Post
    Have you been there?
    Has he . . . bullshit. He's trying to be 'edgy'


    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    I hate moving!
    Imagine how your new neighbours feel about the impending arrival
    Last edited by panama hat; 26-08-2020 at 09:27 AM.

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    Builders.

    The contractor with the mini-digger arrived ahead of the builder this morning and unloaded his digger over the small area of flat lawn, which is no longer flat or lawn.

    FFS there is a much larger hard area of compacted fill right next to the lawn. They can drag race diggers around that for all I care.

    Careless in the true sense, no care whatsoever for the property of others.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shutree View Post
    Builders.

    The contractor with the mini-digger arrived ahead of the builder this morning and unloaded his digger over the small area of flat lawn, which is no longer flat or lawn.

    FFS there is a much larger hard area of compacted fill right next to the lawn. They can drag race diggers around that for all I care.

    Careless in the true sense, no care whatsoever for the property of others.
    Same groan as this. In the last 2 weeks I have had a backhoe on my property smashing away my kitchen and beautiful sala. The kitchen was subsiding and had to be fixed, but the sala had to be removed to get a pile driver in so we can have 52 piles put in to support the new extended build. My grass yard is trashed from the backhoe and now here comes the pile driver, today.
    Up to 3 months of cooking in our car park.

    Would love to do a thread but wont as the board is now simply a battle ground rather than a fun forum..

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    Up to 3 months of cooking in our car park.
    I can't see that as being a lot of fun

    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    Would love to do a thread but wont as the board is now simply a battle ground rather than a fun forum..
    Nah, the mods in those sections are quick on the uptake - please do a thread . . . promise I won't laugh at your misery.

    (problems with posting pictures is what's stopping me from starting threads with pics)

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    (problems with posting pictures is what's stopping me from starting threads with pics)
    Agreed. Sometimes I can, sometimes I simply can't. Trying to post a hundred build pics is just too daunting.

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    ^ Yes. I like posting about our hiking weekends . . . but the cumbersome - if even possible - picture posting has stopped me from still doing so

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    How can a council demand 13k for rates
    With a big, annoying smile, I'd imagine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    the sala had to be removed to get a pile driver in so we can have 52 piles put in
    I feel for you and your sala. Really. I have reached an age where anything I put up is supposed to be right first time, finished, see me out. It must be painful to tear down the sala.

    I am only tearing down half a barbed wire fence. It keeps the cows out but not the dogs. So a wall is needed. I should have just bitten the bullet and done it when I built the house, but few houses in this village have walls, so I thought a simple fence would do. Wrong. Hurts to see it pulled down.

    Meanwhile, 52 piles. Is it a tower block?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edmond View Post
    With a big, annoying smile, I'd imagine.
    Pfft . . . no smiles. Mail.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shutree View Post
    Careless in the true sense, no care whatsoever for the property of others.
    The mother, back in the West, had painters doing the upstairs.

    Paint splattered all over the wooden floor.


    You didn't put down sheets?

    That wasn't specified. Our job is to paint, not lay things around the floor.


    You gotta wonder.

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