I haven't read every post in this thread so apologies if this has been asked already. Did you get your fuse on said Saturday afternoon delivered by Amazon or did you have to wait a couple of days?
Isn't that Tesco that you're advertising? I do shop locally as I cannot travel. We still have a PO, Co-Op and crap hardware shop with rubbish opening hours, but they get my business - apart from the hardware shop if it is closed!
They are coming to my house on Tuesday (I didn't pay extra for delivery Monday as I am not in a rush - just want the job ticked off the list). Not sure if the hardware shop opens on a Monday come to think about it, so this is easier and just as quick. That was my point. It is crazy for a local hardware shop to close at 12pm on a Saturday. If the owners don't want to work, get in a Saturday boy/girl. Give someone a job and take more money!
It's all about money really isn't it. What do you personally value? Spendi Small business would likely get small business rate relief, so not quite accurate.
Slightly different but similar...I stayed in Scarborough the other night and have to say whatever the reason the guest houses and hotels look old and tired no effort seems to put into the upkeep yet the owners will be the ones who complain that people do not spend or stay in the town ...the place was dire and I like the the seaside generally....not surprising people go abroad unfortunately
It’s cause people go abroad. No money in these places anymore. Just a lifestyle thing, being a landlady
Alway used to go to the Scarborough Gold Cup races in September. The place is so tacky it is great! On the subject of the Gold Cup: if you've never been, it is brilliant! If you get an early ticket, then you get a free pit pass. Highly recommended! There's a spring meeting as well that Sheene always used to go to (and win). Similar to the TT but more mad!
I’m yet to go in to the races but have been on raceday but was late in the day so didn’t go in ...you can see them a bit from the main road
Well. Amazon say that they delivered the fuses and the driver says that they were handed to me. Fecked if I can now find them and so I just bought another packet at my local hardware shop. So, I am now keeping everybody happy - I shop locally AND at Amazon, for the same thing.... I may not be getting this right.....
Another local shop! The new NOCO charger that has been supplied is really a Euro model. As such, it come with a Euro 2 pin plug. So, I phone and visit my local hardware shop (I feel quite sorry for them now) and they have 2 pin to 3 pin adapters with a 1 amp fuse. No good to me as the thing can draw 7.3 amps! And the 1 amp fuse is smaller than an ordinary one, so you can't just replace it with a 13 amp job. In the shop, I woke up but did not smell the coffee. If I did, then I would of stayed for one! I bought a normal 13 amp plug and then swapped the whole 2-pin Euro jobby. After all, we are leaving the EU so feck their stupid 2 pin plugs! Now, it is rewired with a 13 amp plug and so Boris would approve! Buying from Amazon for a 1 amp jobby would of been disastrous! And banking! I had to go all the way to Stroud today to pay in a couple of cheques. HSBC have got it so wrong. They want to shut branches and get everyone doing their banking on-line. Net result is that the Stroud branch which is now the only one for miles is full of people not doing any banking but trying to get the answers to on-line problems. They are very hot on security resulting in if you get any security question wrong they block your account. And you have to visit a branch (if you can find one) to get it sorted out. I told my taxi driver about this farce and how we are caught as Berkeley has no banks, now. Being a taxi driver, he often needs to visit a branch to pay in cash. He banks with the Co-Op and told me that he can do most things at the local Post Office. That's it! I am going to move my banking to the Co-Op! Yes, if they may close the Post Office one day, then I will be fecked.... but there are more Post Offices around than banks
Did you buy the NOCO charger online by any chance? Had you bought it from a shop I'm sure it would have come with a UK plug on it , you have probably now invalidated any sort of warranty it might have had on it? As for paying in cheques perhaps you should change bank, I can pay them in on my phone with Barclays.
I think they convinced us all to do a large weekly shop too, rather than getting what you need as and when, probably locally. Buy more than you need, and throw out all the out of date stuff the day before you go back.
They've convinced a lot to shop online for their weekly shop too, about 12 years ago a well known supermarket had 650 vans on their whole fleet it's over 3,000 now and slowly growing.
I did buy on-line because I don't know anywhere that would definitely sell it. Yes, if I had found a shop then it would of had a UK plug as does, the one that I have already. But now, lesson learnt. I won't make that mistake again. Regarding paying in cheques: you are supposed to be able to do that with the HSBC app. Unless they block you - which they do for a pastime. I am often in the Post Office doing post office things and it is a One Stop supermarket, as well. I am going to see if I can change banks to the Co-Op and then I can do everything locally...And I can buy lunch whilst I am there!!!
I've done the application for a Co-Op Bank account and used the switch thing to move my existing HSBC bank account to the Co-Op. They have a phone app and Internet Banking facility, plus I can use my local Post Office to pay in cash or cheques. What could go wrong!
