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Thanks TDA. We will certainly visit the hall next time. I am not sure why we haven't been to this part of the coast before, as its only 94 miles from home. It was only last October we stayed at Scarborough and ventured as far as Flamborough. Strange how you often miss things close to home.
Just started raining heavily here, making a right din on the roof.
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There are a lot of people that prefer to order home delivery pizzas, especially if they get home late from work and are tired and simply want to put their feet up and have their meal delivered to them, freshly cooked. The last thing they want to do, is walk around a supermarket with a trolley to get a cheap pizza, all that hassle of shopping and cooking and the amount of time it would take. Far better to sit, relax, have a drink and have it delivered, so that all you have to do is sit down and eat. After all, not everyone is retired and has time and energy to do everything themselves!
On both neighbouring pitches next to us the occupants go out to work daily. I need to work because I would not have enough income without being paid wages!
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Day off for me today, unless I get a phone call from work asking me to do an extra shift because more and more people prefer Pizza Hut Home delivery pizzas to cooking themselves!
Let's face it, if everyone cooked their own pizzas, I would be out of a job!
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Including home made
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I am sure there is a market for them M. Just not amongst most who post on CT. 😂
Although I do think you are being a bit theatrical with the " last thing they want to do, is walk around a supermarket with a trolley to get a cheap pizza" plus "all the hassle of cooking etc".
When working, we would have bought them as part of our weekly shop and put them in the freezer. Personally I don't like the cheap ones, the cheese they use is diabolical. Our preference currently is the Waitrose 1 version at £3.89. Really nice base, good topping and cheese.
The only place that delivers to us (not Pizza Hut ) would cost £17 for two individual size pizzas. (they keep putting leaflets through the door) Delivery time 45 / 60 mins. Or I could put the oven on for 5/6 mins to heat up and pull two Waitrose ones from the freezer £7.78 and be eating them 12 minutes later. Or when I wanted.
No contest for me, but as you say fortunately there are plenty who like them delivered.
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I don’t always make my own. Here’s an example from the mobile (wood fired) pizza man that comes to Cirencester. Very tasty. Unfortunately they don’t deliver.
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Dull and about 10 degrees cooler here at Brid. About an hour of heavy rain fell last night and has freshened things up nicely.
Just as I have typed this the sun has poked through and a few blue patches are evident. Weather app shows it is supposed to brighten up but only reach about 19C. It will make walking on the up and down cliff paths much easier.😂
Off first to investigate the farm shop a few hundred yards from the site, as we are in need of meat / veg for tonight.
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A lot of people don't buy pizzas as part of their weekly shop. Also many people feel tired and hungry when they get home from work, having been stuck in rush hour traffic. So they don't want to waste their time off fussing over shopping and cooking. 45 minutes is not long to wait. You can use that time to relax and enjoy an aperitif before enjoying your professionally cooked meal delivered to you!
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I left home as usual yesterday at 06.00 to go to work, on my way home at around 17.30 I called in to a supermarket to pick up a sourdough loaf I needed to go with my evening meal.
Once home I prepared my meal of Fresh Sardines on Toast with Sweet Pickled Red Onion, a very tasty Hairy Bikers recipe. It took me less than 30 minutes to prepare and cook and about 10 minutes to eat.
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A cooler day today after yesterdays rain. Glad to read that you are enjoying your holidays, some lovely photos.
To me a Pizza is not a balanced meal, but something to eat as a treat or after a night out. Lucky for Malcolm other don't feel as I do.
You have a day off today Malcolm, what are your plans, give you something else to talk about on here other than Pizza, work and money.
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Just having a quick catch up.
Congratulations to your Daughter Cornersteady, I can still remember our sons graduation.
We had some rain yesterday, cant remember the last time
It meant we had to use the car wipers for the first time, only to discover the indicators and screen wash worked at the same time,I didn't help by finding it funny!!
OH was not amused though. The drive back from New Quay was interesting luckily it only about a mile. Have ordered a wiper arm and have to pick it up tomorrow, lets hope it stays dry.
Apart from that its all good, having a relaxing time, and sounds as though all holidays are going well.
PS. No pizza here
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New Quay is a lovely part of the world, i was at the CC&C site there last month. That site is about 3 miles from the town and took me about an hour to walk.
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A lot of people are just disorganised.
We do not, and never have, shop several times a week, we go out once a week, at the most, for our major shop, armed with a list of essentials, and OH has a plan in her head for what she wants to cook for dinner each day. Sometimes we buy on impulse, anything not used as a result goes into the freezer. Nothing is wasted.
Our son and family have Tesco home delivery, so he orders from the comfort of his sofa, his wife does not like shopping. They do have to top up with things like milk and bread mid week, so use local shops for that. Like Goldie, they live in a very rural area where no fast food outlet delivers.
We are lucky to have a Lidl nearby so we can easily top up with milk etc as required.
All these various take-aways are not cheap, I wonder if the people spending their money this way are the same ones that say they cannot afford to save for a deposit to buy a house?
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Glad you're having a good time helenandtrevor R&R good for the soul. No Pizza good for the waistline - other health benefits without them come too 😉.
I'd have laughed too with the wiper/indicator event. In fact just reading it appealed to my sense of humour and I'm still chuckling.
Hot here still. Did an hours worth of ironing whilst it was still cool ish, by 8am it was getting a bit warm but only couple of items left by then. Enjoying a cuppa after sorting the accounts having been away. Got to sort out why £8.74 has been taken by DD after the agreement had finished and it wasn't for that account 😔. Hope it's not too much hassle as it's not a lot in the great scheme of things - but principle! Got reflexology to look forward to later.
Like most men and women as a working wife I did my hours, organised and did the shopping then the cooking, ferried the kids about by foot or car as necessary, plus washing and ironing. OH always did gardening and outside jobs plus decorating and commuted or was away from home. Quite normal to do a 14 hour day of work/jobs each and every day - broken nights thrown in 😂😂, certainly worse when they were in late teens 😲. Still here to tell the tale. Don't put so many hours in now I'm retired - still busy but choose nice things to do and do them when I choose not cos it's the only time slot available 😉. Fabulous in this heat, although I worked in very cool aircon conditions, for the sake of tge documents not the humans 😂😂
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Tell all Goldie, unlike pizza I love ‘tales from the farm’ just so interesting.
Having another day of pottering in both house and garden. Son, DIL and grand dogs 🐕 Max and Teddy coming for the weekend so making sure garden is secure and they can’t get to the more fragile .
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Goldie keep the farming tales coming. I love to hear about it.
How are you for water? Seems strange that NW has a proposed hosepipe ban when we in dry area aren't threatened as yet. In fact i belive Anglian are saying their supplies are higher than expected. I suppose all the infrastructure that's been put in around here, increasing storage capacity. More than 8 weeks since we've had rain 😲. DIL2B says evaporation from the irrigation channels is great and they've not irrigated much that's Huntingdon.
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I might swap you for what we've got, maize as far as the eye can see, now reaching seven foot jungle proportions.
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Canny Yorkshire farmers plant maize into mazes and charge folks to wander about in it until it is ready for harvest! They probably do so elsewhere as well........
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Oh yes. We've done a couple as customers. They do have to sacrifice some of their potential harvest but I expect that's more than made up for in customer receipts 😉. Took the kids too but didn't manage to loose ours or their friends 😂😂
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