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Bear's Tip of the Day..... If you want to make oodles and oodles of money then invent a machine that does all the ironing automatically.

Put a leg on each corner of the big book and you could use it as a coffee table.........

Plus (as Puppers has noted) a lot of the traditional sellers have now long gone. Once upon a time I suspect many went to Woolworths for it. ION..... I'd arranged for Bear's Buddy to assist with pulling Harry the Honda out of the shed again in the morning (there's real scope for things going wrong) but it now seems that it's gonna rain instead. Oh Poo - I wanted to start work on getting Harry ready for sale. Saturday morning is now hoped for instead..... A local Window Cleaner visited Bear Towers earlier today as arranged to put a quote thru' the door - seven quid to do the front. That'll do - he also gave quotes to my next door neighbours each side (also as arranged by Bear) as well as Buddy over the road - I suspect that all will use him at those sort of prices; the last guy who called to ask if I'd be interested in having the windows cleaned wanted telephone numbers by comparison. It does seem that many Cleaners use those long pole jobbies to clean upper windows now, rather than ladders - 'Elf n' Sayfetee n' all that I suspect. I'd waffle on more - but there's a wedge of low calorie Triple Layer Choccy Cake (with choccy buttercream....) sitting next to Bear - and in need of urgent attention before a Marauding Hippo appears..... Bear gone.....

A couple of things spotted in the Warehouse today: First, a rather large book - the smaller book measures something like 8 x 7 inches or so: Plus a "little something for the weekend, Sir...." - whatever floats yer boat....

Bear here..... Another day at the Hospice - I arrived to discover that some T0sser had "donated" a kid's bed (an Ikea jobbie - so left as a kit of parts) at the Warehouse Door - this is despite (a) signs asking people not to do this, and (b) both Furniture (and especially) Mattresses being on the Website No-No list 🤬. They'd even gone to the trouble to include all the screws etc. (neatly bagged up) so were obviously hoping we'd re-home it....yes we have - in the Commercial Bin, meaning more cost to dispose of it. Yep, Rant. There was only one Driver + Bear working on deliveries & collections today, so we had to get a bit of a wriggle on; eight shops visited in all, four of which are on the "long run". Not sure how many miles we did in all today - it must be 100-ish +. Another kind person had dumped a bluddy great desk (a pile of cr@p) round by the back door of one of the shops - along with a bluddy great (and old) flat screen TV as well (same person - or another?), all of which have been rained on too. Thanks a bunch, Ar5ehole(s) - we collected those and took them back to clog the Commercial Bin (one of three, in fact - all of which have to be emptied EVERY DAY) at the Warehouse even more.....more money wasted.....🤬🤬 We had Tea & Bikkies at this last shop on the a.m run; they had a customer come in a few days ago with a donation - he placed it just inside the doorway of the back room, whereupon he spotted the staff were having their tea break and the bikky tin was right in front of him. What does he do? Yep, helped himself to a bikky....and not just any 'ol bikky either - it was THE LAST Jammie Dodger 🤬🤬 Wottab'sterd - and to add insult to injury every single thing in his donation was cr@p and unsellable... When we left I nipped into the Sainsbury's almost opposite as I needed Bread - so I grabbed a couple of packets of J.D's and took them back for the Manageress in the Shop; she was more than a bit taken aback and rather pleased - Brownie Points earned methinks. They're always nice to us in that shop (as are all other shops) and offer us T & B every time, so fair's fair in This Bear's book. Donuts? Available - but Bear didn't scoff one, amazingly....there was still Bear's B/day cake left over so I had a wedge of that with my din dins instead.....😁 Even better, I still have a lump left over from last night and I suspect a close encounter with that is rapidly approaching...... Bear gone.... edit: I heard that one of the shop staff (the Manageress?) at one shop chased after a shoplifter a while back - and got a whack for her trouble. There really are some ar5eholes out there.

Bear has encountered numerous individuals at the G.E. over the years, some of which had very impressive qualifications along with being members of some Society thingy or other. A number of those individuals were so useless they weren't worth a wet f@rt. Bear delivers new wool to the Charity Shops - it's rather a popular item and sells well. Ricky the Rover reached 239,000 miles - so Monty has a way to go yet....

Add in the fact that Timber Preservative has gone all cuddly? (Creocote? Cr@p - you can't beat good ol' Creosote any day - I believe the likes of Farmers etc. can still buy it - but in nothing smaller than 25(?) Litre drums. Also, timber that is supposedly "treated" when manufactured gets such a miniscule dunking etc. that it's barely worth the effort; when Bear created a raised flower bed in the back garden I used softwood "railway sleepers" (ever tried shiftin' one of those without help? - genuine hardwood jobs would be nigh-on impossible to shift on your own unless your name is Arnie). I stood the ends in Creosote (I had a bit left) overnight - it really hoovered it up thru' the end grain. Each one then got rather a lot of coats all over - so hopefully they'll last a while.

Some people go to interviews purely to practice their interview technique - they have no interest in the job. Timewasters. Though if their technical knowledge is lacking then it won't be long before they fall over.

Certainly trying to create some of the designs using Templot shows up some issues with tight radii.

Agreed - I won't forget it... That looks like electrikkery befitting of a @PupCam..... p.s. welcome back @Debs. 😃 In case it does get nicked off the doorstep? At least you'll know it was there....

Bear here..... Another day an the Hospice - all good fun. On the way there a Certain Bear needed to go into the nearby Morrisons for various stuff that I'm sure even @iL Dottore would may possibly approve of (ok, so they weren't organic). And what happens just as soon as I walked thru' the Supermarket doors? I was accosted by two packs of still-warm strawberry jam donuts. Oops. It's quite possible that Bear & others may have scoffed some for elevenses.... Only for this to happen at din dins time...... - The Warehouse Manageress was very apologetic to A Certain Bear cos' she realised that they'd missed my Birthday a little while ago - the sight of a Triple Layer Choccy Cake with Choccy Buttercream (and Candles) was more than a surprise**; I didn't blub but it's possible my bottom lip may have quivered a little......I can't remember when the last time was that I had a cake with candles.... **Bear was at The Great Empire for 39 years - and how many times did something similar happen there? Not fuggin' once 😢 - in fact your were expected to take the cakes in for the Department.....of 60 or 70+ people (some of which were total Tw@ts). Did I mention just how nice all the people working at the Hospice are? Oh yes, and the Manageress did insist that Bear took a large wedge home with me too (enough for tomorrow's Tea as well - the first half is sitting next to me as I type but there's a fair chance it may not be safe for much longer....). Bear gone.....

Bear's Postie told me a few months back that they're not allowed to do such tactics anymore.

"Hopefully healthy, happy and enjoying my job" The rest is secondary.

Bear here.... Carp night. Poo. Just went into Booking.com to take another look at my Lisbon booking - and discovered/remembered that I'd also got a booking in Rome that I'd forgotten about. Oops - could've been an expensive mistake; that one's now cancelled. ION..... Makes even some of their daddies' songs sound good: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68825172 - click on the "allow external content" jobbie to hear it; as soon as I heard the guitar bit right at the start I just knew it was going to be painful - and I wasn't disappointed..... BG

Bear here.... Well I've finally booked a suitable-looking Bear Cave in Lisbon for later this year - and it has the option of free cancellation for a fair while yet, which is handy in case I find something better. Flights (even on Trump Air) are looking to be more expensive than I'd expected - I could save a little bit (nottalot) by going on some Portuguese Cheapo Airline and flying from Luton, but I prefer LGW. Options are still very much open...... ION.... At last - a bit of common sense: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68824493 Bear gone....

In a word...... NO! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxx8wpgnk78o - unless the original site is protected from ANY further development in the future - which includes it's use for an Access Road. That'll shaft 'em.

Don't worry Tony, it's not just you - the Film was slaughtered in the media for the poor sound quality.

Turdycurses..... However....and in a Bear's defence.... The traffic light score on this: https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/quorn-mince-300g - looks rather better than on this: https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-beef-mince-20-fat-500g-7715235-p-44 ...so can't you cut a Bear a little slack? 😢

It gets even scarier..... It's happened again - this afternoon, same road.....but a grey Hyundai SUV. You would've thought these people have never seen a Poly crossing the road before.......

Bear here….. Pitstop time again - now for Hilly Wander Part 2, to include a visit to the local drug dealer for my next fix. Still haven’t looked at Lisbon yet….. I did get the washing done though, so I’ll have a Tick for that. BG

My favourite is his line about “Can we inject someone with Bleach to kill C-19” - or summat like that…. (Well I guess it would do the job - just so long as the person didn't mind dying as well; maybe that’s just being picky though)

I’m hurt…..I really liked that bike….. 😢

Just stick with Green - it gets too complicated after that.

Bear's din dins today..... Wholewheat spaggy Tinned chopped tommies garden peas - frozen Beary chopped onion quorn mince chilli olive oil (home made) Does that win me an @iL Dottore Spoon Award? - I can see diddly squat naughties in any of that.... (and under 500 cals too)

Bear uses Napolina Pizza Bases (not sure if the "E575 flower treatment agent and dextrose" would incur iD's wrath), though lately it's been Goodfellows Garlic Bread Pizza (with most of the butter scraped off; I've got a load in the Freezer as they coma as part of the Co-op special freezer deals). Tomato Puree (out of a tube) Tinned Chopped Tommies Mozzarella Cheese Egg in the middle Blue Cheese lumps (Stilton etc.) Occasionally bits of ham Chilli Oil. Does this show any hope? Bear has never, EVER put Pineapple on a Pizza..... (though I might have - VERY rarely - scoffed one.....) Bung it on Freecycle/Freegle