hiram.k.hackenbacker

Excellent work that man!

It's a png file, so you can right click, copy & paste

We were going to have a Paella tonight, but no fish pie mix or prawns, so that was that (my wife doesn’t eat meat).

Next door (who pay a monthly fee for home delivery) can’t even get a slot this month, so click and collect customers don’t have a chance. Your area may be different. I hope.

We have a carer, a key worker, visiting every morning to wash and dress our Jack (73).  She's trying to keep it all together with an eleven y/o daughter who she is keeping home from school because she does not want to have to stop working if the young one brings Covid home one day.  She works 'till ten or eleven on some rotas and has to do home delivery.  She couldn't get a delivery slot for this week so she's booked two later ones to ensure she can get a delivery at all.

“A VULNERABLE couple who are self-isolating to protect themselves from coronavirus ordered £50 worth of vital supplies for home delivery – but were shocked when just five items arrived.

Finn, 70, and Tina Teigen, 66, from Lewisham in South London, have been following the government advice to stay at home because of the coronavirus outbreak that has left 72 Brits dead.

The elderly couple, who have underlying health conditions, placed a home food order with Co-op to help them through the quarantine period but were left disappointed when only five items were delivered.

The measly delivery contained carrots, gravy granules, squash, margarine and fish sticks – even though they had paid more than £50.

Finn said: “We are old age pensioners. We were depending on the delivery. It’s going to be carrots and gravy for the next three days.

“It’s going to be carrots and gravy for the next three days.

“Our kids live about 50 miles away – hopefully one of them is going to come up. I’m one of those people who see the funny side of everything.

“But, underlying it all, I do worry about our food. We haven’t been refunded yet. At least my pension went in today.”

The total sum of the goods that actually arrived was around £7.

Co-op has been contacted for comment.”

Fab!

Third morning in a row (yesterday).  Great response and, again, thanks to the band!

I've started telling the carers to look for the band by name so they can thank you all themselves.

PS:  It sounds and looks great on the surround system and big screen.

Thanks to everyone who has viewed and liked it. It’s very much appreciated 

Yes @Rich, they're a great bunch of lads with a good reputation. To be honest, I was quite chuffed that they asked me in the first place. They must have been really desperate 🤣

I struggle to get paid for the ones that I actually do on occasions! If you want me to not do it for you, I can send bank details! 

Cor - getting paid for not doing your job. You should run for Parliament!

That is almost exactly word for word what I said out loud when DJ said what it was after playing it. Glad I’m not the only one.

Not great, but if you don't listen to the lyrics it's at least not that far off from Electronic. 

Saw them twice...crap.......Joy Division however...superb

At least he took the time to feed back. More than I can say for the majority of the others I’ve sold to.

Kids these days. Ya know?

Were you selling Vomit??

Very good. I didn’t think of doing that 😂

Excellent news comrade  .....

Lerman me know when you've finished the course comrade,   I can help in all sorts of ways  !!

Yeah, I’m sure they used to do it at Easter 

I was expecting one too. I think they've realised that a) people are using Ebay to sell a lot more because of lockdown and collection only-friendly options are a no no (such as Gumtree) at the moment, and b) people are wanting/needing to sell more. 

Possibly a bit disingenuous but clever commercial sense 

Yes, that was my first thought. I've ended everything above £10. They can wait.

worse? I do both for fun haha...

I definitely play for fun. I don’t get an awful lot out of going over the same sections repeatedly whilst trying to work out what’s going on, especially when it’s buried in a horrible mix. I got to the end of the set in the end. It’s surprising how much comes back with ‘muscle memory’.

Yeah it can be a real slog, but the eureka moments hopefully make up for it at times!

How did it go? C'mon, don't leave us hanging.

We performed and we got paid, so I think we got away with it. We were up front with the venue and gave them a chance to cancel us if they wanted to as they weren’t getting what they booked. They said they still wanted us, so we played. There’s nothing quite like performing songs you’ve not played in a band environment before. Eyes were all about for cues etc. Definitely keeps you on your toes. I’m not sure I’d be in a hurry to do it again any time soon, but at least we now know we can.

Hope he's OK. We saw him in Ipswich last back end and he was brilliant.

We were with our singer who saw him in Ipswich in October, presumably the same gig. He said it was a great night. From what his team said on stage afterwards, it will likely get rescheduled, but no idea when.

His voice has been poor for years and I think his management are trying to keep him in the spotlight with an odd choice of material that suits the constraints of his ability these days. If you listen to his live stuff in the early 70's with Jim Sullivan on guitar and his voice was at it's peak, it's like night and day.

You would expect his voice not to be as it was in the 70’s, but the song choices are terrible and they sound poorly mixed IMHO. Just sound empty 🤷‍♂️

Brian’s thread has been a bit of an inspirational read some days... the humour never stops despite the gravity of the situation. I really do hope he’s out soon   

@doctor_of_the_bass Mr Nick Smith is your man, but I know he's a busy fella and hasn't visited for a while....

Will this become a regular feature as I find it hard to get cloud formation updates these days?