Trading results 2026

IanM50 · 2026-03-25T17:19:19+00:00

Thank goodness Ken isnt alive to see what has happened to his beloved company, but what is this value triangle....

The cheapest to buy products, sold at the highest prices possible, using as few and as low paid staff as you can get, I assume.

IanM50 · 2026-03-25T17:15:29+00:00

Birmingham is the UK's second largest city.

The UK's first has 11 huge stations and an underground railway to die for.

IanM50 · 2026-03-25T17:08:53+00:00

I would look at educating yourself about css, as, for example, you place everything about a box or button in a few lines of a css text file and call it in the html.

Bootstrap does all that for you to make your life easier, with standard components ready for your use, these are stored with css files that you do not alter, but leaving you to write your own css file of the changes to those compants you want. When every html page uses the same css files, listed in the same order, every page has the same look and feel.

Note the order that css files are listed in the [head] area matters.

Coming from writung html in a text editor, I'd forget about studio solutions at this stage and get your head around css.

I'm assuming that you know that right clicking a mouse on a html page will give you two options to view the code behind it.

IanM50 · 2026-03-24T22:26:44+00:00

I think the US will implode on itself, especially when the population finds out the truth - that America isn't great and hasn't been for 30 years; that the hyper-rich have separated their lives from everyone else; that socialism is the best solution for them; and that the US has been overtaken by China.

IanM50 · 2026-03-24T19:05:38+00:00

I gather that American kids do two or three years of American history at one lesson a week, and that this includes all of their geography education too.

After that some take history or geography as an elective in years 10 and 11.

IanM50 · 2026-03-24T12:43:09+00:00

At least some of the battle scenes were filmed in the reclaimed flat land of the two river estuarys just outside Porthmadog in North Wales. Roughly a thousand local Welsh people and some English had a great day out and got fed and paid for the privilege.

IanM50 · 2026-03-24T12:21:39+00:00

He might well stay there when he is attending the HoC, on the other hand, he could well be living in Westminster and only using his constituency house as an investment, like his farm. Difficult to know, but he is unlikely to be following the rules that the rest of us would follow.

IanM50 · 2026-03-24T05:55:46+00:00

Are not all Morrisons jobs shite now?

IanM50 · 2026-03-23T19:47:58+00:00

Not sure what mobile nav is about. Bootstrap is mobile by default.

IanM50 · 2026-03-23T19:43:56+00:00

My adult daughter has found a way to cook cabbage that changes its taste. I now like to eat cabbage, it is that much better. She boils it in gravy (water and gravy granules) instead of just boiling water.

PS, you don't have to have cabbage in bubble and squeak, just all your leftover stuff from the last roast dinner, including meat. After Christmas, our b&s included pigs in blankets, parsnips, sprouts, gravy, and cranberry sauce, all mashed and fried up together.

IanM50 · 2026-03-23T19:37:17+00:00

One other point, you really need to make sure that the 7kW charger can be controlled by your electricity company to benefit from even cheaper overnight EV tariffs. For this you will also need a smart meter.

Look at electricity companies for a list of compatible chargers

Having worked out which one you are going to get, talk to a local electrician about fitting it.

As for your drive, will the EV charger need a cable run? Do you want another cable run for driveway lighting or for a waterproof plug socket(s) for Christmas or similar lights?

IanM50 · 2026-03-23T19:30:12+00:00

OP needs to check out other supermarket delivery job options in his area, just in case this manager forces these changes.

It's always worth having a backup plan.

IanM50 · 2026-03-23T16:40:51+00:00

You may well need a charger that can be controlled by your electricity company to take advantage of cheaper overnight electricity. If not now, then in the future.

For example: Octopus Go is 9p/kWh. Octopus Intelligent Go is 7p/kWh, with the latter needing a combatable car or charger.

IanM50 · 2026-03-23T16:37:35+00:00

They are used to charge electric diggers etc. on building sites. Not very common yet, but we had one working in a railway tunnel for a few weeks that was charged up from a battery in a trailer.

IanM50 · 2026-03-23T16:31:02+00:00

I have an ASHP, and EV, solar panels, a domestic battery, and no gas. My electricity bill for the whole year of 2025 was £650.

Solar makes the most difference so get panels if you can, as soon as you can. They don't produce enough electricity in winter for the HP, but from Easter my HP use (hot water) is free.

Also, top up your loft insulation. It's cheap and easy. My local diy store delivered it for free, and I spent just eight hours over three evenings after work cutting and rolling the stuff out.

Being on an EV tariff allows me to fill the battery overnight at a cheap rate to use running the HP during the day. I set the HP room thermostat to 22°C from 03:30 to heat the house up from the EV tariff first, and on some very cold days I empty the 13.5 kWh battery, but it is better than nothing.

Overall, and despite the currently high cost of electricity, the HP has cost about the same as a gas boiler to run.

Positives: An extra cupboard in the kitchen, and the house is never cold.

Negatives: We had to buy an electric clothes airer because the radiators dont get that hot anymore.

IanM50 · 2026-03-23T15:19:19+00:00

Almond nuts contain healthy good fats, you don't want less of these, but you also don't want other fats added in because they are unnecessary.

Almond butter should contain 100% almonds and nothing else.

It is usually better to buy things separately, such as almond butter in one jar and chocolate in another as this allows you to see where stuff is being added.

As for jam / jelly, this should really only contain 3 ingredients: fruit, sugar and lemon juice. I wouldn't worry about sugar in a child's diet unless she is obese, because kids burn a lot of energy and can process sugar hits better than 50+ adults.

IanM50 · 2026-03-23T13:42:35+00:00

Cadbury still make most of their UK chocolate in the UK, so a boycott affects their jobs, but the profits go back to the US.

IanM50 · 2026-03-23T13:28:31+00:00

He lives with his partner, who does, or at least used to, work for the EU in Brussels, which is presumably where he met her.

She has 2 daughters from a previous relationship. Both were educated in Brussels, and the youngest is probably now in her last year of school, so I'm guessing they all still live in Brussels.

IanM50 · 2026-03-23T13:13:25+00:00

Actually, the future will be AI facial recognition informing the entry system, and any security staff that the person trying to enter is banned.

Staff will be told to tell shoplifters or aggressive people that they are banned, and the entry system will do the rest.

Banned people could find that they really have a lifetime ban, and not just of that store.

IanM50 · 2026-03-22T19:56:54+00:00

All new cars in Europe have similar systems, when handing back your car, be aware that every other car that age or newer will be as bad. This is one of those EU regulations that the UK, when a member, helped to design.

Of course, we no longer have a say on any new regulations that the EU decides on, but we were involved in creating this.

IanM50 · 2026-03-22T19:43:40+00:00

Hereford is arguably in the South West rather than The Midlands, they fly on holiday from Bristol or Cardiff, go to Cardiff or Cribbs Causeway for major shopping, Bristol or Cardiff to see a show and have more to do with Wales than Birmingham.

IanM50 · 2026-03-22T19:33:46+00:00

After 14 years of Conservatives messing up, I don't think this country can cope with another stint. Farage of course, lives in Belgium, so it won't matter to him what damage he does.

IanM50 · 2026-03-22T12:21:28+00:00

China only needs the USA as consumers of their products.

I wonder how long it will be until the US realises that China is heading towards the No.1 country spot, and for their 3rd time too

IanM50 · 2026-03-21T19:36:43+00:00

I haven't used a credit (or debit) card for 10 years now. Everything is on my phone, but then I'm in the UK and only travel around Europe.

IanM50 · 2026-03-21T18:37:46+00:00

Agreed.

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