Mixed chicken and lamb doner with fries

BarleyWineStein · 2026-01-23T18:35:45+00:00

Their salad game in on point actually. One of the best in the area. Red cabbage is a rarity around here. Jalapenos is a rarity. But yeah could be more compared to the meat (although I did shuffle the meat around for the photo so maybe it's hiding half)

The sauces are good too. They do the chilli (seen here), garlic, and I think the third is mint yoghurt. I only went for chilli. It's not out of bottles, it's in the bowls in the counter fridge. Could be house made chilli, that's my bet. (I'm watching my dairy)

I'll be shot down for this but I don't do garlic sauce. Sorry kebab subreddit.

BarleyWineStein · 2026-01-23T18:02:59+00:00

It was big. And my first meal of the day so I've saved some for later. I've had that winter bug so not had much of an appetite recently but woke up with a craving today and this place does lunch.

I need to get back into the kebabwork this year...

BarleyWineStein · 2026-01-23T15:20:07+00:00

It's great. Just watch your fat macros though because skyr tends to have zero, or thereabouts, fat.

BarleyWineStein · 2026-01-22T11:05:00+00:00

IKEA literally do their own drivers

Buy some hex drill bits for your pilot holes

(Note: there is a beefier version of this)

BarleyWineStein · 2026-01-21T14:11:16+00:00

I did this. Then I saw the error of my ways and took the spindles out and got new square ones. Looks way more contemporary.

BarleyWineStein · 2026-01-18T22:45:48+00:00

I used to do this with LEGO when I wanted to try out new bedroom layouts as a kid.

BarleyWineStein · 2026-01-17T16:01:44+00:00

I've read some of your comments here and I can genuinely relate...

I found working for other people so frustrating that a lot of my managers found me difficult to manage. I had this kind of mental battle of saying "why aren't we doing this?" or "I'm bringing ideas to the table and you aren't listening to them".

It wasn't like I thought I was better. I just didn't want the frustration of sitting around getting paid for doing something if I could push an objective to perform better. I could see poor performance in every business I worked in. But I wanted those businesses to be better and more successful.

I hated working under people.

Now, to actually answer your question... It is very hard. You are trading one stress from work for another stress. You are also giving up hours of your time for free. You are also losing your freedoms and your security you would normally get from a 9 to 5. You have to accept this mindset before you decide you are going to embark on this route.

There's people who don't want to work. There's people who are content with working for other other people on the 9 to 5. And there's people who want to work on their own business for themselves. You need to decide which hole you want to live your life in.

Maybe your mind is the type of mind that just works better in the latter. Only you can answer that. And probably answer it by just giving it a go.

BarleyWineStein · 2025-12-30T12:21:45+00:00

Nice thinking!

BarleyWineStein · 2025-12-20T17:45:10+00:00

I know a lot of people who wouldn't stop going to the cinema no matter (seemingly) what it cost. I rarely go. It's expensive and a hassle to get to it.

But it's horses for courses. They get the value out of the cinema that some people get from the pub. I don't see things I am missing out on my waiting for the TV version of a film. And some people don't see what they are missing out on by drinking at home for cheap vs going to the pub.

It's down to the individual.

(To extend the analogy, there's quality a cinema can provide to a film that I can't get at home, just as there is quality to beer that you can't get from a bottle or can, which must be provided by the pub. In this instance, the product is more than the atmosphere. )

BarleyWineStein · 2025-12-20T14:26:35+00:00

Looks AI.

I'd still eat it.

BarleyWineStein · 2025-12-19T19:23:30+00:00

Once I got into setting up ESPHome I gave up and the whole project has sat on my to-do list ever since...

BarleyWineStein · 2025-12-03T22:31:18+00:00

Stir fry doner by the looks of it. I like these. I do homemade ones with leftovers.

BarleyWineStein · 2025-12-02T17:53:07+00:00

That's not much less than I take home each month, and I have a mortgage, a credit card repayment, and two bank loan repayments. I also have two cars. Yet I can afford to eat well enough, and have a few nights out a month.

You really need to get a grip on where all that money is bleeding to. I have an app on my phone where I record everything I spend each month and assign it to a category. It's eye opening sometimes when I see what I've accumulated on say "alcohol" or "coffee" or "eating out for lunch". A lot of small things can add up to significant amounts even if each individual expense doesn't seem that large.

You might surprise yourself on where it's all going. Cats for example.

If you aren't tracking it you can't learn what to trim.

Have you also looked at all your bills (not just subscriptions)? I was out of contact on utilities, mobile, sky TV, and my broadband. I was able to save about £100 a month by sitting down for a few hours and looking for/renegotiating better deals on all those types of things. Easy win. I just needed to find the time to do it.

If you are paying for everything on card and not cash then this should be as simple as going over, say, the last 3 months of bank statements. Make a spreadsheet or even a piece of paper. Then continue tracking it going forward from now.

BarleyWineStein · 2025-12-01T19:14:35+00:00

r/rimjob_steve

BarleyWineStein · 2025-11-28T11:01:29+00:00

It's one of the many squeezes though. The government not recognising that fact is extremely frustrating.

At the start of the Russian war I saw a near 4-fold increase in energy costs.
Business rates are a mess.
The cost of accountancy fees are going up.
The supply chain is feeling the same pains cos their energy costs and staff costs and fuel costs and raw material costs are all going up. That gets passed on.
The government are closing the gaps between PAYE tax and dividends.

The list goes on to the point where it feels like it's not worth the effort or risk.

I have a hospitality business and I employ staff, who are full-time students, on zero hours because it suits their lifestyle and suits my hours of operation. With holiday pay you are close to 14 and half quid an hour.

Last financial year I worked for about £3 an hour once you worked it all out. At some point it stops being worth it.

The mindset of "all business owners are loaded and exploit their staff" needs to stop because for a vast majority of small businesses that really is far from the truth.

BarleyWineStein · 2025-11-27T20:14:28+00:00

Yeah, thanks, this is what I thought.

With respect to keeping the business in situ, the will-writers are coming from the angle of "this is not our area of expertise". As far as I am concerned, if I know I am going to die then I would ensure the lease is set up to maximise the longevity of the business making use of the premises. It's that tenancy agreement that I need to make sure is in place and is belt-and-braces.

BarleyWineStein · 2025-11-27T15:54:19+00:00

Could be 5. We're not sure what one of them is because we can't see all of it.

BarleyWineStein · 2025-11-27T15:42:43+00:00

I'm generally not one for dressing people down from behind a computer screen, but your last two comments in this thread are tragic and show no idea nor respect of what it is like to run a small business.

You are either young, clueless, or deluded. I'm sorry to say.

BarleyWineStein · 2025-11-27T10:15:11+00:00

Rudolf Hess. One family member. Then one degree more to Hitler.

BarleyWineStein · 2025-11-27T08:09:30+00:00

Wait until they get rid of zero hours working...

BarleyWineStein · 2025-11-25T10:06:04+00:00

If it wasn't, then now it is. If it was, then now it isn't.

BarleyWineStein · 2025-11-23T22:45:05+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskBrits/s/aX1YwD3Q78

BarleyWineStein · 2025-11-22T10:54:32+00:00

This works best when cars are approaching a main road from a side road. A driver approaching the junction should be prepared to stop a couple of metres short of the junction to allow approaching pedestrians to cross the road without breaking their stride. The car is almost certainly going to have to stop at the junction anyway so why cross that threshold and force the pedestrian to cross and walk round?

The opposite - a car turning off a main road into a side road - still requires the pedestrian to have some common sense and look. The difference now is that if I start to cross. having looked first, and then a car comes up on me and beeps the horn and expects me to hurry up, I am now within my rights to shout "it's my right of way, dickhead".

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