Forgot to take pics in Lidl today but:
- barely any tomatoes
- little salad
- mushrooms all brown and just day before use-by date
- flowers whitering.
- one avocado left
- no yoghurt at all, some other dairy products low.
I am in Tesco shettleston at the moment. Seems that it's no longer food only anymore....
Oh, we have shelf cardboard fillers here already!
And where shelves are not empty yet, the goods are carefully spread thinly across them...
Tesco silverburn yesterday. I know it was sunday evening but this is Tesco I did my shopping for over a decade when I lived in southside,.including Sunday nights, bank holidays etc, and I NEVER seen it so bad.
I am in Poland now. This local corner shop has more fresh fruit and veg than any of the British supermarket I've been to in recent weeks
Look, I found a supermarket with plenty of fresh food!
Alas, it's not in Glasgow but in Wrocław, Poland :/
I am back in Scotland now. Tesco dalmarnock is havi g empty shelves despite being refurbished and about the third of the shop floor being out of use:
Coop Malaig now. Not so bad, bit they had no mineral water AT ALL.
Not too big choice of wine too, but at least it's 12 pence cheaper on the bottle (or whatever that Brexit benefit is)
:-)
I had to visit three local shops today before I managed to find mushrooms. I grabbed the last box of them.
The positive thing is that they were fresh - it's first time in months that I got mushrooms that are not already starting to brown in months (my visit to Poland excluded).
So how are things going in Tesco shettleston then? Apparently it's no longer only food items that are spread thin
Although the choice of food still could be better
If there is shortage of irn bru in Scotland then you know something is bruin on! :-) but if you rather have gin and tonic than you might have to reconsider. At least there is still some choice of wine (and it's cheaper by 12 pper bottle or sth, or so I heard from @johnredwood )
And it is business as usual at the veggie aisles. BREXIT usual, I mean. It's our new normal, we should get accustomed to it.
No HGV diesel at all at Lomond Gate services in Dumbarton
No change in my local Tesco, but at least they had fuel :-)
Well, there is no shortage of SPACE
And all despite the fact that large surfaces of the shops are out of use....
But there are some good news: I was able to pick up my girlfriend's bike from service. It needed amongst other things, set of new tires. They have arrived after only 20 days of waiting!
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An interesting discussion is brewing up between Poland and Ukraine.
We all want Ukraine wants to join Europe in all ways possible. So some years ago they started building a standard gauge railway. It was supposed to reach Lviv by last year.
Now, the new idea of Ukrainian minister of agriculture is for Poland to build a Russian gauge railway from Ukrainian border to ports in Gdańsk, as well as in Klaipeda in Lithuania.
Minister Solski argues that Ukraine has more grain-carrying rail cars than all of Europe combined, so it would make the large scale transport easier - the issue here is not just a rail gauge but loading gauge too: Russian-standard rail vehicles are taller and wider, so... (3)
I don't buy this bullshit with "Russian people don't protest against Putin because they are afraid to die". Do you know why?
They volunteer to go to special military operations in their thousands. Knowing what survival rates are. 1/x
That means they are not afraid of dying. They are willing to die for Putin, or for money - as I guess this is a major incentive to sign for the army as pay in Russia is so shit that if you are from some shithole in the middle of nowhere, it's the only chance to make some... 2/x
...money you might ever have in your life.
But if for someone risking one's life to fight for freedom and hope that even if you die their kids will have a better life is "too much of a risk", but risking their life to fight against the freedom of Ukrainians and hope that... 3/x
You might have noticed that many pro-Ukrainian pundits and self proclaimed "Eastern Europe experts" have recently came attacking the new Polish government for their take over of public media, accusing them of destroying a valuable TV channel TVP World.
This is my take on this 🧵
So let's paint the background here. TVP was formerly a polish public broadcaster, a Polish equivalent to BBC so to speak. After PIS took power in 2015 they conducted an illegal takeover of Polish public media and turned them into an awful party propaganda tool. It needs to be /1
"recovered" and repaired so it can serve as a reliable source of as impartial information as possible. I explained this in detail in my recent piece for @WCountryVoices, you can read it here:
WHAT ARE THE PROTESTS ON POLISH-UKRAINIAN BORDER ABOUT? EXPLAINER THREAT:
1. How road transport in the EU works (simplified)
Transport companies from any country could transport stuff inside their own country, or between any two countries in the EU. They can't transport 1/x
goods within other EU country (that is cabotage, but there are some exceptions.
2. How road transport between EU and non-EU countries work (simplified)
Transport companies from non-EU countries can only transport goods between EU and their country - so imports and exports 2/x
To do so they usually have to get special permits. This works both ways, so transport companies from EU that want to go to third countries need permits too.
Those permits are always an issue, as the numbers of them can vary and both sides always believe the other side got 3/x
In this interview, a Polish military analyst Michał Fiszer calls for Europe to stop pretending Russia invasion on Ukraine has nothing to do with us. It's worth reading if you can, if not, so I will give you some digest in English 🧵
1. "We are where Europe was in September 1939. People back then also weren't aware it's the World War. They thought "Ok, Hitler invaded Poland, but that will be eat, why would he need to go anywhere else?"
2. Meanwhile Russians are telling us they are planning to go further West. They officially have discussions with academics on prime time TV "after we take over Ukraine and Poland, should we go West or South from there"?