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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🧵After Russia shat itself with Biden permitting (well too late) Ukraine to strike military targets deep inside Russia with his weapons, some of the people got a little bit panicky, including some of my friends. Here is a little thread for them: (1)
I don’t blame my friends. Not everyone keeps close tabs on the political situation, and the internet is full of Russian propaganda, propagated both by Russian bots and useful idiots in the West. (2)
As I studied related subject at the university, some of my friends come to me to hear my opinion, this is what I told one of them yesterday:
- No, it is irrelevant that Russia “announced a new nuclear doctrine”. (3)
My dad's friend used to live in Magnitogorsk. He was a journalist in the Soviet Union who met and married a Russian woman and they moved there in Gorbatchev times.
He sometimes visited us when returning to Poland, and I recall one story he told us in the 1990s.
In the 1990's the life in Russia was even more shit than today, many elderly people were literally starving. So in Magnitogorsk they had some allotments, which were quite big, and grannies and grandpas were cultivating potatoes there and so on.
But as the crime was rampant, 2/x
it was not uncommon that they were coming to their allotment only to find the fruits of their labour stolen - which meant they will be going hungry for the winter.
This happened to one elderly guy one time too much, so he got pissed and decided to mine his allotment. 3/x
(1) So, let's start from the beginning: what would you like your Taxi cab to be?
- a boxy, shaped vehicle that is easy to get in and get out, accessible also to elderly and people on wheelchairs, that can take you and your friends or family from A to B?
(2) Or a two-seater sporty-looking coupe with gullwing-style doors that even under 1.90 m tall Elon Musk has to duck to get into and where you seat almost at vehicle's floor?
I can't see my elderly dad who is 2m tall and has knee problems, being able to use it.
I left UK two years ago today. This is the last picture I have taken on British soil. Why would I take a picture of a van in Dover, the place I drove a van through hundreds of times? Because I was bored and had too much time on my hands
A threat🧵
During my 18 years in Scotland, most of the time I worked as a truck driver. But for some 5 years, during my gap year, through the rest of my studies and for some time after, I worked as a van driver for a company doing time-critical deliveries all over EU and beyond. /1
I drove to over 20 countries in Europe, from France to Norway and from driving all the way somewhere to Croatia to delivering to the top of Stirling castle:
She's planning to return to Poland. According to her, EU people are moving back to EU left and right as "everything in Britain is collapsing". Some of our common friends are also planning to or have already moved. 1/x
- she says she is the only person in her work who still has access to a dentist, as dentist surgeries are so overwhelmed they refuse to see patients even privately
- she says that the rents in Battlefield, where we both used to live, are so high that people who earned... 2/x
...much more than we used to some years back can't afford to live there
- "Everything is so bloody expensive that even though I make 60 000 in my current job I feel just as when I was making less than 35 000 in the last one" she said.
3/x
After looking for a job for some time I went to local equivalent of Job Centre as I found online that unemployed people might get free language courses. 1/
The lady gave me proper bollocking for not claiming my job seekers allowance. I told her it must be mistake, how can I be entitled to job seekers allowance if it was me who quit a job and if I haven't worked in Finland even one full year yet. 2/