Anyone felt the pinch yet?

Notice a good proportion of my hotels are quiet this week. But with the jubilee round the corner and pride the week after maybe folk are simply saving their trips for that.

Cant help but feel the media are driving a lot of it. They seem hell bent on us heading into a recession. Making people panic and stop spending.

They should be telling everyone its all gravy.

Only area Ive felt it is diesel. £154 to fill my van the other day. That's taking the piss.

6 hours ago, Traf said:

All solved...
 

 

I’m going to buy 10 kettles and save myself £100 a year

Hes a cunt

Thinks its funny taking the piss

56 minutes ago, Spider said:

Aye. Got that one.

To stop this turning into Mumsnet, I ought to point out that these are simply the modern version of the chip pan except you’re less likely to die if you come in from the pub and leave it turned on with some spuds being destroyed.

Aye, my brother did that and melted his hand and most of his arm and successfully burned down the kitchen and lean-to in the process.

Chip pans especially mixed with an alcohol induced cook are thankfully pretty much a thing of the past.

 

39 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

Aye, my brother did that and melted his hand and most of his arm and successfully burned down the kitchen and lean-to in the process.

Chip pans especially mixed with an alcohol induced cook are thankfully pretty much a thing of the past.

 

D’you reckon?

6 minutes ago, MickyD said:

D’you reckon?

He lives in Winchester, who has a chip pan on Winchester. 

 

8 hours ago, Cheese said:

The same cunt who spent years writing misleading articles about EU regulations on domestic appliances.

It was obviously taken out of context 

9 hours ago, Nowack said:

He lives in Winchester, who has a chip pan on Winchester. 

Haha! Very true but not anymore, I live in Chorley.

22 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

Haha! Very true but not anymore, I live in Chorley.

Back in the chip fire danger zone. 

Far be it for me to follow the advice of Johnson, but I bought a new kettle last month and an air fryer back in June.

The slow cooker is out of its summer hibernation all ready for winter.

Just need to start chopping up the furniture and having BBQs in the snow and we're all set.

53 minutes ago, Nowack said:

Back in the chip fire danger zone. 

Aye, apparently so! 🤣 

All this talk of chip pan fires . 
good excuse for this safety advice 

 

Couple of our smaller suppliers are suggesting they may have to go to a 3 day week in January because they can’t afford to pay for the leccy based on advanced costs.

Average pub has a leccy bill of £10k per year, that’s now going to around £28k.

If this intervention doesn’t happen, there’s a some seriously shitty shit happening this winter. People who think “I’m alright Jack” because they’ve a decent bank balance and a pension pot are going to have the smirks wiped off their chops in short order as well.

Truss needs to do something major next week.

I'm sure they will, otherwise she'll be out on short order.

Reckon they'll do something with corporation tax, she said the NI rise will be scrapped too. Looking like covid style grants are going to be needed too.

Strangely, it may be better if folk all fuck off to the boozer for the night anyway. With enough folk in, it will warm up and they could turn the heating down. Punters don't have to put their own on neither. Sorted.

l'd be up for some of this

Meanwhile Vlad would rub his hands together with glee.

25 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

I'm sure they will, otherwise she'll be out on short order.

Reckon they'll do something with corporation tax, she said the NI rise will be scrapped too. Looking like covid style grants are going to be needed too.

Strangely, it may be better if folk all fuck off to the boozer for the night anyway. With enough folk in, it will warm up and they could turn the heating down. Punters don't have to put their own on neither. Sorted.

Pubs will be packed tonight with folk spending their free cash 

2 minutes ago, royal white said:

Pubs will be packed tonight with folk spending their free cash 

Nah, saving up for a chicken tikka naan tomorrow in the fanzone. 

Fuck me, even I’ve had to take a job again this week. 3 days mind in Manchester. Only up until Christmas. That’s my hiking and running days numbered.

16 minutes ago, Smiley said:

Fuck me, even I’ve had to take a job again this week. 3 days mind in Manchester. Only up until Christmas. That’s my hiking and running days numbered.

About time! 

Theres talk of power cuts in the winter, folk putting tinfoil on radiators to emitt heat, people stockin up on candles as we all prepare for the worst.

Yet literally every single business I know of is struggling for staff. 

My mrs gaff in PLF is having to close midweek due to no staff, big hotels along the front cant get any. Every take away and chippy in town has signs up.

Why dont people get off their arses and earn some money in preparation?

Get as many hours as you can in and make life easier further down the line?

People would rather sit and wait for handouts, the workshy cunts.

36 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Theres talk of power cuts in the winter, folk putting tinfoil on radiators to emitt heat, people stockin up on candles as we all prepare for the worst.

Yet literally every single business I know of is struggling for staff. 

My mrs gaff in PLF is having to close midweek due to no staff, big hotels along the front cant get any. Every take away and chippy in town has signs up.

Why dont people get off their arses and earn some money in preparation?

Get as many hours as you can in and make life easier further down the line?

People would rather sit and wait for handouts, the workshy cunts.

Working in a chippy would kill two birds as well. No effort nor energy expended on cooking- earn money, eat chips sorted. 

https://ukerc.ac.uk/news/europes-gas-crisis-requires-a-european-solution/#:~:text=The UK exports natural gas,of its natural gas needs.

An interesting article here about the gas situation. Many commentators mock the uk's energy set up, but on the whole we seem to have a bit more resilience built in.

Obviously we need to keep expanding our own generation infrastructure, which is happening, but in the meantime we seem relatively secure. 

Don't know enough about fracking projections, but my feeling is that the amount of gas we could produce wouldn't massively impact the price.

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

Theres talk of power cuts in the winter, folk putting tinfoil on radiators to emitt heat, people stockin up on candles as we all prepare for the worst.

Yet literally every single business I know of is struggling for staff. 

My mrs gaff in PLF is having to close midweek due to no staff, big hotels along the front cant get any. Every take away and chippy in town has signs up.

Why dont people get off their arses and earn some money in preparation?

Get as many hours as you can in and make life easier further down the line?

People would rather sit and wait for handouts, the workshy cunts.

You’ve answered your own question 

Im not sure he has

They stayed open in the past

Whats changed?

People got lazier?