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.

4 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

The dentist is contributing to my cost of living crisis 2k for tooth implant last year and need root canal and crown at 1k this year. I’ll be working till I drop at this rate. 

Get yourself to turkey 

30 minutes ago, radcliffe white said:

Get yourself to turkey 

Bit risky for me if it goes wrong you can’t be asking your uk dentist to sort it. 

Superglue and TicTacs, job done.

1 hour ago, Mounts Kipper said:

The dentist is contributing to my cost of living crisis 2k for tooth implant last year and need root canal and crown at 1k this year. I’ll be working till I drop at this rate. 

You should have prepared better

Ten years worth of Colgate in 2012 would have been a sound investment.

Tsk

9 minutes ago, Spider said:

You should have prepared better

Ten years worth of Colgate in 2012 would have been a sound investment.

Tsk

He didn't say he hadn't been brushing his teeth. 

Just now, Tonge moor green jacket said:

He didn't say he hadn't been brushing his teeth. 

Something has gone wrong in his preparation 

I understand that these things can happen, but I didn’t expect it from Mystic Mounts.

1 hour ago, radcliffe white said:

Get yourself to turkey 

Or Budapest. Highly recommended 

1 hour ago, Spider said:

Something has gone wrong in his preparation 

I understand that these things can happen, but I didn’t expect it from Mystic Mounts.

Nah, just grinding his teeth at remoaners. 

Some geezer on bbc news reckons £2 a litre by August 

Looking at that hydrogen cylinder prototype then you're going to need a 5kg canister to make a bacon hotpot.

As energy becomes more and more of a consideration are we all going to have to move to a cold or raw food diet in the future? Will it mean meat becomes a very special treat rather than the norm like it was for our ancestors?

1 hour ago, radcliffe white said:

Some geezer on bbc news reckons £2 a litre by August 

Already is near enough in places.

I wonder how much the Working From Home craze has affected fuel prices. If folk don't drive to work as often then they don't buy as much fuel. 

Interesting interview with a bod from fuel watch.

Apparently, when oil was last at $120 as it is now, petrol was £1.40 per litre.

Of course energy prices are now higher, meaning higher refining and transport costs, but does that equate to 40p per litre?

He was saying profiteering is happening up the production chain, though not necessarily at the retailers/forecourts themselves.

14 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

The dentist is contributing to my cost of living crisis 2k for tooth implant last year and need root canal and crown at 1k this year. I’ll be working till I drop at this rate. 

4k for a full new set in Turkey, prob worth it the way you're spunking cash 

And you might have a chance of next year's love island

1 minute ago, L/H White said:

4k for a full new set in Turkey, prob worth it the way you're spunking cash 

And you might have a chance of next year's love island

And look as though you've borrowed Peter Crouch's gob 

28 minutes ago, MickyD said:

And look as though you've borrowed Peter Crouch's gob 

I wouldn't mind borrowing his wife......

8 minutes ago, Sweep said:

I wouldn't mind borrowing his wife......

as long as she doesn't speak

1 hour ago, MickyD said:

I wonder how much the Working From Home craze has affected fuel prices. If folk don't drive to work as often then they don't buy as much fuel. 

That was the opposite way round during lockdown tbf so I don't why that would be the case. Particularly as, OH and I were out for a walk last night and we both commented that, despite the cost of fuel, there really doesn't seem to be much less traffic on the roads. We're consciously trying to keep on top of it though and reduce our usage - if you drive round the corner because you can't be arsed walking to the shops, stick a quid in a tin ready for when we fill up.

Unleaded 1.81 and diesel 1.89 round here.

£2 very soon.

Gonna have get a new job if it continues. Union have said that our mileage won't be reviewed until it hits £3/ltr. Be paying come to work at this rate. 

The laws of supply and demand are absolute bollocks.

19 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Bit risky for me if it goes wrong you can’t be asking your uk dentist to sort it. 

Course you can. I know a girl who had a nose job done privately. They fucked it up and she got it sorted on the NHS

2 hours ago, gonzo said:

The laws of supply and demand are absolute bollocks.

Ah, the mysteries of price elasticity.

52 minutes ago, mickbrown said:

Course you can. I know a girl who had a nose job done privately. They fucked it up and she got it sorted on the NHS

Can't be sniffed at.

Just been to the dentist, in and out in 5 mins, £50 kerching. Can fly to Budapest and back for less.

10 hours ago, Leyther_Matt said:

That was the opposite way round during lockdown tbf so I don't why that would be the case. Particularly as, OH and I were out for a walk last night and we both commented that, despite the cost of fuel, there really doesn't seem to be much less traffic on the roads. We're consciously trying to keep on top of it though and reduce our usage - if you drive round the corner because you can't be arsed walking to the shops, stick a quid in a tin ready for when we fill up.

OH Owen Hargreaves ?