Tips

Posted on 5 October 2024 by pws

We have written about tipping before: https://www.pwsanders.uk/2017/08/01/tipping-down/ and more recently: https://www.pwsanders.uk/2024/04/28/tipping/

It’s a hateful thing, spoils your meal and in some cases can force people to eat at home rather than go out, just to avoid the axiety and possible abuse over the tipping.

But in the UK we are not as bad as the USA. On a recent trip, tipping was done for everything, including self-service shops, starting at 25% and going upwards.

There’s a new law in this country that says staff have to keep their tips. The restaurant cannot withhold tips.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/ce8v6zp4111o

As we said elsewhere, even when we pay by card we try to tip in cash, just because it’s easier. We just wish we didn’t have to do it at all.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7jr4125wzo

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Winter

Posted on 4 October 2024 by pws

Winter is coming, and COVID is back. Well OK, it never went away, but we know people who have it right now and are in a bad way.

If you are in the UK, and surely elsewhere too, the latest jab is available. You may be eligible already. I got mine, plus the flu, today. It took maybe 10 seconds, did not hurt, there were two nice young chaps who did it and there have been no side effects.

If you are thinking of not having it, then that’s your choice of course. But we have a question:

Why would anyone knowingly and deliberately do something that increases their chances of getting a potentially life threatening virus? Why would you not have something that meant that, if you got it, it would probably not be as bad as it might have been? Why would you deliberately prefer to suffer and to infect others, including your close family and friends?

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Essex

Posted on 3 October 2024 by pws

Colchester (out of Liverpool Street, go to Colchester Town station not Colchester North) always had a claim for being the oldest town in the UK. It isn’t anymore as it recently became a city.

It is a place with some history. The castle and park are worth a visit, for sure, but in recent years the whole city has become run down and almost abandoned.

The main high street had many empty shops, and the new arcade felt unsafe when we were there just a few weeks ago. Using a public toilet got us involved with a gang of lads who were smashing the toilet bowls and pulling the doors off the cubicles.

The St Botolph’s Priory was overrun with vagrants presumably shooting up.

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