27th June 2019 Excused boots!

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Thursday 27th 61F, bright periods but rather cloudy. A cooler day in prospect but plenty of sunshine is offered. Temperature records, for June, were broken yesterday in various places including Germany and Czechoslovakia. More heat expected.

Excused boots! No walk today. I've hurt my back lifting heavy compost bags in and out of the car boot. I could hardly reach the gate let alone walk for miles.

Friday 28th 65F, sunny with only a little cloud. Mobile enough for my quarterly appointment with the sheep shearers. So now I look at least 120 years younger and my head is so light they want to use me for research into hot air balloons. I can confirm that my completely deaf, left ear worked just fine by conduction as the razor removed 3 months' worth of snowy, baby "down."

I have registered to be first in the queue for my free Tesla Roadster once the new government gets its "climate" act together. My '90s Japanese car is out there gibbering away to itself. It doesn't know whether to be sad at its early retirement or grateful to go to its final resting place.

I saw the lady, who is well into her 80s, shopping on her bike again today. She gardens constantly between tours up and down a half mile stretch of "her" bit of main road. Collecting litter from the gas guzzling Choker Metal Cleaner [Secret formula: H2O+CO2+C12 H22 O11] baby bottle suckers and McSlob's Throwaways. She does this because the council can't afford litter pickers when it has so much original [Danish] modern art [aka. hideous daubs] to buy for its palatial offices.

The main news is on Japanese knotweed. Clumps of which have been "sewn" by the council verge mowers. Spreading it far and wide. A single plant can cover a circle 14 meters [52'] across and is all but indestructible by any normal means.

Another online, box shifter is using false advertising. An item, promised for delivery, from stock, within 2-3 days, is now expected next week. i.e. A completely fraudulent 7 days minimum from ordering. That's if I am lucky and their remote supplier gets their finger out. NO stock means NO bløødy stock! There is NO OTHER interpretation! Not even if their lying sales website says otherwise.

In many cases, in my own, direct experience, "foreign" online dealers can deliver far quicker from Germany and the UK. Than a Danish online dealer can deliver from just down the road.

The honest stockists miss the sale to the lying crooks. Who only order from the importer/wholesaler when they get an order on their own sales website. Fraudulent advertising of stock should be a punishable, criminal offense with a hefty fine. A repeat offense worthy of a prison term.

It is now far too late to order the tool elsewhere and nothing will be gained if I do. Because the weekend intervenes and there are no deliveries in Denmark on the weekend.

Now there's an opening for somebody enterprising with the capacity to provide a reliable, national, Weekend Delivery service. Guess what? Most Danes are at work during the week and are never home to receive their parcels. Most Danes are at home on Saturday or Sunday morning because few Danes work on the weekend. There's a glaring imbalance in service there somewhere.

I wonder if the new Danish government will invent consumer protection? Probably not. There obviously hasn't been any need for it so far. After all, the politicians never need to do their own shopping. There has always been some security lackey or unpaid Au-pair to do it for them. So they won't care about the endless fraudulent advertising by Danish household names.

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