19.04.2025 Another nice little earner!

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  Saturday 19th 44F/6.7C. Heavy overcast. 24 hours of rain in the forecast. Amounting to 17mm or 0.75". 

 Up at 6am. My back is aching.

 I have to visit the apotek [chemist or pharmacy.] Having gone without one of my six tablets for several days. After a prescription ran out. They open at 9am. There will have to be grocery shopping. To cover two more days of Easter closures. Man cannot live by chips alone. Though, god knows, he can try.

 I was surprised to discover how inferior Kleenex Original tissues have become these days. They couldn't make the pack any smaller so they made the tissues thinner. The comparison only came up because I found a pocket pack of tissues in a jacket. The difference was night and day. I could make one of the pocket tissues last a whole week! 

 The same goes for DGF orange marmalade. The last two jars have been all jelly and nothing else. I like the chewy bits in my marmalade on my toasted rolls. Perhaps it is a reaction by DGF to a new proposal for a minimum percentage of fruit? 

 9.00 Raining. Morning coffee over. Off we go.

 9.45 Returning heavily laden in a fogged up Morris. Continuous rain all the time I was out. One of the supermarket checkouts was crippled by another attempt to get away with daylight robbery. The customer was overcharged yet again. The checkout operator seemed [yet again] unable to correct the error. So the queue soon stretched into the next village. This was in a different supermarket chain from yesterday's  customer fleecing.

 You'd think the EU had rules for consumer protection. Presumably Denmark opted out of consumer protection. When they opted out of the Euro and all in for retail monopolies. Last time I checked there were three retail chains with 89% of grocery sales. 

 The former, discount chains [like Aldi] are gone or shrinking. With frequent closures of the large, chain's outlets as well. Centralization is robbing the smaller villages of access to their local grocery outlets. Further reinforcing rural depopulation. Surprise-surprise! Denmark's grocery prices are higher than elsewhere in the EU. The tendency is towards ever younger staff on the checkouts and rapid staff turnover. 

 I know it is boring but I am still working on the ideal siting of a carport in my "yard." I had hoped to find an AI website which would suggest the idea situation. It seems they haven't progressed much past making fluffy green cats behaving unnaturally.   

 The ground plan for Chez Hovel. There are currently steep banks beyond the brown lines. These limit potential turning space. Though I had planned to add rubble. To level out to the boundary on the north side. Beyond the shed and carport. 

 After much thought I am going to place the carport beside the shed. The car is driven in nose first to park. Or simply in preparation for reversing on a curve. To bring the car near to the house front door. Though with the drivers door on the offside. Polite parking service for the passenger? 

 The car can then leave the house. By turning sharp right into the drive. Or is driven forwards on left lock to place it back into the carport again. This avoids reversing into the carport under poor visibility. With the risk of striking one of the supporting posts. 

 It doesn't look like I have much room to maneuver. Though the 15 x 11m meters parking and turning space. Is quite generous in reality. Far better than many people struggle with. The car can always be reversed into the carport in daylight if desired. 

 I am sorely tempted to have a double carport or two carports, side by side. This gives the trailer its own shelter. The lawnmower or other gardening equipment would benefit from protection from the weather too. Security is easily provided with a locked wire cage or box. The slender construction of arched steel components. Will not interfere with the view of the rural background.

 Dinner was a fry-up. Of chicken, mushrooms, tweggs and baked beans.

 

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