Published on Monday, 7th April, 2008 .
You are hereby invited to the meeting tonight at 7PM in Bucksburn School. Anyone with an interest in the provision of education in the Bucksburn community should attend or have representation there. There will be MPs and local councillors present to answer questions and hopefully set minds at ease with regards to budget cuts, future (housing) developments, how education is to be funded in future.
If you have kids in any of the schools feeding Bankhead (esp. Bucksburn, Newhills and Stoneywood) you are well advised to attend.
Oh, and there’s coffee…
btk
Published on Friday, 22nd February, 2008 .
Here’s something I’ve been wanting to post about for a while and kept forgetting. Since the hot topic on this blog still is the Pot Noodle post it seems that people want to hear of consumer woes. Well, here’s the first(2nd).
Tesco packaging. Not the products within. I’m happy with the quality of the goods, just not the packaging…
This is a fairly broad subject so I’ll narrow it down to my three main areas of concern.
1. Tesco 6 pint milk bottles. These are a total bitch. The problem here is that they have too short a neck so when you finish pouring your milk and return the bottle to an upright position they have a backflow-drip-down-the-bottle issue. Other stores have a slightly extended neck or “cut away” section below the neck to overcome this. Tesco don’t, so you then have a mop up issue every time you want a cuppa or cereal. This brings me nicely on to issue 2…
2. Tesco own brand cereals. These are a pain in the nads. I’m specifically thinking of rice crispies here but I’m certain this’ll apply to most of their cereals. What’s with the unopenable inner bags??? You get into the box fine then you are confronted by a bag sealed by what may be the best plastic bonding glue ever created. 3M should buy the recipe. You begin to open it and it lulls you in. I’m safe, you’re going slow, nothing can go wrong… Then it says HAHA! PWNED!! and bursts it’s ass, now, you are opening it slowly to avoid this but due to the chemical make up of the thing it results in a massive gash down the whole bag. Might as well have some toast, but…
3. Tesco stayfresh loaves. I have yet to buy a S/F loaf that isn’t burst. I can only assume they manufacture the foily bags in the same way they manufacture the regular bags but it obviously doesn’t have the ’stretch’ required. This results in the bag having, at least one but usually two, holes where the stresses were too much. Look for yourselves next time you’re in Tesco. The S/F loaves have holes in the ends of the bags where it’s ‘tucked in’ at the non-openable end. Usually I’d not bother about this but the whole point of a stayfresh loaf is THE FOIL BAG MAKES IT KEEP LONGER!!!
Sort it out Tesco!! (and I’ll happily accept a million clubcard points for bringing this to your attention and staying loyal to Tesco!) 
