Time was, a meal out was an occasional treat. And even if it were only the once-ubiquitous Berni Inn, you got dressed up, and could expect to be treated like the Crawley family attended by uniformed waiters and waitresses. Nowadays, people generally don’t bother to change for dinner, and many restaurants have similarly relaxed their staff dress code.
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Some time ago, Royal Mail decided to change the way it calculates its postage rates. Instead of charging by weight, it introduced the idea of Letters, Large Letters and Packets – defined by the size of the item.
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As I walked to the shops in the torrential rain today, I thought what an absurd contraption the umbrella is. Undoubtedly, it conveniently protected me from getting soaked, but somehow my stick with a little fabric roof just seemed a bit Heath Robinson.
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