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Framed #737 (nope. I watched episode 2 of Absentia on Prime Video. I don't know why because I'm not really enjoying it that much. It's watching nearly one hour chunks of grim awkwardness and pretend. I went to a park, Dunorlan Park in Tunbridge Wells, yesterday and it's wildfowl breeding season and saw a wonderful scene of a somewhat rare duck waddling along with six or seven ducklings. Just earlier I saw three or four ducks trying to do each other serious physical harm over the lady they were attempting to mount and another duck killing either their own or another duckling by standing it up underwater. The world of ducks: fightin', sex, infanticide and attempted murder. In Tunbridge Wells, by the old Tunbridge Wells West Railway - now a heritage steam railway, is Sainsbury's and on the other side of the carpark Lidl and Homebase. Lidl is a discount supermarket that is good. Not universally good but better than pretty much every other discount supermarket and their food, being an obsessive ingredients reader and keen on seasoning, is better than most UK supermarkets which are often under flavoured UPF ridden veneers. Yesterday I witnessed the great Tunbridge Wells Sainsbury's to Lidl migration, when Sainsbury's went cash only. I arrived at Sainsbury's (they have substantially broader range than Lidl) to get dried pappardelle and other bits I can't get in Lidl and the cash points were covered with signs and a member of staff was standing outside shouting, in the style of a medieval town crier, "no cards cash only". So I looped back around, across the carpark, to Lidl and was followed by most of the people who'd turned up for Sainsbury's. When I got to Lidl all of the tills (they open up tills on demand) were open, there was one bottle of the wine I wanted to buy left, and lots of people wandering around like they'd entered a strange German supermarket that does discount in the correct and most efficient way. Mostly buying the deluxe Lidl stuff. I'm now just hoping I'm not competing with ten times the amount of people for bargains which I won't list for fear of tipping people off leading to inflation. There was no fightin', sex, infanticide and attempted murder during the great Tunbridge Wells Lidl migration, we're not ducks.)

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