Unless you are blind like me in which case the staff ought to be aware of
this sort of thing. Luckily I do not drink.

Brian

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Charlie Pridham wrote:
lid says...
tesco are selling those 'fire pits' round bowl fireplaces that you
could have a small log fire on your patio.

then they sell for £19 a paper compressor (apparently you make
newspapers wet and then stuff them in and compress them, then
when they dry out, kind of solid; they burn like logs of wood).

has anyone tried all this? the idea sounds great (who doesn't like
a bonfire, even a tiny one) but how does it work out in reality?
i'm
thinking if it was really good, people would have been doing it for
years.. i know these compressors came on to the market years ago.

Know nothing about the fire pits but we used to make the paper logs,
but
to get any sort of meaningful quantity we had to use the entire green
house to dry them, they burn hot and clean but produce a lot of ash, we
also had to import a lot of newspaper. I wouldn't bother probably
better
off stacking your hard prunings and using that

Which is what I do, but isn't it disingenuous of Tesco to imply that
you can fuel your fire pit by also purchasing their paper compressor.

If they had a notice saying "make paper logs this summer, to fuel
your fire pit _next_ summer", I wouldn't have a problem with that!


Exactly.
You have to remember that most Tesco buyers have no experience with
fire-pits or paper log makers. It will have been someone's brilliant
idea for a good seller for the summer.
It makes me a bit cross really. Lots of people with a new fire-pit
trying to make it go with lumps of soggy newspaper.


Tescos recently put a bottle of vodka out on the shelves with all the
other normal bottles of vodka with only *half* the usual percentage by
volume of alcohol. It's called 'Vodkat' at only a pound less than the
cheaper bottle of full strength vodka.

So our party bowl of punch turned out very watery. I would call that
'deception', but i suppose others would be quick to say you must read the
'small' print on every Tesco's bottle and packet to avoid be caught out.