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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2017 11:40:35 GMT
How could a stick blender not be a romantic gift? It was a bit of a left handed gift Aubs because in my house I do the cooking and most people seem to enjoy what I cook. (They might not if they knew sometimes what they were eating!)
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Post by aubrey on Jun 8, 2017 12:14:09 GMT
I saw some asparagus in the fridge earlier.
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Post by althea on Jun 8, 2017 12:32:36 GMT
I went once to Dunhelm Mill and I really liked it.I bought lots of bits and pieces. I would like to go back soon,but it's on the Greyhound Park in Chester,not easy for us to get to. Now you've reminded me though,Ron,I must ask my daughter about us having a day out.
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Post by althea on Jun 8, 2017 12:38:59 GMT
I love broccoli stalks.They are good with cheese grated on them,though they don't need it for flavour. I love Amazon because I can find things on there,I can't find in the shops. I didn't know about the returned items you can buy cheap,anybody. What heading do they come under? I will look out for them. I am a fan of M&S,I love my Sparks perks too. My husband says, if I stop shopping there,the whole chain will go down.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2017 13:21:10 GMT
I bought my grandson a birthday present on Amazon and it is so easy, and often a bit cheaper than if I go to the big stores.
On a related theme (on line shopping) a while back someone rang me and asked if I was interested in a big bit of specialised kit. He knew I would be because he had looked us up on the internet. And I got curious as to how he had got it, brand new so did a bit of digging.
It turns out that the major carriers deliver millions of parcels a day or week. A tiny fraction of a per cent get lost, or the delivery labels come off - whatever. And those, after a few months are sold, by the container full! You take pot luck according to the chap I spoke to at the carrier company. The one who perhaps lost out was the guy that bought about half a million coffee mugs with 'Paris 2012 Olympics' on them. They were certain they would get the games but they went of course to London.
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Post by aubrey on Jun 8, 2017 14:30:05 GMT
I bought my grandson a birthday present on Amazon and it is so easy, and often a bit cheaper than if I go to the big stores. On a related theme (on line shopping) a while back someone rang me and asked if I was interested in a big bit of specialised kit. He knew I would be because he had looked us up on the internet. And I got curious as to how he had got it, brand new so did a bit of digging. It turns out that the major carriers deliver millions of parcels a day or week. A tiny fraction of a per cent get lost, or the delivery labels come off - whatever. And those, after a few months are sold, by the container full! You take pot luck according to the chap I spoke to at the carrier company. The one who perhaps lost out was the guy that bought about half a million coffee mugs with 'Paris 2012 Olympics' on them. They were certain they would get the games but they went of course to London. That's a Budgie or Minder type of story.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2017 15:02:29 GMT
True though Aubs. The manufacturers don't want it back because they have already put in an insurance claim and likely the stuff, whether it is a washing machine or a pair of socks can't be put back in stock so will just have to be written off.
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Post by aubrey on Jun 8, 2017 16:00:09 GMT
True though Aubs. The manufacturers don't want it back because they have already put in an insurance claim and likely the stuff, whether it is a washing machine or a pair of socks can't be put back in stock so will just have to be written off. In the 80s there was a series like Budgie, also written by Keith Waterhouse, about a young chancer with a Charlie Endle-like boss, set in Soho. In one episode they got a load of arsenal shirts very cheap as seconds. They only discovered what was wrong with them on delivery: "Arsenal" was spelt something like Arrisnal" (I'm trying to remember 30 years back, so I'll have got that wrong). Disaster - they couldn't pay off the heavy crims they had borrowed the money to buy the shirts from. Anyway, at the end a coach party of German football fans from a town called Arrisnal" came past the shop, and bought up the lot. It wasn't as good as Budgie
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Post by aubrey on Jun 8, 2017 16:01:17 GMT
Isn't it great though that those cockney small-time crim series like Budgie and Minder, and whatever that was, were written by Yorkshiremen?
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Post by honeybear on Jun 9, 2017 9:30:17 GMT
Lidl AA batteries last longer than Duracell, etc. ( Saw the test on Telly)
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Post by marispiper on Jun 9, 2017 11:28:08 GMT
Lidl AA batteries last longer than Duracell, etc. ( Saw the test on Telly) Lidl...they can't put a foot wrong!
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Post by rondetto on Jun 9, 2017 14:05:02 GMT
Our Lidl has a marvelous bakery. The bread is great and the apple turnovers so yummy.
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Post by marispiper on Jun 12, 2017 12:48:31 GMT
Lidl Melton Mowbray pork pie 👎 don't bother. You won't anyway Aubrey...
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Post by aubrey on Jun 12, 2017 16:54:30 GMT
I dam' won't, but thanks..
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Post by rondetto on Jun 12, 2017 17:17:55 GMT
Melton Mowbray pies are best from M&S.
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