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  • seven-day-weekend
    seven-day-weekend Posts: 36,755 Forumite
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    :j :T :j :T

    Just checked online April's Premium Bond wins and my husband and I have each won £50!

    We have won £350 between us on a total holding of £3,000 since June 2005.

    More money to SKI with (in fact it will nearly pay for our ferry crossings).

    :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:
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  • tanith
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    Must be Spring in the air or something similar, we had a new loft-ladder installed a couple of weeks ago and on Monday morn I thought well its now or never, so I got myself up in the loft and took one look and nearly came down again, but I steeled my 'feint heart' and first threw down the huge Christmas Tree that we brought with us from our old house (its too big for this house) then started on the two 3ft piles of Computer mags my son put up there.. you won't believe how heavy they were... anyway I got one whole carload down on Monday and made a whole lot of space up there... there is maybe another carload but I left that for another day but god did my butt cheeks ache the next day it must of been all that up and down the ladder...:rotfl:

    When the loft is finished there is another place I need to go look at THE GARAGE.... I can't even imagine all the stuff in there ....:eek:
    #6 of the SKI-ers Club :j

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  • missile
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    SDW,

    I spent some of my kids inheritence on a new bike and go out most Saturdays. Sometimes there are 40+ bikes. We are off on a tour later this month, first stop is Cuenca on the 25th.

    One of our friends bought her husband a bike as a 50th wedding anniversary present. She kept it secret and had the garage store it and deliver it on the day.
    "A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
    Ride hard or stay home :iloveyou:
  • seven-day-weekend
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    Wow, missile.....that is terrific!

    (My husband is now pulling a face and putting on a pained expression and saying no-one ever does that for him, in a plaintive voice....).
    (AKA HRH_MUngo)
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    Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton
  • [Deleted User]
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    motor bike? missile

    our local greasy spoon has dozens of bikers at the weekend and a thoroughly nice bunch they are and most of them appear to be getting on for silver haired

    my dh is a lycra cyclist and also spent some money on a new bike last year. In fact he was shaving his legs today. lol too chicken to get them waxed
  • tanith
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    whooppeeee 7DW what a lucky month for , and both getting a win too .. I have often wondered wether I should up my premium bonds I only have £100 but have won a few £50's
    #6 of the SKI-ers Club :j

    "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke
  • Francophile
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    seven-day-weekend wrote: »
    :j :T :j :T

    Just checked online April's Premium Bond wins and my husband and I have each won £50!

    We have won £350 between us on a total holding of £3,000 since June 2005.

    More money to SKI with (in fact it will nearly pay for our ferry crossings).

    :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:
    That's wonderful. Make sure and enjoy your winnings!!!
    Member #7 SKI-ers Club
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  • margaretclare
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    Thank you to all for the kind wishes and thoughts (PM'd) about my daughter's surgery today. In fact it didn't happen. Reason: company that has the sub-contract for cleaning/sterilising/repacking trays of instruments for surgery was recently changed, and they've been having to send back every other tray as 'not clean enough'. Result: the specialist surgical instruments that should have been there this afternoon were not.

    She's been asked to go back next Thursday but first thing in the morning. We were going up this weekend rather than next week, luckily we hadn't booked until the last minute. This is the second time she's been put off - before it was her consultant who fell over while ski-ing (not SKI-ing!!) and did his knee in. You couldn't make this up, could you.

    If anyone is in the area to receive BBC 'Look North', she has emailed them with her complaint, and also put a complaint in to the hospital.

    Gutted is hardly the word for it.....
    [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Æ[/FONT]r ic wisdom funde, [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]æ[/FONT]r wear[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]ð[/FONT] ic eald.
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  • missile
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    It is mostly old duffers like me who ride bigger motorcycles here. I guess the youngsters can't afford the insurance.

    Most of us are (well) over fifty, some girls and a mixture of nationalities - Brits, Germans, Scandinavians but only one spanniard (fortunately he owns a pub)

    My wife is terrified of motorcycles and it was only after many years, she eventually gave in and told me to go buy one.
    "A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
    Ride hard or stay home :iloveyou:
  • missile
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    Francophile wrote: »
    We are flying to Valencia next week (got cheap flights) so will be in your part of the world Donny-gal. We're renting a car and travelling to Javea and that area as a number of people on here have said it a lovely area.

    May I suggest you visit Denia, where you will find an excellent beach, a port, a castle to visit and some nice shops. A freind of mine owns a hotel there > http://www.hostalloreto.com/index_eng.html
    "A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
    Ride hard or stay home :iloveyou:
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