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crown bowls hamper?
My dad plays crown bowls or is it grass bowls, basically the bowling thats out on the bowling green not the ten pin kind, anyway anyone got any bright ideas for a hamper for him? Any help greatly appreciated, as you can see I know nothing about bowling!!!
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hampers/baskets?
where do you all get your actually baskets/hampers from, want to try making up a few for christmas.:T
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ideas for mini break just before christmas?
we'd love to go away for a couple of days the weekend before christmas - any ideas of what would be lovely to do, get us in the christmas spirit, not too expensive and that a six year old would love too??
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Christmas decorating with an Indian theme
I am hoping someone will help me with some ideas how to decorate our Village hall with a bit of a theme of an Indian Christmas. One of the groups that uses the hall is doing a meal cooked by a lady from India (I think although she lived in kenya) I go to this group and jokingly said as I decorated the hall I would give it…
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Coconut Ice
Hi all Hope this is in the right place, seemed like the best place for this query. I'm having a practice run on making coconut ice for my Christmas hampers. My pink layer has turned out absolutely fine, firm at room temperature but not break your teeth firm. The white layer turns into a sugary mush whenever it comes out of…
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Birthday Ideas??
Basically I'm going to be 22 on the 29th Sept and wanted to do something as I very rarely do anything on my birthday and then regret it after. For my 21st I didn't really have a big celebration which ruined my mood as I was hoping for a surprise bash which never happened. :( Anyway, I was thinking of having a girly pamper…
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Brilliant Christmas on £600?
Hi all I have 2 boys who are 11 and 7. apart from them, the only people i need to buy for at Christmas is my mum, niece and my sister. Is it possible to have a good Christmas on £600? Both the boys want new DSI's which will be their 'big' presents and take up the majority of the budget. What do you think- is it possible to…
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M&S - A Symphony of fizziness
On the website under "Wine sale" - 30% off selected, there is a presentation box of 4 cocktails reduced to £5.50 from £11.00. If you buy 2 there is an extra 10% off and there is a 10% off code on the grabbit board. Quite a good little prezzie. Sorry can't do the link.
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Gift Ideas For The Difficult
Oh, good people of MSE, help me! My boyfriend's mum's birthday is coming up, and I'd really like to get her a nice gift. Thing is, I'm stumped as to what! These are my many, many problems: 1) I can't spend much, probably about £10 would be my budget. 2) She isn't really into sweets or smellies. 3) I've already done the pot…
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Making flavoured oils? Where to buy oil?
Im thinking of making up a few different flavoured olive oils as christmas gifts this year. Can anyone recommend where to buy cheap (but nice!) olive oil? Not sure how much I will need, is 250ml okay per flavoured oil? Maybe making about 12-14 bottles of oil, so maybe only need approx 4litres. And any links to how to…
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Cross stitch cards
Just wondering if anyone does this as a living at all? I love cross stitching though since my little boy came along in February I haven't done an awful lot. I often wonder though how much you could make by creating cross stitch cards all year round so birthdays, anniversaries, Xmas, congrats etc. Does anyone do this and,…
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I want to buy something for my cousin's who has recently lost there Mum any ideas ?
As title I want to get them something for Christmas but know it will be a really hard day for them the first without there precious Mum I want something that reflets this but aint got a clue ! Any idea's welcome
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Lacoste polo shirts
Hi DD's OH only want Lacoste polo shirt for xmas. Can anyone point me in a good direction for finding bargain ones? Have seen some reduced at John Lewis but still priced at £48!. Many thanks
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cheap stocking fillers & gifts on Argos Clearance Page
Here Just put in your postcode/nearest store. Then list in price order low-high. Items have to be collected from the store however. What is available varies between stores, so if you have more than one store locally, do a search in the other stores too.
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Father Christmas visit?
Hi, Just wondering if you guys could give me any advice of where to visit Father Christmas this year? I live on the south coast in sussex. Last year we went to Marwell zoo and that was amazing and will be hard to beat. DS is now 7. I have seen the Victorian Christmas at Portsmouth harbour which looks great but seeing the…
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Slow cooker plum jam recipe
Does anyone have one that they have tried and worked? Got a load of plums from a guy at the allotment but dont really have a pan up for the job!!! I have found some recipes but not plum, I have not made jam before but would love to try :)
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christmas gift ideas help!!!
Hi! I'm desperate for gift ideas for my family. My mum is the hardest to buy for (she's 55) and my dad isnt far behind! I have a sister who is a complete snob, her husband and my niece, and my OH who is easy going so should be ok with them. any ideas would be great, I'm on a super tight budget this year so the cheaper the…
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Christmas hampers- need theme ideas
Hi everyone Last year every one in our family pulled a name out of a hat and had to create a hamper for that person based on a certain colour. We want to do the same this year but with a different theme and hopefully non food, but we dont know what to suggest! Ive looked at the huge thread about hampers on here (first…
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Ideas for making Christmas Cards with a six year old.
Hello, I want to make our Christmas cards with my six year old daughter this year. Anybody have any simple, fairly quick and cheap ideas that I can make with my six year old. Rachel.
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Preparing for Halloween 2011
i couldnt see a thread devoted to Halloween so i thought i'd create one. Looking forward to doing up my house as its our first halloween since we moved in. looking for any tips of cheap decorations to make the occasion special. here are mine for starters: Bats we drew bat shapes onto cardboard and cut them out. Then…
