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  • GDB2222
    GDB2222 Posts: 26,686 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    aureol212 wrote: »
    I won chocolates from Hotel Chocolat, they were a Valentines Giveaway and they were delicious.....

    Yesterday, I bought my DW chocolate as a Valentines Day present. Really nice. £2.25 reduced to 99p. Unfortunately, I could not get the reduced price sticker off.

    Also, got her two bunches of tulips in M&S. £1.99 a bunch, and would have been £5 the week before.
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    Did you put her in a coma for a week so she wouldn't notice the date, or is she a fellow moneysaver? :)
  • sss555s
    sss555s Posts: 3,175 Forumite
    carolt wrote: »
    My OH bought me a pink toolset.

    Sadly, though, other than him nicking a few of the tools when he couldn't find his own, I don't think it's been used yet. :o

    That's what landlords are for ;)

    Too much info of your OH and pink tools ca :D
  • Mary_Hartnell
    Mary_Hartnell Posts: 874 Forumite
    jetta_wales wrote: »
    I watched grand designs once and the woman had a pink hard hat and high viz vest, that's gotta be pretty funky.

    Was that the couple who had made money in London (Banking?) and went back over the 7 bridge, to buy a tower folly on a hill top; overlooking the estate where they grew up?

    I thought she was brilliant - she had the contractors eating out of her hand.
  • sjaypink
    sjaypink Posts: 6,740 Forumite
    I'm a bit of a geek, thought i had seen every Grand Designs ever made, but don't remember this one...?! :)
    We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

  • Malcolm.
    Malcolm. Posts: 1,079 Forumite
    edited 20 February 2010 at 7:47PM
    I like Grand Designs, the presenter's cool too. When he was on top gear he said he had a fascination with how things work which he learned from his father, and his dad would often dismantle a car engine in the front room.

    I doubt I'd be allowed to take an engine apart in the living room. :)
  • Mr.Smith_6
    Mr.Smith_6 Posts: 91 Forumite
    sjaypink wrote: »
    I'm a bit of a geek, thought i had seen every Grand Designs ever made, but don't remember this one...?! :)

    You missed a cracking night last night, real good laugh.
  • Mr.Smith_6
    Mr.Smith_6 Posts: 91 Forumite
    I'm guessing there has been about 20 posts removed and not by the mods !!
  • sjaypink
    sjaypink Posts: 6,740 Forumite
    Malcolm. wrote: »
    I like Grand Designs, the presenter's cool too. When he was on top gear he said he had a fascination with how things work which he learned from his father, and his dad would often dismantle a car engine in the front room.

    I doubt I'd be allowed to take an engine apart in the living room. :)
    We reserve car part dismantling to the hallway, occasionally the dining room :)
    Main storage area is the front garden though, stacked up on top of the old sofa :D

    I am the same, I like to dismantle things, appliances etc- My success rate on actually getting them working & putting them back together is pretty poor though :cool:

    I have been watching GD since I was a teen, as I originally wanted to be an architect, I love property... probably how I ended up nosing on this board
    We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

  • sjaypink
    sjaypink Posts: 6,740 Forumite
    Mr.Smith wrote: »
    You missed a cracking night last night, real good laugh.
    I'm fairly sure coming from you that means I'm probably happier in my ignorance :)
    We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

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