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Buyers are camped in our garden over Christmas

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  • night night folks

    Got to take the dog for its evening walnk and tomorrow wer epacking up the most of the house so I may not be in touch much unless something happens which I cant contain myself about.

    So have a goodweekend peeps!
  • elfen
    elfen Posts: 10,213 Forumite
    Thought of an opening line for the murder mystery.

    "Enid didn't see who killed her. Of course, being blind may have had something to do with it. But she was trying to sort her scrabbled letters, furiously feeling squares trapped in a green silk bag, rattling like the runes of witch doctors from years past, although she was only looking for the letter 'c'
    ** Total debt: £6950.82 ± May NSDs 1/10 **
    ** Fat Bum Shrinking: -7/56lbs **
    **SPC 2012 #1498 -£152 and 1499 ***
    I do it all because I'm scared.
  • clutton_2
    clutton_2 Posts: 11,149 Forumite
    can someone PM me as to what a pearl necklace is... i am so frustated !!!!
  • BargainJunky
    BargainJunky Posts: 1,534 Forumite
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    clutton wrote: »
    can someone PM me as to what a pearl necklace is... i am so frustated !!!!

    Google it 'what is a pearl necklace' I just have :rotfl:.

    Hope the packing goes well Mr Jones cant wait for the next installment.
  • clutton_2
    clutton_2 Posts: 11,149 Forumite
    edited 8 January 2011 at 12:42PM
    aarrggh .... wish i hadn't asked



    many thanks to those who had PM'ed me - i get the picture now ..



    "necklaceing" in south africa meant a very different thing indeed - a killing method..... and that is the only "alternative" necklace i had been familiar with up to now - you learn something new every day

    no more help needed.. many thanks
  • furndire
    furndire Posts: 7,308 Forumite
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    yuk - I just had to google it.
  • clutton_2
    clutton_2 Posts: 11,149 Forumite
    how on earth did we get from a house purchase to a dead OAP to this..... this deliciously comoplex thread-creep would have a psycologist utterly fascinated ........
  • mickey54
    mickey54 Posts: 383 Forumite
    I have not posted on here since April....just had to this time. Mr Jones - your posts are fantastic. ~Tears been streaming down my face on more than one occasion. This has fantastic connotations. enjoy all your Iceland food. lol.
  • an1179
    an1179 Posts: 1,847 Forumite
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    clutton wrote: »
    can someone PM me as to what a pearl necklace is... i am so frustated !!!!

    Google it :eek::eek::eek:
  • I have read from the beginning but not posted until now as I have managed to keep myself together however....

    The ambi pur followed by the pearl necklace have finished me off. I am currently using kitchen roll to clean the tea I have just managed to spit all over the laptop!!!

    Absolutely hilarious thread!!
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