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Greying_Pilgrim

KC - I totally forgot to mention that there is a programme on BBC 2 tonight that you may wish to catch up with on iplayer.

It is on at 8.00pm All roads lead home. The programme is on for an hour, with the premise that 3 'celebs' (Sue Perkins, Stphen Mangan and Alison Steadman) do a route in their favoured part of the UK/Ireland using only mother nature as their 'GPS'. Anyway, Alison Steadman is going from North Wales to Liverpool and ends up at the theatre where her acting career began. I just wondered whether the route will take in anything of interest to you? . Just a thought anyway.....

Alison Steadman is also in a radio play - i think it's Radio 4 sometime next week, playing a grandmother in a family heavily in debt. She's a great actress. Very funny in Gavin & Stacey (although I didn't see all the episodes).

Anyway, just occured to me that I'd forgot to mention it.

Greying

Karmacat

Thanks GP! I'd seen it advertised, and was interested, but hadn't planned to watch it (I watched Kirsty's Home Made, which was lovely) - but since its *that* route, I'll catch up on iplayer, as you say.

I never watched Gavin & Stacey does that make me odd? To me, Alison Steadman is the woman in that Pinter play, The Party (?) and of course the mother in the TV Pride and Prejudice!

This morning - hmmm, there's still cloud in the same quadrant, but I'm pretty sure its a *different* cloud :rotfl:, and the stripes in the sky are contrails. Other than that, the world didn't end because of a ground frost, tho I'm sure my sedum feels comparatively snug.

One hour paid work today, and a trip into the town centre, with a few emails and banking thrown in.

Greying_Pilgrim

Karmacat wrote: »

I never watched Gavin & Stacey does that make me odd? NOPE we were late converts to G&S too, after we caught one of the Christmas 'specials'.

To me, Alison Steadman is the woman in that Pinter play, The Party (?) and of course the mother in the TV Pride and Prejudice! Oh yes, Abigails Party - but I prefer her Candice Marie in Mike Leigh's Nuts in May - absolutely hilarious and slightly embarrassing if you go camping for your hols (we do) :rotfl:

Have a great day

Greying

hypno06

Just popping in to say Hi :hello:

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Karmacat

Thats okay, then, about G&S

Abigail! Thats the one - I don't *like* it, its more seared indelibly onto my brain :eek::eek::eek:

I camped for a long time (:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:) so I'll watch out for Nuts in May

Have a good one yourself. Must stop faffing around , I'm hopping about on various websites like there's no tomorrow

Karmacat

hypno06 wrote: »

Just popping in to say Hi :hello:

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Hello! I didn't see you there!:hello::hello::hello:

Just popped back on myself - I'm *trying* to re-focus this on money (and I'm not doing very well ) and I have to admit I've slightly bollixed up an Amazon listing - its a book thats been sitting around on my shelves for years, that I've never read, but its a minority interest (The Ecology of Commerce!) so not really much good for a charity shop. Listed it on Amazon last weekend, and its sold! And blow me if I haven't miscalculated the pricing - if I send it first class, as I'm supposed to, I'll lose money - only about 20p, admittedly, but its the principle of the thing! So I'm going to send it 2nd .... luckily, I'm off into town anyway, as I mentioned above, so at least its not a separate trip to the PO. I feel very naughty :whistle: I'm not doing the buyer *out* of anything ... just needs must :o:o

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

Just popped back on myself - I'm *trying* to re-focus this on money (and I'm not doing very well )

What? Have long discussions on finance rather than talk about statues with soapy nuts?

Surely you jest?

gilligansyle

KC - I've done that with Amazon too; is it Amazon that has a set postage rate? Sometimes for hard back books its difficult to break even.

Don't really want long discussions on finance - little stories about bargainous finds, and foraging are good though!

Karmacat

ZTD wrote: »

What? Have long discussions on finance rather than talk about statues with soapy nuts?

Surely you jest?

If I'd said that, it would definitely be a jest :D:D

No, it comes down to using this to focus on the present day about money, and about the future about money - this includes foraging, bargainous finds, soapnuts, and yesterday's little victory -

I went to the dentist Kittikins recommended me to, and was in and out in ten minutes (and half of that was him explaining about the new traffic alert system they have). I've stayed NHS, and I'd never have gone private if I'd had the choice in my previous town. So I'm starting here as I mean to go on. So instead of paying £32 a month to D*nplan barstewards, I paid £17 for a one-off under the NHS for a checkup.

Posted the Amazon parcel and made a 25p profit or something ridiculous. And *another* of those books has just sold, this is a softback with a more reasonable postage price, so it'll be comparatively good, and I can send that off first class this afternoon from my village PO not the town one.

I'm also going to do something a bit challenging - bought a birthday card for a 3 year old at the Coop in the village for £2.69!!!! And then found I'd already bought one in the town centre the other day for £1, argh - so, since I'd fortunately asked for a receipt, and I've kept it in its packaging, I'm going to ask for my money back. Don't ask, don't get, etc etc.

Slight downside, in that I put chick peas and haricot beans in the slow cooker yesterday, and with one thing and another left them out overnight - presumably they'll be okay to eat still, but if I never post again, you'll know I died of food poisoning :eek::cool::eek::cool::eek::cool: :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

I suspect you won't die of food poisoning KC :rotfl: I do far more risky things with my food all the time and I'm still around