Not mentioning the T word at all

sashanut

hi HC

I used to work for M&S & I think what may have happened is OK - sometimes the special offer kicks in when you buy multiples of the same product on offer plus there is already an offer which is 'the cheapest item free' IYKWIM. In my local M&S the other day there were a few signs trying to explain this, and saying that it wasn't always the cheapest item that you got free/reduced but the 3rd one to scan. Could that be the reason when you study your receipt??

HTH:D

SDG31000

Morning All from a foggy and cold Leicester.

I hope you had a great birthday Littlecal
Hobsons Choice M&S sold it to you at that price and it is now legal binding. If they had noticed before you paid they are entitled to change the price, but as the transaction is now complete it is fine If you aren't happy why not buy a £5 present for a local toy drive.

This morning I just want some more sleep. I've now had a week of not being able to sleep or having very disrupted sleep. I'm so tired and snappy it is unbelievable. So well, maybe Santa will bring me some sleeping pills or failing that a brick. I need to go and visit my old neighbour in her care home today at some point, as I've collected the post from her house. Apparently the house has sold, but no one has offically told me and I still have a key.

Dinner last night went well even though DH made me change the menu to make it easier to cook. I think he was scared of me having a meltdown in the kitchen and being left to cook it himself. My made up pudding was a huge success So much so that I'm making it for pudding on Christmas Day.

Chocolate Hazelnut Baileys Croissant Bread and Butter Pudding.

(I used 12 mini croissants, but that is because they were YS in Co-op.)

Butter an ovenproof dish. Chop some dark choc into chunks and scatter half on the base of the dish. Slice the croissant in half and butter well. Then arrange in the dish and scatter the rest of the chocolate on top.
Mix together 1/2 pint of milk, 1/2 pint of double cream, 4 tbsp sugar, (I used vanilla sugar, if you don't have it add in 1 tsp vanilla extract instead), 3 large eggs and a good glug of Baileys. Pour over the croissants and leave for 25 minutes, pressing the croissant down into the custard occassionally.
Bake at 180C/Gas Mark 4 for 40-45 minutes in a bain marie until the custard is set.

Mrs_Chip

G'day!

GQ, hope your back feels a bit better by now, tea is great back medicine!

No yellow ball here yet, promised for later today. Hope we get it, the cat is getting twitchy and wants an airing, a trip up to the garden is on the cards. An hour usually does it, time to circumnavigate the perimeter twice, have an al fresco wee or poo (makes him feel like a real tough outdoor cat) and a good chew of grass. All good when the weather is fine, rather more bracing when there is a force 8 howling up the valley:rotfl:.

Did mean to take him up yesterday, but I got sidetracked at the 'big house'. My friend and neighbour regularly house-sits a lovely huge georgian mansion in the village - set in the river valley, surrounded by its own land, it is a magical place. As it was such a beautiful day we went for an ad-hoc walk through their woods and fields, and pretended it was ours. We had the wonderful sight of four buzzards circling and calling, and the trees on the valley sides looked like burnished copper in the sunshine. Envy is a terrible thing...:D

Waiting for the OH to get home, I hope the M4 is not too foggy. He will stop at Ikea in Cardiff to try to get the shelves that were out of stock when we went before, but he is really looking forward to his 99p breakfast:rotfl:.

He is bringing back some of beef we bought back in September, so tonight we will be having a lovely roast with all the trimmings. Much as I love roast chicken, it will be nice to have something different for a change.

Hope everyone has a spiffing Sunday!

Kaz2904

Well, I've had the oven on since 8.30 this morning am busy baking for the party later on today. DS cleaned the bathroom (:eek: I know!) as he was just sitting around on the wii so I asked him to go and do it. I didn't think he actually would though . One less job for me. There's a massive quiche in oven along with a pack of sausages. -Actually beeper went just as I typed that so it's now done, that time flew past! I've cooked the chickpeas for the hummus. Lots done and for much cheaper than usual. I love OS and the fact that I've stopped DH from buying little bits and bobs of carp. He picked up some tubs of ready prepped pasta but I already had a recipe in mind so I'm doing that instead and it's far cheaper than 2 for £3 .
Anyhoo, best get on with it hadn't I? Got to get DH to slice the ham later. I did some for the quiche and it's delish but I'm still scared to use the big knife after nearly cutting my finger off with it .
Cheerio chaps

Mrs_Chip

I forgot to add GQ, I think I have excavated a mastodon from the garden I have found so many bones, hulking great things. I have no idea why somone would have dumped the remains of their Sunday lunch half-way up the side of a hill, but it would seem this was a regular ritual by the number of bones up there! Sadly I don't thing these are neolithic or iron age remains, my guess is circa 1970!

littlecal

GreyQueen,no sore head,lol, but I'll join you in the hunt for a new back!!!! It turned out that I was the recipient of a "surprise" gathering - highlight number 1,seeing my son there,number 2,friends from work and number 3 was the cake...a laptop with the MSE homepage!!!!!!!!!

I danced the night away but the back is objecting strongly :dance::dance::dance::dance:

Thank you everyone:A:D

kidcat

Littlecal - am so glad you had such a wonderful day.

I have "borrowed" DS laptop to allow me to check the bank and things, and also help DD5 with her homework - she has to research the planets, draw one, annotate it and then write at least five facts about it - not exactly a ten minute job. SO far its taken an hour and likely to be another one to follow.

I have optimistically ordered a wedding present for the big family wedding on Saturday - optimistically as I am still laid up - any hints to get back on my feet faster and kick this illness?

Dad did my shopping yesterday and I honestly dont know how they manage, the amount he spent buying basics for us, their shopping bill must be huge. Have no idea how I am going to pay for it all, not to mention the coat he bought DS13 - as I had mentioned a few weeks ago that I might start looking for one:eek: I had not intended to spend £50 and have seriously not budgetted for it.

Hobsons_Choice

Great that you had such a good birthday littlecal - that cake sounds amazing!!! (Please save us all some crumbs).
Greyqueen: go easy on the lottie, your back is more important. Don't blame you for working through such a lovely day though, who knows when we'll have such a good day again in November. Grey, drizzly and misty here as I type.
Sashanut: I only bought the one gift, advertised at half price so should have been £7.50. All the rest was foodie bits and bobs. I'm not going to stress over it any more, as you all say, it was their mistake not mine - I shall look on it as a bonus and (as SDG suggests), buy a small childrens gift from there to go in my shoebox for underprivelidged children in the area, which I do every year.

GreyQueen

littlecal wrote: »

GreyQueen,no sore head,lol, but I'll join you in the hunt for a new back!!!! It turned out that I was the recipient of a "surprise" gathering - highlight number 1,seeing my son there,number 2,friends from work and number 3 was the cake...a laptop with the MSE homepage!!!!!!!!!

I danced the night away but the back is objecting strongly :dance::dance::dance::dance:

Thank you everyone:A:D

Aww, Littlecal, that's just fantastic! Love it that you had an MSE cake........:rotfl:

:D I know that there are a fair few fellow gardeners here, so I am sure you'll understand my pleasure in the following....

Went up to the lottie on foot and, as I approached, I could see a tipper-trailer looming thru the mist. Aha! Couldn't be a council tipper as today is Sunday soooo.......and it was! My lottie neighbours had a feller we'll call Farmer John delivering manure by the tonne. Well-rotted manure, in piles 3 feet tall, glowing like black gold.

Oh joy of joys, Farmer John is bringing me 5 tonnes of the lovely stuff next Sunday. Gonna cost fifty smackeroonies but Santa is going to be bringing me some cash, relatives said, so that's what I'm buying with it. Should do me for 2 years at least.

I'm so thrilled. I was going to get manure last autumn then my Mum was diagnosed with cancer and everything went by the by, but I have got it together this year. I was wary of buying from an unknown source as some lottie sites in the city had got caught out with that contaminated manure a couple of years ago but the fellers have had FJ's manure last year and it's good stuff.

:jHappiness....am now bathed and clean and pootling around ahead of going to friends for the evening........it's been a blinking good weekend, even if I haven't tidied up the flat.;)

Hope everyone is having a good afternoon.

CCP

littlecal - your cake sounds great - I would have loved to have seen it.

GQ - how exciting for your father to find a Roman artefact. The most interesting thing I ever found was in the garden of my last flat, where my fork came up from digging out couch grass (dreadful, dreadful stuff ) with a Victorian glass bottle stuck on one of the tines, which was a surprise. :shocked: I think it was probably used to hold something like smelling salts - I've still got it as it was about the only good thing to come out of that flat.

Once again I've spent most of today writing an essay so I haven't got much OS-ness to report. I'm off to make a cheese, leek and potato pie in a bit, though, which will use up LO puff pastry and the vast overdose of mash I made a couple of weeks ago and which has been sitting in the freezer ever since.

I hope everyone else has had a more productive day than I have.