A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

Mrs_Chip

Yes VJsmum - they freeze very well,and reheat in only a couple of mins. I often make double and freeze for the next roast meal. OH also likes to have a couple with sausage and mash, and I wouldn't make them fresh for that!

GreyQueen

VJsmum wrote: »

I feel a bit guilty as last night, whilst a little <<ahem>> under the influence I bid on a White Stuff top on ebay. Not really expecting to win - and I did!!

Oh and I don't even know what a Radley bag is!! :o

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Yes VJsmum - they freeze very well,and reheat in only a couple of mins. I often make double and freeze for the next roast meal. OH also likes to have a couple with sausage and mash, and I wouldn't make them fresh for that!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

OMG, just about spat up my tea; I read those two posts within a few seconds and thought Mrs Chip was advocating eating Radley bags! :rotfl:

VJsMum, a pal of mine has a few of them. They're rather nice, and have a cute little dog-shaped leather tag.

ETA, think the ear-marble is shrinking under the onslaught of the antibiotic-steroid spray. Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mrs_Chip

:rotfl: I really must learn how to do quotes!

Little Radley doggie is very cute, price of bags not quite so!

Glad the ear is improving GQ, my brother resorted to sticking something down the ear canal to burst an abcess as it was driving him to distraction - not to be recommended, but then he is a walking disaster area and is well used to home brew repairs - close eyes all peeps of nervous disposition - including pulling teeth and sewing up nasty cuts. He is something of a one-off :rotfl:

fuddle

whispers I have a Radley bag It's 9 years old though and still my everyday bag. It's a big thumbs up for the argument 'you get what you pay for' but these days I'll be going through the cheapy ones as now I don't see a bag as an investment

Strange how we change, or how circumstances make you change.

GreyQueen

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

:rotfl: I really must learn how to do quotes!

Little Radley doggie is very cute, price of bags not quite so!

Glad the ear is improving GQ, my brother resorted to sticking something down the ear canal to burst an abcess as it was driving him to distraction - not to be recommended, but then he is a walking disaster area and is well used to home brew repairs - close eyes all peeps of nervous disposition - including pulling teeth and sewing up nasty cuts. He is something of a one-off :rotfl:

:eek: Blimey! It's a wonder he hasn't done himself a mischief! Have no idea what a Radley costs (my bags cost £1.50 from c.s. and £8 new respectively) but the pal in question is a legal eagle so I imagine well able to afford them.

I followed a linkie from the new thread about hoarding onto a website called Tetanus Burger and thence to a few other hoarders' offsprings' websites and have spent the past couple of hours with my eyes out on stalks. Aiieeeeeeeee!

I have eaten the first strawberries of the season. 4. They needed another day or two to be perfectly ripe but I knew if I left them to ripen fully the slugs/snails/fieldmice would run off with them. Dee-lish. I took two hours hard graft this morning to separate the strawberry beds from the meadow at the top of the lottie. It ain't perfect, but at least I can see the beds now.

mcculloch29

I can remember feeling so 'out of it' when some course colleagues on my literacy tutors' course were chatting about their Radley bags. I made a note that those were the ones with the little Scottie-shaped tags and promised myself one sometime.
I did buy a really nice bag last year, but it wasn't a Radley, it was a Kipling, a lovely bag was online half-price (still £60!) and as someone who usually got her handbags from Primark, I decided I would have it.
Kipling are the make with a monkey as the tag, btw. Did I feel guilty?- Did I beggary! I now have a lovely bag that I'm not ashamed to be seen with and one that should last me for donkey's years.
Given that I needed a new 'cheap' bag costing around £10-£15 every 18 months or so, it was probably a really good investment and will have paid for itself in a few years.
Whilst I am yippering about bags, five minutes with scissors, needle and thread has repaired the Harrods shoulder bag with a broken zip that I paid 99p for yesterday in the local CS. It's now in near-pristine condition; similar bags on the Harrods website are retailing for £19.95. Perhaps the person who gave it to the CS didn't really like it, but was it lack of skills or a CBA attitude that led it to be given, rather than repaired, I wonder?

Fuddle, don't feel guilty about your spends, be proud of your prudence in thinking ahead and knowing you are well prepared for whatever winter may throw at you. There's a real satisfaction in knowing that.

Mrs_Chip

Agree totally Fuddle - once upon a time my secret pleasure was expensive handbags. Now I am happy to carry my empty purse about in a carrier bag

Byatt

I had a Radley once, but sold it at a car boot for silly money when I was kind of getting rid of stuff after the divorce, or maybe before as I need the money and £5 or so made a huge difference. I'm not a bag person though, although DD is (but the bigger and brasher they are the better, along with sparkle!), but was given some Vera Bradley bags and accessories from my American friend a few years ago in her pinke elephant range. (I love eles and pink ele was a user name of mine once upon a time). I always get compliments on them when I use them.

Mcculloch, I probably wouldn't have attempted a zip repair, because I'm sewing challenged. I think also some people don't value something when it's "broken" so they get rid of it.

greenbee

I'll confess to having Radley luggage. But it's for work, and it works very hard... I've probably got better value out of it than I have out of any of the cheap luggage I've bought in the past. It does a minimum of 20 flights a year, and is on year 3 and just starting to show signs of wear on the corners

meanmarie

Very few elders in flower here yet....did filch a few flowers to go with first gooseberries for crumble after dinner....lovely...no sign of a ripe strawberry, raspberry or currant yet, so rhubarb and gooseberries will be fruits of choice for another while.

GQ...take care of that ear....earache is without exception the worst pain I have ever had...I can remember it from 64 years ago before I had my tonsils out!

Marie