MG - The Matrix Re-wired

Marru

Big meal sorted - BF has volunteered to do it. I will buy some Finnish xmas food from the lovely ladies in the Finnish school as I definitely don't have time to do it myself (we have traditionally British xmas meal on xmas day and Finnish one on boxing day)

BF has gone to take DD to a birthday party so I have house for myself. Better get on with the studying.

klfairy

Groatie I hope you're feeling better soon.

Still not managed to leave the house for our "morning" trip to town. :mad: I have at least managed to revise the destination from Big City Expensive Parking, to small market town with cheap parking.

Trago Mills eh? I've spent many an hour traipsing round there with my parents! We used to go to the Liskeard one quite regularly.

tellmeitsfriday

greyfox wrote: »

You can get food at Trago Mills now?! I remember when it first opened in the sixties in a collection of sheds (Nissen huts?). Mike Robertson’s weekly ads in the local paper were a hoot – though he was somewhat to the right of Attila the Hun! (I gather that his son has followed in his footsteps.) He had on-going battles with “Authority” which he used to chronicle in his ads. I nearly applied for a summer job there once, until I found out that he’d decided that everyone working there was self-employed so he didn’t have to bother with annoying things like Tax, NI and the (then new, now long-forgotten) Selective Employment Tax. One of his better “wheezes” was the Shopper’s Club, which got around the Sunday Trading rules! Stuff was dirt cheap, though, and my mother & I spent many happy hours there. I haven’t been back for years but have just Googled & can’t get over the changes!

Claire, I see they’re planning a branch in Merthyr!

TMIF/Chev, don’t tell me there’s a Devon Matrix M*fia to rival the Fife one!

GF (born, bred and schooled In Newton Abbot, but moved away 40 years ago)

I enjoyed the Trago history lesson I bet my mum remembers it like that! I'd ask, but she won't be able to reply. Poor mother.

Trago is now a beast. They sell pretty much everything you can imagine now, probably with not as much discount as you remember. There is still a good selection of tat, but there are probably some relative bargains too. I get lots of my craft stuff there... but it has to be on the way to somewhere because it's 30 miles from me.

40 miles from NTA eh... I've been looking on my map... why haven't we met up?

As for the Matrix !!!!!, as far as I know, I am the only one who lives in Devonia, although Gemzie is in Cornwall I think. Claire's here on holiday this weekend

Hope your kidneys mend soon GQ - I had a kidney infection in July - just awful. Awful But the tablets work fast, as soon as the Docs give you the right ones

Have a nice weekend all, and avoid my sneezing if you can

<achoo!>

Gemmzie

Yup I'm in Cornwall A South West maf!a perhaps?

More stress today as Sky have again mis-charged us - leaving no money for Christmas presents or work parties (they were only £10 each too) :mad:

tellmeitsfriday

OK - The Matrix Maff-ya (Southern Detachment)

Naughty Sky - can you make them give you your money back? x

greyfox

TMIF,
Afraid I'm 40 years from NA, not 40 miles! (About 200 miles as the crow flies.) As they say, you can take the maid out of Devon but you can't take Devon out of the maid!

groatie_queen

Thanks for your kind thoughts everyone.

Commiserations for the sneezing TMIF!

I know I'll be fine once the abx kick in, will go back to bed in a while, have put the electric blanket on which has pleased the cat no end.

Normal service will be resumed shortly....

Aesop

Gemmzie wrote: »

Yup I'm in Cornwall A South West maf!a perhaps?

More stress today as Sky have again mis-charged us - leaving no money for Christmas presents or work parties (they were only £10 each too) :mad:

how long do they take before they refund you? complain to the CEO that you cannot live like this and if they keep mischarging you, you will go to virgin media!

tellmeitsfriday

greyfox wrote: »

TMIF,
Afraid I'm 40 years from NA, not 40 miles! (About 200 miles as the crow flies.) As they say, you can take the maid out of Devon but you can't take Devon out of the maid!

I can't read can I! Whoops!

Gemmzie

tellmeitsfriday wrote: »

Naughty Sky - can you make them give you your money back? x

I hope so! They've been utterly useless since we first signed up with them!

Aesop wrote: »

how long do they take before they refund you? complain to the CEO that you cannot live like this and if they keep mischarging you, you will go to virgin media!

No idea, OH will have to speak to them as the account is in his name. We can't go to Virgin - it's not even available down here!!