Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

GDB2222

misskool wrote: »

The professional shopper would have one shop at 3x£15 bottles of wine and another shop at 3x£5 bottles of wine.

That would have been my natural instinct anyways.

It's Ocado, so you pay for deliveries under £75 and are limited to one delivery a day. At the moment, I am toying with the idea of buying a dozen Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc at £13 a bottle after discount, and leaving it at that. Overpriced for a mass-produced wine, but the 2011 is said to be very good.

GDB2222

chewmylegoff wrote: »

when at uni i used to go up to headingley a lot to see friends who were at leeds. a lot of the houses up there had massive grills over the front doors meant to deter burglars. the trouble with them is that you only need a pair of heavy duty bolt cutters to deal with them, which meant that about one house per street had a mangled security grill hanging off its hinges. (it also didn't help if you came in drunk and failed to shut the grill or the front door...).

Umm, whooooosh. The doors in Headingley have grilles, but the adverts I have seen are for grills. I doubt that anyone would want barbecued burglar, but it would lead to a huge drop in crime.

chewmylegoff

GDB2222 wrote: »

Umm, whooooosh. The doors in Headingley have grilles, but the adverts I have seen are for grills. I doubt that anyone would want barbecued burglar, but it would lead to a huge drop in crime.

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PasturesNew

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

......where is my next fix?

[Sorry jaundiced view of the world today - a couple of under 25 women have just been interviewed outside a primary school.
"You cannot live at home when you've got a kid. My mum lives in a place like mine. You cannot live at home with a kid, families are entitled to their own place".
I was wondering if families need fathers too.]

My mother was married with a child (aged 0-7) - and still living at home with her mother as her husband was in the forces.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

It's Ocado, so you pay for deliveries under £75 and are limited to one delivery a day.

There's some Posh-Card, where you pay an annual amount and don't pay for deliveries... I think.

Ocado don't deliver where I live, I've just read that here/around I think.

GDB2222 wrote: »

At the moment, I am toying with the idea of buying a dozen Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc at £13 a bottle after discount, and leaving it at that. Overpriced for a mass-produced wine, but the 2011 is said to be very good.

There was some Aldi wine at £3.99 on the cookery programmes recently (probably Saturday Kitchen, Saturday 16 June 2012) - and they really rated that one as unusual for its price as it's really lovely and drinkable. Apparently you can't get drinkable wine under £5. My lifestyle's never been of the wine-buying posh type.

People never used to buy wine..... that's another new lifestyle thing that's crept in in the past 10 years.

PasturesNew

Can a NP buy a nice home and complete on it by Thursday, then rent it to me at half price please.....? Rents are SO expensive....

I've always disliked flats too ... and most 1-bed/studio places are flats. Hate them with a passion!

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ocado don't deliver where I live, I've just read that here/around I think.

there is waitrose deliver as well (basically waitrose deliver bring food from your local waitrose, ocado buy waitrose products and deliver them from a warehouse but also do their own branded stuff - their meat is usually minging), but doubt they deliver to you either if your nearest one is a 100 mile round trip away!

John_Pierpoint

Tax treatment of paid blogger

I added my bit for young Payne, who is up to 6 figures now.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Can a NP buy a nice home and complete on it by Thursday, then rent it to me at half price please.....? Rents are SO expensive....

I've always disliked flats too ... and most 1-bed/studio places are flats. Hate them with a passion!

You could not get prettier than the one bed i looked at a few weeks ago, i. Sent you a link remember? But its inthe wro g place and to buy not rent. But it was gorgeous.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

You could not get prettier than the one bed i looked at a few weeks ago, i. Sent you a link remember? But its inthe wro g place and to buy not rent. But it was gorgeous.

And without parking..... so limited market.