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Possession

Pops we live very near the canal, which isn't generally a problem as DS doesn't go out on his own except to go round to his friend's house. I don't think he would sneak off with said friend (who lives next to the canal) and he has been made thoroughly aware that he is not to go near the canal without an adult. I should add it isn't the canal itself which worries me, DS can swim, but locks are so dangerous and there are a lot of them by us, at least 5 within easy walking distance.
I'm loving the trolley examples but GQ I think you really, REALLY need diamante.

GreyQueen

But I'm a simple clean-livin' country gal and wouldn't that be a bit....y'know.........fast? As our great-grannies might have put it.

Don't think I haven't been tempted by the diamonte. I have an almost unerring ability to find the most expensive item in any selection. Such a shame that I'm relatively skint. But I would rather have one really good trolley and use it for 20 years than shell out the same sum for 3 so-so ones and have them come apart over that time.

Buy cheap, buy often, my Mum counselled me when I was a youngster. Such a hardship finding out she was right all along.

Hmmmm, possibly diamonte is a step too far into the post-ironical cool trolley firmament. Getting a bit Ab Fab. I imagine I shall go for something sleek and timeless in black, whose innate good looks will identify me to Women Who Know their Trollies as a shopper to be reckoned with. We shall exchange discreet nods as we stride about town.

Or I may just throw caution to the winds and have something lairy in a psychadelic print.

Cheapskate

Yes, GQ, def diamante, your moniker is Grey QUEEN after all! :rotfl: Can just see you s w a n k i n g into Provincial City with it! (Bleeping swear filter!)

DH and I have just spent a lovely hour bramble picking down the snicket near us, very peaceful, you know, when the air's clear and all the sounds carry? Got over 2 pounds to add to the pound I picked from our garden today, all in the freezer until I've enough to do stuff with. "Stuff" comprises any or all of jam, pies, crumbles or bramble vodka (heaven in a glass! )

DH saw my coin tins the other day (one for £1 coins, one for £2 and one for the difference I save when using DS SM discount card - with me so far?) and sniggered mightily, then made rude comments about Lemony Snicket mentality (he means Meryl Streep's character from the film who expects the worst to happen all the time!) when I said the money was my SHTF fund. "It'll never happen," sayeth he, to which I replied, "What about Natwest then?", and thus gracefully won my argument! :rotfl:

A xo

Possession

GQ you need this!! http://www.flannelsfashion.com/products/new/men/details/i/26353-c3bge/n/diamante-leather-trim-trolley.aspx

Mrs_Chip

Funny you should mention Lemony Snicket - we have Lemony Snickets in the garden. All the baby tits had lemony faces and became Lemony Snickets - now just Snickets. Silly how such things come about and stick!

stiltwalker

Just a quickie as I'm on OH's computer as mine is declining to connect to the internet! Grrrr

PAH- My OH has been given Dragon voice by the DSA to do his OU degree as he is profoundly dyslexic. He only got it 2 essays before his last module ended and not started the next yet so he's not used it much but it seems to do the trick. He has a bizarre cross between southshire (from his youth) and yorkshire (from living up here for the last 20 mmmm years) and it 'hears' this fine. Oh and he mumbles into his goatee too!!! So sure this would do what you need.

Must share DD's latest achievement as I'm so proud. Silly mummy left DS's seat at the stay and play today so at tea time we had to let him have DD's chair and put DD on a booster made from a handy folded length of curtaining and she managed great on her 'big girl chair' - not a wobble in sight!

GreyQueen

Possession wrote: »

GQ you need this!! http://www.flannelsfashion.com/products/new/men/details/i/26353-c3bge/n/diamante-leather-trim-trolley.aspx

:eek: But that would be 5 months' rent money!

And I prefer the Rolsers tbh. I wonder if they could do me a monogrammed one..................?

Possession

Well done Little Miss stiltwalker!
GQ there's the answer - get your Rolser and personalise it yourself with stick-on diamante letters
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_nkw=stick+on+letters+diamante&_nkwusc=stick+on+letters+diamanre&_rdc=1
Now that's class.

GreyQueen

Possession wrote: »

Well done Little Miss stiltwalker!
GQ there's the answer - get your Rolser and personalise it yourself with stick-on diamante letters
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_nkw=stick+on+letters+diamante&_nkwusc=stick+on+letters+diamanre&_rdc=1
Now that's class.

:T That's such a tacky idea it might just get done. But one mustn't count one's Rolser before it's hatched. I want to find them in person and examine them before forking out my hard-earned cash.

OK, gotta get offline and retire to my pit, busy day tomorrow. Sleep tight, everybody. GQ x

Possession

GreyQueen wrote: »

:T That's such a tacky idea it might just get done. But one mustn't count one's Rolser before it's hatched. I want to find them in person and examine them before forking out my hard-earned cash.

OK, gotta get offline and retire to my pit, busy day tomorrow. Sleep tight, everybody. GQ x

I rather like it. Were I going to get a shopping trolley I might very well do it. Certainly DD would approve.