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Anyone Newport way? Was thinking of popping to Spytty before it closes at 5 or is it manic?

silvercar

mhoc wrote: »

Your Christmas sounds perfect .

We found it very difficult knowing what to do with my dad after we lost mum. he went to youngest sister the 1st Christmas and hated it as he didn't really like her oh. the next year he went to other sisters but again he hated it as they spend most of Christmas Day in the pub. Ideally I wanted him to come to ours but again he would have hated it. We had 3 teens at home at the time so our house was always messy, noisy and chaotic and he would never have been comfortable as we have coal fire with back boiler, not ver good heating, drafts etc. in the end he has Christmas on his own at home where he was comfortable, warm and had his own routine. He is now having his 2 nd Christmas in the care home.

Mum is on her own for the first time this year, she had invited a friend over, but the friend is now saying that there is flooding near her and if she lives her home she is afraid she won't get back!

I did tell her to get on a train to us, but she can't face noise and mess at the best of times.

LaaCaz

Oh dear lordy! I've just been made admin of a facebook couponing page!:eek:

couponqueen123

LaaCaz wrote: »

Oh dear lordy! I've just been made admin of a facebook couponing page!:eek:

can any-one join this or is it privet.? if possible but i be able to im part of a facebook group :cool::rotfl::rotfl:

fairclaire

mhoc wrote: »

Your Christmas sounds perfect .

We found it very difficult knowing what to do with my dad after we lost mum. he went to youngest sister the 1st Christmas and hated it as he didn't really like her oh. the next year he went to other sisters but again he hated it as they spend most of Christmas Day in the pub. Ideally I wanted him to come to ours but again he would have hated it. We had 3 teens at home at the time so our house was always messy, noisy and chaotic and he would never have been comfortable as we have coal fire with back boiler, not ver good heating, drafts etc. in the end he has Christmas on his own at home where he was comfortable, warm and had his own routine. He is now having his 2 nd Christmas in the care home.

Well not perfect maybe but I am determined to have a good one. This last year hasn't been the best for our family. In fact it's been a bleeding nightmare at times! But we seem to be turning the corner now so it onwards and upwards for us:)

We found a total of 23 odd socks cleaning the kids rooms ( it has to be an odd number, doesn't it:rotfl:) we also found a trainer that doesn't belong to anyone here, half an Easter egg and most bizarrely an action man dressed in one of barbies dresses:cool::rotfl:, no one would admit to that one

grass_roots

batteries multibuy not showing
just got results from a womble and the batteries are showing 2 for £5 on receipt but 3.75 each on comparison

Sainsbury's+£2.32
1.26 x ASDA Carrots by Weight (100g)£1.13£1.13
0.6 x ASDA Swede by Weight (100g)£0.51N/A
0.76 x ASDA Sprouts by Weight (100g)£1.51£1.52
0.48 x ASDA Parsnips by Weight (100g)£0.71£0.81
1 x ASDA Butcher's Selection Streaky Smoked Bacon Rash...£1.60N/A
1 x ASDA Celery£0.89£0.902 x ASDA Maris Piper Potatoes (2.5Kg)£4.60£4.601 x ASDA Tiger Tails Baton£0.40N/A
1 x Philadelphia (200g)£1.50£1.75
1 x ASDA Mediterranean Loaf£1.00N/A
1 x Hardys Stamp Shiraz Cabernet (187ml)£1.33N/A
1 x Shloer Sparkling White Grape Juice Drink (750ml)£1.00£1.04
1 x Shloer Sparkling Ros! Grape Juice Drink (750ml)£1.00£1.04
1 x Otex Express (10ml)£4.97£5.00
1 x Bulmers Original (4x440ml)£3.00N/A
1 x Smirnoff Vodka, Glass and Lindt Lindor Truffles Gi...£5.00N/A
1 x ASDA British Rosemary (25g)£0.65N/A
1 x ASDA Brown Onions (1Kg)£1.00£1.10
2 x ASDA Fresh Double Cream (300ml)£2.20£2.20
1 x ASDA British Single Cream (300ml)£1.05£1.051 x ASDA Chosen by You Pure Orange Juice from Concentr...£1.00£1.00
1 x ASDA Chosen by You Orange & Mango Squash Double St...£0.99N/A
1 x ASDA Extra Special Crostini - Olive Oil (80g)£1.00£1.09
1 x ASDA Onions (4)£1.00N/A
1 x ASDA Skin System Cotton Wool Balls (210)£1.20N/A
1 x ASDA Cooked & Peeled King Prawns (180g)£3.00N/A
1 x ASDA Coarse Apple Cider & Calvados (250g)£3.00N/A
1 x Lurpak Slightly Salted Spreadable (500g)£2.98£3.00
1 x Costa Roast & Ground Coffee (200g)£2.75£3.49
1 x Energizer High Tech AA (4)£3.75£1.87
1 x Energizer Ultimate High Tech AAA (4)£3.75£1.88 Comparison total (compared products only)£36.79£34.47

is that a £4.12 return on a £5 spend? Aau, are you there?

couponqueen123

mhoc wrote: »

Eldest child is in London on a weekend away due to get the only train home in about an hours time, now getting very nervous about this I think I will only settle when I know she is on this train.

Most of the day either doing more wrapping or I've been trying to clean up so its ready for inspection when eldest child does finally get home. I also had to empty my suitcase, really hate doing this job and it puts me in a bad mood.

The tree and lights are up but so far no tree decorations up. Apparently this is also my job as well as everythin else
Oh has spent the afternoon on the sofa watching top gear :mad::mad:

do what i do and trip the eletric at the fuse box or if im realy :mad::mad: ill cut the plug off after turning plug off (hes an electrition so cost noting to fix)

hope your child gets home safe and soon

MKS

davemorton wrote: »

Veg meals:
What about onion chutney and goats cheese in puff pasty parcels with a nice balsamic dressing? mmmmmm.

Sounds good, thanks.

mhoc

And talking of awful Christmases here is another one of ours.

My mil had been widowed for a number of years as fil died in his 60s. One year she asked if she could come to us for Christmas, not for the whole day, mainly for lunch and the afternoon as she had to get back to the dogs. This was the 1st time this had ever happened, very unusual request but I don't suppose she had much other choice as other family lived abroad. I was really dreading it as she had always loathed and detested me, just about tolerated my oh as his brother was the favourite child. She wasn't really interested in our kids, again she preferred bills kids.
Anyway Christmas Day came and she was on her best behaviour and everything went off well, it all turned out to be a really nice christmas and she seemed to enjoy herself and it was a good day and after tea she went home to see to the dogs.
that was her last Christmas. The hospital tests she had in December, not unusual as she was always having tests for one thing or another, quite enjoyed ill health, came back and she had various cancers. By mid Jan she was almost housebound and totally depended on us for things like shopping and driving her places. she went into hospital in March and died a few weeks later.

couponqueen123

fairclaire wrote: »

Well not perfect maybe but I am determined to have a good one. This last year hasn't been the best for our family. In fact it's been a bleeding nightmare at times! But we seem to be turning the corner now so it onwards and upwards for us:)

We found a total of 23 odd socks cleaning the kids rooms ( it has to be an odd number, doesn't it:rotfl:) we also found a trainer that doesn't belong to anyone here, half an Easter egg and most bizarrely an action man dressed in one of barbies dresses:cool::rotfl:, no one would admit to that one

my dd2 hates any thing on her feetand im constantly battling with her to keep socks on , well not so long back i moved my living room around and i had so many socks stuffed under sofa down side and under tv unit :eek: now i make her give me the socks if she dnt want them lol luckly her feet dnt stink :eek::rotfl::rotfl:

as for the barbie ad actionman that is one of lifes gr8t mistorys , and the trainer omg some mum must be thinkng that odd we only have one shoe :rotfl: put an add on face book just incase its one of your friends kids or your kids friends ,