*The Holly and the Ivy* and the You Know What 2013 Chatter Thread.

noodles86

Snugglebunny8 wrote: »

oh dear, I feel I may have to betray St*rbucks with a trip to C0sta, Noodles!

Oh you must I've gone off starbucks since last autumn (ok maaaay have been pregnancy hormones) as they stopped doing the salted caramel hot chocolate I think it was 'as it was just for the autumn' omg it was the best thing I ever had and after that I felt betrayed! So tried costa and was hooked :rotfl:

noodles86

Own_My_Own wrote: »

Meant to say yesterday that Tesco have little bags of orange chocolate satsumas and little bags of black honeycomb coal. Both £2. Could be good as gifts for older people who always go on about only getting that in their stocking when they were kids.

Thank OMO. My mil's partner loves to wind everyone up esp the kids so may be a good pressie to leave somewhere with a note from Santa to be nice in 2014 :rotfl:

jemtom

trying to catch up on the thread missed too much, hope everyone is ok and glad to see the xmas bits coming out in the shops.

my nephews garage arrived today!! saved me £40 as got it with my points on nielsen. my ds superhero hamper is coming along his watch arrived a couple of days ago and got a box from hobbycraft for it which i want to cover with pics of superheros or some comic book type pics. also have a £20 voucher for amazon and got some bits saved in my wishlist so going to be spent by tonight when ds is in bed.

love the idea of honeycomb coal may have to get some for my parents!

my nearest sainsburies is about 15mins away keep meaning to pop there but havent had the time or money recently am seriously considering getting rid of sky and saving myself nearly £30 a month!!

i still feel like i have loads to do, other than his hamper ds has a game, a book and a little box of lego. have wrote a list of possible things he wants but i want to get as much as i can when i get tesco and consumer pulse vouchers. have the list ready for presents i need for the last few little ones am going to do the argos 24£15. both my little cousins are finished and so is my brother apart from his voucher.

12 saturdays left until christmas, starting to feel excited

noodles86

I cant remember who mentioned Whittard white hot chocolate, went to look on their website mmmm creme brûl!e hot choc any one!? They do loads of lovely sounding ones but no shops anywhere near me! 17 miles away in Leamington Spa or 25 miles in Stratford, really surprised none in central B'ham! Off to sulk!

Mrs_Cullen

Noddles you live near me. Concerts start again in October with crosby stills and nash. Have loads planned to see me through till xmas.Going to start looking at what pressies I have stashed and deciede who gets what. Tried a cadburys mousse snowman yum don't tell sw, everytime there is new choc out have to try it and xmas ones are special.I cant buy any and store them, the times I have had to replace ones in the cupboard ive put away for presents.

FeistyFidget

Junior j I hope you are okay x

mandco

junior j hope your ok and home soon

ok so started my xmas sweet stash as I got a till spit for 400 bonus points when you buy £8 worth of sweets/biscuits ect picked up cadburys wishes mini ones in a bag £1
choc orange segments £1
5 santa freddos £1
3 lindt teddies £1
matchmakers & a couple of the 2 for £1 mini smartie penguins
just gotta make it till xmas

will have to check tesco for the coal as that would be so perfect for someone I know. anyone else find things like that sell out so quick? last yr I looked for ages for the choc satsumas and they were constantly oos

anyone know if the disney advent calendar will come back?can't remember when it was listed last yr but its no longer on the website and really hoped to get one as I missed it last yr surely that can't have sold out already?

marco1dog

Own_My_Own wrote: »

Just got in from work.
Ds wants a bivvy ( fishing tent). Told my Dad, who said he would see about getting him one for Christmas. He phoned his friend who does a lot if fishing to ask if he knew of any secondhand ones going, as they can cost hundreds new. His friend told that they don't use bivvies anymore because of the stupid prices. They just use small green tents.
So on EBay we go, and we found this tent for £12.99

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130940922947?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_sacat%3D0%26_nkw%3D130940922947%26_rdc%3D1

While my Dad was looking at it, the bottom of his screen showed him similar items, and this was one of them-

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/181197681706?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_sacat%3D0%26_nkw%3D181197681706%26_rdc%3D1

Now can you see any difference except one is called a dome tent and one is called a bivvy tent. I can't.
What a complete con.

Meant to say yesterday that Tesco have little bags of orange chocolate satsumas and little bags of black honeycomb coal. Both £2. Could be good as gifts for older people who always go on about only getting that in their stocking when they were kids.

Hi I could be wrong but the cheaper one doesn't seem to come with a ground sheet apart from that they seem the same to me.

doodygirl

Morning all fellow Xmas lovers just took my shopping deliver full of Xmas goodies my partner thinks I've gone crazy he he there's quite a few offers on at the minute at tesco on Xmas chocolate as cheap as 2 for a pound

msgigglewick

pinknfluffy28 wrote: »

At last! I can upload photos! My xmas fimo friends x

these are adorable! been thinking of having a go at making an elf for our xmas cake but i don't think i'm arty in that kind of way lol

Can't remember if i mentioned getting the coal from tescos but i did grab one but need another 4 then make 5 black stockings to go with them i think.

Went and collected the squinkies bundle and potato head from tescos this morning, dd4 is gonna love them but one of the items is wrong in the bundle so just contacted tescos about it. Also grabbed one of the lego people bags, hoping it was the elf to go with the antics i have planned and it was yay! though dd1 spotted it and now wants them all pmsl. shes 17 soon! big kid.

Starting to get in to the xmas spirit