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David.

nairny54 wrote: »

OMG the Skellie pier........when I think back it's a wonder we are around to tell the tale.......and the Old Town wall we used to shin up that when the tide was coming in how we didn't slip on the mossy edges I begger to think. But when you're a kid you don't think of the what ifs.:o

It had 1 beam to get from one part of it to the rest, nothing to it when its blowing a gale, the tides in, carrying fishing gear and you are about 10 :eek: :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Iamsohappy

supernanna01 wrote: »

Good evening everyone,
I joined mse on Friday as my daughter encouraged me to join in but I somehow managed to offend people with my user name and I got a few unpleasant messages, I decided to not join in anymore after that horrible experience but my daughter has persuaded me to still join as there is a lot of lovely people who actually welcomed me so I have started a new account as I couldn't work out how to change it.

I would just like to pop in and say hello and I will contribute as soon as I find something good to share with you all

I am so pleased you are back :T

Please do not let a few nasty people upset you. They have obviously nothing better to do than send you nasty messages.

Stick with us and you will be fine :A

Savvybuyer

My experience with T online delivery - following my dislike of T, I only use it if there is something in it for me - is a more positive one. Following one of my contacts on the phone, they gave me a £5 e-voucher. Unfortunately I could only use it online.

So I bought a few items (you didn't need 8 on the PP back then) that gave me the delivery, came to £5 and refunded vs Sada, with a price chk voucher I could then use in-store. I placed my order one night - and then watched like a hawk the next day to see if any prices changed at any point before which I could cancel my order.

I watched as the price on some shredded wheat actually increased in price at T (from about 2.20 odd to 2.69 or so) as A stayed at £1 all day long!!:):T:rotfl::rotfl:

Thank you T for increasing your price whilst A stayed at £1. It actually led to a more efficient shop than the one I'd ordered. I got back a Price Chk voucher for 20p more than I originally calculated - every little helps!! There was some loose veg on my order - but the actual price came to 1p less than the guide price, as it was very slightly smaller. One of the other items (cheaper at A) was out of stock - but I didn't really need it that much anyway and the minus 1p on the veg, the lack of the out of stock item, plus the price increase on the cereal made the shop come to exactly £5.00.

I didn't desperately need the item that they couldn't deliver - and of course I'd put "no substitutions" just to be in total control (although sometimes you can get substitutions that are worth more than the original product you ordered) - I paid for fewer items and the price increase on the shredded wheat was fully refunded as I was doing a price comp. vs A and A's price stayed the same!! Better than the original order. I then bought their cheapest items in-store - that weren't comparable at A for 10% less - with the price chk voucher and now had 20p more to use!!

Brilliant - and some thanks to their own price increase! I love it when their attempts to get me to pay more fall flat on their face and end up acheiving the opposite of what they presumably wanted, by allowing me to 'buy' less from them and increase the value of my voucher. Or 'buy' in quotes since this was actually my spend of a £5 goodwill e-voucher that cost me nothing (free goodwill and then an extra 20p on a further voucher back!).:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Just fortuitous that the actual bill ended up at £5 rather than £5.01. (My original order was £5.)

(About 20p as the refund on the out of stock item didn't come about, but the increased price on the cereal was 20p more than the difference in price on that out of stock item T vs A.)

Queenriderbrekke

TrulyMadly wrote: »

This is shocking.:eek:

Can anyone else who does online shopping advise on this as it doesn't seem right to me.

So you could order Vimto at £1, T puts the price up to a fiver and you have to pay it as at the time you purchased they are offering a guide price only.

Tosh.

It's standard with all of the supermarkets, the price you pay is the price on the day it is delivered so you have to watch the offer date and check it doesn't expire before your delivery date.

You can refuse any item if the price has changed and you will be refunded so you don't have to pay it:)

David.

Snowing in Darlo

Anyway on a lighter note went to the woods today with both dogs while it was still frosty less mud or so I thought.
Bailey is about 10 weeks post op on her leg and she ran for 25 minutes today there and fantastic news no limp afterwards.
:T:T:T:T
So hopefully thats it she has been sorted at last bless her.
Seen as he was mentioned here the other day here is a pic of Dexter.
Hopefully nothing showing in his eyes DM and tweets

Savvybuyer

D3bra wrote: »

Thank you so much for your reply Savvybuyer:T and I think I will take this a little further now. Your comprehensive explanation has given me a confidence boost and if all else fails I will take the Vimto back to the store for a full refund

While the price of your shopping bill might be a guide price, this isn't a case of some prices may go up and some down by the time of delivery, but a case of a product you'd specifically ordered, because of the special offer, doubling (I forget the actual prices) or near doubling in price and, as you'd ordered 3 - again because of the offer - ended up costing three times the price you expected. This being far from what you expected.

Emily_Rachel

TrulyMadly wrote: »

The easiest tea loaf you will ever make:)

13oz mixed fruit
5oz sugar
Half a pint of hot strong tea
11 oz SR flour
1 beaten egg

Soak fruit and sugar in tea overnight
Next day add flour and egg and mix well.
Put mixture into lined loaf tin and cook for one and a half hours in a medium hot oven.

Eat with lurpak:)

Hello Truly Madly, Your cake looks amazing! I used to make almost the same recipe, but now do it with a whole pack of mixed fruit, about half a pint of cold tea but NO SUGAR. I add the egg in the morning with the SR flour and a half teaspoon of baking powder and cook in a ring mould for about 40 minutes at 150 degrees. Shorter cooking time in a ring mould, so nice and moist. Some chopped crystallised ginger is good in it too. I found cutting out the sugar was fine as long as you don't have a sweet tooth, and the cake tastes great for breakfast spread with a little butter. If you find it isn't sweet enough you can always do what the Dutch do and sprinkle a little icing sugar onto the buttered slice at the table. Well you can't have a completely virtuous recipe!

Hmm. I think I need to go and make a big pot of earl grey tea and find my fruit.......

helen2k333

nerfdad wrote: »

Bless! my DD2 is 2 and half, she can remove her nappy and does so nearly every night, so I have to wash her sheets and duvet at least 5 times a week. :eek:

Use some tape on her nappy:D
That must be a real pain every day.:([/QUOTE]

It certainly is! Just put DD1 to bed, then checked on DD2 and there she is no nappy :eek: Thankfully, not had a wee or worse. Pick her up put nappy on and place her back in bed half a sleep.

She a great little sleeper, 12 hours at night and then 1 or 2 hours during the day, she loves her sleep just like me.

My DD2 was a nightmare, would wake up in the night and not go back to sleep until after 2 or 3 hours and then up at 6am in the morning all happy and full of beans, whilst I would be walking around like the walking dead. She's great now, still an early riser but just gets into her uniform, goes downstairs and puts the tv on until DD2 and I get up.

creative25

just managed to catch up on everything.

no snow here. did manage to find a few packs of the 185g tuna which went through at £2.07. i only took one of the packs and left 2 there for others.

nairny54

David. wrote: »

It had 1 beam to get from one part of it to the rest, nothing to it when its blowing a gale, the tides in, carrying fishing gear and you are about 10 :eek: :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Being a girlie I wasn't allowed to go fishing but I errrr "followed" my 4 brothers and by the time they found out I was behind them the trip would have been scuppered cos 1 of them would have had to take me back, so they let me stay as long as I kept stummmm. Jeepers it was cold it took me 3 days to thaw out. Funny how you had to climb over the "DANGER" barrier to get on it, don't thnk any of us actually read it after all it must be ok cos all the grown-ups did the same:D