Every last impecuniosity totally exterminated

squilliondollarbaby

May edn of Gardeners' World mag


This would save 2 adults £23.50 entrance to Eden Project if you were thinking of going anyway in the next 12 months. Plus 2 for 1 @ 300 other gardens. http://www.gardenersworld.com/magazine/

midwinter

artha, could well have been the present

Keep checking your lilies

Saw yesterday, that M's have lilies potted up at £1. Might be worth sorting through them, I looked, but only one colour I fancied getting, and they only had one of those! Will look again next time I go in.

squilliondollarbaby

AngelsMadv wrote: »

I don't think it's Royal Mail who are killing eBay on their own - I think eBay are helping killing eBay.

The fees now for transactions are extortionate. It's now more like Amazon than an auction site also. People on there only want new goods or high-end second hand goods. Old cloths and the like, people just aren't spending money on.

:A

I too now use other postal couriers for larger items as I was paying £6+ for Royal Mail 1st class - hopefully the outliers will grow to remove this and inject some competition into the marketplace.

I find Collect+ £3.99 for <2kg, £4.99 for >2kg, very easy & convenient.

Anybody found a cheaper service for under 2kg?

artha

fairclaire wrote: »

Mine are all in pots too, the clay soil here is no good for them. I always buy cheap, reduced from B&Q etc at the end of the season and repot for the next year. I think I must have around 15 different types now, asiatic and oriental. My absolute favourite is the stargazer one

We are on clay too and the border I had them in was specially prepared to give good drainage. Put down a good layer of sharp sand to bed them on so they were never wet at the base and covered them with a compost/soil/sand mix. All that effort in such a big border and I still couldn't keep them. I think everyone likes Stargazer but on of my favourites was African Queen along with a pure white that I can no longer remember the name of. I've got an A4 notebook somewhere that I used for sketches and notes when developing the garden and it contains lots of planting plans and details of all the plants in the garden at the time. Not quite so organised these days:rotfl::rotfl:

fairclaire

squilliondollarbaby wrote: »

I find Collect+ £3.99 for <2kg, £4.99 for >2kg, very easy & convenient.

Anybody found a cheaper service for under 2kg?

Hermes £4.20 for 1-2 KG, collected from your door :beer:

https://www.myhermes.co.uk/wps/portal/PN_CTR/Home/homepage/

Edit: it's trackable as well.

squilliondollarbaby

fairclaire wrote: »

Mine are all in pots too, the clay soil here is no good for them. I always buy cheap, reduced from B&Q etc at the end of the season and repot for the next year. I think I must have around 15 different types now, asiatic and oriental. My absolute favourite is the stargazer one

Morry's sell 3 good quality Stargazers for £1 (all gone now of course) but afaik offer the absolute best value.

Or 3 Asiatics for the same £1.

dipdap

Call_of_Trouty wrote: »

Best i've got is 73 , 6th best today

Edit: just got 75 now i'm 229th :huh: :rotfl:

77, 226th

I managed 122 on my second try :eek:
Only managed 15 on my first as I didn't read the instructions :rotfl:

fairclaire

Well, Im off to check my lillies :rotfl::rotfl:

Have a good afternoon all

RootedNomad

15 items (10 different) on your bill qualify for comparison Sainsbury's

+£4.76

1 x Dr. Oetker Ristorante Speciale Pizza (330g)£2.20 £1.40
1 x Dr. Oetker Ristorante Hawaii Pizza (355g)£2.00 £1.40
1 x Dr. Oetker Ristorante Pizza Pepperoni & Salame (32...£2.00 £1.40
1 x Hovis Original Seed Sensations Seven Seeds Bread (...£0.89 £0.85
1 x ASDA 1% Fat Milk 4 Pints (2.27L)£1.00 £1.00
1 x Activia Snackpot 0% Fat Free Strawberry Yogurt (16...£0.68 £0.30
2 x Activia Snackpot 0% Fat Free Peach Yogurt (165g)£1.36 £0.60
1 x Activia Snackpot 0% Fat Free Raspberry Yogurt (165...0.68 £0.30
3 x Activia 0% Fat Free Special Edition Juicy Pineappl...£1.50 £0.90
3 x Activia Snackpot 0% Fat Free Cherry Yogurt (165g)£1.50 £0.90

Comparison total £13.81 £9.05

Yogurts actually 40p each at A, ie 10 for £4

mhoc

With collect+ you get a code and you enter this on the website and you can track your parcels progress via the website through the system. The other week I took 2 parcels to the parcelshop (actually supercigs in the middle of town so very convient) lunchtime on Tuesday, one for London and one for South Wales, both arrived lunchtime next day, Wednesday :T

fairclaire wrote: »

Hermes £4.20 for 1-2 KG, collected from your door :beer:

https://www.myhermes.co.uk/wps/portal/PN_CTR/Home/homepage/

Edit: it's trackable as well.