Breaking Through, Travelling On

Cheery_Daff

Glad the dishwasher is fixed but :eek: about the washing machine Most vexing. Might be worth trying gumtree, or a local charity shop? I only suggest as I just bought a 'new' gas cooker from a charity shop, through gumtree Pretty sure they had other appliances too - although that's not much use to you all the way down there, sorry

I imagine it's a bit of a lottery buying second hand (non-reconditioned) stuff - I was happy to take a risk on the cooker as it was only £50 and I was willing to write that off as a charity donation if the gas fitter said it wasn't safe, as our previous cooker had cost £30 and lasted over 30 years :rotfl: Fortunately for us, it works fine :j

Good luck!
xx

Karmacat

Thats a good idea, Cheery - BHF in Crawley do electrical goods, though unless they're on the website I won't bother gumtree ooh yes! Ta muchly

I'm just about to start paid work, finally ...

Karmacat

Blimey :eek:

I couldn't cope with buying privately from gumtree and BHF don't have their stock online, so I went for the cheapest deal I could find, which was Argos, £170 all in (delivery, installation, removal of the old one) very good - except terrible chat "help" which advised me to buy delivery and get a refund :eek: and even worse, once I'd paid and they put me through to their local delivery people, the 3 day delivery window turned into a 12 day delivery window :eek: pretty sneaky :eek: and I have to watch youtube videos to learn how to disconnect the hoses of my washing machine :eek: Still, its a good £50 cheaper than anywhere else. Heaven knows how long it will last :cool::rotfl: but I think I'll probably need to use the single remaining launderette before the delivery date I actually filled in their (long) questionnaire. Gave them a bit of a blast


I also need to rant about my local Morrisons I ran out of green veg before my supermarket delivery today, so I popped out to get some yesterday, green veg are important :j OMG :eek: My choice was 800g of frozen peas for £2, or a bag of fresh broccoli florets for 99p. In the whole store (admittedly a local one) that was *it*!!! I had tins, so I didn't look at those, admittedly ... but the rest of the goods in the store were just processed rubbish, it was horrendous. I think I may faint

Just to compensate .... I've been checking transferwise to have a quick look at the exchange rate, and they're now offering E1.40 to the £ - whereas 3 or 4 years ago or so, I could only get E1.08 to the £, not because of banks, but because ... dunno, actually, they were doing better than us? We're deffo on the up compared to mainland Europe, anyway, or our exchange rate is.

I'm now cooking huge amounts of pasta, with huge amounts of cheese :j:D:j

Watty1

Crumbs that's bad about Morrisons - but - it occurs to me people don't eat real food these days - she writes whilst oven chips are in oven and planning on eating with fried eggs :rotfl: not a fresh bit of veg in sight!

Cheery_Daff

Sounds like you made a sensible choice with the washing machine :j I'd struggle with buying private from gumtree too - Mr Cheery does it for musical equipment but it's stuff he knows a LOT about so can see what he's getting. Actually, thinking about it, I'm talking rubbish - I bought our CAR privately on gumtree and knew nothing at all about that :eek: :eek: Probably not the wisest of moves and i do remember being terrified at the time :rotfl: at least that wasn't going to leak water all over my kitchen!

Anyway, sounds like a right swizz with the delivery times :eek: Shocking. 12 days?! How can it possibly take that long?! :eek:

Hope they get it to you soon.

Sounds like you're having a ranty day - sometimes those days of being *outraged* are good for geting things ticked off your list

Hope your snuffle didn't turn into much xx

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Sorry you had a bad experience at Morrisons, Karmacat.

It's my favourite major supermarket, I was in there yesterday doing a 'big'shop and was very impressed by the quality and price of the fresh fruit and veg:j. Our local market town is a bit 'posh' and shops are pricey, even the fruit and veg shops are on the 'exclusive' side:(. We have a street market three days a week and even their quality isn't any better than Morrisons. Unless I time it right to catch them before they are packing up on a Saturday (with the chance they've already gone if the weather is bad, or they haven't anything left that I want/need:() their prices aren't all that cheap either.

Our Morrisons is smallish (not a 'local' one but definitely not one of those hypermarket-type ones either). They sell very few non-food items but their produce, bread, meat and so on is first class for choice. Their cat food is a bit limited there though, my fussy cat's nosh of choice is never available

Karmacat

Watty1 wrote: »

Crumbs that's bad about Morrisons - but - it occurs to me people don't eat real food these days - she writes whilst oven chips are in oven and planning on eating with fried eggs :rotfl: not a fresh bit of veg in sight!

Thats perfectly fine as a lunch - sounds lovely, in fact! I'd already had one day without green veg and thats what it does to me

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Sounds like you made a sensible choice with the washing machine :j I'd struggle with buying private from gumtree too - Mr Cheery does it for musical equipment but it's stuff he knows a LOT about so can see what he's getting. Actually, thinking about it, I'm talking rubbish - I bought our CAR privately on gumtree and knew nothing at all about that :eek: :eek: Probably not the wisest of moves and i do remember being terrified at the time :rotfl: at least that wasn't going to leak water all over my kitchen!

Its the water leak potential, yes, and the faff and delay of getting people, and the lack of knowledge, yes, all of that I'm juggling, and I just couldn't do that next step, not without backup.

Anyway, sounds like a right swizz with the delivery times :eek: Shocking. 12 days?! How can it possibly take that long?! :eek:

Hope they get it to you soon.

Sounds like you're having a ranty day - sometimes those days of being *outraged* are good for geting things ticked off your list

Its due on March 21st now, I'm afraid! Gasps of horror on my part ...

I suppose it *is* all a bit ranty isn't it everything seems over complicated, is all ... And you're dead right, it *did* make me get a shift on - finishing projects, really - loading the dishwasher to run a prewash, to check thats mended, chucking dvd cases and putting the dvds into labelled plastic envelopes, tidying up (the poor repair man! He tidied up his mess, but because my floor was so filthy he tidied up some of my mess too :o:o), texting clients by arrangement, putting dried out teabags onto the compost, re-doing the cover photo for the book, bagging up little bags of subsoil to get rid of (very tiny bags) - lots of things on the way to being finished, and I'm finishing them.

Hope your snuffle didn't turn into much xx

Thanks Cheery! It *was* the little burn I gave myself accidentally, its at a dodgy spot, hurts to swallow like I was ill, but its deffo a little burn thats healing

Karmacat

Hi CBC! Sorry, that *was* a rant, wasn't it ... they had prepared fruit salads and veg salads, but just veg - that was it. I like Morrisons too - I'd been talking with my sister about all of this on Saturday, and it really hit home to me when I saw the shelves on Monday. I'm sure at normal supermarket level, they're fine - in fact, they had red onions the other day at 65p per kilo, which is fine.

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Aw, Karmacat, I wasn't criticising you:kisses3:, I didn't really see it as a rant (on the scale of some of the rants I've read and even written myself on MSE ). I was just sticking up for Morrisons.

Now I come to think of it though, they were unusually low on stocks of baking potatoes. They usually have loads, maybe it was because it was Monday and they still had to restock after the weekend.

Cheery_Daff

Gosh, you *have* been productive! :j :j :j

Our local morrisons (quite a big one) has that strange dry ice stuff floating around over the fruit and veg to make it look more fresh :rotfl: (or maybe it does actually keep it cool?! Who knows!)