Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

See, this is why I don't trust Holland and Barrett. I'm costing pumpkin seeds online before I go out, at shops I can get to: at Sainsbo, 100g is £0.85 per 100g little packet. At H&B, the pricing is as follows:
1kg £10.99
500g £6.49
125g £1.99 - but that size has a 3 for 2 offer on, so 250g is £3, meaning 500g is £6. Which still makes Sainsbo's tiny little 100g packets £2.49 cheaper per kilo than H&B's best price. And nobody's going to tell me that they're a bulk item or a loss leader at Sainsbo (well, you can try, but I have my doubts ).

DedicatedDFW

Well done for checking the prices KC :T I do check prices on bigger purchases and pretty much know the price of my usual supermarket goods to know if i'm getting a good deal anywhere else - maybe i need to crank it up a little and check the prices of smaller things too...

Do we get to see the stencils?

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

See, this is why I don't trust Holland and Barrett. I'm costing pumpkin seeds online before I go out, at shops I can get to: at Sainsbo, 100g is £0.85 per 100g little packet. At H&B, the pricing is as follows:
1kg £10.99
500g £6.49
125g £1.99 - but that size has a 3 for 2 offer on, so 250g is £3, meaning 500g is £6. Which still makes Sainsbo's tiny little 100g packets £2.49 cheaper per kilo than H&B's best price. And nobody's going to tell me that they're a bulk item or a loss leader at Sainsbo (well, you can try, but I have my doubts ).

But when you get stuff from Holland and Barrett, you get extra "worthyness" thrown in...

Pippilongstocking

Karmacat wrote: »

ETA - but before I do, I found this article in Guardian Online: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/30/-sp-narendra-modi-india-solar-renewables-energy
There's a description of the design aspects of building a solar array over a canal - government owns the canal, so free land, less evaporation from the canal, the evaporation cools the panels and ups the output of the panels a little, the canal is free of weeds, agricultural land is kept for crops. Amazing!

Thanks for sharing this KC was a grand read.

Waves to all. Hope your days been fabby.

Karmacat

Afternoon all!

DDFW - you do get to see the stencils, probably on the design blog (which I'll post a linkie to, since its not pushing products) - I'm too embarrassed to put it on here tho I must say the simplicity of a stencil *works* for me

Great meeting, blathering about this that and the other, then I did lots of my shopping - frozen green veg at Iceland (I may put that in my "money saved" column, because I'd never have thought about going there, I just automatically did my food shopping at Sainsbo ), iron tablets - I know I'm a bit low, we'll see if they help the energy levels, and Robert Dyas have got rid of their annual stock of systemic weedkiller :eek: Managed to get hold of a hot water bottle too though I didn't want to go poundland on that, if it breaks, you're in for a nasty night :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Cracking the flags now, so I *might* do a bit of gardening soon. Hope all's well - Pippi, glad you liked the Indian stuff, I thought it was fascinating.

Goldiegirl

Hello!

All the H&B talk reminded me to look on the Healthy Supplies website you mentioned ( I think it was on my thread)

I though there's a really good range of products, not to mention some interesting recipe ideas. Who needs H&B anyway!

Thanks for the tip:)

rtandon27

Ah the joys of H&B! Still waiting for replacement products that never arrived - more than a week later! Last purchase from me, the absolute worst customer service I've experienced with an on-line merchant!

KC you are correct, there are so many other places to get the same products at the same if not better prices!

Karmacat

Sounds like H&B are in trouble now! We're a force to be reckoned with Goldie, you're welcome.

RT - thinking of you and your OH today, I hope it goes as well as these things can ...

As for me, no gardening yesterday, I was shattered ... still pretty tired today, if truth be told, and I've just remembered my umbrella was soaking and I didn't unpack it to dry out :doh: I'll go and do that when I post this. And take all my supplements because the truth is tho I feel good, I'm tired & have very little energy, all the time. So the stuff I plan just doesn't get done. But at least I sent off the email to my French bank yesterday, registering my mobile so I can set up the online payments.

Better do a list a bit later, when I've tidied up. Oops ...

Karmacat

Bl00dy French banks:

Dear Mrs Karmacat
Unfortunately we cannot add a mobile number over the e-mail. If you have a personal access code to access your account on line, if you call into us and identify yourself with the new secure telephone system, using this personal access code, we can add the beneficiary to your on-line banking facilty for you. Alternatively, you can send us a signed instruction asking us to add the beneficiary to your on-line facility so that you may log on to our internet facility and then make the payment to the
As far as I am aware though, the Tax authorities do not normally put the IBAN and BIC codes on their factures and you would need this to be able to add them as a beneficiary. You can however, log onto their website www.impots.gouv.fr and then make the payment to them on line.
I knew it wouldn't be as simple as in the UK They actually have a really good security system - no reason I couldn't do it straightforwardly online, but no, I have to ring them. Rats!

Other French news, I got my variable rate news today for the 4th quarter 2014 - last time, they put it up by 1/10th of 1% - they've put it down again now ha!

Must go for a pootle round the block.

Karmacat

Well, I started my pootle around the block, and came right back. Between the Dog Unit police, and a siren, and the shelter on the rec. ground being demolished because hordes of teenagers use it as a rubbish magnet, it wasn't a very attractive proposition. So instead I did a bit of weeding - tells you how bad the neighbourhood felt, that weeding was preferable :rotfl:

Severe bout of tidying up and dusting/sweeping today, as a friend is coming along for what counsellors call supervision - talking about clients. Has to be done professionally, you can't *chat* about clients, so I'm paid a mates-rates amount of dosh: but it means my living room has to be up for visitors :rotfl:

Otherwise, some realisations:
- it will help my workload if I allocate myself a proper lunchbreak, and not just think "ooh, I can work all day". That doesn't happen
- swagbucks was a mistake, its old school mse, but its a huge number of clicks and whatnot, to get a tiny amount of voucher. I'm going to get to the quickest thing I can, and stop (halfway to a £5 amazon voucher). I've got better things I can do, whether new business or mse.
- realised I can slot my vitamins into my regular schedule very easily; always take them while the computer's powering up, as I do that immediately after breakfast.