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A chicken is for life not just Christmas Dinner (An 11+ ELITE Thread)

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  • pk04
    pk04 Posts: 2,998 Forumite
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    Afternoon all :D

    Anyone near Plym0uth? There's about 15 boxes of the 1p hot cross bun chocs on the main choc aisle of the R0b0r0ugh store
    There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne ... Bette Davis
  • Tinyshoes
    Tinyshoes Posts: 29,014 Forumite
    He's been around on Facebook so not long now :cool:

    I will tell him off when he gets here, you mean we are the last to know he is ok. :shocked:

    And me and FC even waited up for him last night. :eek:
  • bubbs
    bubbs Posts: 67,981 Forumite
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    Tinyshoes wrote: »
    Ours looked a bit sorry today we think it must have collapsed with weight of water, we are under trees. :(

    Someone had kindly tried to put the end that collapsed back up except for the bent pole was left dangling. :eek:

    You can tell the inside has been on the ground as it is bit muddy, and puddles of water everywhere, good job we had not laid the carpet down yet. We were looking for a water proof barrier to put underneath it. Think I will let Mr TS have his way and get black plastic to put the carpet on.

    We are hoping to stay out there tomorrow night and Monday so we will be able to check on it.

    Mr TS didn't manage to get the work done on outside of house yesterday and it is meant to be nice tomorrow so we are split between getting on and relaxing at the moment. :o

    But we need him to get certain jobs done before we get new windows in etc shame it can't be all fun and play. :eek:

    Some people have wooden platforms for the flooring then covered in carpet , have you got anything like this?
    Sealed pot challenge number 003 £350 for 2015, 2016 £400 Actual£345, £400 for 2017 Actual £500:T:T £770 for 2018 £1295 for 2019:j:j spc number 22 £1,457Stopped Smoking 22/01/15:D:D::dance::dance:- 5 st 1 1/2lb :dance::dance:
  • TrulyMadly
    TrulyMadly Posts: 39,754 Forumite
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    Off to M&S:)
    To do is to be. Rousseau
    To be is to do. Sartre
    Do be do be do. Sinatra
  • bubbs
    bubbs Posts: 67,981 Forumite
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    TrulyMadly wrote: »
    Off to M&S:)

    Get the biggest chicken going:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    Sealed pot challenge number 003 £350 for 2015, 2016 £400 Actual£345, £400 for 2017 Actual £500:T:T £770 for 2018 £1295 for 2019:j:j spc number 22 £1,457Stopped Smoking 22/01/15:D:D::dance::dance:- 5 st 1 1/2lb :dance::dance:
  • Jelly_Biactol
    Jelly_Biactol Posts: 3,636 Forumite
    fairclaire wrote: »
    Ive had great fun today listening to DS2 having full blown conversations and even an argument with the fanimal sausage. He's delighted to have something that answers him back

    That made me :rotfl:

    What were they arguing about?
    And more importantly, who was right???:)
    'It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.'
    Groucho Marx

  • David.
    David. Posts: 24,086 Forumite
    bubbs wrote: »
    Some people have wooden platforms for the flooring then covered in carpet , have you got anything like this?
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    When The Fun Stops Stop ;)
  • Tinyshoes
    Tinyshoes Posts: 29,014 Forumite
    I forgot to tell you all something last night.

    I needed to raid my wine stash in the bathroom for a bottle of champagne for a present yesterday. :cool:

    The box of champagne is always the one right at the bottom far right corner of my stash it had 3 leftover from an M&S glitch and the 3 that came from the Ts mystery fizz box in it.

    Well I picked up the one in the front and as I did thought this feels light. :eek:

    And when I lifted it away from the box there was no bottom to it and definitely no champagne. :(:(:(

    At some point the bottom of the bottle must have cracked and all the champagne leaked out. :mad:

    I had 5 mouldy bottles of champagne. :( I don't know when it happened and the white wine box in front of it smelt of champagne and you could see it had leaked up it so have thrown that box away too. The champagne that broke was a mystery one I have never tried before as well. :cry:

    There is no way I can easily get to the corner to clean it so have left it to dry not sure if it was still damp but I will at some point have to move the boxes at the bottom of my stash that were next to it don't know if they soaked any of it up. But it was all too much to try to do in the dark. I might have ended up buried. :o
  • Jelly_Biactol
    Jelly_Biactol Posts: 3,636 Forumite
    edited 25 May 2014 at 1:37PM
    karlie88 wrote: »
    Does anyone know of any M&S Food shops with self-service tills in Manchester apart from the one in the city centre?

    Here's the list I compiled back in January (with a lot of help from Elite-ers who posted details and upates), if it's of any help to anyone...


    M&S SS tills

    Banstead NO
    Barnsley NO
    Bath YES
    Belfast (Donegall Place) YES
    Beverley YES
    Bexleyheath YES
    Bexhill YES
    Birmingham (City centre ) YES
    Bishop Auckland YES
    Blackpool YES
    Bluewater YES
    Bristol Broadmead YES
    Bristol Cribbs Causeway The Mall YES
    Bristol Longwell Green YES
    Cambridge (retail park) YES
    Cambridge (Sydney St) YES
    Canterbury YES
    Cardiff (Culverhouse Cross) YES
    Cheddar Pines (Cheshire Oaks) Ellesmere Port YES
    Chelmsford YES
    Chester YES
    Cleveleys NO
    Coatbridge (Glasgow) YES
    Colchester YES
    Coventry Binley Retail YES
    Coventry Ricoh Arena NO
    Croydon YES
    Dartford NO
    Doncaster (town centre) YES
    Dover NO
    Dundee Simply Food YES
    Durham Arnison YES
    Edinburgh (Gyle Centre) YES
    Evesham YES
    Exeter YES
    Glasgow (Argyle st) YES
    Glasgow (Anniesland, Great Western Rd) YES
    Glasgow (Coatbridge, faraday retail) YES
    Glasgow (Milngavie) NO
    Glasgow (Newton Meams) YES
    Glasgow (Silverburn) YES
    Harrow YES
    Hastings (E Sussex) YES
    Hempstead Valley NO
    High Wycombe Eden Centre YES
    High Wycombe Retail Park NO
    Hollingbury, Brighton YES
    Hull YES
    Ilkley YES
    Kew Retail Park YES
    Lakeside (Essex) YES
    Leeds (City Centre) YES
    Leeds (Owlcotes Centre) NO
    Leeds (Central Station) NO
    Llandudno YES
    Liverpool (City Centre) YES
    Liverpool (Speke Retail Park) YES
    London (Angel/Islington) YES
    London Canary Wharf YES
    London Ealing Broadway YES
    London Earls Court YES
    London Edgeware Road YES
    London Greenwich YES
    London Oxford street (two stores) YES
    London Stratford Westfield YES
    Luton NO
    Maldon NO
    Manchester Market Street YES
    Manchester Trafford Centre YES
    Meadows Sandhurst (Camberley) YES
    Metro Centre YES
    Middlesbrough YES
    Milton Keynes (centre) YES
    Milton Keynes (Bletchley MK1) YES
    Newport YES
    Northampton Sixfields YES
    Perth YES
    Plymouth City Centre YES
    Plymouth Derriford NO
    Prestwich NO
    Reading YES
    Romford YES
    Salisbury YES
    Sandhurst YES
    Scarborough YES
    Sheffield Meadowhall YES
    Shrewsbury YES
    Skipton NO
    St Albans YES
    St Annes NO
    St Neots NO
    Stevenage NO
    Stratford upon Avon Simply Food NO
    South Woodford NO
    Swindon (town centre) YES
    Swindon (Orbital Park) NO
    Swindon Mannington YES
    Tamworth Ventura Park YES
    Teesside Park YES
    Uxbridge YES
    Walsall YES
    Warrington Gemini YES
    Washington Galleries YES
    Watford YES
    Wellingborough YES
    Westwood Cross YES
    Widnes YES
    Willerby YES
    Wrexham NO
    York (Pavement) YES
    'It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.'
    Groucho Marx

  • karlie88
    karlie88 Posts: 9,114 Forumite
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    TrulyMadly wrote: »
    Off to M&S:)

    :D
    bubbs wrote: »
    Get the biggest chicken going:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    :rotfl:
    :grouphug: :D Official MSE canny forumite and HUKD VIP badge member :D :grouphug:
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