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Evangeline1971

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Why would have that have been the case? (Or vice versa - i.e. National Trust card use in Scotland.) They are 'private' organisations and nothing to do with government.

I could write everything I know about this Scottish voting thing on the back of a postage stamp :rotfl: I dunno I just thought that was what would have happened because I heard something about price changes for groceries if it went ahead. I'm glad it didn't go ahead because I don't like changes I don't understand and would have worried about the APG being affected Sorry Savvy but I have no interest in politics

Savvybuyer

I'm just looking at the Maynard's Discovery Patch packs - I bought one of each of the three of them - compared vs 50p and 49ps to T's 3 for '1' offer - I felt it was a good way of making up eight items on one of my shops. The "Body Bits" pack though - eating things like those brains:eek:. No penises or anything like that though:laugh::rotfl:.

Savvybuyer

Evangeline1971 wrote: »

I could write everything I know about this Scottish voting thing on the back of a postage stamp :rotfl: I dunno I just thought that was what would have happened because I heard something about price changes for groceries if it went ahead. I'm glad it didn't go ahead because I don't like changes I don't understand and would have worried about the APG being affected Sorry Savvy but I have no interest in politics

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Price changes for groceries is an interesting one - oops, here you got me going again:eek: - a bit like the 1992 UK General Election when, at the end of the day people voted because they were told taxes wouldn't rise. Matters like the NHS, public services... but, when it came down to it, it was people's own money in their pockets that mattered (according to my take on the result of that election) and wider public or national interests didn't matter. Fwiw, I think Gordon Brown's statement at the very end - "If you aren't sure, then the answer must be 'no'" had an impact, not with all the excess people over 1.6m that voted for "No", but certainly with some of that amount - though, despite what was seen with the polls, the final result was not as close as was felt it might be. And it was clearly aimed, very astutely, at the undecided. The "Yes" campaign, at that stage, did not give any reply to it or were unable to do so (not because they had no answer but because it was then too late in the day). The referendum outcome was a clear result, and it was a decisive result, but I don't agree with the Daily Telegraph, which called it "overwhelming". Not that "overwhelming" when a sizeable minority voted "Yes". And I don't agree that the "vast" majority voted "No" either, contrary to what Gordon Brown has said today. However, I'm taking, and picking up on, individual words again.

"Vast" majority IMO would be well over 90%. 55% isn't a "vast" majority, but it is a majority. Then again, 30% or 20% is a majority too, in cases where more than two options are available. (The majority is first-past-the-post under the UK's parliamentary representation system. Anyway...)

:cool::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

At the end of the day, when people get into the polling booth, on an issue of independence or no, their mind is concentrated and they quivver and say No. No 'free' democracy in the modern world, as far as Professor Curtis could think of, has ever voted for independence and, in the end - you could say the most part of the electorate bottled it - it was like the last Quebec referendum.

Anyway.
(A second time:rotfl::rotfl:.)

No need for embarassment about not being interested in politics! In fact, you probably are interested in the sense that the independence debate got your interest, though here again, my view now becomes so complex and would take me ages and words and words to explain in full. So I'll resist! (Suffice to say that, as ever, that isn't the whole picture.)

76rosie

i found yoomoo for 89p in tosco. i've also wombled a fiver:j

bubbs

I dont get these:cool:, maybe im getting old?:rotfl:if your asleep why do you need a speaker?:o
Sound Asleep Speaker Blanket £2.99 @ Home Bargains
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/sound-asleep-speaker-blanket-2-99-home-bargains-2004930

gocat

queen_of_cheap wrote: »

Don't go anywhere near the ronseal!

I forgot to say that the Wickes stuff is half price at the mo. £5.99 for 12 litres :cool:

My fences are 12 years old. Only been painted once and think that was a few years after we got them. I want to paint them but OH says waste of time and might as well get new ones. They look solid enough to me. What do the fence experts reckon?

tia

Also found 2 gas cookers. They look identical to me. One is hotpoint and one is cannon.
http://www.tesco.com/direct/hotpoint-hug52k-black-gas-cooker-double-oven-50cm/155-0387.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=155-0387

http://ao.com/product/CH50GCIK-Cannon-Gas-Cooker-Black-24171-1.aspx?disableredirect=1

Again OH says go for the dearer hotpoint one. But I cant see any difference between the two :eek::eek:

Bit fed up with OH today :rotfl:

Savvybuyer

TrulyMadly wrote: »

A v T

2 x R Whites Lemonade (2L) £2.00 £1.29

Thanks, I didn't know that had gone on again.
(It was that bogo'f' price a few weeks ago, it seems like, and then up to full prices.)
On, off, on, off, on, off, back round again:mad:.

Evangeline...if you don't like "changes", this situation here must be even more infuriating to you!

However, I assume by "price changes" you meant price increases...

No need to answer that, and onto... whatever is next!:cool:

rhosynbach

abailey54 wrote: »

I do love your stories of home grown/caught stuff and all the things you make, proper piece of the good life

thanks i know how lucky we are just recently it has been lobsters, prawns and a few crabs from the pots and a large bass and huge bull huss so plenty to keep us going have also been freezing and jarring fruit and veg. but the most fun I am having is experimenting with the dehydrator we have various flavours of apples and pears, and dried tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms and tomorrow am going to do some beans

qoc impressed with your sweet potatoes mine never produced. ans thanks for the ronseal advice

Dizzy_Ditzy

gocat wrote: »

My fences are 12 years old. Only been painted once and think that was a few years after we got them. I want to paint them but OH says waste of time and might as well get new ones. They look solid enough to me. What do the fence experts reckon?

tia

Also found 2 gas cookers. They look identical to me. One is hotpoint and one is cannon.
http://www.tesco.com/direct/hotpoint-hug52k-black-gas-cooker-double-oven-50cm/155-0387.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=155-0387

http://ao.com/product/CH50GCIK-Cannon-Gas-Cooker-Black-24171-1.aspx?disableredirect=1

Again OH says go for the dearer hotpoint one. But I cant see any difference between the two :eek::eek:

Bit fed up with OH today :rotfl:

I'm not an expert, but have a good look at them and see if they're rotting, mainly at the bottom. If they're good, you won't need new ones! A coat of paint will keep them going for a lot longer than without

lutzi1

bubbs wrote: »

i hope its next week:o
Hello lutzi, tweets SSM:wave:

Hi bubbs, loving the public information service about all the good deals. :T

Just sitting here thinking about my day at work. I get to see many strange and wonderful things, many strange and not at all wonderful, but no two days are ever the same.

I've been very busy at work over the last couple of months as I've previously said, so the new experiences have been coming thick and fast. I've had a ceremony interrupted by a large tree tearing itself asunder incredibly noisily right outside the window (I had to stop the ceremony while I made sure we were all safe). I've done a Russian wedding which as very unusual, a huge Indian wedding, and one for somebody with severe anger management issues. Then there was the one with the incredibly controlling parents who took over their daughter's wedding quite abominably - had to manage them firmly. There have been the most appallingly loud children who have disrupted the ceremony throughout (usually when I ask the couple if they want me to do something about it they say no - chaos seems to be the soundtrack of so many people's lives.) Occasionally I've had to stop them anyway, so bad have they been. There was the one where I did something again that I've never done before - openly glared at a best man who was so badly behaved it was unreal - pulling faces, talking, spinning the ring etc throughout. The one where I had to stop a little bridesmaid and a guest catching fire on the candles in the aisle. The one where some stupid woman was letting the children stand on the sill of an open window on a very high first floor to look out. :mad: The groom who got so emotional when his friend read a reading, I wondered if there was some unresolved business going on. And then there was today's.

There was a young couple on the front row, with a lovely little girl and a pram. At one point the baby in the pram began to softly wimper. Most parents will let their children run riot, but not this Dad - he very gently lifted a very tiny, tiny new baby girl out of the pram and took her out of the fire door close by and stood in the porch there, cradling her so very gently and clearly loving her to bits. So caring and gentle he was, it was a pleasure to see. I'd called a reader forwards to read and I was standing on the other side of the room looking over.

Suddenly I had a horrible thought - the very small porch has some treacherous steps down to the lovely gardens , and one step drops far more down than the others - I'd nearly fallen down it and gone Harris over elbow only recently because you just don't expect it. For the rest of the reading I had to will him not to take her down there, and the minute the reading finished I had to rush across and warn him. The thought of him and that beautiful tiny baby tumbling down those dangerous steps was literally unbearable.

Thankfully all was well and it was a lovely ceremony for a super couple . All in a day's work, but so often while we are doing our jobs, we're dealing with so much other stuff as well. That's my excuse anyway when I get home and fall asleep! :rotfl: