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Wheezy_2

vivatifosi wrote: »

However at that price you didn't miss much.

Keep watching though. There's boxing gloves coming up in 50 minutes. £35 normal price, I think they should go for £20 or less. That's the pressie for Mrs.Wheezy sorted. :cheesy:

vivatifosi

We've had a few successes with Lightning deals. Last year got a Miele vac for about £89. But the best ever buy was the 19" LED high def TV for £65ish.

vivatifosi

It's just a nice cheap telly. A thin one. I wanted a white TV to go in a pastel bedroom and it ticked that box too. I just use it to watch Freeview.

In all seriousness, if any come up at that price again they are probably worth getting, more or less irrespective of spec, providing they are not too small.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

It's just a nice cheap telly. A thin one. I wanted a white TV to go in a pastel bedroom and it ticked that box too. I just use it to watch Freeview.

In all seriousness, if any come up at that price again they are probably worth getting, more or less irrespective of spec, providing they are not too small.

All that confusing tech stuff... confuses me. LCD, LED, HD, TFT..... ABC and XYZ. Who knows what I'd want, what's right.

It used to be that you bought a telly, based on screen size, what it looked like, how much it cost. Easy.... not now!

Doozergirl

mystic_trev wrote: »

I think I've just had my most unproductive day ever. Most of it of it has been spent trying to credit £10 to a cellular Ipad. EE….. what a croc of !!!!!! :mad:

I feel your pain there. We got DD an EE payg. Gave up. £10 credit just doing beggar all now.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

The outlander sales man was trying to sell the car on a feature where there is an app that pre warms the car so you can tell the car to start warming from bed.

Fir pointed out this might be dubious use to us, as we still have to traverse the garden or farm yard to the car. Might suit town/city/cottage dwellers better.

Salesman then moved on to electric seat function. Fir got quite excited and said, what does that do then? Sales man said it moved car seat position. Fir said, haven 't yet had a car where seat isn't adjustable. Salesman said, yes but this is electric buttons, not just levers. Fir said ( grinning but a little sad) , what an anticlimax. I thought it might be an ejector seat or something. Its really under delivering.....adjusting seats which have always been adjustable.

I can just tell we are car sales people's worst nightmare.

Our car has an electrically adjustable driver's seat. I thought it was a load of old tosh, until I discovered that it remembers the seat and mirror positions for different keys. So, when DW uses her key, the seat is right for her, and when I use my key it's right for me.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

Our car has an electrically adjustable driver's seat. I thought it was a load of old tosh, until I discovered that it remembers the seat and mirror positions for different keys. So, when DW uses her key, the seat is right for her, and when I use my key it's right for me.

I can drive in fir's seat position really. I adjust RP's mirrors a bit ( electric but does not have this memory) but not the seat so much.

zagubov

GDB2222 wrote: »

Our car has an electrically adjustable driver's seat. I thought it was a load of old tosh, until I discovered that it remembers the seat and mirror positions for different keys. So, when DW uses her key, the seat is right for her, and when I use my key it's right for me.

I do admire the way they try to find improvements in our driving experience. Even better, I'd like a car that improves its petrol efficiency with every increase in the price of petrol.

Failing that I'd settle for a car that's bigger on the inside than out, hardly ever needs filling with petrol, turns on a sixpence and you can park on the same footprint as a matchbox toy. And is so unglamorous that you never have to worry about anybody stealing it.

Had one of those ages ago. It was an early Nissan micra. Why did I let it get rusty?! :mad:

Oh yes, and add a car that never rusts to the wishlist (but I don't want Fred Flintstone's).:D

michaels

Do any NP know about compact cameras? Need a better camera for our holiday, I know DSLR is 'the way to go' especially when it comes to showing off at kids school plays but I reckon on holiday a compact is just so much more practical.

fc123

SingleSue wrote: »

No blooming central heating and I have frost on my shed roof......we've been ok but this morning is a bit brass monkeys getting out of bed and getting the oil filled radiators on for the boys getting up.

I sympathise....but have now read it'll be fixed in a week.


I still am in awe of my newly insulated and efficiently heated house. Last winter we went months with the back being built and open to all the elements ...just the doors to the 2 bedrooms at the back blocked the freeze that seeped through.
We were cold all the time and had periods during the work when the heating that we did have was turned off.


No hot water for a few periods was even worse.


I dropped a stone purely through the cold and still haven't put it all back on....maybe 71b's to go. I am with Dooz, if you eat hardly anything processed it's really hard to put weight on.

GDB2222 wrote: »

Happy day after birthday, SC.

ditto + a day . Do you have to go back and buy the exact same juicer that you returned to please the gift giver?

PasturesNew wrote: »

A good/proper pantry - that's what I've always wanted as you can keep everything in there and nothing is constrained by daft unit widths or heights or anything. Leaving worktops free.

I'd love a clutter free kitchen, but I've permanently got on the tops: kettle, toaster, microwave, bread bin. So annoying.

....my main aim when planning our kitchen was to have as little out as possible (hence the Boil tap ) and it's worked. Just a Wesco breadbin, the glass toaster, herb pot and opposite a couple of steel bowls with lemons, toms whatever in them. Fruit on the island.
The best bit was ensuring that most things that went into the dishwasher could be put away from the dishwasher without moving your feet at all. Just bend down, pick up plate and reach up to put in cupboard. Just pans / cooking things have to be 'walked' across to the other side.






Well, been AWOL as I had a bit of an accident.


After 15 years of having a crap blunt bread knife, I treated us to a kitchen devil one from asda ....and took the entire top of my thumb off on Friday pm.


The 2mm slice of thumb ended up in the bread. Agony and I went all wizzy/ giddy but we plastered it up and I took a neurofen....but we didn't go to A+E as those ads say you shouldn't.


By Sunday, I had this rotting blk blood under 10 overlapping plasters and it was still acutely painful.....but I was too scared by this time to remove the plasters to have a look...so had a hunt for a minor injury unit and we have one locally attached to A+E so decided to go there if it hadn't got better by this week but if I am honest, I couldn't face waiting there for hours and hours.


Was at the Chiropractor last night and he noticed it whiffed a bit (which is kind of embarrassing ) and he told me about a pay MIU locally so I went there this morning to find out that I could have lost my whole thumb had I left it longer due to a nasty infection and some anaerobic bacteria (oxygen-less due to the now 15 layers of plastic plaster.


NP's will be pleased to know I was very brave as all 15 layers of smelly ickyness were removed and the wound was 'scrubbed'.


I was told off too for not getting treatment but did get a bonus mini health check with blood pressure etc test which reassured me as they were all 100%.


Now got antibiotics, a professionally done breathable bandage and a problem as it will take 4 weeks for the skin to grow back and we have The Clothes Show next week which is a very thumb busy event.
Have to fork out again for a new dressing Friday but OH is going to come and have a bandage lesson so he can do a fresh one each day for the show.