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lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Stop touting yourself for a boyfriend again....

I struggle with cinema ticket prices, £40 quid before any snacks/drinks for the family outside London when you can buy the dvd / bluray for a tenner 2 months later and watch as often as you like with a £1 bag of supermarket popcorn.

Ten pounds? Wait a little longer, they drop even more. Popcorn made at home is cheaper and nicer too. . You can make all kinds of flavours if the mood strikes.



We have that amazon thing ATM. In it are several films we won't watch becUse they are too expensive. Some of the free or cheap films I might have glossed over have actually been rather good. DH loved a film called another earth and there was another one called the double that was good too. ( neither are kid films though)

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

He may be counting all steps not just up and down the stepladder to change the smoke alarm battery?

I have an app on my phone to count steps but it kills the battery which is good as it means I don't have to see I do less than 1000 per day.

You are both of you underestimating. On Saturday, I stayed in the house and did not go out, but still did 2600 steps apparently. 600 today, and I've just been pottering around.

lostinrates

A navel gazing post on weakness and fatigue.

This weekend I wanted FOOD. I have a cold, i needed to eat and to have some hot stuff and to chew ( swollen heads and filled sinuses are not a winning combination).

After thinking and wondering I decided I'd like meatballs of the Swedish sort. I made a Cheaty cucumber pickle. And because if you are going to make meat balls you might as well make extra and freeze some for future meals ( a single batch was going to give us some left overs ) I made a double batch.

Then I started to roll the blighters. The first three were fine. By six my shoulders and between my shoulders was aching. I didn't think I could finish the bowl. By twelve I was shaking, but felt stupid taking a break after rolling just twelve meat balls.


I did plough through them all but afterwards had to sleep , lol. It took a few hours to work up the appetite to eat them, and fir put them in the oven, I was too tired to bother. Now, that's not my every day at all, but it explains how planning can be hard. One day I go from 'I'll make meat balls to cannot get them in the oven body hurts need sleep head feels so big and swollen and my back and shoulders feel like I did pull ups all day.

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

Expected better of you. Plenty of nectar points/ clubcard deals/ orange Wednesdays for cinemas. Even groupon does cinema deals.

With the kids we are pretty much limited to weekend showings and even with the extra value clubcard/nectar deals it still seems to work out at least a fiver per head, I do check pretty reguarly, the only affordable offers tend to be the kids movie club deals which are generally for very 'U' movies several months old.

We have NowTV (=sky movies), purchased of course when various places have sold off the 'starter packs including x months movies' for peanuts so never pay more than a couple of quid a month for it (and we have at least half a dozen of the digiboxes if anyone is interested) so the kids see a lot of movies, I never seem to get time to watch any myself. We lost about 150 kids movies when a non-backed up HD failed although we probably still have the DVDs of most of them somewhere (in the shed?)

GDB: I will switch on the pedometer now and let you know. Switched it on, dropped phone back into my breast pocket = 1 step . Perhaps if I switch on the metronome app as well and turn the sound down to vibrate I will get a pretty impressive total?!

Edit: Now up to 10 and haven't moved from my chair yet

tom9980

silvercar wrote: »

Expected better of you. Plenty of nectar points/ clubcard deals/ orange Wednesdays for cinemas. Even groupon does cinema deals.

Friends and family of staff get in free at odeon, a perk we use a lot in this house.

GDB2222

tom9980 wrote: »

Friends and family of staff get in free at odeon, a perk we use a lot in this house.

Free tickets for friends? That's a bit vague. You could have millions of friends. I expect that Michaels has already PM'ed you.

tom9980

GDB2222 wrote: »

Free tickets for friends? That's a bit vague. You could have millions of friends. I expect that Michaels has already PM'ed you.

There is some sort of limit the manager has to authorise the transaction but between us we had a good 50 free tickets last year.

hjd

DD and boyfriend returning from a weekend in Amsterdam. On Eurostar - currently all services suspended due to person on line in Kent. They have been stuck on the train outside Calais for over 3 hours now. Apparently very claustrophobic.
Edit: Now on the move. Still no food but luckily they had some Belgian chocolate to keep them going.
Apparently they will be entitled to a free return journey as compensation. Not sure that's top of their list of priorities at the moment!
Edit 2: She's still planning to do her evening library shift today but has told them she may be late. What a fun day!

GDB2222

hjd wrote: »

DD and boyfriend returning from a weekend in Amsterdam. On Eurostar - currently all services suspended due to person on line in Kent. They have been stuck on the train outside Calais for over 3 hours now. Apparently very claustrophobic.
Edit: Now on the move. Still no food but luckily they had some Belgian chocolate to keep them going.
Apparently they will be entitled to a free return journey as compensation. Not sure that's top of their list of priorities at the moment!

Look on the bright side. They are safe and well, and 3 hours inside the tunnel would have been worse.

hjd

GDB2222 wrote: »

Look on the bright side. They are safe and well, and 3 hours inside the tunnel would have been worse.

Yup, she knows that. Finally arrived in London 3.5 hours late and glad to be back!
Someone posting on the Eurostar twitter feed - In Aus, when things like this happen, they lay on buses and transfer passengers to them. Why aren't you doing the same?
A very measured response from Eurostar:
Those are employed from time to time where it is necessary and appropriate; thanks

Temptation to explain where exactly the trains go would have been too great for me to resist!