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  • Snap-ant
    Snap-ant Posts: 15,944 Forumite
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    edited 20 November 2014 at 7:14PM
    sarahskint wrote: »
    Evening all x
    big ask time........... my DD who is 11, needs to come up with a person who in the last 100 years has done something for us/the world - this is for her biography for school, best I could come up with was some bloke who cloned dolly am after some ideas, not people too popular they are always done by half the class lol AND they have to be English :D ty all

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Baylis

    Solar powered fridge for vaccinations in Africa

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1108343/Amazing-solar-powered-fridge-invented-British-student-potting-shed-helps-poverty-stricken-Africans.html

    and James Dyson for blade less fans & bagless vacuum cleaners

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dyson
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  • tweets
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    Snap-ant wrote: »
    The WAGG scanned at yellow SEL price after I got Fourp to lug the 12kgs to the scanner :o

    Got the B1G2F on the Cadburys selection boxes.

    Found more series 11 Lego mini figures for 62p - going to put them in my home made crackers

    One direction set of 4 badges scan at 35p

    The Thomas Take & play - was 'contact a member of staff' :(:(

    The frozen Banoffee pie is 75p :D

    Pavlova cases are 79p

    Creme caramel kits 59p

    Calypso freeze pops are 64p for 30

    Poor fourp bet he was :mad: when it said £9-99 :D
  • Snap-ant
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  • Snap-ant wrote: »
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    That is painful, you so do not eat it like that :eek:
    What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare
  • bexter7
    bexter7 Posts: 1,520 Forumite
    Hello all. I wandered onto this thread yesterday morning completely by mistake (I was looking for cheap Sat Nav reviews! How lost was I?! :) ). I read a few posts wondering why everyone was talking in a mysterious code...but 2 words made it into my brain. 'Free Cheese'.

    Loaded up T grocery shopping and had a go. Couldn't get £15 of £60 token to work, but had a £3 off £30 so went for that instead. Coupled with cheese deal and some voucher stacking getting with 2 off 7 chilled meal deal, with 2 for 5 pizzas and 1.17 covent garden soup, plus vouchers £1 off pizza and .75 off soup. Then rounded it out to £30, using whatever other misc vouchers I had for things I needed. Was actually on when T fixed the prices, noticed some meat I had been considering was now showing at correct price, and finished up quickly before I accidentally did anything to make the basket refresh!

    Ended up with 4 blocks cheese, 2 pizzas, 2 soups, box of eggs, 2 boxes of lasagne sheets, 4 tins tomatoes, marmite and some chocolate for princely sum of £3.68.

    So thank you to whoever it was that caught this (and enough people explaining it so I got it!) :j you have made my day (and I am definitely watching this thread from now on).

    Right, now back trying to find an affordable Sat-nav for a christmas pressie...

    Great post! Welcome to the madness! :)
  • RootedNomad
    RootedNomad Posts: 3,514 Forumite
    edited 20 November 2014 at 7:39PM
    Evening everyone :)
    sarahskint wrote: »


    big ask time........... my DD who is 11, needs to come up with a person who in the last 100 years has done something for us/the world - this is for her biography for school, best I could come up with was some bloke who cloned dolly am after some ideas, not people too popular they are always done by half the class lol AND they have to be English :D ty all

    Claire Bertschinger - literally inspirational and countless lives saved. Very topical at the moment too.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4640255.stm
  • LEJC wrote: »
    jelly...I came back to mention percy shaw,but see you got there first.
    I think he would be a good one IMHO; an interesting story, and a proper English eccentric as well.

    Will try and think of some more:think:
    'It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.'
    Groucho Marx

  • Savvybuyer
    Savvybuyer Posts: 22,332 Forumite
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    edited 20 November 2014 at 7:40PM
    As for my shopping in A earlier today (no, I didn't do Avs Sains.), the 1Kg carrots are still returning N/A vs M - don't know whether this reflects Wednesday yet:

    1 x ASDA Carrots (1Kg)£0.57N/A

    That wasn't a planned item - but store was OOS of something else so I had to change things around a bit. I was originally going to get a Banana at A and a single carrot (hoping I could get a much smaller carrot than a banana) at S, but ended up the other way around:cool::rotfl:!

    There is some Domestos Pink or Lemon or Blue (1L for 750ml) in M at £1. However, I thought about it but decided that that's not a particularly good price, with various offers on various own brands in different places.

    1 x ASDA Thick Bleach Lemon (2L)£1.55£1.00
    Shopping was vs T.
  • tbw
    tbw Posts: 5,137 Forumite
    I think the Asda beef joints are 'Bubbs Beef' - the one I just got is Butchers Selection Top Rump and thats what it says on one of last years BB's thats still in my freezer.
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  • David.
    David. Posts: 24,086 Forumite
    Hello all. I wandered onto this thread yesterday morning completely by mistake (I was looking for cheap Sat Nav reviews! How lost was I?! :) ). I read a few posts wondering why everyone was talking in a mysterious code...but 2 words made it into my brain. 'Free Cheese'.

    Loaded up T grocery shopping and had a go. Couldn't get £15 of £60 token to work, but had a £3 off £30 so went for that instead. Coupled with cheese deal and some voucher stacking getting with 2 off 7 chilled meal deal, with 2 for 5 pizzas and 1.17 covent garden soup, plus vouchers £1 off pizza and .75 off soup. Then rounded it out to £30, using whatever other misc vouchers I had for things I needed. Was actually on when T fixed the prices, noticed some meat I had been considering was now showing at correct price, and finished up quickly before I accidentally did anything to make the basket refresh!

    Ended up with 4 blocks cheese, 2 pizzas, 2 soups, box of eggs, 2 boxes of lasagne sheets, 4 tins tomatoes, marmite and some chocolate for princely sum of £3.68.

    So thank you to whoever it was that caught this (and enough people explaining it so I got it!) :j you have made my day (and I am definitely watching this thread from now on).

    Right, now back trying to find an affordable Sat-nav for a christmas pressie...
    Run while you still can :rotfl:

    http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/mio-nav-scanning-1p-tesco-hanley-rrp-59-99-2053197
    When The Fun Stops Stop ;)
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