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3 successful APGs today. Must be a 1st for me lol. Thanks to OP of alpen, mince pork, JF/H&S deals :beer:


0x Alpen Light Cherry Bakewell Bars (5PK) £10.00 £5.00
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Granny Smith Apples (600G) £1.25 N/A
1x Alpen Light Double Chocolate Bars (5PK) £1.00 £0.50
1x Sunpat Smooth Peanut Spread (340G) £1.25 N/A
1x ASDA Drawstring Refuse Sacks 80 Litre (20PK) £2.50 £2.41
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Gala Apples (600G) £0.85 N/A
1x Dolmio Bolognese Pasta Sauce Chunky Mushroom (500G) £1.64 £1.00
2x ASDA Grower's Selection Pears (1.2KG) £3.00 N/A
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Apples (1.2KG) £2.00 N/A
2x Butcher's Selection Pork Mince (500G) £6.00 £3.50
0.23x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Onion (order by number of onions or select kg) (PER KG) £0.17 £0.17
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Chopped Onion (225G) £0.50 N/A
1x ASDA Loose Garlic (EACH) £0.25 N/A
0.11x ASDA Loose Carrot (order by number of carrots or select kg) (PER KG) N/A N/A
1x ASDA Grower's Selection British Red Apples (650G) £1.00 £1.00
0.17x ASDA Loose Banana (order by number of bananas or select kg) (PER KG) £0.12 £0.11

tweets

Nannylala wrote: »

Good afternoon tweets ..bless her:A she's obviously been stressing whilst you were at work ...was it your first day back today?

Hoping Ladyshopper got home safe and sound from hospital and is chilaxing:T

Good Afternoon Nannylala :A

Yes it was my first day back and that's it til Christmas Holidays .

Poppy not moved she looks like she's fast asleep .

pk04

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Exactly.

Still not sure about reporting it though - not just for the potential reasons I've already mentioned - greater inconvenience to me - sometimes leaving a wasp's nest undisturbed is a better way of dealing with the wasps - I tend to poke into things and it always ends up upsetting the matter and making it far worse:( - so, I'm not prodding with my stick this time, also if I report it, it will only draw attention to the fact that my part mirror-less car is outside my house on the road.

To return to the outset of your post (first paragraph), yes you're absolutely right, rationally I am not going to be so stupid. Fortunately I have some sense.

I would only report it if you are planning on claiming on your insurance or if you know that there are a few cars damaged in your road. I've had this done to me twice (well slightly different - they just kicked the wing mirror off both times ) The first time my insurance just wanted a report number (and the police said outright it wouldn't be investigated anyway). The second time I didn't bother reporting it or claiming off the insurance.

I wouldn't drive it unless necessary though (ie to have it repaired) because as you said, it does make it more difficult to see, especially bikes who are overtaking/waiting to overtake you.

hornetgirl

tweets wrote: »

Good Afternoon

I left Virgin Broadband because it didn't work in my house used to be ringing customer service every other day . Customer services used to ping ? it at their end and it worked til day after. I would never have been able to play Candy Crush while on Virgin it used to go off for a sec this would happen loads times in an evening even DS complained.

When I told them I was leaving for O2 after about 7 years struggling with them they offered me free broadband , tv and line rental for a year I told them no chance Went with O2 no problem and now with Sky since they bought O2 and still no problem. So I wouldn't recommend Virgin

Washer on with Poppy's blankets in , her bed is outside drying . Got home from work and she had been sick in her bed not a lot but her bed needed wiping and blankets washing.

She lay down side of sofa asleep. Fingers crossed no fireworks tonight or I will be grrrrrrrrrrrrr .

Thanks for sharing a less than good experience, we want to get as many opinions as we can before making a decision. The package we have at the moment is very good in terms of the landline deal but as I mentioned before the broadband speed is woeful. Our current package is no longer available, so there will be no going back if we do switch. Hence we want to be very sure before doing anything.

Hope Poppy is ok.

mhoc

it might be worth reporting - espeically if you have a local PTSP who walks around your streets - they need to know if this is the start of a spate of this sort of petty crime

as for your insurance - they will probably ask for a crime number so you need to report it first.

Mirrors are so expensive to replace - it depends on how much your excess is whether its worth reporting or not. Every time you claim it affects your future quotes and if you do claim you need to declare it at renewal time.

I was collecting my eldest from outside college as she wanted to go home sick and a cyclist ran into my mirror - £85 it cost me to replace

mhoc

Jeremiah_T_Stone wrote: »

Good Afternoon Everyone :kisses3:

Shop from this morning against Tesco, nothing glitchy, just didn't fancy paying £1 for cauliflowers and haven't got an Aldi nearby. - Wish we did after reading of the lovely things that mhoc buys :T

11 items (10 different) on your receipt qualify for comparison Asda Tesco

1x ASDA Grower's Selection Mixed Peppers (3PK) £0.99 £0.99

1x ASDA Grower's Selection British Broccoli (335G) £0.49 £0.49

1x Magnum Classic Ice Creams (4X110M) £2.00 £1.67

1x McCain Lightly Spiced Wedges (750G) £1.85 £1.00

1x ASDA Chosen by You Frozen for Freshness Garden Peas (1KG) £1.35 £1.35

1x Magnum Almond Ice Creams (4X110M) £2.00 £1.67

1x Ginsters Chicken & Bacon Pasty (180G) £1.00 £1.00

1x Pedigree Gravy Bones Original (400G) £1.57 £1.55

2x ASDA Grower's Selection Cauliflower (EACH) £2.00 £1.38

1x ASDA Grower's Selection Cherry Tomatoes (365G) £0.99 £0.99

Comparison total (compared products only) £14.24 £12.09

I think that even if your Aldi, Home bargains, B & M etc are miles away I think its still worth a once a month long drive to stock up on the basics

Savvybuyer

mrsmac10 wrote: »

Savvy

I am sorry i don't have wise words as again I am running on the later side for getting to work and only quoted a bit a your post

I know you are liked on here You bring a different dimension to the thread You were sadly missed when you took a break and there were many post asking if you were ok People come and go on the thread Some are missed more than others It depends on who you "chat" with if you are missed quickly

Sorry need to run as the drive will be longer as we have heavy fog

Take care lad XXXXX

I think people do that - there may be many reasons why - because they are concerned. I am, technically, a vulnerable person. Though I do fortunately manage to do a lot of things myself. It's a developmental disorder though - sometimes it can feel like being a child in an adult's body in some, albeit fairly limited, respects.

But then - and this is the contradiction and the source for wider confusion and lack of comprehension - it's not an easy disorder to understand and, typically for me, it's a complex disorder. So typical that a very complex (and wonderful) person like me should have such a complicated, not-straightforward-to-explain, disorder. Add to that my communication difficulties in ever explaining anything...:rotfl: (I'm exaggerating that last bit, as usual, and not meaning it literally!)

The contradiction (or one of them - see, I make it even more complicated:rotfl:) is that the development has lagged and it's like a child (there's also motor skills, which are also a matter of development, that have lagged, but that's a different matter) - I mean social skills - but it's not just that: it's intuitively knowing what to do - such as in a situation when my car mirror is taken, for example (though I have, I think, managed to deal with that adequately) - but - contradiction - at the same time I am like an adult, who is far more adult than adult, and knows so much detailed information - and that's how I am able to know, or find out, what to do - as a child, in my academic ability, I was like the stage of an adult and far far in advance of the rest of the children in my class. It also made me get perceived as a "swot" (no bad thing, as an adult, to be one now:D) and I was bullied. Long long time ago, water well under bridge, so do not worry folks. And of course I was socially clueless (perhaps 'clueless' is a bit unkind and too much - puts it too high - am I even speaking the same language as everyone else here?:think::rotfl:) - but didn't know that I was behaving differently and that that was why I was getting treated differently. Or, maybe I did really, like I know when I'm waffling on - but just canna help it!:D:cool::rotfl::rotfl:

I also knew (for a very brief period), as a child aged 12, that I had Asperger's long before many adults in the medical profession even knew about the condition and ten years before they ever diagnosed it in this country! Way in advance of everyone again you see...:D:D

Eventually the NT world catches up...:(:rotfl::rotfl:
Years after I've been first saying it - they don't listen, they think their own solution will work, I don't say anything as I'm not in any position to say anything (will only get myself disliked if I do) - they do their own solution - surprise surprise to everyone except me(:laugh:) it doesn't work, so, five years later, they introduce a new solution... precisely the same as the one I was saying but then shut my mouth up about that they should have introduced in the first place!! What a surprise:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

I thought I might have (Asperger's form of) autism when I was in school but - and coupled with communication difficulties of expressing myself orally - I kept absolutely quiet about it and dared not breathe a word of what I thought as I was in mainstream school, getting on fairly okay (indeed, academically excelling) and didn't want to be pulled out, put into a special school and forgotten about. Such was the different times of those way back years compared to what it would be today.

In a way, I'm glad I never learned body language, as an academic subject, the way I would have to learn it, as, despite not knowing body language, I have been able to get on fairly well - even if occasionally there are occasional misunderstandings (but that happens to NTs with NTs as well) and can be easily corrected - or, otherwise, if I can't very easily communicate it in order to correct it, things move on, everything moves on fine and everyone has forgotten about it - the NT person tends not to have even worried about it in the first place, only the Aspie noticed really - if I had learned body language, it would just impose an extra burden on me and make social situations exhausting - whereas all I do is just go and act myself in those situations, without thinking about it, obviously I don't say something if it is likely to upset someone, and it seems to work fairly well.

I suspect it happens very differently now, and children who have Asperger's are given the social curriculum. In a way maybe that would have been useful for me, but in another I'm glad that I've not had to worry about it (would probably never have remembered it all anyway:rotfl: - I remember some things, like products and prices, but other things, like what to do in a social situation, I can't remember at all and have to deal from scratch every time, well, almost!). It would be different now - I wouldn't be forgotten about and left in a special school that, back then, would probably be more disruptive. Actually, quite recently, I looked at special schools and saw that their Ofsted ratings were very good indeed! So, they'd actually be better places, in a way, to go to. Pity my poor standard comprehensive:rotfl:. No, back then, it would have been so disruptive to me - I was getting on 'just fine' (fairly okay) - and didn't want to be sidelined, as I felt, and ignored and forgotten about. Old dog can't learn new tricks now, like body language, and I cope fairly without it, so no point bothering now!! Doing fairly well...head above water...just keep going!

Despite stupid people today:mad:, with all these things that get thrown at you that try to knock you off.

annieme

curl_girl wrote: »

Afternoon peeps,


I wondered if anyone can help please, I have sold something on ebay, which is rare for me nowadays, the person has paid by paypal but wants me to send to another address which is not his, is this wise or am I asking for problems??


Any advice would be welcome,
TIA.

As a family we sell on eBay a lot. I've phoned & checked with paypal in the past but the rule is never send to a different address. The buyer should be aware of this. We always use the actual address from paypal. We also always post using something that is signed for, normally Royal Mail second class recorded. Most people are genuine but unfortunately not all.

zippydooda

sunday shop

1x ASDA Hero Joint Ease Sticks for Medium Dogs (175G) £1.50 N/A
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Spring Onions (EACH) £0.49 £0.49
1x ASDA Extra Special Hand Finished Chocolate Cake (EACH) £2.65 £1.50
1x Pedigree Rodeo Chicken Stick (140G) £1.50 £1.40
0.34x ASDA Loose Banana (order by number of bananas or select kg) (PER KG) £0.24 £0.23
1x Quaker Oats Wholesome Crunch Pecan & Brazil Nuts Granola 550g (550G) £3.00 £2.00
1x Pedigree Rodeo Beef 8 Stick (140G) £1.50 £1.40
0.5x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Sprouts (PER KG) £0.94 £1.00
1x Quaker Oats Wholesome Crunch Goji & Blueberry Granola (550G) £3.00 £2.00

Savvybuyer

Not to worry though - if I'd been in charge then all comparisons would always be (and have been) technically accurate from the start and throughout so you wouldn't have had any glitches.:rotfl::rotfl: So, thank goodness it's not me running any of these systems:D.:p:rotfl: