Everyone lost in the Ether II

northerngeezer

All Barilla items now showing on Tesco as £1 from tomorrow.

Get your coupons ready

mhoc

Sarahdol75 wrote: »

Good morning all.

Bruge is so lovely, sorry not read back, been busy, eating, walking sightseeing, really pretty place. The waffles are gorgeous. It's our last day today, ferry crossing at 5. Catch u all soon.

Hope you have a good crossing

One of the cunard ships coming out of Southampton last night the captain said it was going to be very rough coming into the channel, force 8 and 9 and told everyone to take sea sickness pills - not an encouraging start

mhoc

A bit of a facebook warning

I know lots of you have thousands of friends on your FB list, open to all and sundry and you post everything on FB and use it as your means of socialising etc
Others have a very small select band of devotees - I belong to the latter camp - just family and a few people I do comps with - I use FB for comps and sharing freebies, posting photos and I belong to various groups eg a local comping group, Archers, anything to do with cruises

On the messages section if you are using a mobile device eg phone or iPad the only messages you can see are from people on your list. There is a box called 'other' where messages go from people who don't belong but you can only see this if you go on the main computer. Say for instance you won a FB comp and the company notified you via FB messanger that message would go into your 'other' box - this is why things get missed - I missed out on a good prize earlier in the year as a message went in the 'other' box and I didn't pick it up until it was too late.

Now though FB are changing it so these other messages will come through as a notification which is good in some ways
It also means though that random strangers can message you and also people from your dim and distant past who you would rather did not bother you

My OH is on the new system already and he had one of these messages this morning and he asked me if I knew the name. I did but I pretended ignorance. I just told him to block it - go to settings.
The message just asked how we both were which in itself would freek most people out - not seen this person since before a relative died about 8 years ago.

So I've done the same, blocked the person. I don't need random messages from my dim and distant past and if there are people you no longer know or care about then it might be a good idea to do likewise.

My OH FB page is mainly to do with trains, a few funny pics of cats but mainly trains and more trains so someone was fishing around which in itself is enough to unnerve me

Picasso7

northerngeezer wrote: »

All Barilla items now showing on Tesco as £1 from tomorrow.

Get your coupons ready

Thank you -- and thanks to Lily for the heads up. Not quite all. Sadly my stuffed pasta has only gone down to £2 but I think I will try to use a combination of the £1 and 50p vouchers for it as it is rather wonderful.

Barilla has, I think, reset for me now, but I'm a bit confused about which email address I used yesterday for 50p vouchers!

curl_girl

HZA wrote: »

I don't post here often but had to come out after reading about weevils.:o I've just discovered some bags of flour in my storage cupboard have weevils in them.

All Asda Smart Price flour are infested (they all have BBD of May/June 2016) and a few other bags from other supermarkets had a few crawling on the bags, but not inside the bags.

I'm pretty sure Asda flour was the source of the said insects! I called Asda' s helpline but they just said take them back to the store. I don't want to take those bags back to the store though, I have about six bags of them so they may think I didn't store them properly or something... So yes,watch out for weevils in Asda flour![/QUOTE


Morning peeps,


Read this, I had a similar problem when making my xmas cake a couple of years ago, opened the flour and they shot everywhere!!!


Was told that they feed on the glue on the packaging, under the flaps on cereal boxes, tucked on the glue in the folds on bags of flour, even on the edges of tea bags!!!


I was told that they also thrive under labels on tinned foods and to remove all labels from tins before storing, but thought this a bit too much.


I now empty flour into plastic food bags with a zip seal, plus empty all cereals into plastic storage containers.


HTH


Off for a catch up.....

curl_girl

savvy,


thanks for mentioning the iron tablets in M, will have a look later in the week.


I priced them up in my local chemist who quoted £23 for a pot of 100!!

curl_girl

mhoc,


Please can I ask, when you sold your item on eb, for the extra 2000 nectar points how do you know if the offer has gone through correctly, as I sold my item as instructed but there is no mention of the points anywhere on the site?


tia

silvercar

mhoc wrote: »

A bit of a facebook warning

I know lots of you have thousands of friends on your FB list, open to all and sundry and you post everything on FB and use it as your means of socialising etc
Others have a very small select band of devotees - I belong to the latter camp - just family and a few people I do comps with - I use FB for comps and sharing freebies, posting photos and I belong to various groups eg a local comping group, Archers, anything to do with cruises

On the messages section if you are using a mobile device eg phone or iPad the only messages you can see are from people on your list. There is a box called 'other' where messages go from people who don't belong but you can only see this if you go on the main computer. Say for instance you won a FB comp and the company notified you via FB messanger that message would go into your 'other' box - this is why things get missed - I missed out on a good prize earlier in the year as a message went in the 'other' box and I didn't pick it up until it was too late.

Now though FB are changing it so these other messages will come through as a notification which is good in some ways
It also means though that random strangers can message you and also people from your dim and distant past who you would rather did not bother you

My OH is on the new system already and he had one of these messages this morning and he asked me if I knew the name. I did but I pretended ignorance. I just told him to block it - go to settings.
The message just asked how we both were which in itself would freek most people out - not seen this person since before a relative died about 8 years ago.

So I've done the same, blocked the person. I don't need random messages from my dim and distant past and if there are people you no longer know or care about then it might be a good idea to do likewise.

My OH FB page is mainly to do with trains, a few funny pics of cats but mainly trains and more trains so someone was fishing around which in itself is enough to unnerve me

The change was months ago. Facebook messenger is useful for the rare occasions where you want/ need to send someone a message but don't want to release your mobile number. A basic name search on facebook will let you find someone and then you can message them without giving them any contact details at all.

silvercar

davemorton wrote: »

Well you didnt listen to me over the tassimos did you

Did you (Harryhfp) or didn't you?

Tesco direct messaged to say my black friday laptop is on its way to store. I guess its walking very slowly, because it is going to take 4 days to reach the store.

Serendipitious

curl_girl wrote: »

Was told that they feed on the glue on the packaging, under the flaps on cereal boxes, tucked on the glue in the folds on bags of flour, even on the edges of tea bags!!!


I now empty flour into plastic food bags with a zip seal, plus empty all cereals into plastic storage containers.

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Cheeky varmints! They are definitely not having my teabags!

Re ebay - I think we have to wait up to 28 days from the end of the promotion, which was 18 Nov as I recall, so it might be Christmas when we get them.

Morning all and have a nice day!

xx