Everyone Loves Ingenious Tenuous Equations

silvercar

juju17, I don't have your number. I know you have mine, so await your text in the morning.

If anyone sees 2 lost people trying to spot each other at south mimms service station, carrying boxes of china....

vanilla_twist

rhosynbach wrote: »

thanks so much vanilla :T the gu pots are great for jam, cream and chutney, but dont want your mum eating to many on my account

I think there might be a stash in the art class room. Mum doesn't mind doing her bit to help just need a glitch on them.

Bag packed just need to put chargers in along with phone tablet and kindle. Have to take tablet as if I am kept in tomorrow night there will not be any visitors as not worth mum driving 20 miles to watch me doze.

See you on the flip side.

V x

fairclaire

Can I just say thanks to the people who have sent messages of support after last nights nastiness. Anyone who has been around for any amount of time will have seen VERY similar messages (from a very similar person) posted in the past. I honestly don't take them personally. I have a thick skin and I'd rather the nasty messages were aimed at me than someone who doesn't. This sort of person needs a target. Whilst I'm not happy at being a target, and I'm also upset at some comments. I've had a second visit to the police tonight over what I believe is the same person. They think they're above it though so I'll leave that where it is. I won't even put a smiley face in to pretend I'm being nice. Thank you to Magsta for a kick up the bum

I don't worry about me. I'm fine. I spoke honestly about what my husband was going through with his mental health problems because I was astounded at how little supoort there was for us when it happened to us. it changed our lives immeasurably and I realised it couldn't just be us. Same reason I talk about my cancer. I don't have boob cancer or anything anyone is familiar with and I'm realising quite quickly if you haven't got a chemo bald head and a sickly look about you, people assume you are ok. That's not a dig at Di and I know she won't take it so

Again, I thank the people who have been brave enough to show their support very much

aau1

TrulyMadly wrote: »

You've had no luck finding the 50p golden ale?

Apparently, it's £1 in M
https://www.facebook.com/couponsandcashback/posts/1677260559189704

davemorton

aau1 wrote: »

Apparently, it's £1 in M
https://www.facebook.com/couponsandcashback/posts/1677260559189704

Not in my shop tonight it wasnt
1x John Smith's Golden Ale (500) £1.80 £1.65

Savvybuyer

:hello: I'm back from M, and I have a lot of hopefully very good information. There are some very good items in M, although I suspect they sadly will not be available to many people as they are RTC items (not the Princes, hot dogs and biscuits that you are thinking about) that have stayed around in very few stores and have now gone even cheaper. There may be a chance of getting one of them a little wider though as it's seems even some staff have been confused and appear to have changed a SEL to the RTC price for an item that they stock that isn't the RTC item:rotfl:. So, the SEL now shows the RTC price (although it doesn't say RTC:D) but the item they have scans at a much higher price and therefore go via CS etc.
Sadly that won't be available to all as I've another store that has the non-RTC item and has left the SEL correctly at the higher price. I know I'm creating intrigue, but I will mention more later when I get to it! I didn't need to go via CS because I managed to purchase the RTC version of the item at its RTC price at an earlier store:D.

It hasn't been an annoying day and it's not been difficult either, as it's quite easy simply taking down accurately the information that I am being given; however it has taken quite some time. I have been sorting out accurate and inaccurate SEL information to try to establish what is correct, including a lot of conflicting information between different stores. So goodness know where the APG/TBG will end up. The actual prices are of course the same in every store, I think. So little scans at its actual SEL price for me:rotfl:. That's if there is one:rotfl::rotfl:. Nonetheless, some did turn out to be correct, such as a number of mbuys having ended - however if I'm seeing constant straight price I don't know whether an mbuy has ended or not. At least two of them did scan at a mbuy price even though I never saw that in any of my main three stores. I suspect that another one will still be on an mbuy too, even though I never physically saw it today (because of the stores I used) - it was supposed to be on until 1st May and I will check msm and assume it is still on. I will check it again on Wednesday when I visit the store in which I have seen it showing which I did not visit today.

In a way I have lengthened things for myself today. I have done a main collection across three stores. I have also done a separate "Princes, hot dogs and biscuits" check in six separate stores to see what results that gives. On the basis of which, I now think that there is a 50:50 chance that the Princes Mackerel Fillets in Tomato Sauce 125g, but no other version, will compare on the APG against M at 25p once the update from Monday is done. In other words one of the ones I was complete no trace on before:rotfl:. If it does turn out to compare correctly, then I think it probably won't do so on the Wednesday collection.

It was pure chance that I came across some of the different RTC items at lower prices, as I was only supposed to be in one of the stores for the "Princes/Hot Dogs/Biscuits" element and just happened to walk into another aisle and see the stuff on lower prices. It would not have happened had I gone to my usual stores as the items have not been in any of them recently. There will doubtless be other good RTCs, some that may have just started, that I will have missed as they have not been in this store or my three main ones - they may have been there but already sold out and the SEL removed before I arrived today - and people may well be able to find items with RTC in their M that are also in other people's Ms elsewhere. So I will definitely not have seen everything but will have picked up the random items that are in the stores I've checked.

I was also very lucky on one - as I had an item outstanding that I really needed to see (it definitely is not online) and had not seen it across five previous stores - to be fair, it may have been there as I was not dealing with my usual stores and it sometimes takes a little longer to find where the right aisle is when using other stores and going back and looking for something outstanding. I was left with a final, sixth store at ten minutes to closing time, that I have been to before - it did not have anything regarding the item last week, but thank goodness I found it there now:D:D.

I'll mention in a moment (or maybe more, whenever I get there:o - bear with me) some of what's changed, which I have worked out from stores different from my usual ones. This may be conspiracy theory or it may mean absolutely nothing. One of them I have used is the alleged APG price collection store at Wrexham and I have found some interesting things in that regard, which do tie in with some of the failures that we have seen on the APG recently. This was already where I was going to start the collection of information off today and I know someone said it was a shame I didn't say, but I've done it unannounced again today!

I'll mention my changes, probably in bits over tomorrow, and what I've found as and when I reach it as soon as I can!:)

Savvybuyer

davemorton wrote: »

Not in my shop tonight it wasnt
1x John Smith's Golden Ale (500) £1.80 £1.65

Only just gone on offer in M I believe:(.
As far as I'm aware, this was £1.65 last Wednesday. I don't think I noticed the item as such back then, but I did not pick it up and would have done so if it was £1 then. I do have it only from today. Last week I think it would have been there on the shelves buried in all the other £1.65 prices for me. There have been changes in the items on £1 in this area - those that were £1 have gone up (not the RTCs but the regular ones that join the higher-price mbuy offer or are quite likely already in it on mix and match - a number of stores last week had clear SELs to that effect for me) and others have now gone to £1 which I have collected. As far as they are in the stores I've used. It's just reminded me - :rotfl:I couldn't find Marston's Pedigree now in any of my three stores but I'm assuming it's gone up to £1.65 and mbuy as I'd already seen a preview of online and therefore I was satisfied to leave that one of my outstanding items at that.

Smirnoff Apple Bite 250ml has got an apparently incorrect price showing on the SEL in Wrexham, although it is £1 offer until a non-expired date in one of my other stores. I would hope that, even if Wrexham was one of their stores and we don't even know that, but if it was, I'd hope it was outweighed by a £1 return from elsewhere. In addition, some of the RTC items do seem slightly to be going, although in general I still think they are okay. The RTC bottled waters do appear to have cleared out of stores - I came across some RTC labels torn up and put away in a box on the floor in my final store. They weren't on the shelves anymore, thus leaving no evidence of the items in M in that store anymore. No doubt they will be available in some M at the RTC price that hasn't marked them down - or still available somewhere.

The Soreen Original Lunchbox had an incorrect price on Wrexham's SEL, but the Soreen Banana Lunchbox is okay. However, it's possible that it was changed between any assumed APG collector's visit and mine.

I am not sure whether we should place much weight on one of their stores being Wrexham, but some things do seem to tie in:think:.

fairclaire

LEJC... you were next on my list of the Unforgotten over the last 2 weeks whilst my head has been up my jaxy.

DS2 has trumped you to it. He wants to talk.... about 'things' he's wide awake and I've been avoiding this for weeks....maybe months? I know what he wants to talk about and I'm goin in :eek: Wish me luck with his very clinical take on 'growing up'

I knew it wasn't going to be good when he quizzed me about 'hairs' on friday.

*GULP*

wish me luck

Savvybuyer

It's probably last chance on the Johnson's Nursing Pads, if anyone risks if they ever worked, as they have shot up in M from £1 to £3.93 - probably getting close to Mr A's more expensive price.

It's doubtless be last chance on the glitchy Caffeine Free cans packs that are currently comparing against quite a cheap price - they will definitely work right now, barring some complete system failure.

Fwiw, the Princes 1L juices have gone up from 2 for £1 to a more expensive 2 for £1.50 mbuy in M. The Sensodyne toothpastes mbuy has also ended it appears(:laugh:) - not sure about whether that would be picked up as it was, in my other stores before, a little unclear at the outset but it did become a bit clearer for me after it had been on for a week or so - nonetheless I've always had stores not showing it and not clear about the full items that were in the offer as not showing it across all of them or the description of the items being not entirely clear for me to identify specifically the exact items it was referring to. Of course, I knew, since I did have a clear store, but I'm not sure about this one. The mbuy is off now though - and showing full prices online - so, if this was picked up, it would work but it has ended in M so, if it's working, which I don't think we know, then it would extremely likely end soon. You'd be relying on at least an equal number of their stores having an OOD SEL showing in a clear fashion the previous, now expired, mbuy. It's not impossible, but I think we can say, if it was on now, it's going to be over - and, if it wasn't, it's never going to be on.

fairclaire

frequent :kisses3: