Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

bubbs

Bananababe wrote: »

Partial cure for heart ache. Five hours of cleaning.

Right what's everyone's news ? Tell me something from the last two months !

AJ. Honey . That's so much to cope with xxx

Hope your empty nest syndrome soon eases nothing exciting to tell apart from i got away next week for a few days:T:T

mhoc

queen_of_cheap wrote: »

I think I might give up drinking - not because of hangovers but because I get drunk and book holidays :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl: :j

oh dear what have you done ...

our house rule is no internet shopping if anyone has even had one sip of wine

mhoc

curl_girl wrote: »

Dove sets back in stock, go quick...........

yes by the time I checked the emails they had gone again

so I've put another notification reminder on and we live in hope for another day

so far I've tried 2 Superdrugs but nothing in store

bubbs

Argos Screwdriver £3.93
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1x Birds Eye 12 Omega 3 Fish Fingers (336G) £1.50 £1.00
1x Silver Spoon Granulated Sugar (2KG) £1.08 £0.88

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Nannylala wrote: »

Thank you for your answers ..am nervous about have a random door knocker as they are usually travelers :Aand this tree is very special to me as late DH bought it for me 25 years ago and it was all of 3 feet talll ..now it has got to be 25 - 30 feet tall :eek:

Nanny - in that case be very careful who you get to do it. You might need to consider a proper 'tree surgeon' type of guy - try googling for tree people in your locality and get them to quote you. A 'door knocker' type might just hack it about.

Granted it was a few years ago but we had a very large oak tree which was rotting cut down to the stump and all branches, mess etc removed for £150 (it was a bit cheaper cos the guy wanted to sell the logs on). That was a registered and certificated tree man plus his mate and he used all the proper safety gear.

A 'door knocker' called here a couple of months back and wanted £200 to cut a couple of feet off a much smaller hazel tree - I told him to sausage off and did it myself with DH holding the ladders ! And you and I are of very similar ages!

Another 'caller' charges £200 to completely cut down a 25' sycamore tree for one of my neighbours - but they left ALL the bits of tree etc in his drive ! I told him he had been seen off.

At a guess I would say you probably need to allow around £150 or so for a decent job.

mhoc

so errant son started messaging from 6.30 on Friday morning which usually means something. I did my best to discourage him but even so he decided after work (which was a day in London and 3 hours on various trains) to come home for the weekend

I told him Dad had 600 cruise photos set up on the TV ready for him but that did not put him off. I said the fridge was minimal and the freezer still empty so he would only have tinned soup or pasta and sauce when he got back. That did not put him off.

so 3 hours later he arrived - 11.30 at night, an hour later than advertised. He has travelled all over the Far East in the last year but the M6 befuddled him. He did as instructed by the sat nav and got off at Stoke and did a detour through the more exciting areas of Stoke rather than driving another 10 mobs to junction 16 and 10 mins down the bypass and then home

so all weekend he has been filling every nook and cranky in his car with his other 2 bikes and a vast quantity of his worldly goods and chattels. He has rooted through the shed, under the stairs, in the loft, under his bed and generally in his bedroom - mostly things that were left here in January or dumped here 12 months ago or even over 2 years ago. He took a similar load down south when he first went south a month ago - goodness knows where it will all go in his room.
He has already acquired a sofa, bookcase and 2 coffee tables from Freecycle - and yes his bike lives in his room and it will now be joined by 2 more bikes. I've also gathered together another food bag for him and he even took a bag of damsons and plums. He even went through his box of old uniform and found his scout young leaders uniform and found his shirt as he has been looking for a group to join.

so the house has been trashed and I've been vaguely following him and tidying in his wake and he has given me stuff for the charity bag and the Christmas shoe boxes plus the cardboard wheely bin is full again

and now he has set off again down south so the house feels very empty again - they drive you bats when they are here but it feels very empty when they go but I can't quite settle until I know he is back safely ...

streetlights

Good evening I hope you are well. AJ I am sorry you have been so unwell. I hope you feel better very soon.

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mhoc

the mums and dads with students who come home every summer I don't know how you cope with all of the comings and goings every year - gut wrenching, arriving back with all their stuff in July and then disappearing over the horizon again in September ( or October ) fir another year.

eldest child went up to York and never came back, worked every summer and then after uni she continued to work and live in York.
Errant child stayed home and went to uni locally so we didn't have the parting of the ways until he finished uni and went north. He was only 2 hours up the M6 so it didn't feel so bad but in all it took 3 weekends and trips up and down for him to transport everything he needed up north.
He stayed north until last summer when a car load came back before he left the country. He then brought another 2 car loads back after Christmas.
We then thought he was gone forever, he went to the Far East and we thought he would never be back in the Uk
but back home he came 2 months ago, went to an interview and got a job in Kent. He now lives 3 hours south so at the start of August him and a car load went south and now it's the start of September him and a car load have gone south again

and we have an empty nest again but at least its emptier now of boys clutter - deep sigh