Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

savvy_sal

Fancy tesco selling fruit and veg with fake farm names:rotfl:

Sunshinemummy

mhoc wrote: »

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 ...

mhoc wrote: »

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

Bless you mhoc, it is so hard when they leave/return and leave again... they think when they are home your job is to run around after them....

My DS1 brags that his posessions can be fitted into a small suitcase and a backpack.... he forgets about the boxes of Cr*p he sends home each year, which normally costs us £100+ in import/postage costs..but did I tell him not to send more rubbish home.....nope!

Sunshinemummy

savvy_sal wrote: »

Fancy tesco selling fruit and veg with fake farm names:rotfl:

But on the positive side, they brought some kiddy craft books out to support this promotion... free... they are at customer services (and they let me have a box full!!)

:T:T:T:T:T

TrulyMadly

Just reminding everyone who has been buying Mails this weekend. Don't forget to register and enter the number from the bottom of the back page of the paper and start saving for your Rewards:)

TrulyMadly

savvy_sal wrote: »

Fancy tesco selling fruit and veg with fake farm names:rotfl:

No way:rotfl::rotfl:

savvy_sal

Serendipitious wrote: »

Don't think much of the new Cadbury Roses wrappers - the little heat-sealed sachets seem very clinical and amorphous compared to the individual little twisted wraps they had before. Still, gift horse and all that, so mustn't sulk...

I think I am just change-resistant.

Wondering if Q/Street have gone the same way.

I've got a womble today with 2 roses and 2 heroes on.Neither appear on Apg.They are not yet on asda website.

bubbs

zippydooda wrote: »

my extra hasnt any out yet. but my metro has, and they dont sell the hipps. bit of a trek to the metro, but i get 9 books at a time. (27 so far) dont know why i get 9 a time, it must be where they reverse the stack.

Metro is in town and i never go town:eek:

TrulyMadly

A v M

1x Crunchy Peanut Butter (340G) £1.28 £1.00

juju17

New shopitise customers...put a code in that can be found on savvy couponing and cashback facebook page into the voucher code bit and you 'should' get a free big bar of cadburys.....new customers only

Tinyshoes

I was going to show you all my grapes but these at the community garden are a much better display.