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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 14,562 Forumite
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    mhoc wrote: »
    some new things have appeared on COS this afternoon

    I've got Schwartz herb grinder - free oregano from Morrisons - I can't see this on mysupermarket so I don't know how much it is. I've also got £1 off choice of 3 flavours. needless to say we were in Morrisons this afternoon and I as I'd already checked COS earlier I didn't realise it had updated again :(
    it says personal to me so I wonder if anyone else has also got it?
    fruit bowl has reappeared having disappeared first thing :D

    Thank you - I don't have the grinder but family who signed up recently do.

    Anon
  • Westvleteren
    Westvleteren Posts: 4,489 Forumite
    Well, seven of us made it back for the first day :D Pretty much the people I expected :cool: We have our tutor from first year :j:T:T for this part of the course and you can really sense a change in mood/ atmosphere in the class compared with our 2nd year tutor.......

    Feeling optimistic :):)
    Something unexpected happened which made me smile and still continues to make me smile.

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  • miss_corerupted
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    Anon wrote: »
    It does - we were invited to a family wedding overseas and it was going to cost us thousands to attend and at least a week away. Their argument was it was much cheaper to get married abroad ... for them it was, yes :o. We ended up having to decline, fortunately they understood but it could have ended badly if offence had been caused as they are close family :(.

    Anon

    Yes this happened to me. We had to go OH's sister. We did enjoy the holiday though. But it cost me over £3k for their wedding.
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  • TrulyMadly
    TrulyMadly Posts: 39,754 Forumite
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    zippydooda wrote: »
    got some ham from the deli again tonight.

    it was £2.29 per 100g reduced to 89p per 100g
    i said can i have that one please.
    how many slices sir? (yes im a sir in there) :p
    all of it :o
    theres quite a bit there still, ill reduce it to 38p per 100g

    result, i love waitrose. i know ive said before. but ill never get pre packed ham again. its much more tasty from deli. also when frozen then defrosted. there is no excess water. you would never know it had been home frozen.
    i paid £3.50 for almost a kg of ham. full price would have been £21.09
    i had to work that out a few times, in case aau is about. :o

    I'm thinking quiches, broth, omelettes, ham and pease pudding stotties:D

    I'm jealous:rotfl:
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  • TrulyMadly
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    Anon wrote: »
    Thank you - I don't have the grinder but family who signed up recently do.

    Anon

    I can recommend the Parsley one.....great in soups:)
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  • TrulyMadly
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    bubbs wrote: »
    Hello 3dogs and TM:wave:

    Hello bubbs.....I've just caught up and now I'm nearly ready for bed:rotfl::rotfl:

    You sound happy Westie:T
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  • TrulyMadly
    TrulyMadly Posts: 39,754 Forumite
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    We have a healthy debate going on in the TM household over the Brownlee brothers.

    Was Alistair driven by instinct and intuitive competitiveness or did he risk his bothers life to get him across the line?

    What you do if if was your brother, sister, partner, child?

    Would you push them to the finish line or lie them down and get some fluids in them?
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  • Enterprise_1701C
    Enterprise_1701C Posts: 23,414 Forumite
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    TrulyMadly wrote: »
    We have a healthy debate going on in the TM household over the Brownlee brothers.

    Was Alistair driven by instinct and intuitive competitiveness or did he risk his bothers life to get him across the line?

    What you do if if was your brother, sister, partner, child?

    Would you push them to the finish line or lie them down and get some fluids in them?

    Anyone normal I would have stopped them there and then.

    BUT they are not normal, they are highly trained athletes, and Alistair said later that he had been in the reverse position at some time so he probably knew what was happening, and he knows his brother. Also, if he was that dehydrated then he may well have thrown up if he had too much water.
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  • bubbs
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    TrulyMadly wrote: »
    Hello bubbs.....I've just caught up and now I'm nearly ready for bed:rotfl::rotfl:

    You sound happy Westie:T

    Before you go:p did you see the butter puff pastry in Heron i posted, i stocked up:D
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  • Westvleteren
    Westvleteren Posts: 4,489 Forumite
    TrulyMadly wrote: »
    Hello bubbs.....I've just caught up and now I'm nearly ready for bed:rotfl::rotfl:

    You sound happy Westie:T

    Yeah, well when you've spent all summer contemplating about the general direction you are heading in and how you are going to achieve that through various channels to find that it matches up nicely with this part of the course :j:j :D:D

    The dissertation however is a different story :( There is a big meeting on Wednesday about that, fingers crossed I get the same tutor as the last two years as I really don't do well adjusting to new people :o
    Something unexpected happened which made me smile and still continues to make me smile.

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