Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

HILLBERN

Evening all--
I thought I would join in the frugal October to lighten the mood here in RL.
I've had an awful 10 days or so
Firstly as I mentioned before the car broke down and I was stuck by myself for nearly 6 hours on a busy road, even though we had breakdown cover----I felt like a sitting duck waiting for an accident to happen with the lorries thundering passed.but I got over that.phew!!
I then travelled to London for my babysitting duties on the train changing at Whitechapel which actually wasn't too bad, I would consider that route again.
An acquaintance we have known for about 5years and also a work colleague of my dil felt unwell on Wednesday evening and died:(:eek: He was mid 40s been to work during the day, went for a walk with his 3 year old son had his supper then.......RIP as well as leaving a 3year old his wife is 4 months pregnant...so sad
I went to London as usual on sunday in the now repaired car costing £450 ish:eek: with my DH for my last babysitting duty before number 2 grandson arrives in 4 weeks time...so I was feeling a little sad
.....but awful news filtered through on sunday morning before I left, a former work colleague and friend lost her life in a house fire, she was a single mum who had a 16year old son and 2 dogs, the son was out as the fire started early evening, but the dogs were in the house but survived- they have now been adopted together, and the son is with his nan.
It is ironical the local fire station was to close last year but this lady campaigned to keep it open, which she was successful with, so the shout on Saturday night was terrible for all those fire fighters involved as they all knew her personally:(
A while ago her name on fb was allvolunteredout...because she was always there helping others,:A the village have now started a book of condolences and a fund for the son, as everything has gone This story has hit hundreds of local people, with headlines on the front page of papers and national papers wanting a story of this selfless remarkable lady....so sad I still cant believe it...she use to call me aunty Hill....:(:(
Then to cap it all my grandson has just been expelled from school for bad behaviour ...hes 15 1/2 and lives with us....strange as it may seem although this is a major event that has happened to him it seems quite trivial in the context of everything else...
Sorry to ramble......
I did manage the ice cream yesterday but haven't been rewarded yet and got the sausages today
I have £3 off £30 spend in T next week so it will be a challenge to get that shop for next to nothing....I have my £5 orchard voucher to use I think Monday is the last day, and with soup and hipps hopefully all should be good

bubbs

Awww hilly billy what a time you have had of it
That fire was on my local news , so sad
You cant be that far from me?
Sorry about your DGS what will happen now?

underperky

Bubbs sorry to hear your loss of a client and

Hillbern that is so sad about your friends

TrulyMadly

Happy Birthday:D

bubbs

Thanks perky x

HILLBERN

bubbs wrote: »

Awww hilly billy what a time you have had of it
That fire was on my local news , so sad
You cant be that far from me?
Sorry about your DGS what will happen now?

Sorry about your client Bubbs RIP
DGS- he should be having an assessment at another school next week but as he is in his gse year I don't know if they are going to put him in mainstream school or concentrate on his core subjects at a 'holding' school...kids grrrrrrr!
The house fire was about 5miles from me
And you Bubbs are about 70miles from me

TrulyMadly

zippydooda wrote: »

as we are approaching 24 thousand posts, i thought id post the gobby list :D

bubbs 3,156
TrulyMadly 1,947
Tinyshoes 1,033
davemorton 850
mhoc 813
tweets 758
Sunshinemummy 740
Snap-ant 648
Enterprise 1701C 637
Savvybuyer 599
Serendipitious 592
altojack 527
emerald21 450
LEJC 424
Anon 420
MKS 334
hornetgirl 322

1st place bubbs beats 2nd and 3rd placed TM & TS ADDED together.
also top 3, account for 1 in 4 posts

now on to words posted.
bubbs = 47340
savvy = 48327
so savvy wins over all.
totalbollacks on the latter bit by the way

Can you please see where bubbs comes in the list of all posters out of all the threads on the forum........think she might be pretty high up and then just quickly tot up how many elite posts there have been in total. Only if you don't mind:D:D

Tinyshoes

More upmarket whoopsies in waities TM.



Zippy I remembered to look on the deli counter. Half kilo ham 50p :j. And those 2 blocks cheese 14p each. :beer:

TrulyMadly

Arthien wrote: »

Thanks for this! :T

I'll try looking into it a bit more when I get some breathing space this weekend. I think if it was a bigger turkey I might feel more inclined, but feeding 4-5 people sounds more like an overweight chicken to me :rotfl:

I got one last year and they are pretty poor value:o

If you like special treats at Christmas this is not one to try:o

Tinyshoes

The brie wasn't whoopsied but put it towards my conditional spend as I'm sure I read there is free wine to be had. Not sure what I have to do yet though, the writing was too small to read without my glasses on. :rotfl:

Darlington crystal glasses whoopsied what a find. :money: