Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

bubbs

Sarahdol75 wrote: »

Sorry to hear this .



Ha ha just read that as you had nice toast :rotfl::rotfl:



Received a card from post office while we been away over weekend, saying cant deliver a parcel as sender not paid correct postage. Thing is I havnt ordered anything :rotfl::rotfl:

Being stingy dont want to pay it because I dont know what it is .

Yes splashed out and had toast:rotfl::rotfl:
I think you can ask to look at parcel/letter before you decide if you want it:cool:

Enterprise_1701C

Sarahdol75 wrote: »

Sorry to hear this .



Ha ha just read that as you had nice toast :rotfl::rotfl:



Received a card from post office while we been away over weekend, saying cant deliver a parcel as sender not paid correct postage. Thing is I havnt ordered anything :rotfl::rotfl:

Being stingy dont want to pay it because I dont know what it is .

You can always have a look (but not open it) before you pay - it could be a prize!

Savvybuyer

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Frozen continued
[...]
Ballineen Chip Shop Style Irish Sausages in Batter (6 per pack - 300g)£1.00:eek:

As usual, I am now just coming to the main part of the updating - I mentioned these had gone down to 50p RTC a few days ago - after months of being on the list when they were £1 - but, to be fair to me, I did always have that 'eek' symbol against the £1 price.

Completely separately, there was a suggestion early on that the fresh apricots, which had vanished from stores for me, may have come back into M again. I deleted them from the list last time. Now I have a £1 offer label, although with an OOS label on it, that I don't recall being there before - there was no stock and I haven't seen any for months - but, with the offer label, maybe the apricots have come back again and sold out before I visited. I think not though: I have found no indication of the apricots in further stores and I don't think that M currently has them. Surely this is wrong - I can't ever think they don't have stuff that I simply don't find - if someone somewhere may have them but I don't think anyone does have apricots in M do you? I think the £1 offer label and OOS label is more of a red herring than an indication that the apricots really are around.

Savvybuyer

Sunshinemummy wrote: »

My first few experiences with satnavs have been horrendous.

1. Ended up in Bradford - should have been in York.
2. Ended up in Newcastle - should have been in Ripon.

That god they have got better ... or maybe I can just work them now!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Gosh, that's even worse than my map-reading. I don't use Sat Navs - for me, even installing them is too much and defeats me (my disability does have certain disadvantages though I can't blame everything on that) - I could probably fit a Sat Nav if I put aside the time and got the instructions out but it's too hard, I stick with the old style of reading maps (just old and familiar, tried and tested and don't see any need to change - I don't have an MP3 player or I-Pod either - I have no clue how either works - but stick with CDs and I don't have a mobile phone). Occasionally, I make wrong turns and fail to find where I should be (sometimes I give up after circling around a town or city several times) but I've never been as far out as your journeys have been! I think I would normally realise if I was far out - but then I am reading the signs and looking for the last road I remembered from the map although I have been around 10 miles wrongly before, usually on A roads where you can't turn around and I made a wrong turn.

If you're driving an HGV, for example, you should not slavishly follow a Sat Nav as they have been known to take people down inappropriate routes where lorries etc. cannot go/are difficult to turn around and, even if you have a car, in some cases, if you follow some Sat Navs literally, you could end up driving over a cliff.

Tbh, I don't know how you could not realise that you were heading in the direction of Bradford when you wanted to go to York (unless you were travelling from the opposite side of Bradford in the first place and thus were going in the right direction but had several tens of miles to go, to get to York). I mean travelling in the wrong direction - I don't know how you could not realise that, until you had got to the wrong city quite some distance away from where you wanted. But then my knowledge of where places are in the UK is fairly good. Some people might not know how I could not know how to fit a Sat Nav:rotfl:.

Sarahdol75

bubbs wrote: »

Yes splashed out and had toast:rotfl::rotfl:
I think you can ask to look at parcel/letter before you decide if you want it:cool:

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

You can always have a look (but not open it) before you pay - it could be a prize!

Only problem with that is post office is 10 miles away in opposite direction to anywhere I go.

aau1

altojack wrote: »

Mr AJ is staying on the lottie a while longer, clearing up the leaves that blew all over his nice neatly dug soil. I didn't think they'd blow that far when I tipped them out.

I'm off home then, I'm cold, he's grumpy :cool:

I read lottie as toilet :rotfl:

Sunshinemummy

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Gosh, that's even worse than my map-reading.

Tbh, I don't know how you could not realise that you were heading in the direction of Bradford when you wanted to go to York (unless you were travelling from the opposite side of Bradford in the first place and thus were going in the right direction but had several tens of miles to go, to get to York). I mean travelling in the wrong direction - I don't know how you could not realise that, until you had got to the wrong city quite some distance away from where you wanted. But then my knowledge of where places are in the UK is fairly good. Some people might not know how I could not know how to fit a Sat Nav:rotfl:.

I really have no idea of where anything is in the UK....... I can walk in a shop and when I come out I am totally lost!

Tinasmummy

pippo wrote: »

TS2, it has taken me a while to reply because I was in a very similar situation to you. After 10 days in hospital I was 2 stone lighter and had a colostomy and consultant was showing me photos of 2 people lifting the 'cyst' out of my stomach:eek:6 months later though the colostomy was reversed:T
In the mean time I discovered (11+) Elit. Driving for the first time since op I stopped in a T's car park thinking they can't really get posh boxes of chocs for a quid, then Martin came on the radio talking about it so in I went and bought 3!
The rest, as they say is history, I now follow the elite thread avidly, have a hernia following the various 'repair' ops, put the 2 stone back on, am cancer clear and have retired.

Aww Pippo you have been thru it haven't you,
I know what a colostomy can be like as my husband had one after being rushed to a&e in excruciating pain and being mis diagnosed by a junior doctor as having a chest infection!! His can't be reversed due to other health probs and I know it takes a lot of adjusting, I'm glad you were able to have your's reversed.

I'm quite perverse and would love to have seen a pic of my tumour,

Like you I kinda found the Elite around the time of my illness and I had lots of time to read the thread and others on the site. I tried to follow but lots of it went right over my head lol.
I am trying hard now tho:)

TrulyMadly

Evening paw sniffers:D

TrulyMadly

LANGO1966 wrote: »

Morning all,
The birds are tweeting this morning, through a megaphone, by the noise outside.:rotfl:

I've got one wakes me up every morning. It sounds like something stuck in the spokes of a wheel.
It goes T...T....T...T....T....T

Di will know:rotfl:

BTW....I am being serious:)