Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

altojack

davemorton wrote: »

Awww,, I got all excited there thinking it was for a tea plant/seeds.
Thanks anyway, its free, so signed up. :beer:

Booger, ditto. I wonder if the seeds are Chinese Sunflowers ? xx

cjj_2

davemorton wrote: »

Min spend of £25 and standard postage, but if you spend £35, then postage is free.
One thing to watch out for is most of the chocolates use 2 pods per drink (one milk, one choc) but there is one that doesnt (so effectively half the price of the others), and off the top of my head I dont know which one it is, but sure someone will)
Edit: it is the Suchard Hot choc that only uses one pod.

Brick on tablet
Does it look like this....

Thankyou I'm not sure as i don't get much of a glance it's more a quick flicker and i see lots of white shapes. Give me something to think about now with the storage thing ........ Have a great holiday Xx

cjj_2

Picasso7 wrote: »

If it is happening just within one browser, it might be the browser. Try a different one and if the problem isn't there too, uninstall and reinstall it. But if it is happening with all programmes I'm afraid I agree that you should scan the computer with a virus check. Also check that Windows is fully up to date with all updates and security patches. (Google to see how to find the update page on your operative get system.) The Lenovo website might also be helpful.

I hope you get it sorted.

Thankyou Picasso, that's very helpful. I shall check.

Also thanks DM for the advise and the hot chocolate info.

xx

davemorton

altojack wrote: »

Booger, ditto. I wonder if the seeds are Chinese Sunflowers ? xx

Oh, I doubt it, they are VERY exclusive you know

cjj_2

Just downloaded Firefox and it does not appear to be an issue when browsing with that :j. Hopefully that has sorted it, thanks to all the helpful replies xx

mhoc

silvercar wrote: »

Mum's are made to worry!

DS2 has been abroad in the past, far too near war zones for my liking, but I wouldn't actually stop him going. My parents would phone every day and say they can't believe I allowed him to go. Which made the worrying 10 times worse.

I still have Eldest child on my FindFriend list - its very comforting knowing where she is, halts the heart stopping panics. The boys refuse to be put on my list and as a result I never know where they are and it is the worst nightmare ever.
Yes its a bit like stalking but mostly its a case of I check before I disturb Eldest child by messaging her at work or if I know they are en route north I check to see if they have arrived before ringing or messaging.

Tinyshoes

davemorton wrote: »

Setting off to the train station about half 2 AJ. Night in S/hampton, then off tomorrow.

If I hadn't been travelling up and down the country to visit DDs for Easter I would have joined you for a :beer: in that posh pub you found. :rotfl:

I will wave later this afternoon as I pass S'ton have a great holiday DM.

mhoc

altojack wrote: »

I have seen the most amazing/awful thing happen. Transfixed so couldn't get camera.

Sparrows on the feeder disappear into their usual spot in the shrub. A brown bird, size of a blackbird maybe bigger is sat on the side of the shrub. I can't see it's breast as it had its back to me.

It hopped further down the front of the shrub, sat for a while, maybe just seconds before it disappeared into the shrub.

No leaves were moving, all was still, then 2 or 3 sparrows flew out heading to the right followed by this brown bird :eek: no doubting that this was a sparrow hawk. Naughty bird. :mad:

Last year I went to sit out in the garden, this was when we had the bird feeder central in the garden, I had hardly sat down when a sparrow hawk did a fast low level pass from the apple trees directly across the bird feeder, scattering everything in its wake and then did a sharp right turn into the next garden - all too fast for any photos.
Needless to say before I settle in the garden chair now I do a scan for anything loitering in the apple trees.
We also moved the feeders to the side of the house so the garden birds have more cover incase of another attack

mhoc

Afternoon all

We had an early visit to waitrose this morning before the car park and roads went silly and our store had massively over stocked on bakery so there was 4 big dumster baskets of various including hot cross buns dated 15th and 16th, we got three of the packs of 12 mini hot cross buns for 19p each :j Normally 2 for £2.50

Also got the Piccollo baby food for shopimum which was a live offer when we checked in store but an expired one by the time we got home :mad: So these will be returned on the next visit - really annoying when they do this.
Ive got masses of things for the food bank trolley anyway but ours in Mr !!!!!! tends to overflow at the weekends so I go weekdays

And in the midst of Waitrose bakery section we made a nuisance of ourselves by having a face time conversation with Eldest child and her new OH who are having a long weekend in Stockholm :j

(more of this later when Ive recharged)

mhoc

bubbs wrote: »

From dark side


Boots Botanics bargains! Half price and Buy one get One free!!

Ta for this, I needed night cream as I finally used up the jar I'd been using since last February

I had a look on the website and found a Botanics night cream for £2.50 and then I remembered the little town where our Waitrose is and where we were this morning also has a little Boots. There I found the last 2 on the shelf
On my Boots app this week Ive had new offers and this included 100 points for any purchase and 50 points for Botanics so my 2 night creams came to £2.50 and I got 158 Boots points :T

So thats me sorted for another year.

I also checked the baby section for COs baby cereals but this Boots strangely has virtually no baby food section beyond some milk products - I suppose it cant compete with 2 supermarkets close by.