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  • Enterprise_1701C
    Enterprise_1701C Posts: 23,415 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Mortgage-free Glee!
    We've just booked a holiday :D
    What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare
  • bubbs
    bubbs Posts: 68,086 Forumite
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    From Darkside

    B&Q 20% off all outdoor plants in store - 19th-22nd May

    8 x 160g tins of John west Tuna chunks in brine. In store only @ ASDA - £3.0017

    Kellogg's cornflakes 1KG @ Tesco instore - £2.00
    Sealed pot challenge number 003 £350 for 2015, 2016 £400 Actual£345, £400 for 2017 Actual £500:T:T £770 for 2018 £1295 for 2019:j:j spc number 22 £1,457Stopped Smoking 22/01/15:D:D::dance::dance:- 5 st 1 1/2lb :dance::dance:
  • pacifica9
    pacifica9 Posts: 3,262 Forumite
    bubbs wrote: »
    Good job:p:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    I ahte doing mine as well and only do a week at once:o

    Tes with sweetner please:D

    :coffee: for 3Dogs
    :coffee: for bubbles who is looking splendidly lovely today (sorry I have no actual sweetener so I hope that will do) :D

    Can you hear my fat and fluffy starlings from there? Still five doing the noisy feed-me-now dance plus I count ten youngsters who are now feeding themselves. So I'm doing my bit for declining numbers! P!us I also now have an adult and two goldfinch youngsters not previously seen. :T. And a sparrow youngster who has spent all day swinging on the sunflower seed feeder.
    “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while you could miss it.” ~ Ferris Bueller
  • bubbs
    bubbs Posts: 68,086 Forumite
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    Enterprise_1701C wrote: »
    We've just booked a holiday :D

    When and where?:j:j:j
    Sealed pot challenge number 003 £350 for 2015, 2016 £400 Actual£345, £400 for 2017 Actual £500:T:T £770 for 2018 £1295 for 2019:j:j spc number 22 £1,457Stopped Smoking 22/01/15:D:D::dance::dance:- 5 st 1 1/2lb :dance::dance:
  • bubbs
    bubbs Posts: 68,086 Forumite
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    pacifica9 wrote: »
    :coffee: for 3Dogs
    :coffee: for bubbles who is looking splendidly lovely today (sorry I have no actual sweetener so I hope that will do) :D

    Can you hear my fat and fluffy starlings from there? Still five doing the noisy feed-me-now dance plus I count ten youngsters who are now feeding themselves. So I'm doing my bit for declining numbers! P!us I also now have an adult and two goldfinch youngsters not previously seen. :T. And a sparrow youngster who has spent all day swinging on the sunflower seed feeder.

    Aww thanks :D but no sweetner :cool: i will supply my own, have plenty:D
    Think we have a bird nest in the tree and babies in the bird box:D
    Sealed pot challenge number 003 £350 for 2015, 2016 £400 Actual£345, £400 for 2017 Actual £500:T:T £770 for 2018 £1295 for 2019:j:j spc number 22 £1,457Stopped Smoking 22/01/15:D:D::dance::dance:- 5 st 1 1/2lb :dance::dance:
  • braveheart60uk
    braveheart60uk Posts: 3,119 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Sada certainly has slowed the recycling of PAGs
  • Enterprise_1701C
    Enterprise_1701C Posts: 23,415 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Mortgage-free Glee!
    bubbs wrote: »
    When and where?:j:j:j

    Dominican Republic in October :D
    What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare
  • 3Dogs
    3Dogs Posts: 14,092 Forumite
    Cheers pacifica - just in time to have with my Alpen Light Jaffa Cake cereal bar :beer:
    :( Mr 3Dogs 3-7-12 :( 3Dogs'Mam 31-3-13 :(
  • 3Dogs
    3Dogs Posts: 14,092 Forumite
    Enterprise_1701C wrote: »
    Dominican Republic in October :D

    Oh fabulous :j I'm so jealous :o
    :( Mr 3Dogs 3-7-12 :( 3Dogs'Mam 31-3-13 :(
  • bubbs
    bubbs Posts: 68,086 Forumite
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    braveheart60uk wrote: »
    Sada certainly has slowed the recycling of PAGs
    Yes i havent been today:rotfl:
    Enterprise_1701C wrote: »
    Dominican Republic in October :D

    :j:j:j:j lovely, something too look forward too:D
    Sealed pot challenge number 003 £350 for 2015, 2016 £400 Actual£345, £400 for 2017 Actual £500:T:T £770 for 2018 £1295 for 2019:j:j spc number 22 £1,457Stopped Smoking 22/01/15:D:D::dance::dance:- 5 st 1 1/2lb :dance::dance:
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