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  • savingholmes
    savingholmes Posts: 28,973 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    f0xh0les said:
    Used all year round in our house - a partridge is for life, not just for Christmas.
    Love it!!
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  • Made me chuckle too :D 
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  • mark55man
    mark55man Posts: 8,215 Forumite
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    we're all "its like the partridge family get together"  
    I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
    Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
    Smiling and waving and looking so fine
  • mark55man
    mark55man Posts: 8,215 Forumite
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    Been a bit quiet my OH and I were having a weekend break staying overnight with friends.  Sunday was lovely and sunny so walked a good number of steps.  Will just get through the week then catch up with all reporting for the first month of 2022 - how did we get here! 
    I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
    Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
    Smiling and waving and looking so fine
  • mark55man
    mark55man Posts: 8,215 Forumite
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    edited 1 February 2022 at 8:13PM
    So literally 5 minutes after moaning about the gravel it turned up unannounced and with a very skilful pump truck operator who managed to navigate some bumps to get it pretty close to where needed.  We now have also ordered a set of garden furniture - late into the winter sales we got a reduction from £1200 to £400.  Now you and I know that no one in the whole wide world ever paid £1200 but I'm pretty sure £400 is goodish deal for two rattan sofas and a table.  Plus it fits perfectly and arrives Friday so the question in my mind is whether it will see a sunny day or a snowstorm first.
    I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
    Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
    Smiling and waving and looking so fine
  • Oooo, where did you manage to source garden furniture from?  We're on the look out :) 
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  • Nice reading your progress on the house/garden
    If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them

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