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  • themadvix
    themadvix Posts: 8,916 Forumite
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    Ooh NG, get on Olio or Freegle or similar - there's loads of apples going free at the moment, no need to spend £1 on one (outrageous price, given they're in season - just shows how out of touch our supermarkets are with nature).
    Not sure the male-chauvinist attitude is in any way resigned (is that the right word?) to the past - Mum had similar when buying a new-to-her car recently, and from a youngish man. Where do they get it from? 😩 (I have my ideas, but it's heading into not-permitted-on-the-forum discussion.)
    Glad DH's first day went ok - and he was home earlier than usual, so that's got to be a win! Presumably they finish earlier on Fridays too?
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  • Greying_Pilgrim
    Greying_Pilgrim Posts: 6,742 Forumite
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    I have to say newgirly - apples are like buses.  We got free rein over the apple tree in the garden on our recent few days away.... then I bought a box in MrL only to find  2 cooking apples in it 😂  You know they wouldn't be there, had I needed them, or had we not have had the gifted apples, but I know that apples 'for sale' aren't cheap - and cooking apples especially are 'few to the lb'. 

    But well done you for treating the apple with the value it deserved and using as much of it as poss.  The one issue I've got with our gifted apples is that there was brown rot on the tree.  I tried to avoid it, but we've lost one apple already since we've got home.  Doesn't matter that they were 'free' - it's one less slice of pie! 😁

    Glad that DH was home at a sensible hour, and I hope that he's enjoying the new role, even if the commute is less than desirable.  

    Just 'eye-roll' to the commercial EA attitude.....

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