Kathy
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Bargains of the dayAt the local charity shop today the conversation went as follows:
"Och Kathy, thank goodness, ah wis hopin ye'd pop in. I've goat a black bag fu o knittin stuff, tak the lot an ye can hae it fer a poond".
My "poonds" worth consisted of copious amounts of various types of wool, lots of full balls, novelty yarns, full 500grm bag of cashcotton unopened, various oddments in a variety of colours.
A box of knitting pins, various sizes and materials, even wee mini plastic ones.
A HUGE bundle of patterns and a couple of books. More than half of the patterns are crochet and there's a very old crochet book (The Home Art Crochet Book) with those lovely old advertisements in it "Frys pure breakfast Cocoa, builds bonnie bairns", I can't find a date but I love it! The other book is "Puppet Making".
So, if anyone needs any oddments of coloured wool or a certain size of knitting needle for any purpose please let me know. Same goes for the crochet patterns, lots of things "for the home" and I'll never use them all. There are also a couple of Aran knitting booklets that I have already so just speak up if you want any.
Now, where can I put it all.....................................
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Kathy
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Actually, maybe this should have been in the knitting etc section, but maybe if anyone else has had any "bargains" they can post it here?
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Becki
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That deserves to be a sticky type subject, Bargain of the week or something! 
Can't do it here, we will have to wait for Boss Lady
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Aqui
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Wow - what a bargain. And I'm glad to say I can translate the local accent!
Any baby wool or really soft stuff in vivid colours amongst that lot?
Gran's giving me all her old needles as she can't knit anymore, sadly (but she is 91 now and got carpal tunnel syndrone). As long as she can keep gardening, she'll be fine.
Now I want to go round our local charity shops!
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Riverflow
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Well... as there's no official bargain of the week thread yet, I'll post one here...
Sunday, local tip (sorry... household waste recycling centre), picked up Haynes manual for my Discovery (new-looking, no greasy finger prints!) and a home brewing pressure barrel for the princely sum of £2!
Col
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Kathy
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Nice one Col! 
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Jellycat
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Kathy, I'd love the Aran booklets if they're still surplus to requirements - I love cable knitting
Let me know what you'd like in exchange...I can lend you a large but loveable lurcher if anyone wants their ears pierced
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muntjac
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garage sale on the way to werk monday got a router table a router and a dozen or so bits £35 . today went to town ( dentist ) not my usual trip in went to say hi to my fishmerchant pal took him some pheasants , n came away with 16 large place ( each fish 3- 4lbs in wieght or on the bone with roes in which i must point out i am eating as i type also 2 kilos of fresh sprats . the plaice came to £8 the sprats £2 the sprats was great .how come i got the plaice .well they was left on the market from mondays auctions when they should have been picked up the ice had gone and the top fish had dried somewhat .but as i told paul a splash water n u wont know the difference .now fileted with flesh about an inch thick on the centre line . so anybody got a recipe for plaice florentine oh i didnt pay i just didnt charge for the pheasants 
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Kathy
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I'll get them posted off Jellycat, happy to pass on my good fortune
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Jellycat
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You are a treasure Kathy - thank you very much
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agapanthus
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There was a skip at the lottie today and I managed to get lots of aluminium poles (the type that holds up fabric pergolas) a pair of shears (very handy for my new lawn! ) that hopefully the old man will clean and sharpen for me, an old co-op shopping basket (that was mine in the 1st place!!!!!!) and an old canopy. This looks a bit like the type that butchers have over their windows in the summer to shade the meat from the sun.....and it's red and white striped!!!!!
Now can anyone give me any ideas what I can use this canopy for??? It just seemed to good an item to leave and get dumped 
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Kathy
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Aqui, I've checked through my wool stash and the only soft baby wool is either white, cream or pale baby pink, no vivid colours at all. 
You are welcome to some of the white if it would be of any use.
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Kathy
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Could you make a hammock with it Agapanthus?
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Haize
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A windbreak, then you can go on a trip to the beach with it
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mrutty
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I bought a house and now the lady of the house has thrown in all the curtains for free 
Means we don't have to run around on the first night trying to cover up like you normally do.
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muntjac
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nice one matey . gues my bargain ws my brown shrimp at £1 a pint .dissapointed at the prices reached today . the amount of lovely bits that spanish boat had was real good to see / big squid 2 ft long the spider crabs was massive some 3 ft across . prawns was £10 a 6 kilo box and was snapped up all 4 tonnes of them , they would go on the public market at £ 16 or thereabouts not bad profit for just putting them back in the freezer on land , quality of the fish was b grade but still made over £130 a 10 stone box . oh well theres another market another day . who knows its friday the morrows and the long distance boats will wait for monday market but the little uns will be in the crack of dawn
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agapanthus
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What a great idea Kathy...only one problem....no large trees to tie it to.....and take it from me the trees have to be large!!!!
Haize...another great idea but I already have one
Was thinking something for the lottie.......come on Munt, you're
usually full of ideas!!!!
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muntjac
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are we talking for the canopy ?.......... a nice shade for ya lotty shed . sitting drinking wine under ya des res . imagine the crappy nieghbours ." posh tart she always goes over the top "
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agapanthus
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Some think that already Munt!!!
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muntjac
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lolol . you wanna hear what some say about me lolo,, n thats just the ladies
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agapanthus
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Munt....I've already heard :0!!!!!!
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muntjac
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oooooooh have ya lol
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agapanthus
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But I would'nt dream of spreading gossip here
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muntjac
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oh well there goes my bedroom credibility . .......... ok back to the topic bargain of the day . got me a bag of artichokes through post , swapped a bunch manky old seeds fer em
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agapanthus
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Kathy
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Got a phone call from friend today. "Can you use a sort of purply pinky bike, child size, it's new, just needs the tyres blown up".
Of course I said yes and asked where she got it. She assured me it wasn't "knocked off"! Her hubby went to take stuff to the recycling centre and is friendly with the chaps there, asked if he knew anyone could use the bike as it was a shame to just crush it. They don't have any children/grandchildren so immediately thought of E. It's a cracker, gears and allsorts on it (I'm not bike literate), why anyone would want to throw it away is a mystery to me. But I'm not complaining, thats E's birthday sorted!
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Haize
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Well, I think they are a bargain, but then I haven't been buying seeds for very long...
Packets of Sage, Basil, Chives, Lettuce, and Sweet Pea for 15p each, from a place called "Home Bargains". Very strange shop... Unfortunately, just inside the door they had Lindt Reindeers for 39p, and I couldn't resist 
That's a double bad thing, because now I'll feel really mean when I eat it too. Why do they make chocolate into the shape of cute things?!
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Haize
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"The book people" online shop have "Grow Your Own Veg" book from the TV series for £4.99, and I also have a code for free postage regardless of order price (if anyone wants it, pm me, I think there are sometimes issues with putting them in public places).
Beats Amazon's price by quite a way.
Oh, and at the Harlow Carr open day I received a free watering can, and seeds for tomato, carrot, and spinach
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agapanthus
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You did have a good day Haize!!
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muntjac
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not a place i go in usually as i dont like the politics they involve themselves in but today i went into the rspca .and found a book brand new " tales of the old country farmers "i have copies of the gamekeeper etc and more tales of the gamekeeper poachers tales ,only having £5 in my pocket i bought it at £2.50p for a £19 book .i also payed £1.50 for a book to complete my collection of the garden colour series by richard wiles " the garden handyman " a complete set of 6 now . i also noticed another 2 more tales of the .?.. books the woodlanders one and then old gardeners one .. which i wil be chasing down asap .i also got 2 kilos of plaice roes for £6 saving myself £4 from my mate on the market as he was shutting down for the day
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fish
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tales of the old country farmers eh! nice price and i bet a good read to boot!
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agapanthus
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Never heard of those Munt....they sound good
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fish
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tales of the old poachers,great read,poachers as we like to think about them!
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agapanthus
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Will try and get a copy
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Kathy
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Did the patterns arrive Jellycat, I meant to ask before.
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Somerset Lad
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| fish wrote: | | tales of the old poachers,great read,poachers as we like to think about them! |
Is that John Humprhies book Fish? i have that one.
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lloyd
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| Somerset Lad wrote: | | fish wrote: | | tales of the old poachers,great read,poachers as we like to think about them! |
Is that John Humprhies book Fish? i have that one. |
Me too.
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