Seller News: August 2025
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For Mrs Ed Blackadder
You have mail xx
This is what you get when the chilminder is unavailable
An addled brain Sometimes I wonder why I don't get a "proper" job. Daughter is doing a course 2 half days at college and 3 days work experience. Childminder is unavailable 2 days this week, so we are paying for Sproglet to go to pre-school one day(I ...
Online auctions - what's it all about?
I was about to go into ebay - usual format, when out of curiosity I opened up a page displaying online auctions. One of the items being auctions was a brand new Cannon Camera with a maximum bid of just under £30.00 but immediately above it were the w...
Mondays bloomin eck it's dark already tea time thread.
We will be having what we had yesterday as we had lots leftover, now we are having smaller portions, and it was scrummy.
Listing disappeared
I was bidding on the felt seaside wall hanging on MDCC, put a bid on and went back later but it had gone. I checked my "didn't win" and it wasn't on there, not was there anything showing on "your bids and offers". I would have expected a message sayi...
A bedtime story.
Once upon a time, there was a little brown hen called Mrs Rusty. She lived in a house in the woods. One day she was out gathering worms for the children's lunch when she came across a strange sight..................................
windows 8............ the worst OS ever?
I am by no means an expert, but this has to be the worst OS ever, I am so sick of zooming in/out when I dont want to, settings popping up all over the place, one year on from using this on my laptop, and its really really doing my head in. I have add...
Been so busy I forgot the tea thread
We had beef in red wine with mash and spinich.
cookie - calling cookie
Last year on mdcc I bought some fely tree decorations that has chocolate santas in them. Is it possible for you to tell me where you got the chocolate santas from so that I can use the decorations again this year. many thanks
Well what are you having then.
Toasted ham and cheese sandwiches for us. OH had a full roast pork lunch at the shoot today so isnt very hungry. I am in a bit of a fuzz through lack of sleep so I don't really feel like anything.
What's still out in your garden?
This is a selection of flowers I have in the garden still in flower. And just look at the berries on this.
Blocking a bad buyer - do you tell them?
My total for the eight years I've been on the board is thirteen, so it takes a lot to rile me to the extent of blocking them - usually the result of time wasters bidding on stuff and not paying resulting on it having to go through arbitration. When I...
COUNTRY MUSIC FANS
BBC4 is featuring a biography/history of Nashville, hub of country music since 1925, on Friday 7th November. Contributions from Kris Kristofferson **mwah** and Dolly Parton (no dumb blonde) amongst others, should be good. BBC4 do a lot of great music...
christmas tips and ideas
was just looking for ideas for next mdcc and i came across these and thought they were a very cheap good idea for place names round the christmas table.any more ideas anyone.
Slow cooker recommendations
My 3.5 litre slowie is coming to the end of its life (bits are beginning to sag, if not melt) and I'm bewildered by the wide choice of new ones. There's a "Crockpot" brand one advertised in a national discount store at "less than half price" but the ...
Now why does everybody think they know more than me!
Good old care in the community! Understand it is supposed to offer the patient more choice and more control but ........................... I didn't want a choice I wanted a referral to my local eye hospital. However I got a choice of 2 private hospi...
Bonkers to waste conkers!
Around this time of the year conkers litter the ground and get trampled underfoot or squashed flat as cars drive over them. Apart from kids playing with them, how about doing something a little bit more constructive with them? Few of them survive a h...
Fridays spooky, ghoulish and ghostly supper
Poached egg on toast for me, I don't like going to work on a full stomach. OH will be having brains on toast, oh did I say that outloud. salmon with new potatoes and veggies.
Does anyone of you clever bods know anything about bicep injuries please?
I went to The doctors with severe pain in my right upper arm and was diagnosed with an injured bicep, Doctor told me to rest it as much as I can otherwise it won't heal. Well I have tried to but as I am a carer to a few members of my family and can't...
Am I the only one.........
Is it only me who totally detests Halloween! We spend all year keeping our children safe, telling them not to talk to strangers, not to accept 'pressies' from people they do not know, to run away if a stranger approaches them - the list is endless. T...
Calling Captain B
SUNDAY MDCC don't forget............
Yoo - hoo, calling Fishie
My lovely birdie has arrived safely - many thanks
solar Panels
Has anyone got them? If so, what do you think to them? Would appreciate some info based on personal experience before I look into it further. Thank you.
Halloween
Well Maggie, Halloween swap - on or off?
Thursdays rootin tootin toe tapping tea time tastys
We are having,.................Liver and Onions and I can't wait my absolute favourite, Son has just announced he is home for tea but as he hates liver I will have to do him something else.
Wednesdays wealy wonderful woverly tea
Stir fry chicken for us tonight. I have skittles and I mustn't have the snacky bits they serve no good for the diet. (Deep fried chicken dipper type things and chips)
new series of autumnwatch
they are on the red button until the main show tonight bbc2 and can we not have the disike of the presenters outweighing the wildlife please
need some help
does anybody have an e mail address for Te.co insurance please? I can't find an e mail facility anywhere on their site, just phone numbers. Guess what - the phone line has been out of action all week so I can't ring them, and mobile signal is poor wh...
