| Your best and worst buys in lockdown 09:23 - May 29 with 6008 views | loftboy |
Best: scrabble though it game with a board that was as flimsy as a piece of paper an extra fiver invested on eBay on a vintage thicker one was well worth it, play a couple of games a day with the mrs instead of watching TV.
Worst: At the start of lockdown following a thread on here I bought a few airfix kits, as well as the models got a it carried away and bought extra glue , paint and brushes, the kits were completed and all the spares which none were needed are now packed away in a box probably never to be touched again. [Post edited 29 May 2020 9:24]
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| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 09:32 - May 29 with 3243 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Best: Fourme d'Ambert, as recommended by one of you fine people recently (I did a search but can't find it, but thanks!). Unreal cheese with a Sicilian red. It's my Friday treat now.
Worst: a large cycling jersey that would strangle a smallish chihuahua. If i shaved my head I'd look like George Dawes. |  |
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| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 09:34 - May 29 with 3240 views | MrSheen |
Best - food processor. Trying all sorts, Lyonnaise potatoes the best so far.
- WatchNRL subscription!
Worst - new laptop. Disappeared into daughter's bedroom the moment it arrived, never seen again. |  | | |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 09:34 - May 29 with 3238 views | MrSheen |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 09:32 - May 29 by BrianMcCarthy |
Best: Fourme d'Ambert, as recommended by one of you fine people recently (I did a search but can't find it, but thanks!). Unreal cheese with a Sicilian red. It's my Friday treat now.
Worst: a large cycling jersey that would strangle a smallish chihuahua. If i shaved my head I'd look like George Dawes. |
Six weeks Brian, give it six weeks. | | | |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 10:00 - May 29 with 3208 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 09:34 - May 29 by MrSheen |
Six weeks Brian, give it six weeks. |
Ha ha! I'm never going to fit into this thing. I'm 6'2, 210 pounds and 18% body fats at the moment. I might drop another 5 or 6 pounds but that's my lot.
This thing is pornographic. And not the good kind!  | |
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| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 10:45 - May 29 with 3150 views | rsonist |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 09:34 - May 29 by MrSheen |
Best - food processor. Trying all sorts, Lyonnaise potatoes the best so far.
- WatchNRL subscription!
Worst - new laptop. Disappeared into daughter's bedroom the moment it arrived, never seen again. |
Why dya need a food processor for Pommes Lyonnaise...? |  | | |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 10:51 - May 29 with 3140 views | rsonist |
Nothing will make you hate Scrabble more than playing someone who's really into it and has a load of two letter nonsense memorised. Some of the world's top pros don't even speak the language. | | | |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 10:51 - May 29 with 3139 views | MrSheen |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 10:45 - May 29 by rsonist |
Why dya need a food processor for Pommes Lyonnaise...? |
Lot of slicing. Whoosh, as Dean Coney one said. | | | |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 10:54 - May 29 with 3134 views | qprxtc |
Best: Slimline CD sleeves to get rid of all the plastic cases and transfer CD and art into the sleeves. Cut down on a ton of space and now can fit another thousand or so CDs in......
Worst: Supergrass deluxe box set. I like them but as soon as it arrived I had regretted it. It’s huge and I’m never ever going to play it. I’ll sell it but will probably take a hit. Luckily most of it was bought with birthday vouchers. [Post edited 29 May 2020 10:57]
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| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 10:58 - May 29 with 3124 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
I brought a Harmonica and a Teach Yourself Harmonica book. |  | | |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 11:00 - May 29 with 3118 views | rsonist |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 10:51 - May 29 by MrSheen |
Lot of slicing. Whoosh, as Dean Coney one said. |
Fair enough I guess. Tbh I'm only biased against due to factoring in the time it'd take me to dust off and assemble the bugger and back again. | | | |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 11:01 - May 29 with 3114 views | rsonist |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 10:58 - May 29 by BazzaInTheLoft |
I brought a Harmonica and a Teach Yourself Harmonica book. |
Respect. That's real commitment to getting on people's nerves :) | | | |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 11:07 - May 29 with 3101 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 11:01 - May 29 by rsonist |
Respect. That's real commitment to getting on people's nerves :) |
It felt like my LfW contribution to that end weren't cutting it anymore. | | | |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 12:38 - May 29 with 3046 views | CliveWilsonSaid |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 10:58 - May 29 by BazzaInTheLoft |
I brought a Harmonica and a Teach Yourself Harmonica book. |
I bought a Bass Ukulele on Ebay in April. There’s been a problem with the delivery through My Hermes and it’s been returned to sender twice now. Currently back with the seller in Windermere or somewhere. He’s offered a refund but I think we’re going to try one more time. Hopefully it might turn out to be a good purchase but currently a very poor one.
Best purchase a set of 6 French style stemless wine goblets. Inspired by an episode of Floyd on France. |  |
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| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 12:56 - May 29 with 3028 views | BucksRanger |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 12:38 - May 29 by CliveWilsonSaid |
I bought a Bass Ukulele on Ebay in April. There’s been a problem with the delivery through My Hermes and it’s been returned to sender twice now. Currently back with the seller in Windermere or somewhere. He’s offered a refund but I think we’re going to try one more time. Hopefully it might turn out to be a good purchase but currently a very poor one.
Best purchase a set of 6 French style stemless wine goblets. Inspired by an episode of Floyd on France. |
Type 'Hermes Delivery Problems' into Google to see the cause of your problems. At the beginning of the year I bought an item that was supposed to be delivered by them. Day after day they advised me that they had tried to deliver but I wasn't in. I was in. I was in with some flu / corona like virus that had kept me housebound for weeks. Never once did Hermes ring my doorbell despite them insisting that that had. Daily. According to them.
Biggest bunch of lying toerags I have ever had to deal with. Avoid like the plague.
Parcel never did arrive. [Post edited 29 May 2020 13:04]
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| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 13:05 - May 29 with 3020 views | R_from_afar |
Man, I have hardly bought anything during lockdown. I try not to upgrade stuff until it breaks and try to be patient when I want something, although I do sometimes crack.
I was all set to go on a boys trip with my brother, my godson and my niece's fiancee to the music shop to get the Fender amp my wife is buying me for (last) Christmas when lockdown kicked in. I didn't want to go straight after Christmas because my godson had to revise for and then sit mock A-levels. I could order the amp online but I am saving the trip as a treat for us all, when the shackles are finally off.
Two candidates for the best buy:
1: Risotto rice. This week, we finally managed to get some for the first time since March. Result!
2: A load of herb plants for my revamped herb garden. They are all doing well so far and there is some slightly unusual stuff, like lovage and winter savory.
Worst buy:
1: A packet of melittis melissophyllum seeds. I got them in April only to find that they need vernalisation (a prolonged period of exposure to cold) to germinate. You can put them in the fridge but it's a long process. This snafu was compounded by the contents of the seed packet being parsimonious in the extreme: I kid you not, there were under 20 seeds, perhaps just 15, in there. I decided to just plant them anyway and be patient but having so few of them really focuses the mind, especially when you are a clumsy oaf like me. Given my disappointing experience with them thus far, it is perhaps appropriate that their common name is bast@rd balm. Really. |  |
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| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 13:18 - May 29 with 2993 views | stowmarketrange |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 10:51 - May 29 by rsonist |
Nothing will make you hate Scrabble more than playing someone who's really into it and has a load of two letter nonsense memorised. Some of the world's top pros don't even speak the language. |
In a moment of boredom I downloaded the scrabble app to my iPhone to wile away the furlough time.It started off ok and I was playing 2 different games against 2 different people,and they’d take an hour or two to reply,which I thought was acceptable as I could pick it up and put it down easily.
I then playing a couple more people in other games.At one stage I had 34 games going on at once,which was still ok as they all played at different speeds.
Then I made the mistake of playing this one bloke that responded straight away and the games were normally over it about 15 mins.But then they want you to play 2 or 3 games against the same person.
In the end I was on the phone from the time I woke up to the time I closed my eyes,and he’d still play straight away with some stupid 6 letter word that scored 50 points every other turn.
I now know what being stalked is like.
I deleted the app last week and wouldn’t dare touch it again.I’ve gone through 2 1/2 books since then and still haven’t seen the words Qi,Zo or any other stupid 2 letter nonexistent words in any of them. |  | | |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 13:19 - May 29 with 2991 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 13:18 - May 29 by stowmarketrange |
In a moment of boredom I downloaded the scrabble app to my iPhone to wile away the furlough time.It started off ok and I was playing 2 different games against 2 different people,and they’d take an hour or two to reply,which I thought was acceptable as I could pick it up and put it down easily.
I then playing a couple more people in other games.At one stage I had 34 games going on at once,which was still ok as they all played at different speeds.
Then I made the mistake of playing this one bloke that responded straight away and the games were normally over it about 15 mins.But then they want you to play 2 or 3 games against the same person.
In the end I was on the phone from the time I woke up to the time I closed my eyes,and he’d still play straight away with some stupid 6 letter word that scored 50 points every other turn.
I now know what being stalked is like.
I deleted the app last week and wouldn’t dare touch it again.I’ve gone through 2 1/2 books since then and still haven’t seen the words Qi,Zo or any other stupid 2 letter nonexistent words in any of them. |
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| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 13:24 - May 29 with 2982 views | johann28 |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 09:32 - May 29 by BrianMcCarthy |
Best: Fourme d'Ambert, as recommended by one of you fine people recently (I did a search but can't find it, but thanks!). Unreal cheese with a Sicilian red. It's my Friday treat now.
Worst: a large cycling jersey that would strangle a smallish chihuahua. If i shaved my head I'd look like George Dawes. |
Top man. Fourme d'Ambert is the business. A good cheese compliment is St Nectaire and wine compliment a Primitivo. Real Cheese Co in Motcomb st always has them (and has remained open throughout the plague 😊). Worth a trip, even it's just to test your eyesight. |  | | |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 13:28 - May 29 with 2965 views | johann28 |
Best: Wine Society
Worst: Majestic | | | |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 13:34 - May 29 with 2945 views | kingo |
Best result has been going to a local farm shop and buying proper meat, bread, cheese especially bacon. We will never go back to supermarket stuff.
Also found GWatkin cider.
Worst: trying to buy a couple of bags of building sand, all sold out |  |
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| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 13:35 - May 29 with 2943 views | CliveWilsonSaid |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 12:56 - May 29 by BucksRanger |
Type 'Hermes Delivery Problems' into Google to see the cause of your problems. At the beginning of the year I bought an item that was supposed to be delivered by them. Day after day they advised me that they had tried to deliver but I wasn't in. I was in. I was in with some flu / corona like virus that had kept me housebound for weeks. Never once did Hermes ring my doorbell despite them insisting that that had. Daily. According to them.
Biggest bunch of lying toerags I have ever had to deal with. Avoid like the plague.
Parcel never did arrive. [Post edited 29 May 2020 13:04]
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What makes things worse is I opted for Click and Collect so the parcel goes to a shop near where I live then I collect. In this case a Convenience store that’s open 7 days a week, 15 hours a day or something. First time the seller got a refund eventually so that’s something. This time they are claiming they’ve attempted delivery 3 times before returning to sender. I can’t even work out how that’s possible! | |
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| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 13:39 - May 29 with 2931 views | Lblock |
Best so far :- I’m waiting on it.... sign for the garden I’ve had custom done, should arrive next week. It reads “I need some time in the sunshine....”
looks great in the artwork and if it ticks the boxes it’s going on one side of the back garden fence and then on other side I’m getting them to make “I gotta slow it right down”
Worst :- new BBQ. Bloody thing is crap compared to the Outback one I had for last three years. The final insult there is neighbours 10 doors down took the old one, deep cleaned, repaired and use it all the time telling us how excellent it is and thanking us effusively for letting them take it rather than the do as you likeys
Gutted!!! |  |
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| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 13:39 - May 29 with 2931 views | BucksRanger |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 13:35 - May 29 by CliveWilsonSaid |
What makes things worse is I opted for Click and Collect so the parcel goes to a shop near where I live then I collect. In this case a Convenience store that’s open 7 days a week, 15 hours a day or something. First time the seller got a refund eventually so that’s something. This time they are claiming they’ve attempted delivery 3 times before returning to sender. I can’t even work out how that’s possible! |
They just lie about it. Don't trust a word they say. | | | |
| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 13:42 - May 29 with 2926 views | Esox_Lucius |
Best buy has undoubtedly been No Man's Sky for my XBox. No bad buys so far but still early days. |  |
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| Your best and worst buys in lockdown on 13:49 - May 29 with 2914 views | robith |
Best - HP Gaming Pavillion laptop. Was told I was getting furloughed so bought this. Amazon let you buy stuff on installments interest free. Then didn't get furloughed. But having my own laptop and not just having my work one on all the time really helps give a mental break from the working day. Plus have used it to play mad pokerstars tournaments with my colleagues
Worst - I won a rake of cash at Cheltenham and bought a really nice pair of boots. Never worn |  | | |
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