Mundane News

[Illaveago]

Well the pie was edible and it was just as it said on the tin. Just Chicken. It's a shame they omitted the taste.

 

[raleighnut]

Not quite mundane but my mother has just rung me. She had a phone call from the local hospice charity today. She's won first prize in their summer raffle...


... a 10 night all expenses paid Caribbean cruise for two!

And it's not a hoax. She's well chuffed!

It's been agreed she's going to take my oldest sister, who's not been well for a while.

 

[potsy]

A visit to Mancland might be on the cards soon (need to change trains there if travelling to Mums)

Wonder if these might be on the menu.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/foodanddrink/news/morrisons-launches-a-foot-long-sausage-roll-for-just-£1-and-you-can-buy-it-in-manchester/ar-AApConD?li=AAnZ9Ug&ocid=OIE9HP

See, Mancland is always at the forefront of new gourmet food, I may have to start shopping there in future

 

[Reynard]

Not quite mundane but my mother has just rung me. She had a phone call from the local hospice charity today. She's won first prize in their summer raffle...

Neat! The best raffle prize I've ever won is 2kg of Hills cat food...

 

[Reynard]

Well the pie was edible and it was just as it said on the tin. Just Chicken. It's a shame they omitted the taste.

Ouch... I've had a Tescos Finest chicken pie like that.

 

[Speicher]

Neat! The best raffle prize I've ever won is 2kg of Hills cat food...

I won a television in a raffle. Good timing, as the tv that I had at the time was about twenty years old. The "prize" tv is now about sixteen years old*.

I also won about £4,000 in the Lottery. A very useful sum.

* Yes, @potsy it is a colour tv, thank you.

 

[Reynard]

All of the raffles I do are at cat shows - I'll usually buy a strip or two to support the club as the money tends to go for welfare / rescue. Prefer the raffles where you can put your tickets into pots for specific prizes, which means I can avoid all the things I don't need.

However, I did come back from the Birman show last November with a bottle of 20 year old Chinese rice wine. No one else put in for it so gave it a punt as it came in a stunning ceramic bottle with a turquoise crackle glaze. Thought I could use the wine for cooking, but the Chinese ladies who yellow sticker in Tesco told me that it's a really expensive bottle, the sort that gets trotted out for special occasions...

 

[Accy cyclist]

I'm having two of these in a large mug.

Is it cheating if you think it's not strong enough,so you put a large spoonful of coffee in?

 

[Speicher]

Ooohh yes, I have remembered something else I won as a raffle prize.
A Jean Greenhowe gardener, who I call Hamilton.

 

[TVC]

Ooohh yes, I have remembered something else I won as a raffle prize.

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Lu once knitted one of them

 

[Speicher]

Also I few years ago, this chap, a chef I think, was in a Charity shop and waiting for a good home, so I did bought him.

 

[TVC]

I won a television in a raffle. Good timing, as the tv that I had at the time was about twenty years old. The "prize" tv is now about sixteen years old*.

I also won about £4,000 in the Lottery. A very useful sum.

* Yes, @potsy it is a colour tv, thank you.

I won a CD player on a country show tombola. It was in 1986 when CD players had just come out, it was 10 minutes after the show had started, it was their star prize, it was on the front of their display, it was clearly the result of much arm twisting and favour calling. They smiled, but they clearly weren't happy. I've never dared go back to Garstang since

 

[slowmotion]

I've just ordered a litre of FlowAid SCC concrete superplasticiser.

Where will it all lead? World domination?

 

[Speicher]

[QUOTE 4910568, member: 9609"]breaking the 800 mile per tank

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What sort of vehicle have you got?

 

[Reynard]

Got the John Williams Prom on the i-player while I catch up with some reading.