cam_uk

yeah i know i know ...

we've been having a bit of a bad run .. since about 1981 ...

arkon

Well Woodyinoz, today for the first time I tried exactly that. I normally do all the shopping in woolies but I'm getting a bit pissed off at the food bill now. It seems to be getting exponentialy dearer each week. The exact same shopping list is now over $100 a week more than it was a year ago.

So today I thought I'd do the hop from market to shop to local butcher to local baker etc, then go to woolies at the end to get the stuff I couldn't get anywhere else cheaper. Well after 3 hours of excursion I ended up coming home minus the woolies visit as I was too hot and knackered to carry on. So no I've only got less than half the weekly shop! So next week I'm going to bite the bullet and go back to the normal routine. All I can say to those that hop skip and jump from shop to shop to save a few bucks, you must have more time on your hands than me. Far too much like hard work.

fraser

We do it here, but we're lucky as have a cheap butchers and greengrocers near to a supermarket.

NickyP

For some bizarre reason we have no greengrocer only the supermarket. Can't for the life of me work out why as we are in farming country, they are obviously sending it all you you city folk . There is a big fruit and veg warehouse but that is out of town and not all that cheap.
Nicky

fraser

We were in one today and paid $2 for a kilo of apples, $1.20 for a loaf of bread and 69 cents for an iceburg lettuce.

PS. next door they had swimming pools starting from $23000

fraser

Just looked on Tescos site and potatoes start at 27p a kilo, in coles the other day the cheapest were $3.27 that's £1.40 that's five times more expensive.

Vash the Stampede

No worries mate; you're welcome.

I willl add that the only reason I read the Daily Mail is that it's one of three newspapers provided in our offices at work - and since the other two are The Sun and The Daily Mirror, I have decided to read the newspaper for middle class whingers with pretensions to literacy.

NickyP

Just have to avoid potatoes then no problem when using the BBQ.
A big difference that we noticed is the expensive lager as in Belgium it was sooooo cheap (often cheaper that bottled water which is really scary :scared: ). Also miss the chocolate croissants (well if I am honest the chocolate in general) healthy diet or what (hee hee). But then on the upside it isn't Belgium (nothing more needs saying).
Nicky

Vash the Stampede

That's one of the main reasons, I believe.

And plenty of people simply can't be bothered with the hassle of a conversion, particularly since it chews up a fair bit of boot space.

Vash the Stampede

Not really.

It tells me is that nearly all the teachers you have met, send their kids to private schools (well hey, that's what people tend to do when they have a bit of spare cash lying around.) It says absolutely nothing about the quality of state schools.

Yes, private schools tend to offer a better standard of education and/or better facilities than state schools; that's why you pay through the nose for them. But this doesn't mean that the state schools are useless.

I went to a private school when I was in Western Australia, but a state school when we moved to Tasmania. I much preferred the private school (it was a Montessori school, in case anyone's interested) but it really was a luxury that my parents couldn't afford to maintain - especially with four kids to look after.

So I attended a public school, and left Year 12 with two awards for English, having achieved the highest mark in the state: a perfect score of 20/20.

fraser

Good job you don't like to mention it

Del Boy

and it was in Tasmania....

Vash the Stampede

Oh I'm awfully humble, as I'll tell you myself.

Vash the Stampede

Still trying to live it down!

NickyP

My youngest 3 were at a Montessori school while we lived in Belgium but as the closest one to where we are now is 80km away it didn't come up for discussion. I am very happy with the schools that they are at now and don't feel that they are missing out in the slightest not being in private schools. They have made some very good friends and are flourishing academically and socially so I have no worries about their future here.
By the way where abouts are you in the Black country Vash as that is where I grew up (sunny Stourbridge to be exact )
Nicky