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I'm thinking of Frome too!

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Don't forget...it's Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) tomorrow!

I like them best with some sugar and a generous squeeze of lemon juice, and have the pancakes thin and crispy.

:thumbup:

http://projectbritain.com/shrove.html

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:eek: must get lemons I have to take Dd to the doc in a bit, thanks for the reminder.

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And I am pretty sure I will end up in Frome or somewhere else close by

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There's a good chance that I may be there too. We must have a get-together. Perhaps an ex-pat group? :starsmile:

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So here I am busy packing away when in my storage area of the basement I find my piggy/banks/jars full of pennies - over 17 different containers - all shapes and sizes and all full of pennies that I have filled over the past 20+ years on and off :p So I go to Amazon and buy a load of the pre-formed tubes and spend the past several days filling them. And today I finished with $159.50 - all in pennies. I have already loaded half of those into a wheelie and taken them to the bank - I plan on taking the rest tomorrow or Friday. The pre-formed tubes cost me $25 so my "profit" is $134.5 but still that was money I had just lying around and every little helps nowadays :thumbup:.

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Oh gosh - you could have gone to any branch of a TD Bank (even if you don't have an account with them. They have these coin counting machines where you just pour your coins into a chute (it rejects foreign coins) and saves you the bother of putting them into those weird paper rolls. I once collected over $400 by taking coins in :thumbup:

Well done though! Have you sold the rest of your furniture?

When are you flying back to the UK?

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Our nank has the machine thing now too, they used to take the penny rolls, but now you poor the money in and it gives you a coupon, you can deposit it or get cash, not in pennies.
I hope all your penny rolling wasn't for nothing Englishmum.

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They have those machines in our grocery stores too. They're great.

Lorac congrats on finding the money. How's the packing going?

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Way to go Lora! Divine intervention just like the other day when a framed picture stood on the floor against the wall looked a little wonky; I straightened it and 3 x $20 bills fell out. :confused:
Your pennies reminded me of the time I was driving onto one of the toll bridges across the Hudson in New York and I only had pennies to pay the toll and the man refused to accept them. I told him that was all the change I had. People behind me were yelling, swearing and honking their horn in true New York style. In the end he had to take them and was muttering away as I drove off. Hilarious :rofl:

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Holy moley I knew I had the start of a migraine writing that, but I was talking about the Bank not nank and you pour the money not poor :o Soory about that.

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Packing is going slowly - I swear my stuff is breeding when I have my back turned :sneaky:. Of course it doesn't help I have come down with a really bad cold - sniffling , coughing and sneezing as I pack - the germs will be breeding on their way across the Atlantic :D

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I totally sympathize about the stuff breeding. I feel sure I only bought a few boxes worth of junk and yet now I seem to have mountains of the stuff and no amount of clearing out seems to make a dent!

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Hey Celtic, I might just give this vegan diet a go next time I have a dog:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/03/10...ex.html?hpt=C2

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Very interesting article. My dogs love veggies especially broccoli and carrots.