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posted by [personal profile] oldbloke at 03:10pm on 13/04/2007 under
Lidl have some offers coming up on hosepipes. The one we have is just a weeny bit shorter than is convenient. So last night when we got home, I picked up my longest stick and measured it: 2.4m. Then I measured from the tap in the garage to where I'd want to wash the car: 6 sticks.
Then I measured from the tap on the back of the house to the top of the garden: 6 sticks.
So a 15m hose ought to be OK.
So then I measured the width of the garage: 3m
And laid out the hose: 5 garage widths.
So it ought to be OK.
But I know it isn't.

Never trust a stick.
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posted by [identity profile] perdita-fysh.livejournal.com at 02:03pm on 13/04/2007
So I shouldn't buy a letterbox tonight based on a hole size of tip-of-my-right-thumb to first-little-finger-knuckle then?
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posted by [identity profile] oldbloke.livejournal.com at 02:10pm on 13/04/2007
No, you need to measure it with a laser. And then find that there are now 2 standard sizes, neither of which match.
It's simpler to get a new door, really.
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posted by [identity profile] scat0324.livejournal.com at 09:33am on 16/04/2007
You think the door will fit?
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posted by [identity profile] burkesworks.livejournal.com at 02:19pm on 13/04/2007
Lidl's great, isn't it? You can fill your fridge with goodies that would cost a fortune in Fortnum's and still have change left over to eat chicken-in-a-basket with the stars at Batley Variety Club.

I guess their hosepipe extravaganza makes a change from their frequent sales of HORSE tack, or as there is in my local one this week, fishing tackle.
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posted by [identity profile] blackberry44.livejournal.com at 11:01pm on 13/04/2007
Does anyone know whether Lidl sell chorizo? I've done my Internet grocery shopping and it's too late to change it now; I've been made an offer I can't refuse to have someone else make dinner tomorrow, but he needs chorizo and I don't want to go all the way to Morrisons.

Lidl is much nearer, the car park's always half empty and even on a Saturday it isn't as ghastly as Morrisons.

I wonder whether M&S Food sells it?
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posted by [identity profile] oldbloke.livejournal.com at 06:48am on 14/04/2007
They do do a range of continetal sausagey type stuff, but I wouldn't like to say definitively that they do chorizo
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posted by [identity profile] mhoulden.livejournal.com at 12:03am on 14/04/2007
Apparently my local Lidl is doing a special on shower seats, walking sticks, rolling zimmer frames and easy reachers. What market are they after? (Resisting the temptation to mention [livejournal.com profile] oldbloke's birthday)
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posted by [identity profile] oldbloke.livejournal.com at 07:29am on 14/04/2007
Doesn't this pic just make you really really want that walking stick though?
http://www.lidl.co.uk/C1256C790050C7BC/images/GB.07_5900/$file/07_5900_b.jpg
Don't we all, deep down, want to be that super-sauve chap, eh?

There's a load of barbecue stuff coming in on Monday. But I'll probably not be getting these:
http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20070416.p.Glow_in_the_Dark_Flowers.ar7
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posted by [identity profile] oldbloke.livejournal.com at 12:33pm on 14/04/2007
http://www.lidl.co.uk/C1256C790050C7BC/images/GB.07_6014/$file/07_6014_b.jpg
might work better than that last URL
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posted by [identity profile] dewsrail.livejournal.com at 02:40pm on 16/04/2007
Ooh - Batley Variety Club, known these days as The Frontier. I was there on one of my very infrequent visits last Thursday, courtesy of former (and, hopefully, future) Dewsbury Labour councillor Eric Firth.

Entertainment was provided by Johnnie Casson, comedian (not bad) and a Beatles cover band called The Cheatles - musically competent and copying the original in just about every way possible, including the guy pretending to be Paul playing left-handed bass guitar!
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