to want to throw up all over this self-satisfied pair?

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www.pedlars.co.uk/this-is-us.html

If there's anything you like in the Pedlar's catalogue it's worth googling before you buy. They were selling Rainbow In My Room and Moon In My Room last year for nearly twice what the same thing cost in Argos!!!!

Except swans. Argos don't do dead swan.

Oh bolleaux. I was happily reading this thread, laughing along HA HA di HA until I saw the women's parka they are selling. I have been looking for ages for a parka just like that with no success and I am seriously considering buying it. Shit, shit, shit. I'm sucked in.

madcapmyrtle - LOL. Those "vintage conveyor belt trays" are truly pathetic. £60 for rubbish???!

Major Novogratz?
Five Novogratz?
Breaker Novogratz?

Can you imagine the response if anyone aired those little gems on the baby names thread?

Makes neaveh seem almost acceptable.

AccioPinotGrigio don';t do it. on principle. quite a lot of barbour stuff is quite parker like. not exactly cheap but cheaper than pedlars and with a certain assurance re quality. I'm sure you could hide the label. (can't find anything hooded though)

bugger.
I meant nevaeh, of course.
Hadn't done mirror writing since Primary 6.

I think they're remarkable clever tbh.

Everything they do is part of their business - they travel all over the world- tick
they live in and upkeep their houses all over the world - tick
they indulge their collecting habit - tick
they grow their own food / make their own clothes / employ their own horses (as models and storgae heaters)- tick
they might even get free places on private schools for the PR puff pieces they do for the schools's rag - (unsubstantiated claim)

and all part of their business expenses

It doesn't matter if they sell a spanner or anything at all - they off set their losses by not paying tax due on their other more profitable enterprises. All perfectly legal, if just a soupcon smug.

"Except swans. Argos don't do dead swan."

They do in Tunbridge Wells!

Hester - totally agree about the love cushions and union jack everything - aren't we all just so over that yet?

I'm not seeing anything particularly cutting edge or quirky on their site - most of it's been hammered to death for two or three years already.

My favourite item linked so far it definitely the £595 torch/spotlight thingy. Don't know how I've managed all this time without one really.

The Novogratzes don't look as happy as the Glyadstones because the Gladstone children probably get to camp out in a darling little retro caravan with bunting and gingham, with a swallows and amazons polished wooden rowing boat on the lake, in the grounds of their castle/french farmhouse etc etc, whereas the Novogratzes live in just-the-one house in Greenwich Village, NY, which is spread over five narrow floors so they are all permenently out of breath and a bit tetchy - imagine getting out of the house for school and realising you've left your essential swan wings in your room? Up four flights of stairs. Plus, as they have six kids they all have to share bedrooms, which is really not on. Even people on the council house waiting list can use siblings bedroom sharing as a reason to need an upgrade. Those poor Novogratzes.

La Redoute often give those oven dishes away free here if you place an order with them.

Maybe the Pedlars ordered a bulk load of torches from La Redoute to get the freebie dishes.

Win-win, really.

Is it sad that I like the idea of thegarlic crusher

I'm so dissappointed in myself,
I wanted to laugh at all their stuff especially when I seen the deckchair for £135, but I I can't seen to get a good garlic crusher anywhere still wouldn't pay £13 for it though

Fnar fnar at the giant woollen pompoms that serves as poufs/stools. Handmade 'in tiny quantities' by twin sisters in Holland. A snip at £850.

And I think I'm going to join their music club. It sells CDs for between £13 and £18 that you could get on Amazon for £8-10 BUT, and this is the USP that only Pedlars can offer, there is a very small carefully chosen selection designed to make you appear uber-cool and alternative. It doesn't actaully matter if you've never heard of the artisits or fear they might be shite, that's not the point. These are lifestyle CDs, understand? So, if you are not cool, and you find that yet again you've accidentally been listening to Boyzone or SuBo, then fear not. All you need to do is pay twice the usual price, and they'll send you some CDs pre-selected for coollness, like Gil Scott Heron, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Massive Attack. You too can hold your head high when discussing your CD collection with anyone who might live in Islington and work in Meeja. Easy peasy.

Here you are PlumBumMum....Seeker's advice is spot on...
www.amazon.co.uk/Garlic-Twist-Clear/dp/B001IXL5TS

I finally clicked on this thread expecting to feel nothing but utter disapproval for the OP as I assumed she was jealous of a couple who were fortunate enough to have some of the luxuries in life most of us can only dream of. I clinked on the link, saw a happy, beautiful couple, with their happy beautiful children and their obviously wealthy lifestyle and I thought my initial disapproval for the OP was justified.

Then I started reading the link and I have to say, OMG, YA definitely NBU - that really is the most nauseating thing I have read in a long time.

Was just about to post the same link. I highly recommend them by the way!

hatwoman you are right. I will fight the urge. #325 for a parka is just a piss take really and the Gladstones surely don't need my money. I just don't want anything nipped in at the waist and all parka's for women tend to be like that.

I saw wellies - black, rubber, 'limited edition' - for sale in my local 'lifestyle' boutique for £140.

Obviously I bought a pair.

AccioPinotGrigio - I know what you mean about nipped in waists. my mum goes on about how flattering they are and I really don;t agree. anything nipped in, by definition, has to flare out again. and if it's a shortish bulky jacket that can look dreadful. If you're smallish anyway (like me) I much prefer a straight coat with a nicely shaped hem-line - going up at the sides and front, - makes your legs longer whilst covering your bum, and makes the coat narrower when viewed from the front. If I ever see a nice parka (just realised I think it's spelled with an a, not an er) I'll let you know...

TiggyR I have to disabuse you of the notion that the Novogratz's live in just one house in NY. They also have a house in Great Barrington. Have a look at the 'Projects'bit.

Not convinced that all the Union jacks etc from Posh English People will be going down too well in Kincardineshire .....

Ooooh, this has made me ever so angry. Mrs Gladstone looks like Jo Whiley too, which is another reason to dislike her intensely, IMO.

Oh god. Just reading their blog is painful. It makes me want to write in terribly short sentences. Also no paragraphs. At all. How can even their writing sound clipped. Gosh they are wankers. Their photos are boring too. But only taken on their iphones. Poor them.

Their blog. Here's a piece of delicious irony. (They didn't like an exhibition of Jeff Koons work.) "...the only questions worth asking were 'How did his assistants build that?' or 'Why would anyone pay anything for this rubbish? ...."

And what do they have against Banksy?