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do you ever find left over notes in shopping torlleys or elsewhere? i

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codnotamod · 13/01/2006 09:40

i am vaguely intrigued by these as identified in teh times
"Discarded notes are rubbish to most people, but not for worldwide subscribers to Found, which reprints them. The magazine?s publisher, Davy Rothbart, gets bundles sent to his office in Michigan. Laura Kwerel, a radio producer in Washington, was ?overwhelmed? after reading one issue. ?I realise now,? she says, ?that there is more humanity in a discarded grocery list than in a thousand-page novel.? Some people need to get out more. "
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puff · 30/01/2006 17:56

She's hilarious - she does actuallly speak like the Queen!

alexsmum · 30/01/2006 17:58

must be nice going to stay though if she has a pool

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 30/01/2006 18:00

there's nothing like a new Wiatrose is there? Wide aisles. In house pizzeria. Kilometres of wine shelves. Nice.

puff · 30/01/2006 18:02

hmmm - we don't see her now fil is dead. Tbh, it was very stressful visiting with 2 toddlers. Massive sweeping stairs, too wide for stairgates. Loads of doors into grounds often left onlocked (large lake in grounds). Door to indoor pool often left unlocked too.

alexsmum · 30/01/2006 18:10

yeah doesn't sound toom child friendly.but very impressive!
i like waitrose- lovely food and everything but SO expensive.

fullmoonfiend · 30/01/2006 18:52

Got one! My first since started looking! Adsa, green felt tip on big A4 sheet. Different colours further down as she remebers new stuff to put on I guess. Love the details - reckon she has sent dh/dp who doesn't normally do it!

Pots - (potatoes I'm guessing)
melon (yello)
B'nanas
red delish
straws - (assume fruit as all fruit/veg together)
red grapes
peppers
greeny beans
carrots
hummous
Nice ham - not thin crap - (This is what I put for mydh too
chicken tikka bits
salmon or tuna fils
good mince
free r chick - (free range chicken?)
froz peas
back bacon
small cartons (app and or)
flavoured water for James
c and O potatoheads - (?)
tomato ketch organic (up by eggs now)- (love the detail for witless hubby!)
Clever milk (I will cut milkman order) - (love this too!)
pizza bases
garlic bread
tort chips
vanilla ice cream (good quality)
choc chip too (ditto)
meat for freezer
loo roll (cream or white)
Kitch roll
foil
choc bix
sucky yoghurts - (now does she mean those tubes or does she mean yoghurt that 'suck??')
2 bread (hovis invis crust)
spreadable butt - (please let this be butter!)
wine box
paracetamol - (love this train of thought )
wash up liquid (2 for £1)

Mercy · 30/01/2006 18:57

Aaah 'nice ham'!

Hazellnut · 30/01/2006 18:58

perhaps the card is for the arse that got her pregnant so she can tell him the 'good' news ???

ShaysMummy · 30/01/2006 19:00

potato heads are some sort of crappy diet crisps. sil eats them. they are diet coz you only get 7 in a bag-lol

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 30/01/2006 19:13

spreadable butt -please, please, please let Mumsnet towers use this as the title they stick in on Discussions of the Day on the homepage. what a lovely thought - must send an arse card "Congratulations on your spreadable butt!"

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 30/01/2006 19:14

re yogs - two birds with one stone, Frubes suck

fullmoonfiend · 30/01/2006 19:20

PMSL bear!

SoupDragon · 30/01/2006 19:24

B'nanas... yes, because that's so much quicker than writing bananas...

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 30/01/2006 19:40

Good mince as opposed to what, genocidal mince?

Clever milk - we have that, the kids aren't any smarter but the milk could tell you the capital of Uzbekistan.

Ham again?! Is it OK to come back with thin ham, but not thin crap?

LOL Soupy, greeny beans defeats the abbreviation purpose and all.

Ooh and get James and his poncy water - is this the fabled "fancy soft drink"? Cue aaah aaaah aaaah music and wisps of smoke across a stage as the red velvet curtains open to reveal a bottle on a podium of James' flavoured water, the true elixir of the gods, nectar, the panacea for all ills.

Twiglett · 30/01/2006 19:43

Snurk

wondered why this thread was so long .. sounded really dull .. classic

are we going to start leaving notes on purpose with a mumsnet heading?

cod · 30/01/2006 19:44

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katierocket · 30/01/2006 19:46

well done cod for starting such a corker.

what happens when you have your shopping delivered though?

this thread is forcing me to rethink.

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 30/01/2006 19:47

Your Waitrose used to be my favourite until I discovered the Portishead one - just off the M5 worth a detour (don't WHATEVER you do venture into P'head itself - even duller than the music). I'll bet there's many a fine list left on the little torlley clips there...

katierocket · 30/01/2006 19:48

I like the detail on the 'nice ham' list - then followed by "meat for freezer", high standards don't apply there then obviously, any old horse meat will do.

cod · 30/01/2006 19:48

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BearintheBigBlueHouse · 30/01/2006 19:50

do they do venison in cubes? or woodcock?

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 30/01/2006 19:50

do they do venison in cubes? or woodcock?

cod · 30/01/2006 19:51

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