What's your bargain of the day?

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Osem

Mrs Osem just came home with a £28 turkey she bought for £3.50. I'm busy looking for stock and turkey recipes...

That it indeed a good bargain and this link might help you as well.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/se...grammes%5B%5D=

[Osem]

lol Cheers Den.

126 recipes!!! It's big but not that big.

I must say I have never been a big fan of turkey but a few decent recipes may help.

[Tinky]

Originally Posted by Osem

Mrs Osem just came home with a £28 turkey she bought for £3.50. I'm busy looking for stock and turkey recipes...

Well that's your meals sorted for the week, lets see now there's Turkey hot or cold, on sandwiches, curried, hot pot, salad.............need I go on lol?

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Tinky

Today's bargain 3 and a half pounds of topside reduced to £6.21.

Bargain

[Osem]

Originally Posted by Tinky

Well that's your meals sorted for the week, lets see now there's Turkey hot or cold, on sandwiches, curried, hot pot, salad.............need I go on lol?

That's what I'm worried about...

I decided to bone it last night and will probably roast the crown and use the legs in some form of stew or curry. The carcass made some nice stock too.

[Tinky]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Bargain

Should do us for three or four meals with all the trimmings, yummy.

Originally Posted by Osem

That's what I'm worried about...

I decided to bone it last night and will probably roast the crown and use the legs in some form of stew or curry. The carcass made some nice stock too.

So you're not just a pretty face then Osem? Tell you what, you can't beat a bowl of home made soup.

[Osem]

Originally Posted by Tinky

So you're not just a pretty face then Osem? Tell you what, you can't beat a bowl of home made soup.

Hmmm not sure the missus would agree with that lol.

Yes, we've been having a lot of home made soup in recent months. I'm really into spicy chorizo and tomato made with loads of beans etc. Have been experimenting with red kidney beans, chick peas, butter beans, borlotti beans, cannellini beans etc. and it's really healthy, hearty stuff. I make a massive pot full which does 3 adults for 3 main meals each for less than a tenner and of course all sorts of leftovers can get used up this way. The beans etc. are so cheap when bought dried and it's amazing how they soak up the flavours... Yummy! In fact I'll probably use some of the lovely jellified turkey stock I've just frozen for the base of my next soup.

I reckon if more people cooked their own, simple, food instead of relying on branded ready meals, take-aways etc. their money would go a lot further.

[Osem]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Sainsbury's are doing 1 Litre bottles of Bacardi white rum for £15 a pop. Max 6 bottles per customer. Only wanted the one

Tell you what, buy 6 and send Mrs Osem the others. She loves it...

[dmcwe]

Originally Posted by Tinky

I casually asked next door's gardener how much he would charge to cut down our tree, £30 including taking away all the pieces, how's that for a bargain? Pictures are before and after. What's your bargain of the day?

I doubt anyone checked with the council for TPO. Also the waste is usually sold on as logs for burning.

[Tinky]

I take it that means tree protection order. We have been in this house for 15 years and in that time we have not been advised by the Council or anyone else even Solicitors when we bought the house, that the tree was protected. However it's gone and good riddance, stops our neighbours complaining about the leaves.

[dmcwe]

Originally Posted by Tinky

I take it that means tree protection order. We have been in this house for 15 years and in that time we have not been advised by the Council or anyone else even Solicitors when we bought the house, that the tree was protected. However it's gone and good riddance, stops our neighbours complaining about the leaves.

Doesn't mean there isn't one in force. There might have been an oversite by your solicitor and they failed to mention a TPO. Are you in a conservation area? Trees in conservation areas are covered with TPOs.
The potential penalty for cutting down a tree covered by a TPO is £20,000. Even pruning a TPO'd tree can lead to prosecution if the work has not been granted.
By the way, it's Tree Presevation Order.

[idiosyncratic]

Originally Posted by dmcwe

Doesn't mean there isn't one in force. There might have been an oversite by your solicitor and they failed to mention a TPO. Are you in a conservation area? Trees in conservation areas are covered with TPOs.
The potential penalty for cutting down a tree covered by a TPO is £20,000. Even pruning a TPO'd tree can lead to prosecution if the work has not been granted.
By the way, it's Tree Presevation Order.

It can be seen from the original photo that the tree had been pollarded in the past, so I'm sure if any preservation order was in place it would probably have been enforced, then. I don't think Tinky has any worries.

My most recent bargain day was due to 'achieving' the age of sixty - I had a free eye test, 25% discount off the resulting pair of glasses & then popped into the chemist to pick up my, now free, prescription. I'm currently filling in the form to get a further rebate on the glasses courtesy of my company 'health scheme' perk

[Tinky]

Originally Posted by idiosyncratic

It can be seen from the original photo that the tree had been pollarded in the past, so I'm sure if any preservation order was in place it would probably have been enforced, then. I don't think Tinky has any worries.

My most recent bargain day was due to 'achieving' the age of sixty - I had a free eye test, 25% discount off the resulting pair of glasses & then popped into the chemist to pick up my, now free, prescription. I'm currently filling in the form to get a further rebate on the glasses courtesy of my company 'health scheme' perk

I'm not worried about the tree, I doubt very much that it was the subject of a TPO.

Happy belated birthday Idio, don't forget to apply for your bus pass, normally done for us at our local library.

[dmcwe]

Originally Posted by idiosyncratic

It can be seen from the original photo that the tree had been pollarded in the past, so I'm sure if any preservation order was in place it would probably have been enforced, then. I don't think Tinky has any worries.

Originally Posted by Tinky

I'm not worried about the tree, I doubt very much that it was the subject of a TPO.

The point I'm trying to emphasise is that before anyone reduces or fells a tree check with the planning office first unless your sure its NOT covered by a TPO. I've worked for a tree surgeon and he always checked with the planning office before work was carried out, it's only a phone call. You'd be surprised what trees are covered and what's not particularly in areas that are older than surrounding areas. Not all trees in the same garden are protected. Just because someone has worked on a tree previously doesn't mean it hasn't got a TPO on it.
You occasionally get the disgruntled neighbour who makes that phone call enquiring as to whether the tree been worked on has a TPO. As Tinky admits, she DOUBTS that a TPO is in force. I DOUBT that the work would have been allowed if applied for if it had a TPO and IF the Planning office were to find out, questions might be asked as to the previously work. IF there isn't a TPO in force then luckily your right not to be worried but your NOT sure are you. Yes, I have been about to fell a tree on the assumption that a TPO would be unlikely only to find out that there was. I wish i had a pound for the number of occasions that customers say that a particular tree is not covered only to find out that it is.

Just bit of info before anyone else puts their bank account in jeopardy.

[Tinky]

I appreciate that you are trying to warn others who may be contemplating having a tree removed without checking on whether it is subject to a TPO. However we were 100% sure ours wasn't, as shown in the attached photo, our tree is barely discernible from the leylandii hedge prior to it being cut down.