On Monday 02 September 2013 13:49 'Mike' wrote in uk.rec.gardening:

Exactly! It is you, not me, playing some imaginary class game. But
(unlike you) I do not labour under the delusion that everybody has the
same choices you or I do.

Janet


It would be a lot easier to follow your fascinating debate if you could all
fix your newreaders so they quoted properly and bottom posted...


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On 2013-09-02 16:17:09 +0100, News said:

On 01/09/2013 12:08, Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
Nick Maclaren wrote:

In article ,
'Mike' wrote:

Sorry - mistaken attribution.


Easily done. For some reason he keeps posting a response quoting the
previous post but with nothing else in it.

Normally, this would be very irritating. In his case I consider it to
be something of a blessing in disguise.

I'm told he specialises in doing this to people who mark their posts
not to be archived. As it was described to me "every group has a
village idiot". He thinks he's upsetting people who are unaware of his
existence, in fact.
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Sacha
South Devon

On 2013-09-02 13:42:25 +0000, David Hill said:

On 02/09/2013 13:49, 'Mike' wrote:

Janet, 'Upstairs' are not aware and don't give two hoots about how
'Downstairs' struggle. Unless they have been 'Downstairs' themselves at
some time. Different kettle of fish then.

Mike

But them Downstairs never manage to go cruising on board ships.

All these pronouncements on the lives and experiences of others from
people who have never met. There must be a lot of psychic people on
this group. Or something. The usual rabble mouthing off, imo.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

On 2013-09-02 15:17:09 +0000, News said:

On 01/09/2013 12:08, Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
Nick Maclaren wrote:

In article ,
'Mike' wrote:

Sorry - mistaken attribution.


Easily done. For some reason he keeps posting a response quoting the
previous post but with nothing else in it.

Normally, this would be very irritating. In his case I consider it to
be something of a blessing in disguise.

As someone has explained to me, he does it to people whose posts are
marked 'x-archive', so that his juvenile idiocy ensures they are
archived.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

Tom Gardner wrote:
So I suspect the stats obscure as much as they
illuminate, and it is always worth remembering
that 37% of statistics are made up on the spot.

In a moment of work-avoidance, I have analysed my last few credit card
bills and come out with the following:

(this is not % of income, this is %age of total credit card bill, so I'm
not sure if this is a good or bad way of taking into account when we have
a low spending month, ie when taking holiday off work)

Transport:- May:35% June:60% Jul:39% Aug:57%
Groceries:- May:39% June:25% Jul:22% Aug:23%
Going out:- May: 9% June:13% Jul: 6% Aug: 3%
House/Gdn:- May:12% June: 2% Jul: 7% Aug:15%
Other :- May: 5% June: 0 Jul:26% Aug: 2%

Childcare is not included, because that comes direct off salary, and is
a fixed amount of around 15% of income/month, even though the actual amount
is varied, if that makes sense.

So basically, other thn May which seems to have been a bit grocery-heavy
for some reason (which possibly means it included something non-grocery
on a supermarket shop, such as grow bags or something similar), my travel
costs far outweigh my food costs.

David Hill wrote:
If you look at your local green grocer (If you still have one) and your
butcher you will often find they are cheaper, you don't have to buy 3 to
get the best price

For the short time we had a greengrocers, he was nowhere near as cheap
as the supermarket, and I'm afraid to say the quality was worse, too.