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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I have just spent some time online looking at old Argos catalogues and came across the one we drew up our wedding present list from. OMG talk about a trip down memory lane.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    What was the the state of the state if the art aspirational for you?I
     Slow cooker for me and a duvet, Mucha four seasons prints - the height of sophistication. A Salvador Dali or Escher print, maybe a fondue set and one of those tealight powered food warmers you got in Chinese restaurants . We had simple tastes.

    We didn't get even one toaster but we got loads of sheets and blankets and a crystal chandelier FGS!
    Sherry glasses - people didn't even drink sherry then!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • CloggieCloggie Posts: 1,457
    We eloped, you get nuffink than! 😉
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I remember getting a blanket and some saucepans. I've still got and use the Stork cookery book I got for free. That went into my 'bottom drawer' stash. I don't suppose girls do that anymore.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    There was no Argos when I got married, my trousseau was supplemented by Green Shield Stamps.  Somehow that isn't quite so romantic although there was a catalogue  :) 
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I bought a game of scrabble with gss
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Ever the intellectual @B3 :D    Amongst other things I got a set of enamelled casseroles which I am still using and a set of place mats which seemed very desirable at the time.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    This is my kind of heat wave. Turns up, has a look around then decides it can't be bothered and starts raining instead.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited July 2020
    wild edges said:
    This is my kind of heat wave. Turns up, has a look around then decides it can't be bothered and starts raining instead.
    Heatwave?? what heatwave. I think we hit 23C which is barely " quite warm" .
    Devon.
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Plums were showing a decent crop now brown rot is destroying the lot. Old vine in the greenhouse had 20 good bunches of grapes but will now lose them all to shanking. So much for getting your 5 a day fruit and veg. At current rates I'll be on 5 a year.
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