I couldn't believe my luck

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Re: I couldn't believe my luck

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Robbing old ladies... what's next in your inexorable slide towards depravity Mark? :Happy:

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Re: I couldn't believe my luck

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Hi Mark, :Hat:

.... next time your Uncle comes to visit..... I ask myself, I wonder who will be "dragging" who around the Charity shops! :Confused:

Well done....real gold!

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The VFC wrote:Robbing old ladies... what's next in your inexorable slide towards depravity Mark? :Happy:
I never bartered with her Jim, she just offered to lower the price for some reason, bless her little cotton socks.

Perhaps she took pity on me because she thought it wasn't a proper rod and I was being ripped off. :Chuckle:
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Maggot's Dad wrote:Hi Mark, :Hat:

.... next time your Uncle comes to visit..... I ask myself, I wonder who will be "dragging" who around the Charity shops! :Confused:

Well done....real gold!
Too right MD and I will never moan at the Mrs again for dragging me round them either. :Chuckle:
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A lovely find.Well done Mark :Thumb: .

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I'll give you £50, Sir ... so you show a profit !!!
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AshbyCut wrote:I'll give you £50, Sir ... so you show a profit !!!
Nice try AC but she is taking her maiden voyage to a small carp pool in Warwickshire tomorrow.
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Cracking find Mark! Let's hope you christen it tomorrow.
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Cracking stuff and if you get as much enjoyment out of it as I do with my 550 you should lie down and roll around in the muck for many a day.

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Seriously now ... Excellent fortune Mark, Sir.
"Beside the water I discovered (or maybe rediscovered) the quiet. The sort of quiet that allows one to be woven into the tapestry of nature instead of merely standing next to it." Estaban.

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