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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: deepinthewoods on March 18, 2012, 05:59:30 pm

Title: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: deepinthewoods on March 18, 2012, 05:59:30 pm
today i took 2 others to the eden project.
£62 to get in. thats 2 @£23 and one at £16.
£1.75 for ONE slice of bread EACH the only toaster in the whole eden project was broken ::)
£1.00 for ONE cold boiled egg EACH
£2.75 for a coffee each
  X3 =£15.50    for egg on toast and a coffee

we then had 2 halfs of stella, a botlle of water, and 6 olives between us, £8.60.

i spent £85 without dinner ffs!!!!


then to top it all, ive just ordered a chinese, to save me having to b....y cook like everynight, and they cocked up my £30 order. i ordered crispy duck, i got cucumber, pancakes, sauce and NO B>>>>Y DUCK!!!!!


so im £120 pound lighter and STILL HUNGRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: suziequeue on March 18, 2012, 06:05:04 pm
 :(
Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: robert waddell on March 18, 2012, 06:06:23 pm
and my children wonder why i don't take them out     i would be permanently skint
at lanark scrap sale last week a tray of chips was £2.50  for one tattie :farmer:
Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: Bangbang on March 18, 2012, 06:17:02 pm
The price of going hungry has gone up!  :o

I was at work today....

cupa soup               30p
4 slices of bread      20p
1 pk crisps               50p
2 coffee                   40p
1 pt Milk                   67p
total                       £2.07

You got done over....but I hope you enjoyed the Eden Project
I would love to go there one day. (on a full stomach obviously)

 :)
Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: TheGirlsMum on March 18, 2012, 06:59:43 pm
We went before half term and for all four of us for two year passes £40 and we always take our own food.
Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: little blue on March 18, 2012, 07:03:38 pm
Oh dear!

I really hate having to part with money for something that I can do better at home ... thought of course, I won't say no if somebody else is paying! ;)  :D

Hope you enjoyed the Eden project nevertheless, I too would love to go (and will take sandwiches!)
Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: deepinthewoods on March 18, 2012, 07:06:29 pm
i go once a year, last year it was £16 in, now its £23,
the girls mum, how did you get that price? am i missing a trick??

it still doesnt explain £1.75 for a slice of bread tho!!
Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: Womble on March 18, 2012, 07:08:43 pm
at lanark scrap sale last week a tray of chips was £2.50  for one tattie :farmer:

Er, Robert, Are you trying to equate Lanark Scrap Sale with the Eden Project? :o  The Southerners think we Scots are unsophisticated enough you know, without you making it worse!  ;D
Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: bloomer on March 18, 2012, 07:16:59 pm
having done eden (it was good but not great) i was glad i had paid for it in tesco clubcard vouchers rather than real money!!!

would i go again i doubt it and certainly not if i had to pay for it!!!

although that said i would say the same for many days out, i hate spending money for such things!!!
Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: robert waddell on March 18, 2012, 07:27:15 pm
womble i would not equate lanark to the Eden project    just the price of food     many years ago when working in the BP at grangemouth a three course meal was twelve and a half pence :farmer:
Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: Sandy on March 18, 2012, 07:31:39 pm
The cost of having children with you is soooooo expensive, when my daughter came up here with her family and wanted to take me with them on thier outings it was plain to see how costly it is, I remember years ago trying to cut the expense with sarnies etc but some times you just want a treat!!!! 

The cinema costs an arm and a leg so you just have to smuggle stuff to eat in if you feel you should have some treats.....

An Robert, you certainly live the high life. spending all that money on a spud!!! ;)
Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: Womble on March 18, 2012, 07:34:06 pm
womble i would not equate lanark to the Eden project

Phew, that's a relief!  ;D
Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: robert waddell on March 18, 2012, 08:06:55 pm
no sandy i did not spend that on a spud  it was a friend that was spitting blood and feathers at the cost :farmer:
Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: TheGirlsMum on March 18, 2012, 08:12:27 pm
If you go to Eden in the winter, before Feb half term they do locals deals so £5 for annual passes with proof of residency in Cornwall or Devon, but this year they introduced the 2 year passes.
Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: Sandy on March 18, 2012, 08:49:22 pm
Phew Robert, how much would a sack of them be if one is £2.50 ???

MOney is always tight here and we had a chinese take away a few weeks ago and it was horrid and cost £15, they must have either a different chef or the place had changed hands as it used to be OK, we were both so disapointed and hungry too!!!!
Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: deepinthewoods on March 18, 2012, 08:52:36 pm
the girls mum, i thought it was just on one day they did that offer???
Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: Lesley Silvester on March 18, 2012, 09:57:47 pm
We've been to the Eden project a couple of times but it wasn't a bad price a few years ago.  Doubt if we'll go again at those prices.  I do remember the food being a bit pricey though and deciding to take my own another time.
Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: Brijjy on March 19, 2012, 07:05:57 pm
at lanark scrap sale last week a tray of chips was £2.50  for one tattie :farmer:

Er, Robert, Are you trying to equate Lanark Scrap Sale with the Eden Project? :o  The Southerners think we Scots are unsophisticated enough you know, without you making it worse!  ;D

ROFL at that Womble.  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: Brijjy on March 19, 2012, 07:08:05 pm
We went to Eden project in the october half term 2011. Me, OH and four kids. I got the tickets for free through Tesco clubcard rewards thingy. However it did take alot of planning and we were on hols in Cornwall. The food was astronomically expensive though.
Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: TheGirlsMum on March 19, 2012, 08:23:53 pm
No sorry DinW the locals offer runs for ages while the skatiing rink is open.

Food is extremely expensive but its the only place I know that doesn't tell you off for eating your own food at their tables.
Title: Re: got to let off some steam!!!
Post by: deepinthewoods on March 19, 2012, 08:34:33 pm
ok, thanks thegirlsmum, ill look out for it when we go skating for christmas!!